skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for making my point: there are in fact hiring managers who think like you type.

Now, add to that this fun bit: when a woman has a kid and stays home with them, she winds up with a gap on her resume. During a normal career, an unexplained gap is an obvious topic of conversaton in an interview. Women with kids can't effectively avoid disclosing that they have children, even though it's technically unlawful to ask the question directly.
I got the book at the recommendation of someone else on HN. It's really good.

Basically, his idea is that the traditional product development process doesn't work well for startup companies. He advocates a customer development process where you continuously evaluate your market, instead of just building something and burning through money before you realize there's nobody to buy your product.
I haven't seen the movie, and I'm glad the offhand comment I made has spurned what I believe to be an important discussion (although I believe this is primarily due to Jerf's excellent essay), I consider the varieties of greed that capitalism rewards is properly attenuated by rewarding social responsibility and altruism via democracy. America's current economic troubles highlight the importance of looking out for yourself while not making pawns of others. I don't know of anyone who hasn't felt the stresses of this recession, but I think that those who were most effected by it were those who made a living by exploiting others, and I'd go so far as to say that the millionaires who lost small percentages of their fortunes lost because the greed came full circle.
Do women actually have higher absenteeism than men? My guess is that this is not actually true, and only assumed to be true. (I haven't seen any numbers either way.)

If this is not true, then the process is definitely sexist.

(I make no claims about the converse.)
This was one that I particularly thought was a little bit of him reading his own press a bit too much:

“the next hundred years will be different for advertising, and it starts today. As marketers pushing our information out is no longer enough. We are announcing anew advertising system, not about broadcasting messages, about getting into the conversations between people. 3 pieces: build pages for advertisers, a new kind of ad system to spread the messages virally, and gain insights.
...
Once every hundred years media changes. the last hundred years have been defined by the mass media. The way to advertise was to get into the mass media and push out your content. That was the last hundred years. In the next hundred years information won’t be just pushed out to people, it will be shared among the millions of connections people have. Advertising will change. You will need to get into these connections."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/06/liveblogging-facebook-a...
I don't consider this telling the truth:

"Each time we would come back with a few more 'screenshots' and tell them that development was progressing nicely"

No doubt you could come up with some hair-splitting interpretation under which it wasn't technically lying.
I'm sick and tired of having to defend the history of computing.

Um, it's codinghorror. The author has no reputation for knowledge, insight or understanding. He's just a guy who talks about stuff. The programmer on the street, if you will.
Jonah Lehrer: The Limits of Self-Knowledge
I thought I read something on Reddit about this. It might have been one of these (in keeping with today's theme):

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9bxhw/i_developed_a_re...
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9lla6/i_am_a_successfu...
Behind the scenes at the Cisco AXP Contest
aka "Worse is Better"
Yeah, the GED is the way to go, if you want to get into college. That's how I did it. The GED is so retarded, you're pretty much guaranteed to score in the top percentiles. College are required to treat these high GED scores as equivalent to an A average (per subject).

Your state might have a regulation forbidding taking the GED to graduate ahead of your classmates. I got my GED in a different state when I was 17.
Venture capital fundraising shrinks rapidly in Q3 2009
...he had spent the last 6 months in a cave writing a monster, feature-rich web app for the financial sector that a potential client had promised to buy, but backed out at the last second

Wait a minute, because one of you got burnt and lost 6 months of work, now you won't do any work? With today's technology, I have to think there's a good middle ground between 6 months of dev work and paper prototype only.

If I was one of your prospects, I would never sign a letter of intent based on drawings only. I'd make you come back later with something, anything I could play with for 2 reasons:

1. I'd want to see that you can actually produce something, no matter how limited.

2. There's a huge difference between playing with something and talking about something. We'd arrive at a real functional requirement much faster with a working model. Anything less is just waterfall analysis and design, and we already know how well that works.

Come back when you have something real to show. Until then you're no different from any other poser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby

This man wrote a fucking BOOK by BLINKING HIS LEFT EYE.

After reading his story, you might find it easier to do your homework.
Greasemonkey replacements for Firefox add-ons
HSA's are a step towards reform and are used by millions of people, but Congress is working to eliminate them:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_ref...
it seems like the touch system should be able detect where your main 4 fingers are, and then show a rough virtual keyboard in its space with your 8 fingers on the home row automatically. The only thing lacking would be tactile feedback, but that's solvable. If people are accustomed to seeing the 10 dots representing the fingers, it should be easy to provide small visual cues to indicate if you're about to type a letter that isn't what you want.
Assume a spherical cow....
I've had the same idea, but it always seems like creating a specification would be almost as much work as writing the software. I'd love to read more about your experiences and successful strategies. You should blog about it.
I listen to repetitive, energetic music. Metal, techno, acid jazz, etc.

