skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seriously wonder what would happen if we ran a similar test on women who'd read lots of Hermione Granger-centric shipping fics in which the male romantic interest is attracted to her because of her intelligence. Of course this wouldn't disentangle causality from correlation.
This is why I use a standing desk, and keep a couple dumbbells underneath to do a set whenever I reach a point where I need to stop typing and think.
Haven't felt like this, but as sp332 says "Programming is a big field". I would broaden that even further to I.T. Is a big field.

Why not think about such sub-categories such as DBA, Analysis/Reporting/Sharepoint Services developer, or even pre-sales roles. These involve some coding but a lot of customer interaction, giving advice/ideas, designing solutions and improving the customers business.
Ask HN: How often do you e-mail your users?
How often do you e-mail your users?

1) With a general newsletter announcing new features
2) With updates specifically for a particular user

Trying to gauge how often is too often. We're pushing out new features at such a rapid pace that we can fill newsworthy content into a weekly email, but we don't want to piss people off.

On top of that, we would love to send notifications & reminders to let particular users know when something that we think would be of high interest to them happens on their account.

But, combined, users would be getting an email from us every day or two, which is overwhelming (and annoying... mostly annoying) for most people.
Why do people (and in this case a "technical" person) think they can delete anything after they post it?
I am pretty sure one of the founders is an actual research scientist. She came to this idea via a personal need. the other points i have no response to. - disclosure i'm friends with a few of the founders.
Why would Google necessarily care about their S&P rating? They have enough cash that they don't have to issue bonds, similarly with equity - I doubt it changes the dilution constraints to issuing new equities much. Short term debt? Nope, that cash again. Financial easing of big purchase deals? What banker is going to pass up working with Google?
IIRC only one photograph was stretched, while the others were the correct aspect ratio.
These price targets are ridiculous. If S&P actually knows where prices are going, why aren't they running the world's largest hedge fund?
Ask HN:  What do you want, and why?
I'm curious as to what HN'ers want, why they want those things, and how they decided to want those things. Same goes for not want.

Personally, I find these questions difficult to answer and frequently occurring.
Thanks for your help! The syllabus for DB isn't up yet at my University, so I can't give more details [1]. But given that you say DB should be easier, and that I can take it at my school, I think I should take AI. Besides--I had the same gut feeling.

[1] writing this I now realize I could easily get last year's course, but I'm satisfied with my current decision
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> Some sort of legal action should be brought against your host.

No. Legal action is hell for both parties. Why put yourself in hell? Especially for a $3/month hosting service?
I suspect that means they only allow US Citizens into the facility that houses the servers.
One last bit of advice. You mention you need to work on 'marketing', if you think of it as 'positioning' at this point, that will hopefully help you better understand where your product fits, the need it answers. Once you know that, marketing should be much easier.
I'll second the pre-sales role - it's the first thing that came to mind when reading your post before any of the comments. Sales Consulting/Sales Engineering/Systems Consultant --- they are all mostly the same type of role with different titles. The pay can be lucrative and it's a great blend of different skills.

In one of your other comments, you mentioned "introvert" -- don't let this hold you back from a pre-sales type of role. It's very easy to be an introvert, but become very much an extrovert/good speaker when "doing your job."
It's all real, the code is here: https://github.com/NateStedman/shake-to-undo/tree/master/Sha...

As you can see, it was all committed at once, which is the proper way to develop software.
You must ask this question of every single piece of stock advice ever given freely or sold. If you knew about future price movements with some degree of accuracy, the least profitable thing you could do would be to tell others.
I really enjoy coding, but i am not a programmer by trade. I also really enjoy many (MANY) other things. Finding a job that brings them all into the picture would be very difficult, unless of course you created the position yourself. Naturally, that would of course depend on you having a clear understanding about what that role would entail. As duncan_bayne pointed out, it can take several years to work out where your strengths and weaknesses lie. There's no 'right path' to a career. Sometimes a job won’t offer you the opportunity to display the strengths you consider yourself in possession of - and to this I would suggest that where possible, try to exercise these in other ways... most likely outside of your job in extra-curricular tasks.

You might consider starting a business of your own, which would afford you the opportunity to fine tune and have a go at your areas of strength, and most importantly, keep you relatively interested in day to day activity. If starting a business is intimidating, consider offering your services for free for some small tasks/projects, and treat them as though they were paid and professional. You’d feed your interest and learn along the way.

The point I am trying to make is that you’ve plenty of options out there, and they are not very apparent just yet... but from my experience, the more your put yourself out there (particularly in areas that overlap strengths and stuff that is completely foreign) you will start to see some interesting options arise... and you will start to get a better picture of what your interests, strengths and weaknesses are. Best of all... there’s no deadline to work this stuff out... so be proactive and enjoy yourself!
Get over the issue will you! What's done is done, "sh#t happens"..

