skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice, but you get to know all the details and link them up to people. You might end up meeting those people in networking events, or being asked about those people.

What's to stop you from making use of that data?

I'm not attacking your character or suggesting you will make use of the data, but it's a pretty tempting pool of data to sneak a look into. "Oh, so-and-so at Twitter earns that much, interesting. Holy crap, I met this guy last week, I had no idea he got screwed so badly by his current startup. Huh, looks like startup X has a fair bit of money."

A lot of this is actionable data. If the startup has IPOed, you might even fall under insider trading regulations and need to make sure you don't trade on it. On a purely ethical level, you might want to consider what sort of level of access you should have to the data.

Finally, there is, of course, the possible issue that someone might offer you a tidy sum of money to buy that data off you, once there's enough of it.

I would not advise anyone to put their data in there as this stands.
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Their recent fancy-pants redesign made everything prettier, slower, more cluttered and added almost no new functionality.

One of the devs had the nerve to post about how clever the resolution-independent swoosh at the top was. In my head I was yelling "stop fiddling with that and fix the frikkin search!"
Direct Link: http://swarm.linkedinlabs.com/
When I first signed up for SendGrid their confirmation email went straight to my spam. Not really auspicious beginnings, but I haven't had any problems with them since and I think they're a great company.

Here's hoping the same will be true for SES.
A lot of people forget text is also interaction and communication. The soft forms of Comic Sans communicate a soft voice, a party feeling, an informal tone.
Font's like Helvetica are formal, almost cold, just to inform you without any emotion. So using a font like Helvetica is more suitable for business. But it's bullshit to hate Comic Sans. It's just a different font.
No matches :(

QRs have always worked for me. Any idea why yours isn't?

I tried the links on your page on the phone too, same result 404 and a Not Found.
Indeed, the app-store is very un-googly at the moment. Google made their name in search by providing the highest quality results, that's certainly not the case with the app-store.
This is true. Given that there is no shortage of examples of harmful mishaps in the nuclear industry caused by corner-cutting and mismanagement, the mind truly boggles at what might happen if regulation was any looser.
Don't do what Johnny Don't does. Huh?

The best method of teaching, in my experience, is to start with the fundamentals (a skeleton model at a high level of abstraction) even if it's not fully accurate and then fill in the details and all of the cautionary advice bit by bit, building up the skeleton model into a more robust and full featured model.
That email was not marked as spam on my gmail accounts.
no attachment support.. no mimetype support for anything but text and html.. not evident from the docs.. just errors when you try to send a jpeg

definitely still in beta
Huh, why would that be? Drawing a round corner is in fact more complex than drawing a square one, but surely for a few dozen rounded corners the number of additional CPU cycles spent pales in comparison to things like anti-aliased font rendering, calculating CSS box model layouts, decompressing gzipped contents and the myriad of other tasks that a browser has to perform during loading and rendering of a web site nowadays.
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I might be alone in this, but I actually preferred the old-fashioned pagination approach to to 'get more articles' buttons.
Actually, I might not be alone in this as HN does the same thing :)
their search results get more un-googly as time goes on as well.
Number of starred items might be more useful.

Also, seems to be an issue - this number does not increase (from 0 to 1 in the test I did) when you 'mark as unread'. Tried to give feedback about this to gmail labs but couldn't.
Yes, JavaScript code is very well documented. I have written a simple tutorial here -- http://blog.varunkumar.me/2011/01/how-to-setup-google-io-sty...
Conspiracy theory -1: My Android browser just claims that the name of the site doesn't match the name in the SSL cert. It probably has something to do with their ghetto cert from SecureTrust.
depends. if you're single then that be great but if you have a family then that's another story.
Good point. Generally, Senior is the most experienced title for an employee without direct reports, e.g. Senior Engineer. Lead, Director and VP usually entail direct reports, e.g. a Lead Engineer or "Engineering Lead"
Product pages (MacBook Pro, iPod touch, iPhone, …) look unchanged, category pages (Mac, iPod) are seriously de-cluttered.
I like the redesign. Have they fixed the unusably bad commenting system?
depends how many accounts you've got. I'm checking 3 accounts so it saves having to have 3 pinned tabs open.
Couldn't agree more. The tumblr theme used is quite buggy and shows strange glitches. Will work on that soon!
In general, when a large company with deep pockets goes after many people with such a tactic, it's seen by many to be a 'shake-down.' One-off instances not so much.

