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The following question is not rhetorical. I do not have any good way to reason my way to the answer but feel it might be important in my future professional dealings with American coffee drinkers (a social situation I have literally never been in before).

What does not buying someone coffee tell you about them? Does it matter that this took place in or outside of his office? Does it matter that he invited you?

[Edited to add: Oh, I live in Japan. This might be interesting to some of y'all: here, the boss outranks the job applicant and is almost certainly the host rather than the guest in this context. Thus, it is his social responsibility to arrange for tea or coffee for his guest. The guest should probably decline the offer once before accepting it.

Not offering the coffee is a fairly significant breach of etiquette -- it would cause me to wince hearing the story. Buying your own coffee, on the other hand, is about a step short of slapping him in the face. It says "I noticed your lapse of etiquette" and, more importantly, "I just called you on it." Given that a guest has bought himself coffee, the polite thing to do as the host is to take no notice of the fact.

We have manuals for this sort of thing.]
While I agree Correlation != causation a better example might be, driving an expensive car was novel and novel experiences increase T levels. In other words you might have increased T levels when on the test drive, but little response if you actually owned the car.
All the more reason not to be like WoW - seems like WoW has the "being WoW" market pretty much cornered.
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It's very useful, and it's perfectly fine to post it on your blog, but if you want to share it with HN, just submit the original
While it seems clear that fast driving increased T levels (both Camry and Porsche drivers increased from city to country), that isn't all that this explains.

Depending on what sort of city driving you are doing, the fact that the porsche has higher T levels in the city than the camry does in the country says something. The article argues it's the status effect. (I wonder though - if city driving means stopping (and then accelerating away from) traffic lights. That would be fun in a porsche - boring in a camry.) I'd like to see the test done with an accelerometer in the car. (But us armchair scientists can always find something wrong with an experiment can't we?)

On a related note - I really miss my old 1990 Toyota Camry - I used to be able to drive it nice and fast on some of the twisty dirt roads around here. Didn't really care what happened to it in terms of bumps, scratches, stone chips. I wouldn't do that in a 150K porsche.
4.6k, for 2 lines of code and 66 characters (in C). Wow.
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I posted this yesterday, but I believe several people missed it. So I wanted to give it another try, if you may.

Doxela.com is a very simple way to share pdfs and ppts (with soon .doc and other formats to follow). Think of it as an imgur.com for documents.

I would truly appreciate the harshest feedback.

Thank you all.
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Someone with more intimate knowledge of OpenID can feel free to explain the technical names for these things.

I have spent the last two weeks implementing it at my day job and I still can't keep the names straight. OpenID is like a case study in obtuse nomenclature.

Let'se see: the first URL isn't a URL. It is an Identifier. To be specific, it is a User-Supplied Identifier. It isn't a Claimed Identifier, you see, because that would uniquely represent the user. You perform Discovery on the User-Supplied Identifier to determine what the Endpoint is to redirect the client to so that the OP can assist the user in moving from a User-Supplied Identifier or possibly an OP-Local Identifier to a Claimed Identifier.

I think I have that right. I'm not sure -- I only implemented it.
It would be great to know whether this is effect continues after driving the same car for a month or two. It could be somewhat of a novelty that wears off as soon as one is acclimated.
Some do.

- http://www.openscience.org/blog/

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research

- http://www.google.com/search?q=open+science
In a business relationship, even if it's a totally impromptu coffee break, the man should have offered to buy him one. Anything else is either cheap or inconsiderate or at least unschooled in the way of proper manners.
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It would be interesting if someone started forwarding these to Twitter.
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Exactly, it seems that everyone else here is assuming the increased testosterone is because of increased perceived social status or, similarly, the result of a placebo effect causing people to "feel" more impressive/manly. This is a bald speculation without evidence.

Maybe the drivers DO feel more manly in a porsche because the drive is far different, which it is.

To draw a more accurate conclusion as to why, it may help to know how long after driving the increased testosterone levels lasted for.

If you really wanted to figure out why this occurs, a better study could involve a porsche fitted with a Toyota engine, and vice versa, to provide the same drive quality but equivalent external appearance.

