skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joined a startup in a very similar position. I ended up taking 4-5% equity, and about 50% market salary. This was perhaps a bit low, as it was barely enough to get me and keep me on board at the early stages. But the salary went up as we grew, so now I'm quite happy.

Also remember this is an early round, and that 4-5% will get diluted a lot as you take more venture. So it's not really comparable to what a future CEO might get.
I loved the screenshot of the ultra minimalistic barcode logo and fade combination:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/Sxb_MsMIxyI/AAAAAAAAFC...
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973190
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Hah! A couple of weeks back I was working (face-time) with a client, trying to figure out some bizarre website behaviors on a project.

Every time we loaded the Google home page, it did the fade in thing, and I couldn't replicate it on any of my systems, even though the client was hooked into my local network at the time.

It drove me nuts, doubly so since I couldn't find any evidence of it happening to anyone else. I finally concluded that either Google had done something funky with their page code, or something was hosed up in a bizarre way in her copy of IE 8.

Thanks, Google.
This is great!

I work at a startup building apps ( http://zerography.com is currently live; hopefully more soon) to get custom printed stuff into people's hands for free, and think it's really great to see Google getting involved.

There's something extra special about getting a letter or package in the mail, and with the amount of time and cost involved in mailing something to friends and family, I'm really surprised I (and almost everyone else I know, too!) don't take advantage of things like this more.
I couldn't get a single demo to show up in Safari 4.0.4.
> Of course, it is still a good idea for North Koreans to do whatever their governemnt calls "legal" given that they have to power to enforce it. But the fact that I have the power to mug the neighbour kid and I call it legal doesn't make it legal.

You're mixing up terminology. Legal/illegal and right/wrong are separate concepts. Legal/illegal is a system of cause and effect: The law says, "If you do X, and we can prove it to this extent, we will do Y to you." Or, "If you fail to X, and we can prove it to this extent, we will do Y to you."

Law does not make something right/wrong. For instance, alcohol is more dangerous to both the individual and society than THC - the active ingredient in marijuana and hashish. Alcohol in moderately large quantities is a poison, whereas THC isn't, it's more chemically addictive and tolerance building, it impairs judgment very similarly to marijuana but has a quality of making people think their judgment isn't as impaired as it is, and is more prone to causing aggressive/violent behavior than THC. In no sane world is alcohol relatively unrestricted and THC is completely prohibited. (For the record, I don't drink or use any recreational drugs) In the United Sates, the law says alcohol is relatively unrestricted and THC is almost completely prohibited. That doesn't get to rightness/wrongness, it just specifies cause and effect.

So law - it's not a right/wrong thing. Is what North Korea did just now wrong? By most people's ethics, oh hell yes it's terrible. But it's legal, because it was signed into law by a body with the capacity to enforce it in its jurisdiction.
It sounds to me like it could be valuable.

On the surface, we'll see how long it takes. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing was done in a couple of days. And it will also cause a lot of people to say: "wow, the power of the internet." It is probably a good way to gauge the potential influence of social networking on the internet. Which is a force that continues to grow, and we should do what we can to understand it.

I'm interested to see how it'll be accomplished. It might pinpoint the best use of networking sites for promotion.
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Take this for what it is (a single anecdotal datapoint), but while I have both a Twitter account and a Facebook account (and an OpenID), I still prefer logging in with site-specific usernames. If your service is really compelling, I'd possibly use my Twitter or Facebook accounts to log in, but I've passed on other services in the past (at the point of signup) that used Twitter and Facebook auth (and, ostensibly, they used those auth methods with the express intent of eliminating friction).
Didn't Chuck Moore do this? And wasn't his version like a million times more awesome?
Here's the issue he's talking about http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1... - it's on the back cover. This is one of the many 'last' Whole Earth Catalogs.
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DMCA laws damage the economy, help create a police state, and are unnecessary.

The fact that format shifting DVD's is illegal harms the billion dollar market for digital video products. If format shifting CD's was illegal digital music products like the iPod may never have been the success they are today.

Making ordinary people criminals, but prosecuting them inconsistently gives arbitrary power to the state. This can create a climate of fear and lead in the direction of a police state.

Commercial bootlegging of CD's is a violation of existing copyright law, and nothing new needed to be made illegal to address it.

I value and respect the contribution of the great Dane.
Realise that adding features does not make anything "perfect". Perfect software is robust, stable, tested, used, solid, etc. The only way of attaining this is to have it be widely used.