Not to mention that in most cases that evidence was obtained in an illegal manner (by people that were acting as if they were private investigators, but had no license to do so). Is that okay too? Should the RIAA not be responsible for it's own transgressions because they were just 'innocent mistakes' in the pursuit of a much higher goal (corporate profits)?

What about when the RIAA tries to sue people for sharing songs by artists that the RIAA has no legal standing to represent (I'd argue that moves like this are either made because: 1. the RIAA naively view itself as some entity that 'all of music' must pass through or 2. it's part of some targeted plan to make sure that the rest of the world thinks/believes that the RIAA controls all music)?
Something like the median would be even better; the average is too sensitive to outliers, if you have one post that is either karma'd into heaven or completely trashed, it should not reflect that much in your score. After all, it's better if someone consistently posts insightful comments.
I don't quite understand - are you saying that the lower the amount of lines of code, the easier it is to embed? Or better in some other way? Or something else entirely?
OK for a beta release though
Thanks for your feedback! It turns out the Tumblr theme is quite buggy and I will replace it soon. On another note, not all details posted are 100% good, some are purely food for thought.
The rule of thumb in the U.S. is that the company is paying about double your actual salary in taxes, administration, and benefits. That doesn't seem all that different from the French example...
Google should give up and license others to run competing Android app stores. Then someone will figure how to do international app sales and curate Android apps.
If by "building a business" you mean stealing an idea, tricking people who hired him to work for them and betraying many of the people who made it possible for him to get started, then yes he seems to like that.
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I have a family and still consider the money I minor part in the whole job choosing scheme. A minimum of overtime and no weekends and reasonable vacation days so that I actually can spend time with my family is much more important to me. As is having a boss who doesn't get pissy if I have to stay home to take care of a sick child now and then.
Must be. After enough SHIFT+F5'ing, I can see the nav on the homepage. And if I do a hard refresh on every page I go to, I eventually get the nav there too.

Apple really should know how to version their .js and .css to avoid this. It's Website 101 to increment the version number on your style sheet when you launch a new version of your site.

We all do it for our sites. Why do you suppose Apple don't do it for their own?
One could argue that "cool new things" being never written in perl _is_ a ~marketing~ problem.

I think the GP was actually trying to say that the traction is missing for an otherwise nice and mature/stable infrastructure. A couple of "shiny" projects that boldly host with a powered by perl on their page might bring in fresh blood..
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Ask HN: What percent of YC companies had former YC-mafia connections?
Just wondering how many of the companies that have been accepted in the last few years (2008+) that were introduced by former YC members. Trying to measure how much of a referral thing it actually is.
"What's to stop you from making use of that data?"

The vision of Ackwire is to make startup compensation data transparent to prospective employees and employers.

Email addresses are encrypted and stored in a different database. It's true that they aren't hard to manually access, but this presents a reasonable barrier.

The same argument applies to any web service that stores personal information. I'm sure there are administrators at Facebook, Gmail, etc. who could read all your private messages, view your photos, etc. But we assume they don't, and most of us use these services anyway.

"A lot of this is actionable data. If the startup has IPOed, you might even fall under insider trading regulations and need to make sure you don't trade on it."

I'm not a securities lawyer, but this doesn't seem to pass the material non-public test. Significant shareholders in a public company already have to disclose their holdings, publicly.

"Finally, there is, of course, the possible issue that someone might offer you a tidy sum of money to buy that data off you, once there's enough of it."

I think this is jumping the gun a bit, but any buyer would have to keep the current user agreement intact (posts are confidential and anonymous) or explicitly ask users to opt into the new terms.
In my case, what I'm considering is either this post or starting my own company. With the "other factors" close to equivalent (at least in my opinion), money remains a pretty big differentiator.
I didn't notice, gray on white background is a bit hard to see.
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Happens to me as well - Amazon's service mails are marked straight as spam.
Even always taking them out of the spam folder didn't stop it (I was expecting the filter to do some sort of automatic adjustment).
Very curious.
I'm using NFS for my personal site. It works perfectly fine, and has cost me $0.08 for this month (so far).

Yes, I should write more.
There is probably an opportunity cost because you aren't releasing the games as soon as possible. You might consider entering into some sort of deal with somebody that is able to publish your game or make an US (or whatever country is allowed) entity.

Of course, this is much too complicated/expensive than it would be if Google would do their part.