Might also help to have a Porsche with a Toyota engine in a simulated environment where all other drivers are slower (so the Porsche driver is still relatively faster than other cars). Maybe the effect is from "dominating" other drivers.

TL;DR: Any speculation on why this occurs is pretty much baseless based on the information provided in the article.
It's not an absolute truth, but overhyping something is dangerous. Even if you do get it done, you'll be compared to much higher expectations, and your result will look worse in comparison.
The author did not ask but did ask for an interview, which I declined (sorry Farhad.)

I would welcome a discussion of how to make acquired startups successful, though. I have a number of ideas on what goes wrong and how.
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I can't tell what your app promises to do for me from any of the information on the front page. I can't tell what problem it tries to solve. I can't tell what would actually happen if I uploaded a file. All I know is that you want me to give you some file and it has something to do with sharing. Only, you're a third party I've never met so, why the heck would you want a copy of my file?
If I use delegation currently with a different provider (or whatever they're called), can I later switch to using google and still be able to log in to all the places I already signed up with?
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It may or may not solve a problem but it does tell you what it does: it helps you share ppt and powerpoint files.
When I saw the same page in the development journal he posted, I assumed that code got removed from the game after he printed out that page -- not something that was redacted, per se. :)

[edit: attempting to use something resembling English grammar this time]
Well, now that you put it like that :).

Thank you. The first thing any front should do is to tell visitors what the site is about. Maybe I should be more detailed. Will do. Thanks again.
Of course it's placebo, that's the point. What else could it be, some substance in the car? The point is that self-perception can influence brain chemistry and hormone production.
Thanks!!! Plowing through it, enjoying the read, sad it will soon be done. It's like reading Coders at Work in autobiographical form. One of the best non-book books I've read in months.

> We chatted for an hour about peripherally related topics. Broderbund, corporate America, the rat race, capitalism, freedom. I was seducing him. At the critical psychological moment, I remarked:

“You know, all my clipping is done on the byte boundaries.”

There was a pause

April 3, 1989

> The other thing is, I liked them. Lately I’d been starting to feel jaded about this whole enterprise – “Oh well, it’s just a computer game” – but watching Chris and Stu, I realized: These guys love games. They love games the way I loved movies in college. Even more, because they’re not interested in girls yet. Computer games are like the air they breathe. If I can make one that they can get excited about, that’s a real accomplishment. That’s something I can be proud of.

So I worked till ten with renewed enthusiasm.

May 6, 1989
From the perspective of someone encountering the site: how does it help? Why should I use your site instead of just emailing them? Or using Scribd? Or putting it on my network shared drive?
He claims that "announcing your plans makes them less likely to happen" yet many people, including me, hold the exact opposite opinion, that announcing your plans makes you more likely to work toward them.
Yikes, first of all: get a designer.

Secondly, I'm not sure what the point of this is. Doesn't Google provide sharing with Google Docs? And they even throw in a full featured word processor, presentation, and spreadsheet suite.
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Let's say you want to share a PDF with some HN readers in a comment, you can quickly upload the document and share the view link with others. No registration, sign in and all the other stuff.

You could have the document on your server. But believe it or not, several people do not have servers to host documents they may want to share publicly.

I think if you wanted to quickly share a ppt or pdf without much control over the document, then Doxela is much faster to achieve your goal. It's like what Scribd would be if they wanted to do a lite.scribd.com.
I disagree - what you're describing are "cogs", people who have no choices when it comes to employment. For people further up the ladder in skill, they are in enough demand that they can easily afford to pass up the opportunity of working under an asshole.

I've passed up job offers where they refused to let me speak with my future boss. I'm going to be spending the majority of my waking hours working, and I have enough options that I am in no way compelled to work with someone who drives me up the wall all day. This includes being nice.
i built something I wanted

This contributes to the perpetual oversupply of solutions from problems suffered by technically-inclined male twenty-somethings. Then you get to try shouting louder than all the other startups so that instead of the technically-inclined male twenty-somethings not paying for the thing the other guy makes they're not paying for the thing you make.

