skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loyalty is probably the last quality you should be looking for as a hiring manager at a startup. Granted, you want people to be loyal, but it also has a loose correlation to incompetence, mainly because incompetent people tend to (rightly) fear losing their job more than people at the top of their game.

Better to hire the best you can by other criteria and let the chips fall where they may.
I more or less get this functionality using Canada Post's ePost integration with my bank's web site, though the implementation could be a lot smoother.

I don't get a paper tax bill from the City, I get a notification by email and when I log in and view the message there is a 'Pay bill' link right next to it. Would be nice if it defaulted to as late as possible.

I don't know what it takes to sign up as a provider, but relatively few of the companies I regularly pay bills to (and don't use a pre-authorized payment) offer this solution.
You're absolutely right, HP right now is in better shape than Apple was in 1996. So, I cannot imagine that it cannot be fixed, but I don't believe it will stay one company.
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How long did that thing last? I remember Packard Bells. They tended to be busted before even leaving the store.
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The antitrust regulator just asked about sending in a third party to review google's search algorithm. Haha. Hahahahaa.

Not a chance.
Are we to assume that the new strategy had 0 involvement and approval from the board? Wouldn't such a major shift as this have required the boards approval?
The board is almost as responsible as Apotheker.

I always thought the new strategy was flawed either way.
Looking forward to le Hackathon!
I think you mean Japan was dirt poor a couple if generations ago. A generation ago they were in the middle of their economic bubble. A couple of generations ago, they were rebuilding from the devastation of World War II. Before that, they were already an advanced industrialized nation, far ahead of their neighbours.
You describe yourself as the "product owner". And the dev has no equity. Maybe he feels he's doing all the work and you gain all the benefits. You should offer him some equity, ownership is a great motivator.
Four reasons why accepting equity is a bad deal for your dev shop
Thank you. I'll have to see if I can hunt one down.
Laziness, incompetence, and because the person writing a technical job posting often doesn't understand or value the skillset they are hiring for </generalization>
You almost need a recruiter to recruit recruiters...
She, in my opinion, was taking advantage of apparent naivity of senators.
The problem would be getting all the people who want your money to use this specific new "API" thing. In a banking system where even wire transfers are considered fancy high tech, I wouldn't hold my breath.
> Maps, and Places, and Product Search -- they are all part of search.

That's a very relevant point, but it also sounds at least superficially similar to Microsoft's "the browser is part of the OS" argument, which generally seems to be a failure. That case has been referenced several times in this hearing; it's clearly front of mind.
A cache is a bit different though I think - that is a reference. The Yelp case was them using content in their own competing product and then not representing the source clearly.

I deal with this as an affiliate all the time. I don't mind Google cacheing my web pages to increase our search ranking and help drive traffic to our site. However, if Google made a competing site about the same products and then took our reviews to use in that site without our permission, then I would have a major problem.

I'm not in favor of regulating Google, but I am in favor of some discipline and guidelines being laid down. The government clearly cannot decide how this should work, but I think Google is responsible enough to know that things need to be adjusted and just how much is needed.
It has been my experience that most college grads still need some basic rules and guidelines. Fresh out of college, you think you know it all, right? It's a generation Y thing, which asks for a little adaption on both sides...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
Yeah you really don't want to give them an emotional reason to come after you.
I beg to differ, Mac OS X is the only reason why people buy Macs. Take away the OS and they are just overpriced notebooks.
People did complain and Microsoft did have anti-trust case brought about them and a set of behavioral limitations imposed.
Wow. OK. I'll spell it out for you gentlemen. I discover $1000.00 in my bank account. Before, I just had $50.00, so this is quite a boost. I wanted to move my business (me, myself, and I) from just regular handiwork to cutting down dead trees. Before, I couldn't afford a chainsaw, a ladder, and safety equipment. Now I can. I can also afford some advertising, business cards, and a decal for my car. Now multiply me by a 1000. You've created jobs in the chainsaw manufacturer, ladder manufacturer, advertising agency, printing company, and the decal making guys. Get it?

Please stop assuming the pie is always fixed. Demand is not always being met. New markets are being created all the time. Oh, and while tax breaks don't affect the function of your imagination, they sure do help with bringing stuff out of your imagination into reality.
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awesome story ;-) Can't wait to see you there!
AllThingsD has interesting points to make here; I wish they would write with proper grammar.

