skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but questions can include a lot of implicit assumptions. One example I saw from a test was something along the lines of, "You go to a store. The sign says it's closed for lunch. It's currently 12:55, and you have an appointment at 1:30. What do you do?"

The correct answer was "Wait 10 minutes, then leave if it's not open." But people with lower incomes were disproportionately likely to say you should just walk away and come back some other time. This is because people in low-income neighborhoods have been taught that loitering in an empty lot leads to bad things.
My biggest problem with Quora is that the answers tend to be from people that aren't relevant. If you are asking about single-founder startups, why are the top answers from 2-founder startups? There is lots of information out there on 2-founder startups, written by co-founders. I went to that thread looking for first-hand accounts from a single-founder, someone who the question was actually intended for.

This problem also came up the other day in the 'what skills do self-taught programmers lack'. I am a self-taught programmer and I don't care how many engineers you have managed, you can never actually understand what skills I lack. That thread should have been a bunch of auto-didacts explaining what they've had problems with over the years. Instead it read as a bunch of cs majors listing out the cs curricula from their schools.
The Higher Education Bubble
I'm not sure whether reviews qualify as a market action

Sure they do. Markets need informed buyers to function well.
Not too sure, not even the tweet button gives a reason:
"Found out I'm GitHub user 346166 by using http://caius.github.com/github_id/#PHPAdam
I don't know about IQ tests, but this is certainly not true for the SAT. SAT prep only raises scores by about 30 pts (on the old 1600 pt test), at least according to studies not funded by Kaplan.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278685697537839.html
"I as a Christian thought I could feel something of the satisfaction that God must have felt when He created the world," Pittman wrote of his work. Christian hackers, Spadaro said, viewed their work as "a form of participation in the 'work' of God in creation."

Bingo. That's the "creating something from nothing, with merely my thoughts" feeling that I get from programming. Whether you attribute it to the divine is up to you.
There's another thread on the RRW write up on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2415376 -- I'm just going to copypasta some of my comment from there (with a minor edit).

"My knee-jerk reaction was 'LinkedIn -- ASSIMILATE! You don't need a platform too.' but there are areas where LinkedIn can still provide value. I like the concept of Facebook being your online profile so perhaps LinkedIn can be your professional online profile?

That Recommend button, one of the things about LinkedIn recommendations is that they're rather exclusive -- if you get something recommended or receive a recommendation on LinkedIn, that's kind of a big deal it seems! But if you lower the barrier to entry by just allowing the users to...click a button...then doesn't that take away some of the exclusivity?"

In a sense, I almost feel bad for LN but they're a pretty scrappy company I think. It's kind of like they've been trying to play catch-up since they launched -- they've been plagued with UX issues (still are, IMHO), they have a lot of stability problems, and it's only recently (read: last year, maybe two) that they've been able to overcome their chicken/egg problem. I don't frequent LN, but I find myself being drawn back to that site more and more.
Maybe Dynasaurs means "To change over the course of Eons"
My good friend is a journeyman, and I always wished there was a US equivalent, especially in the realm of software engineering. I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy coding with brilliant programmers and traveling around the country.

Anecdotally speaking: My friend has a "wunderstick", which is a hand made walking stick. When we go into bars in Germany, he taps it, and the bartender gives us free drinks. Before we leave, he taps his stick again, and says some big speech in German (about how grateful he is, etc). Most bars and hotels cater to the journeymen quite well. While we were in Berlin, he also had girls run across the street to him and kiss him on the cheek or lips. I guess it's good luck to kiss a journeyman.
This was also my experience. It's also been one of the few games my wife has played intensely. We both got quite bored of it after a couple of weeks of addicting play. It's a really great concept, just severely lacking in any overall goal. Makes me wonder what a dedicated, complete minecraft-like game could accomplish.

It's also an excellent example of getting a working prototype out as soon as possible. You never know, it may be even more successful than the completed version. :-)
Gnome 3
Glasshouse shares results of App Store experiment
Other than saying my friend is a casual user of Android, I see nothing in my statement that bashes either Apple or Android. (Samsung, on the other hand...)

