skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be fun to see pictures of the one million American and ten million Japanese casualties projected during the invasion of Japan, as well.

That was in the 1940s. According to wikipedia, population of Asia in 1950 was 1402 million. Now China would have been the highest during that time too and other countries Would have had a good number too. So even by wild guess that 10 million you said would have been almost 10-15% of the whole goddamn population of Japan!!! Seems like men in those days were crazy to spill the blood of so many.
Even if gas prices have come down, the difficulty of obtaining credit and the recession are likely to keep SUV and truck sales much lower than they were a few years ago.
On one hand... digg.

On the other... Knuth.

Talk about being torn.
My .vimrc is here:

http://albert.rierol.net/vim_tricks.html

... along with some tips.

[oops misread your comment. My .emacs is here: http://albert.rierol.net/emacs ]
From my understanding, if you want to do anything "nano-tech", you may want to look into materials engineering.
I agree he was obnoxious in his email, but the "We’ll take care of you ... trust me" response doesn't inspire a ton of confidence, sorry.

Surely this is what stock options are for?
Paying people what they used to get paid +1 is such a yes-man brigade.

"Oh so & so gave you that, we should do that too".

I understand why companies do it, but there has to be a better way. More incentives? More equity? Back end performance driven pay?

One data point does not equal market rate. And other factors: work hours, environment, benefits, perks, etc are just as important.

Has anyone else dealt with this at their company?
Maybe, but he sounds self-entitled. Those are the worst type of people.

I don't like either of the attitudes in the post. I would never work for the poster and I would never hire the applicant.
Hartija - Css Print Framework
Might be easier just to use Tor than to use multiple servers. I think the only thing that will matter is # of requests per IP address per time period. It won't be a human looking at the logs, it'll be an automated process, so it's unlikely that randomizing the time between scrapes will matter.
I have to go with Knuth here, if you know who the old guy in the picture is, you're OK with me.
In a healthy company a lot of value is created. Therefore, there should be plenty money for salaries. So, simply, if salaries are low the company isn't generating enough value or the bosses are cheap.

How is that a good thing? Of course, in a startup you can't have everything - but that doesn't change the fact that in startups the employees often share a great deal of the risk (in opportunity cost) and don't get rewarded in the same scale when it all works out. Worrying about money, especially in times like these, is perfectly natural.

And quoting somebody's email verbatim, without permission? That shows a lack of class (it's really that rude), but worse, it shows a lack of -judgment- because Auston should know he can't gain anything by ridiculing somebody's cover letter and grammar mistakes.

Don't get me wrong. I do agree that a hurriedly written cover letter that only focuses on the salary should land the resume on the no-hire pile. But why attract negative publicity to your own company? I don't get it.
I was going to say the same thing. "We'll take care of you" is simply not a promise that startups can make. You might work your ass for them for a year at a below market salary, only to see the whole thing tank.
Yeah, I upvoted it, but I honestly think it was the most difficult decision I've had to make this week.
He should advertise that fact on the site. "Made by a Reddit User".
Hrm... because startups are not about making money right?
I'd imagine this is especially helpful on a touch-screen. The sub-menus can be activated on touch.

For a mouse-click, however, maybe a mouse-gesture--circular-selector is even more quick.
I like the idea, although if he/she has several accounts, it won't be long before he/she notices the trick.
Never trust someone saying that.
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I think the problem comes from a certain form of parental neglect. I'm only 22 and have no children, but it seems to me like given our greater disposable incomes, a lot of parents think it is easier to raise kids by throwing money at their development rather than time.

You can't raise children on the macro-scale. You raise them at the micro-levels.
Granted, this guy's cover letter is not going to win him the job. But "Send us your resume! We'll post it on our web site and make fun of it! And your grammar, even though ours is not completely correct either!" is not going to win this company applicants, either.
It's the tip of the iceberg, really. Once there is a shortage of clear-headed people willing to stand up to "for the children" measures, all sorts of idiotic laws will be passed by the bucket full.
For Canadian sales tax (GST) there's a lower limit before people have to collect. For British Columbia sales tax (PST) there isn't any such limit.

Rather than allowing in Canadians but worrying about making sure that I figured out how to deal with GST before I hit the limit, while still keeping BCers out, I figured that it was simpler just to keep all Canadians out.
I wasn't aware entrepreneurs don't get laid. ;P
Send me an email and I'll try to sort something out.
It's the flux capacitor!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor#Flux_capacitor
As someone wrote under the flickr image, "Perhaps the best comp sci picture of all time."

