skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but unrelated to my point. I was reacting to maeon3's use of a link to a list of sales techniques (!) as a springboard for a rant about "some women" communicating badly and needing to be "punished" for it. It may be true or not, but it's uncalled for and exclusionary.

It's the moral equivalent of walking around telling every german you meet that the Nazis killed six million jews and that the holocaust is the worst thing in history. Might be true of "some germans" but it's not something polite people do. And in the context of underrepresented demographics like women programmers it's really hurtful to all of us.
If only their server was still responsive.
Ask HN: What was that minimal shop-builder app?
A while ago someone submitted a project to HN where you type some fields into a text box and it creates a little web store from it. I just spent 45 minutes typing everything I could think of into the search box, but I must be crazy or incompetent because I couldn't find it. Does anyone remember what in the blazes it was?
The problem with that is that you then end up in the second pile when we sort job offers (and at present there are plenty of jobs) -- and we know it so we know that your employees are more likely to be second rate, the kind who couldn't get a job at the non-hoop companies.

And who really want to work with second-rate programmers?

Of course if you are Google, Facebook or another company as well know (or potentionally profitable) then you might have an alternative.
I like the map. Is this a crowdsource effort?
Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s
Security mindset edw?

(a), (c) I press all buttons as I exit elevator.

(b) gummi bear attack or similar.

(d) Arrive carrying large cumbersome object "Heh, can you call the elevator for me?" (then run away)

(f) is easily reversible: should send people as far away as possible from their intended destination instead.

(g) throw dumbells into passing elevators.
Why Coroutines Won't Work on the Web
Credible citation needed.
Evil: An extensible vi layer for Emacs
I think elevators are usually counter-balanced so that the motor doesn't have to really lift anything except the occupants. Maybe not though ...
I'm pretty sure this is the case by playing with the OpenCL side of CUDA. If the '--version' flag is passed to the OpenCL compiler (at least the one with CUDA 3.0), info from an LLVM build from a year ago is dumped. The '-cl-nv-verbose' flag is also documented to pass '--verbose' to the ptxas assembler.
You can say that. Like stonemetal said, you don't want to throw out the first numbers, but you can say:

"I am looking for a salary that is consistent with the responsibilities and duties of the position."

Good employers know that if they rip you off, you will leave in a year for a big pay increase. You can ask around after you get an offer and see if it is acceptable. (And you should always sleep on an offer anyway).
Analytics tools to understand mobile app engagement and monetization
"Sandler Sales Institute" (see my other comment).

""I'm going to show you my product and I hope it's a good fit for you. But our product isn't a fit for everyone. So, if you decide that we are not a good fit, are you comfortable telling me no?""

Patronizing to tell anyone with a brain this. Might be good if you are selling home improvements to senior citizens though.

My advice to anyone (edit: who is reading HN, advice in a different forum might differ) who wants to learn how to sell is either to spend actual time in a sales job learning or if you can't do that spend time with experienced but not professionally trained salespeople and learn from them.
I'm not sure what defines "really great," but if you interview at half a dozen bay area companies you should get at least one offer like that.
BedBudd - The answer to bed-based arguments
Social grading gives them free reign near-uniformly depress credit scores to make everyone appear less credit-worthy.

This allows them to increase average rates and maintain low lending volume, under the cover of credit scores that appear low in historical context. When it behooves them to begin lending again, their lending to people with low(-in-historical-context) credit scores will be paraded about as virtue.

There is simply no-one who is that far removed from a black sheep or friend/family member who's fallen on hard times. Not even during good economic times. Certainly not given the way people friend one another on these sites.

Any grading of people based on social connections will drag nearly everyone down, potentially in a self-reinforcing cycle.(higher rates push more people into worse economic situations, lowering their credit score, reflecting negatively on their friends who now pay higher rates, etc)
Target Gets Robbed via Facebook Promotion
Bitcss - a centralized CSS repository powered by github
Air France Flight 447's Final Minutes Reconstructed
Because if we don't leave this planet, the next dinosaur-killer-sized rock that happens to be on our way will wipe us out, rendering all our wonderful advancements in nanotech, robotics and cold fusion moot. It's a well known fact the dinosaurs only died because they had neither rockets nor nukes. ;-)