That, and caffeine.
Ask HN: am I making progress or losing track?
(Sorry for the long post)

I am a developer, used to be very well known in my old area of expertise, between my colleagues. I had my own little startup I earned my life of, that was doing well.

At some point I started feeling mediocre, and I decided I wanted to learn more technical stuff. I dropped the startup, entered a fascinating project I never stop learning at, and started focusing in learning more and more about the maths and algorithms of my field.

Since then, I dropped IM as it's distracting, stopped all business like work, and also I'm not caring much about the many new things that are appearing every days. So I could be losing track of one side of technology (new languages, frameworks, methodologies), which I don't care so much about, to focus on algorithms and maths for development in the field I'm working at.

So, am I making progress? I'm learning a lot every day, every time I have more knowledge that I can use (and I use) to do more complex projects. But, I'm not so aware of what the new technologies are, only about the fundamentals.

What's your opinion about this? I feel that fundamentals matter more than the very new technology, but sometimes I feel I could be wrong about this.
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Don't most industries work with prototypes?

A screen shot != a prototype

A prototype = code that runs
Surgical Scalpel Sniffs Out Tumors While It Cuts
Biodiesel myths and facts
The Los Gatos/Saratoga area is one of the nicest upscale areas in the Valley. It has very high priced homes in the foothills and more reasonably priced (but still nice) suburban homes below - still not cheap, though, with many above $1M.

It gets hotter in Los Gatos than elsewhere, with many days more likely to be in the 80s and 90s than you might get elsewhere (if you like this, great! many people do).

Los Gatos also is deemed a "prestige" area, more so than San Jose, Santa Clara, and many of the other nearby suburban towns.

You will also be fighting traffic in your daily commute to Cupertino. Many people tolerate this, of course. But, for an example to the contrary, my office manager lives in Almaden, which is a very nice San Jose neighborhood just south of Los Gatos. When she had to commute every day up Highway 85 (the direct freeway link to Cupertino) for 8-to-5-type hours, she found it very difficult. I switched her schedule to start at 7:00 a.m. and that worked. At the peak hours, between the metering lights (which considerably slow your ability to get on the freeway) and the delays incurred by those unable to use the car-pool lane, it is a real drag.

Traffic isn't everything, though, and Los Gatos is a highly desirable place to live for many reasons - population tends to be a mix of successful business people (often younger, with growing families) and many somewhat older (50s and 60s, with a good number retired). The feel of the town is relaxed and "upscale" with many quaint shops, coffee houses, etc.

By the way, one angle to consider: check out Laurie Avenue (I pick this in particular because I have an aunt that lives there and I frequently go there) in San Jose - this is in the heart of Willow Glen, a small but absolutely delightful neighborhood right in the middle of the Valley. Willow Glen (or at least neighborhoods like Laurie Avenue, just off Lincoln, the main street) is an "upscale" neighborhood that still accommodates younger couples starting out. For example, Laurie Avenue used to consist almost exclusively of comparatively old (1930s and earlier, into the early 1900s), small homes on very quiet streets lined with very large and beautiful oak trees. During the past decade or so, virtually every home that has sold on that street has been torn down and replaced by large-scale homes that are often quite nice (some maybe overdone, "all home and no lot"). In any case, it is a very "up-and-coming" neighborhood and, if you check the Zillow pricing, you will find that the older homes remaining there are going in the 600s to 700s. The strategy here (if it should fit with your plans) would be to buy one of these with the hope of re-building the home down the road and winding up in a very nice neighborhood all the while. The neighborhood is very "consistent" and an extremely pleasant place to live. I would say, about 15-25 minutes door-to-door from Cupertino, even with traffic.
Making Replacement Parts: Liver Cells Made From Skin Cells
I am curious, why did you use URL shortner?
Angel Investors To Startups: Yes, We Charge
You only get primary care, so it's not really lower cost for the same thing.
Boston’s Startup Scene is Starting To Be Seen
How to fix VC once and for all
I don't see how it's promoted as fact. He presented it as "Popper’s principle". I see it more as a general rule of thumb.

