skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. The first thing I did was try to find my record. It was easy because my salary figure was fairly unique.
Don't ask for percentages.

Ask for a flat amount. They don't pay you in %'s, they pay you in dollars. Point this out to them if they try to point out the percentage.

Say X is the rate advertised for any of these places. I'm not looking, but feel I deserve a raise of at least ____
That's how I read it too. A move in strategy away from exporting raw materials, to focus on the value added manufactured goods. Regrettable perhaps but understandable enough. Doubt they'll be able to enforce it though.
I think you should read all comment without knowing the person's karama. You'll probably recognise some of our more illustrious users by username but really you should be evaluating each comment on it's merit, not the author's karma.
*upvotes*
In cognitive linguistics this is called conceptual metaphor. If you're interested in it, read "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff and Johnson. My favorite conceptual metaphor experiment (I think by Lera Boroditsky) was based on a question like:

The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday but was moved forward 2 days. What day is it on now?

Because this uses the common "time is motion" conceptual metaphor, if you ask it to people on a moving bus, they are more likely to say "Friday" than are people sitting at a bus stop.

The people who are in motion are more likely to conceptualize themselves moving through time and "moving the meeting forward" means forward in their direction of motion. The people who are not in motion conceptualize time as moving past them, and "moving the meeting forward" means forward towards them, making them more likely to say "Monday".
> PLT-Shoes, anyone?

How about Bootstrap? http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/
My access point is wide open but SSID broadcast is disabled. Considering the number of visible open APs in my apartment building, that's probably enough to keep the random bandwidth leach or mischievous wardriver away.
Anyone play it yet? It's a pretty easy thing to do, apparently. There's windows binaries, and on mac, I'd just use the command line interface, and follow along with eboard (sudo port install eboard).

I'm about to start my first game. I'm going to laugh when it kicks my arse.

Edit: It prints out an ASCII-art board after every move. Apparently (since it's deterministic) it plays Scandinavian Opening against 1. e4. Anyhow, try it out.
Yeah, this tangent is snowballing a little bit. I think the original post literally just had a typo.

Having said that, again, in several places I've worked where HIPAA is a constant presence, it hasn't killed IM. It's a dealbreaker for a lot of financials though.
Wow, that is a lot of money spent on fart programs.
Augmented reality layers for the Android
note: The diagrams are not locked in any way so my carefully crafted test is no longer there.

it was something along the lines of

a b c
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I haven't used this app on the iPhone, but I regularly do long wring on my phone. It's like having a small notebook around that I can write in when I have free time.
Also at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10319483-38.html
Auto-filtering of tweets for relevance is going to be nearly impossible. 'Relevant' changes for me on an hourly basis, based on workload, project, location, working / not working, and a slew of other factors.

And there's no way I'm telling tweetsense that much so it can filter tweets.
Nokia can do UI design after all, Linux-based N900 unveiled
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Same here.

Still, it's a pity that it doesn't have multitouch.
No nibbles the first time (but on a different source URL).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768474
"the only one among 32 measured personality variables (e.g.,
self-esteem, extraversion, energy level) that predicted college grade point average (GPA) more robustly than SAT scores did."
Is college GPA really indicative of anything? Probably more so than high school GPA, but given the wide variance in difficulty, perhaps high GPA people are simply the people that choose to do things that are easy...
During economic instability, the public sector is always the safest place to be. Plus government opportunities tend to grow during recessions while businesses shrink to weather the storm.
I'm guessing the ultimate punchline is going to be Customer Development: http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/customer-development-at-sta...
This is old news and fluff. For a less fluffy article:

Increased incidence of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected military drivers and protective effect RhD molecule revealed by a large-scale prospective cohort study.

Look here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/9/72

Courtesy of the hard science sub-reddit.

For those with too little time to read the actual paper, here's the results summary:

We confirmed, using for the first time a prospective cohort study design, increased risk of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected subjects and demonstrated a strong protective effect of RhD positivity against the risk of traffic accidents posed by latent toxoplasmosis. Our results show that RhD-negative subjects with high titers of anti-Toxoplasma antibodies had a probability of a traffic accident of about 16.7%, i.e. a more than six times higher rate than Toxoplasma-free or RhD-positive subjects.
Would you mind uploading the document somewhere? I don't want to go through the pain that is scribd.
I've had success in asking for a raise with a technique that breaks down into two parts:

First, frame the issue as a problem for you. A problem your bosses can help you with: I.E. your unhappy about the mismatch between your salary and your responsibilities. You leave step one when your bosses agree with you that it's a problem. I'd try to stay away from specific numbers and focus on your needs/feelings. Be general, talk about how others in your area are paid more, but shy away from exactly how much. This allows your manager to 'help' you with your problem without a commitment to what the 'help' might look like. Bosses _love_ to be helpful.

