skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The main problem of this idea is that I don't see how an advertiser would see a benefit from being involved in this because, people aren't really going to engage in the adverts they are going there to "support" an idea and letting the advertisement run rather than be engaged in it.

You need to show a benefit to the advertiser, as to why show an advertisement with yourselves as this would aid the advertiser problem and allow them to see a value in advertising on your website.

Additionally, you also need to look at how to keep users engaged when they come to the website because, when you first go to the website you are presented with the "How It Works" and if you want to get people engaged and involved in "supporting ideas" then you need to change this graphic as it is too small and isn't really engaging.

You need a 3 step "How It Works" from a user pespective AND not from an idea submitting pespective as well, save this step for the "Submit your idea" page.

Additionally, there are a few call to action buttons on this website soon as I arrive "Register" "Fb Login" "Submit Your Idea" (which is repeated twice) etc which don't benefit you at all because, there are so many of them. You should focus on one call-to-action button and acquire the user sign ups when submitting the idea in a slick user interface instead of trying to get them to click "Register" etc because, if they aren't submitting an idea there doesn't seem much value (if any) to join the service.

Additionally, when I went to click submit an idea I was immediately presented with "Login" or "Register" that really sucks from a user perspective, you should have a page with a form where people can fill out their information and at the bottom have a "create account" setting where a user registers a username, password and email etc (additional information can be acquired when they have signed up) as this will significantly improve the UI from a user perspective.

Also, why does it just have to be for "ideas" I mean you could contact charities to get them involved and they can get users to view the ads as a "donation" to their charities. Continuing with this idea, you should have a "widget" so people can place their ideas on another website etc, then they can go and view the ad such as on a Charities Website for instance.
Let's not fall into the trap of arguing on the basis of a false dichotomy. If you can find talent in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Austin, and Raleigh, you ought to hire them. If you can find talent in Toronto and Vancouver, you ought to hire us too.
I don't program for fun. I program for a goal, and I enjoy doing it.

My time is too important to me to waste on entering a competition for a job, so I am clearly not who they are looking for.
It's also their job to know, so if they don't, it's almost worse.
I think this is an incredibly good idea.

The pricing is bizarre though. I'm guessing the short periods of time are for short trips away or vacations? Lose them, or at least tuck them away as a minor option somewhere. Up front you just want the 30 day option, with a free trial.

Consider offering this to apartment building owners, landlords and insurance companies.
I am seeing this too on a Wordpress blog I put up for my cousin. You can see it happening for http://www.yogabanbury.com

Contacted Wordpress.com support. I suspect a hack.
The exact wording was meant as a joke! The meta-message is, just start asking. Tell the world what you're doing and make it clear that you're open to talking to remote workers with North American roots. The rest will follow.
And Mubarak's Wikipedia entry is already edited:

Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak was the President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. [1]

History unfolding live indeed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak
48 hours meaning 5 days work; 48 hours meaning two full time days; or 48 hours meaning two evenings after a full time + usual overtime day, so about 4.5 hours with a beer?
I'd imagine that even if there's a opportunity there, it's still hard to separate great older devs from mediocre older devs, and older people have higher salary expectations.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206087
Might be if he has a bunch of MSFT options - particularly if those options were tied to the performance of the Wp7 platform.
I'm not sure everyone here fully appreciates just how bad things are at Nokia. It's been a LONG time coming. Their software development structure, from top-to-bottom, is just awful. You can see it in Symbian (which was developed independently but with much the same issue).

I have to tread lightly here, as I don't want to get anybody in trouble... but I can assure you that the new CEO is doing very much the right thing. Software development is not a core competency (or even a competency) at that company. It's just not. I'm not surprised that about half of tampere left, they are going to be hard hit by this. They should be.. the quality of the work just hasn't cut it.

Their best hope to survive today is to tie themselves to a much healthier eco-system. I would have thought Android to be the very logical choice... but the Microsoft move certainly makes sense.
If you give the people the power, you'll see tomorrow that most of the borders are removed

WTF? Have you ever spoken with an actual Arab?

If you had, you'd know that nationalism is alive and well. Egyptians are quite cognizant of the differences between themselves and Syrians or Lebanese or Jordanians. They have zero interest in abolishing borders and uniting with other countries.

But what do I know, I'm only an Egyptian.
Well, the hard part is not writing a clone. It's building a community, and a shinh new UI does not warrant a community these days.
reasonably successful? Losing 40%points in market share is success? I am of course talking about the full Symbian time line not just currently
I expect the meme-spam detection software to take the most time.
Is Passion in Your Arsenal?
to the shareholders
There are sooo many interesting problems in the world, I never run out of stuff to do for fun.

