skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...but have so far found the transaction costs of alternative compensation structures to be too expensive and or risky.

From an employer's or employee's perspective?
Ask HN: Good places to send Yahoo and other refugees?
I know some great people who no longer work with me. I'm sure other HN readers have colleagues or friends who've also been laid off recently.

Who is hiring? How do people on HN help their friends find good job? I want to do everything I can to help.
this + twitpay ftw
I'll scam you for only $59.
Honestly, I don't really know what kind of price is standard (or even the amount of time a audit would take). Can you give me a ballpark number?

Off the top of my head (which is likely to be way off), I was expecting something between $1000 - $3000
I wonder if there's some sort of correlation between a huge series A and a nice exit later on.

Nahhh.
May this mark an end to the ridiculous trends of perpetual betas.
(All for Mac OS X:)

There's a beautiful app, Versions, http://www.versionsapp.com/, but it's around US$50. That's the one we use.

There's SvnX, http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion, which is free but ultimately not very good (in our experience).

There's ZigVersion, http://zigversion.com/; no opinion.

But, really, a 5-second effort with Google would turn up all of this and more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Subversion_client... .
Ask HN: Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk?
I don't know about you guys, but my productivity goes through the roof when I'm drinking and coding. It lets me completely focus and ignore all of the random thoughts that are typically running through my head. I don't think "oh, I wonder how XYZ would work with ABC" and spend absurd amounts of time on random tangents.

I don't know if it was a state-dependent learning thing from my days as college student, or what.

Obviously, I don't drink at work, but you bet I do for my side projects.

Anyway, does anyone else find that it helps them?
What's the hobby?
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Basically, the article says David Allen is right. Getting Things Done is a religion to many, but for me it was a collection of a bunch of little tips that really did help. For $9 its worth a read.
Job markets are not as efficient as real markets where you buy and sell things because jobs are not liquid. If I find a job paying $50/hour and someone else is working doing the same job earning $30/hour, I can't exactly make any profit arbitraging the market to efficiency.

For a pretty small investment in time and money, most grocery store cashiers could learn to become plumbers. Plumbing routinely pays 4x a grocery store cashier, but it is harder/nastier work and often deals with fecal matter.
They're on my shortlist to contact!
At some point though we start to create problems for ourselves. It depends on the job. Some jobs let your creativity go wild by pushing your limits and mental capabilities. Sometimes they don't and they feel stale and not moving anywhere.

The stale jobs (and I see this) cause good thinkers to start thinking up big problems to solve. They don't like to be bored with monkey work (coding where no amazing creativity is necessary).

My last job pushed my capabilities to their limits. However my current one does not. And right now I feel like I am not learning anything, not getting better (getting worse if anything), but I try to learn from anything I can. Eventually if this job does not pick up I will be forced to leave not due to bad people, but due to boredom.

Last job I went on google news, hacker news, the daily wtf when I had down time. Here I do it because its the only way to keep sane. Damn you economic recession!

In any case next interview ask the question: "I like a challenge and chance to improve myself in things I am good or bad at and feel that my job should be something that forces me to become better than I am today. Do you think this position will challenge my abilities to their limit, and I don't mean can I do a 10 day project in 5?"
Oh, OK. The number I was looking for something close to had a couple more zeros on the end of it, I'm afraid. A decent code audit will take about a quarter of the time it took to write the code and its accompanying tests, and is an extremely specialised job. I'm not sure I can recommend anything in that sort of price range.

What is it you're actually wanting audited, and what is at stake if it turns out to be broken?
Oh you should keep reading, it gets even funnier.
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I did... in training :)

However be careful, a smart person with nothing to do is a very unhappy person.
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Yeah its the worst kept secret in the world then !
Have you looked at Fluther (http://fluther.com) at all? They're building something of this nature (but w/o a specific hacker slant). I know they're planning on releasing an IM interface shortly along with an API.
I've made a suggestion like this before. Have downvotes, but make them function like "kill files" on the old usenet. The downvotes would affect the ranking of articles as they appear to me only.

