skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can’t read too much from a single test

Then why don't you show us a few more? Surely it wouldn't take that much longer to post the results from three or four tests than it did for just one.

Also, any other links about Maglev? Cursory Googling doesn't get me much. I thought I heard that this implementation wasn't open source, etc.

Looking forward to the shootout... thanks for whetting our appetites!
No. I like having flexible hours.
Ask YC: Should 37signals be banned from YC?
Clearly 37signals provide no content for our community. I am calling a vote on banning their articles from Hacker News.
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Facebook settlement of code-theft suit may fold, ConnectU has "smoking gun" evidence
Really I'm not sure what you mean - only the most naive web architectures wouldn't allow for some type of scalability. The way they did it was with the old "Throw More Machines At It " method. I'm not sure this ever really shows a mo better web arch - even spaghetti PHP can do that pretty easily.
"The reason the headline works is because corporate recruiters are famous for screening out exceptional engineers simply because the engineer did not have enough of the right buzzwords in their resume..."

Anyone who recruits in this fashion is someone I would automatically ignore when looking for a job. A headline like those quoted would do nothing but garner ridicule if you applied to my group.
Another alternative that removes the reliability and trust issues is a formal vanpool program run by a local transit agency.
We are planning to introduce a "group code" feature, which allows people within your known social circle to use and find rides among each other. Would that work?

We are currently shying away from another facebook app, but maybe that's the way to go for this.
"Mozilla says Firefox 3.0 bug-free" - anyone who says such a thing is both an idiot and a liar.
Focusing is good, but if you don't have any good ideas, it doesn't matter whether or not you can focus on them.

I think ADD tendencies can be good. Having a lot of open ideas to switch between is a good way to avoid getting burned out.
I love the comparison between the urls for each company. Google and Yahoo have nice clean ones while Microsoft isn't even trying.
Regarding the response time, it's really out of our hands (and in Google AppEngine's hands really). Hopefully that will improve if indeed Google AE had issues at the time you clicked.

Regarding disclaimer, yeah, we thought about that. Indeed need to add that. Thanks David.
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Microsoft tries to steal iPhone 2.0 thunder
some philosopher thought that the world would pop in and out of existence when it was not being observed. He said that because it did not become inconsistent (blue couch turning red when you looked back at it) was because there was a grand observer god that kept everything under observation and therefore nothing popped in and out.
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I have a few issues with this post. First, it's a mistake to assume IQ is a perfect measure of intelligence, especially over long time scales. I'm highly suspicious of psychometrics.

Second, I don't understand US race dynamics, but would anyone care to explain why this guy split the data by race, then disregarded all Black data points? Furthermore, it's well-documented that IQ scores are culture-specific. If you're from a different culture than whomever developed the test, you will score lower. This could also apply to the micro-cultures of two races even within the same country.

Finally, he says explicitly that the "sample size is very small", which makes any results drawn from them suspect.

(Karma Nazi says, "no upmod for you!")
Probably because Microsoft has enormous amounts of documentation online, organized in a single library, while Google and Yahoo don't...
My resume got noticed by Volkswagen and Cisco because I put "beer brewing" under my interests. YMMV though.
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why don't you post something interesting instead?
Hrm, I've always used the verbage 'web-based app' for anything that funneled its way over to the Internet and was stuck in my browser. (Versus something that hung out on my hard drive.) Do you guys think it's inaccurate to call an app like this one that is 95% Javascript 'web-based'? If not, what is a more accurate word?
I'm sure Yelp's logfiles show that enough people think the opposite.
While I wouldn't use it personally, there's a practice in the Washington DC area (possibly others as well) known as slugging, which is essentially organized hitchhiking. You go to a specific place and wait for someone going your direction who wants to take advantage of the carpool lanes. From what I've heard from people who use it, it works remarkably well. My point is, yes, there is a market of people who will take rides with strangers.

http://www.slug-lines.com/
Right, if your situation is just "X is the IQ cutoff for getting into college," you could infer that as more people go to college, X gets lower. But you could also see a situation in which smart people opt out of college, so even if the number of people who wanted to go to school were constant, the average IQ would drop -- e.g. fifty years ago a smart person could succeed by getting a scholarship to a great school; now said person gets 90% of what he needs to know from Wikipedia, and can spread a great idea by uploading something to Sourceforge rather than muddling through the thesis-writing, thesis-approving process.

