skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about tech companies where the business is basically programming. In a company that builds cars or medical devices or a bank, a programmer is about as likely to become a BA as the other way round.

As for project management, that's, well, a management position. Tends to have a better salary, prestige and career prospects than non-management positions. That fully explains why many people want to move into management and hardly anyone who's chosen it as their original career wants to move out of it.
A relative of mine is an IRS auditor for small businesses. The cheating S Corps, as described by tptacek, take up the majority of his time. I got the same description from him, and he also said doctors were the biggest offenders.

If anyone is doing this, or interested in doing this, the way they deal with these cases is as follows: he picks a number based on a combination of what salary surveys say and what kind of mood he is in, multiplies it by 7 (since you've probably been doing this for 7 years by the time he gets it, which is how far they can go back), and assesses that as unreported income. They then tack on penalties and interest for the tax liability of said income. That makes for a really bad day.
If you think it could be useful to someone, try to sell it
This comment is so wildly inaccurate that I'm calling bullshit. I've never heard of anyone who is "practically unemployable" because they didn't keep up with mobile or cloud computing and I'm willing to bet that you don't know any Windows die-hards. Even the tech hipsters of HN are fully aware of the demand for solid ASP.NET developers in the real world.
Sell it or lease it. I'm sure there's some value in the aggregation of feeds (though I can't imagine what besides user habits).
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Project Maya has started! For those who haven't read about Maya, please look here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344

Our goal is to build an open source application that can run in your browser and on iOS/Android without being dependent on app stores.

We currently have a working "sneak preview" version viewable over here: http://frontend2.com

Want to dig into the source? https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/project-maya

We recommend you to check it out in Google Chrome/iOS/Android.

Our team currently consists of 5 people. If you think you'd be a good addition, please shoot me an email, sam.granger@gmail.com

Feedback so far is more than welcome!
Clickables.

Previous HN post about Maya's story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344

Preview: http://frontend2.com

Github: https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/project-maya
Nice try phisher!

(seriously though, something like this is bold from a company that has been trying to educate users to be wary of sites pretending to be PayPal!)
I think they should use that mantra for their customer service division, rather than the UI design one.
Good compensation reward after losing the trial with Google, I guess.
Nice to see someone from PayPal here, so I have a question that is of interest to me. Why doesn't PayPal accept payments from countries that are outside of its PayPal networks? I understand that in the past you could choose to pay even if you don't have PayPal account.
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Interesting.. 26 hrs flying time just to open a bank account is a little extreme.. but next time I am there on vacation I'll definitely be calling into a bank and giving this a go!
There's this:

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tv

And of course Google TV, but I don't think it will be open sourced until it moves to ICS (probably after this I/O).
Same here: I thought somebody proposed the use of different _self_ objects in Ruby procs to differentiate between the original containing object and the calling containing object.
The team got paid. I've written a lot of software that nobody has ever used. It was fun so I consider it a success.

This sort of attitude is one reason why PMs and BAs get paid more than developers.
Unfortunately, the :after pseudo-selector has limited support. :(
Correct. I run a software business. Our top coders are paid higher salaries than any "managerial" roles, by some margin. That said, the managerial roles have more upside in terms of bonuses, but that arises more as a result of how one goes about motivating people with rather heterogenous talents.
How big is the DB dump?

I know I would be interested in downloading it, and just poking it for interesting stats...
Reminded me of Mark Pilgrim's One: «My attempts at compartmentalization have failed. There is only one inbox.»

http://web.archive.org/web/20110514112041/http://diveintomar...
Are they all open? If so, I'd contact wikimedia and see what use can they give them.
SO, from what I've read, It not only doesn't exist. He refuses to publish the specifications on how it works? Am I misreading that?
it works in IE8, everything below it should die in pain

actually, IE8 should die in pain as well :)
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For now, the setup is similar (triggers/actions). But why aren't all of our users just using IFTTT? Primarily the allure to a business-focused app, with services they use today, and support on top. We'll naturally diverge more over time but the "easy" starting point when trying to sync lots of different services looks the same.
The ones I've had both in Romania and the UK have been excellent.

