skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it was a subtle joke about how programmers tend to view non-programmers. -- Or it was a joke about how these people aren't really losers after all.

Either way, it was a subtle snub on the 'cool to be a geek' thing and how programmer's arrogance can be their downfall. It leads up to the DK affect discussion, which is the second point of the article, we aren't as smart as we think they are and other people are smarter than we think they are.
Statements including "tend to" tend to be stretchable statements..
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Man, that guy talks fast!
I guess there's sort of a chicken and egg thing here, so your point isn't really falsifiable. But again, the way Amazon is structured is as a software company. They build a product, and then hand that off to the operations side to implement. The big movers and decision makers in the company are on the product development side, and not on the implementation side.

That structure is the reverse of the typical corporate IT structure, where the people developing the product are routinely taking orders from the people who need to use those products.
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From the article "Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth."
I think Blaine's a good guy. I'm implementing OAuth in our app and Blaine's been a big part of that. Not sure why Arrington et al feel it necessary to bash Twitter and him personally, but my experiences have been good.
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Leaving aside the issue of whether this is a valid point, which has been discussed to death already, what exactly are you getting at? Do you imagine the following scenario?

Applicant: Pleeze hire me!!!
37signals: You misspelled "please", and used too many bangs. Next.
Applicant: But you used two exclamation points on IRC in May 2006!
37signals: Ah, you caught me. In the interest of fairness, you're hired.

You're supposed to apply far more scrutiny to a job application than just about any other document you ever write in your life, because you're competing against dozens of other people who are all attempting to make their best first impression as well, typically for a single opening. Those aren't good odds.

That means write, read, reread, put it down and do something else to clear your head, come back and read it a third time, and then send. If you used that approach in every moment of every working day, you'd be absurdly unproductive. But if you can't be bothered to do it when it counts, can you really be trusted to act as an agent of the business these guys have poured their lives into building?
No need to wait for Joost to go web based now that my buddy Mark Erickson at Infinite Solutions told me about Google TV.

(Still no beta invite yet after 2,303,679 logins, but I just now it's going to pop up any day now...)
For me images do load on the blog.
Handwritten thank-you note? I do a lot of interviewing and would find it bizarre and annoying if a candidate sent me something by snail mail. Only a fax would be worse.
I use GrApple Yummy - it's great. Looks just like Firefox, except with the Awesome Bar, and Delicious integration. w00t!

Obtain from:
http://www.takebacktheweb.org/
Another theory is Jeff Dean: http://research.google.com/people/jeff/index.html .
I have had great luck with StumbleUpon advertising, but it really depends on the site you're trying to promote. The problem with SU is that you need to capture the user in the first few seconds, or they're just going to click "stumble" and bounce to the next site. But if you do have a fun/interesting/cool site, SU is a great source for consistent and cheap traffic ($0.05 per visitor).
I disagree with one of Yegge's key points:

"How do you hire someone who's smarter than you? How do you tell if someone's smarter than you?

This is a problem I've thought about, over nearly twenty years of interviewing, and it appears that the answer is: you can't. You just have to get lucky."

Is this really the case? I feel like I've met dozens of people over the years and I can tell you that they're better programmers than me. Or more organized. Or more talents (at business, coding, wine tasting, whatever).

Or just plain smarter.

Is this just a question of being humbled by many talented folks? Is it that I have some hugely overvalued self worth? Do I have less of myself tied into my code?

Don't get me wrong, my ego does take a small hit (though less and less over the years), and I do console myself in some small way.

"Well, at least I can play the ukulele with my toes better than she can!"

But, c'mon, can you really not put your own ego aside long enough to hire people to make your company successful?
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They should regulate banks like in New Zealand: Do not regulate minimum safety standards and give state guarantees to depositors --- but instead make banks give full disclosure on their assets and obligations and let depositors (= the market) judge.

Really the same approach like with stocks et al.
"As above, so below."
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Wow, talk about backward logic. The epidemic in the heterosexual population didn't manifest itself BECAUSE of all the preventive education (or as he calls it, fear-mongering) of the risks of unprotected sex.
Give it a day or two for the algorithm to stabilize. I had the same problem initially but it now works great for me.
While the dimorphism argument is interesting, this article was focused on the later drop-off in women in the field. In other words, women had already self-selected into the field, and were leaving at greater rates.

At some places, there is most certainly a boys club atmosphere, including where my wife works (in IT). The stories she comes home with are crazy.
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I haven't finished reading the article yet, but this strikes me as a classic example of innapropriate generalization. The hip-hop culture example seems to reinforce the argument, but many other subcultures fail: think of the french aristocracy in the 18th century as a classic example of conspicuous consumption. Or the roaring 20's. Or various calvinist groups of the 17th century as examples of the austere poor. Or...