I think the company has taken appropriate steps and I for one would like them NOT to fire (but give him a strike on top of what they already have done) the poor nerd why got so frustrated that he used a totally inappropriate tone with clients.
I emailed my dad (biosci professor) for his opinion on this company, but from what I know of his work history and past collaborations, points 2 and 3 are likely road blocks to using this webapp. Trust is definitely a huge deal as I know he flies in specialized technicians he trusts over more "local" and likely "cheaper" technicians. Not saying the local technicians aren't trustworthy or aren't as skilled, but no matter the costs, trust founded on years of collaboration is irreplaceable.

That said, I'm guessing this kind of service may be more appealing to fresh PhDs.
I understand 100%, as I'm a small shop and I turn away bad clients all the time. But if you're not going to provide the service, you return the money, and you _definately don't delete the backups_!

What This* did is terminate the account, pocket the money, and delete the backups. Not only is that unprofessional, it's _illegal_. If it weren't it would give a legal defense to every person charged with fraud ("we just decided to terminate the business relationship without a refund").
Ask Dustin Curtis (UX Designer) anything about your web site
I could pick apart a lot of this questionable advice but let me just say this instead: in my experience, those who try to get into cycling with a very pragmatic and cynical approach -- get a cheapo inefficient bike, don't take care of it, expect it to be stolen -- tend to not stick with it.

Get a bike that you want to ride, whatever that may be. Maybe it's a hot road bike or maybe it's a gnarly mountain bike or an artsy low-rider.. whatever floats your boat. If nothing floats your boat, just ride something for a little while and you'll figure out what you want. But if your bike isn't fun to ride then you won't ride it.

Also, get the best lock money can buy. If it's better than most other locks, and you use it religiously, and your bike is not studded in diamonds, it probably won't get stolen.

And if you feel any inclination to become some variety of bike nerd, don't hold back, because that makes things a lot easier. It really doesn't take much mindshare.
My guess is due to the nature of this app (catching keystrokes globally), this app wouldn't be allowed in the App Store.
I'm using FFM in Ubuntu classic (non-Unity) right now. Mouse and keyboard events go to the highlighted window and the highlight follows the mouse (with a few minor exceptions which is why some people call it sloppy focus). Clicking doesn't affect where the events go.

Not sure what you're talking about...? Maybe plain old click-to-raise like Mac and Windows?
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Even if your Friday theory was the case, it means absolutely nothing. Errors/bugs don't normally just jump up out of nowhere, they come from an issue in the coding, so naturally new bugs are likely to be noticed shortly after new updates go live on a site as well as new features.
I have a theory about how a lot of Wall Street secretly works: the best way to predict the future is to make it happen the way you want.
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We try to email our users once a quarter. Unless there is something very specific to the user, like a feature they're paying for, it's not worth spamming your users' inbox. If you're releasing a new feature every week, have a section on your site dedicated to new releases. Twitter/FB is also great for announcing releases.
> to avert crimes before they happened

Not only to avert the crimes, but to arrest and charge the person before they committed the crime.
Can you offer them some sort of choice in the matter? A daily/weekly/monthly digest? I suspect different users will have different preferences and this should be something easy enough to implement as part of the signup process.

FWIW - I would be annoyed with anything more than a weekly update in most cases. However, in some cases, I would be very happy with a daily update. Without knowledge of your app/use case, it's hard to give a more solid opinion.
Its hard to change "policy" at larger companies, however offering a discount for early payment can help.
As the Co-founder of a statup that has dealt directly with situations like this in the past, I don't see much wrong with how the situation was handled.

You wouldn't expect a restaurant owner to put up with a rude and insulting customer being a dick to restaurant staff, so why should any other service have to put up with it?

Some customers just aren't worth the hassle they put out PERIOD. I don't give a shit if you're willing to pay me $9.99 a month, if you purposely go out of your way to insult myself or a member of my team, you don't gain the benefit of using our product, end of story.

* Edit * - Just to clarify, I don't see the need for them deleting the previous blog post, if you're going to respond to something in public, you should probably stand behind what you are saying before pushing publish.
Is this different than for men somehow? I don't remember seeing math and chess teams having the most romantically desirable boys at my high school. Yet I (for instance) did these things as well as programming just because I needed to and liked it so much. If it was the reason I was picked on and a social outcast, it didn't really make a difference. I don't see many women like this. Why not?

