skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a Google story.

But regardless, some people define 'winning' as getting more out of you than you get out of them. Sometimes those people get into management positions, and when they do their groups seem to develop really wide pay ranges for the same amount of work. If you're a senior manager and one of your managers is trying to get points because "I can convince him to join for half what the last guy cost." then you need to jump on that problem right away.

Managers have the challenge when they pay someone $X but they aren't doing the same level or quality of work of someone making $X - $Y. As a manager you have three choices:
1) Bring the lower paid person up to an equivalent level
2) Fire the guy making "too much" and replace with someone who is more calibrated to your organization.
3) Engage in a potentially unsuccessful campaign to bring the contribution up of the under performer.

Of the three #1 is the "easy" one (giving people raises is always pretty easy), #2 is the "quick" one (especially if you're in a place where turn over is expected) and #3 is perhaps the biggest gamble (both the opportunity cost of not having the guy perform and the possibility he may never get there). It's one of those things that is different about being a manager vs being an individual contributor.

Things are weirder in pre-IPO + post-IPO worlds where people assume that if they are throwing around a bunch of money its because they got it from stock or something. It can be psychologically difficult on someone who has a lot of money due to an IPO but is doing the same "level" of work as someone who joined later and got post IPO stock. Harder to manage and harder to deal with morale issues if they start 'resting and vesting'.

Google was famous for having a 'personal multiplier' which would adjust your bonus and a 'median salary' for your pay grade but they wouldn't tell you either of those numbers (they made it a policy not too) so it was impossible to back check to see whether or not your bonus reflected your work or was just a beauty contest. When the company won't tell you what the median salary is for your pay grade that should be a red flag. But not sharing individual points across the spectrum I can see the argument for that.
For 75% efficiency I assume you mean 3/4 * 2 * $175 * 1000 = $262,500 / year.

3/4 on it's own is less than %40 efficiency. I.e. Taking half the year off.

You also just stated the same thing slashcom did while meaning to correct him?
This is going to sound mean. Sorry.

It sounds like you're running from stuff all the time. You need to break that habit now, especially if you are serious about running a business. Pretending that things will just go away if ignored sounds like a bad habit that you've picked up.

If the business isn't going to make money soon, dump it, mooch off your parents or girlfriend and start working multiple jobs for a few years.

All of the other solutions (income payment plans, deferring forever, etc) are just extending your pain and ultimately just screwing you and your future children out of a decent life. You had fun for a few years, pay for it.
Easy to call out and mock Hotz sitting in chair behind the computer but the majority would be singing a different tune if they were in his place.
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=user+experience+designer
It's rather silly how big of a deal people are making about this. IMO, this doesn't change how "developer friendly" OS X is.

There's no such thing as one set of requirements for all developers that OS X either meets or doesn't. For a specific developer, it either met or didn't meet your needs prior to this, and nothing should have changed because of this.
Hah, what a find :D I'll be happy to read it.

I'm not entirely convinced mimicking anything Microsoft puts out is a good idea, even under the best circumstances. I've lately been getting pretty far into .NET, and the more I see, the more it terrifies me.
I think that initial aptitude at a task is not a good predictor for how well you can do after doing it for a decade. It is a good predictor for likelihood at actually pursuing it for a decade, because it often determines whether or not you like the activity.

Put another way, people become good at things that they like because they keep doing them. We get positive reinforcement. But I don't think there are a class of people who have the "mind" for programming.

Also note that by bring up Dennis Ritchie, you've now introduced the "what does it take to be a genius" discussion, which is different from achieving expert status.
It will vary widely depending on what you're offering, and the terms of the "free" trial etc. (Eg, if you require credit card details or some other commitment, or if it automatically converts to a paid membership automatically etc etc)

Not knowing anything about the site or how your traffic is reaching you, a 4% conversion rate sounds pretty good.

