skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am eager to replicate your attribute method but haven't got much time to do so. Very excited to know that you are on Hacker News too. My impression is that "verification" problem is already a leap forward comparing to "identification" problem which consists of fewer people and many samples. The problem space is much interesting now than before with the astronomically number of digital photos available on the Internet (considering that for about 3 years, the "verification" result are improved from 69% to around 85%). But my main concern is that our human being may not be good at "large-scale" face recognition problem after all. If that were true, the fundamental of computer-based face recognition problem would be flawed.
When I was working on my thesis I did much of the same thing -- the majority of my "thinking" time was spent walking in a loop around the college gardens, and I would only go inside to type out a few paragraphs once I had composed them mentally.

I got quite annoyed when the college closed the gardens between midnight and 4 AM...
Thanks Tim! We'll have to grub with you when we are in Chicago.
Yeah, I have heard that 95% of their revenues come from the top 5% of customers. I spend about $10k/month on ads and still get shitty service, and long review times. I do know people that buy $250k+/month, and their ads don't even get reviewed, and they have a personal customer service rep.
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I'm often on stage, with a singer, in an orchestra. (I'm an amateur violinist.)
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yeah we need some love from chicago. i am actually from chicago originally, now helping organize startupbus, so i'll do what needs to get done. let's get a chicago bus rolling!
This is cool but too distracting. Seeing the number of unread messages in the icon is already distracting enough!
I'd really appreciate any suggestions for additional fonts to include in my explorations. Also, any ideas for visualizations you'd like to see are welcomed!
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YES! There a ton of use cases we will have to look at. We are getting a bunch of requests through our create your own meal side of things. http://www.grubwith.us/meals

We can and will totally create a reddit group and host meals on there.
norova, do you know anyone else in the Chicago area who would be interested in doing this? Let's get the ball rolling.
Tutorspree (YC W11) Is An Airbnb For Tutoring
let's get some more people from chicago to sign up on www.startupbus.com and then get sponsors from the area engaged. contact startupbus sponsoring team and we'll work to make that bus possible.
For sure. I know a few people who would be interested.
Except that means something went wrong on your end!
In the end, it's all about pragmatism and experience. Over the years I've been bitten for over abstracting and under abstracting. Over the years you develop a weather sense for how extensible a particular piece of code needs to be.

Bingo. It's easy to sit back and say "never guess about extensibility that might be needed in the future." But I posit that there are degrees of guesswork; that is to say, there's a difference between a wild assed guess with no basis at all, and a guess based on years of experience solving similar problems in a related domain. Experience counts for something, and part of that is noticing familiar patterns (not "design patterns" necessarily, just patterns in the general) that tend to crop up in certain situations. I think making some speculative decisions based on the latter form of guesswork can be a net positive more often than not.

Of course I don't have scientific evidence to back that up, but I believe it very strongly based on my own experience.
An embarrassing confession: I never know the final total until I do taxes. ("Oh, I spent how much on that hotel stay?", "200 hours of overtime pay in one month? Surely that is a mispr... I am so glad I quit.")
I know some techies in the area and I've already bombarded them with info. :) Definitely going to spread the word as much as I can.
A related question that I have is how much people's incomes vary from year to year. For example, the seven years since I finished undergrad have seen me be an engineer, a grad student, a (not yet very successful) entrepreneur, and a consultant. Quite a broad spectrum.

Thus, the standard deviation of my annual gross income post-undergrad is about $41200. Are other people so variable?
Well, maybe, but the cultural argument is also applicable. With my first Java app I did this kind of stuff because the examples of Java I found implied that this was a good thing to do. I didn't have a lot of experience in this area, so I thought, "these folks have been around the block, experienced the pain, and now have words for the wise." So I did it too.

I wonder if I will actually ever use one of those factories again in that app.
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Yeah, I had a really hard time getting qtwebkit to statically link on a mac as well. I think it may not be possible.
Those buckets are pretty broad. I mean, $100 - $250K: that takes you from doing ok in SF, in the land of $550K one bedroom apartments, to doing pretty damn well.
Given that I don't particularly like "instant" and that these results still appear on the full search, I would consider this a feature, not a fault...
The last.fm music player chrome extension uses this to pop up track names when they start playing: http://chrome-music.tumblr.com/
Slideshow fail. Please put everything on one page.
last year i was also on the bus. in summary - it was a blast, but let's put it this way: in big part it was thanks to the bus that i've moved out to the bay area from the midwest.
I just got this and it's phenomenal. This is exactly what I needed, thank you so much.
This is way too relative to your area. My salary falls lower than the current leader (100k-250k), but I also live in an area where the cost of living is below the US average. Some of you in the valley might laugh and wonder how you would eat at the end of the week with my salary, but I own(mortgage) a 1600 sq ft 3 bed/2 bath house with 1/4-1/2 acre of land plus 2 cars and manage to live a pretty good life. While I'd love to be in the valley where the action is, I'm pretty happy where I'm at.
I work for a pharma to medical professional agency - this includes web development, desktop applications, mobile development (both web and app) as well as convention related applications (kiosks, booth entertainment, etc).

