skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Well yeah. That would be cool.

Anyway, in a point that relates to the OP, it would be that I hope lawmakers will see this as a cue to reform and privatise taxi-regulation.
"We could pay anyone $75k to start cranking out lines of code and come in at 9 or 10 and leave at 5. But that’s not what we want,..."

The poster keeps assuming that there's an inverse correlation between how much you pay someone and how many hours/how hard that person works. It is entirely possible that you can find someone who gets paid $75K that does the work of two or three people who get paid $40K and perhaps even do it in fewer hours. Or perhaps someone who gets paid $100K is such a great architect that their architecture saves every employee an hour per day for years.

By your logic, the heads of hedge funds that get paid millions (if not billions) of dollars per year only show up for work for three seconds each day. Okay, perhaps that's not the best example.
When I noticed the drop in spam myself, my first hunch had been to check if I accidentally misconfigured my MTA (postfix).

Nonetheless, the volume seems to be coming back up
That's cool. What if I take an e-mail from Mike Arrington's iPhone and just change the contents (well, I would also change stuff like headers with date/time)? I can't try it with Arrington because I have never received email from him, but I would have received email from my Facebook buddies I wanted to prank. wink wink
I've got messages like that from Classmates for years.

Always wondered if it was a scam or not, but never really liked anyone in school enough to pony up and check!
If he's 22 and is earning slightly -more- than market value ... why is a lack of equity an awful deal?

I could have made more per hour delivering pizza than I did in my first technical job as a fresh grad, but it was fun, it paid my rent, I learned stuff and it put the experience on my CV to get a better job when I got bored of it - and management there well knew that that was my plan, and had no problem at all with that.

There's no employee equity at Shadowcat (the company I co-founded) either. Myself and the other founder hold one share each, which pay no dividends, and which we never intend to sell - they exist to give us the authority to build the company we want to work for for the forseeable future, the way we think it should be built.

There's more than one way to do things; not all of them are wrong.
That the phenomenon you're talking about happened like 70 years ago.
Wow, so they're selecting for people who don't mind a shit deal, and the crazy thing is that it look like it's working.
The details of what exactly is important for the purpose of determining the "other post" can significantly impact how you need to store the data and the performance implications of doing so. Does it depend on the time the request is made or just based on the data in the database? Can you determine approximately when that other post is likely to change or do you have to try to compute it on every request? Is the "other post" the same for all the users? For a subset of users? Is it unique for every user?
And, as you can see with United and American, the other thing they always do is fail. The answer to "how do you compete when you have a huge regulatory burden that a competitor providing the same value doesn't" is, you don't. And again, that was just price and route deregulation. Southwestern still has to comply with the FAA.

There's no regulation a PickupPal driver needs to comply with. You can't start a nail salon without jumping through more hoops than a cab driver would to sign up for this. How do you even tax it?
It's not like it was going to be worth anything anyway.
Hacker News has turned nasty very recently. I mean, there have always been people who get into furious discussions, but now those are starting to become front-and-center of the site. I think it's in response to the noise the site is getting, but it's annoying nonetheless.

I've always defined hostility in a kind of weird way. For me, it's absolute intolerance to new ideas until a good reason is given for them. Which is to say, if somebody suggests something new, the burden of proof is entirely on them to explain themselves, before I'll consider the idea. In return, I assume everybody else works similarly, and post accordingly. It's a policy that leads to people contributing lots of fleshed-out ideas, and it keeps noise way down.

Of course, by that definition it's possible to be both hostile and polite. I just see hostility as being a slight notch above debate: in debate, there are two well-defined sides that play off each other. On a site where there can be a wide variety of opinions and ideas, the barrier for entry should be set a wee bit higher.
Aha! Color me ignorant, then, that makes sense.
My partner's reaction to this was similar but converse: "finally, hitchhiking murderers no longer have wait out in awful weather!"

I mean, this is all hyperbole today. Do I think this is the way deregulation should work, with someone just up and deciding to ignore it and forcing some ad hoc response? No. Do I think it's a big enough deal right now to waste time outlawing? No. Would I fund it? No.
It's not a bad deal compared to delivering pizza. It is a crappy deal compared to most developer positions though.

Putting "I worked at a startup you've never heard of" on your resume isn't a good thing, unless you can say you were a founder. He should either be getting paid a lot more than market, or he should have equity, to compensate for this.
> He should have a little fun and set aside a million bucks to try to double each year. It's not like he can't make smaller investments just because he has billions of dollars.

