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Ask HN: Anyone using Q12 Happiness Survey to evaluate your team? Others? 
Gallup has put together a pretty cool survey methodology using only 12 questions to track employee happiness. They believe these factors are most accurately reflect performance and firm success.

Since we are on an aggressive milestone schedule and have a remote team, we are thinking about using the survey to quickly do a monthly or quarterly assessment of our employees. While not a replacement for HR, I was curious what other methodologies you use to assess employee happiness, engagement, etc?

see: http://www.gallup.com/file/strategicconsulting/126806/MetaAnalysis_Q12_WhitePaper_2009.pdf
This looks like a very tax-efficient way to repatriate cash.
Is it a bad sign that I googled for 'Fire' and 'The Wheel' thinking they were some kind of hip Web 2.0 productivity tools?
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I interpreted your comment as suggesting such a ban is irrational because not enough planes have crashed.
If you want recommendations based on what you've read, I've found that goodreads recommendations (http://www.goodreads.com/recommendations) are pretty good once you've added a bunch of books you enjoy to shelves based on genre (they can be all over the place if you only look at your general read/to read/favorites). I've read a couple books that I had never heard of this way and I have yet to be disappointed.

I am also pretty guilty of rating books highly, but I also think it's a bit of a thing where I'm not likely to read a book I won't enjoy. On the bright side, it means if a book has an exceptionally low overall rating, I know to avoid it because it doesn't appeal to anybody.
Nope, most of it is outside USA, so Apple would have to stop by Uncle Sam's house and drop quite a few pennies first http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/microsoft-taxes-pro... . Maybe 30% or so
I read Zaks' book back when, but it was rather dry and these days I'd recommend Machine Language for the Commodore 64 by Jim Butterfield instead.
Also, if anything goes wrong with it you have to do a full restore on it by connecting it to a computer running iTunes.
I think it's unfair to call Musk's opinion a "guess". It is a sound criticism of the fundamental safety margin of those cells, and it was backed up by other experts.
I enjoyed your comment and explanation, as I just finished reading John Crowley's book "Little, Big" in which this idea is explained and made into a kind of magic. Brilliant book and the bits that deal with the memory arts are fantastic.
I agree I was stupid to have forgotten that the code was not in email but in a text message (not finding anything in the email made me give up and get back into the reservation line). But it is pretty idiotic to not allow us to use our reservation code once we realize mistakes like that and find our codes. And now I have 2 pairs of reservation-private codes sitting idle in my text message inbox.
I've never been an HN naysayer before...

But this is just a trivial collection of CSS sprites and JavaScript. It isn't really CSS3 at all, or any different from what's been done a million times before. It just uses CSS animation instead of JavaScript for cycling through sprites, that's it.
[knitting perl]
Thermal runaway in Lithium-ion and Lithium-polymer batteries is not an "unknown failure mode", it should be constantly in the front of mind every day for everyone working on such cells.
> The more the better.

Yes, and more in this case means something for all kinds of users.

As both a gamer and a game developer I want Steam in its current form. Your negativity simply looks like fanaticism to me.
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I guess you could.

My first thought was "He must be a truly terrible player". By the time the first Konami code game showed up he would have been 14.
They actually don't touch the cash in this scheme.
Show HN: turtle: a simple Clojure library for shell commands
It would be so damn beautiful though.
That's the plan! We're having fun and learning. And Mother's Day is also right around the corner...
Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the US?
I downloaded the new version, and tried it on a docx file that a colleague had sent me. In MSword, the file has 24 pages. In LibreOffice, it seems to have a bit over 5 pages. No error message, no dialog box ... it just gets to a certain string ($O_2$, expressed in latex format) and stops. If not for the fact that I have MSword, I'd email back to my colleague and ask her what the heck kind of a draft manuscript she was sending.

Although I use the Excel copy quite a lot (for grading), I have yet to see the Word copy function properly in a professional document of any realistic complexity.