The point being that the variation in visible consumption between groups is vast, and this article picked just two groups two compare. It's junk science. And IMHO, it's borderline racist.
Should this work with python 2.4? I get the following error when installing:

/usr/local/src/wtop-0.5.6]# python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
copying logrep.py -> build/lib
running build_scripts
creating build/scripts-2.4
copying wtop -> build/scripts-2.4
copying and adjusting logrep -> build/scripts-2.4
changing mode of build/scripts-2.4/logrep from 644 to 755
running install_lib
copying build/lib/logrep.py -> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/logrep.py to logrep.pyc
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/logrep.py", line 370
return [(key,op,castfns[key](value)) if op != '~' else (key,op,re.compile(value)) for key,op,value in conditions]
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
running install_scripts
copying build/scripts-2.4/wtop -> /usr/bin
copying build/scripts-2.4/logrep -> /usr/bin
changing mode of /usr/bin/wtop to 777
changing mode of /usr/bin/logrep to 755
running install_data
copying wtop.cfg -> /etc
never mind - requires 2.5
My company is somewhat larger and older than your target, but probably still similar. When deciding who to interview I don't even read the cover letter (if any). Instead I just skim through the resume and if the candidate seems to have some sort of reasonable software development background then I'll arrange a phone screening interview. The phone screen is where I make the decision about who to bring in for a real interview. If the candidate turns out to be completely unqualified then I can cut it off after a few minutes, no great loss.

As far attire, it's also irrelevant to me. Just don't show up in anything wildly inappropriate.
I disliked Joost because it took over the whole screen (and because it didn't for on my Mac until they did some tweaking.) I'll be taking a look at it again when the browser version comes out, but I'm not really sure I'll be swayed unless they have better content.
Feedly is changing the way I read news on the Web.
"Cisco is just one of the many companies — and the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — working on the challenge of making data centers operate more like seamless machines"

This is just one of many articles -- and the "hotdog's" sign I saw on a bodega this morning -- requiring a more attentive editor.
Joost's biggest problem: http://www.joost.com/whatson/

The networks have their own video services, and those that don't are supplemented by people streaming their TVs for others with Justin.tv and sopcast and other p2p apps.
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Don't apologize for being honest. Your review is good, specific, and honest.

You make good points.

When I went to the site and clicked on a book i through I had been redirected to Amazon... It took some looking around to realize that I was not in Amazon.

To add my little review to this: Why would I go to bookhuddle.com instead of amazon? For the virtual community? Why would I just not look at the user-supplied reviews on amazon.com and bn.com? Figure this one out and you're in the money. Don;t figure it out, and... well...
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Interesting. I've never read so many negative things about Amazon in one place before.
I haven't finished reading the article yet

Keep reading.

The same is true for whites. Controlling for differences in housing costs, an increase of $10,000 in the mean income for white households—about like going from South Carolina to California—leads to a 13 percent decrease in spending on visible goods. “Take a $100,000-a-year person in Alabama and a $100,000 person in Boston,” says Hurst. “The $100,000 person in Alabama does more visible consumption than the $100,000 person in Massachusetts.” That’s why a diamond-crusted Rolex screams “nouveau riche.” It signals that the owner came from a poor group and has something to prove.
Markets usually do this, by finding ways around the regulations. In the early 20th century, trust companies could get around bank regulations, so they made riskier loans and grew faster, which worked well for a while. And hedge funds do that now -- many of them offer investment banking services (e.g. market making, debt structuring, direct investment/underwriting, etc.) without the same set of rules as regular banks.
I get mixed feelings from this. Some of the "laws" sound like they're trying to be funny, but others a very real.
I recommend reading the article before discarding it for being junk science or borderline racist. You may discard it for those reasons after reading it if you wish... but I doubt you will.

Blacks are poorer (on average) than whites. That's a simple correlation and it says nothing about why black people are poorer. They also looked at the data in a way that eliminates race as a variable and found the same patterns.

I'd say it was a good read.
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Market Size Demographics?
How do you predict your estimated market size and share on a startup?

What are your best demonstrated practices as to quantifying niche market growth.