The Berkshire Hathaway stockholders might object. It's a dumb objection, but it's probably enough to get past summary judgement.
Forgetting Has Its Benefits
So what exactly is the problem with advocating increasing AB and IBO students when, even though there are problems, it's currently some of the best education available, and an overhaul to bring it in line with the NRC/NSF recommendations is underway?

First, "including some of the best education currently available" != "currently some of the best education available." What the report is actually saying is that a few components of the curriculum are good, but the courses overall suck. If you read the rest of the executive summary, it absolutely shits on the AP. This might be couched in academic language, but make no mistake about what they're saying.

Now obviously if the courses are made to be completely different then advocating them might not be a bad thing. But right now all that's happened is the NSF has given the college board a small amount of money to reform the curriculum, a process which just started this summer. Right now we have no idea if any changes were actually made, and if so what those changes are and whether or not they are really inline with the NRC & NCTM standards.

Anyway, all we know is that right now the president elect is advocating a curriculum that has kids going through the motions of science and math without actually learning the principles of either subject, and without learning what it means to think like a scientist or a mathematician. And these are just the science and math courses. There is every reason to think the other AP courses, the majority which are not being overhauled, are just as bad if not worse.

Further, even if the science and math courses are overhauled, there are still lots of problems with them. For example, the assessments are inauthentic and norm referenced, and there is no reason to think this is going to change.
As the company's only technical hire, there's an expectation that he would be exceptional regardless of his age. There's also a question of how much he has to offer to the founders, and how much the founders have to offer him.

If these two biz dev guys can make the company successful no matter what the quality of the product, then he's not very valuable. If that's not true, though, then his work has a very direct impact on the value of the company, which generally means that he would have equity. The former case seems unlikely, so it seems like he's getting a raw deal.
If Buffet doesn't think that Amex is worth any more of his money, why is it worth any of mine?
What? There was a thriving free market and suddenly the public taxi-regulation-and-rationing scheme out-competed everyone else?
Just had an exact repeat episode…account disabled. I my case its because there was a security issue with Google Checkout…the worthless redundant buying service that I signed up for to get 10% off some gear. What a fool. The Googlesphere is inherently evil and here’s why. They promote trust that lures users with awesome free cloud computing service. I foolishly trusted Google and used Gmail, Docs, and Picassa to safeguard my data. Now, because of some BS Checkout problem, they’ve locked me away from my data. IMAP made the situation far worse, since I now have lost 3-years worth of email data. INSANE. I blasted the cheerleaders at Lifehacker who promote all things Google. I suggest that anyone who suffers a similar fate do the same. The word needs to get out that Google can’t be trusted.
I was using Circuit City & Mervyns as strawmen examples. Realize that AmEx employees are some of the highest paid in America, while Mervyns' people are among the lowest paid.

A government loan (by definition on more favorable terms than what they can get in the market) to AmEx is inevitably a subsidy to those high paid employees. Mervyns having to raise funds at 15% or 25% or whatever loan-shark terms they could get - yes, entirely their own fault - means that by extension, their low paid employees have to bear that interest burden on the company.

Why should we the taxpayer subsidize AmEx? Why not let the do the write down of their bad assets? In what sense Mervyn's management mistakes more punishment worthy than AmEx management mistakes?

Here is a modest proposal: any company requesting a government loan should accept civil service pay rules for their employees. Would AmEx employees put up with it? They can get the fuck out of they don't like those terms and find real private sector employment.
Lots of people (51 upvotes) didn't see the first one, so maybe it doesn't do any harm?

Also, there's arguably a market in titles - I know I've missed stories of interest to me, because I didn't recognize that aspect of them from a specific title.

4) [I believe] the site matches URLs, but doesn't catch non-significant differences, because it's difficult to tell what's significant. e.g. in this case, the previous submission's URL had an appended: ?tid=true

5) [I believe] there is a HN list with a slower decay, so it's averaged over a longer period of time (like Digg's "Top in ..." on the RHS): http://news.ycombinator.com/best but it's not very newsy, because it's averaged over a longer period of time.

With your friend, isn't the asking price also an input? The experience of getting more sales when you increase prices is not uncommon.
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Download Advanced Linux Programming Book as PDF files.
No, there was a thriving free market and the public taxi regulation scheme shifted the negative externalities that it was empirically observed to generate back onto the cab companies.

Regulated businesses don't "outcompete" unregulated businesses. That's why they're called "regulations" and not "features". You can argue that regulation is stupid, but:

* We won't settle the argument, because every point you make about competition I'll respond to with a negative externality, like, "anonymous unmarked drivers killing people by running red lights".

* You won't be refuting my original argument, which is that states are not crazy for getting upset by PickupPal.
Am I the only one reading this post like so:

"We don't want to blow through our limited capital, so we're looking for 2 junior developers to create our new game changing web property for us.

