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I was getting fed-up with Reddit but my front page (and Reddit experience in general) improved vastly after taking some suggestions from a user a few weeks ago [1]. It's actually a good source for interesting news now.

[1] http://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tezal/this_is_the_red...
Absurdly lame opening paragraph. Made me want to use Parse a little bit less.
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I respect his accomplishments, but someone who gets thrills from life-endangering pursuits is not the person I would want releasing artificial-organisms into the wild to save the world.
There is a reason that empty content (Reality TV anyone?) is very popular. People seem to really like it.

There are a great many subreddits with fantastic discussions and information; most people don't seem to want to be bothered to learn anything though.
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For the surface, at least, it's about 750K ppm, but most of it is around 1M ppm.
is that 80 mpg (US)?
The real strength of Reddit is joining the subreddits that pertain to your interests, but I agree that maybe cleaning up the 'default' subreddits is a good idea. There are plenty of people that just lurk with no account or never change the defaults.
I'd take that with a grain of salt if you (personally) only have worked in the Valley, where the job market is probably overflowing with developer positions, or NYC.

I've had one recruiter call me (at work no less!) and:

- He told me that he knows my company is a PHP shop, which it's not. We are almost 100% Perl and have never worked in PHP.

- He tried to entice me to pass the offer along to other people in the company, which I find very tactless.

- It was only for a 3 month Python job at ADP.
Also, the 11th reason is "you're probably making the other 10 mistakes."
This article should probably be retitled 'Working for half your market salary? You are probably getting screwed' - but then the whole thing sounds a little obvious, no?

If the company is strong, paying you appropriately won't make or break it. If the company really can't afford to pay you appropriately, you should be a cofounder.
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I wonder what kind of war moon-water will start.

The first country to start using it is going to cause an uproar.
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That's what I was trying to remember!
I am not sure you have to be found guilty of anything by anyone. The game has changed somewhat. All it takes is for someone to decide that you deserve a spot on president's kill list [1] and one predator strike later you are no more.

[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/30/glenn_greenwald_obamas...
The really useful part is it gives you an insight into how google sees you site.

And you might think you have done your canonical right - but I have seen some horrible mistakes made with the canonical tag.
It's useless because it's inferior to a motorcycle in every respect including safety.
The independent improvement also helps the random bandit choices. The problem is that you are comparing A from a largely new population with Bs that are mostly from an old population. It takes a long time to accumulate enough new Bs to resolve this issue.

A forgetting factor will help.

This is a variant of the cohort issue that you're talking about.

The cohort issue that you're talking about raises another interesting problem. If you have a population of active users, and you want to test per user, you often will find that your test population ramps up very quickly until most active users are in, and then slows down. The window where most users are assigned is a period where you have poor data (you have not collected for long, users have not necessarily had time to go to final sale).

It seems to me that if you want to use a bandit method in this scenario, you'd be strongly advised to make your fundamental unit the impression, and not the user. But then you can't hide the fact that the test is going on. Whether or not this is acceptable is a business problem, and the answer is not always going to be yes.
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This sounds similar to what Rypple is doing: http://rypple.com/

From the comments, it seems like no one has tried to game the system but I'm wondering if in a large corporation, anyone would try to game it?
23000 per million, 23 per thousand or one per 4400 (assuming parts are measured by mass)[1]

1. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/aug97/868365319.Es.r.ht...
So it's 80 MPG U.S.
Hey, I'd say this is a brilliant idea; we are already doing this ~ founders network is 1 year old and our tagline is in fact, "founders helping founders" tm. :) Check us out: www.foundersnetwork.com Cheers, Kevin
I wish my bank (well, credit union) offered this.
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750,000 parts per million = 75%
1,000,000 parts per million = 100%

Did you mean to say 1 part/750K and 1 part/1M ?
I don't think you understand my position:

1. I don't have any pressing need to buy a product at such a low price point, and don't see any need to do this in the future.

2. My credit card works wonderfully, and if a retailer pisses me off, I'll phone them and it'll be reversed no questions asked.

3. Again, I (and most other consumers) already have a solution to buying something online that is almost perfect from my perspective. I have three of them in my wallet sitting with me at this very moment (actually, my wallet is a bit of a problem you could look into, especially in the summer).

I don't need paypal. I don't need pretend currency. I don't trust you to get anywhere near my actual bank account. I have several security options with my credit cards that I'm comfortable with.