I know, I should report the bug, but the material I'm looking at is under submission to a scientific journal, and will therefore be private until it may be published.
In that case either automatically ignoring the cookie or displaying the equivalent of the "this certificate is invalid" warning would be workable. It's a compromise. Personally, I believe nothing of value would be lost if browsers simply enforced originOnly period (without supporting anything else).
I don't think either of us are saying that they're unnecessary or useless. We're just saying in 2013, technology can make these processes more efficient as well as better designed.
You can get much faster rocket elsewhere for half the price.
Good-guy Apple: Makes too much money; Gives some of it back.
Java is indeed pretty nasty, but I would consider it easier to parse visually than Ruby. Less ambiguity.
Are they being prosecuted for tax evasion? If not, sounds like they are paying their bill. Take it up with your politicians.
Fair enough. But this is still not teaching me much about actually writing an app in Meteor. It tells me to type the code in, not how it works or what it all means.

To use the calculator metaphor it would like saying: "enter 75345 + 3455 / 4, there's your taxes!"
An Epigrammatic Review of the BlackBerry Z10
Yes. Same as the development lifecycle for web apps. The UI-first approach ensures that you pay attention to how users will use your app, as opposed to how you would like to build it. It's a subtle yet significant distinction.

BTW, there are lots of free wireframing templates for mobile apps that you can use. Even pencil and paper is a good start. Then you can run those wireframes or sketches by a few potential users to get their impressions before committing to code.

As in web app development, it's easier and cheaper to change a wireframe than to change code.
This method seems fine for protecting data as far as I can tell.

I would definitely recommend using https though because only the hostname is sent in plain text, the URL should be fully encrypted in an https request.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how reasonable this method is from a liability perspective. If a client accidentally forwards a secure url to someone who causes them to lose money, then there might be a chance that you could be liable for not securing your product effectively.
OP here -- this is my first real open-source library, and I'm newish to Clojure. Any criticism is very much welcomed.

This is somewhat inspired by https://github.com/amoffat/sh/, although Clojure macros make this quite a bit easier.
"Civil Disobedience means accepting that what you are doing is illegal and dealing with the consequences. Period."

I'm afraid you're wrong. You can also attempt to avoid the consequences and still be committing an act of civil disobedience.
Why is Apple not just buying back it's shares? Would that not be the most tax efficient way of increasing shareholder value?
That sounds interesting. In that case, I would be interested in getting your perspective on the market value and potential for this MVP that I released recently: http://www.habbit.me

It's an app where your objective is to build your ideal future selves by mastering the habits needed to bring them into reality (in the present you). For now, it's an experiment to try and make habit-building more engaging and durable since changing personal habits are difficult to do in the long run.
I'm not familiar with Select2, but it's easy enough to fix this if you don't have a lot of content in .modal-body; simply define overflow: visible and it will render outside of the container.
It also indicate fiscal conservatism in a not-yet-recovered economy, which can be a solid positive.
Rethinking optimization for size
I'm not sure the origin exactly, but Googling found that the term supposedly comes from the mid-80s: "Around the mid-80s, the term ‘human resource management’ arrived from the USA."
Small caveat: I do think MSSQL is one of the best DB server engines I have used. It's a pity it only runs on Windows.
>>So, to summarize, in the certification process, Boeing claimed:
a: no evidence of a fire.
b: a 10-million-hour estimate for a "smoke event".

Boeing counted a malfunction as a "smoke event" which is a release of emissions from a battery overheating, not necessarily a fire. The no evidence of a fire is a claim that regardless of a battery failure, there is no plausible failure chain that leads to a fire beginning in the battery.

>>But if Boeing claims it had no evidence of a fire happening at all, what is the reasoning behind the number? Is it just a convenient way to say probability=0?

In the case of a fire, yes. But this just means that the battery fault alone won't cause a fire. If other systems fail all bets are off.
I suspect you are conflating smoke event with a fire.

