skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it's just a bad April Fools joke, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens in the near future given his health. However, I doubt the article is true since we've been sitting next to Steve poolside the last few days at an undisclosed location in the Pacific and he appeared to still be very much involved in running things back in California.
It doesn't need to be more touchy-feely. It just needs to be less boring.
> Will filling this out impact the negotiations at all?

Highly. Filling out that form eliminates negotiation completely. You're giving up your informational advantage and letting them set your salary.

> I didn't really have a plan other than asking for my current salary + 20%

Quite frankly, you're worth more than that.

Here's a few questions that I advocate my friends ask themselves during their job searches.

1. How much do I need to make?

What's your budget? How much do you need to make month to month to survive? Okay, that's the base line. You can't earn less than that or else, by definition, you aren't earning enough to get by.

What are your savings goals? How much do you want to save month to month? Add that to the baseline.

How much more do you want to make? How much mad money do you want each month that you can consciously spend on whatever you want?

Add those together. That's a pretty good indicator of how much you want to make to be happy. Now, it may be that this number (x) is less than what you're already making (y). If so, congratulations, you're in a great position, but that doesn't mean you don't deserve more money.

2. What's industry compensation?

For the job title you're interviewing for, what's industry compensation like nationwide? How about locally?

Use salary search sites, informational interviews, and beers with people working in your industry to figure out about how much these types of positions pay. It may end up being more than your x + 20% estimate.

3. What's company compensation like?

Do you know anyone who works at the company? It's google, so you probably do. Can you find out what someone starting at this title makes to start? What's the work load like? What are the other perks?

4. Aside from cash, what do you want?

Google has nice swag, but is there anything you need that you can ask for outside of cash?

Maybe you want more vacation time. Maybe you want to work from home 1 week each month. Ask yourself 'What would make this job awesome to me.' Then ask for that.

5. Additional Resources

Here's two articles that can help with this decision.

The first is 'The Business' by rands: http://ka1.us/dgX6

It's a great overview of figuring out how much you're worth and getting them to agree.

The second is an article I wrote at the start of March about negotiation: http://ka1.us/fxki

My article goes into a bit more depth on identifying how much you're worth and asking for it.

I hope these help! Congratulations on the job offer!
There is. You need to look further.
Charging money reassures users that you might be around longer than those free copycats, and can be a counterintuitive selling point of your service.
I wish. I have Ubuntu 10.10, released five months ago, and I already have had to upgrade the kernel four times — because, I believe, of kernel vulnerabilities, most of which I assume are local-root exploits.
This is a misleading headline. Nothing has happened yet.

From the source article:

The White House requested $35 million for the e-government fund in 2011. The House allocated only $2 million in its bill, H.R. 1. The Senate, meanwhile, would provide $20 million for the e-government fund.

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798

It's a budget fight, similar to the ones going on at hundreds of agencies right now. There's a lot of posturing going on around the budget, but considering the project results in a net savings for the government, I hope that common sense will prevail.
Spotify Announcing US Launch; Closing European Service To Fund It
Taming 2D Transforms in HTML5
Scobleizer interviews Color founders and finds out why they got so much money.
Prediction: Someone will eventually get assaulted or worse at a host's place. The media will then take that incident and run headlines like "The AirBNB rapist", "AirBNB, Is it SAFE??". Local mayors urged by hotel campaign donors will launch an aggressive campaign against the company based on this one incident in tens of thousands.
"Better ads in Gmail"
Well Active Inbox really helps me sort the emails I need to answer, I have to answer, I want to answer and stuff I'll answer if I have the time. Same thing with emails that generate tasks. Folks! Give it a try! You won't be disappointed.
As someone who hasn't used it before, does Airbnb have a "seller rating" of sorts?

Seems necessary.
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Video: Gravity Makes Earth Look Like Lumpy Ball of Play-Doh
I don't like this scheme and I don't buy the pseudo-science blurb. It's based on shades of blue. Our eyes are the least sensitive to blue. And what's up with the red and pink, is this some cruel joke?

I'll stick with Zenburn[1].

