skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like Hetty Green. She made millions working from a bank counter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_Green#Miser
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I suppose it depends on the nature of your site.

If this is an esoteric group then responsibility for what they download should be understood.

You could always have a specific warning that flags up for file types that fall outside of your prescribed ones.
160 people upset enough to complain on the forums.
North Vector
what are north vector doing with them?
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It sounds like his employees just need a raise. If I was making $500k a year cleaning toilets, I wouldn't care about a career path. Obviously this example is extreme, but if losing people is a disaster, you should be paying them enough that it would be insane for them to leave unless they were planning a complete career change.

As for more responsibility, just give people more say in how the company is run. If your employers are better at something than you ever see yourself being, they probably have insights that you would never have. Ask them. Implement their ideas.

I don't think people really want to feel overpaid or overextended any more than they want to feel underpaid or underutilized. If employees are asking for more money or more responsibility, it's probably because they feel underpaid or underutilized, not because they want excess.
Not being able to tear out video, or even worse a screen sharing session is very frustrating. Screen sharing someone's 1920px wide screen in half of the Skype window makes screen sharing unusable.
I grabbed jotperfect.com ... now I've got to start a new writing related site ... or maybe learn + create a webapp? Hmm :)

Thanks!
Ah. Out of curiosity, do you know what restrictions there are on characters that can be used? Are the criteria for "legal characters in a name" in the U.S. driven by technology/codepages? ö is in ISO 8859-1 and Windows-1252, so perhaps support is more straightforward. I have a feeling č or ł might be a different story.

I keep on meaning to look into synchronizing my birth name (with an ł and a ó, latter is in 8859-1 but not the former) with my legal name in Canada, but I consistently conclude I can't be bothered...
> If we consider mining success as a function of investment AND natural deposits, then if the natural deposit goes to 0, investment can go to infinity without increasing the success rate.

Sure, but people are still mining silver 2500 years later. I don't know if the same mines are still in use, but so what if they're not? Economies adapt: a local mine going dry might incentivize exploration, which might in turn lead to even faster economic growth. People searching for new silver mines once ended up naming a whole country after the stuff.

> A steady slow growth of the money supply has been proposed as a way to eliminate bubbles. No one has tried it, for all we know it is not much worse or better than what we have now.

Isn't this precisely what we do have now?
All the ones I've gotten so far have all come to me. So I'd say win over the teachers and let them sell it for you. Especially since a lot of districts will pay for stuff like this, the teachers know that and lobby for you.
I wouldn't say they're "completely independent". There's still a correlation.
Agree though I was writing the post more from the perspective of getting first 1,000 users. Focusing on adwords, facebook is good for going from first 1,000 users to first 100,000 users.

And, investors will definitely get excited if you figure it out.
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true, good point. I upgraded to the beta when it came out a while back on my 13" air and I'm perfectly fine with the sizing. The new update made things even smaller/better. I run my Skype on a different Spaces section though so screen real estate isn't an issue for me.
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Directly from Apple both times, ~6 months apart from each other. Note that this extra software was pre-installed and on the Mac OS install DVD, not coming as a separate box/DVD. It would have been very easy to miss it and, again, I don't consider this bloatware.

I imagine the iWork you mention was the trial version of it, right? Not bloatware to me either since you're not bothered to upgrade like you might be with pop-ups for anti-viruses on a Windows PC.
Going forward I'm also listed in the Google Apps Marketplace in the EDU section (http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?pro...), which has gotten me a few inquiries.
Collaboration just got a lot easier, see how...
How many releases of Perl 6 do you want to see?
Time to create a startup that does nothing but charge baggage fees!
Subliminal messaging in spam?
I think the more accurately stated question is: Is it better for my company if I create a career path for my employees?

Everyone's knee-jerk reaction to using the word "owe" will be no. But I think the question is an interesting one that I, at least, don't know the answer to. On the yes side, there is the possibility of long-term retention and providing more benefit to employees as a recruitment tool. On the no side, the potential for these employees to then leave for better jobs, the resource drain in creating such a program, the difficulty placing these people within a small company, etc.

So I'm curious to hear what people who've had this experience think -- is it better for the company?
Removing crap is actually all too easy. Deleting the application removes the app. Deleting the Library/Application Support folder for it removes the preferences. If you want to get fancy, AppZapper will scrub all trace of it. That's way better than any "uninstaller" type app I've seen.

For a new install, it's pretty easy: Rip consumer apps out of dock, delete apps you'll never use, load in MacPorts, compile a bunch of stuff, runs some installer packages, set up your shell environment, tweak preferences in various apps. Done. Usually it's 2-3 hours tops and you're ready for anything.
If so, how do I convince people that I'm platform/language agnostic?