The real question I think is how many of that 4% can you convert to actual paying customers...
Agreed, the lack of enum support drives me nuts. Hell I wrote an ORM in the .Net 1.1 days that had it.

Still I'm glad they've released this, more "out of band" releases from Microsoft are a good thing. When frameworks and features aren't tied to Visual Studio releases mean the individual teams can iterate a lot quicker (the MVC and Silverlight teams are good examples).
Read his current blog. He loves it now.
We're an AOL company now but I think that wording is reasonable.
Sure, but this is $5.75/hr for 40hrs/week with an average month (there are 4.3 weeks in a month). That's $1.50 below the US minimum wage.

Also, how would this be interest only? I think you should make sure that's correct. $12k/yr on a $150k loan is 8% interest, which seems steep for a student loan (that's credit card territory, but maybe I'm just not familiar). $12k/year on $50 (you said elsewhere that they'd forgive $100k) would be 24% interest, which is insanely high.

I imagine that with a degree, even not doing a job related to the degree, you can earn significantly more than minimum wage. Take what you can find and keep looking. Switch jobs if/when you find something better. The economy sucks, taking a job you don't like now isn't a permanent decision and more opportunities will present over time.
Who are all these developers that can't spend $5 on a interim release of developer tools? Perhaps they should reconsider being developers, just stick with XCode 3 or wait for Lion.

So many people just seem to want to bitch about Apple because it makes them feel better about their technology choices.
I'm familiar with evil that is "domain driven design". I kid. But, I do start to worry when we try to treat SQL as something basically like NoSQL with JOIN support. Perhaps I don't full understand the flexibility in the features. But, I imagine you're going to run into a scenario where your object model spits out some pretty garbage schemas. Like I mentioned, we're using Azure and use their NoSQL'ish Table Storage for a lot of non-relational data so I feel I understand the advantages of just letting something 'take care' of storing something.
> - The key used to encrypt the large file is some function of the file, but not of the hash. The important point is that it's not encrypted with a client specific key, but rather a file specific one. Thus if you have the file, you can compute it.

That's actually an extremely interesting idea. I wonder if using some function of the data, f, to determine encryption keys, leaks information about the encrypted data? My armchair guess would be yes. Of course, the leaked amount (well, the slight-non random distribution by the key being a function of the data) might be small for large files/good function f, which would mean it's probably okay?

I've never heard of any research of a cryptosystem that works like that though, so I'd appreciate if anyone could provide some expert input (or maybe we should just email bruce schneier)
Agreed. Not only that, but the less people pay for your services, the less they respect those services (it doesn't feel as earned as the next guy billing twice as much).

So you pretty much have to jump. Which is likely anyways since if you were being paid less than half than everyone else around you and doing the same or better work, you'd probably be more than a little annoyed.
I found plastic storage totes (like this one: http://www.housewaresandbeyond.com/images/items/12039/jpg/St...) much better than the regular cartoon boxes. They cost around $10 from walmart and they come in many different sizes and shapes.
The BS Bubble: My Response to Peter Thiel
how do you know you are in the list?
I pay about $700 a month on about $1800 a month. After rent and bills I am left with $300 for food, and gas.
Only by airport policy I believe... Not 100% sure
I have seen a good hack to get around this problem.

At the end of the article add a link "Discuss this on Hacker News" linking to your submission of the article here. Then you can just tweet your article directly and all the HN'ers will click through and comment and vote for your submission. It's not ideal but it works.

One problem is old comments. Anyone that sees the article and wants to add to the discussion is pretty much screwed if it's been more than half a day. HN submissions older than that get few views and fewer responses to any late additions.
I don't see why you would expect Benford's Law to apply here. Credit card numbers have various rules they have to follow - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Credit_card_n... - that will skew the results.
You have no idea what actions I am taking or not taking. However, you have shown that you are not interested in supporting me when I discuss the harassment that I receive.