I personally don't really care that it costs you x amount to take my credit card as a retailer. I've already factored in all your business costs into my evaluation of the price of your product. I also don't care that your employee demanded a raise last week, you need to buy a new computer or that rent is going up. These are your problems.

Again, do you understand that as a consumer, I view my credit cards as almost the ideal product to conduct business on the internet? You're trying to fix a problem that I just don't have by providing me with a solution that I just don't need.
He was talking about money.

"I want to stay hungry." -> "I'm not going to spend all this money on myself."
Ugh, give me a break. Either they work or they don't, his motorcycle has nothing to do with it.
I agree that Facebook could try to be less bloated, however that's not very likely. The history of tech companies is gradual bloat, whether you're talking about Microsoft or Google or Apple.

Visa has a $80 billion market cap, $9b in sales, and $3.6b in profit with a mere 7,500 employees. One of the best ratios of any major company. In fact, it's better than Facebook's current employee to sales ratio (and it's worth pointing out that they're nearly at a $10b sales run rate, and $4b in annual profit).

Visa has around a 40% net margin, that's beyond extraordinary. There's almost zero chance Facebook can be any less bloated than what Visa is already doing.

Discover also has a stellar ratio, 11k employees to $8.5 billion in sales.

Ditto MasterCard, with 6,700 employees and $6.7b in sales.
Psst...

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Note the date.
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Upvoted for funny delivery, but I disagree with you. I, too, enjoy riding motorcycles fast, but that doesn't mean I'm not capable of rational thought when applied to my work.
You are touching on some legitimate reasons for skepticism, however I think it's a bit more complicated than you are suggesting. Clinically, the response to alcohol, benzos, and heroin on mood is reported less as improvement than making the symptoms easier to ignore. I'd be surprised to see those agents prompt this kind of change on the MADRS. Plus alcohol and benzos act primarily through GABA, and heroin via mu opioid receptors, so the mechanisms are not totally comparable.

The long-term effect of ketamine is not yet understood, but establishing safety and effectiveness in these very small trials is the first step.
agreed - while I occasionally enjoy /r/funny, I default to technical subreddits, and it's a very high-quality newsfeed.
I'd argue that charging per-project makes much more sense than charging per-user. Charging per user creates incentives to have as few users as possible using Basecamp, which makes it much less useful. Charging per-project means that you're charging based on how much people are actually using your product, not based on how many people happen to have accounts.

Tiered pricing is easy to understand and predictable. Businesses (and people) like predictability when it comes to pricing. In most companies, it's a lot easier to say "we are going to pay $X a month (or year) for this product" than to say "we are going to pay somewhere between $X and $Y this year".

In any case, if you have more than 10 projects you're probably a large enough group that paying another $30/month is not an issue. And if you're not and $30/month more is too much, 37s response would probably be that you're not the kind of customer they're targeting.
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Say what you will about the state of Reddit today, Alexis, Steve, and Paul Graham had some inspired insights: "We knew our business was in our user base, that that was the most important part."
> I can tell you that you are likely to hear extreme management bashing in this case... people who crib, complain and whine are basically people who expect to get rich by 'getting lucky'.

Clueless managers who don't understand technology even on a superficial level are a real problem. Has nothing to do with how much engineer makes.

> The most common complain is They didn't give me good stuff to work on, yet when you ask the same people what exactly stops them from downloading...

Premise is people don't use technologies they like for their personal projects. I don't think that's true for the good hackers out there of course. But what they are talking here is about the work environment and technologies used (enforce) there. Just because you can use better tools for personal projects doesn't mean people shouldn't complain about the prehistoric tools at the their workplace. (And then you go on about money again.)

> After doing a lot of analysis...

Can you share more details please? Because all the smart people I've known no longer work at Indian firms if they ever did. I no longer work at them either, and trust me it's a (very) very very different environment. My college for a short period tried to not let these Indian consultancies recruit on campus.

A question for you. How do you justify developer happiness in an environment where there's no real source control, an impossible to use ticketing system, manager thinks a crawler is an actual hardware device like a photocopy machine, automation code is thrown away as you can't charge the client for that, load-testing results are manipulated to match the requirement (you keep requesting where for some reason out of 10 requests you get 3 "acceptable" data points and take screenshots only of those and report them) and I could go on an on. It's not about the money.
True that. Also because once a consultancy decides to do a good job, the hiring manager at the client needs to ensure that the job would make their career prospects better. Nobody really cares if the software or system will be useful. What they care about is "What's in it for me?".