Therefore, in order to make perfect software, you have to crank out releases and get it into the hands of users who will find any imperfections for you (including both bugs and 'softer' imperfections like an inefficient UI).
I said it before and I'll say it again -- charging people looking for jobs is ridiculous. I don't know who the kid in Houston looking for an OCaml internship is, but how the heck does he have $100 to spend on this?
My rule of thumb (early stage at least):

Start at 2% and increase by 1% for every $10k under market your paying in salary.

I'm happy to give 5% in equity to a top-notch engineer who is taking a 30% pay cut.
I don't know where Biz Stone went to college, but his co-founder Evan Williams went to the University of Nebraska before making Blogger and Twitter. Twitter's inventor, Jack Dorsey, did go to the prestigious Missouri S&T before going to NYU.

Tumblr's David Karp dropped out of high school.
Actually, it's a pretty interesting problem: what are the techniques by which an ad-hoc group of people can self-organize or cooperate? It's an aggressively large problem (anywhere in the US?) that seems quite exciting; they'll probably learn a hell of a lot.
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I believe students get SO careers memberships for free. They only charge non-students. I think they mostly want active job searchers, but $100 does sound a bit high if I just want my resume out there.
Facebook was already the king of identity. The best thing about facebook is that it is not anonymous and represents in virtual form my true identity.

This is just yet another logical extension of that identity into other domains. I'm a big fan of what they're doing with Facebook connect.
Here's me wondering how you hacked the site to allow you to enter that many characters.
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Well, the title is books that influence me (the post author). But I would agree, seems there are some missing gems. If I had to list my top it would start with: Numerical recipes, TAOCP, the dragon book (compilers), genetic programming by koza, the C programming language by K&P, the unix programming environment also by K&P, Programming pearls by Bentley and finally a stack of math books that are not really unique by name but are used often (statistics, linear algebra, etc).

However, the aforementioned books are influential to me since I code and do research building classification systems. If work involved high energy particle physics I think the set of gems would be very different, though I am sure some overlap would exist.
Posting you resume on a jobs site does not necessarily mean you are actively looking for a job. And I highly doubt an employer would fire someone just for having their resume publicly posted. Besides, if you’re employer is that fickle, maybe you should have your resume out there, just in case.
You can set your CV to private and only searchable by employers. Unless your employer is signed up for SO Careers I don't think you'll have a problem.

Anyways, it can simply be thought of as your personal resume. You don't have to actively be seeking a job to fill out a CV.
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I'm not sure I understand your first sentence.

Is being unemployed a bad thing? Well, yes it generally is for the unemployed person but it doesn't mean that they're a bad hire. Sure, one could say that if they were really good, they would be busy with multiple projects at the same time, or have people waiting for them as soon as their current job ends for a reason or another. But it sounds a little bit condescending to me to imply that being unemployed means you shouldn't be hired.

As for "people risking getting fired", besides the fact that I doubt that it happens that often (and when it does, one could easily argue that it's a sign that it wasn't a good place to be in the first place), I don't see that as a bad thing for somebody hiring.
Well, there are several levels of answer to your question. First of all, there are no currency exchange there and people are not allowed to have a foreign currency (USD). So this "equivalence" is established with black market exchange rate which represents not the parity of prices of commodities but the (high) value of USD for the back market participants. It is normal since the black market participants are involved into contraband and they need foreign currency badly.
So for $ 40 in black market exchange rate you can get a lot of food there.
The second level of the problem is that the food/goods market there is government-controlled and for some goods there is no market at all - they are centrally distributed by the executives. So the amount of savings is not directly connected with the consumption level.
And the next point is that the person who have a job and a regular paycheck doesn't need to have a lot of savings in order not to starve. As I can understand the social contract of the socialists' states is the lack of unemployment, so anyone is employed even if his work is not needed.
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Yeah, charing for participation is silly. It reduces the number of potential candidates. Headhunters have the equation right: Charge when you actually hook people up.

Not sure how you'd solve the problem of people finding each other on Programmer Search and then just emailing each other externally.
If you're talking about the dreidel, I don't think any other major religion or culture has a christmas-specific object like the dreidel (that is, a toy that you can build yourself out of paper). It's like berating someone for planting a Christmas tree in his garden but not a turban.
This is a really interesting user experience shift, given the minimalist nature of chrome.

It's almost like a little HAL box.
I'm using a mini for a server in the home office. Basically, it's just a file server but I do have Tomcat and MySQL on there as well. Like the other poster said, it's dead simple to set up and work with.
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Technical recruiters make ridiculous amounts of money for moving people between companies. If this is successful it will be very lucrative for FogCreek.
Aaron Patzer knows how to code. And, he created the first version of the website himself.

