skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why? The salary should certainly be lower than what someone is worth for the company but I can’t think of any reason why it could be too low if the employee has no problem with it.
The inclusion of quantum computing in that list is stupid, but strong AI is a real and very serious danger. I can't really do the topic justice in a quick comment, so here's a link instead: http://singinst.org/upload/artificial-intelligence-risk.pdf
Some of Peter Drucker's famous books about business and management dealt with Japan extensively.
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I would do a wet kitchen and wet bathroom. Having commercial style drain directly accessible in the floor makes life so much easier. Just think about it... how great would it be to hose down the entire room. It's actually very common to have a wet bathroom in asia.

Some other things I like:
• zoned small duct/high velocity AC
• PEX for non-potable water supply
• overkill on electrical wiring
• wainscoting
• gray water collection
• heat recovery shower drains (depends on the house)
• tankless water heaters / point of use water heaters
• potfiller faucet (wall mount faucet above the stove)
• a sink large enough to hold a baking sheet pan
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Right. Nuanced is the precise word. It appears that what the author actually encountering is resistance to off-topic proselytizing.

Donald Knuth and Larry Wall, to name two, make no secret of their Christianity and it doesn't seem to have harmed their reputations to any significant degree. :-)
In my experience, Fireworks is far less useful when it comes to the creation of graphics after the initial wireframing. On the other hand, Photoshop [and GIMP] is completely usable throughout the entire design process. For this reason, many designers would rather learn, and pay for, only one product, and that product is Photoshop. As a side note, although GIMP lags in a few areas, notably on the typography side of things, it's the best product for my needs when I weigh cost and features, and only rarely do I find myself wishing I had tossed several hundred dollars for Photoshop.
How do you track of multiple tasks/projects with this technique? One calendar per task? A key/value mapping to replace the cross (e.g. a "G" for every day you go to the gym)? Simply merging them into one "meta" task? Or does it just not work for more than one task?
but of course, you have to understand - they have to pay those guys millions, because how else would they attract the top talent? you know, that talent that led to untold numbers of wealth being systematically destroyed? You don't just find talent like that working for, say, $500k. You gotta pay millions to get talent that capable.
Try Skim on OS X. It's a very good app http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ with annotation ability.

Preview is also pretty good though, it has nice gems like cropping pages. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=200711012305556
Trivial with SQL-standard recursive queries:

WITH RECURSIVE r AS (SELECT parent, child, distance FROM graph UNION ALL SELECT r.parent, graph.child, r.distance + graph.distance AS distance FROM graph, r WHERE graph.parent = r.child) SELECT parent, child FROM r WHERE distance < 3.14159;

Testing your graph with N=1000 on a teeny VPS. 477,897 rows returned in 6.1s.

If we move the WHERE clause inside the sub-SELECT (which unfortunately makes the query slightly more awkward to use), selecting lower distances reduces the compute time. For example, a bound of 0.5 returns 196,238 rows in 2.5s.

What sort of performance gains does a graph database give for this same query?
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Thats actually an urban legend (though one thats often repeated in the media). See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Toxicity
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/pl...

The radiological toxicity of plutonium is _way_ higher than the chemical toxicity.
I suppose I'll know in 14 days. Regards.
That's a great point. Photoshop has extensive capabilities for visual rearrangement and transformation. Once the core design is created it can be cut up and extended with further XHTML/CSS elements (minimally for consistency).

Quora does not compare with even basic designs found in CSS galleries (http://cssbeauty.com/). Most are graphic heavy and use intelligent slicing for fast, aesthetic experiences.

For rapid design, you can use the 960 grid system (http://960.gs/) to speed up mockups, then implement the layout on top of 960's positional CSS. I tried this for the first time with my new design (http://mjac.co.uk/) and I think it produced a significant improvement in aesthetics and organisation over my previous XHTML/CSS mockups and completely custom Photoshop layouts.
I thought friends should be able to more easily share music with each other. So thus I created musicstalk.com
That's peanuts. At my local bar we're now evaluating Facebook at $250B at least.
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
Jason, I wonder if a "direct to code" approach tends to correlate with design styles like 37signals and Quora's that favor clean sparse text-oriented designs. Conversely a Photoshop-oriented approach is likely to lead to image-oriented designs, with a lot more visual richness, appealing more to the emotions.
I just stayed at a 4 bedroom rental cabin that had this and it was surprisingly useful. All of the audio went back to a receiver in the living room and each room had it's own volume knob. We used it just about every day we were there.
This is why I have a policy of NEVER reading comments on mainstream sites. Almost 100% of the time comments are atrocious, or worse.

Even sites like NYT have morons and it only goes downhill from there.
What about using the free VirtualBox, like Palm and Android dev kits do?
I don't think Photoshop has ever been a good application for creating website mock-ups.