It didn't change much in adulthood either, at least for me. Yet if programming has any connection to my complete inability to attract a woman (it's clearly not the whole story) it still doesn't matter because it's such a great career and hobby for me that I love passionately. So why are there so few adult women like this too?
I was undecided if I wanted a tab or an Ipad 2, apple pulling this strategy rather than trying to win on product merit pushed me over the edge into getting a galaxy tab 10.1v, happy with that decision thus far.
I do not really want to associate with anyone who urges others to burn themselves. I do not want to associate with anyone who backs the bombing of innocent civilians. If that's what you mean - you're 100% correct.
Some 'possible' reasons to use different client and server frameworks:

1> Decoupling. Add APIs / more clients in future
2> Effective use of skills. Many developers specialize in one of the two.
3> Parallel development of client and server
4> Future client side caching, tracking etc. (can be solved with a lot of server code)

This is not to say one should not do it, use cases differ.
When typing, the muscles on the outside of the forearm (anterior group) get a lot more use than the ones on the inside (posterior group), so they get a lot stronger. This lack of balance is (likely) a contributing factor to CTS, in the same way that a weak neck and thoracic stabilizers cause UCS (upper-cross syndrome)

Climbing is ideal here, because you spend a lot of time grabbing and holding on from odd angles, giving your entire forearm a solid workout.
That is not entirely correct. If you have already acquired credibility (somehow, doesn't matter how for the purposes of this exercise), your estimate or advice can (and frequently does) become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Knowing that a significant number of investors will follow your advice gives you information which can be used in the market. It then stands to reason that the most profitable thing you could do would be to give this advice to the maximum possible number of people.
Kenya has a population of ~39,000,000 of which 40% live on less than $2 a day. I'm not sure many of those 300,000+ smartphones are going to the poor.
The study is likely specific to the country where it was conducted (I'm guessing the USA). I believe there are studies showing that while girls in the US are socialized to think of math and science as "masculine", which consequently affects their willingness to learn said subjects, things are much more equal in countries like Japan.
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I agree that nobody owes the world comments but the point of a conciliatory blog post is to make people stop hating you. If they're still hating you to the point where you've had to turn off comments then your post isn't doing its job properly.

(I also agree with your earlier post that if you're selling web hosting for $3/month you'll have to deal with quite a few difficult customers. Often the people who pay the least are the hardest to deal with.)
It's amazing to me how incompetent otherwise sophisticated companies are at handling public relations. It's not rocket science, and it's not about who's right.

This post comes off as smug, half-hearted, and insulting. Why are they joking and making light of the technical director's unprofessional conduct? Why are they trying to parse how the customer's twitter comeback wasn't justified? Why are they separating the latter part of the post as the "more serious note," thus implying the first half isn't serious? This is serious for the company, whether they know it or not.

After reading this post, I come away thinking the company doesn't take this situation seriously, they don't take their customers seriously, and they wouldn't handle my problems seriously if I were a customer. They should have 1) Made a direct, unmitigated apology; 2) Clarified what their company stands for regarding terminating accounts with specific policy improvements, not a promise to review the policy; 3) Left the excuses for Jules out of it; 4) Left out the legal threats to people e-mailing the company (the blog post isn't about the company's problems, it's about the customers' problems); 5) Titled it "An Apology" or "A New Direction" or basically anything besides "Moving On..." which sounds like a command being issued in conjunction with an exaggerated eye roll.

Why don't these firms just hire a pr/crisis consultant to help? If they suspect the crisis could cost the company more than a few thousand dollars if not handled correctly, it's a no-brainer. The best-case scenario is that they lose a few thousand dollars improving their public image; the alternative could be losing a chunk of their user base.
Fast-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee
We're in this summer's batch, we get 3M uniques, and we're growing like crazy: http://i.imgur.com/GFOp5.png (DOES THIS GRAPH REMIND YOU OF ANY SPORTING EQUIPMENT??!)

We were also voted 4th most-likely to succeed out of 63 companies by our peers at “prototype day” earlier this summer.

Right now it’s just the 3 founders (we’ve been working on the site for about 2 years), and we’re we’re looking for a brilliant hacker to be employee #1. If you join us, you’ll get a very real stake in the company (>= 3%)

We need someone who can start contributing without a lot of hand-holding. So you’ll need to be good with the following technologies:

- Ruby on Rails
- Javascript (we use jQuery)

Here are some other technologies we use in case they sound interesting, but you can probably pick them up on the job:

- Git
- Heroku
- SCSS
- Facebook API
- Twitter API
- Coffeescript? (We don’t use it yet, but I’m down!)