For example, if I filed formal complaints or suit against CBP, would you support my actions? If so, why do you not support the actions that you have seen so far? If not, why are you here? Just to tell me that there is a single way to respond and that I'm wrong?

Do you really believe that I should simply be silent about the specific harassment that I receive?

There is more than one way to respond and I'm taking all of my options seriously. Your presumption of knowledge about my actions is of course incorrect and your arrogance is showing.
This would be the ideal situation. Unfortunately many of us are stuck with an existing schema or a schema from a third party databases with which we must integrate.

The domain driven design seems to work great for the brand new RoR apps. I enjoyed those when I did them b/c there was no crufty legacy schema.

I'd be curious to know how much code is written against legacy schemata versus green field development.
Haha, I was going to try and refrain from making a comment about the Enum support... but glad someone brought it up. I'm constantly haggling my friend on the EF team about this issue. I told him we're not dropping LinqToSql until this is resolved!

Apparently there are some serious changes to the core of EF that need to happen to support Enums. My friend tried to explain it to me once and it was one of those whoosh moments.
Nginx is a thing of beauty, definitely scores over Apache.
- ease of use
- simplified configuration, I dont need a 500pg manual to get a grasp of nginx
- speed, speed, speed
- what else do you want :)
Well, dropbox allows you to access all of your data with only a password, so the PGP pair would have to be a function of the password. I'm not sure I follow about storing the password locally. One additional thing that you'd need to do that I didn't mention is keep the file encryption key PGP encrypted on the server. That way, if you know the password, you can authorize access to the file to someone else without having to transfer the file back to whatever machine you're on.
Rapacious universities are testing the theory of creating affiliates in pursuit of more money. NYU, Cornell, Texas A&M, and Carnegie-Mellon are opening up campuses in the UAE to pull in some more money.
I feel sorry for everyone who down-voted me.
Yep the story about OpenGL and DirectX is well-known now.
I have two computers at work. One is a standing desk, and the other is a normal desk. I block reddit and hn on my normal desk.
Spidermonkey (or whatever they are calling it nowadays) supports this using the "let" keyword, fwiw.
I don't know the details of this (sorry!), but I seem to recall reading that the laws were recently changed to allow relief of student debt if the debtor had worked in the public sector, education, etc. for a certain period of time.

Since you're in a bit of a tough spot, and could continue your business efforts on your own time, you might consider seeking a job in those fields.

I hope that helps.

And, for the record, I thought the kickstarter idea was a great one. Certainly, I think you'd have to be quick about it, as that's the sort of thing where it pays to be first to market.
I hate to be the one to make the skeptic post, because I'm sure it comes off a bit rude, but the timing of this does strike me as a little odd, considering that there are two posts about Peter Thiel on the main page, and the Scott Adams "How to get a real education" article just made it back. Not to say they couldn't have motivated you to post, but the anonymity (new account) and tone ("Due to excessive math & science training... I impulsively decided...", "an education that absolutely adds no value...") does inspire a bit of skepticism.

I'm a bit unconvinced that this isn't someone playing politics, though if you are really in a bad situation, best of luck to you.

Edit: In addendum, if you're going to downvote, please do make note as to why, e.g. if you think there's sufficient evidence not to merit skepticism, or if you think it should be taken at face value regardless, at least for the benefit of others. I won't, though, argue the point, in the interest of consideration to the OP, in case he is honest.
See grammar and spelling nazis are EXACTLY whom my grandmother and people like Stephen Fry despise:
http://vimeo.com/15412319

He can illustrate her exact point, and mine also better than I can here.
I have never heard of them doing this for only $150k. They'll do it for Wesley Snipes maybe but that's a different story.
I'm failing to see how this is at all interesting...
I'm considering buying one since there's a big sale going on in april. (40% off with the key April2011 when you call to order.) If I do, I'll let you know what it's like.
That is correct. Apple does not currently allow in-app billing for physical goods, but they also don't currently regulate physical goods purchases either.
Launching a web app is like opening a restaurant
Apple Survived ’80s Thanks To Aldus PageMaker
If you really can't afford it, just pirate it. It's not like Xcode has a CD key or anything, and I'd be shocked if Apple started mobilizing the lawyers to go after illegal Xcode downloaders.

