skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to intuit employee morale has always been an important part of "good management", and looking at paper trail records as part of that evidence makes sense to me.

It's hard to imagine seeing a manager reviewing an employee's records and deciding to reassign them being "evil". Is your complaint here just that they're doing it with an automated system?
I like how you now have a simplified, functional launchpad/landing page, along with a quick link to the "how it works" page.

Overall, the pages are less cluttered: you've cleaned it up and it shows. Nice work.
The actual work involved should be infinitely more important than any perk.
Scary stuff, good thing i always clear my history...
Romance is a pretty poor basis for a marriage.

This is such a true statement, yet everything you see on TV, movies, the web, etc. ignores it.

Marriage is a lot of work. Fun work and worthwhile, but sometimes the person you love, well, you just don't like that much right now. You have to work through problems. You just can't ignore them and hope they go away. I wouldn't trade it for anything, and a good partner can change your universe. But it is nothing like mass media has prepared you for.
I don't get why everyone pushes themselves so hard in a startup. I'm in a fairly profitable startup right now (my first one, never had a job), and I still have more time for my gf than she does for me.

If you have a good idea, solid team, you can execute on great ideas with 40-60 hrs a week. If you're spending more, you're not managing your resources properly.

I really appreciate my gf, she helps me relax and take my mind off of work, so that when I am working, I can be twice as productive.
I've been meaning to look into Lua since Tokyo Cabinet is scriptable with it. Thanks!
challenging work and brilliant colleagues

Word on the street is that there's some fun work to do but there's a lot of vanilla corporate grinding on the Adwords interface and reporting infrastructure, and that Google hires a lot of people into those roles before they can branch out into other jobs.

Also everyone I've personally spoken to about job interviews (i.e. not read about on the internet) was pained by the pomposity/egos of the people that were doing the interviews. In my opinion there's a lot more to be said for someone that is humble and gets their work done with the occasional intellectual surprise than someone who can school you any day on the One True I/O Monad and takes every opportunity to do so.

Of course, it's also possible that it's absolutely perfect and the people that I talked to had sour grapes because they never got offers. I don't know. :)
From talking to a lot of married couples it seems as if marriage takes a lot of work and a lot of self-sacrifice. Perhaps the maturity of age has something to do with the successful marriages being those that where entered into later.
Google is probably doing retrospective data mining to identify statistical links between possible indicators and actual data on employees leaving ... (e.g., employee tells boss, "I feel my talents are not being used", or increased frequency of visits to "monster.com")

However, once Google starts to intervene and change things so that the most valued employees change their mind and stay, ... then that changes the equation. Furthermore, once Googlers know they are being "watched" in this way, some may change their behaviour.

A small version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle? ("observing something changes it").

By the way, Googlers might change their behaviour in two ways. If you know you are leaving, you may try to mask that intention. On the other hand, if you just want a raise, or more challenging work, you might mimic "I am about to quit" signals, hoping to manipulate the system to enhance your situation.
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Creationism doesn't, in my opinion, make any predictions. You have to go to Intelligent Design proponents like biochemist Michael Behe before you get predictions. He has the "irreducibly complex" theory, and a few examples of biochemical reactions (human blood clotting is one) that he believes are irreducibly complex.

Other scientists have tried to prove his examples weren't irreducibly complex (e.g., dolphins and puffer fish have steps removed from their blood clotting reaction compared to humans), but yeah. AFAIK, (biblical) creationism's whole point is "the Bible is right, QED."
frankly, i think its a commentary on marriage, not just entrepreneurial or techie marriages.

divorce rates are higher with younger couples. the younger, the higher.
now it is easier to get out

Not as easy as you might think:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=610896
I trust you mean getting business cards etc. There's a fine line between making good marketing investments and lying. I think embellishing your own success is a slippery slope.

Lying sucks energy and adds to mental clutter. Always be honest. It's hard enough to muster the creative focus you need to build something good without worrying about how you're "fronting." Better to hone your pitch so you can genuinely sell your idea to discerning customers.

Many businesses do profit from "appearing bigger and more successful" than they actually are. I call Bernie Madoff to the witness stand. Some smoke-and-mirrors is to be expected in industry but too many companies are flat-out "designing trust." Time is precious and I would rather spend mine earning customers' respect. The startups I admire are trying to be as tastefully transparent as possible.
My plan was to start a startup at 22 or 23 and cash out at 30 and then find that perfect woman and marry her then and not have to work much because I made my money and blah blah blah.