Hmm, I wonder if Bayesian filters would work for social news?
stcredzero: Are you a coder? A designer? It's obvious that you've thought about before! Would you have any free time in the next month?
Apparently there's been some research into this topic: http://xkcd.com/323/
seriously? modded down? i wasn't kidding, i used to type with caps, but found that i typed faster without caps, as well as felt less RSI strain on my hands.

capitalization is a linguistic construct, and in english, it doesn't has as much of a purpose as it does in some other languages. its skippable.
If you're down to 2-6 hours of actual work, you've got plenty of time to put into a startup.

The last 50 years are some of the best in history and the good times will likely keep rolling, so why waste them? Any if they're going to stop, why waste them?

I agree with you. 75 percent of the "work" that is done could be lost with almost no cost to society. It makes sense for the dedicated people to work 50+ hours per week, but it's an absolute waste that the average person has to put in so much time on his job.

The traditional office model is utterly obsolete and, although it's taking a while, people are finally getting it, though the process has been slow.

I just want to make a bankroll and get out. I'm not sure why I'm posting, except that hanging out here and reading about startups has made me think it's possible to break my frustrating cycle of work, and I'm curious to hear what folks think.

You're probably not unambitious, work-averse, or lazy. Very few people truly are; laziness is a byproduct of bad work situations. What you're describing sounds like a bad case of burnout. Luckily, it's almost always temporary, so long as you are able to learn from what your experience is telling you.

Although it's risky to have a gap on your resume, you might want to figure out how to get your savings up to 2 years' living expenses and "mini-retire". I left a super-stressful hedge fund job due to health problems in April. I honestly had no desire to work ever again, didn't do any side projects, read a lot, studied Buddhism and meditated, and spent a lot of time in the park. About 3 months later, I was itching to get back in the career game (but in a much better job, and my track record of quits, fires, and fails had given me a strong sense of what to seek and what to avoid) and learn new things.
I was imagining presenting our security model to someone (or a team), having them ask questions, and then do some analysis of our systems to make sure we've implemented the model correctly (and don't have other gaping holes). Although a full audit of the code would be much more complete and secure, I was looking for a slightly different risk/cost tradeoff.
There is, and we've shifted focus from the adult aspects to the non-adult aspects, but, it's not as much fun.
PS as a side note, I think an issue with this format that I see on irc is similar to telling a crowd of people "someone, call 911." No one is really compelled to answer if they think someone else will...
Also if you have really hot co-workers spending time in the office is always a plus! I have no problem looking for a different job in exchange for a hot piece of ass if company policy gets in the way. (alright now I offended someone)... The trouble is getting the hot married ones, this takes skill and dedication (and a complete lack of caring for your current job).
I haven't read your comment, but there's no way our shirt cured AIDS.
This is actually a really great discussion on community support for software development versus "corporate" support, using a really interesting metaphor of a japanese shrine.

I enjoyed the video and am voting it up, but I think you should change the title, because I was expecting some cheesy dating video...

..I know, what does that say about me, that THINKING that, I still clicked through...

Perhaps add to the end of it - The Longevity of FOSS.
Paging tptacek.
I don't keep a penny in the bank more than I have to. I understand the FDIC exists, but I trust my mattress more.
Is there anyway that you could arrange an introduction? I would appreciate it immensely!

I can't promise much, but I could gurantee free porn for life to you and your children (though your grandchildren will have to fend for themselves) should anything come of it. christopher.m.pike(a)gmail.com
Quite right. In fact, I'd go further and suggest if you are not in the top half of your class after the first year, quit.

If by "top half", you're talking about grades, I disagree. If you're talking about research potential then I agree with you.
There is a correlation between a huge series A valuation and down round series B, which tends to be dilutive of the seed and A rounds.
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Generally, this sort of thing isn't worthwhile unless the liabilities you're exposed to by being broken are in excess of about $10M. Anything less than that, and it's a job for a butch insurance policy.

If you're reasonably confident that you've got a decent security model, and you've coded it defensively you're probably OK. I wouldn't stress about it too much at this point.
Yaw, I was responding to his idea of a niche startup-- not getting a job. Certainly there are plenty of ways to get a job and save money.
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mmm... This reminds me of the J/P split in MBTI. Its not exclusive, but Js tend to like work and Ps tend to like play.

Read up about it if you're curious: http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/mbintro.htm
I think the problem is better addressed on each side of the equation. The applicant should strive to write a non-superfluous resume and the reader should improve their skimming skills. I don't see how adding another step to the process would save time.
You sir, are the Gartner of porn ;)
Being a professor before tenure does involve a fair amount of work. Lecturing, less so, and just being an indefinitely ABD grad student is actually fairly sustainable.

