skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sleep schedule naturally is all over the board, that is just the way my body is designed, I can't help it, and I have found my days running together in some sort of glob, like there is nothing in between.

To me it is a weird sensation, but being a work-aholic I hardly noticed it till I started being off by a day or two and my boss caught me on it. I started making sure to take the weekends off and it has slowly corrected itself, now I take the weekends off and do what I want to do not work and it is absolutely fantastic.
How much is "too much" to spend on your launch?
I'm launching a product that requires network effects. Now we have partners who can throw a launch party and get the top influencers in the community to download the app. Let's say the product needs about 100 active users in a single day to work. If you were running this project, how much would you spend on the launch?

My "guesstimates" right now is like this:

Launch Party 200 attendees - 50% downloads the app - 30% actively use the app = 30 active users

If we can bootstrap the parties to around $2k, that mean the total costs might be $6k+. Do you think that's worth it base on your experience?

Thanks for any feedback/comments.
i'd say manually, since part of their job is to put the resumes together.
The problems on mobile are so incredibly different than server, I don't see that CouchDB would be useful client-side.

The focus client-side is on speed, battery-life, ease of programming, and perhaps most of all, maintaining separation of concerns between the server-side data model and the client data model. The server must be free to evolve independently of the client, and many remote clients will run legacy versions of your software for extended periods of time.

Moreover, rarely is data distribution sufficient to model high-level interactions between client and server, which is more likely to introduce bugs, complexity, and significantly detract from the long-term maintainability of the client/server protocol.

The end result is that you don't particularly benefit from CouchDB client-side, and especially not replication -- you need a well-defined supportable network model.
What is 'smart' though? I think the mantra is basically saying "hire people who fill in the gaps". A good leader is someone who facilitates identifying and filling in the gaps, which has little to do with "smarter".
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I currently write Scala at work. As far as I can tell, it's a lot like C or C++, except that you have to use while loops instead of for loops and you have to perform unholy incantations to fake arrays of structs. If you don't do this, you can either try to allocate a few hundred million tuples and OutOfMemoryError, or you can allocate one array of a primitive for each field of the struct and give up on the idea of having decent cache locality. It's less capable of TCO than gcc, which is pretty hilarious for a functional programming language. Generic programming in Scala is lots of fun until you try to use an Ordering[Double] or an ArrayBuffer[Double] in a critical path.

Manageable parallelism is nice, though.
What is the response rate? How much contact do you have with the applicants before sending them the problem?
cool idea. and the layouts are gorgeous! good luck!
Some more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udWNc_YeN20&feature=relmf...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XYTyQtHft0&feature=relmf...

Incredible.
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Haven't seen a bunch of hardware hacks on HN, so I figured I would share our project!
I think Felix Salmon's response was a good defense of the old media: http://felixsalmon.tumblr.com/post/18191067872/the-wall-stre...

New media is obsessed with credit and scoops. You can claim this is a moral thing, but I'd more likely attribute it to finance. New media makes all its money off clicks and views rather than subscriptions, so flash in the pan scoops are much more profitable for them than old media. It isn't incumbent on a journalist to indicate where all everything that contributed to an article came from (that is strictly in a "nice to have but not essential" category), just ensure all the information they provide is cited. The OP's article is a dicer situation of clear plagiarism, but I think new media has a dollar sign sized chip in its shoulder about linking and credit.
Great idea. Glad it's working out. Best of luck!
Double acceleration is fine - don't be worried about future may-or-may-not-exist acquirers when you're getting started.

don't negotiate for them before you meet: they can negotiate some of it away if they want at the time of sale.
Exactly. Even if you try data poisoning (making an account with fake details), people can still attribute details to your account unsuspectingly. And you can't stop them from doing it, either. Very few people realize this lack of control.
Nope, no way. Dixon wasn't harsh enough, because he thought it was just a lack of credit, whereas it was actually plagiarism. The reporter took writing that wasn't his that he played off as his own (under his byline, no quotes, no source). Completely unethical and irresponsible for a journalist to do that. The fact that he got in via an e-mail and thought he could just "use" it shows that this reporter has a lot to learn (if that even happened -- I've never met another journalist who would do that, ever).
“If you knew all the hardships ahead beforehand it would be incredibly hard to ever start.”
- Even if you thought you knew, many still jump in cause we all think we'd be different. And it's because of that belief that the world is changed!
It's not always the case that they don't credit, I'm running a twitter feed of the Falklands conflict on a 30 year delay, and so far,in the first week, I have been contacted by two tv companies who wanted to know who they should attribute them to...
If you are interested in motion control there seem to be a lot of companies in Pittsburgh in that field. Probably the CMU influence as another poster pointed out. I have done business with Aerotech before and they seemed to be a good company. At least their field tech seemed to speak highly of it.
You can't directly equate contract rates to salary rates. In terms of costs, the contractor has to cover taxes, equipment, insurance (of all types, including health).

