skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally Honest Software Engineering Negotiations

(a lie, I added $14k to the original offer)

See... it's hard to be "totally honest" in sales, even of your own time, because of the red queen effect.

This was an integral step in the process of raising your salary. If you volunteer all information honestly, I am pretty sure that most players in the system will not have an obvious path to increasing your salary. Otherwise it would represent an arbitrage opportunity for everyone.
Criminal businesses must by necessity adopt some of the work of governments because they are outside the scope of what the actual government does provide. You can't take your rival drug dealer to court over a dispute. You have to settle it in other ways. The threat of force isn't always a business model. Sometimes it's a substitute for legal recourse.
Not to mention those who advocate for free-market capitalism as a panacea, but don't acknowledge that violence is logical conclusion of the exploitation of a market without any regulation.

That or they believe the Roman model of private armies vying for control of a state was a great idea.
For books: realize there are multiple kinds of selling.

1)
There's things like used cars. Single, moderate sized transactions, one-time. You want to extract the last dollar, force the close, and generally be like...a used car dealer. I know nothing about this.

2) There's consumer products -- worry about the "funnel", advertising, etc.

3) There's the stuff I like -- high dollar, high-complexity, repeated/ongoing transaction. The best books, hands down, are Neal Rackham's SPIN Selling series: http://www.amazon.com/Neil-Rackham/e/B000APLFJK
It's good that you could find me articles about fake Facebook accounts and how some dating websites contain fake profiles. But, I know both of those things already.

Instead, you made a claim that Facebook was a poor choice of medium because women aged 18-25 are walking away from the service in droves. You said they were walking away because:

But young women are really walking away these days because they find any picture of them on facebook is quickly harvested for use by some shady dating website. As one student expressed it to me, facebook has a "serious creep factor". So nobody should be surprised that a fashion mag lost money on facebook ads.

A statement like that needs some proof. If you have any, I would love to read it, but until then, I'll argue that Facebook has an immense amount of data and extremely fine-grained targeting options. Therefore, if you plan and monitor an intelligent campaign, it remains a decent advertising medium.
News Corp completes £114m acquisition of Tech City darling Unruly
Getting slightly off topic, but I'm confused about an aspect of server push (maybe you can help). Even on HTTP/1, the client typically only downloads assets on the first page load for a given website, then it caches them. Subsequent requests for other pages are much quicker because the assets don't need to be downloaded again. With server push, would the server typically send all linked assets on every request? Or can it somehow keep track of which clients have cached which assets, and avoid wasting bandwidth?
You are missing my point: the raw bit rate of the network is not the rate of file transfers. There is a bunch of logic around the raw bits in the wire that make it mich more complicated than dividing by 8
Nearly a 3x speedup for me. I'm about 39ms latency from the CDN hosts. (I'm in Taiwan, FF 40.0.3)

http://i.imgur.com/DjTycqt.jpg
Facebook is a mess and, to some extent, a huge scam. I spent tens of thousands of dollars advertising on Facebook to build-up an audience for a page for a business we were spinning up. We used very narrow criteria to guide the advertising and, over time, got tons of likes to our page.

And then it happened. FB changed the percentage of people you can reach with posts to your own page. In some cases you are lucky to get 1%. Of course, they also added the ability to reach them through advertising. Which is a travesty. I paid plenty to get them to my page in the first place and now FB wants me to pay again and again every single time I want to say something to them. Fuck them.

I know of lots of people who spent a lot more than I ever have on FB who have abandoned the platform for marketing. One guy was doing a million dollars a month with them. Gone. He brought-up exactly the same issue I describe above. So, yeah, again, fuck them. Thankfully there are other ways to reach people on the 'net.
Does anyone have a rational justification for watching 4K content on common sized panels (50-75 inches), at common distances (10-15 feet)? Can you really see a difference from 1080p, and is it worth the extra expense and bandwidth required?

3DTV was a fad and it failed, but you could at least see the 3D effect. What's the appeal of 4K in the living room? Is it in the homeopathic audiophile nut territory, or should I believe the hype?
>I'd say the constitution is working perfectly: the government we have is the one we deserve and one that really does reflect what this country, on the whole, wants.