Can't comment about US ones.
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Basically, our initial sneak preview does the following:

* generate wav files of words via the google translate api
* save these wav files into the database (base64 encoding was an (unfortunately failed) experiment
* do initial setup and fill of the words database
* showing an html5 clickable grid with words and an icon, based on the database query, of all the words found.

todo:

* create multiple pages from database, list them and switch
* allow queuing of multiple phrases, and play them as a sentence
* add custom words via web ui and a little php servicelayer
* html5 offline storage for all wav files
* get tablet browsers to fix data uri's for the <audio> tag!
* have a proper design with customizable icon lib

Not bad for a project kickstart in half an evening. Are we infringing on any patents yet?
> It's just weird to see such things pop up on HN these days.

That's just what you get when you mix people of different ideologies and get them talking about economics/politics. That's why we try and avoid those topics.
You appear to be attributing opinions to me that I don't necessarily hold.

_ALL_ I was saying was that its misleading to compare suicide rates in Chinese electronics factories with the average rate for the whole of China. Thats all.

I wasn't saying that the factories/corporations making westerns electronics are "bad" or that they are driving their workers to suicide. Thats not an opinion that I hold. But if someone wanted to demonstrate or disprove such links then they would compare the suicide rate in those factories with that in all Chinese electronics factories, and not China as a whole.

I'm glad that the urban suicide rate is lower than for rural areas. As China urbanises this will mean fewer suicides. Progress.

As for as Indian farmers - you are right, I should have written "partly due to the ready availability of agricultural chemicals". I do think, though, that it will be obvious to most people that not all suicides among Indian farms are by chemical poisoning. I didn't mention GM or Monsanto or "big bad multinationals", and I'm really not sure why you did.

Feel free to reply, but this thread has gone OT and I've said all I want to say on the subject. Thanks!
There are some great tips in this article.

However, I would only go through this amount of preparation for a really really important talk. I think 50% of this effort would lead to a talk that's 80% as good. Under most situations, I'd take this route.
But it is. People will look at a site like HN, say, "Ah, there are lots of really smart people on here: this guy has done this, that guy has done that, etc.", only to find out it's really just pg arguing with himself. It's deceptive because people believe they are getting 500 independent evaluations when really they're getting 5 original responses times 100 falsifications of what those five people think someone else might say. It's not a fair way to represent the site to its readership or participants.

If you say, "Ah, my party will probably only be three of us, I better pay 100 people to stand around so that I don't look bad", do people normally think this is an honest practice? You're still perpetrating a deception that could have real consequences.
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In the downloadable sample there is a nice analysis which refutes the "zealots who enforced weren't the brightest".

In the short: there were no zealots. Nothing was enforced, the term "waterfall" comes up much later and it was meant as being iterative from the beginning.

So one might ask: how come that this folklore is being trumpeted all around like a truth?
Stupid fucking sidebar. Not only does it move with my scrolling, but it covers content!

And this guy creates "stunning applications & designs used by millions of people"?
What first got me started was my annoyance at realising how many days, weeks and months over the years I've wasted by reading sites like HN and Reddit instead of just doing something.

Combine that with the thought that if you'd begun your project at the start of 2012, you'd now already have something to show for it.

When it comes to projects going nowhere, it's true that a bit of luck helps. At the same time - how're you going to get that luck if you never get started?

Now, for the number one tip that I wished someone had told me several years ago: building and coding you project is the easy bit. Really, it is - you know what needs to be done, and you can sit down and work it out.

So you need to start from the marketing side of things - know in advance who your customers will be, how you're going to reach them, and whether they'll buy your product.

If you can take care of this, you'll have to be making some pretty major errors to - at worst - not be paying the rent with it.
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I reckon legislation will soon fall which makes these illegal unless you are law enforcement or military. If it makes either party potentially more accountable then it's going to cause problems.

Great piece of kit though!
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We were talking specifically about evolution, not the big picture. Taking your analogy, parent wasn't trying to "describe the elephant", just "its ear", so it's perfectly fine to look just at it.
Ok, I'll bite - how is this related to jQuery?
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If it wasn't God who created the Universe than who did?

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It set the tone for the first few months. It used to be about startups, tech, etc in the early days.

Now it's all lolpics, atheism, LGBT issues, drugs, anti-corporation/government etc etc.