Also, I hate when they say "according to sources". What sources?! At least macrumors states exactly where they get their info from.
Do you run both from one machine?
12 Great Blogs for Typography Inspiration 
As a typographer you have a distinct advantage. Inspiration is everywhere, as text is a regular part of our every day lives: on billboards and posters, TV commercials and boxes of rice, and on our computer screens, phones and other devices. We are always confronted with new ideas and old ones that have been reused or modified.
Not only can you switch instantly from Google to Bing, you can do the same with the indirect competitors such as yelp.

Yelp claims Google is hurting consumers because often Yelp's results are better than what Google displays as their own Location results above.

Is it really hurting a user to have to scroll slightly down? Or if Yelp's results were really better would users not go directly there or use their apps as an alternative?

I find it very interesting you can claim Google has a monopoly on the web + mobile, which seems to be the necessary premise to make these claims.
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Anti trust exists to protect costumers and when the product is free and the alternatives are free, where is the harm?
As much fun as giant touch screens look (no thanks to minority report) they're not very usable for hours of work. Try it out for yourself, sit at your desk raise one or both hands towards your monitor as if it was a touch screen and see how long you can hold them there. If your hands are above your heart they'll get tired pretty quickly and eventually feel a bit numb.
He keeps staring at the camera, I almost wonder who is paying him to be there making those actions. I would bet a 6 pack of beer he is a paid lobbyist.
Very cool. Much better than the effect used in the movie.
Watch the recording here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/OversightofG
> Microsoft has had a desktop monopoly for 20 years. They have 90% desktop market share and people don't complain about that

You don't count being fined billions of dollars over that monopoly, being forced by governments to make changes to Windows to help competitors, and being sued by several state governments and others as people complaining!?
People have complained about Microsoft's monopoly at great length. They had an anti-trust case successfully brought against them in the US and similar cases overseas. It's an issue that people are very much aware of.

That aside, the department of justice could (if they hadn't already won against Microsoft) bring two suits simultaneously. The need to investigate one company doesn't stop you from investigating the other.
It's easy:

def mydec(func, decor_param_a, decor_param_b):
print 'decor_param_a = %s' % decor_param_a
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
print 'about to run function'
res = func(*args, **kwargs)
print 'done running function'
return res

return wrapper

Now just do:

@mydecor('foo', 'bar')
def baz():
pass
Even without SEPA in full swing, your banking situation is still miles ahead of anyone in North America. A nice web interface is one thing, a $25 wire transfer or relying on external, often slow payment processors like Paypal or Certapay/e-Transfer quite another.
Last I checked it wasn't possible to switch the default search engine on Android phones (whether it was set to Google or otherwise). Is this still the case? I couldn't find anything conclusive in my searching.
Introducing multiple sign-in and preferences on Gmail for mobile
The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity (Niall Ferguson)
Then you should have a portfolio, no?

I'm not saying that having a blog makes you an "accomplished author" as the original commentator suggests I was implying, I'm just saying that seeing your work is the easiest/only way to screen for talent.
I noticed that, too. Not only did I find that annoying, I think it was disrespectful.
I have seen a wide variety of opinions on this subject already with people feeling strongly towards and against CoffeeScript. I have also read reasons why it is unnecessary to use this in conjunction with jQuery.

Myself I haven't taken much of an interest in using CoffeeScript but am an avid jQuery coder. This article really opened my perspective on CoffeeScript and I think I might have to run out and try something written in CoffeScript/jQuery.

I agree with the author and hope that we will see a programming environment for this soon.
Nice job posting. I'll be watching the coderay submissions to see whether they'll contribute the F# scanner :)
It's all political, all grandstandings, and an overall a welfare operation for antitrust lawyers. There is not issue here to start with.
TODO-lists.

It's funny because it's true.
I don't like the CANDU reactors from Canada.

It's really quite an accomplishment that Canada's developed an exportable technology, but they aren't as safe as the LWR reactors that most countries use. One problem is that the piping is much more complicated than other reactors, so the possibility of springing a leak is much higher. CANDU reactors also have a positive void reactivity coefficient, which means that they're much more dependent on electronics to prevent power excursions. They also produce and leak tritium at a much higher rate -- it's not clear that this is a real problem, but it's very detectable. The economics of running on natural uranium aren't so good now that gas centrifuges can refine uranium more efficiently than the old gas diffusion plants.

Nobody will argue that a CANDU reactor properly operated will produce weapons-grade plutonium, but a country that's able to build CANDU reactors domestically could construct CANDU derivatives which would be useful for proliferation.

I wouldn't say that BWR reactors are categorically unsafe, but looking at the operating history, I think PWR reactors have a better record, even leaving Fukushima out. I don't know if BWR reactors or derivatives like the ESBWR have a future at this point. The Mark I BWR at the Fukushima site lacked many of the safety upgrades that have been made at other countries... Regulators in the US were aware of the problem that blew the roof off several of the reactors in the 1980s and took steps to prevent that step in the accident progression -- and don't kid yourself it wasn't significant, because a collapsed building is a dangerous environment that makes it hard to work around the reactor, particularly when you want to get in and get out fast to minimize your radiation dose.