Can you justify this in a non-self-referential way, ie: via data other than election outcomes?
Engineers always get this wrong. They always quote the first part, and then say "see, anything i do on my time with my own stuff is mine".

You forgot the super-important part, which are literally the words after what you quoted, which say:
" except for those inventions that either:
(1)
Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or
(2)
Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer."

#1 covers pretty much everything tech related that tech related people do. For example, if you work for IBM, i doubt you can find anything not related to IBM's business, or the R&D of IBM. Becuase it's not what you think IBM's business is, it's what IBM think it's business is. It also doesn't matter whether it's a secret project you don't know about, or historical, or anything.

It makes no difference what you do for the company either.
If I work as an IP lawyer for Google, and Google builds self-driving cars (among other things), any work i do on my own time related to self driving cars is Google's.

Note also "related to", not "exactly the same as". So if it's in the same area, field, etc, you are screwed.

But you don't have to take my word for it, look at court cases in CA, which find the same :)

Now, maybe if you work for a small, super-focused company, you may be okay.

But good luck if you work for any mid or large sized tech company, which often have so many projects, strategic initiatives, and research that it covers pretty much everything in the world.

To wit:
In every case an employee has come to me saying "well, we don't do that, so why would you own it", it has been a case that the employee did not know there was a team doing it.
I have never had a case of an employee coming to me and it turned out "yeah, you know what, we don't really do anything in that area"
In the US, "work" is split into "exempt" and "non-exempt" status. "Non-exempt" workers are paid by the hour and have mandatory benefits if they work 40 hours and overtime pay if they work more than 40, so most employers will aim for 35 or so.

"Exempt" workers, which is most of us in the tech industry, are paid a salary and have essentially no limit to the hours that may be asked of us.
1. CFO is using Gmail without 2-factor authentication

2. CFO enters his Google credentials on a random website

3. CEO takes CFO e-mail as valid without checking for the existence and verifying a PGP signature

4. CEO sends Bitcoin for an existing customer to a new address he got by e-mail rather than to the established one

On the positive side, the CEO eventually sought confirmation from the customer.
SPIN is still great. I've heard about Challenger Sales, I'll read it and should have an opinion in a few weeks.
Simplyinsured (also a yc company) does health insurance, if thats the only thing you are using zenefits for.. They can get you off zenefits in like an hour if you call them.
You should share your failures with your friends, too. Not to the same extent.

A wealth differential can become a strain on a friendship. Some people who suddenly become wealthy reconvene their former social group as an entourage to overcome it. Others just drift away from their old friends and make new friends.

If you had more money than everyone else you already knew, combined, would you feel any obligation to do anything to make their lives better? It doesn't even have to be anything big. If I were CEO of Apple, I think I would, at the least, give away copies of the major hardware product releases to my oldest friends just before launch day, with prepaid support. You don't need to hand out cushy sinecures, but those are fine, too, provided it's from your personal bankroll, and not your company's.

I certainly wouldn't shut down my company's existing philanthropic programs, and never leave any public trace of charitable giving whatsoever.

Hell, I'm not even rich, and I put $500 into an old high school friend's first Kickstarter project. If I had more to contribute, I would have contributed more.

It may not be an absolute quality all nerds need to have, but some generosity towards friends and family is a requirement for me, specifically, to like someone.

Gifting etiquette varies by person, even within the same culture, but I expect rich people to give to charities and put their names on museum galleries and hospital wings and university buildings and zoo habitats and park playground equipment. I also expect them to show up to award ceremonies and accept their mantelpiece trophies with good grace and concise speeches. That's what lets the rest of us know they are not completely self-absorbed assholes. When your success rests upon so many people that you cannot possibly thank each of them personally for their support, that's how you show gratitude to "the public".
There are substantive parts to Trump's campaign?
The updated PATENTS doc makes it clear:
https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/PATENTS

That if you sue Facebook for patent infringement or if you sue any party for patent infringement related to use of (or modification you make to) Facebook "Software" then the license granted to you to use said Software will terminate.