I think it is a bit different here.
Considering the job you have has a massive impact on your personal happiness it makes a lot of sense to improve your odds of finding the right company to work for. The cost of careers.stackoverflow is nothing compared to the cost of actually taking an interview (easily 8+ hours). If because of stackoverflow you can get by with one interview less it's easily worth it.

Besides, if you have 3 great offers on the table I'm sure you'll be able able to negotiate a $100/year raise to recoup the careers.stackoverflow investment.
In general, the home page of an organization tells you everything you need to know about its internal structure. Companies that don't know what they're doing have confusing home pages. A focused company has a very clean home page. This is one step beyond even that.

Say what you will about Google, but name any other big web property that innovates on core services like this. Facebook maybe. Who else?
Ask The Headhunter: How Do I Explain Why I Left an Unethical Employer?
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Charts are generated using Google's Chart API. Example:

http://www.google.com/chart?cht=lxy&chc=wmc&chd=s:A9...

(I'm pretty sure the spike indicates the time when my blog's home page contained four or so embedded YouTube videos).
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The one time I've been able to keep up a breakneck pace was at Gawker (I'm Nick Douglas, its founding editor), and that was after they almost fired me. It took me a few months to steadily crank out 12 blog posts a day (plus features). The editors at Gizmodo use reader submissions and researchers to help them fire off 36 or more posts per editor per day (I know Joel Johnson did that much, and I think Brian Lam's done 48 per day for some stretches).

What I learned from this was:
1. Set microgoals. (Or, in my case, have them set for you.) When you break down a project into steps, you can do each one in one go, not allowing yourself any distraction during a step. Better to take breaks between them. I don't know a thing about programming, so I don't know if you can find any hour-long steps, but that's what I'd recommend.
2. Try to do an insane amount of those micro-steps each day. Like, four times what you're used to. The danger is discouragement, but:
3. Save an easy task for the end of the day. As a freelancer, I face a lot of rejection. That's normal (but honestly my pitches are particularly bad). So I try to save some simple, non-failable task for the end of my work time, so I don't finish with a sense of failure.
4. Find someone who loves the shit out of what you're doing. There will be someone. You just might have to find an amateur who's really impressed with what you're doing. If your work is technical, talk to some journalists or other creative types. Vice versa is true too. Explaining things to an interested noob is satisfying, builds your self-esteem, and will probably lead to brainstorming. You don't need someone who can point out flaws. That's for later.

That's all I got for now.
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If you've got somebody willing to wire you $500k, you can basically do that already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
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Perhaps it's possible to get lucky and find good libraries using nothing but Google and patience, but I'm baffled that anyone would deny the value of something like CPAN.

CPAN's structure enforces good practices: (e.g., tests, docs, bug tracking).

CPAN provides not one but two excellent search pages. It also contains many reviews, and makes it trivial to see the source of any library or app before you download it.

CPAN helps enable sprawling, group-built libraries (Catalyst, Moose, DateTime).

CPAN has a whole mini-network of related sites that provide secondary help (installation testing and reports, annotation for docs from users, etc.).

I really don't get what you don't get. It's obvious to me why a good centralized library repository is a win for any language.
I think the problem comes from promotion being seen as a linear path, which conflates the two orthogonal values of programming skill and management skill. Getting managers out of programmers is a good thing, that's how you get managers that understand programming, which is important. However, manager is not always strictly an upgrade, or strictly a downgrade, from senior technician, in any sense. Management should be a separate, parallel career advancement path, and technicians (including but not limited to programmers) should have promotions (and raises!) available that recognize skill and add responsibility in the areas that they are best suited to, be that managing, or technicianing, or sales, or whatever.
Amazon. I know many will complain about how they're cluttered, but Amazon is very test-centric and is constantly evolving their site based on statistical testing to improve the business metrics that matter to them.
Actually the story they are pitching is that when you find someone's resume online and email them job offer, they might not be available. They are trying to solve this problem by showing only people actively looking for jobs in search results. It is similar to Github's "I'm available for hire" checkbox announced couple days ago.
Good example of an entrepreneur thinking about the right stuff
Isn't it poor user interface design to hide controls?
I'm not sure I really see the point of this. I mean the fade lasts for approx. 3 seconds, by which time I have hardly got my cursor to the search box let alone started typing. I agree they could reduce some of the other visual noise on the page but this seems... unnecessary.