I don't think it's just one phenomenon, and a model that either considers America a pure IQ meritocracy or assumes that college's role has changed by degree and not kind is clearly inadequate.
It resides on a web server, you access it via a web browser, it's a web-based app.
I've done it. I don't have a car, and I used to work at a place 40km away (i.e, outside comfortable cycling distance). Hence, I got rides with co-workers I otherwise had no contact with.
There is also facebook and college campus centric http://zimride.com
that Beltzner sounds a bit cocky. He said in an email that all bugs that remain are "server or web-site related"? Is he high?
for success, you're probably going to need social hooks, and facebook apps is a good way.

the code feature could work to solve the issue, yes. or you could just allow drivers to administer how public their rides are, only allowing people to join if they are directly given the link to their ride or whatever.
Ugh, it doesn't support sites with self-signed SSL certificates. Does Versions expect me to send my SVN password in the clear? That's crazy!
No! I want my privacy.
It responds fine on the www. address - it's the other one that seems slow to load. Weird.
Any news on whether you're planning to open any part of it and if so, an estimated time?
I can not imagine writing a headline like that for a resume. I would feel utterly ridiculous, like I was writing an upsell for some crappy sold-by-infomercial product.
I do this already in the Bay Area in California. There are several carpool pickup points in the East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley) that drop off in downtown San Francisco. I either pick up people here or hitch a ride every morning. The advantage is that you can use the carpool lane which saves 10-15min during rush-hour and a $4 toll.
They have an unreleased wrapper to make their web-based apps deployable as desktop-only apps too.
When you ask your employer that 'why' question, what comes next? Suppose the address book API's were unknown to both employer and employee; the employer might say 'go ahead and write the core component that will manage just a list of names and emails'. This is still ethical because in theory it can be connected to a current or future address book API, so the programmer agrees. Later, when the address book API's aren't enough for marketing, an intern or other willing employee is induced to connect it to the full email login and password credentials.

Its stuff like this that makes the first employee want to leave, which leaves the 'salt' effect of remaining employees at the company.

Somehow, the employees (and perhaps students in a school situation) should have some power of a social vote that the boss at least 2 levels up from them needs to acknowledge.
I still use Fireworks 8. Works like a champ.

Most advanced features of Photoshop, are better left to the professional designers. If you are using them, then you probably are wasting too much time prototyping.

Fireworks (or Gimp, or paint.net), or Visio are good enough.
Tempting alternative to Wired's $150 PC ($200 version)
If it walks like a duck.....
I think you probably can be classified as a fanboi. I don't mean it in the insulting way; simply you have been using it for so long, that you are used to it totally, and comfortable with it, and any other alternative would be considered non good enough.

People that have been using it just for a while, and used a lot of other tools, can give a more balanced opinion to it.

For me, I have CS2 in my computer, and I almost never use it. Fireworks has been enough for %90 of my needs.
I think $50 is not worth the hassle. The main question is whether I can use gOS in a "normal" linux manner, or have to reinstall a standard linux distro on it.
Actually it almost certainly wouldn't, unless you mean specifically for you.

They're constantly in the press, they generate conversations on sites like this, and they've spawned a legion of (number)(noun) imitators. It's one of the basic principles of copywriting and social media marketing that it pays to be bold and occasionally controversial.
Speak for yourself, I find most of their content worth reading.
> I'm highly suspicious of psychometrics.
> it's well-documented that IQ scores are culture-specific.

Psychometrics is not BS. There's a mountain of data showing properties like IQ (i.e. g) are real, useful measures, not culture specific, and are highly heritable. These are inconvenient truths to a lot of people with egalitarian ideals so there's mountains of FUD clouding the cold hard facts about IQ.
Software Development Automation with Scripting Languages
Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS
Good background here (in case you missed it)...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208152

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209991
Nope, it's because Microsoft just don't care. Wikipedia has 2.5 million articles all in the same namespace and still manage to have nice URLs. It really doesn't take much effort to provide decent URLs for a very large corpus of information - but Microsoft clearly haven't even thought about the problem. Their URLs have always been disgracefully bad.
I am absolutely positive that you have no children of your own, nor have you ever been around them. Normally I fight diligently against identity politics of that kind (positing that you cannot understand a position without first holding it), but with this article, you have made me rethink my general opposition to censorship.
I think employment agencies say this because they are in the habit of retyping and reformatting resumes and longer resumes take more time to manage.

I started to have better responses when I started ignoring the advice to keep the resume to one page.

The number of pages is also ambiguous when everything is transmitted electronically, I always provide a link to the on-line HTML version, and sometimes attach a PDF generated from that. It's not actually that long when displayed on-screen.