I'd really like to see small PWR reactors with natural convection like mPower from B&W and the NuScale reactor. I think these can be very safe and also, being factory constructed, control the cost escalation that scares utilities away from investing in nuclear. I'd also like to see a realistic plan for fuel management -- we don't know the whole story at Fukushima yet, but spent fuel was part of the problem, and having a plan that's better than stacking it up at reactor sites is important.
All New Look of Facebook and No Dislike Button, Simply It Frustrates
Notes on Rich Hickey's Strange Loop keynote: Simple Made Easy
- Put some rules on twitter/facebook. For example (I think) PG has a separate computer to browse the web. He has to seat in another chair to do that.

- Understand why he is having trouble focusing. Does he have impediments and he avoids them by going to twitter/facebook ?
It's also interesting to note that in the U.S., companies are thought of as a standalone entity, and referred to in the singular, rather as a group of people.

So, it'd be "BankSimple is based in...", instead of "BankSimple are based in...".

When I first started reading things from the UK, I initially thought the writers simply used poor grammar :)
Sounds like you've never experienced the joys of free, instant wire transfers. Taking pictures of cheques? Are you going to telegraph them after?
Forget ten year olds, I'm 32 and I want one!
When I looked at the first page, I thought "nice idea, but ideas are worthless". Then I looked at the second page, and you guys have put a lot of research in it, it's really thought out well. If the price is right, let's say < 200 USD, I'm in the market. For my kid, of course.
If your developer is not motivated to do a good job he is not talented. being a good developer is more then just having the ability to comprehend the principles behind software design its about being able to make those principles manifest themselves in working product. I think the real problem you have is a poor developer that has convinced you he is good.
>For once Google are being honest and the others are being slimey.

For once? I hardly get the impression that Google is slimy and duplicitous, and their competition not so.
I totally agree. Open Team Communication is essential for a business to sustain innovation and growth. If a team member notices a flaw in a product, he should feel comfortable to speak up to improve the product, otherwise nothing will change and ultimately the product won't be as successful.
DataStax stops distributing Brisk as open source
Not representing it clearly? When the places pages included Yelp reviews it would put the top review with a link to "View more reviews on Yelp" and very clearly had a Yelp logo next to it. Same with TripAdvisor reviews. Now the places page is only showing Google reviews with "Reviews from around the web"
Eric did well. What bothers me is that no reps of small businesses were in this hearing, it just seems like one big corporation is shilling a fight against another.
Android apps, on MeeGo
Yep, I don't see the point as well. Reality is there's a lot of ppl in this world (way too many) and all are striving for similar goals. We can't all have the piece of the pie.. we can't all have our dreams fulfilled... it's harsh, but it's a dog eat dog world.
I think most small startups don't really have an identifyable mgt structure. They have different people doing different things they're good at.
I believe that figure of how much you can spend today takes into account savings goals as well as payment commitments.

Also there is no reason you can't look and see you have some money that is available and toss it in a savings account. Basically the user gets to choose where that money goes, but either way they have a better idea of "what's left over."
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Perhaps he simply ran out of ADD medication. Happened to me two weeks ago.
Love Your Customers? Maybe You Need To Send Them To Your Competitors
Big update for http://minus.com - hope everyone likes the changes and would love to hear some feedback!
Thanks for getting the joke.

I'm really just pointing out that every single dire prediction about Facebook's demise hasn't happened, and I don't see how this one is any different from the last N times.
We're very excited to be a part of the first class at @piepdx!
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301681-1
duly noted - will update
Ask HN: Do ads affect userbase growth?
I've heard that early on advertising can deter your growth in building your user base, can create a bad reputation for you, users don't come to your site for the ads but rather the content etc.

For those of you with bootstrapped startups, did you launch your product with ads? If you did, did the ads play a critical role in user growth statistics?
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Netflix Exec: Here's Why We Seemed So Clueless
If Assistly is worth $50M, where does that put ZenDesk (http://zendesk.com)?
Would be nice if you ironed the shirts before the pictures.
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Here's a situation where I would like to see congress pass a law requiring something like this (not that they specifically have to use BankSimple, but that they have to use something like it).

There are laws involving the mail that need to be updated. Mail is [should be] a dead technology.
I don't intend to stand up and defend obviously terrible job postings, but consider the source here. The fact is that many people just aren't fantastic writers. Pragprog.com is a publishing company. If that posting were written by Dave Thomas himself, that means it was written by one of the most successful authors in the Ruby community.