If you're not motivated or resourceful enough to scrounge up a few bucks for an iTunes gift card, I doubt BitTorrent is a totally foreign concept to you anyway.
In no way should he blamed for refusing to sacrifice himself. If the PS3 hacker community can't live without Hotz, the war is already lost.

But Hotz is one head of the Hydra, as Sony will find out soon enough. Besides, it's a bad idea to have a movement depend on just one man (see Wikileaks for comparison).
I don't see why it would need to leak much more information than you're already leaking with a hash. And I'm sure someone has investigated this idea.
Hotz has said all along that any leftover donations would go to the EFF. If he used part of those funds to get good lawyers, and those lawyers told him that his case couldn't be won in a way that would strengthen the right to jailbreaking, the the right thing for Hotz to do was settle ASAP and pass along the leftovers to the EFF.

How would the typical Hotz donor feel if he fought the case all the way, only to win on a technicality that didn't establish any meaningful precedent that could protect future hackers?

EDIT: Hotz also took donations for a duration of two days before he stopped, deciding that he had enough to cover short-term legal expenses, and he didn't want to have too much money lying around in case Sony won.
Joseph N. Welch and Edward R. Murrow managed to shame the red-baiters into some semblance of quiescence. I fear that American authorities and those they serve are now immune to shame.

Cheer me up; please adduce some evidence to the contrary.
The Four Horsemen Of The Enterprisocalypse
An easy mistake if you're not familiar with FCP :-) Their wording on that page is very misleading. I was just getting a bit excited there for a minute ;-)
Great little guide.

One thing that's rarely mentioned in soldering tutorials is temperature. With good temperature-controlled soldering stations like the Weller WES51 available for <$100, I'd be hard-pressed to recommend skimping on a cheap pencil iron. Trouble is, I've seen very little discussion about what temperatures to use for particular types of solder.

I put this question to one of the EE lab instructors at my university. Their choice is 700-750F for standard 60/40 solder. I use 750F at home with good results.

You need higher temperatures for lead-free solders, which is one of the reasons I avoid them.
Debt collectors will continue to attempt to find you. Eventually, if you hide well enough, they'll stop.

That said, I do know that your credit rating in one country is not currently linked to your credit rating in another. For example, it's possible to have sterling credit in America and abysmal credit in Canada.

However, the issue in your original country doesn't go away. It may stop impacting your credit, and the debt collectors may write it off and stop pursuing it, but the debt is never cancelled.
So, where are they looking for additional work?
You can't really. CSS backgrounds are the main reason you need to use padding (instead of margin): margins exist outside an element, while padding expands within the box itself (beyond the content, but permitting the background to remain visible).

To visualize it, http://hicksdesign.co.uk/boxmodel/ is probably the most oft-cited example - certainly the one I find most helpful.
2011: The Year the Check-in Died
Was not meant to be at all. Hang around the valley long enough and you'll see this happen a million times. I've been that technical founder and I've worked for the same type of guy. Self realization is difficult as is forced growth. Justin struck me as a real leader and a real example to technical founders. Job well done.
You could probably hack the smart meters, but how should `pump[ing] more power to them' work? The utilities just try to hold the voltage constant, as people are drawing power.
Things Journalists Should Never Do
10 Startup Ideas That Never Work
Sometimes the best you can hope for is to serve as a warning to others. Seriously.

You are in an extreme situation, but one that many people find themselves in at various levels of severity and many more fear. This presents a unique opportunity for you. It will take a LOT of work and dedication but it will serve the greater good and might even help dig you out of your hole:

Tell your story. You are here on HN so you seem like you don't mind sharing.