Heavy administrative overhead affects people differently, though.
I've not tried this, but I would wonder how much the potential for "dumb errors" increases when in that state. I already say "Why the heck did I write that?" too many times even when sober!
"Bubbles start to pop when the momentum traders run out of money and can no longer push prices up."

She states credible evidence that the market is efficient, then claims that the evidence undermines those who believe in efficient markets... Weak.
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Great article.

I wonder how the experiments would have turned out if people were allowed to short-sell. My guess is that the bubbles and crashes would be a lot less common. When people can only go long, there's a desire to buy in order to be "participating", and there's also the effect of the Winner's Curse.

One interesting result I read about in Aaron Brown's The Poker Face of Wall Street involved a mock security that would mature either to $0 or $20, with a 50% chance of each. The participants would be given index cards; half of the cards had the security's correct value, and half were blank. The price would start around $10 (since those who have information don't want to show it by bidding $19/$1) but rapidly converge to the fair value.

When the experiment was done with everyone receiving blank cards (but no one knowing that all cards were blank) trading would start, as usual, right around $10. In many cases, it would converge to $0 or $20 as the market "figured out" the fair value.
And I'm a native Australian.

So I'm totally going to go if it's possible for me to remotely be in DC.
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Also if you want good internet and electricity the cost of living seems to bump up to around 1000$ a month in most of my research.

Certainly still doable. I think it is safer in a country that allows foreigners to work easily. That way you can always find odd jobs to supplement your income when needed.
So, what is a bubble? I would define a bubble as when we get irrationally exuberant just to come crashing down when reality strikes. Such a bubble could be measured by looking at the up and down of the GDP growth rate. Does that sound fair?

The WorldBank actually keeps track of a lot of economic data. So, what does data say? Well, the United States (in the period of 1961-2007) has had fewer bubbles and those bubbles have been smaller.

When counting bubbles, I used this methodology: a bubble is a decline in the growth rate of at least 3.5%. When a decline is continuous without a growth of at least 1% in between, it is considered part of the same bubble (so that I wasn't counting several years that Chile had large declines in a row as multiple bubbles). Under that assumption, the US has seen 6 bubbles. Chile, on the other hand, has seen 8. Move that assumption to 4% and the US has seen 5 and Chile has still seen 8. Moving the assumption up doesn't help Chile. Moving that assumption to 2% and the US has seen 7 and Chile has seen 10. Moving the assumption down doesn't help Chile.

The facts show that Chile has more bubbles and the bubbles are larger in size. The US bubbles average at around 5% while the Chilean bubbles average around 10%.

So, Chile has more bubbles and their bubbles are much greater than the US'.

You can see it in a cool chart: http://mda-cxxtx.posterous.com/

A basic look at the chart and you can see that Chile fluctuates a lot more than the US.
Albert signed a letter urging for the creation of an atomic bomb.

If you think someone that intelligent could not have realized that an atomic bomb would be used to actually kill people -- then you are sorely mistaken.
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In some ways. If you recorded just what the rods and cones detected, you'd actually get a really small, really high-resolution area in the center (the fovea) with the rest at extremely much lower resolution. So if you recorded what the quarterback saw, but without the post-processing done by the brain to cache some of the things recently glanced at, it might be pretty hard to watch.
The problem with the efficient market debate is that a timeframe is never specified. Efficient over what timeframe? Without a specific delta-t, "efficiency" is just an abstract concept with no real definition.

Over the micro short-term, markets are clearly inefficient, because arbitrage is possible. However, to do arbitrage, you've got to be exploiting opportunities that often exist only for milliseconds. By the time we get to a 5-second time frame, markets are pretty damn efficient, e.g. it's very hard to "beat the market".

Over the long-term (5+ years) I tend to think markets are also "inefficient", to the extent that I believe fundamental analysis works for those who excel at it. Since short-term traders contribute more heavily to efficient markets than long-term value investors, it's plausible that long-run investors can make expectancy in excess of the market average.