The people who have most time to participate (Out of work, college students, etc) may not necessarily be the people you want...
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Excuse the cynical POV here, but it's from a number of years of dealing with such things. The problems I find with enterprise software as a rule are it solves the above but fails at:

1) Realistic scaling. Just about every piece of enterprise grade software I've seen falls off a cliff when it hits a certain load point. This is ALWAYS enough to sell it to you. When it goes wrong...

2) When it goes wrong, it's a nightmare of maintenance contracts, verification, finger pointing and telephone calls that last hours.

3) It rarely works as advertised. I mean literally 1% works as advertised.

4) Trials and realistic evaluations without crazy constraints are not usually possible (this is changing slowly).

5) Installation is a breeze but when it comes to backup/restore and upgrade, it's a pain in the butt.

Time is money. The difference between "enterprise level software" and "OSS" platforms are the following:

* OSS time is spent up front.

* Enterprise time is spent later on and costs more up front.

I'd rather have one Ninja on the team and lose the enterprise software. Ninjas scale better as well.
Still feels like 2002 in here, 800px max width and all. I guess because I'm in Europe? http://imgb.mp/imA.jpg
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It's not against the rules. You can have a profile (private) and page (public). They recently tried to solve this inconvenience with the subscriber model. People can subscribe to public updates on your (mostly) private profile doing away with the need for a separate 'fan' page.
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SpaceX, Self driving cars, Craig venter's synthesis of an entire genome, growing organs, willow garage,3d printing, udacity, coursera, edX... the list goes on... things are not too bad. But only the bold will choose the hard paths. The rest will clone successful startups.
Here[http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/05/18/where-did-the-talk-sho...] and [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993649] .
It's a response to a previous article, which really did make the argument "unit testing does not guarantee quality, therefore you need static typing". So not a strawman.
I've built a number of social sites for broadcasting companies and this is indeed common practice.

No-one's attracted to a forum filled with void. All you need is a few carefully constructed, interesting personas as a nucleus to kickstart, then gradually remove them once the community has formed around them and becomes self-sustaining.
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describe the elephant just looking at it's ear.

You might be able to clone one from an ear.
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This is actually a rather underrated property of good static type systems. Some types (like (a, b) -> a or a -> b -> a) are actually so constraining, they can only have one valid (e.g. not ⊥) implementation. There is actually a program that, given a type signature, can write the trivial function for you [1]. It's pretty awesome, but admittedly more a curio than anything practical.

[1]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1178

Happily, there are practical programs that take advantage of the types' expressiveness. My favorite example: Hoogle[2]. It's brilliant: a search engine that given a type signature gives you a list of functions either with that type (modulo renaming) or a similar type. The beauty is that it can work even if the function is more general than what you're looking for and has a weird name (so a normal search would not be very helpful).

[2]: http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/

A perfect example: let's say you're looking for the equivalent of JavaScript's join method. It would have the type [String] -> String -> String. Now, this particular function does not actually exist in Haskell. Instead, there is a more general function called intercalate that works on any list. Moreover, intercalate's arguments are reversed: it's type is actually [a] -> [[a]] -> [a] (or String -> [String] -> String if made specific to String). And yet, if you search for [String] -> String -> String, the second result is intercalate! It's magical.

In short: types are basically a form of self-documenting code, so you get a lot of cool stuff for free given a good type system.
Problem is the word "should", which isn't "has". Which means this trick doesn't help those of us who have to support IE<=7
Yeah, that might have been a little disingenuous. I guess I just wanted to associate it with that functional fluid interface. But I've been up for about 36 hours now so I'm not thinking so well :)
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I only have experience with McDonald's in Western Europe, and here the food is not good. The pattys seem like the meat was thoroughly grinded to a smooth paste. The bread doesn't have any flavour, and because it's in a closed package with the rest it becomes soaked and soft from the steam. The worst part is the cheese (if you can call it that -- it doesn't look or taste like cheese at all). The fries are okayish. On the rare occasion that I'm with a group of people who want to eat something at McDonalds, I usually take a salad with the sauce in a separate package, because even the salad sauce doesn't taste good.