[1] http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/
HTC Thunderbolt outselling iPhone?
It's sad to say this is true. In many cases, it's just as cheap, if not cheaper, to use Starwood SPG.com or Priceline, plus you get free points or have points to use from a credit card. You also know that while it won't be as personalized an experience as AirBnB, you know that bedsheets will be clean, there is maid service, decent amenities (like a pool or workout room), and room service often at the same price for AirBnB. And you also earn points for your stay.
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I'm not quibbling over definitions. And we are not describing the same reality.
If "conservation" means breeding wild animals in what is essentially captivity so that "rich westerners" can pay lots of money to go around and shoot them for the sake of shooting them, then you're absolutely right, I am going to be offended.
It just seems kind of tacky to build a site using a name that someone else uses for a similar site.
Thank you for posting this. I have a friend who is after a year or more finally getting sort of back to normal after a vitamin D deficiency.
In this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DfHyGD7_pM&t=4m45s), the narration is heard as they "worked it out" that the car would fully discharge at around 55 miles, but the visual portrayed is that of Clarkson actually being surprised by a dead battery followed by the hanger scene. While they could claim that the narration never says they ran out of charge, I would describe the scene as extremely deceptive at best.

The 55 miles is still at odds with Tesla though. On their website (http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/roadster-efficiency-and-rang...), at the bottom of the article they display a chart that claims a range of 75 miles even if the vehicle is topped out at 125mph for the entire charge.

I'm not very familiar with British libel law, but from what I've heard, the defendent tends to be at a disadvantage which might put Tesla on very good footing going into this case.

Edit: After another viewing, I would say that the narration would also go very well with the actual experience of running out of power. So it might not be an out for BBC after all. With a little more careful wording, they could have probably avoided this whole fiasco.
"over the last few years data.gov has cost $8.3 million; the cloud computing initiative has cost $1.4 million; and USASpending.gov has cost $13.3 million"

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/23/transparency-t...

So yeah, a bit more than $20/mo, but relative to the budget as a whole....
Regarding this bit: "Roll your own unbuffered input using raw system calls. / A small toy project I wrote last year was a modification of GNU grep that did the opposite -- it aggressively prefetched ahead of the file it was currently reading. "

I think you mis-understood. "Roll your own unbuffered input [....]" does not mean "do not read ahead" it means "do not use stdio". Stdio buffers have a lot of overhead (relatively speaking) in support of features that grep does not need.
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Note: as a progressive optimization, the very same solution can also be extended to full pages, ie not just "body" parts.

In that case, the main benefit over a "regular" load is that javascript files that you use don't get to be evaluated over and over, ie you load them once for all.

On my machine, this alone saves 300ms per page.
Yoga in Savannah
Using mmap() for Advanced File I/O (2008)
Canada's science minister won't confirm belief in evolution
Traveling in Australia I found the prices for nicer AirBnB listings were the same as many hotels or weekly apartments. It was easier to just check out weekly rentals posted in the window of of a realty office. Plus, in Australia the listed price is the price, whereas AirBnB drags in the obnoxious American custom of tacking on extra fees right at the very end of the transaction.

However, I will say that the one time AirBnB worked for me, the person was renting out their apartment like a hotel. She had a maid clean it up and even left me mini soaps. It was way better than a hotel.
> How dare you deny them any available tool to continue to keep you in the style to which you've become accustomed.

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be pushed back by scientists with particle accelerators. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the funding, and you curse the Higgs boson. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That the funding's expense, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while nerdy and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me pushing on that wall, you need me pushing on that wall. We use words like spin, fermions, color. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent figuring out something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very theory that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a textbook, and learn some theory. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
There is also UglifyJS https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS which is build on Node.
Someone started porting it to Emacs:

https://github.com/sellout/solarized/tree/master/emacs-color...
It sucks, but the truth of the matter is that cutting back Defense, Social Security, and Medicare are touchy issues that can't be done easily. Far easier to cut back things like data.gov, which will only upset a few Silicon Valley techies.

It seems to me that at this point, they're looking for politically low-hanging fruit rather than fiscally low-hanging fruit.
Great. I think #2 though deceivingly simlple, works like a charm.
UPDATE: Less than 2 hours after submitting a ticket to AirBnB, one of their staff members called me on the phone. That alone is quite impressive and shows that they care about these issues.

She gave me some good tips (which most of you have already mentioned): (1) use people with good review, (2) use people with high response rates, etc.
I found the theme rather comfortable for using in the terminal; however I set TERM=xterm-256color so that vim would also pick up the light colour scheme—there seemed to be some issues with the background colour on gnome-terminal/Ubuntu.

Thanks!
Spotify Announces US Launch; Closing European Service To Fund It
Mike has only given part of the answer there. GNU grep obviously is very I/O tuned. And GNU grep optimizes the special cases of constant strings and of regexps that (more or less) start with a constant string -- but there's more!

