skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...am I just so far ahead of the technology curve that the real challenge for this type of product is a general fear of technology?"

Considering that there are at least a couple of restaurants that use iPad interactive menus in my city, which is not a large metropolis nor ahead of the techonlogical curve, I think the answer here is no. It's about making a compelling business case.
The point is, since when eyeballs started being worth so much? Isn't it proven already that users are like butterflies in the hand (you can't squeeze them, but let loose they fly away)? Myspace is there to prove that being king today doesn't say s* about your position in ten years. This year Facebook lost 1.4 million users, first deficit since launch.
Expected more from the Reddit deck than that. But, hey, that's an unreasonable expectation?
Integration wasn't the problem. It was the stagnant development in every other front that ruined Flickr.
Conde Nast hasn't owned Reddit since 2011.
Try behavioral interview questions. One of the folks on my team liked to use most of his hour with a candidate finding out about a project the person had worked on and ideally led. He'd dig for technical depth, project impact, and clues about soft skills all while having a fun conversation about something the candidate was passionate about.

Please excuse the HR speak above. I know geeks generally hate it but it helps explain to HR why we should really hire someone right now before someone else snaps 'em up.
If a candidate can be eliminated from consideration because an interviewer marked him/her as a "B", I don't think that's more strongly correlated with innovation than SAT scores and GPAs. It doesn't mean the interviewer is being a good judge of technical chops. And on top of that, the article doesn't say technical skill or ability correlates with innovation, but individual drive. So really, nothing adds up here.
From my experiences it has always been that if they went internal IT they would pay more and they know that, yet fail to understand why. So they go talk to a mate who has a dog in a server room and the rest is history.

Maybe other reason like the one you alude towards, but I have not come across those.
>How to structure a software workplace properly is the only trillion-dollar issue on which I'm a world-class expert, and probably the only such one in my life.

Kind of reminded me of Zuckerberg's quote: "I don't really need any money. And anyway, I don't think I'm ever going to have an idea this good again."
Now THIS is good feedback. I totally agree that how I've been selling the product up to this point is weak and (admittedly) I haven't pushed it as hard I should because I feel like I need to develop more of the product before I can show the real features and benefits.

But to address your first point, what you are basically saying is that when a person walks into a restaurant they are ready to buy - its just a matter of what to buy. That may be true for some (or most) cases. But suppose someone walks into a restaurant on a busy strip for the first time, looks at the menu, reads only descriptions (because that is the only information available) and they do not like what they see so they move on. Who has not had that experience at least once? Or what if the dish they ordered looked worse than what they had in mind and made them regret their order and that bad experience causes them never to return to that restaurant?

I guess the value proposition I am making is that with more information, consumers are able to make better informed decisions and that results in lower uncertainty and remorse of the decision. How that affects the restaurants bottom line would be very difficult to measure. But if any business thinks that depriving their customers of information is more beneficial then there is a fundamental problem. I hope that is not the case.
If this was reddit, I totally would have posted "In b4 michaelochurch" when I read this article. His commentary on it was inevitable.

What I thought was interesting was that the blog post said that a sense of mission and personal autonomy was key, which sure sounds like it would feed into Michael's crusade for open allocation.

But then Googlers post here and seem to say that Google doesn't actually rank those traits highly. Which seems to back up his point.

I don't know the truth of it, and don't really care very much since I don't plan to work at Google, but it's an interesting discussion nonetheless.
100K in a month, that would be newsworthy.
I have always considered SAT scores to be highly correlated with how good of parents you have.
I'm a world-class expert

What is the evidence that you are a world-class expert on that or on any other issue?
I wonder how many people from hn will be at the Bitcoin 2013 conference this weekend. The Thursday meetup thing was pretty cool, standing in the conference reg line right now.
Yes, the score became red according to hnslapdown [1]. It has happened to the previous rounds, and we suspect those who can downvote stories don't feel these updates have merit. So be it. We do enjoy the feedback from readers that we receive from the brief time they appear on the home page, so as long as they will permit us to share the updates here, we will continue doing so.

If you want to participate in a longer-form discussion about the project, we invite you to join the Google Group [2].

[1] http://thomaspark.me/2012/10/the-hacker-news-slap/

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/framewor...
Yahoo really needed a product to fill in that Geocities gap.
Ask HN: How often do salary expectations not match up?
I recently had a 2 day interview, which went well until at the end we found out my salary expectations did not match up to theirs (85k in SF). It ended up to be a waste of time for both parties, as they didn't want to budge from 85k, and I didn't want to appear weak by backing down.

How often do your salary expectations not line up with the offer? Either as the prospective employee or employer.

Or are companies and employees generally within a ballpark on what they perceive as market rates.