[edit] I also use the top left controls an awful lot to access gmail etc. since I have google set as my homepage. Now I have to wait before I can access these? Poor usability. [/edit]
Possible, but the bank would probably prefer to invest in the record label, and get a piece of their lower-risk action, than invest in a single band.
Intel for instance has a very well organized promotion track for purely technical roles (principal engineer and Intel Fellow if you go far enough). Many companies do not have such deep respect for engineering and management often becomes the only way up.
It's going on now and for the next ~50 hours. The brain belongs to H.M., the guy that the movie Memento is 'based on'. When he was alive, he could not create new short-term memories. He's been the subject of study for years until he passed in 2008.

Watching this is a bit weird, it's reminiscent of a deli meat slicer.
Here is an example attempt to solve this:
http://www.redballoonrace.com/
What would you think if you saw that one of your employees recently started paying money to receive offers for a new job?
Wolfram Alpha tells me you'd need roughly 11x more water than lead, so we're probably talking about a pretty large amount here.
He says, "It would show you CVs right away", but I can't find a way to search candidates without signing up. Am I missing something?
Well they definitely can't make 100% of the revenues since they do incur expenses. What I'm saying is that in order for the band to make enough money to payback the loan, their music would have to gross $4,000,000 in profits. I'm assuming that the band receives 10% of all profits from sales. So $400,000 / 0.1 would be $4,000,000 going to the record companies (3.6 mill they pay themselves, and the other .4 is the repayment from the band). I know this is an oversimplification of the process but I'm simply emphasizing the corrupt nature of the labels here.
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Yea, remember when Ballmer personally almost smashed one?
It works perfectly for me in Chrome 3 / Windows. Chrome for Mac is not even in beta yet so I can imagine that they haven't tested it.
Ask HN: What Can I Do About this Freelance Gig Gone Wrong?
I have been doing web freelance work for an small company for about a year. I took the job because I ran out of money trying to built my own thing. At first (during a two week trial period) I was getting paid by the hour a somehow decent rate per hour. After those first two weeks they told me they were impressed with my work and wanted to negotiate a deal but that they were not able to afford me.

Basically the offered me to work for FREE and take an small amount of equity.

I never saw a lot of future in the company (it could take years to see a return) plus I was broke and needed cash so I said not, I told them I was looking forward to get paid by the hour or monthly.

After about a month of emailing back and fort we came to a terrible agreement. They would pay me $2000/month and give me 3% of the company (witch I couldn't care less because I knew I was going to be really difficult for me to ever see a return or for the company to be acquired) the deal was for an average of 3-4 hours/day 5 days a week.

So I began working for the company and never cared about asking or signing anything related to that 3% of equity.

The company founders have always been so demanding and I have always been spending more than 3-4 hours a day to get the work done and only getting paid $2000 a month.

I'm a senior level web developer. I have been CTO of an start up, earned $100,000+/year, etc.

Anyway, I kept the job knowing I wasn't getting anything fair in return because it helped me paying bills while working from home and also spending time on my own projects.

About 2 months ago I was almost flat broke an took a job offer from an start up (also a remote gig) I'm making good money with that company and I have already out performed every single web developer they ever contracted with.

I lost interest on the small company and I have been too busy with the new start up.

I'm about 2 or 3 weeks behind schedule based on their deadlines (but also remember that I have done a LOT of work for free for them).

They have been emailing me about status updates and I have not replied back in a week.

What can I do?
>> Of course, it is still a good idea for North Koreans to do whatever their governemnt calls "legal" given that they have to power to enforce it. But the fact that I have the power to mug the neighbour kid and I call it legal doesn't make it legal.

No, you don't have the power. You think you do, until you realise that society actually has the power to stop you, and you are powerLESS to resist. You will find society is typically happy for you to have powers over nothing but your own person and property (an oxymoronic presumption, I know, but adequate), but unfairly try to exert any power over another person and you will find a functional society will tend to react against you and rapidly demonstrate why you are deemed to have implicitly relinquished the power you're now claiming to have, by mere fact of being in your society's jurisdiction.
But that's because traditional recruiters usually take a % of the person's salary.

Stackoverflow only charges a subscription fee for searching the database so they probably won't make as much.

If you are a hiring manager, you can test-drive our search interface any time and get an idea of how many matches you'll find. No surprises here. But if you'd like to view candidate details and make contact, you'll need a subscription:

* 1 week subscription is $500
* 1 month subscription is $1,000
* 6 month subscription is $3,000
* 1 year subscription is $5,000
I'm skeptical. It's a distracting feature. And I have to wait for it to fade back in to find the link to switch modes. It's distracting. Worse, this scheme stinks of that "too cool for its own good" flavor, which means it's going to be implemented badly all over the web by next week. Did I mention it's distracting?