Apparently one camp or the other is fairly touchy.
I think this applies to a very specific class of games. When people mention games I tend to this of three very distinct types:

Nano Game - something that a single individual put together over the course of a couple weekends. It works, it's fun to play, it may not be pretty to look at, but it will get played again and again then ignored. E.g., Gridwars, Mine Sweeper

Micro Game - maybe two people working together. It is polished took a couple of months to put together. It works, it's fun to play and it is girl next door pretty. It will get played until the sun burns up. E.g., anything that you'll find in the 10$ bargain bin when it first gets released

Macro Game - a group of people working together. It took a couple of years to put together. It is flawless, it's got a marketing campaign behind it and chances are it's going to get played by professional gamers and make a lot of people a lot of money. E.g., Starcraft, GTA, Quake

Nano games are < 10k, micro games are less than 100k and macro games anything more than 100k.

I would argue that the vast majority of games fall into the nano and micro camps. They may never get any traction, but nonetheless they are out there en mass. Because of that, it doesn't make any sense to me to say that it takes 100k to build a game without saying what type of game.
Using R (rApache) for Web Services
Cisco CEO Chambers Plans Changes to Fix Lost Credibility - Bloomberg
I was one of those experiments, as the Operations Manager, and I like to think it went pretty well. As many people here have rightly pointed out, though, being hands-on is the key. I continued to do a lot of the day-to-day technical work.

The main difference between what I did, and what the rest of my team did, was that I had the added responsibility for dealing with partners and vendors, negotiating contracts, scheduling hardware installations, and the like. The rest of the team was able to remain completely focused on the system administration issues that we cared about while I split my time.

For our team, it made good sense. For the other development/design teams, the way they're run makes sense. It all depends on context.
> after all, Europe manages to train doctors straight out
> of highschool in 3 years + internships/fellowships/etc.
> compared to North America's 4+ years + a bachelor's
> degree).

It's at least six years of med school in Germany, France and the UK, although I can't vouch for any other European states. But I do agree with your basic point: the selectivity isn't due to doctors having to be much more skilled than, say, (real) engineers.
Interview With Barry Ptolemy, Director of Kurzweil Documentary Transcendent Man
As it's exactly the same URL, maybe the dupe filter has a date horizon?
Did anyone else read that title as "time traveling German carpenters?"

Does the internet make this less relevant for those in the software field?
This is a horrible page design. It literally took me minutes to figure out where the main content of the post is and where are the navigation and info links. Add to that the fact that the first link I clicked in the main post turned out to be an embedded ad.
The difference is that this was not observed from a sting operation where Google tried very hard to show that their rankings were having an effect on Bing results. It's a happy accident that I decided to take a closer look at and write my thoughts up on. And I'm sure there's more evidence living in Google Analytics that might make an interesting research paper.
There's one big win here I can see: your passwords don't exist in a vacuum. Many users, whether you like it or not, are going to be using the same password for a number of other websites.

By sending the hash and never letting the plaintext password hit the air, the worst that can happen is breach of your login system, you will not be responsible for someone in a coffee shop with wireshark sniffing out people's passwords, which can be applied to multiple websites.
How to choose an Open Source License [Flowchart]
Eastern Europe here, Romania more specifically - the standard is 5 years plus internship, more for certain specializations. I never heard of (nor would I trust) 3 year medical schools...
> what action comes as a result of a review?

Dissemination of information, which can lead to people making different decisions. For example, a would-be purchaser may feel a price is a bit steep but would have bought the book anyway, but after reading the reviews decides not to in solidarity with the other reviewers.

Or an author might get feedback that their fans aren't happy with the pricisng structure, and may take their publisher to task because of it.

A market is essentially a distributed information processing mechanism. Seen in this light, information transfers that are not buying/selling can be seen as part of the market. For example, haggling has always been part of market behaviour.
Cool idea, but I wouldn't give you any money for this. How do you see this growing in to a startup?
In the US, PhD students in biology are paid tuition plus salary. So assuming his undergraduate student loans were subsidized, a PhD who decided to teach high school would not be in a much different financial position than a recently graduated Science B.Ed.

Not to mention that there are magnet high schools that do very much like the perceived prestige of having PhD level instructors. Your typical public high school wouldn't care, of course.
How America Describes Itself in Online Dating Profiles
Yes and no on replaceability. On one hand you could argue within a range one book is as good as another. However for many people, once they come to enjoy an authors work, that particular author is "not replaceable" because you want his unique writing voice/take on things/etc.

Until you find those authors you adore to that degree, however, yes books are totally interchangeable after a certain quality threshold is passed.
This simply shows that the US university system is horribly broken with regard to finances and debt. Wouldn't happen in the EU, for instance.
You're playing games with the definition of a "review". People looking for book reviews are in virtually all cases looking for information about the content of the book. I can't win the nerd argument with you that there is no information whatsoever in the review bombs, so I won't bother; I'll just rest my case that the information is below the noise threshold, and adds so much extra noise as to make the reviews useless.

