skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I didn't really mean to suggest that it would be removed, mainly about what kind of performance hit I would take by using pthreads instead of Grand Central. In addition, how well will pthread programs and GC programs work together. Normally, the threading is handled by the scheduler in a straightforward model, but if the GC model modifies the scheduler model, I'm not really sure what the results will be.
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People are not, generally, reachable when and where you need them. A bitter fact of business life is that, usually, the rest of the world works at a different pace than you.

I suggest you drop the phone interview requirement and conduct your research online; a secure, well-tracked form will do. If it's good enough for Nielsen and Price WaterHouse Coopers, it should be good enough for you.

P.S. Professionals might not be too thrilled about the $25 reward as well.

[Edit: Also try not to pester web-savvy communities too much, or someone might decide to feed your link to 4chan and you will get all the high-quality TIME Magazine-esque data your heart desires.]
Maybe you've already answered your own question. When I hear "market research survey" in 2009, two words come to mind: "spam" and "work".
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Does anything like this exist on the iPhone/Pre?
He did make a couple of points that weren't completely self-serving. He recommended a longer school year. There was an article posted here a couple of weeks ago that showed that much of the difference between higher and lower income kids could be explained by the fact that higher income kids got continued education over the summer.

Making the college accreditation reports public sounds good. Having the government rank them, not so good. Having universities sponsor Super Bowls, stupid.
Anyone else remember when mp3.com did this and there was a huge controversy? I doubt you'll have the same problem this time.

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, the mp3.com controversy was about providing a streaming version after verifying that you own the CD. There was at least one other company that did something like metracks.com, but they shut down.
Time to finally get a new phone, methinks.
You need to talk a little bit more about the Amazon S3...outside the web developer community noone really knows what that is.
Microsoft wasn't kidding about the $100MM marketing campaign. Hulu AND HN? woah.
I like the concept, not the interface.
Real or not, saying "I Bung it" is going to replace "Googled" for me.
i think there's a lot of retail evidence to suggest this is true. its also true in the reverse (a high priced item placed next to a midrange item will help the midrange item sell better than if it were placed alone)
A longer school year almost certainly means more dependence on schools and more resources being directed to people like him, so they can be spent on more educational experiments. Even if you agree with this plan, I'd still call it self-serving. (This doesn't mean he's not a sincere believer.)
I've worked for quite a few women and I've found all to be excellent managers, except for one who really didnt like programmers (she said so herself). I've worked for quite a few jerks, and they were all guys. Maybe it is a gender related thing. Or maybe I'm not looking to have my hand held.
This is great. I remember writing games as a kid on a pocket computer during long car rides. Imagine being a kid today, with all these great toys.
If the boss saw the videos where Scotty mocked him then he might be pissed--the binging clients will discover videos of him looking foolish and incompetent.
And until that pilot landed in the Hudson, I'm betting you never thought too much about birds getting sucked into jet engines (I certainly didn't). Perhaps the conclusion from this is that there isn't really much utility in your being aware of it, since you're not a pilot. That is to say, the knowledge is of little benefit to you as a consumer because the weight of this particular factor in the overall safety of air travel is not that big.

Like say you design software for something critical like medical devices, and one of these fails and somebody famous dies or a bunch of people die in different places. Suddenly everyone is talking about unit testing and software verification as it pertains to your field, someone with a talent marketing starts up safercoding.com and so on. I'm not sure the stock of human knowledge has really gone up.
Check out Impacket too:

http://oss.coresecurity.com/projects/impacket.html
I have to disagree with both of you. The original criticism was incorrect, because this study does control for income and other socioeconomic stuff. But "correlation isn't causation" is still a valid criticism of this study. To prove causation you would have to have some random effect controlling where people live.

Just because it's peer-reviewed doesn't mean the article proves what it claims to. Unless you have a natural experiment it's hard to prove causation in situations like these. So you get a lot of published research that just proves correlation.
Gist for iPhone; Google Wave for the Rest of Us
Once you have the product ready, how do you sell it? Using adwords or Affiliate marketing? If affiliate marketing, how do you find your affiliates? ClickBank?
I emailed her and she said people have asked about taking over the blog once she has a job and others asked about doing a similar thing.