For some hard to explain reason, the photo is just awesome.
The Myth of Self-Organizing Teams
The onion architecture: Remove all architectural dependencies on your infrastructure
Great article... just what I didn't need to be spending time reading this morning! Lewis does anecdote journalism in a riveting way.
If my potential employer has a problem with money being my motivation, scratch my name from the interview list. IF I really wanted to work for slave wages, there is a McDonalds on every street corner
When you manufacture something millions of times over, problems are inevitable. It's not unique to Apple.
Things I’ve learned in China so far
Has anyone switched from a C to S corp (yes, you read that right)? How painful was it?

Here is the situation: an existing small, moderately profitable company has decided to stay out of VC circuit, stay private, run it as a life-style business. C corp involves double taxation, which S corp avoids. They had grander dreams once (hence C corp) but now the situation has changed.
If the Knuth image on his tshirt is also making parens with his hands, then you have an infinite recursion and will eventually run out of mammary.
Why Alice.com raised more angel money and opted against VC round
I lived in south Florida for years before coming out to San Francisco. Working in IT down there was horrible. I will guarantee they aren't paying more than $35k-$40k per year. Here in SF I make nearly 3x as much as before doing the job they are advertising.
Interesting. I've been in a band before, but never tried to get signed or anything serious.

I'd guess, though, that labels have all sorts of resources to make bands popular that a band "startup" would have trouble tapping into. Do you think this is correct? Or is it just perceived...
Although pro bono work has its place, this can easily turn into a trap. While you're giving it away (sometimes for good reason), you may be losing paying opportunities because you're too busy to notice them.

Just ask my friend Ben Dover.
Facebook does "attract people's attention", but it does far more than just that. Attracting attention is important to get users to make their first visit, but if Facebook doesn't provide something valuable, how do you explain the unbelievable amount of repeat traffic it sees?

I know dozens of non-tech-savvy people who visit Facebook every day. I know people who check Facebook more often than their e-mail. I certainly have issues with aspects of Facebook as well and everyone on this board probably has a list of things they'd change if they were in charge (I know I do), but Facebook's breakneck growth and absurdly high visitor loyalty show that they absolutely produce something of value.
I recently had a comment mildly critical of Ayn Rand mysteriously downmodded. Maybe this is why.
there's a lot of talk of probabilities in the article but it seems hackneyed

the universe has almost countless variables that can result in near-infinite states, but there is a 100% chance that one state must emerge (i.e. a 100% chance that reality exists), and it isn't clear if the alternative scenarios they describe (particles of different masses, stronger gravitational impact on stellar mass) are more probable than our own. the scientists see our state as optimal because we live in it, but why couldn't our state be suboptimal? maybe there was a potential state (never realized) that resulted in us all being omnipotent. there seems to be a bias from the researchers regarding our own state, but they haven't demonstrated that its any more or less likely than any other outcome
Why veins could replace fingerprints and retinas as most secure form of ID
It's a good rule of thumb. If I'm going to work for less what I'm getting now, there should be a well articulated reason for it.

Now, that might be that I'm currently overpaid, but still looking to leave my job, or that the job is very very cool, or that I'm getting stock options that I'm really confident in - and of course, if I'm relocating to an area with a significantly different cost of living.
Lots of people. There's nothing wrong with loving life. In my opinion, a stance against trying to extend life-span perhaps make sense if such efforts are doomed to failure, and are therefore a waste of time. But it seems that extending life span has become more of a mainstream scientific and technical problem, that might be solved relatively soon. I think the vast majority of people would at least choose to live a longer and healthier life if given the chance.
Celebrating the first sale
Good catch. Perhaps this article should be retitled, "How to Not Show Class when you are Recruiting."
The universe has to be based of a very simple concept

why?
Right, I suppose I should have been more candid.

We are in the final stages of the development of the product. So there is no revenue; we're paying market (45-60k) plus options, but we're not ready to just dish that out to anyone.

It's kind of like finding a girlfriend. If you're filthy rich (and its obvious) than the playing field becomes uneven. We want people who are motivated by long-term opportunity, not taking a salary and clock punching from 10-5.

OK you may have a point here, but surely, if this post were to discourage people who are only looking for a salary haven't the "ends justified the means" ?
tried the demo on my iPhone. Just made safari crash and burn and didn't animate anything.
I didn't find it as usable as John describes. May be it's just me.
Please review BigTweet - bookmarklet app for Twitter
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indeed. the article seems to be asking a false question - "just how did we get so lucky!?!?!" which seems ridiculous, and as you point out, presumes that a universe that produces us is more optimal than one that doesn't.
Perhaps, or possibly "How discourage self-entitled leeches from applying to your company".
To be clear: We don't care if money is your motivation, it is ours as well, we simply don't want money to be your ONLY motivation.
I don't think that guy really wanted the job. He's trying to do you a favor by pointing out that you are asking for a lot more than you are offering.
When I click on a sub-menu, they disappear. So I'd say it's broken for touch-screens.
We're paying market: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360681
Yonkly’s team has doubled in size. That is 200% growth.