>>My original question was merely from a statistical/technical perspective: how is this figure calculated if they have no evidence of the event they are supposed to measure? From my understanding, automobiles undergoing similar certification are tested under abnormally rigorous conditions, and the chances of those conditions happening are taken into account when calculating failure rates.

As I explained above, Boeing claimed that it was possible that a battery could malfunction(one in ten million hour), but they had no plausible scenario that could lead to a fire. In this case, battery malfunctioning does not necessarily equal a fire. The smoke event is calculated from a number of probabilistic factors such as the confluence of the possibility of electrical overcharging and arcing and simple faults with the battery. It is a made up number that doesn't take into account that this is a new design that introduces other possibilities of failure.
So, turn them off. Most people don't get several hundred e-mails a day.
But What's Going on Under the Hood?
Tax Code 2.0: Is Extreme Complexity the New Simplicity?
Ahh... you're assuming that "where there's smoke, there's fire". You apparently haven't done much cooking. Smoke may suggest fire, but it doesn't imply fire.

If smoke doesn't imply fire then P(smoke) > 0 doesn't imply P(fire) > 0.
cp path1 path2

So, that's just one file?
Answered here on their blog:

http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#how-were-rolling...
"The Evernote office is all open seating. My desk is the messiest. We don't have any desk phones, but lots of conference rooms if you want to talk to someone."

Is a lack of desk phones unique to Evernote, or is this becoming more common in the Bay area? It's not a bad idea. Sitting next to someone saying "Thank you for calling Initech, please hold..." all day can be distracting. As can a phone which rings every fifteen minutes with someone who wants some minor thing.
So you can buy new iphones.
I got the SMS when there were 320k people already in the queue. I think it's likely they forgot to send out the SMS notifications.
> if you are corporation/qualified investor, rather than paying 35% capital gains tax in the U.S. they will pay 15%.

Serious question: all else being equal, if you had to pay less taxes on gains from preferred stock, then wouldn't the market be expected to price it higher, since people are presumably investing, buying/selling based on their expected return post-taxes? Thus, in the end, making it a wash?

Or are there other factors, like international investors etc., that prevent this?
They stated that the service will remain free, but they will add premium features for a fee.
"Does the Meteor compiler somehow split those code blocks into separate files, so that it only serves the client code to the browser?"

Yes.
I disagree. Any statement about a piece of engineering without having seen the schematics, diagrams, and tests involved is at best, speculation.
Early jet aircraft used a ground cart to provide power to get the engines started.

Evidently adding the APU saves enough money to justify its significant weight.
The Java language specification includes a description of the language as a context free grammar.

That alone does not make it a nice language, of course.
The ban would be irrational because there is no reason to think that batteries will suddenly start causing unacceptable rates of plane failure in the near future.

Presumably such a blanket ban would come in the wake of a single high profile incident, so in fact I am saying quite the opposite of "we should only take precautions against things that have already caused problems." Taking precautions against things that happened, instead of things which are likely to happen in the future is irrational.

Box cutters took down a few planes, so we banned them. This is an irrational ban, because box cutters now have an infinitesimally small chance of taking down planes. Whether box-cutters took down 4 planes or 100 planes in the past really doesn't matter since it does not indicate future performance.
Every single one of those is used way less often and in way fewer contexts than "go."

If I hear about this cool new language called Ruby and search for "Ruby Sieve of Eratosthenes," it is highly unlikely there's an article about implementing the Sieve of Eratosthenes in another language that just happens to contain the word "ruby." Conversely, the word "go" is depressingly likely to appear in articles relevant to your other search terms but unrelated to Go.

This has become less of a problem as Go has gained popularity, but in my experience it was a bigger problem for Go than it is for most languages. I search for a lot of obscure language crap out of curiosity, and I have never found an obscure language that is as hard to Google for as Go was a year ago. I know the articles existed, because I eventually found them, but dang was it hard to coax the info out of search engines.
Is anybody else annoyed by needing an account to read these wall street journal articles? Nothing against the submitter, I just refuse to sign up to read something.
Tap and hold the mailbox icon above the numbers. (Can't remember where I saw that, but it does bring up the code entry thing again)
Ok...soundslice is fantastic! What a great tool!
Probably should make sure that bad geo location doesn't make the whole thing break :)
Do Hackers Need Public Speaking Skills?
I want to judge the demand developers have for learning public speaking/oratorical skills.