Outsourcing is different from Consulting. Consulting brings in experienced people who can actually provide useful advice. Outsourcing typically replaces expensive and smart people with mostly inexpensive and less competent people.
>I've been on FB since the beginning. And I've never clicked on an ad. What makes you think I will to actually buy something?

I'll offer a counter anecdote. I've been impressed by their targeted ads more than once and clicked!

It has to get hyper-specific though. Not like gender-targeting, for me it read that I liked linguistics at one point in my profile and offered me an add to by a Wug shirt. I was super impressed and spent time in their online store.
Yes, sorry about that, I guess I read 'streaming/chuncking' and got carried away

After reading the article I have to say it's quite interesting, and rails makes it very easy to do.
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As I understand, you typically raise funding just by creating new shares. There is usually a bunch of shares to cover options you're giving your employees, though ("option pool", something like 20% appears to be common); you may or may not be able to defer giving options until you raise money. (In the case of funding, you keep n% of the pre-money value of the company; in the case of options, you keep n% of the value of the company.)

Equity vesting for founders is a good idea, and very common. (If the developer quits in a month, you don't want him to own 25% of the company.) The business guy can make a case that he should have accelerated vesting, since he's been at it for longer. Cliffs are possible ("no shares for the first year"), as is accelerated vesting on change of control (basically, you get your shares faster if the company is sold; this makes it easier to leave, which is bad for the buyer, which lowers the price (s)he'll pay; so this is somewhat hard to negotiate.)

The "fair" distribution of shares depends very heavily on what everyone brings to the table; you may want to "Ask HN" with more details. (For 60%, he'd better be good.) (EDIT: also, if he just wants to be able to out-vote both of you, you can easily create a class of shares with extra voting powers.)
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How many container designs were tested? Between 11 and 17 there were 6 landings. Did they notice the problem on 11?

It's an interesting problem. The sample container will have to hold the external pressure out and, depending on the container temperature, deal with condensation around the seal.
So the article was published before it was done? Clearly it was 10 when it got published... then it was increased to 11. I just think that if a person is going to publish something like this and expect people to listen, they should show that a certain amount of thought was put into it before releasing it into the wild. But I guess mine is an unpopular view.
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I am wondering same thing, can somebody explain this please.
Man, this is awesome. You can now basically host a full web app completely through a CDN.
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ketamine is being studied as single (for depression) or occasional (two week interval in the case of this study) dose, at which frequency there are no known deleterious effects. if you have evidence to the contrary, let's see it.

saying it is more dangerous than heroin is pretty dubious don't you think? Do you have any evidence better than this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_t... ?
I would like this kind of data tied to my phone's bar-code scanner. Better would be options for me to select against arbitrary pieces of supply chains that I pick (or picked by lists I subscribe to) and just see an aggregate "my choice" score and important alerts when I scan something (rather than having to re-parse the implications of these maps in each isle).

It would also be nice if I could share my pro/against list with the few grocery stores I frequent so they could mark my receipts with relevant changes in the supply chains for the products I buy (so I can cut out the redundant scanning on most purchases). I wouldn't even mind if the store got to use the info so they could see how many of their customers will/won't like the various options they are considering stocking.
Great post which really does show just why it is such a not-well thought out law. Someone should show the EU this.
These companies thrive on three types of arrangement:

1) "Deals with the devil": The company knows they'll be drained for all they're worth, but they planned badly, overcommitted and basically just cant hire the expertise they need to do 'X by Y' any other way.

2) "Screw the cost, just make this go away": It's a big project, management has plenty of money and mostly just doesn't want to think about this project. A big name might cost a ton of money, but you can sue if things go sour and generally shit will be delivered eventually.

3) "A fool and his money part easily": If you got a bunch of money somewhere and have no clue as to how things work, these big boys will diligently take your money, lavish you with nice dinners while they extract every cent of your budget while making sure all the paperworks points to your own incompetence as the ultimate cause for the project failing.

All three types are variants of 'you messed up, now pay the price' and in that they perform a valuablem, if decidedly unglamorous, function in the IT ecosystem.
No.

75% of the Earth is covered with water.

In any case, my numbers probably too low. I didn't consider regions covered in ice. ;-)
I've seen this in the US as well. It boggles my mind. How can someone get another job when they are in a contract like this? Not many employers will wait 3 months before you start. Can such contracts really be enforced in the US?
Android half a failure? You must be joking, it's one of their greatest successes. Look around you, for sure you will see at least one person using an android phone.