Actually, doubling is only 100% growth. :-)
market + options: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360681
mmm... mammary.
I don't see how you can label people looking for jobs to be leeches.

PS. It just hit me after staring at this post for a minute that leaches isn't even the right spelling. Wow, I need coffee.
The importance of setting expectations
Thinking out of the box for startups
Please see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360681
An employee to entrepreneur - the transformation.
From looking at their job posting and their website it sure gave me a good impression of how great they are...

Wait, no, see they (I'm assuming it's you now) didn't. They didn't explain why it is they offer something beyond money as an incentive to work for them. They don't talk about their passion, office situation, their work ethic, or what it is they're working on.

The job posting itself was just bland and generic, akin to the kind of cattle call you find on craigslist. It sounds more like the LeadLog is the one exhibiting self-entitlement here. How dare they get people that only cares about being paid!
That's definitely a valid point. Even if you had the money to pay above market rates, you still wouldn't because you know people exist who are willing to work really hard for less than market rates, if that gives them the opportunity to make a difference and build something great. In your case, you have to pick between extra runway and salary. That's a no brainer: 2 months of runway can be the difference between profitability followed by success and failing.

About the end justifying the means: Scaring off people you don't want to hire in the first place is easy. The problem is that by doing so, you're bound to give off bad vibes to people who would otherwise consider your company. Bear in mind that the people you want to hire are -by definition- in high demand. That means that they can (and should) demand a lot from you.

Just like in dating, people need only one reason to dismiss you as a qualified employer/so. Don't give them that reason.
Generating electricity from a balloon
How about nice documentation of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, which was a puppet trial and they executed people for 'unprovoked war' and 'aggressive warfare' which even today isn't a war crime.

This is not to mention that the US military protected Japanese scientists of Unit 731 who knew they were committing war crimes by exposing civilians to bacteriological and chemical weapons, which after WW1 were considered to be war crimes. None of the people who actually committed a war crime was prosecuted by the American governments, they were pardoned and protected so the US military could get their research.

I believe that Hiroshima and the completely pointless bombing of Nagasaki should be shown in context. In that context it should also be shown that the US military exposed innocent people to the most cruel deaths humanly imaginable.

I'm sorry but the inhumanity of Unit 731 is far outweighed by the US protecting them.

This isn't to mention that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings actually killed allied POWs and even Japanese-American citizens. That exposure to extreme gamma radiation causes scar tissue to separate from ordinary tissue and any injury from even decades before to reopen and help the person bleed to death, that's if they don't die from shitting out their bowls (literally) or dying from the flu as the radiation destroys their bone marrow. This not to mention the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission refusing to give medical aid to the survivors of the bombing so that they could get better results.

Oh and how about the US military personnel who mutilated Japanese corpses and took home trophies from corpses. The civilian fear of this was so great in Japan that it caused the mass suicides of Saipan and Okinawa.

My personal opinion on the war is that both the US and Japanese committed enough crimes between them that there should never be forgiveness over the events. It's a great shame that the US military didn't get punished for its war crimes, just like the majority of the Japanese military didn't and just like the majority of the German military didn't.

War is inhumane and full of atrocities, just like what's coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. The simplest way to avoid war crimes is to simply avoid war.
Well, It's more optimal for us.
I find these sort of things more useful in theory than in practice. I used to think that the architecture described in this article was a good goal. I have since seen systems built with the many layers of indirection (and pass through service layers) and they are very difficult to maintain. Simple interation bugs become hard to discover because the leaky abstractions built on top of one another interact in complex ways. They are also very difficult to optimize for scale- if you don't own your data, it's hard to invalidate your cache, as just one example.

This onion stinks. If you are obsessed with creating a service layer, stick with Fowler:
http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/serviceLayer.html
I was thinking the same thing. First off, whenever someone says "trust me," as a rule of thumb, don't. His advice sounds really self-serving. Trustworthy people are always open to committing in writing or in ways that don't require so much trust.