GNU grep is also fast for most commonly encountered non-constant-string regexps (even those that don't start with a constant string) because its regexp engine avoids backtracking by doing an on-the-fly conversion (of many patterns) to a DFA. These extra cases are algorithmically neat and when you want them, you're glad they're there -- but they are less sexy in benchmarks because the most common use case in the real world, by far, is a search for a constant string.
Bits or pieces?: Preparing for war
Isn't that just the same as "entrepreneur?" I kid, I kid.
The rest of your comment makes this point obvious, but I think that you meant to say "In fact, we even had customers who bought these early versions because they wanted us to succeed."

Its great that the customer believed in you and your product so much that they basically funded you by buying initial versions that were "bad". What was the product? Were there few or no competitors in the market? I assume the company which purchased your initial versions would have just gone with your competitor otherwise.
We were/are planning on using AirBnB to book a place for us and the kids in NYC. This is exactly the kind of thing that will keep us from doing it. Note that you don't even have to be a psychopath to create a nuclear problem for our trip; all you have to do is, at the last minute, decide "your profile is too hidden!" and cancel our room, so that we show up and have no place to stay.

I reallllly want this service to work. But the concept is already so intrinsically out of my comfort zone that it doesn't take much of a nudge to send me back to super-pricey VRBO.
That's probably true, but it's more a sign that they've crossed the chasm to being mainstream than something that'd matter. See also: Craigslist
"mmap" is not a general solution for grep. It's nice when it can be used but grep must be able to grep files much to large to reasonably mmap and various kinds of streams.
Or perhaps unemployed/retired or working on small projects that may one day lead you to be the 'man'.
Goce satellite maps the Earth's gravity in unprecedented precision
I neither missed nor ignored the segment you cite (though I do appreciate your reading it).

The point is that commercial big game hunting remains a very problematic issue, in that it fuels a man vs. beast mythos that gives trophies a value which encourages more hunting in areas where populations remain truly endangered. And again, it creates a legitimate source for ivory which has the nasty effect of providing cover to ivory gathered illegally.

Not only does that cover serve sellers with ivory in the market, it also applies to ivory in the possession of buyers who can more easily deflect the (totally justified) social stigma that was slowly starting to attach itself to the stuff.

It comes down to this: there are some areas where profit seeking tendencies are toxic, and where responsible stewardship demands a more disinterested handling. The "glory" of big game hunting (and, specifically, its packaging for sale) is one of the prime reasons that many populations got endangered in the first place.

Even if the necessity to cull does return in certain areas, it's critically important to handle this without reviving the specter of the Great White Hunter. And it's just as important to ensure that any consumption remains entirely local. Letting commodities like ivory and hides slip out may bring short term gains, but only by serving markets that represent the antithesis of conservationism. The arguments you cite don't do nearly enough to acknowledge this aspect of the problem.

Separately, what you allow to offend you is your business. Personally, I don't mind lightly-salted language and a well deserved jab. Where I take offense is in seeing a demonstrably mindless response that veers wildly off-topic before landing in a thicket of unwarranted slurs getting upvoted to the degree that c2's did. And I hope I'm not alone.
What if the input is not from a regular file?
Yeah really. It's almost like politicians in DC don't really want the information to be available ...

That said, the HN community makes a real point of how apolitical it is. Rather than organize and work with government transparency advocates to try to influence the system, the norms here discourage people from discussing politics. So it's pretty ironic to me to see all the disappointment about this here.
I agree its probably a gag, (and the boat name doesn't check out) but I could totally imagine this sort of internecine warfare inside of Google.
AirBnB is for hippies - a shrinking demographic.
How Many Users Does Twitter Really Have?
How well have pictures and reviews worked for eBay? And how do the standards for eBay compare to those for AirBnB?
Yup. Wouldn't mind seeing this as a real web game though. Could be fun.
what about public sector employees?
Pretty cool! Noticed a possible bug though. Mouseover the left image gives me a vote url param of r and right image param yields l. Could cause some weird reports for ya if you hadn't noticed.
In which cases is mmap faster?
Do they even have electrical service in that village - and more specifically in some distant field?
There is no hunting in the Serengeti just north of Zimbabwe and consequently it's the only place in Africa you can see a full wilderbeest migration. Game farms have fences and are basically zoos that let you shoot the animals. They are not a form of conservation.
April Fools!

Didn't realize it at first because it's still March 31st on this side of the pond.
Yeah, ok, so, help a newcomer to AirBnB out: how far in advance should I book a room, and what string of slightly annoying nudges should I sent to my host so that I can verify by their handling of my annoyances that they are not going to pull the rug out from me the day I arrive in their city?
"However, it’s (the internet) very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss their dastardly plans ‘over a cup of tea,’ though each of these was new and controversial in their day"

Douglas Adams, 1999 http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
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The latter (just kidding, not really available!) happened to me a lot in NYC, and a few times in Australia.