Simple, code some personal projects in another platform/language. The sooner the better, because .Net along with most Microsoft technologies are a dead-end. Most startups already know this. No matter which buzzwords are used, basically everything is going mobile/cloud, and it absolutely won't be WindowsPhone/Azure that wins.
Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail
This isn’t a Facebook redesign or even #NewTwitter — the latter was overwhelmingly welcomed but of course some holdouts criticize all change.

With Skype 5 for Mac, I haven’t heard a single soul say anything positive about it.
Image copyrights - workarounds please
I'm creating a reporting tool that runs across products online collecting prices and descriptions. How can I provide access to images without getting in copyright trouble.

Is storing URLs and linking offsite to the image a feasible alternative?
Only if that's the only thing you're known for.

I have a lot of respect for a CEO that runs the entire company and doesn't consider himself too high to do the grunt work too.
The point is that nobody has the job of "dishwasher". It's one of those tasks that falls between the cracks of everyone's job description - and if you're a startup those cracks can be pretty damn big.

His CEO is showing by example what he expects of his employees - if you see something needs doing, even if it's not "your job", then roll up your sleeves and get it done.
I didn't realise that. He actually uses -Os after -O3.
The bloatware companies wouldn't pay for inclusion if it didn't generate sales; "off the back of someone else" in this case means the non-tech-savvy users who have a crappy experience because they don't know any better.
I doubt that you can afford to pay your employees insane amounts and be competitive in most industries.
All these "now you're the dishwasher, gg idiot" comments I think are taking this too literally.

We've all probably been "the nice guy" in some situation that did some mundane/tedious task, ended up being that guy forever, and ended up resentful and vowed never to do it again. I don't think this is the point here though.

In my opinion, the easiest way to command respect is to not think about commanding respect. If there's a problem, just solve it, and your peers and subordinates will respect you an order of magnitude more than if you just tried to motivate them with some "problem-solving" Power Point slides.

One of my favorite examples I've seen of "washing the dishes:"

- At a startup myself and four other engineers wanted attend a conference across town. Our cab was running late and we were in danger of missing the first sessions. The CEO chucked his keys at us (he drove a minivan) and his credit card and said, "take my car, it needs gas though so fill it up with my card on the way back."

Did we expect we now had unlimited use of this guy's car forever and abuse it? Of course not. Did we totally respect him for trusting five guys to drive his car and made sure we had enough gas? Yes. Did we notice that he didn't even use the corporate credit card because only about 10% of that full tank of gas would be used for work purposes? Yes.
Lots of European countries have very powerful teachers' unions and tenure (off the top of my head France, Germany, Sweden, Norway). Yet their results (for secondary education of course) are far better than NYC. So I doubt that's the major cause.
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I did that, several times, and I wasn't blunt or aggressive (which made one of us) - I'm not totally socially inept. I "lost" more of those arguments than I won. I genuinely think it would have been okay if I weren't fresh out of grad school - the guy in question was often condescending when trying to make a point.

Maybe he's an exception, I don't know, but I definitely think the age difference made things worse.
Do People in 'Party Cities' Lose More Phones?
I am pretty sure that Netflix pays to ISP's properly for all the outbound traffic from their data centers, problem mainly originates when a bunch of users from same area hog up the network with streaming services - then they might want to charge those users.

And I don't understand why they want to do that also. They are enjoying near monopoly and are getting paid by the mild users also. ISPs should monitor spikes in usage and adjust the infrastructure accordingly.
I like the library over Starbucks (or other coffee shops) but our local county libraries aren't open 7 days a week anymore due to budget cuts.

I'll have to try the local community college library though -- I hadn't really considered it in the past.
I'm surprised they offer such a service. The Columbia U. library is notorious for being stingy with access. As a prospective grad student visiting the campus, they told me that I could have a once-time free pass and that if I ever wanted to get in again at some point during the rest of my life, I would have to become a student.

They even refused admittance to a friend of mine who was philosophy PhD student at U Penn. She was surprised because it is pretty normal to go to other campus libraries to do research for dissertations.
Serve all file as zip files.

If you're going to open it up to everything, you may want to virus-scan each upload too... unless your esoteric corner of the universe also shares viruses.
Then the ISPs would be forced to sell wholesale Internet access to new, competing ISPs. The mechanism for determining the rate-setting process is likely pretty cumbersome. It's not so clear that Title II reclassification would be less "regulatory" than net neutrality regs.
Honest question: Is it still considered a stunt if nobody even knows that he's doing it? From the post, it seemed like he was just taking care of it with no fanfare or mention to the other employees.
I think the iWork install was a full copy, I don't remember for sure, since I use iWork (and not MS Office anymore) if it wasn't a full license I would have bought a license almost immediately anyway.