Have to in this case is confined to context of the principle itself, it indicates that you have to do such and such in order to follow the principle.
I use a keyboard with Control where Caps Lock would be on most keyboards (a sun unix keyboard). That combined with the fact that Control-H is backspace in a standard unix environment means I don't have to reach for the backspace key.
My guess is that there are a few underlying issues that could be causing this, and it's probably important not to "diagnose" this incorrectly. It sounds like you have thought about this for a while. Have you tried anything already to help with this, and how did it go?

Also, the two responses you mention are obviously well-intentioned but not necessarily correct. "b)" is totally false and even "a)" can be dealt with.

There might be others in your life who think your biggest problem right now is your school issue. I'm guessing your biggest concern is really that last sentence of your post. There's no need to assume you're screwed for the rest of your life based on your experience with high school work. The rest of your life will not all be high school work; it will consist of things that are fundamentally different in nature. They will, ideally, be meaningful and rewarding, rather than artificial, arbitrary, and useless. You can be optimistic about the future.

I think you said in another post that your parents don't want you to leave high school. Others suggested starting college (probably a community college) early; that's a good idea, or better than staying in high school, anyway. For some people, that change is enough, but some people don't like either high school or college, and that's fine, too.
MIT Startup Bootcamp Videos (for those who missed the live stream)
Hi all,
A quick clarification: Get Satisfaction not only offers Single Sign-on, but we also support one-click login with all the popular login systems (Facebook, OpenID, Twitter, etc). No need to create a new account.

One more thing-- our roots are in community support, and a great many conversations are people posting questions that need answers or problems that need solutions. In order to notify them when there are responses, we need an email, and (by extension) some authentication for them to change their notification settings at a later date. With a super-lightweight account system we're able to service a range of customer support needs.

Still, we're always looking to improve our offering, so thanks for all the feedback!
I had interned with Fingerworks prior to the formal release of the project. The main problem I heard about was the demand cost/issues.

Outside of the proposed UI changes, Fingerworks product did all of this. I still wish I had bought one when I had the chance.

Anyway, if they are serious about getting these made, I believe University of Delaware owns a fair amount of Wayne Westerman's patents, as the basic idea was the premise for his doctorate. He was a professor starting in '99, so that should make them easier to locate.
Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again.

Man, how did they not work up a system like morse code? That's horrible. Mad props for the patience, though.
In my experience, this dynamic is more often than not created by the "business types" who tend to think that if you can do engineering, you can't do sales & marketing.

But I agree, the engineers who can do it are often many times more effective than those without an engineering background. It all depends on the person.
Could I contact you (or you me, see profile) for some Erlang advice? I know next to nothing about the language but I suspect it'd be a good fit for something I'm working on and the input of someone who's used it in anger would be very helpful.
Not sure about the final released product, but the fingerworks prototypes were completely customizable.
individual plans HDHP with reimbursement once you start paying a salary
I'm starting to transfer the HD video off the tapes now. Hopefully we can get them edited and up within the next 2 weeks. (fingers crossed)

Thanks for those who watched online and those who came out to MIT! :-)
http://www.fingerworks.com/faq.html

Apparently people could get up to 70 wpm with what could be considered the prior version of this.

For what it is worth, at least when I was involved with it, most people found a keyboard a lot easier to use for rapid typing.
Bitfields in Factor structs and the special style
“We are not in this to make money.” Well that's a sentiment that doesn't entirely inspire confidence.
Have any of these groups ever funded anything of note? Top Valley angels not only don't charge but are insanely helpful for free even if they don't fund you (if you're not a jackass that is).
article makes a few interesting points :

1) is it fair to ask "children, 17, 18 or 19 years old, to try and assess how much of a student loan debt burden they can handle vis-a-vis their future income over their entire lives"?

2) "people under indentured servitude had the job waiting for them"; students do not.

3) Obviously, after living a lifestyle one cannot afford for several years, it will take more than several years to pay off the debt.

Student loans are not indentured servitude; living above your means is.
The Mountain View area is nice and will give you a very sweet reverse commute. I would suggest putting that high on the search list. Another possibility is Campbell, the commute will involve heavier traffic, but it is a shorter trip than Willow Glen or LG.
Deciding which facts are "relevant" to the customer is a pretty dicey proposition: why do you assume that the fact that no code has been written is irrelevant to the customer? Just because the sales guy wants it to be irrelevant doesn't mean that the customer shouldn't have the right to make their decisions based on the actual facts, rather than what's convenient for the seller.
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2009)
How about options in stead of giving equity right from the get-go ?
In high school I dealt with boring work by seeing how fast I could do it. After a while I'd usually be able to do it (if it wasn't, say, a term paper) at school, and not even sweat it at home. Not a good strategy if you're trying to be top of your class, but it did make me a good standardized test taker. Also my high school was not particularly challenging, so YMMV.