Kids in high school need to hear this story: go speak to them in assembly. I am sure if you made a few phone calls to counselors, they'd welcome you with open arms. You might not get paid (but, hell, you might) but you'd be doing a service to those kids.

Blog about it. Cliche, I know but do it. Start now. You have gotten to the front page of HN. That is something but the clock is ticking starting 14 minutes ago. What will you blog about? First, everything that has happened up till now regarding this. Your background; how you went to school; your hopes; the ease of it all; the nightmare of realizing what was really going to happen. All of it. Give an abstract and start chronologically in very human detail. Keep reminding people where you are going with all of it.

In the meantime, try to do something about it. Chronicle EVERYTHING. Keep records. Post your struggle as it happens. Contact the debt holder. Contact your school. Contact support groups. Contact alumni. Contact your representatives. What do they say? What do they do? What /can/ they do?

If you can manage it, try to really do it in a thorough style. Perhaps you can get a hold of someone to bring it all together in a documentary. That can be powerful. Maybe not a blockbuster but if done well it could bring awareness and maybe some recognition. Perhaps you could sell it to schools for future college students to watch.

At some point in this process try to get a hold of others in the same boat or that are otherwise affected. Some that, perhaps, got lucky and paid it off. Some that never did. Maybe some that took the ultimate way out. Some that tried stuff that you'd never thought of to get out of it. Add that material to your blog and film. Keep moving.

Perhaps dig into the industry. Follow the money. Who benefits? By how much? How did these 'student loans are immune to bankruptcy' laws pass? When did they come about? Did it impact overall borrowing rates? Talk to economists, lobbyists, industry folks, the boots on the ground in terms of debt collectors etc, etc.

Find people who did it right. Find out how they did it. Include all of this in your material...

Once you have explored this from all angles and made a bit of a name, maybe you could write a good book about it. Go on some talk shows. Who knows.

If you do it right, I know I'd follow your progress.

Good luck.

Edit: I forgot the point: doing all of this is valuable. Reap some of that value and somewhere down the road you might find that you can get out of this hole. It won't be easy by a long shot, but, hell, what have you got to lose?
MissBee - My New Startup
Is that Rob Mauceri speaking in the Video? I saw him at a round table at the Web 2.0 Expo last month and Douglas Crockford and Alex Russell tore him a new ass about Ecma Script 5 strict mode. Looks like he got out of the building alive and actually listened. Cool
Hey Guys,
This is my new website I created over the past month or so.

It is an automatic entry service for online competitions. For only $20 per year, Members are signed up to over 1000 online competitions to win anything from a $500 supermarket voucher to a vacation to Paris.

When members are signed up they are given a new email address which will be their competition email and all that is required of them is to check it every week or two to see if they have won any of the competitions we have entered them into.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Especially with regard to SEO and marketing the site online

http://www.missbee.com.au
I have a friend who took an English teaching job in China to pay off his (admittedly not as big as yours but nonetheless substantial) student debt. He's recently out of college and has no teaching experience. Sound stupid? His job pays $4,500/month AFTER tax and accommodation is included. Factor in the substantially lower cost of living (he's in a poorer area of China, not Shanghai or Guangzhou etc) and you can easily save > $4000/month. The added benefit for someone like yourself is that you could potentially do some freelance work at the same time. Although many teaching jobs pay less than the one I just mentioned, most will leave you with a decent amount of free time on your hands. Hours are typically 15-30 per week. Just thought I'd throw that anecdote into the mix...
And on top of that the state income taxes in most states, and sales taxes that usually approach 8 or 9%, and property taxes on real estate (and autos where I live). Also if you manage to save anything after all that, you can look forward to paying dividend or capital gains taxes (a form of double taxation).

It is a myth that America is a low tax nation.
Precisely. Chrome got advertised on the Google.com homepage. You can't buy an ad that effective, anywhere.