Would people pay to be showcased on a hire a boss site?
Back in the 1970s little motorized scooters with pedals (or little pedal scooters with motors, depending on your point of view) were popular in France. They may well have been popular elsewhere in Europe too, but stuck in my memory ever since because I never saw one until I went on a trip to France. They weren't popular in the British Isles.
I don't want to upload my music collection before using any site. If there was something I could try without spending all that time, I'd be more likely to.
This is a service I would use. I was turned off from signing up though, because:

- why do you want all that info? I usually don't even give my full name to a site until it has earned my trust.
- what does Bespoke audio player mean? I'm guessing it's the flash audio player, but that means nothing to me.
- I can't tell if it's free forever, or free only while in beta. For this sort of thing I would rather not use it if it's ad supported, since the ads are likely to be untargeted and visually intrusive. But it is the type of thing I would be willing to pay (<$10/mo) for.
- The text could be improved. I see a few small grammar errors and some sentences that could be worded better.
We seem to be getting a lot of Wikipedia submissions lately. Wikipedia is an itch I can scratch myself. I come to HN to find interesting things from sources not on my every day path.
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Just curious - what brand? You have an url?
How does this differ from:

lala.com
mp3tunes.com

?
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I'm not sure whether to take this seriously — basically the article states that programmers can't tell the difference between a computer, and a human being.. It's like saying great tennis players aren't good at ping-pong because they hit the ball too hard.

Great programmers can formulate complex ideas into tangible concepts, a skill necessary for good communication.
Why your brain just can't remember that word (btw bilingualism makes it harder)
After seven years as a freelancer, I've taken my first full-time, 9-to-5 position in a small not-for-profit company.

It's a strange and exciting new world involving dress-codes, business lunches, casual fridays and something called "Synergy."

I guess Scotty should've been more synergistic.
I have 4-5 different video players installed. I wish I could use just one of them to view videos instead of using Flash (which hiccups and crashes Firefox sometimes and doesn't even work properly on Linux for me).
Given that there's at least two links to Flex websites on the blog, that's not surprising.
Another day, another negative blogging story in the NYT.
"Currently in Beta, we require you to help us in testing the service and providing subsequent feedback, so give it a go, its FREE!"

Your copy needs some work. That should be "it's FREE", for example.
Yes, but that depends on the amount of turbulence, yes? Perhaps the margin of safety needs to be bigger for that region of the ocean?
That was great! But imagine hearing some of the sad truths before starting high school. Not so funny anymore, is it?
Conversion tracking:

It is close to trivial to get a basic level of conversion tracking established -- copy/paste some Javascript into a page which probably already exists in your conversion funnel. Back in 2007 Google's conversion tracking had some accuracy issues (i.e. it was nowhere close to what my numbers were -- counting 50% of transactions whereas I expected 90% of customers to see the page I was counting at). That has since cleared up.

Fear of autopilot:

They have pretty comprehensive budgeting control (you set it in terms of a per-day thing, but that is basically a marketing-friendly wrapper around a per-month budget). That lets you sharply limit the risk -- I think at the start I had a daily budget of $10, which means if the process went out of control for a month I'd be out at most $300 when I got the next bill and terminated it. They've since performed well enough that I've adjusted my budget upwards several times until they were unable to spend most of it. (The default for AdWords is to adjust your bidding to spend up to your budget -- for example, if you have $500 unspent, they'll adjust your bids upwards to get you more clicks and spend that last $500. This default is in Google's interests, but not in yours, because it will result in you paying absolutely stupid per-conversion costs at the end.)

For this Halloween I'd feel comfortable authorizing them to spend several thousand dollars. (Halloween is my best season and its the only one where my ads ever get budget-constrained.)

Ways it could have been easier:

Conversion Optimizer is about as easy as I could want it to be. AdWords, hmm... I'd like there to be a clone of me who I can get to write creatives (that is advertiser-speak for ads and landing pages) and check if they're performing well without me having to actually do it. Everything about quality score could be more transparent, particularly for newbies to the system.

Changes to improve ROI:

I've always got ideas for this, I just don't have nearly enough time to implement and rigorously test them all. My big project right now is turning my desktop application into a web app, which I think will result in a substantial across-the-board increase in conversions due to the elimination of the download, install, execute cycle and the possibility to collect email addresses to implement an autoresponder & etc.
This is why you'd want a series of towers, so that the force would be distributed. Also, you'd have the accelerator start at the ground, so the structure could be tethered there.
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Getting to the height of low earth orbit could still be useful. Once you're that high, it's much easier to accelerate something to orbital velocity.
Well, while applications that utilize UDP may not be "DRY;" I don't see how UDP is not DRY.

Although, I think using "DRY" in this context sort of misses the point. It's not just that we don't want to repeat code because it's sort of inefficient but it is hard to maintain as that fixing a bug in code block C requires making that fix in its repeat code block C'.