Guess what, I found the perfect girl a year before I started the startup life and she totally supports it. I'm not sure if I could have done what I do without leaning on her and vice versa.

It is about the right person, not the right time or order. You can't plan when or how you are going to meet the right person.
There's no such thing as a free lunch (or dinner or breakfast) - these costs are factored into salaries.
I think it can be seen as creepy because it's non-social. Using an algorithm instead of people to interpret emotions is what I think is being seen as creepy here.

An analogy here is a nerd getting shot down on a date and deciding to write an algorithm to help lower the chances of this event reoccurring. The more human response is to get a new hair cut and gain some confidence.
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I don't know if I've never tried, or never found it easy enough, but this is the first time I've found Emacs useful for Python on Windows - appreciated for that even if I never use Clojure!
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I think the biggest problem is that both a marriage and a successful company require a lot of work. And when push comes to shove you sometimes have to let one suffer inorder to help the other.

The guys you mention above all fit into the work is their life mold where they throw themselves into what ever they were doing. This won't surprise anyone but that doesn't really endear yourself to your partner.

I know a very successful entrepreneur who has been married 4 times now. Each one of his wives couldn't stand coming second to work and I'll bet that each one went into the marriage thinking that this time it would be different, that they could change him.
Not so much an argument as running up the score on the evidence. The phrasing of the headline is poor, though.
It sure wood be. And growing something like a kidney would be even harder. But if we can mass produce healthy non mutated tissue of any kind, that's a big leap forward.
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I am looking for a video conference solution that is stable, preferably low budget, for a 3-4 party video conference. If it records and saves the video-conference that would be a great feature, but not a must have. Would appreciate your insights and advice.
I don't think Google is what it used to be anymore. I know people that work there, and they say that the perks are gradually being rolled back. (Instead of dinner, there is left-over pizza from lunch if you stay late; that sort of thing.) The insurance has never been as good as places like Microsoft (or even universities that run their own healthcare plan). The fun projects don't make much money, so most of the people there are working on boring things. It seems like their standards are slipping too; I worked at DoubleClick before the aquisition, and Google held onto some of the worst developers I have ever met. (One guy started crying when my boss and I tried to explain database transactions to him. He works on a database-driven web app for Google.)

Anyway, the honeymoon is over, and Google is just an average place with a pretty logo and a popular search engine and email service. It has all the corporate stupidity that any other big company has.
I thought it was going to be along lines that I heard in undergrad, that, in the 50s or so before computers, government's sheer bureaucracy limited its size. That computerized record keeping came along just in time to allow it to keep growing. I wish I had cites.
Thanks, but...

my guess is nobody will really get what you mean until they actually try to learn QFT, huh. I'll revisit your comment in a few years.
wufoo, come back!
52 minutes and counting. ;)
Since it was a discovery for you, did you experiment with other tricks? In particular, did you try to simply slow down your silent reading, and found out that it didn't do the job?
I signed up to become an expert using my twitter account: nice seemless integration.

Next I added some profile info and hit the save button. The save registered, but I was left on the edit profile page. It felt like I was left hanging: what do I do now? You should funnel the user back (or at least show a prominent link) to another area of the site.
I read aloud to my daughters and enjoy every minute of it. I'm sure it helps my writing/speaking as does talking to myself (tech subjects) when alone in the car.

I highly recommend it (the kids part not the talking to yourself, that can get a little weird)
Good tool. Specifically, though, I'm hoping to reach Wufoo. And without their site, I don't know how. HN is a stab. :)
I have a feeling Larry is being sneaky here and trying to misdirect competitors. I don't doubt that indexing content in real time and making it searchable has some utility - see the comment on this article about some question on the t.v. show Lost - but maybe 1/100 of my searches are like that. If my search for the missing link IDA is going to be polluted by hundreds of results of people tweeting about its discovery, I'd rather not have real time search.

On the other hand, this is not an either or proposition. I am ok with this as long as Google keeps the Tweet search results separate but equal (somewhat like they keep the blog search results separate via blog search but equal in that blog posts with good pageranks do appear in search results. Although I can imagine few if any individual tweets having a very high page ranks).
On the contrary, this only hurts the theory of evolution.

Before, there was only one hole (between the early lemurs and primates). Now there are two holes: the hole between the early lemurs and Ida, and another between Ida and the primates. ;)
This isn't a bad analogy but it leaks a fair bit.

Many, almost all?, people go to work for a company thinking that they'll spend a specified amound of time with it. Very few people that I know think that they'll spend their entire life there.

In fact in the financial industry it's a very accepted practice to jump around from company to company.