I have personally not had any trouble getting interviews because I have a 3 or 4 page resume (once printed out). In order for it to be one page, I'd have to exclude a significant amount of my work experience, work experience which is relevant to the jobs I'm applying for. The resume should be an indication of exactly what you can do, your experience and capabilities should be laid out before the interview. The interviewer should be able to look at your resume and say "This person has the skills and the experience we need, let's talk and find out if they're a good fit", not "I can't tell what this person is capable of because their resume is not very detailed".
Do you consider a Java Applet to be a web based application?
I'm really getting sick of not only the hype surrounding 37 Signals but the "religion" that they shove down our throats and the media just gobbles up.

Some people need to work more than 4 days per week, actually need to hire more people and actually need to add features to their software (and can't say "no" to everything)

We don't all have cult like religious followers. It's like using Apple as a guide for starting a PC business. Not exactly a formula you can apply to everything.
Graphics Editor or Text Editor?
How? Don't you consider Flash, Java, and Silverlight applications to be downloaded software? What if it's an AcitveX application that's served through your browser, is that a web based application?
I've maintained for a long while that MS is weaker without Gates. From all I've read, it was clear that Bill had a strong leadership role in the technical domain, and his influence was not to be underestimated.

So the announcement that he was leaving left me certain that MS was past its peak, and will decline over the next decade.

That was until reading this article. Ballmer impresses me with the insight in how to replace such an important leader. Reaching into Max Weber for a credible plan, and then ensuring Gates names two incredible minds to carry on after he's gone: Ozzie and Mundie.

The question is can two replace the one? Time will tell, but a certain downfall is now less certain in my mind.

Thanks WSJ for a great article.
This is how they're building their company. You build yours your way. I'm immensely interested in both stories; interested enough not to ask either of you to change your writing styles to avoid offending me.
This is a somewhat obstinate and perhaps nonconsequential point, but as a public service announcement, could anyone who reads this please do their best to assure the title of their story is grammatical and spell-checked? If the 37signals article has the title right, then it's not hard to do a quick check or just copy and paste the title. It would help prevent the Digg/reddit sort of "degeneration," as while proper spelling and grammar may seem like a somewhat arbitrary and objectively unimportant matter, it does indicate if not intelligence, at least greater care for one's communications. When you post on Hacker News, it's like talking to hundreds of people at once. Perhaps it is a moot analogy, but would you give a speech to several hundred people without checking the pronunciation of new words? It's embarrassing for both you and the community.

Kind thanks!

EDIT: I now see the URL of the 37signals post betrays the fact the original title did in fact contain "who's". Of course it is not your fault then, but as I said, it would still show greater care if one checked something like that before posting.
Some countries establish preferential admissions policies to give certain groups benefits and to harm other groups. For example, the US in the early 20th century, and the USSR in the later 20th century, aggressively discriminated against Jews. A group that has different admissions standards will skew your data, so if black candidates can get to the same school with SATs hundreds of points lower, the rise of this bizarre phenomenon will distort the data.
This is more a disagreement about the value of URLs than about whether Microsoft "cares" about their end users. With a keyword bookmark for Wikipedia, I'm about 50/50 for getting the content I want with simple URLs; I still wind up in the Wikipedia search bar all the time.

Nobody has a foolproof scheme.
Also, I try to write my resume with a focus on technical readers, not necessarily HR. Part of the goal is to get past the resume screeners, but if you want the job, having something to talk about, prompted by the contents of the resume, during the technical interview with actual technical people is a big advantage. The last thing you want is to have a sparse resume such that the interviewer does not have a basis for asking questions.

I guess this can kind of come off like "pre-loading the interviewing process", but when I've had to be the interviewer, the better interviews (and the better candidates) were the ones who already knew what they knew and didn't need to spend time reviewing their own past during the phone or face-to-face interview.
Yes, and so do the logfiles of any phishing site.
I agree. But not only are the technical problems with most rich applications fixed by 280 north, but the UI is beautiful, easy to use, and awesome as well.
37signals is doing what a lot of us are trying to do, and what's more, they're doing it with tremendous success. That's why posts about them get voted up -- each is a chance to learn from their example.

Anyway, don't you agree you ought to have more than 1 karma before making blanket statements about what's best for "our community?"
You're thinking of Goebbels, not Goebel.
descartes was right all along
It seems quite obvious that he's quoted out of context: FF3 is obviously not "bug free", but there aren't any further browser fixes slated for 3.0 final (as opposed to fixes that are "server-side and Web-site related"). The headline is just link bait.
I'm sorry but the words "Google" "AdSense" and the phrase "Don't be evil" mean nothing to me now that I've had years of first hand experience with the Goog.

It was cute when they coined it, and we all ate it up like crunch berries but let's get real, Google will protect their market share in advertising at all costs (which gasp sometimes mean being a little evil)
I take the subway to work, so "Yes."