But I agree, the article is sort of odd.
In other news: most diaries abandoned after just a few entries too.
Ask HN: Catalogue of business models
Hey guys,

I was thinking the other day that I would love to read a book that was essentially a catalogue of all known business models (not just web startups) with examples and discussion.

I was reminded again by this post on the web startup business model wiki: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648223

Does anyone have a recommendation along these lines?

Cheers
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I disagree with the article too (and don't think it's well-argued), but...

Stating your position in firm (i.e. "conclusive") terms is generally an advisable practice. The reader can judge the merits of a position for themselves, and counter it if necessary; using wishy-washy language or the passive voice doesn't help anything.
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Can't tell whether BBC stations are available--no way to search the radio stations. The site hardly works at all in Google Chrome, have to reload the home page frequently to get out of being wedged. I see it's "unlimited" except for about a yard of footnotes qualifying that and giving limits. And, like everyone else, I'd never fill out all that personal data just to try a site that doesn't obviously do anything new.
Shorter summary: PowerPoint hell
Super Mario Flash
Great site to play Super Mario games.
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This guy's website seems to be consistent going back a few years,

http://web.archive.org/web/20051215004824/http://www.scottyi...

http://scottyiseri.com/The_Big_Rock_Show.html

...but he looks like an entertainer rather than a "freelancer" so maybe they hired him.
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He'd start out pissed if that was the case. Usually, when you actually fire the guy, you feel better, not worse.
Bleh. This seems like yet another article that starts out with a basic premise of "oh hey, programmers are special and have bad social skills because they're rationally-thinking ubermensch". Spare me.
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It took me some time to realize that meTracks allows you to upload your music and listen to it anywhere. Is there a reason you can't say that instead of "meTracks is an innovative web based audio player allowing you to listen to your music on demand"? I can already listen to my music on demand. I hit play.
I think I would gladly put up with more tip-of-the-tongue syndrome in exchange for for early-age bilingualism.
I'm waiting for some more Android phones to become available, so I'll have more choice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#...
is false bad end comment
Could be, but it's pretty elaborate. I just watched all 45 episodes. His website had the originals, and youtube had the newest ones. Two of the videos on his site had broken links too, which is either the mark of a true personal site or a really clever viral campaign.

The whois on scottyiseri.com shows it was registered in 2004.

Of course, it's possible that MS approached him and they did a fake episode for the 'firing'.
I like to stick the hmac hash at the beginning of the cookie text, since it has a known length. I don't care about tampering on the client-side (since you could achieve the same effect with firebug), so js scripts can simply lop off the first n characters and use the rest of the cookie text as-is.
That's a really good solution. Many sites don't need user accounts at all, and often a cookie would suffice. Showing the user what they gain from an account before requiring one is a smart move.
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Well if they give an easy way to deploy it this could be fun.
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Yeah, and I did find one small error. At around 2:20 he starts hitting himself in the head while at home, and then it switches over to the hidden camera. At 2:23 you can hear him hit himself once more when the boss starts to speak.

So unless I get convinced he starts hitting himself in the head while arguing with people, I think this is fake.
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It's not negative, it's accurate. Most blogs (and startups) fail to generate a lot of traffic and get abandoned, that's just a fact.
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Seriously? This is (was?) a well-known series poking fun at office work. It's totally for real and he really was fired.
Anyone having trouble installing this on a G1? I am getting "not enough space" messages upon download, even though I have >50MB free on the phone.
Early-age is probably key. I am French and have lived in the US for a few years and I can feel that I sometime struggle a little with French now... (I'm not saying I'm exactly bilingual though, fluent seems enough to confuse me)
He sounded very pissed at the start, and lost control when Scotty implied that the job was only important for video material.
I would go the other way on that -- overwhelmingly, your customers want to get their music streamed, NOT get a pretty wrapper around a separate service that is way the heck over their technical skill level which they nonetheless have to understand. If I were you, I'd see if you could possibly structure it such that a) they paid you in advance and b) you stored all the music on YOUR S3 account, which is then an implementation detail that no one has to care about.

Now, of course, the obvious worry with this is the major advantage for your service is "If you use us, you can listen to music without having to pay for it", which is pretty much the selling point of every Internet music based startup I've ever heard of, and you'd probably prefer to structure things in such a way that you don't know that 90% of your customers are using your app as a convenient pirating service, because that will result in less legal hassles.

This is why hell will freeze over before Apple integrates any sort of cloud offering with their iPods. As long as they can't see the contents of their hard drive, they can continue with the polite fiction that their hipster twenty-somethings are filling those eight gigabytes with music they've either purchased legitimately or which is licensed appropriately.

