skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of an article by Adam Curtis, talking (in part) about how people glamorize the landed aristocracy of Britain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/2989a78a-ee94-...

There seems that even though we have long since left the ape hill, the ape hill has not left us. We keep defaulting back to power politics whenever push comes to shove...
I think the phrase "jedi mind tricks" might mean something different to you than me. To me it's basically a sarcastic way of saying "sales training", which is actually not about trickery but does have a bit to do with psychology. To you, it means lying I think?

Read the books and tell me that what they teach is pure trickery. But if you take some of the lessons to heart, magically people might start buying more (maybe a lot more) of what you're selling. It's not because you're being unethical though, you just "know how to sell" aka "know how to structure the delivery of information in a way that increases the odds of an interaction resulting in a monetary transaction".

Sure, think of yourself as a "problem solver" vs a "salesperson" if you prefer ("sales" does have a negative old-timey connotation at this point, which is why it's now often called business development). But that's semantics and it doesn't help the OP get any better at his job if it is indeed in sales (or biz dev, or problem solving, or whatever they're calling trying to generate revenue for a company these days).
AFAIK Server Push is not supported (it wasn't supported in the `ngx_http_spdy_module` either). This was also mentioned in the alpha patch announcement:

HTTP/2's 'Server Push' feature is not supported in this patch and will not be supported in the first production-ready release of the HTTP/2 implementation. This feature might appear in a future NGINX release. [1]

[1]https://www.nginx.com/blog/early-alpha-patch-http2/
Thank you. I am not a fan of affirmative action. But I also understand that a) it's a touchy topic and b) many people do not know what else to do and want to do something and c) it actually isn't possible to ever know for sure what the world would look like had these events not occured, so we do not know for a fact that it would have gone better had these initiatives not happened. Racism and hatred are rampant. Things might well have gone worse without these intiatives.

I still hope the world can improve on these models, but that is no small task.

Have a good day.
2 keyboard halves 20 meters apart and still operational
This is what I'm waiting for as well. Hopefully it comes sooner rather then later.
> But while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog

"is same order of magnitude as" is not a transitive relationship.
In the course of a salary negotiation if anyone asks you what you're making now it's just a transparent attempt to low-ball you.
The PNG Gamma Dilemma
I agree that you can't necessarily add up utilities over multiple individuals, but you can naturally claim that a "good" individual utility takes into account the well being of others, and if the utility of each action is unique you may say there's a composing function g such that your utility u(a=action,t1=actor 1) is also a function of the utility for other people u(a,t1)=f(a,g(u(a,t2),...,u(a,tN))).

I also think utility can makes sense when there's a set of actors looking forward to make a set of decisions. Again, this set of decisions is going to be unique. So if those actors are able to 1) achieve consensus on a utility 2) coordinate their actions according to said utility, then it also makes sense to talk in terms of a joint utility theory.
MindUp: The new trending social network?
As a data point, I just built/installed BlockParty on iPhone 5 and iPad Retina and see nothing but performance improvement. Many thanks again for the link!
I was curious about the name change in regards to when people hear your name for the first time.

When people hear the name Gusto it does not immediately reveal what it is. When they hear something with the word payroll in it, they can take a guess that it has something to do with payroll. Did you consider this when making the change?

I recently changed the name of my side project to make it more explicit because people just did not get the concept when I tried to explain it.
Sadly their efforts are limited. They also sell this game:

https://www.gog.com/game/hostile_waters_antaeus_rising

It's a great game, glowing reviews, should be a sure buy, right?

What the reviews don't point out, and no part there warns about is that the game is quite buggy and slowly deteriorates in performance the longer you play, such that play sessions above 30 minutes are virtually impossible. Contacting tech supports only results in the usual "have you reinstalled your graphics drivers? tough luck."

Their efforts are laudable, but when they don't pay off, they're not above being a little less than earnest.
Maybe some glitch in your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules?
I can't tell what you're trying to convey. You may just be trolling, of course.

"The rule of law" sounds good and all, but you have to differentiate between laws that are only detrimental to us, and laws that would actually correspond to morals: 1) Don't aggress against others, 2) Don't violate others' property rights.. and those are the only two laws you need.

Now we've got like hundreds of thousands of laws, and they're mostly just meant to benefit the ruling class (and their cronies) at our expense.

The "If You Were King" video clearly shows there is no such thing as a "good ruler". That applies to governments too (because politicians are our modern-day rulers).