Plain and simple. Even makes sense!
HN is full of twenty-something sycophants. This is very topical.
>Good luck recruiting desirable high achievers by telling them you can't tell if they're good enough to hire.

Typically here in London these people are already contracting, so all you need to do is convert the best ones.
IIUC:

1) You give your follower list to a charity (Can I choose which one?)

2) They spam your follower list. (It's a one time spam or it's forever?)

3) They somehow convert that to a money value to make you feel good. (Can I deduce that from my taxes?)

Note: I hope twitter has a spam button.
It's worth mentioning that in some parts of the world (for example Israel) people don't have credit scores and you can't pay a service to find out what their income is.

Of course, lying is still mostly unnecessary, especially if you interview a lot and actually do have offers to back up your claims. Personally I think the hit your reputation would take from lying just isn't worth it.
That's good that you didn't experience any bumps in the road, but did you notice the supposed benefits of systemd yet? Namely faster startup times?
The keyboard handling seems a bit off. If you hold S and then press C, you'll stop moving backwards even though you're still holding S. I often thought I was running into a wall or some other obstacle while in fact my input was simply being ignored.
It would be nice if we had actual software engineering negotiations instead of endless fighting over tiny architecture details.

But, the first rule of software engineer negotiations is — don't work with cowboy programmers who refuse to listen to others.

Once we've reached a formal "we need software negotiations" stage, it seems we've already lost. We only reached that stage because there's such an adversarial environment that regular discussions were fruitless.

Then it turns into a giant ego battle—the winner becomes whoever has the most political leverage, regardless of technical merit.
Ask HN: How do automated native app services work?
I've been wondering how services like this work in principle.

The ones that let you create an app in a web based editor and then submit to app store. Like this: http://www.producthunt.com/tech/snapp.

What is going on under the hood here?

And how do the automated submissions to the App Store happen? Is there some sort of 'Developer' account that you can make with apple that let's you submit apps on other peoples behalf?

I appreciate any answer here :).
You're comparing different types of social groups to religion, but I think the answer is more mundane than that. Religion is a social group just any of those, it just happens to seem more archaic in the modern day. But those other social groups are just as easily influenced by irrationality, strongman dominance, infighting, and dynamics as religion. Getting rid of religion doesn't get rid of human nature.
You're talking like you have some special insight, yet all I'm finding is a poor understanding of television commercials. (see how that works?)

A television commercial can easily top $600k for just one minute of advertising, not even counting the high cost of production. Here is a short list of the cost for 30 second spots from 2014.

NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC) 2014: $623,425

Thursday Night Football (CBS) 2014: $492,500

The Walking Dead* (AMC) Sunday 2014: $413,695

Monday Night Football (ESPN) 2014: $397,898

The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Monday 2014: $327,885

see:http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/tv-ad-prices-football-walkin...
Legal recourse is the substitute for the role of violence in dispute resolution, not the other way around.
The most important thing in my point of view is that you should always "OWN" the project and work like as your own. This is what I learned from my career
How to Write with Style: Vonnegut’s Keys to the Power of the Written Word
I really, really love gangster stories. Some of my favorite movies and tv shows are about gangsters. It's interesting to think about why.

One of the things that really motivates me in these stories is the morality play aspect of it. First, the core characters tend to be very honorable people, deeply committed to family, friends, and community. But they find themselves in situations where their honor is in conflict with itself, and they are forced to choose (or clever their way out of the choice).

Second, the bad guys get what's coming to them, in spectacular ways. I'm currently rewatching Sons of Anarchy, a really beautiful show. I'm on Season 3 now, and already anticipating the finale (spoiler alert). In a fantastic double murder, Opie gets to kill Stahl, the ATF agent whose lies led to his wife getting murdered by his own club. And Chibs gets to kill an incredibly powerful IRA gangster who stole his wife and daughter. It's so satisfying, to see these awful people get the punishment they so richly deserve.