Additionally, the contractor has to set aside sufficient profit to cover the risks involved in short-term work. Business development takes a considerable amount of time, and it can be days (or, in some cases weeks) before another contract starts. That time has to be paid for.
Weird time to just leave maybe he found something out that no one else knows. If he didn't and didn't share it in order to sell the idea or finding it would be a great excuse. If not walking away from the biggest scientific discussion in year is just crazy.
Of course. Not to Facebook, but free speech doesn't imply a particular venue.
Actually competition hasn't made it harder. We still accept about the same proportion of applicants as we always have.

References count for a lot if they're unequivocal and from people we respect, and hardly at all otherwise.

People try lots of stunts, but I don't think we've ever had our opinion influenced positively by one. Negatively, yes.
How incredibly academic. Let's leave the ongoing debate about how to "characterize [their] actions" until a universal definition of 'freedom' is agreed upon. That should satisfy the monsters.

I think Sartre settled this one. We're either wholly determined, or else wholly free. And since consciousness means that fate isn't preordained - we're free. Anyway, in case he was off the mark, the alternative is a boot on a human face and the (real, nazi, concentration) camp that you pretended I was alluding to.

As to whether there are degrees of freedom, there's room for them in that philosophy. Take away movement, that's one. Take away speech, that's another. Hey, just go down the bill of rights - you don't have any at summer camp. Is it nazi germany? Did I say that? It was freakin Jewish camp. No fun for an atheist, but at least you survive. Unlike my grandparents. Now stop your trolling and own up to a position for once in your life.
I suspect you can get by with only the A players who are not yet loaded.
But I didn't notice who wrote it.
I think Tarsnap falls best into the "indie" category, but not for the reason Gabriel suggests. There's no way I'd take an "acqui-hire" offer for Tarsnap -- for one thing, it feels rather insulting to have someone say "we think you're so fantastic that we want to throw away the work you've been doing".

Perhaps we need four categories instead of three -- are you an indie, angel or venture company, or a king?
$6000+ to get 30 users.... that's $200+/user before you even know if anyone likes what you've done.

I have my doubts about "influencers" as well ... I'm skeptical that success could be as simple as getting some dude with a bunch of twitter followers to use you.
My God, you're right. I was never able to contact anybody before Facebook. It's a wonder I know other people at all.

Seriously, though, the biggest argument in favor of it that I hear is event invitations. But think about it, if the most effort that somebody can put into inviting you to their event is clicking a button to "send to all", they don't really value your friendship. I don't have a Facebook account, and when people invite me to something, they send a personal message that signals they actually value my friendship and want me to attend. As someone on the Internet said, Facebook maintains friendships in a persistent vegetative state.
Thanks for the feedback. Although I'm not experienced enough in programming to be valuable anywhere, I will definitely look into your startup when I significantly improve my skills.

I have another question. I see you're located in Mountain View. I'm assuming you receive a lot of applications from top tier universities such as Stanford and Berkeley. Is the degree still not that important?

Assuming you get two applicants of equal ability, one is from a top tier college and the other from...let's say a CSU college. Would you be biased towards the more elite applicant?

Sorry if these questions are silly. I'm really interested in the recruiter's perspective though.
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Apple wireless keyboard is great. Really good form and function.

Of course, it helps if you've bought into the whole Apple ecosystem.
What's so hard about writing it in Javascript?
Absolutely. The site thrives off of a small set of human social weaknesses and tendencies. And when a competitor comes around, they do this even further. Each set of privacy changes is pushed out with a proportionate UI change; people spend their time complaining about the UI change instead of the underlying changes to privacy.

Again, brilliant but evil.
If only this was only about FB interviews.
This is global. Even for whatever tech thing. Today it's trendy to trash, say, Firefox. Or to use XX library. Or to talk about feat. XX in SSH (the one that's been there for 10 years in the man page and isn't new, sensational or obscure at all, y'a know?).

It makes juicy headlines. And you know what? People fall for it. Smart engineers? Many, most? they fall for it too.

My take is that it's collateral damage from the Internet. The way people become information addict and can get so much of it. They like the juicy titles. They don't like to think. They enjoy the easiness of just following what remotely make sense (even if it actually makes no sense to the critical reader!).