I believe developers could greatly benefit from learning how to effectively communicate in front of a group of people, as from my experience, the archetypal coder tends to shy away from such circumstances. Yet, in today's world, these skills are necessary in order to climb the corporate ladder. Not only do I believe these skills are necessary for developers, but also for entrepreneurs who need to be able to market and sell themselves and their services.

I understand that there are many people who teach communication skills to a general audience, but I feel like this specific group needs to be addressed in accordance with their situation and unique needs. I believe this is how I can provide the most value to this community, but want to verify that this community would even be interested in such a skill set.

Please let me know your thoughts on this; any suggestions, comments, or concerns are all appreciated.
Heh the least they could do is put that into a batch file to be downloaded and clicked on to run.

Chocolatey is sort of like an alternative apt-get for Windows, except that it doesn't need s sudo command and your password to install software. It uses cinst to install stuff:

cinst firefox

Installs Firefox.

The UAC asks the current user to allow the setup program to run and that is about it. No password needed to install like apt-get has.

Oh yeah if your PC doesn't have Powershell installed you are SOL if you try to use that command to install Chocolatey. Some administrators remove it because it can be used to install software without being known to the user.
Very nice (simple!) demo of using css keyframe animation of a sprite.
The preferred shares would be issued to everyone that holds the common equity. They wouldn't be raising money if they followed Einhorn's plan.
Funny interview but to me it sounded like the guy was trying too hard to look human, or he wanted to hide something, or he wanted to embarrass the interviewer, or he is a stand-up comedian wannabe in real life.

I am all for humor, but reply the interviewer questions! Don't act like a politician!
I'm pretty sure that generated a ton of sales tax revenue.
Except they actually haven't, yet:

Chairman Hersman said that potential causes of the initiating short circuit currently being evaluated include battery charging, the design and construction of the battery, and the possibility of defects introduced during the manufacturing process.
By "similar" I meant a reputable entity being confident. Edge has reputation to care about and inside sources as well so this rumor is very different from a random blogger's speculation.
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How much of this is US-centric?
wow thank you... i take back my criticism (although not sure why they would obscure this part).
Shoot me an email. (I just updated my profile)
Buying SpaceX to turn it into another evil empire? No thanks - we don't want slavery on Mars.

Some useful things Apple could do with extra cash:

* Completely buy and open up H.264/H.265 video codecs and stop hindering open video adoption on the Web and beyond.

* Push for more open hardware.

And etc.

I doubt they'd do anything useful with that cash though.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong. The Federal Tort Act explains the procedures (and puts some limits on) how you can sue the FAA, but it certainly doesn't prohibit it.

Here's 3 seconds of googling: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=...
http://www.10news.com/news/faa-settles-lawsuit-with-family-o...
The last quote there seems to indemnify them...they need cash to pay out "regular distributions to its shareholders" thus any amount of money they have is justified by the need for cash to pay dividends.
I prefer my Android to my iPhone (and Windows above those two, can't wait for Ubuntu!), but it isn't because of features, it's the way they are implemented.

I think it is more that apple is behind in the way features are implemented more than the feature itself.

One of my examples was that I got a text from somebody and wanted to call them. I can't do that in iOS. Even in iOS 6 (or at least it wasn't obvious). In Windows, I tap the persons name, and go to their entry in my people hub where I can see their tweets, facebook, call, e-mail, etc. etc. In Android, their is a (too small) button next to the persons name, and I can click that and go to their entry in my contacts.