I built something I wanted: a business. It solves problems which were actually experienced by Real People. They also actually pay money for things, which is a nice feature to have in a customer.
I agree on the design. I am going to play with the few more options.

I find it quicker to share documents this way, than to use Google Docs.

(It uses the Google Doc Viewer Embed feature)
SHODAN will definitely motivate network and server administrators to stay up to date with the latest vulnerabilities. It could possibly even be used by them to test to see if their servers are vulnerable.

Overall I don't think that will have an overly negative effect. Instead, like any other dangerous tool, it will cause people to find a way to limit the danger that it poses, and that means that they will work harder to make sure that their servers are up to date and as secure as possible.
From the article (emphasis mine):

"Everyone speaks in future tense. (Or, more specifically, present-tense inaction, future-tense action.)"

Each of his examples is of two parts following the pattern described: present-tense inaction, future-tense action.
The most professional option, in my opinion, is to make sure your designs are at least basically functional in IE6, but put making IE6 a design priority as a separate line item with it's own cost. Doing extra work deserves extra billing, and you owe it to your clients to give them a choice.
It is sad that he has already been missing a month, and that the picture used in the news article is such low quality.
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Supposedly this is possible, but I wouldn't be surprised if bugs are lurking here. http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#XRDS_...
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Thanks bhousel, do you have any names of other companies? Is it easy to transfer?
Installing it merely puts a shortcut to the website containing the game on your iPhone home screen.

If you change your user agent to iPhone and go to http://mrgan.com/pieguy/ on your browser I assume you could play it on your desktop.
Really hope they find him, too. I remember reading about him in Wired some years ago, running over to his website, and reading as many of those essays and various things he'd written as possible. Was great stuff...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.02/lists_pr.html

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/
Me too, and I was only on the free version. After trying to copy a couple of thousand tiny text files, I had to force kill explorer repeatedly until I gave up and uninstalled Dropbox.

In the end I just signed up for a $9.99 a year hosting plan with 20 gig of storage and WebDAV. Cheaper, faster, and no funky software to crash my boxen.

Honestly I'm not even really sure how Dropbox ever became so popular.
No.

And if it does, he should just say "Meh, just buy me another pitcher."
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While I agree with ALL of the OP's points, I also wonder why any serious engineer would even bother reading these kinds of requests in the first place. It's usually obvious within the first few words whether a potential client "gets it" or not.
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First impressions:

1. Please use a mechanism for tracking all files I have uploaded (whether custom registration, openid whatever). Without that, this looks like it can be used only once unless you are capable of remembering those ids that appear in the URL (http://www.doxela.com/manage/777656602.php).

2. Provide the upload form at all times as that is the main purpose of your site. For e.g. If I did not enter a filename, the error appears on the front page and I cant find the upload form anymore

3. The URLs (for manage) seem to be having more slashes as I move through every page. Not a problem, but just ugly URLs if I have to share those.

4. There are much better uploaders available with progress indicators. Using a simple file upload control works, but would be much better to use a better upload control

Of all, I would only like (1) above as the absolute must.
Thanks, I'm currently messing with converting my (Common Lisp) webapp's CSS to SASS. This suggested it was time for me to use something a little beyond my ad-hoc conglomeration of Bash scripts I'm currently using.

I was actually just investigating Capistrano - but this seems so easy ...
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Jimminy Cricket guys. This is the third time today this has been submitted. It was killed the other two times. It's the story that refuses to die. Is it going to take a nuclear attack to finally kill this?

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With this math, there is no use of 'prior probabilities'

But the full hypothesis is "Given the data, are girls better than boys at this exam?" and clearly, the prior probability is relevant. Maybe in this case one might want to use a 50-50% prior, but in general, if the hypothesis was instead "Given the [same] data, can we conclude that this paranormal event really happened?" then a healthy skeptical prior would be in order.