Success in authorship means that you must be a good writer in general. Success in technical authorship means that you must be a good writer, as well as exceptionally good at organizing complex information (like a job description) and expressing it in terms that people can understand.

To answer the question directly: "Why don't they tend to look that?" Because most people can't write nearly as well as Dave Thomas.
We do essentially weekly sprints and he presents at the end of each week the progress made.
Props! stormental is part of Cloudability and they're up to awesome things! If anyone hasn't seen what they're up to yet: http://www.cloudability.com/
Why the downvotes? Am I the only one missing a somewhat expandable desktop Mac without an integrated display, but below the requirements / costs of an Mac Pro?
I tried offering equity and a slightly lower salary (20%-range lower), and then an option for no-equity but higher salary. He took the higher salary option, though I was hoping he would take the equity option.

I could revisit this with him...but I have a feeling it's not super important to him, money doesn't seem to be a huge motivator.
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Microsoft seems to have learnt a lot since the lat update. NoDo update took a bit longer to be delivered. Mango seems much better planned. Good to see Microsoft learning from past experiences.

It's a great thing for users and developers alike because this is one sweet release. Have been using it for some time now and loving it since day 1.
I hear good things about all these companies, especially Spotsi...
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I think this is a model that's needed to be tested for a long time -- I'm glad W+K is forward thinking enough to be the first ones to give it a go!
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I would be interested in a subscription services which shows "how to start, validate and test idea, market product, hire the right people for and sustain a profitable business starting from scratch."
Here in Norway, anyone asking for a recurring payment will offer either invoice by e-mail or a more automated eFaktura (electronic invoice).

After the first payment to a party offering eFaktura, you'll get the option in your online bank service to start an eFaktura agreement with this company. Once you've done that, the invoices will be sent and paid for automatically (or when you choose).

This system was created by a company jointly owned by all the banks in Norway and is thus supported by all of them.
At the end of the day the responsibility for recruitment is with the company management. Recruiters could have a role to play, but it is above their pay grade to decide what kind of candidates you want. They could surely help sourcing and pre-screening though. But if you are going to use recruiters you have to manage them carefully. Recruiter not given clear direction is poised to waste your time and money trying to place the first wrong candidates they come across.
This could be used in video call centers in the future. Image you make a video call to your bank, and a blonde girl appears on the screen. In reality, however, you are talking to a dude in India. However, this would also require "voice substitution."
That had a very specific meaning in context. He was asking if Google used Yelp's content to build its Places content, in which case Google would be using its capacity as a Search company in order to grant its Places division a competitive (anti-competitive?) advantage against Yelp. If simultaneously it can be shown that Search was favoring bringing attention to Places over Yelp, there might be an anti-trust case.

There's a lot of posts on here about how uninformed the politicians seem to be. We seem to forget that _we're_ the ones who are uninformed of the vast technicality that is anti-trust law and the oceans of oratorical precision required in order to establish a legal case.
The CEO, COO, and Chief Architect were all my former bosses at Goowy Media back in the day, it is great to see their flawless track record continue! :)
How hard has he been working in recent weeks toward this deadline? There has to be a burnout factor in here as well.

Otherwise he's sending you a very public signal that he's checking out. Or he's bored, and bored people quit:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/07/12/bored_peopl...
BankSimple is as someone else pointed out, just a simpler, sleeker interface to banking.

Brett King's Movenbank tries to reinvent banking.
Brave? Ones in the south are probably some tourists; One in Pyongyang must be kids of some very important parents, ones who travel and study abroad.
Neither demographic counts as very brave.
That Apache one looks like it is a comparison matrix, which is extremely handy.
Agreed. Loyalty is a useless metric when you hire talent. For sure you want someone smart with a positive attitude but you will have to get used to smart people wanting to move on.
My question is what does that buy me? Switching from an established bank to a mint.com like interface + an unknown bank that holds my deposits. There's no killer app to sign up for your service. Killer apps that I could think off are, (Holding deposits in multiple currencies, Savings account like interest on my checking. Right now the funds I park in checking for immediate expenses don't accrue interests till I move it to savings, Free payment gateway integration, so I could transact with anyone having a credit card like paypal, Free money transfers to any third-party bank in any currency in any country(you could kill western union with this)). Saying that I could grep through my statement more efficiently and visualize the data doesn't cut it as a market disruption.
Speaking from a user standpoint, I generally don't mind ads if the service or product is good and free.
...which had an earlier HN story, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013622