Even in the tech industry there are many people who graduate with a plan to work for a Google or Microsoft for a few years to get experience and then plan to go out on their own or to join another startup.

Contrast this with marriage were very few people go in thinking that their marrige is only a 4 year commitment and that they'll get divorced and trade up every 5 years.
And providing free breakfast,lunch and dinner would force people to stay longer at work. Ofcourse its thier choice, but its not easy for an average human to refuse something "free":)

By providing a meal worth, Google can get atleast 1-2 hours extra work hours from an employee.
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I think it's already been discussed here, but perhaps some people are realizing that such perks are The Company's way of saying "see, you don't ever need to go home." When you can eat, exercise, play, and get your laundry done at the office, suddenly you have four less reasons to leave the office at a reasonable hour.
Agreed. I wouldn't call it evil, but it's definitely creepy. Has a big brother feel to it. My gut says creepy. Maybe I could be logic'd out of that feeling, but I would imagine quite a few other people have the same reaction.
Absolutely love this idea.....what a great opportunity for a mental release and brainsharing with like-minds.

This is why I begin driving from NY to SV to permanantly relocate in 4 days!!!
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Note the "Phillip K. Dick" tag on the blog post.
that's arXiv for you, scientific publication without the peer review.
Creationists do make predictions regarding the Flood and other biblical events, and regarding the ages of everything else. During the 80s, when I was growing up Baptist, they liked to talk about intertwined human and dino fossils, and dino tracks crossing human tracks that were clearly older, and such. Dunno about now.
When looking for a job, the work from multiple companies can all seem just as enticing. If I'm going to be happy working at any one of the companies, good perks can put one ahead of the other.

And besides, if the perks are outstanding enough, what is wrong with taking a job where the work isn't the most important factor in your choice to be there? For many, jobs are just a means to provide for their needs and wants in life. Not a place to spend their creative energy or brain power. They save those for the rest of their more enjoyable life activities.

Note: I personally have to work at a place where the work is interesting or I'll go nuts. Work is important to me and is a form of expression. But it's not like that for everyone.
Wives are like startups. You fail at the first one.

I speak from personal experience on both counts.

;-)
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... or just fall in love.

(tip: you can't screen for it)
You mean "some Creationists".
right, but what you asked was if it was down, and he provided the objective answer for you. yes, its down.
Don't marry.

http://curi.us/blog/post/1168-monogamy
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ichat :)
That's not true: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html

Also, "all US marriages" is not the same thing as "all US first marriages." A person divorced twice and divorcing for the third time is different from a person divorcing for the first time. That has little to do with the poor judgment of youth.
I think the part that wreaks havoc with relationships is not so much the amount of free time but the timing of it.

For example, if you start off working on your start-up on the side to check your assumptions, that'll suck up a lot of your common free time.

Then, if you work full time on your start-up, you might find that a lot of your essential networking and meetings happen outside of normal office hours. So if your girlfriend is working office hours you might find that you've got a lot of flexibility, just not when she does. So then you find yourself busy when she's free and free when she's busy. Not a recipe for success.
Yep. Fail. Stuff from yesterday is indexed however:

http://www.google.com/search?q=confusingly+called+copy-regio...
This is all very cute, but the real exploit isn't embarrassing your friends and co-workers by revealing their kinks. Imagine a phishing site which could sniff your browser history to see which bank you use, and then provide a customized login form masquerading as that same site.

Exposing browsing history via CSS color information in the DOM is a serious security hope that should be closed by browser vendors.
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This is much, much harder than you think :)
Do we actually have data that shows later-in-life marriages are more successful? (besides the submitters anecdotal evidence)
http://code.google.com/p/aza/source/browse/trunk/SocialHisto...

It's one of those things which has questionable ethics…but honestly? A little awesome...
In Roy Blount Jr.'s Alphabet Juice (under "mnemonic"), he mentions that the ancient Greeks and Romans generally read aloud, even to themselves. (We know this because Julius Ceaser didn't, and his biographers considered his reading silently, and thus more quickly, to be novel. )
First question you should be asking yourself...

Why do I want to be married?
2 thoughts:
1) I worked on the search engine and Larry has been saying this for years. I worked on search quality back in 2005 and even back then he was talking about indexing everything and indexing it in seconds instead of hours.