There are a lot of custom applications that have been created specifically for the job - from simple apps like Mockingbird, and Balsamiq; to more advanced applications like Visio and OmniGraffle. I think these applications are best for carrying out the grunt-work involved in UI design.

I think the process of creating HTML mockups adds a layer of complexity that isn't necessary in the initial stages. Being able to concentrate on the purpose of design (rather than implementation) is liberating.

However, I think there are times when a client needs to be able to visualise a potential aethetic near the beginning of a project.

Perhaps Photoshop has a place here - because a basic wireframe produced in one of the former apps often requires too great a leap of imagination to effectively communicate the intended result. However - I think, a lot of the time, a vector package like Illustrator (or Xara or Inkscape) allows greater freedom (on the part of the designer) and makes the process of modifying a design less cumbersome.
It's basically a full stop. Saying 'this is inconsistent, but I trust that it's fine' is basically akin to saying 'I don't want to analyse this any further'. Which, to the non-Christian, is akin to saying 'I think it might fall to pieces if I try to critically analyse it'.
I think Apple has actually been doing this for several releases now (obviously not in the Mac Store, but downloadable from the dev site).
If I understand correctly then, it would appear that GAE may be poor for applications that require heavy computation on the server side (say, a facebook style graph, crawling and computing various metrics on it) but great for serving tons of dynamic pages?
Can you illuminate that a little? Among the competitors, GAE appears to be among the lowest cost platforms. I'm sure there's certain types of applications that can cause it to become expensive, but I'm not sure I can predict well enough what those are.
yes, people can be logical in some areas and not in others. just because some one is religious doesn't mean they can't use their minds and do great work
Kind of interesting: my "good pivot" comment was sailing along pretty nicely, up to +6. After sampt's comment started getting voted down so did mine.
I wouldn't say that's the only disadvantage -- with induction, I'm only cooking if the pan is in contact with the induction element. If I'm tossing a pan, I'm not cooking. I lose the ability to pull a pot slightly above the cooking surface to cool it down to a simmer while still maintaining heat.

There's an art to cooking with gas, and being technologically superior doesn't necessarily make it better.
I see your point and I agree with you. Look over the article describing the bankruptcy announcement, it states that "Some 15,600 jobs are expected to be cut."

That is quite damaging for a company of such degree and the family of all those employees.

I think the lesson here is that it's important to be close to your employees, regardless of how rich you _can_ be.
Maybe he just understand the concept of "enough", something many CEOs fail to grasp. $90/k is a decent salary, at least in US. What if he simply believes in his company and wants to put more money in developing it, rather than let it stockpile in some Swiss account? Does that decrease his "worth" as a leader? I don't think so.
Piqtr: A visual Q&A iPhone app. We launched our signup page the other day.
I've heard this theory again and again and as someone who works in a (non-tech) industry where it is the norm for people at the bottom to work very hard for very little,while the bosses travel the world and live in huge beautiful homes, this does NOT seem to be the case in reality. Myself and my colleagues find it hard not to become bitter about it and to stay motivated to work hard. I only graduated 6 months ago but about half of my class has already become so discouraged by this system that they are thinking about - or already have- switched careers.

On the other hand, in my previous job the boss paid us As much as he could afford to ($17/hr, not bad for retail) and in his life was by no means rich at all. He drives a beat up car and wears second hand clothing. We all respected him so much and felt much more motivated to do well, and also felt like we were an actual part of his company and took it personally how well the company was doing. In my position now, and my colleagues agree, we feel totally cut off from the company and have no interest in how well a collection does (I work in fashion.)

Basically I feel like this theory only works if the CEO is overpaid and the workers are fairly paid. But in the end I think feeling part of a team is better for the company than feeling like you are in a tournament.

I would also like to add that 90k is hardly embarrassingly low. That is quite a comfortable wage that many people will never see in their life.
Slavery was present in every ancient society. The Roman empire was successful because of superior military tactics and world class fortification and infrastructure engineering-- especially roads and agriculture.

Additionally, the Romans had organizational advantages in an advanced legal and commercial code. The Romans were also extremely flexible and combined conquered local traditions with their own (Roman paganism was particularly tolerant) and by expanding Roman citizenship in ever broader circles.
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It does seem like basing your view of the Universe on 2000-year-old bureaucracy is a recipe for disappointment.
Why did they use Python in the first place? Reddit is still kind of unstable.
The vast majority of Roman slaves were miserable, illiterate war captives, and generations of their offspring, working large scale farms in Italy. The instability from Roman slavery actually came from the masses of displaced Roman yeoman farmers, who could not compete with the slave agribusinesses. This was a considerable concern in ancient Rome, for cultural reasons and also because these small farmers formed the backbone of the Roman legionary forces during the Republic.
yeah, because they'd go work for the other investors who are making money hand over fist...you know...the other Wall Street...because there are so many and their skill set and salary requirements translates so well to other industries.
So by "no one cared" you mean "a significant enough number of people noticed that I made money"

why the long face?
Chrome also reloads the page when viewing the source-code. Annoying for the same reason. You can see the source-as-is via the inspector but, still...
I'm definitely going to be in the minority here, but I start with Excel.