If you can have a system that's like mass transit, but competitive -- e.g. if there's a policy that could have positive or negative effects, the transit system doesn't have to try it all at once -- that would be a pleasant improvement.
I don't always agree with them, and they can certainly get irritating, but they've built a business whose services I both use and enjoy. Their philosophy might not be for everyone, but it has served many well. In other words, you don't have to agree with them (and I don't think they expect you to), but their approach and story is a valuable one for most of us.
i think its a fantastic idea, this saves a lot of time, money and energy ... this idea will be instantly super-hit amongst south asians (india, pakistan, bangladesh, srilanka and may be china as well) - you might be surprised to know that people from these countries are used to share rides with strangers, in fact it is a norm in some parts of these countries... there is absolutely no fear or privacy or any other kind of issue amongst people from these countries - in fact there is something like share-a-taxi program in many part of these countries. Following is what i would suggest:

1.target everyone but make a special effort to focus on south asians.

2. make your web-tool extremely simple to use. use simple GUI with simple english so that a person who is not that familiar with the language or computer can also use it with ease.

3. Also after getting initial success try to make features available in multiple language, this will increase your market by senior citizens (again south asians) who dont know english.

4. Two parties should be able to connect instantly, here u may add some kind of web-to-cell (and cell-to-web) tools. so for example if i'm already out of my home/work but if i can still pick-up someone on the way then i should be able to know that via my cell phone.

5. You will also come to know what routes are more popular in what part of the city, this should make you able to add few more features that saves user's time in getting a ride right away.

6. This is most important feature: add a tool where 2 people speaking same language get connected right away - this will create a comfort zone and your service will be hit just by adding this feature .... TRUST ME ON THIS !!!
Mr. Croft could have spent more time working on the colors for his own website. I can barely read the top menus and the last paragraph. I had to highlight the last paragraph in order to even see it. Its just a good thing it was a live website and not a photoshop image that I couldn't interact with.
I agree with their model and love what they write, though I do think that they could post a picture of themselves and it would get voted up here just the same.
"reduced the incidence of dropped reservations in two years to less than 1 percent from as high as 20 percent"

To which I say, "Why weren't you doing that in the first place?"

So in today's "Ready, Fire, Aim" world, we give kudos for fixing what never would have been broken if proper planning had been used.

The Travelocity example sounds like a case of outsourcing our responsibility until something goes wrong (and it will), then fixing it. Instead of saying "congratulations", maybe we should say "shame on you".
USPS combined with customers of all mental capacities regularly means lost packages, and all sort of headaches. Using Amazon.com and Travelocity as examples doesn't exactly apply to companies with much smaller profit margins and less sway over matters out of their control. Those companies are working to dominate a national market and need little advantages like these to one up their competitors. For smaller fish it just doesn't make sense.

From my experience in ecommerce/shipping 1 out of 1000 customers will send requests with their order like "Tell USPS to leave the package with my downstairs neighbor (4th door in right doorbell doesn't work so you gotta knock real loud) between 2:15-3:05PM on Sunday, key to the front door is under the third pot in the garden out front, watch out for the homeless guy on the corner"

We'll get right on that, thanks for the advice 37signals.
i agree with #6 - this is something like dating a person who speaks your language so that there is this comfort of sharing things while commuting - this also creates instant connection between 2 people, an ice-breaker.
Yeah could we get another 37signals post on HN today? Maybe a few more dups too and I'll be complete.
Gmail Labs, extra customizations for Gmail
Reminds me of pickup-lines for girls.
"I’ve worked with many web designers in the past who only did abstractions and then handed over pictures to be chopped and implemented by “HTML monkeys”."

Are there actually designers who don't have to get their hands dirty with HTML/CSS? I've never met 1 in my 8 years of designing and building sites. Sounds like a nice gig.
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Is Ric Romero working for the NYT now?

Oh wait, this isn't Fark, moving on.
absolutely, few features should be just copied from dating websites; like what language you prefer, or whats your regular route and what time of the day - bunch of people going for grocery at the same time and place can get connected to share ride almost on daily basis. there are many software professional from india (on H1B visa) whose wives get bored by staying at home doing nothing, this kind of service will connect wives to do things together.... a social connection in itself (wow!)
You guys are really really impressive.

Crashed my firefox but that crashes at everything and is damn slow. works like a charm in Safari.

The video embed were not working though...
Sounds like you need a blog.
People seem to forget this quite often. Disagreeing with a comment doesn't mean you down-vote it.
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Do you have to pay when you are hitching?