If you want me to implement your spec that takes more than 15 minutes or so, then
a) you are a great non-profit for a cause I care about, or
b) you have to pay up.

But it's true, I'm not who they're looking for, and I don't want to work for reddit. I'm sure plenty of 21-year-old reddit fan(boy|girl)s will leap at the chance, and good for them.
> they published it for everyone to benefit from in exchange.

Although I've upvoted you, I think that this is the fundamental disagreement. I've never felt that I could look up a patent and learn from it. In fact, it seems like a game to write patents as vaguely as possible, to cover things which noone has thought of, but might do in the future. Certainly, I've not seen a patent which manages to get past the legal language such that it is easy to read.
There are no software errors, only programmer errors. The computer did exactly what it was told to do.

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Either Jack Dorsey is a con man, or VC's could care less about losing $5 to $50.
This service is appealing to non-technical people because it makes them seem technical.

Unfortunately, I think people will looking to hire based more on online presence- specifically LinkedIn and your blog (assuming you have one.) The access LinkedIn allows you to past employers and your network of colleagues is becoming crucial to hiring.
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It is fun, but if you're the type of person who does this sort of thing for fun you should already have a nice portfolio to show them rather than needing to submit spec work.
Some do a lot more than just commissioned research. It's a very social business and one that, well beyond simple commissioned reports, is used by customers to maintain asymmetric advantages in information awareness and social access. (Some of the best established tanks are staffed in part by elites who, interestingly enough, achieve some notoriety outside of work for throwing some of the most famous elite dinner parties and such.)

Besides commissioned reports:

Expensive periodicals: informing an elite of little known new developments in a field of interest. For example, one article might be a survey of recent research in microprocessor fabrication written for an audience of investment bankers and CEOs.

Expensive membership libraries: Over time, some tanks accumulate extensive libraries of reports, many of which remain useful long after they're written. You can buy one-off copies or buy memberships.

Elite Conferences: Some run invitation-only conferences.

Public speaking, article publishing: self explanatory.

Lobbying: self explanatory.

Being a social butterfly: This requires some explanation because generally money does not change hands. In some cases, the reason the tank is able to do the kind of research is because it "knows all the right people" (and knows the diplomacy of how to speak with them without raising too many legal or social problems). Thus, a report might just come from looking up lots of open source stuff and synthesizing ... or it might come in part from having a lot of conversations with a related elite (who, normally, are barred or just would not speak directly with one another on the matter). As the diplomat, spreading around selected information while protecting sources, etc., they can help elites in industry and government to be "situationally aware" in ways that the general public can not.

Nobody pays them for that but the social butterfly role helps to reinforce the "brand" of the more serious tanks, and so when people are ready to spend on something, they have some reason to think of the tank.

I imagine that these days there are innovations I haven't seen yet (but that must be there) like "hidden" social networks, and such.
Or suppose someone else is trying to patent the exact same invention that's already patented by you. The patent examiner makes a mistake and issues a patent.
With Wp7 they are the preferred Wp7 platform.
So every business that must buy Microsoft - because it's Microsoft - will now buy Nokia phones.

With Android they would be competing to differentiate themselves from high end Korean makers and a bunch of cheap chinese makers - based on what?
Link to stream: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
Catch 22?
See my reply within the thread above
Video interview and performance: David and Stephanie Brehm do cool jazz right
This event is covered on TV, moreover it is covered on other sites which are more mainstream such as reddit, digg etc. I come here to read tech and startup news, this is not something I want to read about on HN.

It is also a shame that users who try to question the relevancy of HN submissions get downvoted. Even though it has more than 100 upvotes it is still not relevant to what this site is about. Unless the goal is to become reddit 2.0 with lots of mainstream articles simply because a large amounts of users think it is interesting, I think this kind of articles are best enjoyed elsewhere on the web. I flagged this story, even though I find it interesting.
The live stream is just incredible to watch. Just inspiring to hear these cheers http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
As a hiring manager, I think it's inappropriate to ask a candidate to spend significantly more time in the iapplication process than you're willing to spend evaluating them. High end talent search where you or your board will spend days agonizing over every candidate? Totally OK to ask for a significant amount of their time. Asking for some time consuming unique delivery from people that you won't necessarily even interview? You're just being abusive.

When you're in a position of power, either because jobs are rare or yours are uniquely appealing it's very easy to fall in to this mode, but that doesn't make it right. Especially in a case like this where you'd expect a high number of applications you're likely to dismiss out of hand (ie, sorry, no high school students) - at the very minimum you should be willing to do that first screening before you request anything needing a time investment.
"We don't need every single episode of Eastenders archived"

I'm sympathetic to preserving the shows themselves.

