skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good marketing is about passion and the ability to communicate it. Someone on your own team is always going to have more passion for your product than an outsourced service.

If I were in your position, my first tactic would be to search within my existing user community for people with the skills I need. Put a message out through your forums, Facebook page, and twitter account (which I note is small - consider tweeting less about your tech, and more about the interests of your market, then follow people w/ appropriate interests on http://wefollow.com)...

Broadcast something like: "Want to be more involved in helping Bouldr grow?" and link people to short survey you'll create that can identify two types of people: potential customer evangelists, that simply need more support from your company, and potential marketers, who would be most effective as part of your team.

The criteria you're looking for for both are:

* active users of your app
* passion for rock climbing
* good communication skills

The most important things for each are:

Customer Evangelists: large network, and either mobility across multiple geographic concentrations of your target market, or high amount of activity within a single large geographic concentration of your target market

Marketer: knowledge of incentives / motivating people to contribute effort / content, SEO skills, ability to create interesting content for inbound marketing.

Failing to find these people within your existing userbase, I'd identify the marketing people at services targeting a similar demographic, and ask them if they could recommend people.

Shoot me an e-mail if you'd like further explanation / detail on any of the above.

Good luck!
I stopped after "JEE development, though challenging and exciting"
"The same system will allow anybody with a camcorder to distribute videos to the world -- a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmmaking talent or a deluge of truly awful home movies."
Equating grammar with a bloody war. I rest my case.
Better column width and no full screen adverts:
http://www.instapaper.com/go/12579157/text
In Germany people have a right to a television. If you are on social welfare and you don't have a TV, the government will buy one for you (afaik). Some sell it for the extra dough.

Maybe it makes sense from the perspective of the government, because they can use TVs to brainwash the masses. But seriously, I think it is an OK move - or it used to be, when TV was more important. These days I would agree that people should be given a computer, as life without internet is severely hampered.
It makes no sense to declare health a human right; not while there are medical conditions that can't be helped. It's like a right not to be struck by lightning.

It makes more sense to declare healthcare a human right. Naturally this requires the idea of rights as "whatever tax-funded entitlements are bestowed upon the citizens by the duly elected government" which seems unpopular around here.
What happened to SlapVid, YC P2P video streaming site?
Engine Yard Releases Rails Development Directory source code
I'm at the same point as you are, as soon as I hear some trigger names my mind completely loses interest.

One of these weekends I'm going to whip up a grease monkey script to finally purge HN of $(incendiary tech blog/author) once and for all.

edit:

on further thought, I think general black-list of trends/fads/celebrities combined with a higher up-vote point threshhold would be great.

so then if Arrington discovers a perpetual motion machine or 37s gets an investment round of 2.3 hojillion dollars, both would get through. but otherwise the 'drama of the week' would get cut.
It is possible that he is projecting his insecurities onto her. "Making less salary makes me less of a man, my primary yardstick for being a man is as husband to my wife, accordingly my wife must think less of me."

At least, I hope that's what is happening.
I have read this book and it is awesome.
This is the first blog post that's ever been good enough that I donated to the author merely for having written it. Both brilliant textual analysis and insightful social commentary - definitely worth the read.

Or maybe I'm just constructing my delusional world to justify having spent $3 on a public blog post!
This is how it is for my dad. He's a mechanical/process engineer who hasn't had a job for a year and he has a LOT of experience (and a university education of course). But almost every job he's applied for pays less than the previous job. The previous job was in a parts plant for the automotive industry and they're now operating on as few work days as possible to save money.

It's funny how an automotive industry company can pay its employees a decent salary even while the industry declines, while other companies think you should be grateful to get just $10/hr.
The better question is when will Zynga buy Facebook as Markus Pincus understands how to generate revenue much better than Mark Zuckerberg.
The section on linear regression is extra awesome.
It's possible. Although the people who started and worked at Apple and Microsoft during the recession-era of the 70s have generally managed to do all right... :P
Alright then, added to my reading list.
John Ousterhout: Startup Company Culture
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Thanks!
Could it be because salary history is used to determine starting pay (in later jobs)?

Another possibility is that lower salaries indicate lower starting positions.
Also, none of them are entrepreneurs and none of his examples are examples of entrepreneurship -- they're examples of inventors inventing things.

[Edit: to be clear, Gates is an entrepreneur, but "writing BASIC at 20" doesn't make him an entrepreneur, it makes him an inventor. Starting a company around that invention and organizing the capital to get it off the ground makes him an entrepreneur.]

And that is great. Maybe there's something intelligent to say about how we need fewer entrepreneurs and more inventors, or what the difference is, or why hardly anybody knows two of those three inventors.

Instead he went for the easy article and decided to piss all over everyone. Gratifying, to be sure, and there's going to be a coterie of people saying, "Yes, right on. Here are other ways in which all these people suck," but I think everyone is a little worse off for having an article like this written.