And what about the ads? They were probably the first company that started making real money with them online.

Google Maps? When I want to find a place I use it, are there any other products that provide a good coverage of almost the whole world (and my little village)?
After looking through the documents I am thoroughly impressed. Parse can handle user management... Are there lots of services out there that does this?!?! I've never figured out an elegant solution to do it with firebase.
(Oh! Forgot to mention that Vetter looks like it's shaping up to be a really great enterprise product!)

And have you looked at any ways to gamify Vetter? I'd imagine that having your ideas socially validated by your peers by itself would drive great engagement, but is that something you've considered?
The idea is that you can make it "your" front page of the internet with just the topics that interest you. If you go by the default it's got the most mass market appeal because of popularity but if you're someone who reads hackers news that is not what you want. So customize it.

The internet has become popular and just like pop music it will appeal to the lowest common denominator.
1. Isn't 'misuse' of the Leisure Suit Larry name a violation of trademark law, not copyright?

2. How does implying that Lowe is working on the project a violation of IP rights at all? I would think that it would fall under defamation or fraud.
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When joining a startup company that is anywhere from 5 to 50 people, what are some things I can/should ask for in a contract negotiation?

Can I ask for acceleration of my options if the company gets acquired before my cliff? Can I ask for a guaranteed contract with a buyout, in case they want to let me go before my options vest?
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seriously, if it took you days to set up PHP and MYSQL you might have picked the wrong vocation...
I'm definitely not gonna trust FB with credit card or anything private. It is a company built on sharing, with repeated history of privacy issues. It's one thing posting there about my vacation and what I think of latest Hollywood blockbuster and quite another to give them a line to my bank account. For the latter I would rather have some company that has better privacy traditions.
You're going to start moon wars when Canada has 10% of all the freshwater on the planet?
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It does appear that Lowe is credited and mentioned many times, along with the LSL title. I'm curious, however, about this:

But Lowe and Trowe, who successfully raised more than $600,000 on Kickstarter to make the nostalgia game Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded, say that Lowe is not working on the project and they have misrepresented him and used his image (pictured right) without permission.

However, one of the pledge bonuses is as follows:

AL LOWE EDITION: Exclusive Dinner and a Show hosted by Al Lowe & Ken Wegrzyn: You’ll attend a jazz performance to see Al Lowe perform and play saxophone with his local jazz band MOJO and then whisked away to dinner with Al and Ken. Includes the $250 tier reward. (Travel to Seattle not included.)

Did they really just promise dinner with a guy without even asking him first or is there more to this story?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1787675232/sam-suedetm-i...
The people who you're trying to prevent from reproducing are the people who won't think about long term concerns like this baby tax when considering whether to have sex or have kids.
Static images being easy to share does not mean links are difficult to share. It means static images are easier to share.
The writing here is atrocious. I bogged down in the 3rd paragraph and decided not to continue.

Edit: Seriously, count the frequency of sentences that begin with "He", "But", "And". Sometimes parallel structure is not the way to go.
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> and is hardly ever attacked my entrepreneurs

> but literally you never hear about a real estate start up

I don't think you're looking hard enough: Zillow, Trulia, 42Floors, Yahoo Real Estate, Redfin, Movoto

I'm sure there are many more.

Realty has poor technology because realtors generally don't utilize technology well. The MLS is a festering mess of non-normalized data, and no one cares because real estate is still very much people-driven.
You obviously haven't had the pleasure of using 3D Secure...

I tend to always use Paypal or Google Checkout (sorry... 'Wallet'...) if given the option as I don't have to fish out my card and go through several screens of slow badly implemented web forms. Often I don't even have to enter my address whilst with a credit/debit card option I always do.
I tend to feel as though the word "entrepreneur" might just be better left to die altogether. It's a title for people who aren't title people.

When you get down to what early economists were thinking when they coined the term, it seems to me like it's about giving it a shot in the face of uncertainty, rather than about the type of work (or even the work's success). (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon)

If you're selling underwear subscriptions, calling yourself a weekend-website "CEO" or taking silly seed investment to avoid missing paychecks, maybe you're not really risking.

You don't need to come up a title for that - you kinda already know it's not the same thing.
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The alternative is not "be born rich"; it sounds more like "save the extra 50K, then start your own company". Yes, this is harder than it sounds - but it's still easier than choosing your parents.