And praying that what they lack in technical expertise, they make up for in passion"

Seems the author is trading one extreme (too many, too much, too fast) for another (too little). He needs to find the middle ground. Hire a rockstar, pay him a bit more then scale, give him some equity. Let him lead development but be willing to make some product trade offs.
Improving my git workflow
THere's another solution. Don't use relational dbs, and use some other storage method based on RDF. There are lots of smart people working on making these as fast as possible, and while they will never be as fast as a relational database (for obvious reasons) they may be fast enough for most applications.
Don't you mean "yet another site that iPhones can't navigate" ? It's kind of like buying a golf cart instead of a car and then complaining that the roads weren't made to accommodate it.
Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod
I deleted it because it was a repost. Main thread was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=355819
If the guy being paid $75k gets work done from 10 til 5, why do you want him around more?
"Millions of Americans live in a non-reality-based belief system informed by childish clichés - they can barely differentiate between lies and truth."

True, on both sides of the left/right divide!
There are a lot of them. A lot!

But it depends if you are interested in pure methodology, or you want to see some example of applying it in software/Web development with PHP/Java/RoR/...

From my experience, I found helpful next books:

"Test Driven Development: By Example" by Kent Beck

"Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" by Robert C. Martin

"Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" by Craig Larman

"Agile Project Management with Scrum" by Ken Schwaber

"Agile Software Development Ecosystems" by Jim Highsmith

Those are pretty "technology independent". Helpful to understand the idea. And the authors are respected and well known in the community of agile developers.

If you work with RoR (which is popular choice nowadays) you may find "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Dave Thomas and David Hansson interesting, but it does not cover "agile methodology" itself too wide. But it does give a good overview of practical usage. Anyhow, personally I still prefer to learn theory before practice, but many people see it working for them ;-)
The problem - which people pointed out in the other post, and which you're only fueling with this - is that you have no leverage here. You're a company that nobody knows about. You haven't released a project. Your web site looks terrible. You have "dashboard" in red but it isn't a link. You use three fonts, all of which are ugly, and your layout doesn't support my increasing font sizes.

You post something mocking a guy that applied for your job, and submitted it like it was a humorous story. Now you're defending yourself by saying that not only are you not elitist, but you're not making much money, your job is a bad one, and you're basically an "average programmer."

You are in an incredibly bad position here. Now, rather than admitting that you messed up, you're trying to hold that you've got a defensible position. You absolutely don't. And this was the first time a lot of us heard of your company, which means that your first impression was an awful one. Until you have a product, you'd do well to apologize, clam up, and wait until you blow us all away. And for the love of God, get a better designer: your blog hurts my eyes.
The market might be efficient at something, but that doesn't mean that it's efficient at rewarding engineers.
I can see that would work well for when you're posting.

For when you are reading, I guess it keeps your own personal attention uncluttered by noise. It also implies you wouldn't challenge poorly presented ideas, but just ignore them as noise. Interesting.

Yeah, I was mainly thinking hostile as opposed to polite.
I'll let the other folks point you to the books. There are a lot.

Agile rocks for small teams. Set up a work queue (backlog) and an iteration size (how often you want to build/release). Then just start pulling things off the queue and putting them into your releases.

If you get caught up in the details, you've missed the point. Agile is about flexibility and adaptation -- a team of two guys should be very flexible.

E-mail me if you run into any snags.
I wouldn't be surprised if sites like airbedandbreakfast.com get targeted as well.
If you plan to deploy your client application as an HTTP application then there isn't much you can do other than let your web application handle it (php/python/ruby whateveer).

Another option is writing an uploader as a stand-alone application (such as flickr uploader, facebook's iPhoto plug-in and alike)

The third option is BAD but still exists on facebook as java applet within the browser.

The forth option is to write the client in one (or many) of the browser extenders such as Google Gears, MS Silverlight, Adobe Air/Flex/Flash to do this (look also at http://www.jnext.org and http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+uploader).

All these 3 can be implemented at the server side in whichever language you choose.
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The folks that took down Wall Street were mostly physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. MBAs have been largely marginalized in many hedge funds and proprietary trading desks (unless you have both an MBA and a quantitative degree, in which case you're golden), in favor of people that can value (or not, I guess) esoteric securities with sophisticated mathematical models.

