skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the Texas Auto dealers were smart...

That's really the operative phrase isn't it? I think we've already established that some people aren't above burning down their own house to evict an unwanted guest. As it has already been pointed out though, Texans are good at one more thing: Voting people out.

You're getting to the real heart of the problem though. The dealers are taking the retro-futuristic approach the newspapers didn't take with the internet. But then the newspapers didn't know just how disruptive that wire will become either.
No true Libertarian would believe X.
I keep waiting for someone to mention that the Texas law is virtually identical to the laws on the books in 48 other states. Also, Ford went to the Supreme Court over this in 2001 and got the back of their hand.

The law is on the books for real consumer protection reasons beyond putting money in dealers' pockets ( though, putting money in dealers' pockets is a plus too ).

In this case, I think an exemption for the staggeringly different service model of Tesla would be appropriate, while leaving on existing rules.
I didn't understand your reference. Is the story here that (1) Shay Pierce wrote a column for Gamasutra about why he decided not to work for Zynga after they acquired OMGPOP?

And then (I had to dig in the comments) (2) as that column was circulating, OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter supposedly sent the Twitter message "What's so interesting about success is the number of failures who try to ride on your back. Shay Pierce is just one of many..."?

(The message was supposedly at https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/185901564131688448 but this is a dead link.)

What would you want to hear from Porter now?
I've settled on Feedbin + Reeder for now. So far only Reeder for iOS has Feedbin support but this is also in the pipeline for Reeder for Mac.

Also Press, former Google Reader client for Android will be supporting Feedbin soon.

So far Feedbin has been worth my whopping 2$/month :)
Right, i can guess this too.

But if you're writing about one entity doing something, you have to at least give me the right name of said entity. You can't write with the informal definition.
Games take incredible man hours to create, not so much on the engineering side, but on the design side. Copywriting, UI, animation, integration, and game design are all very labor intensive tasks that are performed by highly skilled individuals.

Even on the engineering side, the clients can often take a long time to develop compared to a normal app. As opposed to using Bootstrap or UIFramework, almost all game UI's are "hand rolled" from scratch, and often have odd quirks in their design that can lead to a lot of extra testing. Games in general, whether poorly made games, or well made games, are a huge sink of labor.
Huh, TIL. What was the reasoning behind this?
If your area is like Phoenix-AZ-USA, then you may well have more jobs than developers to fill them. You need to either expand your candidate pool to those whom are less proficient in Python but willing and able to learn, or you need to offer a compelling reason for someone to leave their stable job. Usually a 10-20% increase in salary+benefits will do this.

If you are offering 10% more than your competitors in terms of pay, you stand a better chance at recruiting talent away from other companies... if you offer a "senior" position at typical pay, you can't expect much.

Personally, I'm tempted to put on my outgoing voicemail (about half my inbound calls are recruiters) that I'm not interested in less than X in my local area or Y out of state. X being about 10% more than I currently make, and Y being 30% more (most areas recruiting, such as SF/SV cost that much more to even live there).
I think pressing the issue has to do with if its systemic of the department or an isolated incident at an individual level. If the student has only one complaint against him, I don't know if a reprimand is worthy unless you had multiple parties who felt it was completely out of line. I think making the party aware that how it made you feel is probably the best thing you can do.

Also FYI to the original poster: I'm not sure how private you want the post to be, but just the references to team leaders and fishbowl lets me know you and I went to the same Nike funded school.

I'm not sure how much anonymity matters, but I was able to deduce this rather quickly. I'm long graduated and hold a different degree so I don't know any of the parties but just be wary.
I think they made it 'special' to try and get it passed. The car dealers would probably commit every single cent they had to stop such a law if it allowed all dealers to sell direct.

Tesla would probably be fine with allowing everyone direct dealerships, but the dealerships are not.
Offtopic, but: Does anyone use selection tooltip things like on that site? They absolutely annoy me, as I'm one to compulsively select and deselect text I'm reading.
Organizing for Velocity
Conflict of interest?

Will a publisher mention that she is getting paid for reviewing the product, no mattre how much she likes it?
Is it not legitimate to call out piss-poor management and cronyism without also "setting an example?" Does this mean that only people at the helm of $1b+ companies are able to criticize Zynga's pathetic ineptitude?

Not sure what your aggressive reply accomplishes; at least OP has sparked discussion to point out a major flaw and source of Zynga's downfall.
Ha! This is great, it looks as if this article was written for Soylent Corporation. I personally hope their company succeeds, to the point where they're going to have some awkward title changes. :)

https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body
>This line of argument is flawed

I don't think you intended that as a preface to your flawed argument, but it worked out well. No, the lack of parametric polymorphism is not a good thing. You are losing simplicity, not gaining it.
In my experience (7 years in Seattle) there are a ton of great companies large and small, hiring locally and also active with local meetups. Seattle is more desirable and affordable (IMHO) than many tech hubs, so people are already doing the legwork to find positions, rather than companies searching far.
> There's a large number corporate data jobs in the area needing to be filled. (Analyst, programmer, DBA, warehouse, BIG DATA superstars, whatever...)