This isn't a feature, this is basic functionality and UX design. How this could have been mixed over 6 iterations of the OS from the company that everybody says is so great at design is beyond me. Though, to me, in some ways it proves that Apple is better at telling everybody how great they are at design, rather than actually being that, while Microsoft is crap at telling people anything good about their products, while actually designing some pretty awesome stuff.
All the more reason to use userContent.css to override site fonts. Size and face are legible.
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It's more on the order of 120-140 billion, not 200.

According to their 10k (which I received in paper yesterday):

As of 9/29/2012, they had 121.3B in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. Of that, 10.7B in cash, 18.3B in short term marketable securities, and and 92B in Long term marketable securities.

Cash + equivalents are highly liquid investments with maturities of 3 months or less at the date of purchase. Short term securities have a maturity of < 12 months, and long term are > 12 months.

It's also broken down by holding (in $B):

Money Market : 1.4 (cash)
Mutual Funds : 2.4 (st)
US Treasury : 20.1 (mixed, mostly lt)
US Agency : 19.5 (mostly lt)
Non US Gov : 5.6 (mostly lt)
CDs : 2.2 (cash + lt)
Commercial Paper: 2.1 (cash + st)
Corporate : 46.8 (st + mostly lt)
Munis : 5.6 (mostly lt)
MortgageBacked : 12 (lt)

(edit for formatting)
I could probably build something simple. I've done a lot with the Instagram API recently.
Load time and the bottom line
Have you ever thought about the consequences for your website if the load time increased by just one second? They’re really, really scary. The hypothetical loss for Amazon, for example, would be $1.6 billion yearly. This clip should give all the reason you need to shy away from burdening your site with performance-killing widgets and doodads.

http://youtu.be/98dfCH9Mu3c

According to USA Today polling, most Americans won’t wait in line for more than 15 minutes. Half of visitors won’t return to an establishment that keeps them waiting, and one in five customers admit to being downright snippy when service is “too slow”.

Things are like this in the online world too. 25% of users leave a page that takes more than four seconds to load. Your site will lose half of its visitors if their mobile device doesn’t load it within 10 seconds.

In e-commerce, every second counts: 40% of mobile customers will leave an online store that needs more than 3 seconds to appear.

Aberdeen Group conducted a study that found the following consequences of increasing load times by one second:
- 11% fewer page views
- 16% lower customer satisfaction
- 7% lower visitor-to-customer conversion rate.

So take a cold, hard look next time before adding a shiny feature to your website that increases the load time by “just” one second.
Lots of non-standard packages here which are easily added like "mrt add jquery-ui"

https://atmosphere.meteor.com/
UberX is $1 more per mile than a taxi. Also, the minimum fare is $10 for UberX vs $3.50 for a cab.

Uber Taxi charges a fixed 20% tip and $1 booking fee.

Sources:

https://www.uber.com/cities/san-francisco

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/xcust/indxtxcust.htm
Just to compare I searched for "insects in pleistocene", and guess what, no ads, zero, no sites from "advertisers" too. Ah, well there is an entry from google books, in 5th position, crap, I certainly didn't want to know that somebody wrote a book about that...

Wow you got me, you are so smart. Google has no ads for those words so they put no ads. Proof that they are fair and unbiased.

Google makes most of their money in finance, insurance, e-commerce, hotels and the likes. Try a keyword and see
I'm proud of the phone too. It taught kids their own home phone number in a really cool way. I didn't design the features, I just programmed them. I wonder how many kids called home because they learned their number from this toy.
They aren't giving it back to all of the end-users that purchased their products. They are performing huge shareholder payouts to people that already own their stock.
CVC seems broken. It returns true when I entered the wrong number.
I tried it, sent email to myself. Never received it. I typed everything correct except I replaced the email with my own email orionblastar@gmail.com there was no error messages as well.

Do I have to install things like sendmail to make it work? If so that needs to be in the documentation.

Yes I did the meteor add email part, I followed every step.
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Don't blame yourself entirely. They were (incorrectly) capitalized in the article.