But this isn’t like being a programmer at a big company (or even a "startup within a big company"). We need someone who loves to program, and who is great at it, but who views programming as a means the end of SHIPPING A GREAT PRODUCT AND MAKING OUR USERS HAPPY. This means that you should be comfortable with non-programming tasks if the need arises. For example:

- Designing features (on paper, in Balsamiq, whatever)
- Talking to users (you MUST be a good writer)
- Extracting useful info out of analytics data.

We can’t reveal who we are because we haven’t yet announced our YC funding. We’ll let promising candidates know who we are over email, but we can say that:

1) The product is consumer-facing. There’s a decent chance
you’ve heard of us (we’ve appeared on the HN
front page before)
2) It’s music-related (so if you’re a music fan,
that’s a plus)
3) It runs on crowd-sourcing, game dynamics, and
reputation systems (I copied freely from StackOverflow,
so if you’re familiar with SO, that’s a plus)

IF YOU’RE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO HUGEMEME@GMAIL.COM:

- Name
- Location (we are flexible, but it would be great if
you lived in Northern CA, NYC, or were willing to relocate)
- Educational background
- Most recent job
- A little bit about your technical background,
including something brief about what you like and
dislike about the technologies you’ve used
- What have you built online that you’re proud of? This
is the most important. I’m interested in open source
contributions, weekend projects, your own start up,
whatever. I’m most interested in projects where you did
everything start to finish. So a beautifully-written
Ruby module is less impressive to me than the end-to-end
implementation of a cool web app (Back end, front end,
contracting with a designer, marketing, etc)
- Something that proves you can write. Ideally you could
link me to some of your best blog posts
- Your accounts at: twitter, github, stackoverflow,
quora, youtube
Damn, I can't go. I have very few leave days left for this year at my day job.
Solar panels are only "too expensive" in the west because:

1) the west is used to consuming a lot more electricity

2) power lines from coal plants are cheap here. There, they don't even have the plants yet.

In other words, they don't need a whole lot of juice there, and whatever other alternatives exist (if any do) are even MORE expensive.
Let's say Microsoft and Apple can only go after the handset makers for whatever reason, and they win. Thst means handset makes will drop Android for WP7 or MeeGo.

Now that Google has is own cell phone manufacturer, it will still be able to produce an Android phone.

Patents I'm sure are important too, but being able to control manufacturing is crucial if the handset makers bail.
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That’s why I think dramatic irony fits the best. The mob here has pitchforks and torches, and he thinks we’re just neat.

I agree with the guy’s opinions, but he’s got to have some flame-retardant skin.
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Neat idea. Is this more of a call manager that you'd find an inside sales floor? Can't really see where the split testing is here considering that each call is unique.
Amazon's competitor for US government agencies is NASA: http://nebula.nasa.gov/
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You really do need to tuck in or roll up your right leg.

Or buy the $2 velcro straps they sale that go around your leg and not worry about it again.
Ugh, I just ate a sausage. Chicken Apple Sausage, but still. It's a perfect analogy.
This is a follow-up to recent threads/posts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855500

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855508

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567

I highly recommend the last one. All of it, not just the linked passage. I doubt I've ever enjoyed reading a technical memoir so much.
Since when do legitimate questions get downvoted ? Etiquette suggests that we only ask questions that we would if the person was in the room. These are good questions. Why the downvotes?

From the guidelines:
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
I've been anti arm rest for awhile since I started guitar (another activity not great on your hands), and I've wondered if it takes its toll on you. I figured it doesn't do it any favors since your forearms are constantly engaged as you type without an arm rest.
I wonder if it could be used to mute commercials too.
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Margin differences between industries are obvious to a Sell-side/buy-side analysts. The analyst in this case talks about the difference in margins like a lower overall margin for google would be bad.

It won't be bad because Google will now have additional revenue (&profit) at that low margin and will be operating 2 different businesses. If anything is scary about this transaction it is the integration risk. Lower overall margins are not an issue for valuation.

This particular sell-side analyst may be using a model which does not value the company in 2 pieces which will give him a lower valuation than it should.

Google's new valuation should look like this:

Google's business prior to acquisition + Motorola's valuation + additional gains or losses from integration/synergies = Google's new valuation.

*also note that in finance valuations, the lower standard deviation of returns, the lower the risk premium so having Motorola may actually increase the valuation. On the other hand those buyers of google who wanted pure play search/cloud exposure may sell off google's shares.
They're rare events, but they're also inevitable, the disruption to service after a serious quake will be prolonged, and this factor is completely under our control when selecting a host, unlike the others you list. Most companies offer a choice of datacenters and it's pretty easy to pick one that is not sitting on a fault.
A quick Wikipedia search says that the inverse square law does apply to radio waves

I don't understand why not. Aside from the difference in wavelength, there's absolutely no physical difference between radio waves and physical light.
No particular reason the advice has to be accurate.
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