Now, more seriously, all these things, nanotech, robotics and cold-fusion - and many others - are the building blocks of a viable space faring civilization. Cheaper access to space is, of course, a large part, as well as business models that make space exploration economically feasible.
Not sure why. What he says is true. Too bad these corps are supporting apartheid regimes such as Israel.
Not a good example. 37signals had a huge following long before Basecamp. Their success in web apps was largely from leveraging that existing fan base. Most developers do not have the luxury.
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That's true: Apple has an engineering office on the CMU campus.
I don't see how caycep's comment enhances my understanding of the released software. It's just a big dump of ad hominem (as are practically all the other comments).
Mobile Morning Coffee (12/14/11)
Have you considered that maybe him telling you that you were wrong was a ruse to see how you handled disagreements? I use this technique sometimes myself.
You first say: "A common trend among all of these folks is their ability to forgo the "easy" solution in favor of a longer-term, harder, but ultimately more profitable one"

And then you say:

>>Robotics is another great buzzword. Here's the issue in a nutshell, though: any robot you show me is going to be less versatile than a human (of even minimal intelligence and skill), and will take more effort to manufacture. To put it differently, the human body is the most complex mechanism on Earth, and the only one that can be produced by entirely unskilled labor. Robotics' main purpose these days seems to be either cleaning or helping one group of humans oppress another--GM tried to use them in mass number in the 80s and damn near wrecked the company. Why do we need robots? Why does the species (not just some first-world folks) benefit from them? Why not just use people?

This second comment contradicts your first. Robotics is hard, really hard (especially humanoid robots), the benefits to humanity are huge. We are already benefiting immensely from robots. i.e. A lot of types of automated manufacturing.

Finally you say:

>>Why does the species (not just some first-world folks) benefit from them? Why not just use people?

It almost makes me think that you are just joking or baiting people since the benefits seem self evident. It would be like saying similar things about cars when replacing the horse.
To be fair, it's one click on Amazon, 2 on Bn.com, free on both sites. Chances are, you won't have to fill out anything if you've purchased from either before.
Last time I installed Arch I used that setup. I installed Xorg with wmii, but even that felt like too much, so I never loaded it. One tty for elinks, Hacker News is one of the best looking sites for text browsers.
Notable: The old (deprecated) 'regexp' module has been removed. So if any of your code relies on 'regexp', make sure you replace it with the newer 're' module and update your regular expressions accordingly.

It's nice to have that gone just to avoid confusion with the whole "why there are two regular expression modules?".
A loan is a transfer of risk, and a way to engage in growth faster than otherwise possible. Without loans (or investments, which are similar but involve a greater transfer of risk), any new venture would need to first save enough money to a) carry out the venture and b) survive if the venture fails. With a loan, the bank gives the capital right away, and assumes some of the risk - but takes a percentage if the venture succeeds.

Now, this does create value if done properly. Because the new venture (whether it be a new business, expansion of an existing one, or whatever) happens _right now_ instead of 10 years later, there's significant savings in opportunity cost. The bank simply pockets part of this savings in exchange for its assuming the risk of losing some or all of the money it lent.

It's only when the process screws up, and the bank misjudges the risk - or when the borrower misjudges how much they can repay without undue hardship, that problems occur. These are not failings in the idealized form of the moneylending system, but rather imperfect information (the former) or human shortsightedness (the latter).
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Hackerly proposals for fixing U.S. politics (compiled by Lessig)
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I understand in principle this is true, but in reality what kind of performance hit are you looking at?

I've never seen any real stats.
Related: Double-deck Elevators - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-deck_elevator - At what point do these become a worthwhile investment?
Is this thing for real? Not sure, looks nice though!
A couple notes: lower credit scores mean higher rates. If a loan applicant is just as low a real risk as they were last month, but now has a social-signal-adjusted credit score that is lower and thus demands a higher interest rate, the bank will make more money.

Bad signals applied uniformly across the industry can be massively profitable.

Second, lowered risk hasn't had much impact on rates. Increased risk, as we saw banks take on during the bubble, led to very low mortgage rates. Whereas, absent federal programs to encourage refinancing, current rates are often higher than five years ago, for people of the same credit risk.

Another example of this would be the bankruptcy "reform" laws that made it very hard to discharge credit card debts. These have dramatically lowered real risk for US banks, but no corresponding drop in credit card rates has been seen. Again, contrary to what simple economics would predict, rates are often higher than they were before the reform for the same people.
wouldn't that be Total Commander?
> they may penalize me unfairly for his behavior.

What you are describing is just a fundamental quality of these types of risk assessment algorithms. For example, males pay more for car insurance than females, because there is a demonstratable correlation between being a male and the insurance company paying out more money to you.

This is true even for an individual that has been in absolutely no accidents. Statistically it is true that a male that has had no accidents still has a higher expected value for insurance payouts in the future than a female that has been in no accidents.

You as an individual is an unknown quantity that they cannot absolutely determine. There may have been completely legitimacy reasons why you failed to pay credit cards that cannot possibly occur again in your life, you should equally complain about that not being taken into account.