It was mean and no less venal than the entrepreneurs he is criticizing.
Cost is and always will be relative.
What if nobody opts to work in broadband? How will the "right" be satisfied? You may say that someone would choose to do so but what if they couldn't charge for their services because to do so was denying somebody who couldn't pay their "right". And then you'd probably mention that the government would pay for it. And I'd ask where the government would get the money. The answer, of course, being the tax powers you've already mentioned.

If I'm taxed and a growing portion of my labor is taken to pay for something I don't receive and would not agree to pay for freely, how is it not either slavery or theft? As someone noted on reddit a week or so ago (in reference to social news not politics per se)--the larger the democracy, the larger the oppressed minority.
Where do you place rights like access to clean water?
I almost grabbed an OCZ, but I'd seen enough reports in their forum of odd problems with Macs that I decided to stick with the Intel.

When I bought the G2, it was reasonably competitive with the other drives - I think the pricing on competitive drives has come down quite a bit since then, but the G2 is fast and stable - I have no complaints.
Chasing an interesting bug - a numerical corner case ...
"Your definition would say that someone who buys a franchise or setups up a basic shop is an entrepreneur"

Absolutely. Only in the "startup" scene are people so conceited as to think otherwise. Those pesky people running "normal" businesses with their pesky "profits", they aren't ENTREPRENEURS! Entrepreneurs are only the people wasting other people's money chasing new ideas that probably won't work out!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15747540/Trial-by-Jury

(I'm not sure if this is being distributed legally. It's in a collection of his essays called "A Devil's Chaplain".)
I'm curious, how many HN members have bought a netbook? And are you using it as your primary machine?

I've been thinking of buying one for the portability, but am worried that I'd keep going back to my workhorse laptop to do anything more than check email / browse the Web / use vim.
My guess is that if you solve #1, you get #2 automatically.
> "Tax you" is exactly the answer to that question. Taxes are not optional and there are penalties for refusing to pay them. That's how governments work.

You've simply stated that there is a currently enforced law. The same argument could be any law throughout history: Mandatory religious worship. Conscription. Even slavery. Take ancient Sparta or Rome - "Slavery is not optional and there are penalties for refusing to work. That's how governments work" - that would have been a true statement, but doesn't get at whether that's right or wrong. It just states that there is a law that is enforced.

But this question is important - "Are you willing to imprison or harm someone who refuses to do things for other people they don't believe in?"

The easy way is to refuse to directly answer this question. In this dialog, it comes down to, "Are you willing to imprison or harm someone who refuses to subsidize a rural area's broadband internet?" I'm not speaking universally about all law here, I'm wondering if you or anyone is willing to imprison or harm another human being for refusing to subsidize a rural area's broadband internet. Yes? No?
Does anyone know much about the lifetime of an SSD like this? I keep reading that with all SSD's, you only get a limited number of read/write cycles before they go bust. I can't seem to find out if this is something that should concern the average user or if it's just some FUD.

The speed benefits look enormous but I don't want to have to go through the trouble of replacing this in a year or two.
Google Wave's Best Use Cases
Short summary: because board votes are usually unanimous (board dissent can have legal implications), the ability to attend and address the board is almost as powerful as the ability to vote on a board; observers may end up getting de facto board seats.
Just want to point out that "stars" doesn't always equate to value. There's lots of developers out there that create amazing software (produce a lot and do things which are technologically very difficult) which does nothing for the customer.

If it does nothing for the customer, then what's the value?

It's also not usually (at megacorp) the developers responsibility to decide what will be valuable to the customer.
Also read Wittgenstein. This is the sort of thing he was trying to convey in his first work. (Language is a system for describing problems and sometimes we ask problems about the language system itself, which cannot be answered within that system).
So Time magazine predicted youtube...

Took me a couple minutes to realize that the article assumes that all of this would essentially happen with and through the Cable companies and that a TV-like interface would be a dominant part of it.

Amazing how much the standards have changed. Amazing that YouTube is acceptable for most people, when 15 years ago they were predicting HD style content.
An Analysis of the Amazon Shopping Experience
What will talking power meters say about you?
Either way, KEEP BACKUPS!
Cloud Fail? Get Outta Here.
If you are not opposed to closed source stuff you should have a look at Vault(1). I migrated us over at the job that used VSS and it was a better experience. Tight integration with visual studio and works similar to VSS without all the corruption, non atomic commits, etc.

Whatever road you choose make sure to back it up because no system is infallible. (see the snow leopard user destroying data bug if you need to remind yourself of that.)