The clear intent of the reviews is to hold the publisher hostage; nobody gets to conveniently read good-faith reviews until the nerds are satisfied.
What they removed is not just meaningless titles but rather all management positions.
I, for one, don't want to code my whole life. Something 37signals can't offer me.

But there are people who are content to code forever, and I wonder how they differ from people like me.
How to Create Music on the Computer
This is a blog on how to create music using computer software. ITS SUPER EASY
That was my though. Kind of like on Slashdot how people used to like their 4 digit user id's
I respect that it works well, but there's a difference between using a style as inspiration, and outright ripping it off. This strikes me more as the later.
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How exactly do publishers get to fix the price of books on the Internet? If you want to sell a book below $9.99, what's stopping you?

What am I missing about this comment? I am asking seriously: 6 people voted it up, and my read is that it's content-free. I'm willing to believe I'm simply wrong about it and I missed a subtlety, but I'd sure like to know what it is.
I've been working at home for about six months now, three of which I've taken care of our daughter from 9am-1pm. I start working at 7am until my wife leaves for her part-time job (while she is on maternity from her teaching position). During daddy-daughter time our daughter takes at least one 1-2 hour nap and depending on her mood she sometimes watches a cartoon and eats on her own while I work on less "hard" development tasks.

When my wife is home I find the "door closed == serious work time" method and noise cancelling headphones do the trick. The most important thing is that your partner/children know and understand that your work space is a place where you work. My wife knows that I wouldn't be able to do X if I was in an office elsewhere, so I probably can't do X either while I am working at home.

On a side note:
A very nice benefit of working home w/ family is the ability to take breathers whenever you so chose -- completely remove yourself from your work environment for a few minutes and (hopefully) change your perspective/attitude to a more beneficial one.
http://www.smodcast.com/
This is Kevin Smith's podcast it is great, he really goes into his mindset about getting the audience involved in his films and how in a way he is trying to hack the Hollywood film system.
Anonymous Takes Down Playstation Website and PSN
It might be because a movie reference that's relevant to the conversation at hand can be humorous, but a movie reference in response to another movie reference is just regurgitating a script. The child comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation other than "I saw that popular movie as well."
I agree with this. I'd love a co-founder who had the same passion, drive, work ethic and commitment to the company but I just haven't found them yet. It's also much easier to sever an employment relationship than one with a co-founder. On the other hand an employee collecting a salary is much more expensive than a co-founder working for equity.
I'm helping build a new search interface and implementation for a casual game company based on Apache Lucene/Solr. I always wanted to participate in a Solr implementation, and I was really gratified to work on this project. I think marketing had given up on improving search, so this was a grassroots engineering effort that releases officially later this month.
It's unrealistic to not promote people. If you run a "flat" organization, you're telling your employees "I don't care that your resume indicates no progression." That's a real career limiter, and it can be perceived as an underhanded way to retain talent.

Also, more pragmatically, how realistic is it to have 30 direct reports?
I don't mean that exact link is the first result, I just mean a link which explains it is the first result.
> Now carriers need to talk to Rubin and tell him what their plans are.

That is not correct.

Carriers need to talk to Rubin and tell him what their plans are in order to gain early access to the source code.

The source code will still be published into a public git repository, and anyone, including carriers and manufacturers, can still acquire, modify, redistribute and ship it from there.
For the publisher to have any effective control over the price of a book, they have to control the distribution channel for books. But they manifestly do not. If you want to sell a book for $0.99, you can do so today.

Three of the elephants in the room are:

* That the $9.99 price point comes in a package deal that includes promotional advantages authors want

* That the $9.99 price point is calculated by publishers to maximize return on the ebook product offering, not to maximize the number of people who buy the ebook (but this is obviously how market pricing is supposed to work)

* That the $9.99 price point comes with access to the publisher's brick and mortar distribution system, which is much more powerful than the indie distribution system (but is also dying).
Its a three month project that we did. The app is free and will remain free. It is born out of a frustration that finding apps is becoming more difficult and that browsing the App Store just isn't working. In real life, the first thing we do is compare apps on our phones, so why not do that on your phone too.
Curiosity.
A postdoc without job prospects, for instance. If there's one thing less desirable than churning out Java for an insurance company, then it's being a lab monkey with no realistic chance of getting a tenure track position.