I have to admit I thought the market rate in SF would be much higher, given what I've read in HN. It would have been relatively entry level but at a financial firm.
This post is really light on the references and methodology, but I'll take it at face value.

I think it's great that they've let go of this obsession for Ivies.

But what they don't even talk about in this post is how the Ivy-only policy poisoned their company culture. To quote a friend from mine from a top startup: "All the assholes at my company come from Google."
U.S. college costs make no sense whatsoever.

First of all, college can be provided at 0 cost by simply streaming lectures online to millions of students at once.

Second, even if you have a physical classroom, a lecturer doesn't need to be paid more than $100k/year, and if you have 100 students, that's just $1k/year in costs.
Can any developer feel a strong sense of mission about a project when the project isn't their child? Personally, I don't think I can. If it's not my child project, then to me it's just a 9 to 5 job. At least I've decided it will be since last year, since any extra work I put in wasn't noticed / rewarded.

So I'd say autonomy is great, but will probably only give great results if the project itself is a pet project by the developer.
Understanding, or just information. Data is "things that have been given [to you]", from the Latin, whereas information is something that informs you [about the world].
Yes this is a drawback however:

- There is nothing preventing the restaurant from making printed menus available to waiting guests.

- If the interactive menu can only serve one person at a time and is occupied nearly all of the time then it would prove a success, no?
Git rebase vs. git merge: an agile perspective
Except a broadcast license is protected and inherently limited by the govt. Tumblr's position in the world is neither (ask all the tumblrs that have come before). It's really nothing like buying a broadcast license.
Demise of the Desk Phone Means No End to the Workday
Being inspired by Sketchpad
Well the article didn't exactly say that. It said Google's most innovative employees aren't necessarily the Ivy, perfect SAT score types.

At a company as large as Google not everyone is going to be an innovator. There are definitely tedious roles that need to be filled by someone who excels at working within the system. My guess is they learned a better idea of what to hire for given a specific type of need.
No, the messages are not encrypted, they are only passed over SSL to prevent people in the middle from getting the messages - just as Skype does... but Tesla or possibly Firebase can still read your messages if they wanted to. So you'd be just as at-risk using Tesla as you are using Skype or Google Hangouts (previous Talk).
Thanks for clarifying! It's reassuring.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help ease the process. It is not strictly necessary to set up the whole benchmark platform. You can create the very simple database with the scripts. Then just run Go alongside a load generator such as Wrk in order to experiment with various approaches and do spot checks along the way.
First, I would posit that Google+ encroaching into Youtube has been a negative development.

You say that "it doesn't have to be that way" w.r.t. acquisitions having a negative impact on an acquired service, and I agree that in theory, there really is no way the product has to be damaged. But there are agendas and incentives, and more often than not, we have seen first hand that the acquired products do get damaged. Maybe we can get lucky at times like Youtube, but our scar tissue didn't form from nothing.
This doesn't make sense. The effectiveness of the spear-fishing attack had nothing to do with Gatekeeper. Signing the app with an Apple ID provided for a straight-forward way to disable the attack, which made Gatekeeper a pure win.
Let's start with the fact that open allocation (not a concept I invented, but one that I've advocated with extreme vigor and, to a large degree, popularized; and I did come up with the term "open allocation") is in force or under active exploration at pretty much every company where the talented engineers want to work, and that closed-allocation companies fall into mediocrity and develop retention problems through a process that I've discovered and documented with extreme precision, including on my blog.

I'm sure there are a couple people who know more than I do-- perhaps the CEO of Valve and that company's chief economist-- but it's pretty obvious that I'm on the short list right now. When it comes to setting up the culture for a technology company, I'm one of the few people who actually knows how to do it right.
I suggest contacting a trademark attorney and see if you can get a short pro bono consultation. I'd ask about what they thought about your classification.

I'm not an attorney, but via http://www.iusmentis.com/trademarks/crashcourse/rights/ it says 'The most common type of trademark infringement probably occurs when somebody else sells a product or service under a name that in some way resembles a registered trademark, and the products in question are the same or similar to the registered products.'

Zynga's classes are IC 041. US 100 101 107. and IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038.

I don't see dating services in there: http://tess2.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-brs?sect2=THESOFF&sec...

I'm no attorney, but I'd go talk to one about your classification.

And if you take Paul's advice, make sure you make part of the deal that Zynga will do forwarding of the old domain for you for 2 years so you can transition your 75K users over. Impact to them and your business is non-trivial.
You can cash the check at the customer service desk. But yes, you can only redeem the cash-back coupon at Costco.
Speaking as an employee I've definitely seen situations where expectations didn't line up, but I would never have gone through 2 days of interviews without a really clear idea of the range they were considering. I guess this is one of those "live and learn" things, though.