Here's why:

- It's free

- I have a perfect grid system

- I can color in anything with borders and gradients also

- I can format the text with spacing

- Margin and padding properties are done using cell spacing properties

- You can add pictures anywhere

- I can easily copy the entire worksheet and paste it into Paint
Cynically, I reckon this kind of behaviour is about manipulating morale, tax and dividends. I applaud his actions - but I'd be very surprised if he wouldn't have benefited from any increase in company profitability.
Maybe you can use a browser plugin to implement your own Breakup Notifier and use the current buzz to get some traction. How hard can it be to automate looking at that info?
now you're on the trolley!
.. and it translates perfectly into a <table> :P
Whats an "affinity rewriter"?
P == NP

What's that? Proof? No, I don't have it. But I have faith! That's enough, right?
and just because people have nuanced explanations now doesn't they didn't start believing in the first place due to all the hellfire and repetition. A lot of this takes place when we are kids. Conditioning is often around for a long time.
Have you not noticed google's market share declining?

It's not the blogosphere, it's their duty to shareholders.
Sure you are right, it's anecdotal and subjective.
If you think nothing of it, please go ahead and try Sony.

Getting so many problems in such a short time despite a costly service repair didn't really make my day. Now the machine is a brick and under no guarantee.
I meant around $500K. I think that's the point where it's reasonably likely you have a secretary/personal-assistant to take care of those last little bits of outsourceable work.
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The Winklevosses came off as greedy and unreasonable? What movie were you watching?
Mac OS X backdoor Trojan, now in beta?
Laugh if you will, but I've found sketching out mockups in PowerPoint to work surprisingly well and about as fast (or faster) than paper since I don't have to redraw the whole thing after too many changes are made. And to your point:

You can’t click a Photoshop mockup. This is probably the number one reason we skip static mockups. They aren’t real. Paper isn’t real either, but paper doesn’t have that expectation. A Photoshop mockup is on your screen. If it’s on your screen it should work. You can’t pull down menus in a Photoshop mockup, you can’t enter text into a field in a Photoshop mockup, you can’t click a link in a Photoshop mockup. HTML/CSS, on the other hand, is the real experience.

You can hyperlink in PowerPoint to other slides, so you can mockup the workflow a bit too. I agree that being able to click and move around a mockup is incredibly important.
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Startup Quote: Jim Collins, author, Good to Great
Far, far away (on distributed teams)
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

- Jim Collins

http://startupquote.com/post/3524594444
Hm, strange, I have no problems using cp866 to print something to console on Windows.
Not to downplay your situation. I assume you're still young. But life is full of choices. There's no way to know which is the best choice at the moment. All you can do is make a choice, give it everything you got, and you won't regret it. I promise! Just like you are doing with your start up.
As for finding the right girl, don't worry the right one WILL come, just when you least expected. In reality, there isn't just one right one. Just as you are not attracted to just one girl. Any relationship requires (much) effort to make it works; just as your relationship with your startup. You are just not ready for a personal relationship now. But that should stop you from going out and having fun with friends. And when you are ready, one of those friendship will turn into a relationship.
You're right, it only works if you believe in the possibility, i.e., you see your peers get promoted to those positions or start their own lines, etc.

A tech startup analogy is: a company issues an IPO or gets acquired.

You know it's a fairly rare event, and it may not happen to you, but you believe it's possible, so you're motivated to keep going.
Excel is free?
I expected to read this as another '$1 a year salary' story, wherein the CEO was still _actually_ rich, but only brought in a meager 'salary', owing the rest to dividends.

Without reference to this particular CEO, since I don't know him from Adam, much has been made of Japanese CEOs being compensated modestly and it is mostly an accounting fiction. For example, the CEO at a particular Japanese company might not be able to afford a dhh-style automobile, but if he desires to drive one, one will be made available for him from the corporate fleet. He lives, like many of his employees, in company housing, but his company-provided housing is decidedly not in the dorms with the 22 year old trainees. He will, like many of his employees, spend the majority of his meals working officially or unofficially on company business, and most of these will end up on the expense account of either his firm or one of his business partners'. etc, etc

Compare it to being President: you may be cash-poor by the standards of the rich, but that is not a meaningful barrier to desired consumption.