More broadly I think the challenge with startups in the music space is coming up with a value proposition which is not "Using this service is a lot cheaper than paying for your music".
Use a latching relay or something. Not too tricky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay#Latching_relay
Why are there so many comments disagreeing with the article on the grounds that good programmers are not poor writers when the article is quite obviously talking about verbal communication?
Only if he does both the same way.
It's not negative, it's accurate.

You know, it could be both.
It's great for the impulse buyers who see $99 and fall in love with the idea of buying it. The phrase "penny smart, dollar dumb" comes to mind here.
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Constraints aren't only for the physical world; they can also be implemented online to ensure users take a desired action.
I kind of really want an android phone now.
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I agree with the premise that an electric bike is a great way of commuting 5-20km.

However, the problem is the same for electric bikes as it is for good quality push bikes: theft. Bicycles get stolen like nothing else in a lot of places. In cities where bicycle transport is common (The places I have experienced this have been Amsterdam & Beijing), they seem to have arrived at an inelegant solution to this: Cheap bikes you can afford to lose. That way you can rely on a combination of crappy wheel lok (no need to tie to a pole), low resale value & indifference to losing a bike or two a year.

For me, this is what keeps me from replacing my driving with cycling more often.
I know that the skill sets overlap some, but icons laid out in a window does not make you an interface designer.
Ask HN: How have you tracked iphone user behaviour for your app?
are there any 3rd party stuff that work well?
That and not being able to take a shower when you arrive at work.
The iPhone EULA (or maybe app store agreements) prohibit scripting and interpreting, but if you have a jailbroken one you can install Python (search for Python in Cydia).

Coding using the iPhone keyboard isn't much fun, and as it's unsupported there are limited APIs - but there is a Python/Objective-C package, and a sample GUI app which loads a long list from a data provider (with full scrolling), and with a jailbroken phone and SSH, you can upload and edit remotely and so on.
For the mathematically inclined here is another one that accounts for more factors.
http://randolfe.typepad.com/randolfe/2006/04/bubblizer_a_req...
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20-50 km/hr would probably be a normal range for your overall average depending on where & who.
Couple of design points. The large bold text at top right ("music store, radio charts, audio charts) looks terrible. It's too big, not centered within it's bounds and the black highlight on something that big looks wrong.

Username/password login could be made to look nicer too, especially as there is a lot of unused space there. At the very least the login boxes + labels should be as wide as the "lost password" stuff underneath.

Also look at your page title - the obvious SEO linkbait stuff gives the impression of a hoax/scam site and this will just be more noticeable on Google results (i.e. less people will click it).
I switch between 3 languages without thought while speaking, however, to write in one I would need to pause for a few seconds to collect my thoughts (I need a whole day to switch context to write poetry or reasoned prose.)

While skimming this text I caught myself saying this to my brother, see how much of it can you understand:

"Accountkayga charge-garee caawa, depositku wuxuu ku dhacayaa yawmayn aw thalatha".

Three English words with Somali conjugation suffixed with a pure arabic phrase. Wrong in three languages :-P
I've been noticing recently that law and computer science have a great deal in common. For instance, to accomplish a 'small' or 'trivial' task in either field is often not as easy as an outsider might assume.
PhoneGap will let let you develop with HTML/Javascript/CSS, but compile to native code. That's the closest I know of. Bonus: it will also compile to android (basically a webkit wrapper).
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It's right there in black and white. This isn't XMPP, it's Wave over XMPP, so there's no reason they can't impose additional constraints, and kudos to them for doing so. Optional TLS is effectively the same as no TLS and that just won't do for _the_ next gen messaging standard.
I prefer much simpler advice. Keep finding customers (internal or external) and help them solve their problems. Lifelong learning will be a byproduct that will take care of itself.

Uh, not to be pedantic, but the title is "How to become a software engineer/programmer". He has already explicitly limited the scope of his post to technology, so in this context, "learning" does equate to "learning technology".
I have actually been looking for a website that plays all my favorite radio stations, but did not find any stations for my country or some way to see if i can add them by url

the logo should be static, the colors can be better

i think a webradio site standard would be a huge thing
At what point does a motorised bicycle become a motorbike?

Here (Australia), anyone of age age can ride a bike pretty much anywhere for just the purchase cost of the bike, but to ride a motorbike I need to be of a certain age and have a license. I also need to page yearly rego and insurance, and pay stamp duty on top of the purchase price.

At the moment, I think there's still a reasonably clear division, but with improvements in battery life and capacity, and better motors soon there won't be a lot separating an electric bike from a scooter or basic motorbike. At which point I'm sure some bureaucrat will notice and well... we all know what will happen then :(