While the subject matter might not be overall interesting, I get to use interesting technologies; for example I am currently playing with the Kinect and RFID technologies to do R&D for convention use.
Both. For instance, on a lot of the YC and newer startups (I can't really cite them from memory) you see these really nice background patterns on landing pages, however, I have no idea how they are made. I have very little formal training as far as graphic design is concerned, so while I might be able to make a pretty logo following a tutorial I'm afraid the fundamental structure of the page will be bad.

Someone on this thread recommended a book called Design Elements, and it's great and just what I needed actually.
Wait, so in Japan, you got paid for overtime (at a higher rate than regular time, presumably) as a journeyman?
Any information on how the three founders met?
The window looks a little horrible on Mac. Why can't they use Growl notifications just like other apps do?
The laptop in the pictures is a Thinkpad X200s. The screen is matte which is a good start.

In my experience for basic stuff like writing words or code, a matte screen in the shadow is fine outdoors.
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More accurate due to using humans (Mechanical Turk) rather than OCR. Allows even some handscribbled notes to be transcribed.
Trying not to judge, but don't you feel like a dork and/or a jerk sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop and earplugs?
Sure: Josh and I have known each other for years through mutual friends. We started working on the idea that would become Tutorspree at the beginning of the summer, and as we realized we were onto something, started figuring out how to round out our team.

That led to a full on search for a technical co-founder back in NYC. It took a fair amount of doing (and if you want to know more about finding a great technical co-founder in NYC, happy to discuss some more). After a lot of work, we found Ryan, and it's been great ever since.
Easily. The standard deviation of the 5 tax years since I finished undergrad is roughly $63k.

(My grade-point-standard-deviation of the 4 years in college was 1.6, BTW.)
Err... they posted a $2.5b net profit for the last quarter alone. That will buy them one 767 every week.
I'm sure it can't be too hard to port it.
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Yeah. This isn't universal, but my company was pretty reliable about paying for overtime: the first 30 minutes every day are free, after that it X + 25% until 9 PM, X + 50% until 1 AM, another 30 minutes free, and then X + 75%, where X was the base salary divided by the number of hours theoretically expected during a month.

Don't get too excited on my behalf, though: base salaries for engineers in Japan are really, really low. The compensation package outlined on my job offer includes a line "overtime pay, calculated for company average in engineering track". Without that line, you might as well be working food service. (With that line... have I mentioned recently that I'm glad I quit?)

Please shoot me if I ever again work for a company which has a defined bracket for overtime between 1:30 AM and "the start of business the following day".
Ask HN: Is it worth $60k and four years?
I'm a freshman at a university in Boston, and I'm stuck.

All I've ever wanted to be was an entrepreneur, to start a company, to have great ideas and execute on them. First I wanted to be the CEO of a big company. Then I discovered the world of startups, went to a couple TechCrunch conferences and fell in love with the startup culture. I started a couple pseudo-startups. More like projects, none too successful.

BUT -- I feel amazing when I'm working on a new web app or a startup idea. I'm longing for that experience again, but school is making it nearly impossible. I have 23 hours of class per week, a (non-paid) job in a research lab, and a ridiculous number of papers to write and studying to do.

It's a "3, choose 2" scenario: (1) Pursue my tech/startup passion, (2) do well in school, or (3) have a social life. Adderall would probably let me do 2.5 of these, but I'd rather avoid it.

Perhaps the problem is that I chose neuroscience as my major rather than comp sci or business related. I am legitimately interested in neuroscience and the related fields, but it's not the kind of tech I'm into. It probably could be, but not before years of schooling and long-term, low-impact research.

On top of all this, I don't see any entrepreneurial spirit at my school. I haven't met many people remotely interested in tech or startups (trying to fix that by starting a 'hackers & entrepreneurs' organization). I just don't know if this is worth $15k of debt per year.

In an ideal world I would find an internship that brought me to SF this summer, and then never leave. I'd love to take a leave of absence to work at a startup. Being a product guy probably makes that a lot harder.

I'm trying to avoid being in school for four years and hating it. I'm trying to avoid graduating with crazy debt while being forced to take a job that sucks but pays well.