There is a weird sweet spot for AirBnB rental timing. If it's too far in advance the person doesn't know if they are going to be around to give you keys, or gone so that you can stay there. If it's too soon they won't have time to straighten up. I'm guessing the best luck happens around 4 days in advance, with a spot that looks like a reposted vrbo listing. (I.e. a semi-pro)

Also I think sometime in may short term AirBnB listings are effectively banned in NYC.
I am currently using darkspectrum[1] for diff output and candycode[2] for everything else. There is a huge gallery of them, viewable with several code samples, on the Vim Color Scheme Test page[3].

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2215

[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635

[3] http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/
Jason Calacanis: "There's unlimited amount of capital in the world"
Do you agree?

"There's unlimited amount of capital in the world. We are living in the richest period of the history of mankind. There are resources everywhere for people with big ideas to take them freely: youtube, google, facebook and so on."

starting at minute 50: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2219-jason-calacanis-vs-david-heinemeier-hansson-on-this-week-in-startups
I think a lot of the ire is more directed at recovery.gov and data.gov is caught in the crossfire.
So, a few hours in Iraq/Afghanistan, then...
Part of it might be explained with the fact that in a small shop the mobile dev also happens to be the one doing the mobile UX, and there are at least some mobile UX skills that are relevant across platforms.
Haskell and the Perl Community
Just let this day be over... ;)
not gruber again..

He claimed Apple's 30% cut on subscription was good - only because Apple always does the right thing and then had nothing else to back up the claim.

Somehow his comments are always here?
Regarding 1and1 --- agreed!

We had a bit of trouble with them on credit card billing... Also, we found it hard to use their interface to change configuration settings.
And Lifetime will make a movie out of it ...

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-craigslist-killer
For me, FF 4 works, as does Chrome.
Thanks for the kind words about molokai; took a bit to get it ported, but I've enjoyed it a lot since then. 99% of the props should go to the original authors of monokai and Hamish, though :)

Molokai ain't perfect, but I have yet to find one I like more for daily use.
Have Computers Made Architects Less Disciplined?
Ask HN: inexpensive appointment/scheduling software?
I'm starting up a small side business to pay the bills (while I work on a bigger project). It's essentially a tour guide service. It will work like this:

Go to website > Schedule tour > Meet in person and pay with cash

I'm looking for simple appointment software that allows customers to pick a date and time (from available slots) for their tour. Most of the software I'm finding is too complex and too expensive. I don't need my customers to create accounts, nor do I need to take payments.

Is there an easy solution? Thanks.
Exactly. Many techies avoid politics and activism or fail to learn the skills to do it well. The learned helplessness leads to becoming the low-hanging fruit.
Unless you don't declare your revenues, you are working for the Man whatever you answered above ;)
It looks like the right team won here. I wouldn't bet on that in the US.
We're currently taking registrations under COM/NET (Verisign) and ORG/INFO (Afilias). US is a third, separate registry (NeuStar), and we aren't currently a registrar for them.
I just moved all of mine to Hover.com
They have great customer service.
(constructive suggestion: Answer the question Why should I care?)
to back kmfrk the US Constitution says in Article 1 Section 7 that "All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives". This has grown a little in meaning: http://www.usconstitution.net/constfaq_q125.html
Strongly agree with that one. I've always hated history going through school. Then I took an american literature class in college where we read primary sources from the early colonies up to the founding of the US. I enjoyed every minute of it. I learned more about history in that one class than probably the last 14 years of education combined. History should all be taught this way.
Yes, he probably could have avoided this by checking the reviews of his prospective host.
You're not doing math, you're using mathematical tools. Calculations are effectively arithmetic, and that's not doing math any more than typing code is doing programming.

It's a lot more complicated than that, but setting up the equations is the doing of math - solving the equations is just manipulation, and that's using, not doing. The difference is important - conflating the two leads to many misunderstandings.
I have yet to see Steve Jobs or Sergei Brin contribute to HN ;)
Why Is Everyone Talking About a Tech Bubble? This Was Supposed to Be a Party
... and the long list of idiotic posts trying to be the most idiotic continues. Better get off the net for a day, or two.
Are governments really listening to innovation investors?
Its really rare to see that much thought going into the aesthetics of stereotypically "geeky" applications like vim and terminals, even the website looks entirely different from pretty much every website I have seen around these tools

its a refreshing change, awesome work
1. Brush your teeth in the shower.

2. Listen to podcasts/news while cooking, working out, etc. Never only watch / listen to a show, always do something else simultaneously.