They, you say? The "they" I'm using here is different from the burger story. By "they" I actually mean nearly everyone, me included. It's something difficult to fight against.
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The standard image macro meme for newcomers to Lisp is this: http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1397/lispnd7.png But I agree there's something more as you work with the language and start mastering macros, perhaps it's similar to the Tetris Effect, and the process takes you from frightful screams to delusions of grandeur back to solid practicality and programs that solve a problem. The process may take a while.
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Those are the most beautiful and amazing resume layouts I've ever seen. You have yourself a serious winner here!
I specially hate it on blogs, or other pages that have a long content. I like to press 'space' to move to the next page[1], but with these fixed-header mania lately, I have to press space and then up-arrow a couple times... This trend has to stop NOW. Use frames(!) if you have to...

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[1] when Safari Reader fails to capture the main content
Will it be too much to ask that the lispers build cool shit, and then brag about how lips made it easy? That would be more pleasant compared to this chest thumping.

The traits associated with lispers(lone wolves, nih syndrome, not interested in boring tasks viz. documentation) aren't unique to lipsers. Most of the good programmers, regardless of their language choice, suffer from this mentality, and a lot of good stuff comes out of it.

CLOS is cool - I get it. And extending the language by parse time code transformations is cool - I get that too. But does anyone seriously think that's the only thing that makes cool shit possible? There is a lot of great stuff out there which is written in languages which don't have macros, lot of stuff which was written by lone wolves, lot of stuff which existed but was re-written just because.

When someone is orgasming to perceived benefits of lisp(not all of it is real), why does he have to make it look like "look lisp is so powerful, so powerful it's harmful"? Can't you just leave it at lisp is powerful and it helped me build this thing super fast. Why is this pathetic excuse of "it's so powerful it's harmful" necessary?

And before you take out your pitch forks, please, you aren't the only one who programs lisp. I like Clojure, but mostly because of its nice seq abstractions, small core, interesting concurrency primitives, jvm. Macros are very low in my list of reasons to like Clojure. I tried liking Racket, and though I still like it, I would have preferred a higher level seq abstraction. I have skimmed through "Practical Common Lisp" and I fail to see the charm - there isn't anything which can't be conveniently and concisely coded in Ruby or Python. Lisp has its benefits, but they are overblown.
Thanks. Unfortunately admissions are extremely competitive, and I hear only the people with high GPA + all finished pre-reqs get in. I figure if I get accepted somewhere, I'd rather focus on the CS/programming material than finishing classes that are irrelevant to my major.
Any feedback from users on how effective these are?
So I assume you can post a picture with nudity on the NYT website?
Hey just a free idea if anyone want to build it, I think a web app that generated stylish resumes automatically from your LinkedIn profile would be great. It could make watermarked ones for free preview and then charge you a few bucks if you wanted to download a real one.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard "Well, my resume's a bit out of date, but here's my linkedin.."

Also, if you are LinkedIn, you could do this.
Matching problem. Hard to find jobs in good languages, because they're rare. Hard to hire in good languages, because the people are rare. Fuck Java/C++.
Looks very interesting, would love to see a guide or video walkthrough from the start (installation/configuration OpenStack) to building a simple service.
The call for larger sample sizes isn't always appropriate. It can often lead to spurious inferences.

As Jacob Cohen (famous statistician) has said, "all null hypotheses, at least in the two tailed forms, are false".

That is, with nearly any hypothesis about differences between groups, given a large enough sample size, you're likely to find a significant difference.
So did your curriculum involve a decent amount of liberal arts classes mixed with CS classes? Do you think your understanding of computer science is as solid as the people who did the B.S. program?
Speed, battery-life, ease of programming are 3 of the main reasons we are motivated to build a Couch-compatible storage and sync layer on the device. If you have an intelligent sync solution, you can use significantly less radio time to present the same features. This saves battery life, and gives a better user experience as folks aren't waiting for hundreds of milliseconds for request and response to propagate across unreliable mobile networks.

As far as the maintainability concerns, it's an interesting point. There are certainly apps which may want to sacrifice the ease of use and performance advantages of having sync done for you, because they have specialized data sharing requirements.

But for a whole lot of apps the benefits of sync far outweigh the contraints of having the same data model on the client and server.

Some example use cases where sync can simplify programming (or even make a class of apps possible which would be much harder without it): point-of-sale, retail, medical records (doctor with an iPad and limited wifi), military (need that data no matter what).

Here's a pdf of the slides I presented yesterday at Chicago's WindyCityGo conference: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14074521/syncpoint-windycity-small.p...
Hmmm... maybe don't tell the administrator who runs it? I'm sure there is a way to actually observe the whole thing without giving it away. There is no cake, after all.
p.s.

If the parent comment resonated with you, you might like this presentation:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-P2P-Digital-Self-with-T...
>Also, if you are LinkedIn, you could do this.

I think they already do?
>Is there any evidence to show that signing a petition makes a person more inclined to take additional practical action?