Now, the dude who wrote the cover letter doesn't seem all that stupid to me. Sure, the writing isn't great, but for all you know English is his second language. I'm not so sure about his hacking skills, though (CSS?). I'd still interview him.
Will Engagement Ads on Facebook Work?
Pretty interesting look here at the ad market in general and whether or not Facebook's model for delivering ads will resonate with advertisers.
I think that's really smart. There isn't much point building your own search engine now unless you are very large. There are normally a few great alternatives with some kind of partnership arrangement out there to use instead.
A "unified field theory" for psychiatry?
Facebook Mobile Sees 3X Growth to 15 Million Users This Year
Ha. Everyone here encourages thinking that differs from ours.

I suppose we are generic in the job posting (I really appreciate the feedback) and again, as I stated, we're trying to find someone who is looking for more than just money, someone looking for place to work where they fit in and feel at home.

If you were trying to meet a decent girl with values, would you go around waving $100 bills and wearing diamond pendants?

We're not trying to flash around our new funding and put emphasis on our fancy office and wii and ping pong table and couch and full kitchen. We're trying to find someone who would be looking at this as an opportunity, someone with ambition and not just a need for an inflated paycheck until the start up dies.
One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
Inside AdSense: Optimisation Essentials (Part II)
I wonder how many people who wear Knuth t-shirts have actually read any of his books.
I will be twitting it all step by step.
They still aren't leeches.

Edit: It just hit me that I copied Alaska Miller's spelling. I need pizza.
That's a slippery slope. "Just a little, it'll be ok... I'll only smoke one."
A Thought experiment on the end of Humanity
45-60k is market? :/ ouch.
Room Temperature Mechanosynthesis Achieved?
Here's what I'd want if I were hiring a marketer:
... run them[projects] as the lead
... the best in the world at something
... unimpressed that you are good at following instructions
... enjoy selling ideas to others
... rarely ask for detail or permission
... intellectually restless
... care enough about new ideas

To me, he is not describing a marketer. Rather, this sounds like an entrepreneur to me. A founder/co-founder/startup type.

It's nice to want this type of person working for you, but (IMO) these type of people usually don't like working for others. That's why they're entrepreneurs.

FTR, I haven't read much of Godin, so I'm not familiar with his MO/style.
The simulation hypothesis actually becomes more likely, though still not proven, if we get to the point where we can run our own simulated universe.

We might also demonstrate that we were in a simulation if we found an exploit to take over the simulator's webcam (assuming the simulator didn't patch and revert). Universal buffer overflow!
Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

I really liked prosepoint and am seriously considering it.

Creativity is certainly the key.

However, I am a little skeptical about using other people's data. Otherwise don't we simply become more like "better aggregators" than content providers? What do you feel?
How is commercial use defined in terms of the book? It's not that free. Then again, if you use an algorithm for something at work, it does makes sense to reimburse the author. I just thought I should point it out.
You could have not voted.
I kind of wish you would stop using that girlfriend analogy. If I wanted a decent nice girl to take home to mama I wouldn't be using okcupid or match.com or eharmony or even craigslist.

You're looking for an employee -- since you're not going to give them founder status -- and as such you simply want someone that exhibits more passion so that you can feel good about paying them. Or, in my cynical view, you want to exploit somebody that's willing to work more for what you're paying them for,hence the "options".

There's nothing wrong with that kind of behavior, as a business you do have to look for ways to maximize your cash and people like that do exist. The young-gogetters that are extremely talented and looking to work hard to impress and too inexperienced to know their true market value.

But the chances of finding someone like that is so rare, and considering other companies pay premium for something like that you would be lucky. And in your process you're going to end up with a lot of submissions from a wide variety of people. That's just how the cookies crumbles. This post doesn't really help with anything though...
No, but I think there's a happy medium.

I'd _show_ her how great my family & friends are, how hard I work and how well I'd treat her.

Unless it was just a random bar hook up.
We're trying to find someone who would be looking at this as an opportunity

The onus is on you to show that this job is an opportunity - that's what a job advert is for. Sorry, but your ad fails to do that.

If you're a startup, you don't need to emphasize wii and ping pong. You need to show that the candidate has a chance to be an important part of a successful company, and might make some fairly significant money if that happens.
C++ style guidelines
If the technology is solid somebody else will probably create some kind of company with it.

See also: github
Moving to Flash, Part 5: Network Communication
I guess that's part of my objection, really. The use of the word "universe" implies that there is only one of them, as the prefix "uni-" in Latin means "one".
Maybe in the Idaho market.
So asking for fair pay will eliminate you from consideration? Count me out.
I love the idea, and I'm glad that Normative is getting some attention. They've got a great sense of what works and what doesn't with the Internet. Check out www.amodernpromise.com - it's one of the best CD sales pages I've ever seen.