So, yes, quite a few people want to be code monkeys.
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And one more thing... Google seemed to suggest that the data took months to go from Bing toolbar to search results. You seem to suggest it takes one day! That's a pretty big difference in the efficiency of mining their clickstream data.
I did not elect to have a child before considering the impact it would have on my livelihood. I have absolutely considered the impact that having a child will have on my livelihood, as well as on my life in general! I'm merely asking for practical advice from other parents. Are you suggesting that if I've considered the impact that having a child would have on my livelihood, I should not ask anyone for advice? That's quite an odd position to take.
TwitterBar is now HootBar
I'm in the same situation but am growing more unhappy with it as time passes. A close friend is CEO/Idea Person/Sales Person with myself doing the development. A few big challenges I'm running into are:

- rudimentary stuff like web copy updates inevitably have to be done by me making it feel like I'm a glorified gopher

- a total lack of understanding on their part about the technology we're using (web apps, Facebook apps, UX, etc.) and lack of willingness to learn/contribute somewhere there

- a fixation with networking and building relationships as opposed to contributing directly to the product. Not one of these contacts has significantly impacted our product or bottom line despite numerous meetings, coffees, etc.

- big disagreements over our financial model. I advocated pursuing revenue immediately from day one vs. the "let's grow a big audience and figure out how to monetize later." This was a big source of tension. It took over a year for this person to realize our acquisition/monetization ratio was completely FUBAR before we "pivoted" to an actual revenue model. Now we're playing catch up.

- serious damage to our friendship. Now we only talk during the work week, never outside of it.

I give this person credit for raising the initial funding, however, I can't help but wonder if I'd be better off solo and trying to find a cofounder later as Mark Suster's article mentions. Part of me wants to walk, but another part feels like I should just suck it up and see it through until the end.
Startup City seeks entrepreneurs for $15,000 grants
Clickable: http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2011/04/06/startup...

Directly to the source: http://thestartupcity.com/
Google should be fixing some of these accessibility issues themselves. As for the actual GMail client though... nothing prevents the user from using the third-party client of their choice, so nothing has really changed from before.
Working on a domain management tool for entrepreneurs, especially the domains that you own but are not using for a startup (yet). http://ParkedAvenue.com
I spent around two years working on some of the highest traffic Wordpress sites out there and I came to the Winston Churchill-like conclusion that Wordpress is the worst blogging platform out there, except for all of the others that have been tried.
Saving money on marketing.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/sundance-review-kevin-smiths-red-state-reinvention-return-form-24165

This is a great article on how Kevin Smith's new film Red State is saving millions of dollars in marketing by self distributing his film, it is an interesting idea as it now costs about 30 million dollars just to market a feature film for distribution. What he is doing is bring the film directly to the audience instead of spending money to try and get them to see the film he is making them invest time into the film so they will be more inclined to be involved and spend money on the film.

What do you think about this? Do you have any good ideas on cutting down marketing for your business? Maybe the best thing for every business is too directly go to their audience rather then trying to get them involved by spending their own money.
There is no natural law of scarcity which suppliers are required to honor. They can produce as much or as little of a good as they want. The producer controls scarcity of their offering. The market responds by identifying substitutes, not by coercing the producer into relaxing scarcity.

If your logic held, every paper book would cost the same amount; _The Very Hungry Caterpiller_ would cost within pennies of the same amount as Volume 1 of _The Art Of Computer Programming_. After all, you're not paying for the paper. Judging from the amount of junk mail in my mailbox every morning, paper is pretty cheap.

Clearly it is also the case that _The Art Of Computer Programming_ as an ebook has exactly the same scarcity as _Twilight: New Moon_'s ebook; according to your logic, they must also cost the same.
Twitter’s new search favors Groupon?
Yep, a good developer who's a jack of all trades can knock out a game or a series of games (Ex. Junya Ōta who did art, music, coding, level design, story, project management and everything for "Perfect Cherry Blossom" and a whole series of BulletHellShooters featuring BeautifulFightingGirls.)

Ōta-san doesn't need to cut payroll checks, but his time is quite valuable. If some guy who's mostly interested in business and marketing wants to pay for that talent, he'll pay quite a bit and have all of the overhead of managing other people people to boot.
Could the forms be a security measure? Is it really smart for your company employees to be opening hundreds of PDF and Word files sent from random strangers?
I considered this, but rejected it. If you interpret the problem in this way the answer is dependent on an undefined parameter. The clearest interpretation of the problem, the most useful interpretation of the problem, and also a nontrivial interpretation, is "what is the lowest upper bound on the number of guesses".