Their promotional pages on the BBC site when they're no longer in first-run? Feh.
Scoble isn't saying much more than "WP7 is great!" which has no bearing on ESR's arguments that this puts an organization in disarray into further disarray.
I don't know much about AI, but I should say that a good amount of money for an intelligent person is a good way for developing AI. Unfortunately freedom implies that results are not guaranteed.
In my highly limited experience, subjectively, one of the key differentiators is being okay with change, and being ready to go into the unknown: the unknown language, the unknown tool, the unknown unknown.
I don't see how bugzilla handles the same problem. The key feature of the workflow is that a commit cannot succeed until code review is complete. This is very important for reducing how often you break the build. With bugzilla integration your bugzilla tickets contain the history of commits that are tied to that bug, but that is a different problem.
Xbox has been the highest selling console for six straight months now. Expect that to continue given how wildly popular Kinect has been over the holiday season.
That's not very viable at Nokia. The news would have been out roughly 15 minutes after they started working on the phones initially. Nokia is really tightly ingrained into Finnish life at this point. It's a huge part of their economy, and these sort of moves won't escape a leak.

They have to go this route. Pre-announce... and build like crazy.
Not sure if you noticed-but Draftboard has a free version. With such a small team, it might fit: https://www.draftboardapp.com/signupfree
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Checz had it even earlier.
Exactly. If you go into the business for the "fun of it", you are going to get exploited and you are going to get burned by your enthusiasm. Program to make money, make a difference to do something great, but don't do it because it's fun.
Thanks! I'll see about cleaning up the pricing offerings. I'd like to offer shorter options for (as you mentioned) short trip takers, but if it's just confusing or unnecessary, it's certainly not doing any good.

I appreciate the feedback!
I really don't know about you. I'm not saying they want to form a one country and become one nation; but make trade easier, one currency (may be in the future). I was speaking from the financial side.

For their support for brothers countries like Palestine, may be you won't support them, but the majority does.

And you being an Egyptian doesn't represent what the majority of Egyptians think. Only the future will tell what their orientations will be.
What has Silverlight got to do with Azure? Don't see the link...
Think tanks: are they just PR firms? This person with important title from important-sounding organization says yes. Critics like this other guy say no. The more important person says the critics are wrong. The only thing that is certain is that the debate about whether think tanks are just PR firms continues.
LivingSocial isn't mentioned in this article at all. Why are they included in the title of the submission?
37signals support satisfaction ratings now public
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1986]
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/Fe...

This is one of the better images I've seen showing the pure scale of the protests. In the US, we had our "million man march" which questionably had so many people. In Egypt, many millions have been involved over the course of far longer than one day. With relation to their total population, the size of the movement is pretty mind boggling.
You are thinking of: http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...

"To fulfil the purpose of the Foundation, an agreement between Trolltech and the Foundation was made. This gives the Foundation the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license in case Trolltech doesn't continue the development of the Qt Free Edition for any reason including, but not limited to, a buy-out of Trolltech, a merger or bankruptcy"
the best part is the mouseover title. hehe.
How would you decode "Guru", "Ninja" and "Pirate"?
> You don't live to work, you work to live.

Not exactly: you don't live to work, but you don't work to live. Working is living, it's just that living is not just working.

Keep things balanced, and everything will be going better and better.
The general story has nothing to do with hacking or startups, it's not intellectually interesting, and is currently being covered in the smallest detail and speculation on countless TV channels, not to mention Reddit and Digg. If you have some intellectually interesting technical details/speculation about what this might mean for e.g. Internet and the business environment in Egypt, go ahead and post that. But the general story was off-topic yesterday, and still is today.
We take for granted today that there are several fast, stable DVCS generally understood by an average engineer (in other words, the bar for using a DVCS has been lowered in the last few years and it's not a purely academic endeavor.) When Google was ramping up, Perforce was dramatically faster and more reliable than the almost all of its competitors. It was one of the most common source control systems to find at Valley companies.

Why are they still using it? Inertia, I assume.
It is sad that this got 13 upvotes so far. It is scary that this is on the front page of hacker news... the main quote is obviously tongue-in-cheek.
They also broadcast a very useful live stream. It's on the Tubes, and it is relevant.
I am so happy for the people of Egypt. This is one for the history books. Our kids will be reading about this revolution as an example of the peaceful power of the people.