Also, it boggles my mind that a company would spend 2 full days interviewing someone for an entry level person, and then on top of that it boggles a bit more because if they spent 2 days you'd think it is because they are being super safe and trying to find a great fit, and if they did find a great fit, finally, after all that work, why they wouldn't consider going up at all.

Sounds like a real clusterfuck all around.
You never see startups merging nowadays. Usually it's just acquihires.
Hi. Longshoreman here. I work around at the busiest port(s) in the USA and the 5th busiest port(s) in the world. Driving through and working around the 100,000's containers at the harbor never gets old even after working there for 7 years.

There are some interesting things I can say about containers after working with them up close:

• Half of the containers we export are empties. The way the process works is we get a majority of full containers from the East (China, Japan, etc.), unload them, and send them empty boxes. Quartz covered this recently: http://qz.com/64779/america-exports-a-lot-of-air/

• A refrigerated container is called a "reefer". We call the mechanics that work on these reefer mechanics. A 40 foot chasis is called a 40. So yeah, chatter on the radio channels talks about reefers, 40's, and (work) gangs.

• Here is a pic I took one night of the cranes before they started to "pump" (work). http://imgur.com/oxGNz9b

• I have a draft of a post almost done about what it is that Longshoremen do now a days. It's obviously changed a lot from unloading shit by hand. I met an old timer that would use a hook to stab a giant ice block to pick out the fish. This was before reefers. (I actually just published the post. It's not complete, but it has more general info about longshoremen and containers: http://raymondduke.com/who-are-longshoremen-what-do-they-do-...)

• I can't find the link, but the process that bananas go through as they get shipped here is very interesting. There is a special and very intricate cooling and ripening process with an exact temperature change at the right moment in order to make sure the bananas are the right ripeness when they arrive here.

• The worst thing I've encountered is cowhides. Cowhides are a common export from the USA to China (I imagine there is not a lot of room for cattle there). The reason why they are bad is because of the smell. They are coated with some sort of chemical so they don't get dry, but instead of keeping them in a bag, they just toss them in a container and drench them with this foul liquid that drips out of the box as it gets moved around the yard. Luckily, I've only encountered this a few times.

I'll be happy to answer any questions. I might not like a lot of things about my job (the politics and the schedule), but I am in love with the culture of the port.
At least personally, I react more negatively towards "manipulation" or "subliminal ads" more than outright, in your face ads (especially if done humorously or in good taste), so this "take over a subreddit" may be effective even towards the skeptics and naysayers.
To quote a friend from mine from a top startup: "All the assholes at my company come from Google."

My personal experience is that the engineers at Google are really decent, capable people. I miss that crowd, actually. They were pretty solid. It's the rest of the company (including tech management) that's fucked up.

When you have a company that believes engineering is for smart people and everything else (people management, product direction) is Dumb People Work, well... who ends up fulfilling those (actually important) duties? Exactly.

However, my only gripe with Google engineers is that they tend to be closed-minded about "weird" programming languages like Haskell and Clojure.
Genuinely curious: at what point (numerically) would you consider a subreddit to be "popular" and how many subreddits currently fall into that category?
Out of curiosity, which subreddit was this? I mainly go to r/bicycling and I think a good natured ad in that subforum would be received quite positively for both small companies making a niche product or big name brands.
Interesting, how is it different from Gentoo Linux?
ALbert Einstein. I think.
Sometimes you can determine it before the interview, just by googling them. Developers with a real passion for what they do will frequently have a significant personal web presence devoted to it, through open source projects, blogs, or what have you.
I have been trying to use probability in real life occurrence like this whenever I can, so let's get started back of the envelop style

according to this site http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables

Roughly 1.53 million students take up SAT every year and of which 10k students get perfect SAT score in Math (let's just focus on math for now)

so that's 0.67% (rounded) people getting a perfect score out of the total.

According to this data set, http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analys...

It says there are roughly 31k active users on HN, considering that I have personally seen many google employee's responding to a query/commenting on HN, let's assume a higher number of 2.5k.

so, 2.5k * 0.0067 which is about 17 people, so there are 17 active google employees on HN which have perfect SAT score in Math.

So that was my attempt, can someone provide a better probabilistic model? (maybe I will learn something new and exciting)
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I'd personally consider the tipping point around 50,000 subscribers. From my personal experience with organically promoting a website on a subreddit with ~60K subscribers, a #1 post on a subreddit of that size garners around 6k to 7k clicks in one day. Afterwards over the next 3 days or so, the link would get around 3k clicks.
Curiously, they had this tumblr clone called Yahoo! Meme ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Meme ). Which, IIRC, was developed by Yahoo Brazil and I guess marketed mostly in the south american market. I guess it didn't get anywhere since they killed it in May 2012.
What linux needs is another package manager...
I have noticed that for many new ads (not mine) you cant avoid cynical anti corporate comments.
I tried again and no sign in now - odd
get put on a project that's failing and make it succeed. My first boss at Google did this - he was on a project that was going nowhere, introduced a bunch of modern software-development methods to the team, and got the project unstuck.