Do we just put up a bulls eye and throw some darts?
Mozilla servers can't keep up with Firefox 3 demand
Ad Revenue?
I have heard adsense isnt the thing to do any more to generate extra revenue on a site, if your not using adsense what are you using?
If you are using adsense what ballpark range are you getting per thousand clicks? What percent of page views end up in a click?
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In a discussion with an older lawyer, I was told that dressing well demonstrates your respect for the people you are meeting with. I personally feel that things have become more complicated as dress, in general, has become more casual but I'm not certain where the line lies between dressing down and disrespect.

I've always worn a suit to interviews in the Midwest and East Coast. Once in New York (at a startup) I was told after being hired that they were concerned that I might be too stiff and strait-laced because of the suit. I did get the job, however, and I would still wear a suit interviewing there.

On the West Coast, I might go with a suit for big companies, but I'd go button down and khakis for a small company or a startup. It's a different culture. Even the better restaurants rarely require formal attire, and I feel like a suit at some interviews would show an inability to grasp the cultural differences.
I don't want to make too big a thing out of it. My superficial observation is, there are more Asian female devs than North American female devs --- which, if true, is a problem for North American competitiveness long term.

It's probably not true.

I don't agree that engineering is an unattractive profession for women. At all.
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i changed the os=osx to os=win, and got a download to work. it was a release candidate, not the actual release, fwiw.
...Laws are supposed to be absolute. Many of these are not absolute.
Speaking from personal experience, I think people would be experience more happiness if they stopped getting so stuck up on themselves (and their perceptions of what other people might thank) and just did what they wanted to do (as long as it was "legal" by societal norms). Go ahead, sing in public
Actually, that's the direct download from Mozilla, which is Firefox 3.

This news item is the Mac DMG version of Firefox 3.
By the way, could someone provide any real statistics about unit tests?

I've already read quadrupillion times that they're great because they lets you save time, provide a testing history, simplify maintaince, and take care about your daughter. Let's say that I'm convinced. But still, I would like to see some numbers, some carefully performed study that proves that such statements are right.

The problem is that they're very confirmation bias prone. People see a situation when the unit tests found a bug, but they don't see thousands of situaton when a bug wasn't found ("hey, it does not make sure your code is correct"), or pointless hours spent on rewriting the tests because the code changed significantly. Though, could be I'm prone to antybuzzwords and antyhype bias.
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after installation, it gave me a message that says its a release candidate, not the actual release of ff3. if it is actually the full release, they messed with that.
Articles can't have negative karma, and I think the only incentive to not posting a lot of crap is the reputation you build with your peers. Anonymous posts would take away from that.
Looks like this is actually the RC3
Disagree. The police interviews are designed to get people to say things that will get them convicted. This is a hackable system -- a social hack, but a hack nonetheless. (It might also be argued that the real hack is the police interviews where they trick people into giving up their 5th amendment rights.)

Also, the video is extremely interesting in its own right.
it really depends a lot on what your page/app does, and the target market. there's no one ad provider, service or format that is the 100% best in every situation.
or you could just use tables, which are compatible with more browsers, and do something more useful with the time you save.
I'm curious to see how a browser-based Joost will work. The benefit of the desktop client was that P2P would keep their bandwidth costs to the minimum. With a web based version they loose the advantage of their P2P experience and significantly increase their bandwidth costs.
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Great stuff... but on this test, instructions are a little unclear. It took me a while to understand that the 8 possible positions of the 'door' were the 'image' I was back-matching, and not the pattern of markings on the tunnel sides.

Also, as with other tests, the lack of a clear end (or even break) point is distracting, and makes it hard to compare runs, or even cleanly end a run at a standard length.

Not that whacked_new asked, but my overall estimation of cognitivefun: wow, you're generating a lot of games... but the overall comprehensibility of the site lags a bit. It's almost too much to absorb: where do I start? where do I stand? where do I go next? I suggest spending a little more time (or enlisting some help) with web design/copywriting/info-architecture.
Mozilla.com down. Use this link for the linux download
Download the linux version from this link
I dissagree. This is more news suited for reddit.
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you should have a very short domain name linking directly to the game. I tried to recomend the game and the easier way was to tell them google for robokill
Just confirming - This IS the release canadate
Pamela Paul's new book Parenting Inc has an interesting take on this:

"Child enrichment has replaced the yuppie trends of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it was important to own a BMW and Rolex watch. Today, the children of this same generation have become the vital signs of success... Messages that speak to mothers about bettering the lives of their children, enriching their experiences, and creating more intelligent students can be seen in print and electronic ads." (p. 75)

"In the 1990s yuppies shifted from spending on BMWs and Rolexes to their children. Children became their status symbol. Discretionary dollars switched from diamond bracelets to private violin instructors and university sports camps located seven states away." (p. 82)

"A baby is not an accessory, exactly, but when you go outside with a baby, all eyes go to the baby. All of the sudden, it's not so important to spend as much money on yourself-- you spend on the baby." (p. 201)
It isn't. Help > About Mozilla Firefox shows that it's the official release.