No one can perfectly predict the future (if they could, insurance would be pointless). They can only use information that they have to imperfectly model the future; both who you tweet and previous credit card payments are imperfect signals for what will happen in your future. It is true that how you paid your credit cards in the past is a much stronger singal; it is absolutely impossible that any credit evaluation is taking who your cousin is and your personal history as equals. Their models take into account that who you tweet is a much lesser indicator.
I agree and disagree.

I agree that we don't check emails. Im guilty of that myself. Very guilty. No contest guilty. But then again I think a lot of companies are looking to hire but end up getting recommendations from people they trust. I know I'll hire a person that was recommended by a friend over someone who sends me a resume using the contact form or other official means of applying. It isn't always right but when you run a company there are so many things to juggle that we often do without a lot of times and neglect the "jobs@" inbox even though we could use a hand.

On the other hand I'd say that maybe you overestimate your qualifications. It's usually the people who think they're the greatest that are the worst. I don't know you personally but it could be the case.

So all in all, I think you're right that we may not be checking the applicant inbox as often as we should. But I also think that just because you think you should have been considered as competent as you claim to be it just doesn't make it so.
I took a job at Scribd at least in part because their lead recruiter, Jack, was the only one of six recruiters / companies to whom I spoke who could be bothered to read my individualized cover letter before speaking to me on the phone. I put in 2-3 hours of research per company before applying, and my cover letters were written for the firm and position. Most people couldn't be arsed to read 3-5 paragraphs.
If a bank wanted to raise rates, the bank could just raise rates. They don't do that because, if they raise them excessively, competing banks will undercut them. This same reason prevents them from using Snidely Whiplash Credit Scores ("Everyone gets a 20! BWA HA HA!"): if SWCS predicts defaults worse than FICO does, then competing banks will use FICO and steal the borrowers for whom FICO is more predictive than SWCS, letting EvilBank attempt to raise rates on the dregs of the barrel.
Thanks, that is quite helpful.
a twitter button should probably not be the biggest image on your page.
GrubWithUs Now Wants To Plan Your Group Meals (And Do All The Legwork)
Thanks for your feedback. The idea was to go more like (In)quiry
Meet the strange bedfellows who could stop SOPA
Austin also has some R&D, for hardware I believe.
How do entrepreneurs make sure they read only books which matters every month?
How do entrepreneurs make sure they read only few important books which matters every month and disregard the others due to information overload ?
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Oh, I see. Wow, that's horrifying, especially in the case of people like me, that are avoiding those particular social networking sites.
You mention physical security, food availability, and shelter as this little boy's three major boons in life. But does he have access to an intellectual tradition? Does he have access to any figure who can teach him anything? Does he have hope? Does he have freedom?

Your caricature of a person with a "really" miserable life crucially forgets that in many ways this person might have had a much more rich than someone living in poverty in the inner city. Namely, in terms of freedom, in terms of connection to his family and community, and in terms of his independence. People (not just the impoverished) living in cities with high population density have a fairly unique set of psychological stresses, historically speaking. This set of stresses seems to be particularly crushing, for whatever reason.

I mean, what I really don't understand about your comment is the tone of it. That somehow this child has all of these benefits, but still fails? What are you proposing? Can you really not see that the child must ALSO have some deficits that cause him to fail? Are you proposing that he's a bad person? I just really don't get it. What's your answer? What's your idea? That he's just not "trying" hard enough? What's the difference between a person who tries hard enough and one who doesn't?

It feels to me that underlying your comment is a deep blindness to crucial elements of human psychology. You somehow draw an equivalence between humans existing in superficially similar circumstances and then throw your hands up in the air and say "I don't get it!"
The Bay Area is competing with states with no income tax and lower rent (washington, texas, etc). A $90k wage in Seattle, WA can be equivalent to a +$110k wage in San Jose, CA after state income tax, higher rent and more expensive gas.
A rule of thumb that I read is to add 20% to their intial offer, that is about the max of what they are willing to pay you. If that number is much lower than what you want then you probably should look elsewhere. Also, don't be afraid to ask for non-salary benefits like extra vacation days, life insurance (if you have kids), no-travel clause, etc as the company negotiator often has more leeway on these things and a hard "no higher than x" limit on the salary.
You would need a consistent html structure for common components. Twitter bootstrap is not the only one of it's type also, check out zurb's foundation [0].

I would be more interested in a webservice to serve up common UI elements including html and css. I propose this would be based off something like backbone views, and Handlebars templates.