Curious, how are you hearing about these jobs needing to be filled? Asking as I am also based in Dallas and looking to move my career that direction.
Startup weekend is probably one of the last places on earth to find legit entrepreneurs/founders. I've been to 2 and never will be going again- such a mental drain to accomplish so little.
Let's not foget this gem:

Figuratively -> Literally

Do people in your company use "Social" to mean a conversation about business topics? A "social" is people eating/drinking and chatting informally to get to know each other.

"Champion" is not a "manager". A champion is someone who cares about a project and fights for it. Someone assigned to maange a project might not be a champion -> will neglect it and let it die.
Yep, I assumed I encounter representative portion of USA on internet, apparently I was very wrong.

USA I am disappointed.

Maybe thinking global warming is a scam would be better example.

EDIT: on the other hand I never stated the poll takes place in USA :)
Which, of course, does not apply legally since March 22, 2012[1] and has not been enforced for as long as I can remember.

[1] http://www.com.ohio.gov/liqr/docs/liqr_HB243highlights2012.p...
If failure of such magnitude cannot be criticized, then what should be?
Just like they snuffed out those students?
Commie cowards.
I described myself as "a bit of a Libertarian" because I generally agree with all major points on their platform - not because I change my opinion to match their platform. I also didn't say the government "should" step in - I said the government "does" step in - because currently they do not prevent you from using ideas in patents for personal use.
Very true, although it finally is getting addressed ever so slowly.
I'd implore you to take a look at a gallery of sites built with bootstrap: http://builtwithbootstrap.com.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that not all sites built with Bootstrap follow the default mold of a thin 100%-width black navigation bar across the top with white background. Sure, there are lots that have that layout, but as developers learn more about Bootstrap, the sites that use it as their underlying framework are definitely diversifying.
A recent Less Wrong post titled "Earning to Give vs. Altruistic Career Choice Revisited" [1] is relevant here.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/hjn/earning_to_give_vs_altruistic_ca...
Proposed new titles:

Founding team: Soylent Red

New hires: Soylent Green
I deleted DrawSomething from all my devices and we stopped playing it the day OMGPOP was purchased by Zynga...

I vote with my appstore.
Let's really do this conversation from step one. Write down the words you'd like me to say, that would satisfy you. I think you want me to say, "They have a right to sell this product." I've already said that. What more do you want from me???

I declare it's an awful way to relate to ME as their customer to build an amazing chip, and then hobble it. It makes me resent them, and want to seek out their competitors.

Now, explain to me how those emotions they've instilled in me help make them a successful business.
You are missing the forest for his tree example.

He was using creationism as a means to illustrate a point: that the responders probably tilted their responses towards what they thought the researchers believed instead of what they themselves believed.
Advice about Ruby or Python is stupid. Sorry, but it is. You focus on that, you compete with hundreds of thousands of willing people, which drives salary down. You have to be truly exceptional to make more than $70k outside of SF/NYC, and in just a few years of learning you likely won't be that special. A trendy language or platform is never going to return the highest salary unless you're in the SV mind-bubble.

If you truly want to make that kind of money, become an expert in one of these: Fortran, Cobol, mainframes, project management and architecture, Oracle, SAP/Sage/SAS (or other ERP dialect). They're boring, but that's precisely why the jobs pay well. These jobs are almost always open, and almost always pay more than 100k with 5+ years of experience. You pay for it in stress though.
Both? I've been in situations where a company implodes like this, and employees at the company are often already being head-hunted by previous employees (who departed during a prior round of lay-offs, or who left of their own volition before the company fell apart) before they are fired.

While it's often something of a surprise when you finally do get the axe, you usually have a sense of impending doom, and a feeling that bad things are going down, before it happens. Projects stop getting traction. Upper management stops caring as much about what you're working on. Everyone becomes very apathetic. You get a rash of invites on LinkedIn, and people start updating their resumes.

So, it's rarely a complete surprise, and people often already have some idea of where they're going to go, or are ready to start looking.
It should be noted that the National Trust is also concerned with the natural environment as well as historic sites. For example, their Enterprise/Project Neptune campaign is focussed on securing the British coastline.

What's nice about the NT is that they're not an in-you-face political campaign group, they just go about conservation on a daily basis.
Talk is cheap. It's very, very easy to criticize from afar when you have no skin in the game.

