skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you refer to someone like that as successful?

It depends if they define themselves as successful. That is the distinction. Being judged by others as successful vs setting personal goals and begin successful at accomplishing those goals. If those goals are to live in nature, hunt, fish then they are perhaps very successful (in my sense of the word) but certainly not in the traditionally American sense.
I might be missing something, but I don't see any design position open, mainly engineering.
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Look at the sales spike, there's no way that's a sustainable income. 80% of the sales was from one 24 hour period where he gets only 30% of those sales.

From scanning the article he didn't really say how long it took to write. There's 32 founders on the 'founders' page, sounds like he put well over 3 or 4 hours per founder. Quite a lot of transcribing and interviewing by the look of it so I'd guess at least a month.

Kudos for him for making a couple of weeks salary in a week, but put it into that context. He still only made $3,000 in a week after already putting the unknown time into the book.

Ignore the $10k claim, $7k effectively went on advertising (appsumo).

imho, the real winners in the story were appsumo.
Ashburn, VA - Brain wiring diagram extraction

I'm hiring a software developer for my group at Janelia Farm Research Campus, in Ashburn, VA. The goal will be to develop workflow for extracting wiring diagrams of neuronal circuits from large-scale serial electron microscopy of brain tissue (10 TB+ image volumes). You can read about what I'm doing at http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/bock.html, and browse data at http://bit.ly/ga3Cfk. A detailed writeup of the approach was published last month in an article at Nature.

I think the ideal candidate could come from a variety of backgrounds -- someone who had previously written or contributed significantly to the development of a game engine could be good, for example. Looking for strong quantitative chops, creativity, and a willingness to do some plumbing in order to make an elegant solution.
It seems so strange that a group of some of the most knowledgable geeks we have rely on CD's to generate important parts of their funding.
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I thought it through just fine, unless you have a large supply of smart well educated people who'd like to be making the same amount of money, and maybe less in real terms, ten years from now, and 20 years from now, and so on.

No? Well then I guess we're going to have to pay people more as they have more seniority, just like virtually every other industry.
not a good example. MPAA is evil, their rating system is subjective and their commitee members' bios are in condradiction to their own rules. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPQmKTAAeik&feature=relat...
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BAG Entertainment, the new owner of the oriental martial art fantasy MMORPG Sho Online, has announced on their official homepage http://1000do.com that the first episode of the The Beginning of Chaos trilogy titled Sign will be released as an update on April 21, 2011 in the Korean version of Sho and sometime in the mid May in the global Sho Online at http://www.shoonline.net.
Would you buy a hard drive containing uranium?
I never saw anything to suggest that it was, so I believe it simply makes them feel good. Also, undisclosed location is very suspect. How long will it take to traceroute it and find the nearest Level3/other major company node's location, therefore the probable location of Sony's servers.

Of course, to your average user "we've moved the datacenter to prevent attacks" looks pretty good.
Hmm. I've just put "Unlocking the Clubhouse" on my list of books to read, because this post is making me rethink one of my long-held assumptions about computer programming ability. I've long held the opinion that computer programming is something that some people are hardwired to "get" more than others, and that the ability to "get it" is not really correlated with overall intelligence.

Now I'm starting to wonder if this assumption is just a result of crummy Computer Science teaching. In particular, I grounded a lot of that opinion on my experience as a CS undergrad. Students seemed to fall into 3 buckets:

- Could program when they came in (had been doing it since they were kids, etc.) Did well, became good programmers.

- Couldn't program when they came in, worked hard and came to "get it", became good programmers.

- Couldn't program when they came in, didn't really get it, most disliked programming, graduated (!) and became mediocre programmers or technical managers.

... I've always been inclined to see that split as a direct consequence of "innate ability", given that category (3) contained some intelligent people who just weren't programmers for whatever reason. Now I come to think about it, though, our CS teaching program was not very good. Amusingly, a professor told me that the CS department was consistently rated worse in the entire university on student course assessments but "I think it's just because this stuff is hard, and people don't like doing things which are hard. If we were teaching something easy then they'd give good scores." (paraphrasing, but that's very close.)

So maybe my perceived division is more an indictment of teaching practices and programming culture than some ingrained difference. Time to read that book, I think. :)
Gates took credit for my ideas: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
I don't know what courts you're referring to. The U.S. Supreme Court has never affirmed a patent where the only novel component was an algorithm executed on a general-purpose computer.

