skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't consider myself a great negotiator, I have successfully negotiated changes to many of my contracts. Not with the largest clients, as their contracts are more like inevitable facts of life, but their contracts tend to be fairly okay, and if I don't like it (which I sometimes don't), I can always leave it. There are plenty of other options.

The main trick in negotiation is that you're willing to say no. The problem is that not everybody can afford that, but in this market, I can certainly afford to say no.
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I want a DB-as-FS.

These all have something in common: namely, that files must be stored in one place. But, as he discovered, files aren't organized by only one thing.

I want a FS where I can tag things. Effectively, a D(A?)G, not just a tree.

Links help some, but nowhere near enough. Especially with the quirks of some things trying to handle links.
We (ClarityAd) do this for major ad platforms. We use a mix of static and dynamic analysis to assess risk. We've been able to detect and stop major exploit kit campaigns over the last few months. Ads have specific expected behaviors and their SWFs are not supposed to generate code dynamically.
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We are doing customer development for our small venture: http://excelpanel.com
This is more or less follow-up to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936412

At this stage we are looking for 10-20 partners that would help us shape the product for public beta. HN answers have great value to us, so here is our question:
- Who would make the best partner at the early stage? How to find them?
Thanks for writing this post. I was already curious how you implemented the collaboration feature. Very happy to get some details. Fantastic work.
So how will companies that 'don't give money way' be convinced to pay for MIT-licensed software, then?
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Most people hate pair programming. I opened up pairprogram in freenode IRC. When people had problems in other programming channels and I suggested to pair program to work it out, most refused. They just wanted the answer pastebin to them. I used http://tmate.io/ running inside an LXC container running inside a VM.
A) Civics are generally regarded as having very good mileage.

B) Civics weigh 500kg less.

C) Again "on gas alone" which is not the expected mode for a Volt
I am really, really struggling to understand how someone can make a voluntary and conscious decision to release software for free, under a license that permits unlimited redistribution, and then call the people who follow the terms of the license they explicitly chose "freeloaders."
Looks great. CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net/) is an amazing code editor OSS project by the same author. It powers Firefox and Chrome's devtools and is used in hundreds of other sites and apps (including the one I'm working on :)).

Direct link to ProseMirror's home page with live collaborative demo at the bottom: http://prosemirror.net/ (click "Change" to select a room)

And here's a link to the just-launched campaign to open source it (MIT license): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/ . It's an all-or-nothing ("fixed") type indiegogo campaign, not the flexible kind where the funds are kept even if the goal isn't reached.
Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You Do
Love Alan Kay. Went to a series of talks as part of a week of education for an old employer. We had several very highly qualified people speak to us about various challenges in IT. They were all quite "normal". Alan Kay's talk blew me away because it was so left-field. Interesting guy.
Yahoo bears some, but not all, responsibility.

As for version blocking you are correct that that falls entirely on Adobe and the browser.

One of the most difficult parts of an attack like this is to get people to actually "run" the malicious code. In this case that meant loading some flash object. Embedding malicious flash is one of the easiest ways to get a person to run your code, but you need a popular site to do anything large scale. Yahoo is responsible in that they own a vector (their ad network paired with their popular web properties) that makes this large scale distribution trivially simple for the attacker.

Content providers (web property owners) should be responsible for the ads that get served on their site but, given how the ecosystem has evolved, they have very little control. The most a content creator can do is switch to a different ad network. This case is interesting because the ad network and the content property were owned by the same entity; switching networks makes no sense.

The quality/safety of ads is left up to the network and the ad creators. Obviously the creators cannot be trusted. The network has little incentive to police thoroughly (although it seems like Yahoo did take some action in this case). There is such a glut of ad real estate that individual content creators have effectively zero power to affect change. If one of the networks strove to promise a better experience for the content providers (and us; the ultimate consumer) it could cause content providers to switch networks. But that costs money and no ad network has the incentive to be first. They simply don't need to in order to continue being competitive.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years. It seems like companies (Apple in particular) are starting to try to gobble up as much content as possible. If enough providers sign on to such programs, these "co-ops" could have significant bargaining power with regards to the ad networks. But who knows what other issues will crop up. Today everybody has a website or a blog that they need to independently monetize via ads. Grouping together under the banner of a large company could work well for them, or they could effectively become web serfs. It'll be interesting to see either way.
Not sure, but I seem to recall a case where Microsoft was on the other side of a suit from where you'd expect them to be, and people were afraid they'd lose intentionally. No idea what it was about or how it ended, though.
I don't know what you're talking about; is there even a downvote button on Hacker News? I certainly don't see one.