In order to do that, you need a political protector who can guarantee, in advance, that performance reviews will come out in your favor no matter what happens. There's just too much risk for it to make sense otherwise.

If you have such a protector, then you're an unusually lucky person and most of my advice isn't for you.
"Employee"

Wow, that's a kick in the balls.
That's a very valid point. I'm just worried about Apple's blacklisting mechanism being subverted, but I suppose stripping signatures isn't hard.
check this page out to understand the underlying philosophy: http://nixos.org/nix/
I don't understand how your reply addresses anything kenko said. I agree with kenko and I wish people would stop bringing turing completeness/equivalence into discussions about what languages can do what. Turing completeness is inconsequential in such discussions; we're talking about what's practical and reasonable to do in each language. I wish people would stop trying to impress us with academic tangents.
This is far more effective than the collateral I saw from them 2 or 3 years ago. Glad to see they're making a more serious attempt to monetize.

I don't quite understand the constraints on the branded subreddits. That seems like it could be effective if done carefully and disastrous if done bluntly.
You have to keep in mind that the EFF get into some very important political battles and earn some very fearsome enemies.

In DC politics your enemies will not kill you but they will sue you, or they can do even worse -- they can ask their friends in Congress to open an investigation or to ask the DOJ to do so.

Thus, the lawyers for the EFF have to be really really careful and make sure that there are no open avenues of attack. When you are potential target, you have to be much more cautious than you would usually be. Especially if your enemies are very powerful and well connected lawyers, powerbrokers and publicity people. These people can take the slightest infraction, real or imagined, and weave it in a complex and snowballing story that ends with you having lost all credibility.

Note what happened to Julian Assange.

So no you cannot blame the EFF for refusing to be adventurous vis-a-vis bitcoin.

Furthermore, their change of policy is probably not related to startup money but to the government providing guidance for virtual currency.
Yea, to be fair, I think she was referencing mostly middle management and upper management folks, not engineers.
Divide & conquer makes quantum light a breeze to detect
Was there any legal action in relation to this? If I bought capacitors from a company and used them in manufacturing my products only to find I have to replace large amounts of said product because I was supplied with faulty capacitors then I'd be looking for some compensation from the company I got the capacitors from.
I've had a similar experience. If you advertise to the Reddit (without specifying a subreddit), or one of the default subreddits, then expect to get a lot of flak in the comments unless you're advertising something that jives very well with Reddit's attitude on business "ethics". Most of the committed advertisers will also astroturf a couple of positive comments on different accounts to try to set the 'mood' for a comments page on their ad. Your mileage may vary with that, depends on how conspicuous/overt the comments are.
The point is if you own the stock the high sigma event does not result in a loss but a reduced gain. And we're talking way out of the money so it will be a substantial gain if you get called away. Many call buyers are retail investors speculating on price movements, and are using call options as a form of leverage since they do not have the capital to go long the same amount of stock. Whereas call sellers must own the stock (or be exposed to infinite losses.) There are a few studies that show there are excess returns for option sellers vs buyers but unfortunately don't have a link handy. (See "Expected Returns" the book on amazon.)

edit: AAPL right now is an excellent example of a high volatility stock that is underpriced demanding large option premiums. If you have the capital picking up some AAPL to simply write calls until it goes back up to a fair valuation is a reasonable way to make money, with the caveat that it relies upon Apple breaking above being in the bottom 5% of the market valuation-wise.
What makes it a poor offering?
Http://www.Facebook.com/
I do associate "crap with friends" with Zynga, so I'd rebrand, not because of the letter, but because they have poisoned the general "with friends" phrase.
Nothing

> Tumblr is a media company at the core.

Tumblr is a glorified blog hoster.
I think it would be smart for Yahoo to do things to attract talent, but Tumblr is probably the wrong company. Tumblr is adored by people with zero tech talent and is based in New York* . That being said, your comment has made me conflicted. MM has made a ton of insane acquisitions, but the net result is that I would actually now consider Yahoo as an employer. I suppose a series of decisions that I find stupid leading to a positive impression of Yahoo is simply cognitive dissonance that I must live with.

* I live in New York, thus don't mean this as slight.
well, actually trillion dollar questions are a result of how the us economy works, not really a global statement(though the us wish it was). that aside i tend to agree.
Google Introduces Portable Native Client
Writing keepalived MISC_CHECKS
Imagine that creativity doesn't necessarily come from spending a few grand on test prep classes.