I'm also from Romania and this lack of support from Google is the reason I've only done iOS apps.
Ignore this, I thought it compiled a statically linked version... it didn't and I really suck when it comes to compiling c :(
Wow, double of the gross salary?
So a company paying me $80k (out of which I have to pay taxes and I net let's say $60k), actually pays $160k? Seems like a LOT to me.
In Italy it's around 1,46x the gross salary.
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So which way is this going to go? It seems inevitable that TV and Web will come together. But in what form? Any thoughts?
thanks

should have googled that though, sorry
What? Why?
Not a lot of clues on the landing page.
Seems like they were using crypt().
There's also a nice transition when using the search

http://littlebigdetails.com/post/2939190835
See the Macbook Air page for instance: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

Though that's the only page so far I've found with a dark black background. I'm not sure why it's black, all the other Macbook Air pages have a light background.
Raskin described a plug like that in his human factors book that I read. Probably:

http://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-...
A productive employee costing double salary, fully loaded, includes a benefit and other direct load (employer FICA, UI, 401k and health insurance, ...), plus share of supervisors, plus facilities. i.e. a team of 5 developers requires maybe one full time equivalent manager making roughly the same or slightly more, who also has his own benefits, office space, etc. And his own manager, etc. (assuming a reasonable span of control, like 5-10:1 manager)

I usually use 1.3x for "direct loaded cost" and maybe 1.5x for facilities and loaded cost. In a "below market compensation" environment, like a startup, the loaded costs are usually higher (if you pay yourself $30k at a startup, you still probably want the same quality health insurance as if you pay yourself $60 or $100k, unless you're young and single and get an HSA/catastrophic coverage).
Yea.. Can someone explain what's new in simple terms.. Lazy to dig into the delta documentations..
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"What's to stop you from making use of that data?"

This could

https://ssl.trashmail.net/

been using it for years..
Does 'Engineering' imply software developers too, or is there just no software development in these startups?
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I worked for a company where there were a bunch of Engineering Leads with no direct reports. Makes no sense, I realize, but titles rarely do. You might want to make that a checkbox.
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Right, but sometimes you hire someone as "Director of Engineering" with only contractors or even zero staff, at a 1-10 person startup, on the assumption that he will add direct reports later.

I really prefer hiring people as individual contributors and then promoting them, with "employee #5" or something being enough "status" to get a Director or VP at a larger company (who is still a great individual contributor himself) to accept the position.

Plus, a lot of more tech-heavy companies have somewhat parallel technical vs. management tracks, with Senior going to maybe Lead (who doesn't necessarily have reports, and may just be a tech leader, supported by a product manager), going up to maybe a Fellow or CTO or Chief Scientist; this is parallel to pure-administrative managers (PM) or hybrid Director of Engineering/Engineering Group types who then become VP Engineering.

Honestly I find few things more pathetic than a startup with 5-10 people and a CTO, VP Engineering, CIO, CEO, COO, ...; probably the best at a 1-10 person company is to skip the title entirely (except for CEO) and just specify job role, like "Engineering" "Product" "Server Operations"; let the individual contributor vs. manager roles follow in time.

Figuring out some way to title-ify "employee #5, first full-time back end engineer" would be cool; "Founding Engineer" as one-step down from Founder might work. There should be some way to compensate employees 1-n (n=5-15) at a startup with title in addition to equity in a way which still allows people with management experience or specific domain expertise to maybe come in above in the hierarchy later.
This is the old and unchanged MacBook Air page. Apple heavily customizes product pages – no two look alike. That has always been the case and is definitely nothing new. I think that the Final Cut Studio page was entirely black in the past, maybe even the Mac Pro page.

Here is a screenshot from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pxlronin/542462785/

Also from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/541257980/
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I'm used to engineering lead vs. manager being "leads technology" vs. "leads team" within a group, so an engineering lead should never have direct reports.

Sometimes the engineering lead is sort of a mentor to junior members of the team, too, and it can be training for becoming a manager. It would be unusual for an engineering lead to be responsible for HR-type management of Senior Engineers, at least at every place I've worked.
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For me, http://google.com/ is redirecting to https://encrypted.google.com/ - is this new? Could it be a reaction to DuckDuckGo?

Possible factors - I am logged into a "new system" Google Apps account.
That's the same everywhere (well the extent varies, but not by the margin you suggest), which is why you should quote your gross pay (i.e. the amount before deduction of social security, pension and related costs). On top of that there's extra costs for the company obviously, but those are not 'wages'. Quoting the gross salary is standard here in the Netherlands because the amount that is left after taxes varies depending on personal circumstances. In the Netherlands (and Belgium and to the best of my knowledge France) the contributions are withheld by the company, in the US you pay them yourself. Quoting the gross salary makes for the best comparison (not perfect, but better than stating net pay, i.e. the amount you are paid each month - that number is in this context meaningless).
I couldn't disagree more. The way we've always used the web is to have some content and a web server and let clients use an app to connect to our site and use the services. The difference is, we used a generic app (web browser) and had to encode all the presentation in with the content.