Some features that ORMs make unnecessarily difficult (or impossible without simply avoiding the use of the ORM) to use, off the top of my head:

* transactional DDL

* temporary tables

* user-defined data types

* asynchronous notifications

* dynamic SQL

* non-serial keys

* multi-attribute keys

* temporal schema

* window functions (really all manner of analytics queries)

Those were just the ones off of the top of my head, ones that are not "independent of SQL features."

Enjoy your flat-files, because that's actually what ORM gets you close to: a procedural abstraction inversion over a rich and capable declarative interface and first-order-logic engine.
GNU Mailman is now hosted on GitLab
>I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car.

I used to go for two weeks between fill-ups in a '78 Buick but that was mostly becuase it had a 24-gallon tank (and I only drove about 20 miles a day).
As a Romanian, I'm livid. We've had huge problems with illegal deforestation in the last couple of decades.

https://www.google.com/search?q=romania+deforestation
Those of us running adblockers and/or who have deinstalled flash remain blissfully unaffected. The ad industry needs to get its shit together.
I really like this change! More room for the video, and it actually looks pretty good too.
Alternately, the best of both worlds. The battery pack in the Tesla is some 1300lbs. The Volt's battery pack is 400lbs. That's 900lbs less of battery you're accelerating around all day, and contributes to the fact that the Volt weighs some 1200lbs less than the Tesla.
To me, this seems to imply that an important function of a bookstore is to provide a serendipitous experience.
I disagree.

Regional licensing issue, DRM, and formatting won't kill eBooks. Bytes is bytes, right?

People will continue reading electronic books, they just won't be reading an "eBook" file that a publisher sold, but one that an individual scanned and released, or one that was once a publisher's eBook but is now an eBook converted to a format that's more usable and without restrictions - or any ties to the original publisher.
>If I need Flash, I open a different browser.

If I need Flash, I open a different user account!
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They're working on it! http://www.homestarrunner.com/flashisdead.html

(Also they've uploaded a good subset of their videos to their official YouTube channel, but obviously they don't have interactive elements.)
I feel like there's a need to recreate that then on the web because in some ways my early experiences on the web were just that: going from link to (sometimes unrelated) link. I think the way things are setup on the web are not inherent to the web itself, but to the idea that every web page or site has to fit a template rather than being just as messy and subjective as a small book store.
That is why I don't bother to even consider working in a place with HR department.

There is always good consulting work for connected people out there.
Just to point out... there's no capital G in PostgreSQL's name. It's either "PostgreSQL" or "Postgres". ;)

Also to be super pedantic... it's SQLite, not SQLLite. ;)
> A criticism of online bookshops like Amazon is that they destroy serendipity by encouraging you to look at related books. For example, someone who usually buys engineering textbooks and SF may never see a travelogue.

That's a dumb criticism, since the merchandising of a brick-and-mortar bookstore typically does the same thing as that of an online retailer: presents whatever the store is trying to get rid of to everyone up-front, and otherwise presents people with things related to what they are searching for specifically, avoiding exposing them to the rest.

You can actively choose to browse (wander through a physical bookstore, click different categories for an online one) for the purpose of providing yourself opportunities for serendipity, but no bookstore is designed to encourage serendipity, because anything that does that is a terrible UX for most customers and leads to confusion, frustration, and not buying, and the store going out of business.
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Yep currently got that.
HR: You may only put up one person for promotion per year
Me: But I have 5 people in the team. Its unfair.
HR: Sorry. Only one.
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I get what you're saying, but that's again partly nostalgia for the old way. Algorithms can add serendipity as well, in more ways than one -- by recommending things on the long tail.
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Just be 'radically transparent' (a la Bridgewater) and don't be hesitant to give feedback in REAL-TIME. That's the only way to consistently improve. It's surprising to me that places like Deloitte haven't embraced this yet...instead favoring traditional political correctness and 'professionalism' and frustratingly clunky methods like this.
I think that stat is for people who use the car for their daily commute recharging the batteries overnight.
Some things aren't fungible, though.