So, that type of criticism holds very little weight.
I know some folks who think of the NT syscall interface as the 'true' OS API and see kernel32.dll as an add-on. I'll ask, but I don't think these folks make a distinction between user32.dll and the msvcrt.dll that ships with the OS.
file document
document: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text

You can distinguish between media types without using the Content-Type header or out-of-band communication. In fact, there's a (non-standard) header for preventing some browsers from replacing the Content-Type value with their own guess.

It's obviously useful, especially for distinguishing between similar media types (e.g. JSON document with different schemas), but not necessary for HATEOAS.
It very charitable to call the GP's rant "criticism".
Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator
That is not true in C++. std::vector<bool> is not really what you would have expected.
Why 20 years? That's entirely arbitrary. Regarding your point about commerce, and the 'lameness' of an arbitrary class of competition, libertarians should encourage economic competition. Why does it suddenly become "lame" when a competitor "steals" someone's idea? Implementation is just as important as imagination. If another guy can beat you to the market even after you have the innovator's head start, you deserve to lose.
This is known in the economics literature as product crimping. Perhaps surprisingly, this can make everyone better off (not only Intel but also the purchasers of both the crimped and uncrimped goods). See "Damaged Goods", by Deneckere and McAfee [1].

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://www...
> if that's not direct proof of a systematic effect and success then I don't know what is

Two graphs. One for a country with a box, and one for one without.

Interestingly people have made such graphs, and there is no difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Not to be that guy (everything bad said about someone else must be followed up with something bad about yourself), but we have our shameful moments also. At least we let you talk about it, though.

EDIT:

Thanks for the replies. For some strange reason, I actually thought that the Tiananmen square was a low casualty count incident - I didn't actually realize the full extent of it. Pretty fucking horrible, actually. No wonder they don't like to let you talk about it.
I have 3 months left at this internship at which point I'm going to hermit and develop my own shit for the next year. I just need to stick this out since it pays a fat paycheck, funding my food and rent.
Introduction to OpenStack Part One, From Zero to Domination
What a total mismatch.

I like Scoble for providing us access to all kinds of interesting people and ideas. Not his opinions.
I mean seriously, calling the guy and asking him for his opinion is like talking to the door man outside some important persons building.
If I buy a beer for $3 on a train, is the primary purpose of that $3 "transport", because practically nobody gets on a train just to drink beer? What if that $3 is merged into the total cost of your ticket and you get the beer included?

The fact that it seems airlines do underchage for cheap seats and overcharge for expensive ones is irrelevant - I already pointed out that ticket sellers can go in either direction on this. The point I am making is that you are getting a tangible thing that is more expensive (e.g. a nicer seat) - whether you are being ripped off or not is another matter.
Valleywag put together the following list of luminaries who were hyping Zynga a few years ago(1):

- Michael Arrington

- Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon

- John Doerr

- Fred Wilson

The NYT ("Will Zynga Become the Google of Games?") and San Francisco Chronicle ("[Pincus] was indisputably farsighted in recognizing the opportunity") are also on the list.

Sheryl Sandberg and Business Insider are named as well, but the quotes attributed to them don't seem to be in the same league.

1. http://valleywag.gawker.com/heres-everyone-who-hyped-zynga-b...
It is a self comforting device and recommended by AAP: http://goo.gl/ZnR17
The inconveniences are by design. The bugs are due to aggressive deadlines.
That feels, and I'm not sure what the right word is, "corrupt"?
How much time do you spend in 3rd world countries? My wife is from one, we spend a month a year over there...

They were a recipient of the one laptop per child initiative - most of the laptops were stolen and placed on the black market. Corruption runs so deep that most foreign aid has been withdrawn, and foreign corporations refuse to use local labour in local construction initiatives.

Giving away mosquito nets is a great initiative. Producing the sort of infrastructure that allows people to buy them with their own money is better.

The Chinese have done more for the 3rd world (any my wife's country) than every Western charity and government combined. You go to my wife's country - all the local infrastructure is built by Chinese corporations, and most of the cost is donated by the Chinese government. What little debt remains to China is forgiven periodically (China just wrote-off 355 million in debt to this country). If you eliminated corruption, it would be even more effective, these Chinese corporations would be more willing to use local labour...

By the way, even the link you provided cites poverty and malnutrition as the main cause of fistula. Do you want to treat diseases or prevent them as well as raise the economic status of those in need?
not really. he lost out on severance.
This seems like a good idea. There are a lot of wealthy traders in NYC, but the richest guy in the city is the one selling all the traders neatly packaged financial information.
Zynga might have simply bought the userbase. Divide the paid $200mil to the number of users OMGPOP had at that time and then compare it to the amount you expect to gain per user once you have them consuming Zynga stuff.
Of course, this thought is not always what actually happens, but Zynga might have been desperate already at the time for new distribution channels, that they agreed to pay a premium for that bundle of users.
It seems a lot of these companies don't perform proper due diligence. As someone who went through the first dot com bust, I would've thought many of these companies would know better - I guess not.
Spending 75% of revenue on marketing costs isn't sustainable. Losing $35m a year on $60m in total revenue isn't sustainable.
Websites to 'close' for China's 'Internet maintenance day'
You should see Larry Ellison's compound on the peninsula.
The question "did X go up during Reagan's term?" is probably correctly answered "yes," at the same time "did X go down during Reagan's term" is correctly answered "yes." Because some things move both up and down, and the question isn't explicit that it is asking about the overall trend.