Mathematical algorithms were never intended to receive patent protection.
The obvious question must be asked: what was your initial plan with that domain?
This reminded me of awful Craigslist buyers that always seem to be short 20 bucks when they arrive. A slightly different situation since CL scumbags are usually looking for a spontaneous discount of > 10% vs. 1%, but funny nonetheless. I'd stay firm just out of principle, but you don't always have that luxury as a seller.
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re: monopsony -- You didn't read my comment carefully. Teachers obviously aren't chained to a city, but not all of us are 20 years old and eager to hop around the country. Once you do things like buy a house / apartment, or have an SO with a job, or kids in school, or a group of friends, or family, or get divorced and are forbidden by court order from moving your child around, or have an underwater mortgage, or just plain like where you live, you stop wanting to move. Having one dominant and maybe one or two small alternate (and who knows what their labor demand is) local employers would discourage me or I'd think most reasonable people from wanting a career in a given field. Employment at will is a fine theory when there aren't monopoly / monopsony effects and both buyers and sellers have little leverage and are price takers. Remove that and people naturally see protection.
Tagentially: I'm so sick of that meme. All I can think of is someone spending $10 a year to think they are cleverer than they actually are.
Ugh why the fuck did it steal all of my file associations.
Hmmm... maybe, but take a look at the comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134720
I tend to agree with Colin Percival and others.
several comments, i'm certain someone already mentioned this but you really need to have screenshots on your webpage. anyway, i downloaded the app and my first impression is that this is quite utilitarian though it has a nice cocoa frame. i like the color schemes that you have for default, the page margin and line numbering is essential.

keep up the good work, this has potential.
No. Words have well accepted definitions. While obviously effectiveness is important, it's not productivity [1].

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/productivity
I say this as a person who has read thousands of resumes and hired hundreds of people at multiple startups: Your record will hurt you badly at places you don't really want to work. It will help you at the places you want to be.

Make it clear what your passion is, what you've learned already, and what you want to learn. Then apply everywhere that looks good. You'll do fine.
Not to be pedantic, but I saw AMAs on 4chan long before I saw them on reddit.
How to contact you?
I find no contact info in your profile.
Interesting analysis.

I strongly disagree that what he defines as "Quality of Posts" measures quality of posts, though.
No graph of Apple in the "mentioned companies" section? I'd be very curious how they were trending.
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This (parent) is what pedantic means.

Also, depending on your thoughts on 4chan and reddit, you could say that differentiating between them is pedantic, but that's another question.
One quick note:

On your http://hackermonthly.com/reviews.html Reviews Page, you list those people's names and startup. Since it's Hacker Monthly, I'd just love to see their HN id as well.

Just a small tidbit :)
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On the "after" flyer, you might move "experience" up to the preceding line, and, perhaps, indent the second line of it. Reason being: As it is, you're separating the key data bit (no) from the actual subject/noun (experience). Someone scanning it might take "experience necessary" out of context, and get the wrong meaning from it.
I do think it is a fair concern for any hiring manager. The qualities that make entrepreneurs successful also potentially make them unmanageable or unable to take mid-level assignments in larger organizations.

I've also interviewed entrepreneurs and the other side of the coin is a concern that they want to return to an organization because they are burned out.

Finally is the fear that you will work there for a short period, understand the business, and raid staff and launch a competitor.
The parent said AMA's (well, IAmA) originated on reddit, whereas I contend that, while they may have risen to prominence there, that's not where they originated. perhaps I should have said, "Not to nitpick, but..."
From the article: We don’t say, "It’s these lazy soldiers and their bloated benefits plans! That’s why we haven’t done better in Afghanistan!"

It's a good thing our military isn't unionized.. мы все были бы говоря России.
What's more, his figures work out to 5.3 weeks of work at 40hrs/week, for the equivalent of one month's rent (not one month's living expenses). Be a shrewd manipulator of globalization if you want, but don't try and justify away the raw deal you're giving someone to save a few bucks, especially considering those bucks would be far more valuable to the guy doing the work than the guy who is saving them.
From the article: "My father has had prospective buyers of multi-million dollar apartments threaten to walk away from a deal because of an additional $10,000 in closing or alteration costs at the 11th hour." And you have a problem with that? Seriously?

I have a hard rule that after many painful lessons is now inviolable. Every single time I've broken this rule it's hurt. Don't do business with dicks. If we negotiate a contract and you toss in another $10k at the last second? Hell, I don't care if you try, but the answer is absolutely not. We had an agreement, you changed it, the answer is no.

If that answer doesn't satisfy them, well, they already lied to me once. They're dicks. I don't know what else they're going to try to screw me on, but they already tried once and are going to try again. The only answer to someone tossing an extra $10K in and daring you to walk away by saying you're not a buyer is tell them they're assholes and you'll never do business with them again.