Any advice would be amazing. It's not often that I feel beat down like this. I'm in this period of time where I can make decisions to completely change my life. It's an opportunity that I don't want to screw up.

Thank you.
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All on one page: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-products-2011-1?slop=1...
someone bought a domain name before they knew what to do with it...
False dichotomy.

As I understand his argument, he claims the extra money Google would need to spend in order to satisfy his needs, would cause at least as much increased revenue from his increased Adsense use (or if not from him alone, at least from people like him).
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"Founded by ... the startup is disruptive in the sense that the tutoring space up until now has been monopolized by..."

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Over the past 12 years, I have always made <25k (sometimes negative...) or >200k per year. This is the maximally unfortunate tax strategy, too (being in the 150-350k range is the worst for individual taxes, but it is still obviously a good problem to have).
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Yes, the search for a technical co-founder is easily something that would interest, oh, about a million other people.
0-25K, from a developing country like me, makes sense
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Lambdas, type inference, extension methods, etc... all good stuff. LINQ itself they could have skipped. And if macros help accelerate more stuff like the syntax in LINQ -- well I think that proves my point.
A truly brilliant idea. The alternatives are essentially an unverified tutor off of craigslist or an agency that takes 50% of the tutor's money. With a good feedback system in place, I would be surprised if this doesn't become the standard way to find a tutor.

Good luck, guys!
The numbers I gave wouldn't necessarily even be valid in non-tech parts of the US, either.
Everyone, I apologize for the broad and arbitrary buckets. While it still gives us a fair idea of HN's income distribution, it's not as good as it could have been. It's my fault that I didn't put enough thought when choosing the values, and now it's too late to change them. However, I will not be offended if someone wants to repeat this poll in a few weeks with better buckets (see rdl's comment); in fact, I recommend that someone do this. I will not do it myself as I already messed this one up, but it'd be great if someone else did.
Why not change majors to something relevant to your goals that could help you? For example, go for a business major and an accounting minor, or something that seems completely unrelated but could be helpful, like History/Philosophy.

I don't know about your university, but mine was a great place to meet people and network; you never know who will be doing what or who will know what in the future. It's not all about the classrooms, for better or for worse.

Additionally, your professors, if you establish good relationship with them, can be great sources for both recommendations (for job applications) and also for advice/contacts in the future.

(I may have a biased perspective because $60,000 isn't even the cost of two years at my university, so it seems like a fairly low-cost investment.)

So basically, take your time, make connections, and prepare for what you know you want to do. It will probably pay off in the long run, despite the stories of people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
You need to add a DNS record authenticating sendgrid as a legitimate host to send mail for your domain.

Don't remember the exact details, since it differs depending on which spam-fighting protocol you're dealing with.
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It's definitely not $10k per month. I spend an order of magnitude more than that and don't have an account exec with Google. The actual phone number for customer support does appear in my account - unfortunately the article we are commenting on neatly sums up my experience with "customer support" as well.

If only I could turn an roi with facebook.
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If FB did come out with a phone, what would their OS be?

Android?
Windows X?

Android would be awesome but that would be conceding too much to google.
Whenever I'm reading a book to learn something I tend to walk randomly around the house while reading... For some reason, it feels like it helps me to concentrate on the content and I remember it better that way...
It's probably already a known phenomenon to lots of people, and that theory you mentioned is just some guy's hypothesis as to why it is so.
This is great! I had to trove through craigslist for a while before finding a quality French tutor. This solves the issues of:

Finding a quality tutor
Ratings
Weeding out spam
Knowing exactly who they are (many french tutors were just french students! I wanted a native or near native speaker).

I wonder though for this business model, what stops people from going around Tutorspree for subsequent lessons to get around the $5 per lesson fee?

One thing that pops into mind is the ratings system. It would be beneficial to continue to do the tutoring through the site in order to build a good profile.

There's also the credit card payment through tutorspree which is nice. (I'm assuming most individual tutors can't process their own credit card payments).

However, there's still a risk that after the first session people will bypass the system.

I really like this though, and can't wait to see this take off. Just sent it out to my tutor.
How many just don't care that they're running XP?
Looks pretty interesting. Are there any other, more popular languages with such explicit support for tests and contracts?
That's right; it's a Thinkpad X200s. Avoiding a reflective screen should go without saying, but it's surprising how many people don't understand this. The X200s is definitely the best I've ever used for mobile purposes: 1.2kg, high-res matte display, battery is easily swappable. It's got a low-voltage chipset, so with an SSD you can get six hours or so from a 9-cell battery, though usually I won't spend more than half the day outside since the seating is usually not as comfy.