Second, once they admit that there is a problem, you can start talking about a solution. Remember, your bosse's hands may be tied with rules about max raises, bonus schedules, review cycles, and other such crap the corporate world throws in front of good bosses. So, before hand, figure out what solutions you'd be willing to accept. Maybe a deferred raise, bonus, more vacation, less work hours for the same pay. Try to be as flexible and honest as you can. The second stage is your time to start talking about specifics, but try to accommodate the limitations placed on your boss. That said, do your homework, if your boss is lying to you, don't call them out, just get ready to walk.

Last, be prepared to quit. It's hard to talk about how unhappy you are at your job if you haven't thought about alternatives. If it goes well you won't have to leave, but it's good to go into the discussion with the confidence that you could quit if you had to.

Good luck!
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This should open up a very interesting debate.

- The US wireless market is one of the most expensive for the consumer.
- Competition has been highly limited - with extremely high barriers for entry.
- The prepaid market ( a hit in many places) world over is nearly non-existent here. The prepaid market is a very disloyal non-forgiving market for the service provider but extremely sensible for the consumer.

I am curious what are the changes needed to improve the state of the wireless telcomm business ?
Just log out. Problem solved.

That being said, don't let the fact that one comment got downmodded scare you away. People have opinions on all sorts of things; eventually you're going to run into the fact that people are bound to disagree with you. Hopefully you can take a few days and realize that there aren't too many places on the net where someone can disagree with you and do it respectfully with reasoned responses.
ah, didn't see it that time around
Why would established members "have to worry too much about how any particular post received" if HN didn't have karma?

You say that karma allows established members to "present unpopular points of view without too much penalty" but how does karma's existence (that is, the total of all up-votes on all comments and features gated by that score) not encourage just the opposite? Also, why should we privilege established members' dissent more than outsiders'? It seems like outsiders might even have a better vantage point.
happily yes?
From a comment on the page:

>Although I am rather upset with Apple for not approving applications that would allow for visuals with music — rather upset! — this is where the market is at currently.

Is it true? Does somebody know of such an app which has been rejected?
Prized 'moon rock' in Dutch national museum is a fake
Yes, these are just exposed as authentication_backends, any existing ones will work alongside.
I think it falls beautifully into the romantic surrealist genre, and appauld it for doing so.
I wasn't criticising banality, though I would disagree with with your commment on banality is the root of all art. What are you basing this on?
Who are the 5 that have 10+ in their family?
Sadly this isn't even wrong. I am not saying it's anywhere near right, I'm saying it doesn't even rise to the level of at least being wrong in some well defined way.
The idea proposed in Schneier's article lacks plausible deniability. If it's not self evidently clear to the customs official that you can't decrypt it, you're in a sticky situation regardless.
i hope that some day patent trolling companies be treated this way.
Some of us made LOLcat jokes because the story is old news. Maybe they weren't funny to you -- if so, mea culpa.

The danger of demonizing bad jokes is that eventually, nobody will make any jokes at all; they can't all be funny. Then we're just a bunch of annoyingly high-strung geeks being Very Serious about matters which have absolutely no relevance.
Hehe, the Chrome V8 javascript engine is from Denmark just like LEGO.
mentalists like derren brown use hypnotic suggestion its pretty entertaining to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befugtgikMg
As soon as I expect to be doing actual work, I bring my 13 inch macbook. A netbook still requires some sort of backpack or bag; at that point I can carry a real (full-size) laptop. Comparing this with my last laptop (bought 5 years ago), it was a total pain to carry around. Back then, a netbook would have been good. Nowadays, if I ever planned to be without a laptop, a smartphone would be the next size down for me, as it's the biggest thing I can fit in my pocket.
A sci-fi story that springboards off of this parasite and its effects, which should appeal to some hacker types: http://www.davidwgoldman.com/Invasion_of_the_Pattern_Snatche...
In case I missed it, did that study control for location? I know that the other study stated that it did not have much (if any) background information on the candidates, but did say that infection rates for the parasite are higher in villages and small towns. I think that this is a significant lurking variable in any traffic accident analysis, and needs to be considered: In my experience, rural folk are less exposed to some of the more "creative" driving situations than those who live closer in.
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I think of myself as having average or even low IQ. Some background: I was partially raised in government housing as a child, had parents who were drug and alcohol abusers, and was never encouraged to do anything intellectually stimulating while growing up. I lived in a poor mixed raced city and attended a mostly nonwhite high school. Learning was never a concern of mine while in high school, not getting my face smashed in was (which happened).

I was not in an environment for intellectual growth, nor was I in an environment that would have indicators of high IQ.

Through pure luck, I had a high school teacher that somewhat set me on the right course. For half a day, two years long, I had this teacher for a CAD class. He told me attitude was everything and encouraged me to enroll in college. My first two years weren't great. I struggled in classes like algebra. I also didn't know how to study.