Life is too short to have dicks in your life trying to screw you at every turn. If someone isn't honest, drop them and count yourself lucky.
Just looked at the comments, still like the post. There's sharing of experience, what he did wrong and why, humor, and lessons learned.
I'm leery of downloading and running an unknown applet.

Is there any other way for me to extract the data of interest and upload it myself?
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I disagree. If anyone learns there's a high chance their identity or credit cards will be stolen they would be thoroughly concerned; simply offering people extra PSN time strikes me as immature and even a little silly.
You can form your own company then contribute up to 49K into a SEP IRA. There are some complexities around self employed which have limits of 18% of net profit. Still you can contribute a lot more than a 401K or IRA
OpenBSD is the Van Morrison of operating systems.
It only splits if the buffer it wants to replace hasn't been saved.
Cool, I didn't know that. I stand corrected.
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I expect you're being funny and ironic, but I use my editor way more than I use my OS. Generally speaking, the OS is a platform and the editor is a tool.
Alas, the date of the submitted article is 14 March 2011, so all the data are from before the recent round of experimentation announced by pg.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333

Considering that pg had asked just before then (28 days ago, also after the date of the submitted blog post) how to "stave off decline of HN,"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

it may be that there are differing opinions about the quality of posts to HN in the early part of 2011. Writing then, he said, "The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted."
I would love to see something like this from PG.

In specific, I'd like to see information on the following in relation to the recent changes in HN:

- increase/decrease in activity of users with highest karma
- increase/decrease average in comment score, normalized
by time after post of OP
- amount of time the highest rated posts stayed on the front page
- trends for # of flags

Also, it would be great if he put the guidelines on the submission page.
sounds cool, though, with 25 deployments a day, it seems like you're just deploying quick fixes. How involved could changes be with such small time intervals? I applaud the approach though.
Also, could you also talk about how you track all the end-user impact, given the very frequent changes? How does this feed back into the analytics (is change A causing rise/fall in conversion, or change B)?
> The unstated but obvious leaning of wikileaks, Assange, and a large portion of the hacker community is towards anarchy be it anarcho-capitalism, crypto-anarchy, some variant.

Is it? I'm not 100% sure on Assange, but I've always seen the leanings of the (large portion of the) hacker community as more towards libertarianism than towards pure anarchy.

> The clear intention is disruption not reform of the establishment.

I will give you this, but I'm not sure if there are many effective ways to achieve reform. You can write about idealist reforms all you want, but people won't be convinced without something big happening.
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Yeah, that measure was super hacky and I have no justification for it (but it was the simplest/only thing I could think of at the time). Do you have any suggestions?

One thing I'm thinking of now is seeing how (# points at the xth percentile) / (# points of 10th highest rated post) changes over time. (Or maybe I should just take a closer look at how the overall distribution of points changes to get a better feel first.)
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"Accidentally sold it"?
How does one accidentally sell a company?

ok so this is a fair question.

What I really mean by this is that I was not looking to sell I was not out actively marketing the company or anything like that.

We had a product that made a dent in its market, I liked what I was doing and I was having fun doing it.

A bigger company with a presence in a lot more markets came along and made me an offer, I said no and came back with a number I deemed was improbable. They paid it anyway.
We agree to disagree. Despite his occasional sensible points, I can't say I respect him.
Sorry, the term "weak reference" threw me. So you mean you have pointers to objects you have not retained, and you "deregister" (set them to nil?) in your dealloc? I don't see how that can trigger a race condition or call anyone else's dealloc.

You may have a valid point but I don't grasp it.
I just think it'd be nice to have another scripting language for the web after all this time of JS being the sole king. And I think CS would be great because it's still very similar.
I have a client, older guy, with 3 children - 2 older boys, youngest, a daughter is about 19 yo.

The 2 older boys both have degrees, the youngest dropped out despite good grades (chosen degree: English major) saying it wasn't what she wanted to do - and got a job at Panera Bread, where she is rather quickly moving from cashier to training.

The old guy is really stressed about it, to him and his generation, if you don't have a degree, you have no real future.

Given that the daughter is doing well, has essentially zero debt, is not addicted to anything, and enjoying her job and getting promoted--in contrast to many who are having trouble landing any kind of job; well, I am trying to nicely tell him not to worry so much.
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When this really happens, selling the property is a wise choice, and you can make a lot more at this point.

Even if the property market crashes, you can always choose to default. - Nothing lose, this is not your own house.
If i didnt live in the UK, i'd be chaining myself to your doors to work there! Really fascinated with the culture you guys have created!
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