1. http://www.sourcegear.com/vault/
Check if the part between the : and (end or /) is an integer? Sure, some browsers allow you to specify an IP address as an integer, but I don't think that's extremely useful.
Intel claims you can write 100GB of data every day for five years before the flash burns out - I don't know what other companies provide as statistics.
it looks like it is parked:

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.PARKED.COM
NS2.PARKED.COM

And in a pretty tricky way too, because at first glance you can't tell.

It seems to have died somewhere in may, around the 5th, that's when the domain registration was last updated.

The last blog entry is from 2007:

http://slapvid.wordpress.com/
I think there is still a difference between being an entrepreneur and running a fairly standard business. Your definition would say that someone who buys a franchise or setups up a basic shop is an entrepreneur - I think few people would see it that way.

I have to disagree here. This is a VC/Angel-inspired echo-chamber mindset. I can certainly see a difference between growth businesses and small shops, but it's really a disservice to attempt to devalue the latter by yanking the word entrepreneur out from under it even though:

* It took no less courage for those business owners to start
* They may well have taken much more personal risk in the form of a small
business loan
* Those businesses far outnumber the growth business, especially the successful
growth businesses
* Those businesses tend to provide things people really need and have solid
revenue whereas a lot of "growth" businesses are pursuing the founders
fetishistic ideas that turn out to have no value whatsoever
* Almost any business can be grown and/or extended laterally. It proves a lot
more if you can take a business from 0 to $250,000 revenue by yourself than it
does that you burned $5,000,000 to get a 1,000,000 users and you're still not
cash flow positive because you can't figure out how to get anybody to pay for
your brilliant "invention" which actually just consists of a semi-novel way of
shuffling user data around.

Anyway, I don't disagree that the top entrepreneurs should be more impressive. But I just had to speak up against your devaluation of the the world's full entrepreneurial class. An entrepreneur is someone who starts a business, period.
Pretty accurate, as far as predictive articles go (even "very near-future predictive articles"). Funnily conservative sometimes - it never sees the "all of them, for free" option ahead.
I'll go Monday. I'm not a huge fan of Hop Haus, but it is very easy to get people together there; on a Monday night, the dining room will be pretty much empty.

(We do ChiSec every month at Hop Haus).

Hopleaf is D.O.A. for a meetup. It's a madhouse every single night of the week.

I'd love to convince you all to meet at Violet Hour, but I'm thinking $11 cocktails don't match the Chicago startup ethos.
...how is this relevant to the fact that filling a server with SSDs is still much more expensive than with conventional HDs?
If you have foreign key constraints programs like Visio which "reverse engineer" an entity relationship diagram by querying your DB schema can do a much better job mapping out the relationships.
Over/under on the point at which Zynga's revenues surpass Facebook's?

Honestly, Zynga's success reveals a long-term strategic risk for Facebook. Zynga is supposedly spending $50MM/year on Facebook advertising (or maybe just advertising in general, but a large percentage of that is on Facebook).

I see a Zynga ad on every single pageview. Sometimes even all three ad slots are Zynga ads.

These are ads on Facebook to direct people to other places on Facebook. At first blush that seems brilliant, but how dependent is Facebook on these ads? How tightly is their success tied to Zynga's?

That is dangerous for a business. IMO Facebook is still obsessed with advertising (and with Google). This only works because Facebook has such a huge audience in the English-speaking world.

Will they ever make the advertising breakthrough they're clearly looking for? Beacon failed miserably and generated more than a few lawsuits.

Companies like hi5, with large audiences in Asia and South America, can't sustain an ad business and have switched over entirely to virtual currency and goods.

Facebook has showed some signs that they're interested in this, too. They've been "working on" a payments platform for almost two years now, and they just announced their Gift application will feature real-world gifts from third-parties.

But all their "bold moves" have been in advertising, not virtual goods.
That some things in science fiction have come true is NOT a good reason to bring up a fucking robot apocalypse every time a robot is posted to hacker news.

I pay attention to these things. It really is pretty much every time a robot is brought up that someone who thinks they are clever says "Terminator!"

As was already pointed out here, this is so far from a sentient robot it isn't even funny. It is also really far from the T-1000. Really, really far.

People, please learn a thing or two about robotics or AI before making such an infantile assertion. Did you ever think it is bad for society to be so wild? You know, the popular idea in media where science = mad lone wolf scientist? Robots are pretty much the coolest way to learn engineering, and I'm just sick of people who add nothing to the conversation.
Hey it's twice minimum wage what are you complaining about ?

That's not a fair comparison. Median household income there is far above the minimum wage. The median household income there ($70k+ in a country town) is good living.

In this case, the median household income seems to be based on a median male income of about $40k and a median female income of about $30k. That's around the $25-$30 per hour mark or 3.5 times the minimum wage.

Besides, no-one's entitled to earn $X or more for the rest of your life just because they did in the past or because they're "aiming at rich."
But wikimapia has wiki in the name!