2) Search is won on the margins. Yahoo and Google do equally well on most queries, but users decide which engine is better based on how it performs over all of the types of searches they have to do. So when you take the 80/100 searches you do that are not real time and use unique keywords and you know what you're looking for Y! and G come out the same. It's on those other 20/100 that Google wins users.
This is really old news. Here's an HN link discussing someone's batshit crazy startup idea based on it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404564
where's the beef? got a url to back that up? would love to read up on it.
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"I read aloud to my writing students, and when students read aloud to me I notice something odd. They are smart and literate, and most of them had parents who read to them as children. But when students read aloud at first, I notice that they are trying to read the meaning of the words."

I suspect this had to do with the students' expectation of what their teacher wants. I bet if the same student was given a copy of "Room on the Broom" and a willing toddler, they would read just fine.

I wonder whether some rephrasing from the teacher (such as "would you perform this text" instead of "read") would make a difference.

But there is a big difference between the music example and reading. Aside from the level of required skill, playing a piano sonata takes the same time as listening to the CD; however reading aloud a book takes significantly longer than reading. Which is why it makes sense for short forms, but not for whole novels - unless you can't read at all (eg. while driving).
Was this conversation transcribed by someone's secretary?

JA: So, you are using a Sequel server? Or are you using a database?

SP: We use Sequel Server 2005.

I guess I should be thankful it's not in lolspeak.
Perks span a broad range of offerings. "Free candy," for example, isn't all that enticing, but having speakers from all over come speak to establish an environment with strong intellectual values is something that would definitely sway me in a career move.
Having worked at more than one place that has offered "free" food, beer, and other perks, this attitude is usually not the case.

Many times, even in a down economy, these things are truly offered as perks to try to lure good employees away from other jobs. Often times you can only go so far with pure salary because if you start to get compensation packages that are too much above "market" then you get many questions from your board and stockholders. But, paying a 5% premium over market salary AND offering perks like freebies, you can attract good candidates without making your direct headcount numbers look so high.
Not everybody does it automatically and mathematically on a large scale.
PIL is definitely the book for experienced programmers. "Beginning Lua Programming" from Wrox is also worth looking into you're relatively new to programming, it maintains a more informal style than PIL and covers most of the core things you'll want to do with Lua.
There was a discussion on this 50% meme where tokenadult pointed out this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html?_r=1 I believe the highest the divorce rate has ever climed was perhaps 43%. And as yummifajitas states here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=548939) it's mostly divorcee's getting divorced. Repeating the "half end in divorce" statistic obscures the more interesting possibility, that some people aren't able to make a good spouse.

with edits: Took me too long to find it, I got beat.
Imagine if this had happened 5-8 years ago and instead of using Twitter/FB/MySpace for the 'activity stream' it used IM statuses from all the major IM networks (ICQ, AOL, MSN, jabber etc.)

Bizaro world for sure but interesting to ponder.
If this is merely based on platform, Apple is simply setting a precedent for other frameworks. From a business perspective, they don't want to lose direct control of the development of applications, especially since the Apple app approval ;) process has been shown to have holes as of late.
Don't marry if you are a guy. At present, marriage is a contract with no upside for you. You gain nothing from marriage that you can't get from a committed non-marital relationship, and stand to lose a lot.
http://docs.plt-scheme.org/guide/contracts.html IANACS I'm not sure if these are the same as (or even similar to) contracts in eiffel, but they are very useful and prevalent in the standard library.
> e.g., employee tells boss, "I feel my talents are not being used"

If you need a computer program to tell you this employee might quit, you're doing something wrong.

> On the other hand, if you just want a raise, or more challenging work, you might mimic "I am about to quit" signals, hoping to manipulate the system to enhance your situation.

Are you under the impression that's not already a common tactic?
if you play your cards right, you could end up being married for fifty years

on the other hand, you will likely be "done" with playing mr. web startup guy within ten. you're not going to be forty three going to geeknrolla and y-combinator meets.

so what i find puzzling is why you would give up a fifty year gig for an eight year gig.

and drop this "gold digger" crap...you don't have any gold to dig. you might in fact end up leeching off of your wife
I know a very successful entrepreneur who has been married 4 times now

maybe he's just a prick?
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And math, real math, is not about the mindless execution of predefined algorithms such as linear algebra. It is about understanding those algorithms, using higher-order logic to understand what is universally true, conditionally true, and so forth.
I guess I spoke too soon and they did add support for multiple ports through the sam lb access point. So http and https can be served from the same lb. This makes the lb much more interesting.
Here something similar based on social sites:
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/
still fuming over the CL erotic services decision i see
you might want to take a look at oovoo.com, don't know if it's capable of video recording though...
2/3 of marriages that are the first for both partners end in death.