In the time horizons that most traders care about, though-- 5 seconds to 5 years-- markets are pretty damn efficient. Efficient markets do not preclude bubbles and crashes, though.
More assumptions. The App Store does not conform to any discernible business norms. The downward slope looks grim, but sales can bounce back at any moment and for any number of reasons. One of which is that we will be featured on wired.com tomorrow!

We've got some amazing new features that will be released before the end of the year (again, already paid for), and could spark another few weeks of above average sales. Even if the sales don't bounce back to the peak levels, we're leveraging our existing code base and will be releasing several new apps in the coming months.

As far as my long term plans... did you read the whole article? I said that I'm NOT going to do any major marketing until something changes. I'm focusing my efforts on what has worked so far: creating great apps and working with Apple and the press to get free marketing.
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More, yes, but probably not better.

We had a CS39 liquor cabinet in my Operating Systems Design course. Rum, vodka, gin, and lots of mixers. We needed it.

This led to some funny comments in the code, like

// Don't believe anything this next line says
// I'm drunk anyway.
This is my recommended choice. While IE8 Beta 2 is pretty buggy, and I'm not sure it can match IE7 rending mode with 100% accuracy, its by far the best available option.
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Apache Tapestry Creator to Speak on Clojure, Tapestry 5
Apache Tapestry Creator to Speak on Clojure, Tapestry 5

Bangalore, December 10, 2008: If you are a Java developer building web-based applications and tired of the countless frameworks that promise you a slick UI fast but fail to live up to their promise, then switch to Apache Tapestry to get more functionality with less code. The creator of Tapestry, Howard Lewis Ship, is coming this summer to India's biggest summit for the developer ecosystem - Great Indian Developer Summit (http://www.developersummit.com/) to speak on the recently released Tapestry 5.0 version, covering the core IoC container, how to define and inject services and advanced topics such as decorating services to provide additional concerns, or creating services in terms of design patterns such as chain-of-command and pipeline.

On April 25, the author of 'Tapestry in Action' will also conduct a 3-hour, hands on workshop on building your own Tapestry applications. Hew will cover what it means to be a component web framework, what advantages that brings, how to create database-driven web applications using Hibernate, show off Tapestry's live class reloading, advanced error reporting and other productivity features, how Tapestry can be tuned and customized and build new components.

A frequent speaker at JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, ApacheCon Howard will also throw the spotlight on Clojure -- made up of one part Lisp (one of the oldest computer languages), one part Java (so young, yet so well adopted), a healthy serving of functional programming, and a state-of-the-art concurrency layer on top. Clojure embraces functional programming with immutable data types and first class functions. It is fully interoperable with Java. Clojure's approach to concurrency includes asynchonous Agents, and Software Transactional Memory.

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Over 3000 qualified and talented delegates - Source, attended GIDS 2008: The Hindu - Monday, 26 May 2008 (http://www.developersummit.com/2008/report/postPress.html). With outstanding educational sessions, powerhouse speakers, a high-profile award ceremony, GIDS 2009 will feature premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries.

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Why asset bubbles are a part of the human condition that regulation can’t cure

"Human Condition" is sometimes a code word for something people don't want you to fix. There are those who have the means to profit from the large scale business cycle certainly want you to think that it has to be this way. They want the forced selling so that they can profit "on the buy." There are those out there who want to blow up bubbles and ride valuations up, then get out before the fall.

Death is inevitable. The inevitability of taxes is propaganda.
I disagree. This is a very good change. The real title ("snagging smartphones") isn't good. In fact, it's almost entirely meaningless, and has nothing else going for it other than alliteration. This one is better.

Regarding frequency, I actually think this happens pretty often. However, I think each time is a judgement call, and we have a flag link already. After all, if we were not meant to editorialize from time to time, Paul Graham could have the yc news script take the title of the web site.
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Yes, but what does that have to do with Google's reliability? What does it have to do with routing issues between one particular site and Google?

He's not claiming that Google is infallible. I'm more confident in their ability to maintain availability than yours. All of this paranoia about Google going down is mostly FUD.
Right now we're working on a new product that does time tracking differently. For now, here's a list of some good apps: http://www.timetrackingresources.com/
Oh no. Now he'll never work again...
Why can't you arbitrage people? That's effectively what consulting firms do.
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I was wondering what it was. U could always validate the input and check for the particular characters in that sequence and remove them? Hmmm, might be a good question for YC, how do people validate input from users?
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