I also forgot, FWIW, I bought an iMac for the kitchen/wife's home computer, and that didn't come with any crapware either.
The Facebook page has the same viral effect (if you Like it, it will show up to all of your friends). So don't buy that.

Was just skimming back through the forum link again, about 50% of the comments appear to be new forum users. So some validity in that I guess. Although, have you ever registered on a forum to say you like something or is it normally a complaint/wanting to be heard.
The 23% figure cited in the article is students ready for college or careers: "only 23 percent of students in New York City graduated ready for college or careers in 2009." I read that to mean going to college or getting a job. This in means that 77% are not prepared for anything other than continuing to live at home.
he details all this stuff in his "4 steps to the epiphany" book. It's very popular around these parts.
Despite the facetious nature of the comment, there's a kernel of truth there: Twitter actually did hire 3 people just to work on Cassandra.
love the idea, in theory. in practice, i'd have to drive to library, but can walk to any number of coffee shops or book stores instead.

much easier to execute for a student.
This is change of the bad kind. The interface looks horrible, to say the least. I had hopes that they'll stop burning the CPU fans in Skype 5, but apparently it has gotten worse. It baffles me everytime I see the CPU usage spiking up like crazy whenever I do a video call.

Skype is an indispensable tool for a lot of people, including me. All I want is it to get better. But Skype 5 doesn't really look like a step in that direction.
I've searched their website high and low, and I can't find how either.
It's not quite as shocking when you compare with overall revenues.

For example, Delta had $28B in 2009 revenues compared with $482M in baggage fees, for just under 2% of total revenues.

As a side note, as long as you can get your bag through the xray scanner you should just bring it to the gate. They may not let you carry it on, but there's no fee for gate-checked bags.
Sounds like a good place to go study abroad...
But could you not argue it from the other perspective?
In your first example one could say it is your thief's love of gain that causes him to disregard other people's property. Similarly, with your shoe example, it is the man's love of gain (shoes for cheap) that allows him to willfully disregard the exploitation involved in the construction of the shoes. This man's desire to get a good deal on shoes (gain) prevents him from purchasing more expensive locally made shoes which were not made through the exploitation of some laborer in a developing country.

Thus it is the love of gain that causes people to disregard property, the suffering of others, and act irresponsibly with other's money (following from your banker's short sightedness). That, to me, implies that it is the love of gain that is the root of many evil actions. There are many good stupid people in this world.
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was it for a real job or for a minimum wage type job(McDonalds etc)
I don't drink - I'm not draconian about it, but I won't have a beer unless not doing so would be antisocial, and I don't enjoy it. I'd tell you it doesn't make a difference, but maybe I'm just too terrible programmer to realize how terrible I am...
You misread. I said pay enough that it would be insane for them to leave without changing careers. If you're in the top 1% of earners for your field, it would be insane to leave your job (at least where money is concerned) unless you were moving to a different career. You aren't going to earn more money somewhere else. If you want employees who are "very, very good," you need to pay them very, very well. They've earned it.
In the past I have lived or died by Starbucks and Caribou - driving around Omaha or some random town in Colorado trying to find public internet access. Now that I have a phone with national internet access, truly mobile internet is going to completely change how I work when I travel.

The rest stops with wifi have been fun finds in the past. There's one 50 miles west of Omaha for instance with decent wireless internet - I got a lot of odd looks sitting at a picnic table with my Macbook doing emails for two hours. Now, I can do that anywhere!
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Perhaps the FCC should have just reclassified Internet service as a Title II Telecom service--something it clearly has the authority to do.

The Internet was initially classified as Title II by the FCC, then reclassified by the FCC. Congress has never classified the Internet in terms of its common carrier status.
OMAP5 SoC will support hardware 3D
Ask HN: Is it possible to get into grad school with mediocre grades?
So let's imagine that some hypothetical person is approaching the final year of his or her electrical engineering degree, and the prospect of graduate studies has recently become alluring. If that person does not have very good grades (below the guidelines for admission), is it still possible for them to get into graduate school? How?