After two years of getting nowhere, I moved to a large US city as a result of certain life circumstances. I finished up my undergraduate degree and took a year off. I didn't feel very happy though. I wanted to get a graduate degree. My company was willing to pay for it, as long as I worked 40 hours a week and made good grades. It was a complete change for me, kind of a fresh start. I decided I would take the university serious. Because my undergrad wasn't computer science, I had to complete all of the undergrad computer science courses. So I had at least four years ahead of me to get my masters.

Only because I worked really hard and studied a lot, I would often be the top performer in my 3 calculus classes, discrete math, and so on (this wasn't always the case... but hey, I was working a full-time job too). I ended up with a masters in computer science, something I never thought was possible for me.

Something that inspired me was that I'd see the international students (mostly east Asian and Indian) study very hard. They would study all day long in the library. They seemed like the very definition of self-discipline. I adapted to that the best I could while still working 40 hours per week doing .net programming.

It seems like I fit the premise of this paper and can relate: Low to average IQ who often did better than my higher IQ classmates and friends.
The interesting thing is that applying the "Make something that you would use" model helps to dissolve some of those market unknowns. Your market is yourself. In this case I don't think snaptalent's product was something that the founders themsevles wanted to use. I would go as far to say that a great startup idea is is validated by founder(s) own problems.

Note: I said startup _idea_ and not a great _startup_.
My Dad, the phone phreaker
I would just use a search box and checkboxes instead of categories. Also I would allow users to add suggestions - crowdsource this thing.
You're not paying the slightest bit of attention. This is for BOOKMARKS, not history.
Obviously. Most people are not entrepreneurs and have no desire to be. It sure would be a freaky world if everyone, or even a clear majority were.

Most people don't live for their jobs, the job is just a paycheck. The federal government provides some of the most secure, highest paying with most benefits jobs in this economy.

Sadly for the US, an ever growing government sector does not lead to long term prosperity, because government almost never creates value. Exceptions like funding for basic science and some infrastructure exist, but overall it's a definite net loss.
i work for a company where we hire a lot of young chinese guys who come to the US for about 3 months, get trained, and then go back to china to do work. these guys always buy used iphones from craigslist to take back to china because they can buy it at a much cheaper price, unlock it, and then sell it for a profit. ~$350 does sound a little steep, but i think they pay a much higher price now if they want one.
It died young. ;-)

Layar is pretty cool tho. I'll give it an upvote.
Agree with the generalization. But from the screencast, there is no indication this does anything other than alias basic shell commands. I'd recommend the author screencast something that the average shell user won't look at and wonder why even bother. At least the source code reveals something a little more useful.
The problem is that what you are ruminating over is probably not something that can be fixed by thinking. For instance if her husband is cheating on her, the woman should confront him. So depression would be adaptive only for certain kinds of problems. Perhaps we over use it because in more primitive conditions we would be constantly reacting to life and would be acting on instinct most of the time.
In a way, isn't this a reason to use Rimuhosting. They obviously care about their customers enough, to proactively monitor and step in that everyone gets a fair CPU share.
go to about:config, set places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus and places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus to 0. Then use private browsing when you visit those "secret" links.
Before you go in to discuss your raise, first sit down and try to write down the exact economic contribution you have made to the firm - ideally link cost-savings or revenue-generation directly to the activities you have performed.

This activity will serve two purposes:

1) Provide you with additional confidence that you are justified in asking for a raise

2) If during the salary discussion your employer asks "why should you get a raise?" rather than responding "Because elsewhere people make more money!" You can say "Because I made (or saved) the company $XX,XXX amount of money last - hence it would be cheaper to give me the raise than to not have me around next year!
If you can't beat a corrupt system, join it and game it.
Your assumption is correct (at least for me).
Have chess engines gotten to the point where they can win without cheating (e.g. being reprogrammed between rounds)?
So, it's common for people to make a list of wedding gifts they'd like to receive, and these guys are asking people to help fund their startup instead? Do I have that right?

If so, is it common for people to spend over $100 on a wedding present for another couple? $420?
Maybe you could also check if your could get away with spending 1 or 2 weekdays freelancing out of your non-profit orga's offices. I've workd for quite a while for nonprofits too and had good experiences - that is, if you're not already totally overworked.
From bizarre reactions to imaginary CPU use problems, to hacking in to their client's servers, this article presented some good reasons not to use Rimuhosting.
You can make sure that people get a fair CPU share without resorting to such primitive (and wrong) methods.

Xen has the ability to cap CPU usage with either hard or soft caps. Most VPS companies seem to use soft caps. That way, if there are 4 instances on the box and each is doing lots of stuff, they'll each get 25%. But if 3 of the instances are mostly idle not using CPU, but one needs more CPU it will be able to use extra. It works out really nicely because it means that your usage can burst at certain times when it's unlikely that your co-habitants are similarly bursting.