Where possible, I do, as well!
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What gets measured gets done. If higher levels of management measure politics and ass-kissing and useless paperwork then that's what goes down when "managing up." And of course there are plenty of organizations where that's a big chunk of what gets measured. People who value those things tend to strive for management positions.

There are some where it isn't. In those "managing up" can mean something else and management tracks can attract and keep people interested in creating that other meaning.
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Problem is...most don't. In favor of higher sales, more clicks, etc.
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Mailing chicks via USPS [1] is legal and common:

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instructions as noted for the following kinds of animals:

* Live bees
* Live, day-old poultry
* Live adult fowl
* Live scorpions (only under limited circumstances)
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I don't think there's an incentive in reviewing others, apart from the general "greater good". The "own money" part is probably to get people to think a bit more honestly, rather in a "sure, why not" way. I agree that it doesn't sound very effective.
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I feel like whoever ran that contest should have checked to see that all of the winning accounts were connected.
Eugenics. How may society adapt to genomics.

Gattaca society used your genes determine your worth, your opportunities, our future. Stuff like nature vs nurture, triumph of an individual over prejudice, the apathy of genetic winners, etc.
Unlike your Civic, the Volt has to lug around a huge battery, a complex powertrain, and two high-torque motors. Its curb weight is about 40% higher than a 2008 Civic.

BTW, did you mean a Civic Hybrid? Because the US EPA estimate for even the most frugal of 2008 non-Hybrid Civics is 29 MPG combined. If you are driving so as to coax 50 MPG US out of a 2008 Civic, you will love the Volt.
A good questions might be to ask them how they break down difficult problems as well as how they think of solutions.
I agree. Bite the bullet and learn to work with Pg in your dev environment. The dev ergonomics aren't worth all the other stuff listed here. Think about all the time you'll spend reasoning about the differences between the two. This has nothing to do with your project.
Because that's the deal they made with you when they started using it. "You may use this software free of charge for non-commercial uses. Commercial use is allowed under our [Commercial Use Agreement][0]", etc. etc.

You're selling software to companies with legal departments for an amount that, frankly, isn't worth the hassle of trying to scam you out of at the risk of you suing them. Companies really do pay for software based only on the software company asking them to do so.
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Looks good, I think I will be signing up.
> Do you really have to declare and pay tax on competition winnings in the US?

Yes, and it's why I would always cringe whenever I saw The Price Is Right with someone winning $50,000+ of stuff they didn't need (or often even want).
If we get real, robust automation, we're not going to see wealth inequality head that way. Or, at least, it's not going to matter as much. When anyone can get automation to do all the things they care about, what's the incentive to work like a dog for your whole life?
Adobe already has an "automatically install updates" option that it encourages you to accept. If I wanted version blocking, I don't think I'd want to rely on Adobe to provide it.
More Alan Kay:

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Pretty simple, you should have the ability to learn and reinvent yourself.
I made an attempt at digitally replicating the bookstore-browsing experience.

What I learned: while there is no shortage of people who appreciate the idea, the number who would appreciate the same experience made virtual is exceedingly small. Small enough to not make an attempt like this worth it.

For those interested:
http://bookshopcrawl.meteor.com/

I haven't completely abandoned it...but I am now tweaking it to make something more widely appreciable [ with a new name and new site, so no shameless plug here ;) ].
We aren't discussing religion, we are discussing software development. There is no need to eschew extensions if that's the only database your company uses.
ICANN posts proposal to end US oversight of Internet
Does that seem unreasonable? I don't have any experience with such things, but it seems reasonable to me. The company decided you'd be most effective in position Y, so they put you there and gave you a pay/benefits raise, and now you're saying "I'd really like to do position X which is less optimal for the company even though you want me at Y and might/probably have already found someone to do X, and my reasons are A, B, and C".

A letter sounds like the perfect medium to communicate something like that.
If you release something under MIT, you _can't_ actually constrain commercial use.
So the difference between "new" and "news" is the difference in the perceived scope? Is this what you've got from Alan Kay's philosophy?
If I need Flash, I go to an Internet café or a library.
I'm happy where I am at the moment but thanks. :)
The news to me here is that those contests actually pay out. I assumed the vast majority were just marketing ploys, where they never picked the winner, or chose one of their own sock puppets. After all, who would ever know?
The trick with surveillance marketing is do it without seeming either creepy or your targets are actually being surveilled.
The Volt also has a specially sealed gas tank which greatly lengthens the time that the gas stays good.
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