But in case you really need it, here's some additional clarification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE

You talk about "freedom", but do you know what it means?
Any subscriber can post links. They're asked to keep it within bounds, i.e. don't just create a service where you post all the articles, but they seem to be fine with posting single articles to sites like HN.
tl;dr: your mind goes before your liver. Unless you drink of course?
I wish unencrypted HTTP/2 without TLS could be supported in major browsers. Although use of encryption should be very strongly encouraged, making it mandatory creates a lot of headaches in certain scenarios.
You can use one of the many umbrella companies.
Not very surprising. The more wealth inequality, the harder is to for poor to get money. But at the same time harder for the wealthy to invest the money.
> The closest you get to "innocent until proven guilty" in US law is common law's Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, and the Latin word "probatio" does a lot more work than just "mathematical proof".

TIL.
2fa doesn't necessarily have to be something online. For quarter million dollar transfers, it could, and probably should, require some steps of offline verification, like needing the CFO to sign off on it too, or a quick phone call to make sure everything is on the up and up.

Hell, the CEO shouldn't even be handling these transactions. I don't know of a single other place where the CEO would be this involved, especially if transfers of this size are "routine". This is just poor accounting top to bottom.
I was reading an informed opinion recently that longer shifts are much better for nursing, in that there's a lot of lost efficiency and lost knowledge during shift changes. Perhaps limiting the total number of hours worked in a week, rather than the length of any one individual shift, might be better? This person's opinion was that tiredness was not as big an issue as it's made out to be -- though I'm personally skeptical of that, and would be surprised if statistics back it up, it does seem to be a view I hear from some medical professionals.
How to Use Pre-Built Scripts to Deliver Quicker Remediation
This. OP is immediately rolling in the tanks, when some tactful diplomacy could achieve the same result.
But those pop-up blockers weren't always the default, and when people started installing addons to Firefox back in the day to block them I kept hearing all these same arguments about how it was immoral and going to kill the publishing industry.

It's not an issue of morality. It's an issue of overstepping what's acceptable to someone clicking on a link, exactly the same as what happened to pop-ups and pop-unders.

Look at the two dev tools charts here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9605/the-ios-9-review/10#Safar...

That is crazy. I'm sorry, but if your business model depends on megabytes of JS and 20 seconds per-page of network activity on my mobile device, I'm going to block it if I can. And if your business model fails, that's not my problem.

It's not even the advertisements that are the issue. If everyone started just serving images and removed all of the JS coming down from these ad exchanges I would turn my ad blocker off.

(As an aside, it's a hilarious juxtaposition listening to the arguments about the taxi industry and why Uber killing them is for the best, at the same time as I'm hearing the arguments about how a random publisher should be able to decide how much code I'm going to allow to execute on my own personal device and me blocking it is immoral or entitled.)
Just like the comment it was in response to.

>We're not just payroll and payments. Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first.
I think you both have a valid point, and both things are valuable - time with your imagination and time with other's imaginations. We try to moderate our kids' use of iPad and video games, and got them into a routine where they spend roughly equal time playing with their toys and arts and crafts and playing outside.

They seem to self regulate, and we're pretty happy with how things are going. We're not screens-paranoids, but we have noticed technology use tends to become excessive when unregulated. When your kid wants to watch hours of toy videos on YouTube instead of playing with real toys, a correction is in order.
When it's available. Can't wait for it!
The vague mission statement of "empowering companies to put people first" that could mean literally anything from genocide to running a grocery store.
>I think this still smacks of too-situational thinking.
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It's rare that I see a req that interests me,

I understand. There are 2 sides on how to describe the existence of a job: (1) for the executive manager approving of the requisition and (2) for the candidates

In other words, when the hiring manager goes to the vice president asking for another FTE, the exec is going to ask the justification. The hiring manager could say, "well, we can teach him the latest cutting edge functional programming techniques, and also let him build up some AWS architecture skills which will boost his resume and make him more valuable to other companies, and he can play in our foosball ping pong table area, and eat our catered food, and take 4 weeks of vacation." Obviously, the vice president would think those are silly reasons for paying someone. Instead, he needs to know what value-added tasks will justify the job position.

(1) hiring manager perspective: the real work that needs to be done is highlighted, the employee's benefits are implied

(2) candidate perspective: the employee's benefits are highlighted, the "real work that needs to be done" is implied

The thread was about Kerri Miller who was talking about job positions from the company's perspective instead of the employee's and that's what guided my examples.