[0] http://foundation.zurb.com/
Hipmunk's Adam Goldstein on Travel Search: It's the Usability, Stupid
Discussion about open source hardware/ecology projects and its community
Especially the comment from the project owner (the comment starts with "Guys, this is Britta. There is no big conspiracy.").<p>Lately the term open source is applied to the implementation of physical stuff, but it is quite unclear what works best in such cases (or do f.i. licenses like BSD/GPL/CreativeCommons etc. apply here just as easlily?)
So do it!
I'm telecommuting for a very large corporation as a senior developer for over 6 months now. I've had great success in driving the team into a direction which I feel is best for specific projects and the team as a whole.

I think the telecommute aspect is really a non-issue for some people. Companies would be wise to consider it for the low overhead.
For example, according to actual data I've seen, poor people really are disproportionately likely to a) have missed payments before, b) not repay your loan, and c) belong to certain ethnic groups. Some people may fit into one of these categories and not the others, but the correlation exists, so you can't clamp down on one without also measurably reducing the others unless you go out of your way to do so.

(Don't know who's downvoting, but I'm just stating pretty well-known facts. Don't take this to indicate approval — I'm just saying that, statistically, some groups do get the short end of the stick. What you do with this information is a different question entirely.)
"It does not carry over to any other release, and says absolutely nothing about DRM or atypical release plans"

This is demonstrably false. In fact, every artist who's ever done an online release of their content without DRM has seen sales in proportion to their general popularity. We've seen this with Radiohead, with NIN, and with many other lesser artists.

In every case, the profits were roughly in line with the general popularity of the artist's content.

"Lots of people sell videos online without the middle man. Most see no sales."

And most content distributed through the various middle-man networks likewise is a failure. Most OSS software is a flop. Most commercial software is also a flop. This statement is neither surprising nor relevant.
Vim _and_ Emacs

I'm really interested in your use cases. Personally I would have started with emacs (because of emacs coworkers) but working on old solaris installs (with only Vi available) forced me the other way. Once Vi(m) was ingrained it was really hard to give emacs a try.
Sorry, but cost of living makes no sense unless the company derives some benefit from being in a more expensive place (the company I work for does).

People with larger houses don't get a higher salary, do they
You're bringing up nasty and controversial politics in a thread where it's basically irrelevant.

Flagged.
Facebook Ticker partially Removed Due To Various Bugs
A tad surprised to see Scott use an iPhone. C'mon Scott, give Nokia a call, I'm sure they'll be happy to give you a nice 800. Or, maybe a 900 even? :)
Ask HN: Why is our eCommerce store converting poorly?
www.Morebrownies.com has been live for about a week now and we have been getting great feedback on our concept. We've had a few blogs write about us, generated thousands of unique visitors and taken a number of orders, but our conversion rate is terrible. Far less than 1% of our visitors have placed an order. What in your opinion are we doing wrong? Is there something specific on our site that turns you off from ordering?
[Sorry for the self plug, but this is too cool to pass up] 435 days ago I first publicly "launched" KalSMS in an HN thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759871 - the codebase was later picked up by Envaya, greatly improved and morphed into EnvayaSMS. Cool to see people recommending it :)
Spotify vs. Rdio: Who Has The Exclusives?
Apparently the founder of http://heello.com/ has stopped using it.
Apparently the founder of http://heello.com/ has stopped using it. Last post 100days ago.
Windows Phone is well positioned to take market share from Android
That's not really the right way to look at it. Function application is just the default interpretation of two juxtaposed symbols. It's not any worse than "new MyObject()", which has whitespace acting just as much like an infix operator. There's no inherent reason why you'd need a special operator to apply "capitalize" but not "-" or "new" or "def". That's just how C does it, and by an accident of history most mainstream languages just parrot C by default.
It tough because they restrict you to a pretty small space for keywords. I stumbled into this one... but you should try using the names of competitive apps in your keywords, or perhaps complementary apps.

I un-intentionally did this once (one of our "competitors" had a fairly broad/generic app name), and it definitely seemed to kick start our downloads.

Not sure how often you plan on updating your app, but I'd definitely recommend experimenting with the keywords. Unfortunately you can only change them when pushing out an update, so you'd need to update frequently to do a lot of experimentation with them.
If the algorithm is good, it will have a leniency for having a black sheep in your family- seemingly everybody does, and numerous demonstrably low-risk individuals I am sure have their black sheep as well.

If the algorithm is good.
I don't think it would be a problem if you were connected to some social networking site, or if you could somehow prove that you're not on facebook.
I think it just boils down to "space catches people's attention". Gates can get some articles written now and again when he signs a large check. But buying millions of mosquito nets doesn't sell papers like a new space-plane.

Similarly with people like Dean Kamen. He gets a bit of press now and again as he makes modest enhancements to the Luke arm. But stirling engines and water purifiers for the rest of the planet simply don't sell papers.