Kinda an interesting change, to see lots of innocent MBAs lose their jobs because of the fuckups of a bunch of egotistical math geeks. Normally it's the other way around.
Then why the authors did a standard library from the beginning? (including strings) The problem is it's quite dated (30 years). There isn't anything wrong with the language itself and most languages evolve with time.
Wait... WHAT?! 22, earning slightly more than market is a "awful" deal how? Do you think a 22 year old deserves more than market and a mess of equity to boot?
after cross-referencing salary.com and payscale for boca raton, the average pay for someone with 2 years experience (just to approximate the skills required for the position) is about $58k. $45k is off the bottom end of the chart, approaching the 0th percentile.

to pay above market, you'd need to be paying $60k minimum, not maximum.

all of this is, of course, assuming benefits (health/dental/etc).
It is not a language issue. In some perspectives, you may say that it is a processor issue of handling float. But this is the fact of every nowadays processor. Languages don't have the responsibility to deal with processor's fault, people do.
And in January, Member Source Media agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint about the
company's spam messages that promised consumers, "Congratulations. You've won an iPod video player.

only $200K? Those sites make a lot more than that, its probably a drop in the bucket for them
As the first tech/hacker hell yes.
They did indeed design it with more details. It's just that Google Earth is not a perfect presentation medium (compared to offline rendering from local files):

http://www.procedural.com/cityengine/rome-reborn.html
Cool! I didn't know Google did a plain C one (thought those were C++) and yours looks interesting.

But my original point was there is no stantard way. It should be part of CXX, libc, or POSIX, IMHO. C is just too atomized.
European court allows Lego interop
Because it's illegal worldwide and is one of the few activities that can guarantee quick action from the authorities.
To clarify, I quoted his age because it means he can easily recover from this mistake (he's still young), not because I think a person's age should have any impact on how much they're paid.

Apparently you believe age should have an impact on how much you get paid. Can you elaborate?
I was expecting an Onion article.
I don't remember distinctly saying or acting like an elitist.

Salary is subjective to where you are living which in my case market is 40-60 (as validated by webwright) and i'm earning above market.

I never said my job was bad? It's enjoyable and I'm happy working here.

I am average web dev in the sense that me, you and other people on HN probably share the same interests...

Lastly I plainly stated it was a mistake... You've never made a mistake?
Depending on how a bad idea is presented, I either downvote (if it's presented without any backup whatsoever, like "Mac users suck") or I ignore. If it's making a case with faulty information, I try to at least correct the information in the post. But I try only to focus on the really relevant threads of conversation, the ones that I have a chance of learning from.
It's a shame that I'm actually posting this, but I feel I need to add some empirical data to these claims. I did a quick scan of his HN profile and found these:

Working personally:
http://dentafy.com
http://mymedcareer.net
http://whatsinourcloset.com & http://ticketsplz.com

I bring to your attention that every single site is a parked page.

This reminds me of 4 years ago when I had all the ideas in the world, but had to mature a lot to finally be able to realize ideas are bullshit, and there's a long road ahead.

I do not intend to kick this guy while he's down, but only to highlight what we all already know - he has a lot of growing up to do.
To be fair, I've actually gotten an iPod out of sites like that. The do work - you just have to read what exactly is expected of you to get your free iPod.

That said, yeah, seriously. They've sucked down a lot more money than $200k.
Which versions of gcc and libc? Any special flags passed to gcc? I ask because I just tried it with a test program here (openSUSE Factory, gcc 4.3.3 and glibc 2.8.90) and it didn't print any warnings, but it would be nice if it did.
tell us about it

where'd you get the idea, why?

how do you hope to make money?
Before jQuery, I hated Javascript. After jQuery, I love playing with Javascript.
Use a hierarchy of CDN's; play around with TTL's and/or IMS headers.
What does this igoogle icon indicate?
why it different from what it appears on the home page?
Plus, of course, he's talking about that raindrop in isolation. To describe it in context with the real world, you also need to factor in the light refracting through it, the position of the observer, and the pace at which it moves both due to gravity and to the earth's rotation. So to describe it accurately from a single position requires knowledge of everything around that raindrop.

In fact, it's possible to say then that you could start with something as simple as, say, a piece of fairy cake, and deduce accurately the nature of everything else in the universe.

Reading this, the thing that stuck out to me was the relatively small size of text (5MB for Shakespeare versus 20GB for Beethoven). It struck me that poetry - particularly haiku, which deals with nature - is sort of a primitive way of applying lenses to the world to create a filter for viewing things by appealing to collective experiences. Just a thought.
> if I actually had $100 for every time someone wanted me to make them a website for $100 I'd be rich by now.

Guess you should have taken them up on the offer then? Sounds like you'd be rich.
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to be clear most of those ideas are friends and family who asked me to help. I haven't had the time to get to them because I've been working...
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