I do use it in the sun occasionally for short periods, but a) I live in Seattle, and b) it actually gets uncomfortably hot if left in the sun for too long since it's black.
I am a runner. I run 60 minutes to 120 minutes / day. I understand this. But at some point, you do have to click buttons in some divine ordered pattern, right? Or are you saying you don't even do this?
Thanks for the feedback, nopinsight. Technically, the "filter" should get smarter based on the more activity you do (answering questions about specific locations, etc.) but yeah - calling out "here are my main areas of knowledge" somehow would clean up the list, especially as the community grows. Thanks again!
The post says that it would feature tweaked version of Android.
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Yeah. I mean, even on the low-end of it, my $45k salary is low but manageable in DC (it's starter salary), meager in NY/SF, but basically enough to raise a family in the other 95% of the country.
Wow.

For a lot of ops jobs, there is scheduled off-hours work (i.e. we need to upgrade servers when it won't affect customers) and unscheduled (oh shit, a redundant system wasn't).

I generally find the best way to deal with this is flexible comp time, vs. cash, and making sure it doesn't become too much difficulty for ops people. For instance "oh, you got paged last night and worked really late? Come in (or call in) late tomorrow so we can have the post-incident meeting, and then take another day off later this week", but in general just using flexibility to figure out what people want (if someone had to come in and it ruined a dinner with SO, I'd probably encourage expensing a replacement date/meal; other people might prefer a comp day or a new 30" monitor. I'd personally want "actually fix whatever broke so I don't get paged for the same reason again..."; the most demoralizing ops calls are when the same thing happens over and over again and it still doesn't get fixed)

There's also a great tradition from the military of the most senior people taking over junior jobs (gate security, food service) on major holidays, to give the other people a break. I actually like working xmas to new years, inclusive, because I end up getting a lot more work done in that week than in any other month.
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Would you mind sharing some of those options you set to avoid the bad parts? Or does the conversion optimizer handle most of that after a while?

If you ever wrote a guide to how to get started with google advertising and get it to work for you, I'd gladly pay cash money for it. There's just way too much noise out there on the subject.
For that list to have any significance you'd have to put it side by side with a list of people who didn't have faith .

You would also have to remove many of the believers on the list because being a person without god in 1400 would probably have made you a witch and you'd probably burn at the stake or something.
I'm curious why you're doing actual subjects and not doing test prep. Did your customer development say that people prefer Kaplan et al for SAT, SSAT, PSAT, ACT, etc.?

(Personally, I would really love to have a service that screened potential clients for me. I charge $150-200/hour for GMAT tutoring and I spend way too much time dealing with people bitching about my fees. If I was just given clients who had the ability and willingness to pay with no hassles, I'd be thrilled.)
I actually pair program over voip at coffee shops, so in my case the noise issue is more about making sure I'm not sitting right next to the bean grinder.

I don't think I could handle the same place all the time, but in Seattle there are lots of options; if you don't mind driving ~20 minutes you could practically go to a different coffee shop every day for a month.
At least this gives us all a target - spend more than $250k/month!
And yet, they still have this:

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&safe=off&client=g...
I think there's a lot of interest in both the quantifiable and the qualitative aspects of startup jobs here (this post, the where do you work posts, the salary service ackwire, ...).

Aside from potential privacy/disclosure concerns, and trust/data quality, it would be really nice to have this data. There are salary surveys in the tech industry, but they are rarely specific to startups (keying it on stage of funding or employee number...), and the data does get stale fast. It would help employees, founders, and managers.

I know pg posted about a couple YC funded companies doing employment related stuff. I know of one (which may or may not end up doing something in that space); it would be great if YC could become a resource for this kind of data. I think ~everyone would trust pg or YC if they attested to a specific service's privacy protections, and just getting a bunch of YC companies to contribute might be enough to bootstrap it.
I don't understand what this would give you that a mobile optimized site, or an app wouldn't. Given that, and Facebook's history of making private data public, rather abruptly (even today, with the news of sponsored checkins), I'd be interested to see how many people are really interested in this.
Thanks! Looking forward to having your tutor.

The "jumping" problem you point out is one of the long term questions for us. You're absolutely right that the ratings system is the biggest carrot to keep tutors in. As you collect feedback, you move up in the rankings. The feedback is not evergreen - so logging lessons over time will help float you up.

On the other side, we believe that the payment and scheduling elements are worth the fee, especially in aggregate to the two sides.

At the end of the day, though, we look at that as a final funnel. We'll tweak and iterate to maximize that final, long term conversion in such a way that unlocks the most value for the folks in the system.
The author mentions D as a language with these, but if I read it correctly, believes that his support for contracts is superior.

Eiffel was the original source of design-by-contract.