See: http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#cpu-scheduling
What's the negative implication if you just stop submitting and commenting on articles?

Do you want your profile removed from search results?
Footnote: it isn't completely "self-moderated", of course. There are moderators (although pg is the only one that is known) who can [dead] stories at will.
Well said. There isn't really a universal answer to this sort of question, so it's good that the submitter included the particulars. Incidentally, this is an example of the benefit of having well developed business and social sense --- those "soft skills" which I would recommend cultivating.
Under No Circumstances Should You Not Solve A Real Problem
Yes. OTOH, it's kind of nice to get something that you feel the recipient will remember, IMO.
That is an excellent slide show.
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If you are on Windows, you can modify your host file so that news.ycombinator.com forwards to http://www.havenworks.com/.
Firstly it's a very old discovery, just the effects of latent toxoplasmosis are becoming more newsworthy in tabloids and fluff pieces, traditionally the whole encephalitis was what people worried about.

Toxoplasmosis' only agreed upon (and still alleged) effect is a decrease in neophilia, which is linked to monoamine oxidase A a product of the so called 'warrior gene' that is far more prevalent in society than toxoplasmosis infections (33% genetic prevalence amongst European whites IIRC and ~60% in Asian/Pacific Islanders).

Oh and BTW toxoplasmosis is easily curable, it's regularly cured in humans and in animals that carry it used for food production (Pigs, Sheep and farmed Deers). The reason doctors don't treat it, is because you're safer to have latent toxoplasmosis than none at all, not only can it lead to miscarriages in women, but the chance of encephalitis increases with decreased immune function. So if you get toxoplasmosis when you're healthy, like most people, you'll be fine, but if doctors go around curing it you'll get reinfected and seriously increase your risk for death.

Ironically the mild production of Monoamine Oxidase A is known for a decrease in danger-seeking behaviour, but extreme production (witnessed in people with the Warrior Gene) is known for an increase in danger-seeking behaviour. Toxoplasmosis apparently acts like the warrior gene for mice, but will in fact likely prolong the life of a human infected with latent toxoplasmosis.
But then people would upvote comments (or worse, decrease s/n by responding) just to find out who authored them.
Doesn't Xen do proper CPU sharing (but not proper I/O sharing, yet)? What are they using?
If you were to believe the author, his VPS wasn't causing high CPU usage.

Regardless, doesn't most vps instances have limitations built into their VPS instances? It shouldn't matter to other VPS in that box how much CPU is being used by other VPS, as long as they are within their limitations?

That was my experience with slicehost and other VPS
They did tell me this when I was an teenager: "You're a smart kid, but you need to put in more effort".

I tried putting effort towards school for a while. I figured if I had to play, I may as well win. The problem with treating high school as a game is that it's not fun. Learning the material doesn't get you anything, not even more advanced material to dig into.

For me, digging my teeth into a difficult problem is it's own reward. In high school I wasn't asked to work on difficult problems. Instead I sat in the back of the class, ignored the lecture, worked on whatever I was doing at the time, and coasted through the tests well enough to pass.

Plenty of effort. Plenty of work ethic. Plenty of smarts. Nothing I wanted to work on.
I've used Future Hosting http://www.futurehosting.com/ for a few years now, with two different VPS instances for $30/month each. Never had a problem, and if they did something like this I'd be shocked.
Six people expect to make negative income this year.
Highest incomes are 110M, 98M, 68M, 25M, and 10M (watch out, that last guy took the survey 6 times with bad data).

In the bell curve of "# of years in industry", there are spikes at 10, 12, 15, and 20 -- looks like people rounding.

27% work 40 hours a week. 15% work 50, 10% work 45, 9% work 60, 4% work 35 and 30.

Unemployed hackers are very much more likely to be single (compared to the ratio for all types of employment).

I can see no noticeable correlation between hours worked and expected income.
The gifts seemed very expensive to me on average. That might be different between countries/cultures, though.
Like any compromise, it offers negative points as well as positive ones. I would argue that very often (at least in this community), posts with large karma are valuable, if not necessarily as valuable as the karma would indicate.

Karma is a mechanism of convenience; that isn't to say it precludes users from browsing and enjoying non-karma'd posts.
Loltaxoplasmosis. It is transmitted by lolcat feces.
I trust security advice from tptacek or cperciva more than from [name withheld until you vote].

Threads get really confusing when [name withheld until you vote] argues with himself all the time.
Agreed, you can easily notice the difference in how someone plays when you're using lightweight plastic chips and properly weighted ceramic chips. It affects how someone plays more than money (usually putting $5 on a game will be enough to get people to play serious, but the proper chips and cards will make people play like it's a $50 game).