Behind every job ad that says "change the world and come work for us at our beautiful campus!" from YC, Google, or Apple, etc is a list of tasks that need to get done.
watch "wolf of wall street" and call it a day
The template sounds very passive-aggressive, and the excessive length of the template makes the receiver feel like the freelancer has something to hide.
Ask HN: How to monetize algorithm for free text searching within encrypted text?
I have working prototype enabling free text searching within encrypted text. Should I patent it? How to best monetize the algorithm? I'm a developer, not a businessman...
On the Futility of Academic Reform
Wonderful article! Expected an interview with NPR' Kerri Miller
I know. Cheap shots should involve more work, though.
Yeah, it's obviously for funning around. The problem is that it just turns into (at best) passive aggressive nonsense at offices where the kind category of banter needed to playfully respond is generally not allowed. In that case, all the wet blanket responses do alloy.
How do you guys estimate your market value? For example, if you go to salary.com there are many levels of software engineering (I, II, III, IV, etc). The description for each is quite vague and the difference between them is very small (or hard to notice) while the pay rate delta can be big.
Out of curiosity, why do you assume that because the author said 'he' that he projects that gender onto the author, as opposed to not actually knowing and choosing his own gender, as is common, or choosing a random gender, as is common?

Are you one of those people who insists that everyone say "he/she" every single time they don't know? If so, then why don't you also demand that the person say "she/he" 50% of the time? With no more than a specified number of imbalances per time interval and instance interval? And no more than a specified change in number of imbalances per same?

I only bring this up b/c you seem to grant yourself the title of auditor, so out of curiosity, I'd like to see if you can stand up to auditing yourself, or if you simply expect more out of others than you're able to give. My hypothesis is that you have no grounding or ability to generate introspective thought, just a little provocative scheme to grant yourself power opportunistically.
They are both trying to cannibalize each other's target markets. I don't see zenefits (with their project nutgrab or whatever it was) catching up to gutso.
A Non-Programmer’s Apology
CrunchBase Introduces a Detail-Rich “Leaderboard” for the Unicorn Obsessed
Two things:

1. When I talk to someone about a new project, I do it in person or on the phone, not email. This is important.

2. The first call is always to see if the work would be a good fit, and I'm clear about that. If the client or the project isn't a good fit, I just say so. "I'm not the best guy for this work right now, you might want to talk to so and so".
Apple tvOS UI Kit for Sketch
Simpsons - s05e14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0iUcgNCpg
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10233295
The simplest advice is this: Interview, A LOT, take some time every week/month and schedule several interviews. After the 10th interview you'll have a very good valuation of your worth.

This is what I believe OP's biggest mistake is - had he interviewed more earlier, he could have gotten to $120K within a year most likely. He _was_ the guy making $75K back then.
I have lots of unpopular/controversial opinions. I have found it enormously helpful to work on trying to express them without insulting my audience in the process. It can certainly be a hard row to hoe.

He asked for feedback. I gave it. I think I did so respectfully. If he sincerely hopes to learn to engage people effectively in meaty discussion about difficult topics, hopefully this will help him get there.
>There is nothing wrong with the US that cannot be fixed with what is right with the US.

Ok. If you really believe in America and the American people, then why shouldn't we do as the article suggests, and call a Constitutional Convention, or use an Amendment to shift to a more parliamentary system that better represents the will of the American people, with less waste and gridlock and greater efficiency and coherence? Or, if the Constitution seems to gridlock us into being unable to change the Constitution in any realistic circumstances, simply ditch it and hold a Convention to draft a new one anyway?

Because the objections I'm hearing to that, in this thread, are that the posters believe what is right with the US is precisely that the Constitution provides for a purportedly-meritocratic oligarchy instead of a real democracy.

So it really comes down to whether you believe "what is right with the US" to be the democratic part, or the oligarchical part.
As someone who does not use Facebook or Twitter, I don't give a hoot about how many "likes" or "followers" a business has, any more than I believe in any other marketing campaign. These measurements measure nothing meaningful to me as a potential customer, as this article clearly demonstrates. I've always found it baffling that people even remotely believe online "reviews" written by strangers.

I'll turn it around: Who is stupid enough to think, "Wow, this business's carefully curated Facebook marketing page has 10,000 likes.. That must mean they are truly reputable!"
I can only speak for London, but there are a lot.

Normally you need some experience, ideally in a specific skill, but shorter contracts may be available for people with less experience. If you are interested, it's best to find a decent recruiter who knows what they are talking about (easy to tell from a quick phone call).
Ugh, gimme
I think anything by Zig Ziglar is really good.
The West Wing didn't even strive to be realistic. It often was intentionally optimistic. I agree you need a TV show centered on how politics really works, probably closer to House of Cards when you think about it.
AltspaceVR Developer Initiative Program
Curious, i have an echo which is in my kitchen... but i can control it from my living room, which is also where my tv is. When there are two of these devices close together how well does it handle responding to the instruction?
"Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first."