I have to congratulate AlJazeera for their tremendous coverage of unfolding events. They have been very professional and fearless in their reporting. Western media should take notes.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring but for now Egypt and the entire world can smile wide and celebrate.

Mazal Tov to the people of Egypt!
True, this is only step 1. Torturer in chief also needs to step down, emergency lifted, and free elections have to be held. Look forward to steps 2, 3, 4.
+1. what a gorgeous little phone that was. I honestly still believe that, for that time (and a few years beyond it), the 3310 was the best phone a non-business type could have. The buttons on it were perfect, and no one did t9 like it.

/nostalgia.
awesome! if she has questions, please have her drop me a line (email in profile).
It is true that unit testing code that was not designed for testing can be difficult, but it is certainly possible. Java reflection can set data values in private fields for times when the original class did not include a setter method for testing. Commerical solutions, like http://tinyurl.com/4rabnef, provide stubbing frameworks to replace method calls at runtime and inject test data without rewriting the original code.
Android is already saturated with almost all hardware vendors jumping in and entry of low cost Chinese handsets. Microsoft may own it, but remember that they are an upstart now in the mobile business, not an established player. I am pretty sure this deal would allow them a lot more leverage to influence the OS design and software. Pretty much like the early WinTel era.
Another thing I've see (by a 3rd site... Homerun.com) is being added to their list when I've never even visited the site. Somebody in my contact list added me to their list and now I get their spam.
> Enough users upvoted it to get it in spot #1 on the front page.

Well, now I'm curious to see if pg manually shoves it off again, like he did with the earlier Very Popular Egypt Submission.
Unfortunately it only supports one user, and we need two. :( Otherwise it would be perfecto!
Ok. We'll see what happens.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MB02Ak01.html

In the most fundamental matters, President and Mrs Mubarak are incomparably more enlightened than the Egyptian public.
So months ago, using an external OS (Android) was like "Finnis boys peeing their pants to keep warm", but now it's a good strategic partnership? And especially given Elop's very recent Microsoft ties, could there possibly be some other agenda?
Starting a business in the UK
No, it probably means the userbase has grown too much and HN needs a bit more policing in order to stay on topic.
I think answering the "What system have you hacked?" question on the next Y Combinator application with "Taking down my country's dictatorship" would be a pretty kick ass answer.

I think we can live with 1 spot on the front page for a few hours of one day being used up by the story of a 30 year old dictatorship being overthrown by its people. Especially considering there were about 8 stories this morning about the Nokia/Microsoft partnership of which 3 were basically dups of a press release.
It's not that businesses don't behave altruistically. It's that humans are usually too short sighted to be willing to pay for honest research of that depth.
I think Gerrit is a really impressive piece of software. Please correct me if I'm wrong but if you're looking for a major user of Gerrit I believe the Android OSP uses it.

As much as I like Gerrit I don't think I can use it for our team because Gerrit wants you to review commits, and our team works in terms of whole branches. Reviewing your individual commits made early in the branch history probably isn't useful as bugs may be fixed--or the code entirely changed--by later commits. Anyone else have this problem with Gerrit, reviewing commits vs. reviewing branches?
PR scandals do that. They also frequently have little bearing on a company's profits, unless it's sufficiently nasty to warrant significant numbers of boycotters for longer than the average consumer memory is.

Stocks are nowhere near that deterministic. When people think others will jump ship, they try to jump first, to lose the least money. When people think others will want buy, they buy first or sell higher, because they can get away with it. There's more games theory than future prediction if you ignore long-term investors, as they make up a microscopic amount of the daily trading and thus the daily prices of stocks.
What we need (to really prove the point of article) is a number of successful software startups where average age is say 38. How many of us (I am turning 40 soon) dare cross the Paul Graham Limit (23-38) on higher side? Looking at the cream of younger software craftsmen (e.g. @github) I feel many older programmers (forget outliers, please) have a mountain to climb.
Workers in the United States sometimes stage "sick outs" where everyone calls in sick on the same day, especially if they're in jobs where they are prohibited by law or contract from striking.

Coordinated work slow-downs are another example of a "half-strike"
but make trade easier, one currency (may be in the future). I was speaking from the financial side.

Do you have any evidence to support this idea? Anything at all? Or is this just some fantasy you dreamed up?

For their support for brothers countries like Palestine, may be you won't support them, but the majority does.

You need not fabricate beliefs for me regarding Palestine. It is not relevant to the discussion at hand, namely your evidence-free assertions.

And you being an Egyptian doesn't represent what the majority of Egyptians think. Only the future will what their orientations will be.

Of course not, but my direct experience is one data point. So far, you've supplied no evidence, direct experience or otherwise.