Also, the answers you've gotten are pretty much true, and no amount of 'mind hacks' is going to change that. You won't be unhappy the rest of your life, though. High school is pretty much the peak of that stuff. Later you'll have a lot more flexibility to put yourself in a situation to avoid it (rule #1 for this: don't get into debt)
I found the colour okay, if a little distracting, but having to constantly scroll across slides was the most irritating bit.
Hey guys its real simple to bank online first you download this iso then you burn it to a disc then you put it in your computer and make sure the bios is set to boot from cd... then you can bank online easy peasy using an new operating system.

Then when you have to actually do something with things you are used to just reboot and take out the cd until you have to bank again.

I doubt the majority of people with malware on their windows machine get past burning an iso to cd (unless they have windows 7 which has native iso burning technology).
It is also worth noting that for a lot of the things that Erlang is not good for it is relatively easy to use ports to call out to a pool of Python or Ruby processes to handle that specific task. The only caveat with this approach is that the task you are farming out should be relative "heavy" or the round trip times will eat up the benefit of this strategy.
Can you please provide some facts about his previous "douchebag" personality?

I am not trying to put you on the spot here. It is the second time I come across this sort of statement about Mark and I would like to know other people's experience.
Thanks, I went ahead and picked up a copy of it based on your recommendation.
> Just approaching it as if it were a difficult task helps.

I have literally the exact opposite experience. I procrastinate horribly on difficult tasks (or just any task that I don't know exactly how to do.) I guess different people are wired differently. If the OP is wired like me, I'd advise him to try to do work as quickly as possible and not worry about quality. Just come home from school and finish everything before 5:00.
Don't hire him yet. Hire him at the earliest employee 5. At that point he'll understand he's just not the only chick in a sausage fest, instead he's getting paid for his value.

Or don't hire him at all. There are a lot of quality engineers out there right now.
Do Greasemonkey scripts actually leak less memory than extensions? I use both, but extensions are much better for when you want to customize behavior. Most userscript writers don't know how to use Greasemonkey's customization features, and they aren't very powerful anyway.
Does the Large Hadron Collider create its own bad luck?
Frankly I do not see how charging entrepreneurs to pitch is different from charging entrepreneurs for the TC50 demopit.

How?
sorry for late reply. Book one, Newtonian Physics from http://www.lightandmatter.com/
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Perhaps my opinion is colored by being a person interested in studying many fields. It is very true that if your interests lie entirely in your major, you will be forced to take classes outside of that.
Scuttlebutt is that an early developer seed may be the cause of the problem - so if more people had used that seed, this would have been caught sooner. Of course more people would have been hit by the bug.
They can say whatever they want, but it still sounds like paying your salesguy a salary instead of a commission. Coffee is for closers.
The issue of whether employers can ask questions about one's private life is rather orthogonal to the issue of sexism, no?

Not that it matters, but I agree that children, hobbies, drug use and sex partners are not the business of my employer.
There's some indication that you needed to enable the guest account in Leopard (it's disabled by default) then upgrade to a developer seed, and then to the retail Snow Leopard.

If true, that would explain why is wasn't caught sooner. If true, you could test the final build of Snow Leopard all day (and the upgrade path from Leopard) and not catch it.
Being clever would have taken time away from the goal of writing a book. It's arguable that the book would have been done sooner had they both taken the time to learn Morse Code (or Huffman Coding), but they quickly found a workable solution and got on with it.

They did one clever thing, though:

To make dictation more efficient, Bauby's interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, read from a special alphabet which consisted of the letters ordered in accordance with their frequency in the French language.
They said some entrepreneurs have “a sense of entitlement” and believe that whatever they do is worth a hearing.

this sounds like something an unenthused teacher would say about an enthusiastic student
I actually just got out of an advertising class (like, literally 3 minutes ago), and we discussed this. It's dead on. Television advertising is in many ways the exact same as radio advertising: New techniques have been developed, but the philosophy behind it remains the same. Internet advertising is a much, much different beast.
Trust me, there's no win-win situation in your case. just give him salary, if he's really good than give him a really good salary. That's it ;)

As soon as you start giving shares away, the one who's taking them will get greedy and ask for more. How does that end ?

You'll stop being friends ( trust me ), he'll get way much more from something that you've built than you will,

If you want to work 'in percentages' with him anyway, than do it with new projects and businesses.