This was surprising to me. You can make a much better burger than McDonalds in 10 minutes with standard equipment. Just take some minced meat, form it into a flat cylinder, rub some olive oil salt and pepper, cook it in a frying pan, after you turned it around add (real) cheese on top and cook the other side, slice a bread in two and roast it a little in the same pan, and stack up the burger with some lettuce, tomato and some mustard and/or ketchup. Why can't a company whose primary purpose is to make burgers not make a burger half as good? It's not like the ingredients here are more expensive. Or do people really prefer McD's burgers?

Don't get me started on restaurants that use canned peppers and mushrooms that make the whole pizza wet and acidic. Also: http://popsop.com/wp-content/uploads/kraft_cheese_snack_befo... WTF? "Natural cheese made with 2% milk no added growth hormones"
I've worked with a number of large forums with several million users before, and this is often viewed as the best practice thing to do when starting out. Sites like Reddit are more sophisticated than your average vBulletin forum, but I imagine the principles are fairly similar.
That would be great if I could just work by myself, happily use Haskell and not worry about bosses mandating something really annoying like Python or Java. In fact, that's one of the main reasons I'm working at a tiny startup right now. But I digress; my main point is simple: since chances are your choice of bullet affects others' choices, especially in corporate settings, it would be much better if it were a good choice.
Are we infringing on any patents yet?

Don't even think of looking, and sing loudly with your fingers in your ears if anyone tries to inform you. Otherwise you are willfully infringing and the damages are trebled.

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Infringe away. Once the code is out there there's no one but the end user to sue and I don't think you can.
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To be clear, I was looking for more detail around how they were doing the reversible encryption.
Can you elaborate on completely shutting aout Google?

I'm using a WP7 with Google accounts for mail, contacts and calendar.
You should dump a copy of the database somewhere so we can all take a look at it and perhaps analyse it.
Mildly OT, but that script is a great example to show how beautiful python code can be - so clean!

Link: https://github.com/CFSworks/nimue/blob/master/nimue.py
Your biggest competitor as a startup owner? You
Obviously you've not tried them in the UK. We've been to Vegas in the US and thought the burgers there were amazing. Like, "oh my god, this actually looks a bit like real beef!"
Would be great if there were support for more Regex types. All those supported by grep (ie. BRE, PRE, PCRE) seem fairly essential – and being a Python guy, Python would be nice too (which are PCRE-ish).

Nice work, though.
Setting overflow:hidden on the container div works all the way back to IE6. The caveat there is that any actual overflow is hidden, which may be unexpected. Things like box-shadows and absolutely position children.
Really there is very little worth mentioning beside the keyboard covers. And Microsoft does not allow anyone to touch the keyboard covers. Whose fault is that?

It is not record setting thin, or impossibly light, it has worse screen than the retina iPad, battery life is not mentioned at all, neither is th price,the look is quite minimalist and good, but not new or stunningly interesting ... pray tell, what's so awesome about the hardware? The glorious kickstand?
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For a CLI debugger/play-through have a look at Regexp::Debugger (I posted this video link yesterday - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136179)
Indeed, that's what I've been using.
More contrast, please. I can barely see the green matches on my screen.
Did you not finish the article? She postulates that perhaps people are an addiction to be wary of but ultimately applauds them as a vital addiction to continue fostering...
Do want. Please. :-)
Nice work! :)

http://rubular.com is also a good one (Ruby regexes).
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This fix is as ancient as the stars. To deal with <=IE7, simply add the MS propietary zoom: 1. Overflow:hidden is not recommended, because, well it makes things hidden. Also, everyone stop floating everything left to "clear" your floats, it's driving me crazy.
David Pollak has long been one of Scala's greatest champions but his grudging acceptance that Scala is hard, from a lot of experience in the field, is worth a read:

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That's an extremely naive attitude. It's next to impossible (won't say completely) to start an online community without seeding it first. Forums in particular - you cannot get a forum going without seeding it with made up posts and comments, it simply won't happen. Nobody will comment on an empty forum or discussion board - nobody.
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When I'm in the mood to wear my extra cynical hat I quite like the developers who think good business analysts and project managers don't add significant value.

Gives me a heck of a competitive advantage :-)
It's so easy to access all kinds of information from home nowadays, it can be better at fulfilling my curiosity than going out.
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