Seriously tho, few people realize that wikimapia data is © wikimapia and you are not permitted to create derivative works except for "personal or educational" use.
How can you have a right to clean water if there is no clean water near you? Do other people have to come give it to you?
Violet Hour would be cool, except that we're trying to keep it close to the loop so that it is easiest for everyone to get there.

Check the thread later, I don't think the monday time is settled yet.
Well, figure out a date and let us know here; I'm not sure why Google Groups is a better place to organize a meetup than right here, though.

My advice, after doing ~30 ChiSec meetups averaging ~30 people in the last year and a half, is just to pick something, get people together in a room, and then if the date isn't perfect you can move it next meetup.
I only see it as an option on their dedicated servers -- not the CloudLayer computing instances. Am I missing something?
I've never seen Aperture open so fast ... that was hot.
I hear that's their big interview question: "Tell us why we're more important than Facebook."
Is there any speed improvement in have two SSD's setup in a raid configuration?
There's a difference between rights and things that any sufficiently advanced society should ensure are available for all of its citizens.
Python vs Clojure
You're conflating refusal to pay taxes with not supporting how those taxes are spent. Those are two very different ways of interacting with the law.
Yeah, a big reason people exercise is for the long-term health benefits. Of course the study is interesting, but not as something that should directly affect personal workout routines.
Redesigning the Government: FCC
And what about having superfluous www-prefix in hostnames?
I know. The article brought this to my mind and I was wondering what people here think. It's the "hacker news", after all.
Doesn't Linux already have realtime patches?
The author makes a point at the end alluding to a violation of the conservation of energy, By, to be fair, Dyson only says that this fan multiplies to amount of air, not the amount of energy. All fans multiply the air moved (simply by dragging adjacent air along for the ride), so I'm not sure why this claim should be a concern.
Would you say that religions force us into slavery because of their tax-exempt status?
Looks like a pretty slick tool.

The one hesitation I have with using tools like this "in the cloud" is the access its developers and administrators have to concepts. I understand the "release early, release often, tell everybody about your ideas" mantra, but my instinct still prevents me from dumping wireframes for a yet-to-be-released product in such an early stage onto such a site without some mechanism of protection wrapped around my content.
I work in IT, and the way I see it, there is a certain amount of time that I want to work on computers. When I'm working work on computers 40 or more hours a week for work, I'm unlikely to want to spend any of my free time working on computers. When I've got a lower work load, I tend to spend more time on personal projects related to computers.

If I were actually a programmer, I would probably fall into the same pattern.
Do you have the right to air unpolluted "unnaturally" (i.e. excl. passing gas) by your neighbors?
Nice idea. Start with a new logo.
Acer unveils dual Android and Windows 7 netbook
I always assumed that the www subdomain was the phase's solution for the problem of limited resources, and to reinforce that something used the Web, rather than gopher &c.
Pretty much. I had erroneously lumped IE 6&7 together, but a few weeks ago I realized that, honestly, 7 is leaps and bounds better than 6.
re #6, that's actually a PR myth:

According to one myth, the site came into being because Mr Omidyar's fiancee, Pam Wesley, wanted to contact other people who shared her hobby of trading Pez sweet dispensers.

That story was a product of public relations - but it is true that the first item sold was Mr Omidyar's own broken laser pointer, which went for $14 despite being essentially worthless."

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/4207510.stm
"The guy that produces 10x the normal amount of production for his job isn't having his pay thwarted by any "sociopaths""

While it suits the company to identify and retain the productive, management's incentive is to minimally reward producers.

Productive losers are, by definition, not those who will take a risk to ensure maximal compensation. Their wages are therefore easy pickings for a sociopath manager who is willing to take risks to ensure their own maximal compensation.

The author has simply assumed that at some point any budget will cross a sociopath's desk, thereby guaranteeing the productive loser's compensation will be depressed in the sociopath's self-interest.
Were the mice in shape?
Learning the theme, not the example
The phrase you're looking for is "market clearing price" or just "market price".

See also Obama's elementary explanation of why lowering gas taxes doesn't lower gas prices when gas is in limited supply: the market clearing price is still the price at which the amount of gas that people want at that price equals the supply of gas. Setting the price lower than this will result in shortages. It doesn't matter whether gas taxes go down.

"Price-gouging" really is a terrible phrase for what you do in a supply-bound market. The people who raised prices have drives if you want one, and if nobody wants one, they lose their bet - have unsold inventory. The people who set lower prices sold out their inventory, but now they don't have drives if you want one, which isn't exactly a favor to you either. There are four methods of allocating resources and the method that our hunter-gatherer brains don't understand is market prices, so people think it is "unfair".
This sounds like it has some cool potential. Also, I'm in love with CouchDB. So... awesome!
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