Speaking of which: I recently filed my taxes in Japan. The Japanese equivalent of the Schedule C (small business tax return form) has, like the Schedule C, an entry for meals & entertainment. Mine read 0 yen. A helpful person informed me that that was anomalously low, and that, wink wink, the routine practice is to claim that the company paid for every meal because, wink wink, we all know how being a salaryman works.
I wonder if a book can really capture the dynamics and differences which they have here in Japan. Depending on the company the "rules" can vary greatly.

I have been here since years now, but I still struggle with this. Even after reading many books on japan and studying various cultural background of Asia.
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Unfortunately it's rare that you find a product listing which hasn't got a "review(s)" section at the end so this isn't an effective strategy.
My productivity pretty much consists that today is not today it's a day two weeks from today, it's March 12 not Feb 26, if something needs to be done it should be done "today".
What do you think of my side project?
Hey guys!

In the process of learning a little bit of php+js, I started putting together a simple visual search engine, primarily for books.
Currently it gets data from amazon and ebay (bookdepository and betterworldbooks are on the way).

You can find it here: http://kooklab.com/factotum

Clearly I'm not much of a designer, so it looks pretty ugly; any comment or idea would be appreciated.
Right, and to be clear, I am addressing the scenario from the Roman perspective, not because I approve of it or whatever. Additionally, I am highlighting the notion that in order to mass produce written law and the other things necessary to successfully export a culture on massive scale over large distances, you actually do need a large population of literate slaves, which, if you're going to have slaves, is the last thing you want.

Edit: to clarify, slaves are necessary to export culture because someone has to transcribe all of the books and laws etc.
There are no ASCII characters > 127. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding. That's why you run into cp1252 all the time if you work with Western European languages, such as English. cp1252 is an 8-bit superset of ASCII designed for Western European languages. I believe it's true that the first 256 unicode code points are actually cp1252, which implies that the first 128 code points correspond with ASCII.
I already have it for other purposes. It is free compared to the mockup tools that I would have to pay for, I don't have to pay extra to use Excel.
What a fantastic site. One of my favorites from looking at the last couple of weeks:

http://startupquote.com/post/3218837306
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Fair point : )
Actually, I think his point is that the U.S. legal system is a lot different now. You can't apply technology that quickly today-- there was no FDA in the 1950s, and no runaway trial bar.
Worth noting: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=yousafkh
Reminds me of the old adage which partly reads "...if your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Totally. Do it. Living well is the best revenge and haters are universal, so there's lots of opportunity to get the best revenge ;)

My parents, circa 1999 when I was dropping out of high school to teach myself: "You'll end up working at 7-11!"

(Our income from products this year will be 10x my father's salary from that year.)
I still don't care.
It might be enough to make you go on searching for the proof
There are thousands of apps that went from zero to millions through the years that facebook's platform has existed. Mostly it was through spam, but some were good at manipulating the crowds (snowballs, yawn). That's how zynga grew to be what it is. Why the sudden attention now? I guess this is it: lack of anything interesting in technology lately.
My guess is that Goldman's and JPMorgan's new funds are chasing very few shares on SecondMarket with large amounts of dumb investor money.
You could look for Deming's books. He was the guy who went to Japan in the 50's to teach better manufacturing methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
You have to pay millions because other people on Wall Street are paying millions thus the best talent goes there.

What you're implying is that we should have top-down wage controls (i.e. a command economy) or bottom-up wage controls (i.e. collusion). The first is an idea which is seductive, but historically a failure. The second is illegal under our current rules and should remain illegal lest you want every department store to collude to pay their workers minimum wage + 1 cent.
Sounds interesting. When are you launching?
Sour grapes, plain and simple. Nobody should get upset over an app that literally took two days to build.
The Windows console does support encodings: see the `chcp` command, which changes the code page. The cmd.exe builtins can support UTF-16 regardless of the code page.

When I last looked at this, Python doesn't attempt to deal with the Windows console code page.
As I said, you can probably do it with SQL99 query, them being turing complete and all.

I don't know how your database is implementing things under the hood, so I don't know. I'll just list the major advantages of a graph database:

1) Edges stored with nodes. You can almost certainly read an edge and all it's neighbors with a single disk seek. This is unlikely to be the case for a SQL system.

2) Compute time is always O( portion of graph traversed), not O(graph size), and is always under the control of the user. In SQL, this will vary quite a bit with implementation.

3) You can specify various heuristics for the traversal - depth first, breadth first, etc. This is important if the specific nature of your data will affect the speed of the query.
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Gmail is down to me too...
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Why does everybody care that the GIMP doesn't have CYMK support? The vast majority of printing presses can do their own color separation, trapping, and registering automatically.

Hell... GIMP would be an improvement: about a 20% of all print jobs are submitted in MS Publisher.

I can understand not using GIMP for high-end printing with spot colors, but that's very rare.