In my opinion this is going in exactly the right direction. Let clients worry about how to display the data and the web servers/services provide the content. Then your "web apps" can do anything. 3D, open GL, anything the device can support.

If you make all apps just be browser apps then you have to put all code for all possible clients on the server side. Doing things this way means I can write a really great web service and hire people for the different clients to make the best possible client. I don't need to worry about it at all, nor maintain these different clients.
We have TheFunded for VC/Angel investors, stuff like Glassdoor and this for compensation, and CPM/traffic/etc. are fairly well established through compete and other sources, and it would be great to see a few more anonymous data pools:
1) Non-employee costs (offices in SoMA and PA/MV, insurance, anything sold in a non-transparent market)
2) Sales cycles and cash to cash time (how long does it take for initial interest to become cash in the bank account for various types of product and market)
You should give keyboard shortcut a try (require JS). This alone forces me to use JS in gmail.
I believe there is an essential factor which isn't being articulated; the different demographics and psychology of android phone purchasers vs. iphone purchasers. I think Apple attracts a large portion of the "eager to spend money on technology" customer base. If you are someone who is eager to spend a lot of time playing with your phone, you are likely to buy an iphone. If you want smartphone functionality but are not inclined to make a hobby of your phone use, you are likely to buy an android phone. I love my android phone, but I am simply not interested in spending additional money on applications, and no matter how good app store search and discovery is and no matter how painless payment is, I can't imagine any phone application I would be interested in purchasing.
I think the point of the OP was that there is no mechanism in place to enforce your promises. It basically asks people to just trust some guy on the internet that they've never seen or met and most likely never will, and who may or may not be who he says he is. I don't have an answer, I just think it's a valid concern and if your only response is 'oh but I won't do that', well to me that shows that you don't understand the actual concern.
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Probably the bigger risk is that another person will find this data appetizing and hack the server. Seeing that this is a relatively small service, it's probably not very hard for a determined person to get in, even if that means waiting until a zero-day is released and hitting before the owner gets a chance to patch.
I, personally, don't think so. I think it's a lot like a low entry barrier: before BASIC, it was hard to program those 8-bit computers. After BASIC, a lot of people who have no particular inclination or ability towards programming computers called themselves programmers and inflicted their creations upon innocent users.
I've an account there because of the appsumo deal.

Please, fix your website and write some docs.

"Documentation for this feature is coming soon. Meanwhile, contact us if you need any help."
i'm currently waiting for the results of a couple of phone interviews, for a position here in Europe. It's the 2nd time i've applied. The 1st time i didn't make the 1st phone call, i was very nervous and almost didn't manage to answer the most basic of questions.
This time, i came across a tweet from a googler who attended a GTUG event, announcing available positions in Europe, i ping'ed him and he booted my profile on their recruitment system. A few days after, i got an e-mail and a call from a recruiter and we had a nice talk, the guy was great and most helpful even after the 1st screening. I was setup 2 phone interviews with engineering googlers from Mountain View and i did my best to comply, although being interviewed by professionals that have been eating complex algorithms for lunch leaves a feeling that you'll hardly impress whatever you do or say. My overall experience with the recruiting process has been OK and if i don't make it would basically by not being match with their goals i guess. Also, i'd guess the number of applicants is immense.
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So because some apps abuse the system, we all have to suffer writing lots of extra code?

In one of my apps, I request read/write access and then allow the user to select whether they want to tweet on an interaction basis, not on a connection basis. It would provide an extra pain point if the user did want to the application to tweet to have to go back to Twitter.com to change their settings (and if the setting can be changed via the API, then that defeats the purpose altogether).

It's not ideal when any app can spam, but it's better than having a user choose their access levels before they've even used the application (where the OAuth request dialogue tends to sit).
I'm the author of DryDrop. I've created it before GitHub pages were announced. Then I switched to GitHub Pages+Jekyll and quite ironically, DryDrop site itself is hosted from GH pages :-)

But still I think DryDrop may be useful for some folks who want to use GAE for hosting. See the FAQ on http://drydrop.binaryage.com/#faq
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Slashdot was here before HN.

It is likely Slashdot will still be here when HN is gone.

There's a lesson in that.