Edit: Also curious about different countries. I'm in Canada - how difficult would it be to get into a program in the US or Europe and what are the pros and cons in your opinions? I realize that a lot of this information is available elsewhere but I'm eager to hear the HN version.
Instead of emotionally arguing with someone, you should rationally consider how to persuade the person, and whether it is worth it. That's a much better suggestion than "doing nothing" as suggested in this pointless flame-bait article*

*please think before replying to that sentence.
It's an issue for wireless (EDGE, 3G) and satellite networks. I think a lot of networks do some kinds of filtering and downscaling of images or videos.
Why You Need To Start A Startup
1) Try thinking of things that happen during your day that piss you off and/or that you think could be easier to do.
2) Stop to think if they could be resolved by means of a computer.
3) Think of how a computer could help you resolve it.
4) Examine if your idea has any potential problems that could explain why no one has tried (and succeeded on) doing this before.
5) Start talking to your friends
Reminds of digg v4...unfortunately in this case people do pay for Skype's service. I, being one of them. I will not be upgrading my client anytime soon.
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Ignoring people is the new black: Skype is pulling a Mubarak.

http://twitter.com/BigThingist/statuses/35031167392686080
Try the new Battery Park City NYPL. Spacious, quiet, and while not awe-inspiring outside or in, it's certainly not dreary.
My source might stop at "Wash the Dishes" in this age. (Mark 9:35)
AFAIK, more airlines charging baggage fees, and more charging for the 1st bag
Yes, they don't leave the bathrooms... which is where >99% of your #2's take place.
It's also odd because the various PC makers add all these "features" to their machines to try to differentiate them from their competitor's machines, when at this point the best way to differentiate themselves would be to just sell a plain-jane machine with no proprietary "features".
I was just really sad the see the replies died off here since I wanted to see how the formatting would look as we moved further over.
iirc, we had a discussion here about this here some time in the past.

jetblue and southwest don't charge for the first bag specifically because of this. their processes are optimized on the assumption that you're going to check one bag. it helps them to get more flights in per day, when people can get to their seats and they can get the plane in the air faster.

it might actually do well to provide a ticket discount if you check a bag, in order to ensure that there are limited delays. but that would require an airline to care, and most don't seem to.
I'm thinking of sticking around on AT&T long enough with my iPhone for a little while. Who knows, the mass iPhone user migration to Verizon might make AT&T's service halfway decent!
How much extra would you be willing to pay for a bloatware-free PC?
Please don't take offense to this, but if you're fresh out of grad school you probably don't know as much as you think you do. Not to say that automatically makes you wrong, but you should definitely be more prepared to justify your decisions, even to people who work under you.
Show HN: My startup, Compilr, an online IDE & compiler. Has over 30,000 users
Arguments are necessary. There must be a way to intellectually resolve disagreements without resorting to ignoring the other. If one think that the other person is hopeless, then the relationship is in a terrible state. That's how wars get started. Humans should be above that, we should be able to communicate well, and resolve differences of opinion with ease.

Currently much of the frustration associated with arguing comes from the terrible tools and methodology we use.

Sign up for ArgueX. Real communication in arguments.
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As I see it, both your renewal rate and the number of free users are high enough to launch a promotion (e.g.: $10 instead of $20 for the first 12months).
Is there a way to use this to void my current verizon contract and get a new phone early? (I have a legacy unlimited plan that I wouldn't mind losing)
No, but don't get bent out of shape when they leave. And they probably will leave, whether you have a "career path" for them or not.

So plan for it, prepare for it, and work with your employees to prepare succession plans for when they do leave.
Do your employees owe you to care about the good of your business?
It took me about 2 minutes to find your company... I would recommend using a throwaway account if privacy is a concern.
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About 2 years ago, we launched Compilr.com on Reddit. Compilr is an online IDE and compiler for languages like Java, C#, and VB. Today, we are working hard on Compilr and are really happy about its recent growth.

In just the last year we have grown the traffic about 400%. The userbase has grown from 3,000 at the beginning of 2010 to 32,000 users. We expect our userbase will be well over 100,000 by the end of this year.
I got into grad school with an unrelated bachelor's, so I know it is in fact possible. I did it by kicking ass on the GRE, agreeing to take an entrance exam (they stapled several final exams from their undergrad CS curriculum together) and then being on a provisional basis for the first year. Like Randy Pausch said, the brick walls aren't there to keep us out - they're there to give us a chance to show how bad we want in.
You'll have to refrain these thoughts. It's a catholic campus ;)
If you don't it's basically just a dead end job and you're not going to be able to attract high-caliber employees and you won't retain most employees for long. Your employees will just look for another opportunity and as soon as it arises move on.
From the article: "Now, some may object to this conclusion. They might argue that I can’t possibly say that teacher contracts alone caused the higher scores in these states. That there are dozens of other factors besides contracts that influence achievement, such as lack of resources, income, parents’ education, and curriculum, and that these factors are at least partially responsible for the lower scores in the ten non-contract states."

"My response: Exactly."

There was also a followup: http://shankerblog.org/?p=980