This could mean anything or nothing. But he knew that already
Generating a trusted certificate?
Some of them were actually pretty elaborate. There were manuals which were printed in specific colors so that you couldn't photocopy them to give to a friend
Or LFE - Lisp Flavored Erlang - if you prefer Lisp to Rubyesque syntax. Robert Virding, one of the gang along with Joe Armstrong that created Erlang, created LFE.
This is a great post about realizing growth in a dysfunctional company.

Alternatively you could simply join a company where they value your expertise and progress :) We're hiring in Boulder and Amsterdam:
angel.co/stream
It wasn't going to stop piracy - though fighting piracy has been a constant of software commerce since the beginning - but what it was supposed to do was to stop the circumstance where one meets with ones friend, who bought the game .. play it together .. copy it with ease with the power of ModernOS (tm) .. and thus avoid paying for a game. If you had to read the manual, it was a chance for you (the publisher) to impress the end-user yet again, and have the pirate-copy user actually kind of 'connect' with the artwork of what you'd accomplished.

I think that was a nice aspect - a respectful way to treat ones customers. Those days are long gone...
I dislike this greatly, and it doesn't seem like a sustainable path - if the market crashes, and his/her skills don't match the compensation level, then it will backfire greatly & catch up to him/her.

I was able to boost my salary to $160k in 2 1/2 years from a starting salary of $50k, but through tireless improvement of my craft (self-studying, experimentation, and contributions to major open source libraries, including taking over leading development on one 10k+ starred project on GitHub), smart job searching, and being unafraid to walk away from offers that are too low. I never lied about competing offers, and about compensation, although I rarely will disclose my compensation in negotiations - if I do disclose it, then I am not afraid of walking away if the offer does not meet my criteria. The plus side is that this shields you more from engineering employment downturns, lets you do good work to genuinely improve the state of engineering, and opens up doors that are not available to most people - I get emailed about some unique opportunities that most don't get to see. And this is not to say that I could not have gotten more - I have turned down $300k+ positions already (took less $ for better work-life balance & more vacation).

One friend of mine mentioned he turned down large offers in favor of 35 (!) vacation days & a solid salary in a low cost of living area.

One does not need to be dishonest to get the salary & benefits combination one wants - one just needs to be steadfast at attempts to deflect you from those aims (i.e. "But you only make xxxxxx amount" or "We cannot afford to pay that").
My point was intended to look at the relationship between force and propaganda. I think the effective use of propaganda is a function of the size and power of an organization. Thus, organizations that achieve greater power are more effective at creating an image of legitimacy.

If a government utilizes extensive propaganda against its citizens, can it really be called a democratic government? I'd argue that it cannot.
What kind of bomb gets plugged into an outlet?
As a fellow Debian user, I haven't been so lucky. Installing systemd broke sleep on two of my laptops, broke a keyboard[1] (!), broke my /etc/rc.local (stopped executing it on boot)... Not a happy camper.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/340
Polygon goes to Poland (2014)
I expect so, but you can also get double your salary with tax breaks when contracting. So it would be easy to cover private health care etc with the additional money.
Building Real-Time Dashboards Using Accela, Connect and Runscope
That's a strange way to look at it.

It shows gratitude, explains the decision in a straightforward manner, provides helpful referrals, and keeps the bridge intact.

Do you have another option?
I wonder if they changed it since this comment. It's about the same as HN for me now.
I thought it was odd how the page loads with normal text, then blinks for a second and the text gets 2x thinner. If it takes time to load your fonts, you're doing fonts wrong.
"I have literally no idea what i am talking about, but here's something that i believe fully explains every problem i have ever encountered" :)
Hostile waters is great and everyone should buy it!

I have not noticed these issues you mention... HAVE you tried re-installing your graphics drivers?

<kidding!>

but if no one else is mentioning these issues it does suggest it is local to your setup. Time to master race up and get quad titans!
While it doesn't state a date, internal evidence suggests it was written in 2007. (It mentioned Safari 2.0, and 3.0 came out in that year.) Also, the download file for "PNG Gamma" says 'Last-Modified: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:34:56 GMT'.

Thus, it's very hard to draw any conclusions from this article as things may have changed over the last 8 years and because it doesn't include Chrome.
This is the kicker, you need to offer a compensation package that is as good as a contract rate.

However you know what you are getting so you could argue it's worth it...
Does not work well on my Windows tablet- I assume it presents a touch interface for Android and iOS? It assumes I have a keyboard, and I can't see a way to turn on a touch interface by hand. HP Stream 7, Windows 8.1.
Ah, sorry. For some reason I thought you were talking about his initial job offer. My error.
The key difference is that software engineering negotiations aren't adversarial and no one wants you to overestimate or underestimate. There are numerous books on estimating software time, I recommend Fred Brook's The Mythical Man Month if you're looking for a classic.
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movemen...

"With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)"