Yes, there is some evidence. In Chapter 3 of Influence: Science and Practice, Robert Cialdini discusses this kind of self-image effect, citing several studies including one in particular about petitions[1]. These kinds of "commitments" (even though they are not actually binding) really do affect our behavior, although the end results are not necessarily particularly issue-focused or predictable.

One thing we can say though with some certainty: if you convince someone to sign their name to a petition that says "stop X", it will take significant mental effort for them to later decide that they actually support X.

[1] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/4/2/195/
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Not stylish ones. You can generate a PDF resume off of your linked in profile, but really it's not very good.
So it's basically just a specialized design agency.
Congrats!

I think your designs are beautiful, and you're definitely fulfilling a need. I'll be sending a link to those who I know are looking for a job.
Hm, no concrete data on mental performance on benchmarks, or recordings of sleep data (eg. via a Zeo).

Oh well. Someday someone will do the experiment better.
First screenshot of 0x10c (prototype)
YAY!
Seeing as this included snappy compression the last time I checked, I might be able to replace the "couchbase single server" with the couchdb 1.2 release. Anybody tried that upgrade?
It needs other improvements too.

The cut, app, play, calc, www buttons are largely getting in the way (particularly www.)

PageUp and PageDown are nearly useless, since you have to strain your wrist to get to them being down there.

And the Fn key is frighteningly useless, hidden as far left down as possible. How could anyone use the blue arrow keys with it?

Also, has anyone noticed the TypeMatrix 2020 was softer than the TypeMatrix 2030?
Your point is well-taken and (thankfully) there are safeguards in place at top journals. However, Rob Tibshirani examined this a while back with a case study and came up with some unsettling conclusions about reproducibility: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/FL/report/. The case study highlights the importance of debugging not only code, but also the entire experimental process.
Isn't the very key to this that the researcher doesn't see the coin result?
I'm confused by what you mean as "standalone." Do you mean that you created object code that allowed users without Python installed to run your script? Because if not, getting Clisp or another CL to run a script from the command line is almost as trivial as with Python.
Thanks. That's definitely the next step - just a matter of finding the time.

NodeSocket looks cool - would you mind sharing a bit about how you built it? Would PlatformLayer have helped?
Well, why should I not say when it sounds contrived to me?

Exporting X11 windows from multiple VMs on localhost? X11 forwarding Firefox to access remote speakers? Seriously?

Yes, there are niche scenarios where nerds still use X11 for useful hacks like that (myself included), but the discussion is about the future display architecture for the proverbial linux desktop.

X11 has been a ball on a chain here for a really long time now. Use-cases such as "too lazy to open a matlab pool" or "splice firefox audio" are not exactly a convincing counterweight.

I'll gladly trade in my ability to run a remote gnuplot every once in a blue moon for a desktop experience remotely comparable to OSX or Windows.
Do you really want to work for a company that uses automated resume parsers?

I would understand if they asked for one of the various specialized XML dialects out there (HR-XML, XMLResume etc), but in my (limited) experience, nobody does.
This is the fourth time you have submitted something about dotsies. I realize you are trying to drum up attention but are you concerned you might over expose people and end up driving people away?

* Learn Dotsies by reading a story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778958

* Font using dots instead of letters, design your own: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3608176

* Font using dots, easier to read than write: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3601687
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And you would have been one of my three best friends, and I would've begged my mom to let me stay at your house so we could stay up all night talking hypercard and c++ and compiling perl scripts for mac os 6, and figuring out what a regex is.
My best friend from back then doesn't talk to me anymore, he went & joined the circus at burning man ;)
Everything I ever learned was against my parents' wishes. They bought me a Mac II and then banned me from using it for more than an hour a day. Spent my childhood coding on pencil and paper with a flashlight.

You are the luckiest dude in the world.
I had this exact same idea few months ago but LinkedIn already has a nice resume generator:

http://resume.linkedinlabs.com
Here's my question: why are there arrow keys on a keyboard?

And if there must be, why aren't they on top rather than the bottom?

It is precisely the movement of tilting your wrist to the right and moving it back that causes strain. If the keys were on top, there's enough flesh around your elbow to allow extending the hand straight forward without strain.
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We have graphic artists that custom typeset the resumes manually. There are 2 revision rounds included in each purchase (additional revisions/edits/versions can be purchased) so there's back and forth with our artists.
I think it should be your company's success that decides if you're an indie/angel/VC company, and not some personal predisposition. By the time people are ready to offer series A term sheets, you should know if your company is in the right market, etc. If you're growing quickly and have a clear path to revenue, why not swing for the fences? Obviously, if the first 12 months are a total roller coaster and you haven't derisked your business sufficiently, in that case it makes sense to keep valuations where they need to be for smaller exits.
Awesome, got a url? the more working on this the merrier :)
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