EDIT: said the opposite of what I meant to say
Ask HN: How do you properly host an HTTP API service?
Note: This is not about documentation hosting.

I'm suffering choice overload. I have a working OpenResty HTTP API that talks with a PostgreSQL server. Now I need to decide how best to host these servers.

Uptime required: 24/7/365

Storage: < 50GB

Bandwidth: < 5TB/month

Features: Easy deployment, back ups/replication, logs/statistics/reports, quick customer service, fast network. A lot of these things make AWS desirable, but I know AWS is not that cheapest and I'm not sold EC2 is the best fit for API servers (but I honestly don't know).

Popular cloud choices: Amazon EC2 (reserved?), Linode, Digital Ocean, Heroku

Dedicated choices: RackSpace, SoftLayer, ?

Other choices: DotCloud, Joylent, ?

I've had no problem discovering reading material for these hosts, but I'm having a hard time finding information about these hosts for the specific use case of API server hosting.
Provided Salesforce's internal sales teams and enterprise consultants can effectively promote ExactTarget as a new addition to the product platform to Salesforce customers that hitherto hadn't considered it, the actual details of the level of integration are of secondary importance.
Given its products and business model, Zynga fading away into nothingness is probably the best thing for everyone.
> currently they do not prevent you from using ideas in patents for personal use

Is that true though?

I was under the impression that if someone patented a method of, say, making a sandwich, I could be sued for performing that invention in my own house for my own personal lunch.
>I'm not sure what your point is, whether you think go is simple and powerful like lisp, or the new java

Really? I find it hard to believe you can't tell what is intended. It certainly is applicable to the article, as the article can be summarized as "I've moved up a language on the blub line, and now my old perfect language is clearly inferior, but my new blub is perfection incarnate".
"...most definitely it wouldn't work on a general touristic place"? That's a pretty strong statement to use with no proof.

The sites that the National Trust maintains are "general touristic places". It's the UK's largest membership organization, with a membership of 3.7 million people in 2010. It owns over 200 historic houses. It owns more than 630,000 acres, nearly 1.5% of the entire land mass of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and owns or protects roughly 20% of the coastline.

One of its properties -- just one, and remember that it owns over 200 houses and 630,000 acres of land -- had nearly 440,000 visitors in its 2009-10 fiscal year.

National Trust properties are most definitely "general touristic places" at which these signs are working.
In it's simplest form, non-excessively peppered with financial terminology and equations:

Floorplan is a line of credit dealers use to purchase their retail inventory. Each vehicle on the lot subjects the dealer to finance charges that begin accruing from the moment the dealer takes possession of the vehicle. So, say that the floorplan fees and interest are $100/day per vehicle (for simplicity's sake). The longer a car sits on the lot, the more profit the dealer is losing on that vehicle per day. Make sense?

Why do dealers care?

If you're being charged by the number of days a car is sitting on the lot, and a customer comes in an looks at a brand new, green car that arrived yesterday, and there is an identical twin in every way that is 400 days old, the salesman is going to push you to check out the older one and say they can make a special deal on it for some reason or another (sometimes they'll just say it's because it's been on the lot for a long time if they're really desperate). If you're paying interest on every product by the day, you want to get that out of your inventory as quickly as possible, because that's where you maximize your profit potential.

Often, you can find vehicles on lots that are marked down lower than other similar/identical cars. This is almost always due to floorplan age (I'm assuming we are only talking about new cars here, because used cars bring in a lot of other variables).

Some dealers operate in a way that they seek to capitalize on volume sales vs individual car sales as a way to both be more competitive and mitigate floorplan costs. These are often the best dealers to purchase from (and these are almost never luxury brand dealers) because they will typically sell every single vehicle at invoice price (or several hundred above), and build their profits instead around manufacturer incentives that pay out to the dealer $N per type of car in a graduated fashion where the payout increases as #s of types of cars sold increases. If you have a dealer in your area that advertises (and shows you the proof) that they sell at or near invoice, especially if that is their standard practice, you can safely assume they are a volume dealer. The salespersons are going to be focused on selling as many cars as they can because they are also making their income based on the number of cars sold, not a percentage of per-sale profits.

Can you use this on the lot to your advantage? Sure. Just ask the dealer/salesperson how long the car has been on the lot.