Also, like http://mozilla.com is still showing Firefox 2, the welcome page http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/whatsnew/ hasn't been updated yet to reflect the new version.

Mozilla also explained that the RC3 is exactly the same as the final release, anyway. If you have either RC2 or RC3, there's no need to update.
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I enjoyed the SXSW podcast of "The Art of Speed" session with Tim Ferris (of Four Hour Work Week fame) moderating a panel of entrepreneurs who started businesses that launched with breathtaking speed.

http://audio.sxsw.com/podcast/interactive/panels/2008/SXSW08.INT.20080308.TheArtOfSpeed.mp3

Tag, you're it! What podcast (specific download) would you recommend? What left you thinking "that hit the spot"?
Sometimes. I think it's a Flash thing and it depends on the speed of your computer. Perhaps key up events aren't being fired correctly.
have fun styling those tables for your clients without images
Wow, I found that ridiculously hard to read. The one sentence paragraphs were harder to follow than a well thought out, cohesive block, and the gratuitous bolding of text was distracting. If that was supposed to make it match how we read online, it didn't work.
Yes. They haven't updated the http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/whatsnew/ page yet.
Some good tips in defining your target market
From the article: outside very poor African countries, Aids is confined to "high-risk groups"

To me, this indicates that without an expensive preventive programme, a worldwide epidemic would have occurred.

I hate to make the comparison due to the difference in significance, however, there were similar sentiments about Year2000 fixing. The few remaining problems were dismissed as isolated incidences and people wondered why so much money was spent.
Please don't post direct download URLs.

I just received both the ff3 .exe and .dmg filesl my RSS reader just downloads what's in my feed reader queue.

Far better for you to post the download page, which does a platform check and doesn't send you the binary without asking.
They need to get their ducks in a row. The download and support process IS part of the whole UX.

I just got an email from Mozilla asking me to download FF3. I clicked the link and was taken to a page clearly marked FF2.

Seems their servers are quite unhappy at the moment.
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Is this mainly for people who want to run iCal or iChat servers? What advantage does this have over the standard Linux webserver?
Associated Press web charges: starting at $12 for 5 to 25 words of quoted material
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Sorry. I would change it to a preview.tinyurl.com link if I was able to edit the URL :/
This seems like a good reason for HN moderators to kill this posting.
That should say for "Up to 25 words" ... you don't need to over emphasize their high prices, it will take care of itself.
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That's a good point, but I think it's a stretch to argue that this is on topic. If the point of the submission was the social hacking aspect it might be better received if the headline reflected that. As is, a submission like this would be much more appropriate on Reddit or Digg.
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Everyone appears to want CSS to do this. It seems to be hard.

Does it strike anyone else that this is a failing of CSS as a technology?
Arg! Never post direct links to downloads. I was trying to avoid contributing to this ridiculous "most downloads" world record nonsense!

I have therefore mirrored FF3 on my site so I urge you to download it from there, not the official Mozilla mirrors.

http://tlrobinson.net/mirror/

If you're paranoid, I'm sure someone can confirm this MD5 sum: 27ff7989db6a206cdfc8989aca9f9283
There has been previous work in this area; see for example:

"Scans of Monks' Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning", WSJ, 2004-11-05

http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/News/Meditation_Alters_Brai...

On the other hand, there is also some link between meditation and seizures:

"Bad Vibes- Warning: Meditating may be hazardous to your health" SFWeekly, 2002-08-28

http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/313883
Shai is a very ambitious and inspiring person. He approached this problem by diving head first.. a true entrepreneur.

Check out this interview with him at Stanford, he talks about how this project came about.
http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=168...
You can apply all the standard styles to tables you do realise.

Look at the css, and it's just all a bit ugly with the work arounds for browsers.. A little hacky.

Also what if you want 4 columns? or maybe you want one of them a fixed width...

Sure, with the next version of css, tables will be eaiser to do with just css, but now it still seems like a hack to me.
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Firefox 3 Windows Download (Mozilla.com down)
Why would they have a downloading event when they can't handle the load? Silly people over at Mozilla.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases...

Seems up...
You are still paying money for something you have the right to freely do. You can't rip AP stories verbatim but an excerpt is fair use, this is like charging a film critic to quote a movie.
Mozilla.com is down, use this link to get Firefox 3 (Mac)