Anyway, regardless of the "prior" issue, I've thought some more about your original problem, and I'm not so sure about your methodology. From my perspective, if you want to reach a "girls better than boys on this test in this class - true or false" conclusion, then individual variance is a crucial issue. Assuming that all girls and boys would always get the exact same result were they to take the same test over and over again, then you have a variance of 0. And thus, one could simply check if (average of boys) < (average of girls) and conclude accordingly. At the other extreme, if students show huge individual variance (eg.: their score depends on whether they had breakfast that morning), then the test results are almost meaningless... So the outcome is crucially dependent on this variance, which your problem description makes no mention of, and which Monte Carlo methods really do nothing to recover. One would have to make assumptions about it.

Maybe a better example (closer to what your other "system health" problem) would be: a boy takes an exam 20 times, a girl takes the exam 20 times, they get such and such results (assuming they don't improve inbetween). Is the girl better than the boy? Then one could assume a Gaussian distribution of test results for both, estimate their average and variance, then check for overlap between the 2 gaussians and conclude accordingly.

Maybe your MC really does boil down to something similar, but I don't see it. And sadly, I can't quite construct an argument about what I think is problematic with it. It just doesn't feel right.

Thanks for the references, I might check them eventually, though they seem too specialized for my needs. Someone recently posted this book on HN, and people had good things to say about it:

The Elements of Statistical Learning - Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn//

It's next on my reading list, but was absent from yours. It's available as a PDF --- the determining factor for someone with no library access.
Looks like we are in the same space...although it doesn't look like we are targeting the same user. So since we aren't really competing, good luck guys :)
If this is the company I think it is, then, wow. I interviewed with a company named "goodmail" in like 2001 or 2002. They had built a pretty pointless little email device aimed at "the market that wants to email but doesn't want to buy a computer" .. Not quite sure that market ever existed, but it seemed weak enough that I took a pass. If it's the same company, then my hats off them for sticking it out and evolving!
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Most PDFs I want to share are taken from an online source, so I'd just link to that source.

When it isn't, it's usually a document that I'm sharing with a couple people (I would email it).

I don't remember the last time that I needed to share a document publicly that I didn't just find online. Since this is such a rare occasion, I probably wouldn't remember this site and just use something more general like dropbox.

I don't really see much advantage of this over dropbox. Actually, I prefer my pdf reader over google's since the find feature works better.

Sorry. Maybe I'm not the target of your app though.

Oh, also, it didn't work for me using safari.

One more thing: The text you see after a file is deleted has a grammar mistake: "Your document succesfully deleted."
Ask HN: Partnership deal with programmer, what % split?
I found a programmer to work on a project with and we started talking already. At first I suggested making a 50-50 split between the two of us, but a friend suggested I should at least have a majority stake.

How much would you offer a programmer if you came up with the idea? (I want to put this in writing with a lawyer and I need some insight in any necessary details.)
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Thank you for the feedback.

1. I may think of a way to do this using, or at least email users the links just as Craigslist used to.

2, 3.Agreed.

4. I will have to look into other uploaders.

Thanks again for the time.
Great find, Mahmud. I have gone through all the tutorials and they are simply awesome! Well written, not too mathematical, the slides explain concepts in very intuitive fashion. The tutorials on regression and Bayesian concepts are especially recommended.
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I have two different programmers working on separate projects. I think its safer to keep them separate, but when I asked my hosting provider if that's possible, they said you can only make one login for each account (CPanel).<p>Is there a cheaper solution that making another account?
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I don't usually have any music in my dreams. However, I have frequently found myself incorporating outside noise into my dreams (a television left on, a radio alarm clock that plays the morning talk show, my cat meowing, etc).

Using a song as a trigger for lucid dreaming seems like a reasonable enough way to send myself a signal, though I honestly don't have much to back it up.
So where's the source code for this port? I couldn't find it.
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This entry is funny: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/1985/07/july-5-1985/

"There’s no guarantee the new game will be as successful. Or that there will even be a computer games market a couple of years from now."
I'm going to regret how many down votes I get on this comment.

=/
There are many other ways to increase testosterone levels. One, exercise; cheaper and has more long term benefits than a Porsche.
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