In a world where justice is so rare and so corrupted, to get to see villains in black and white and getting the fate they deserve is blessed relief for us. It's a true escape from reality.
Ask HN: Why did the Amazon fire phone fail?
Link to phone on amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Fire_Phone_13MP-Camera_32GB/dp/B00EOE0WKQ
IDK how small your company is but I HIGHLY recommend switching to JustWorks. We were able to remove a lot of duplicated services by just using them. It's got a brilliant interface and is super user friendly for our employees.

We simply didn't need the level of functionality required in other software applications, which were clearly built for small to medium sized companies with an actual HR department. We wanted to hire employees and contractors, manage their payroll, manage time off, and give employees other basic benefits, like Healthcare and transportation.

Only downside to JustWorks is that it costs more than Zenefits which is free. Can't speak to Gusto's capabilities and pricing though.
Good read, but I wonder why didn't he hire a tax advisor to deal with VATMOSS? It's usually not that expensive even if you are not doing revenue, and unless you are in the business of taxes there's little to gain in doing it yourself.
"It's a startup I found but it's totally not my own startup that I modeled my HN username after!"
This is incredibly interesting and something most pet-project hopefuls don't even consider. Building the project is the easy part, what comes next is where things sink or swim.

Thanks for sharing!
I often promoted myself as a "CTO for hire" with that sort of attitude. Definitely helps.
Agreed. I meant that when you operate outside of the law, there is no legal recourse, and therefore you might have to resort to violence.
They do offer "MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. 30 days coverage after purchase."

30 days is a lot for video games.
software engineering negotiations aren't adversarial

Put 4 angry software developer men with wildly different opinions on The True Way Forward in a room and see how long it takes for the yelling and physical altercations to start.
Why would I trust a company's carefully curated Facebook and Twitter marketing pages any more than I would the company's advertisements that tell me how awesome they are?
There is two ways to deal with that problem, either fewer handoffs or better handoffs. I suspect focusing on more efficient handoffs and practicing more may be better than simply having longer shifts. Because 6h vs 12h shifts might cut handoff mistakes in half, but with 6h shifts good record keeping becomes more obviously important, and fewer things need to be communicated at handoff aka 6h worth of info vs 12h worth of info.
Do you need to generate a cert for all HTTP/2 usage? Is there no opportunistic encryption?
How My App Ended Up in an Apple Ad, and What Happened Next
We absolutely did consider this tradeoff and what I've learned during the rebranding process is that it's a tradeoff between short-term and long-term. Having a descriptive name has its advantages in getting your early customers, especially when you're just starting out. It's one of the reasons why we had "payroll" in our first name.

But it's a double-edged sword and having a name that describes what you do also starts to limit you, as we saw. It's one the reasons all the world's greatest brands usually don't have a name that describes what they do -- it becomes more important to have a name that you can build a brand around.
I tried to look myself up, and indeed they don't have my current employer (a small startup). My guess is that only larger employers participate.

More importantly, this raises significant privacy issues. How can a current or former employer make sensitive data like salary information easily and publicly accessible, without permission? That ought to be illegal.

I agree that it's really wrong to lie about one's salary; the best answer is to not disclose that, and probably to point to available information like glassdoor, or just be honest about your expectations.
> HAVE you tried re-installing your graphics drivers?

Since 2009? Repeatedly. ;)

That's the sad part, aside from the graphics card my machine is near the performance limit: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10190786/DxDiag.txt

This behavior has also been repeated across multiple machines. What's your setup?
Ahh. Found the realist in this thread. Leviathan isn't really taken too seriously these days in political philosophy although its taught extensively because its a great introduction and his influence is wide. Hobbes bases his argument on premises that are dubious at best. (Men and women being solitary, miserably brutal existence until society gave them order) His conclusions are also extreme in that he concludes we will enter into the social contract and resign any semblance of freedom other than our right to preserve our own lives at any cost. He also goes to extreme lengths to justify his premises and conclusions based on the bible which is interesting if not a very modern approach to political philosophy. Max Weber is an interesting read if you want something a little more modern. John Simmons is another one to check out.
I didn't say that the Constitution couldn't fail us. It could definitely use some tweaks here and there, like with term limits for all government officials, disambiguation of some of the language, strengthening of states' rights, addressing some more modern concepts like "privacy", etc.

But what I am saying is that our current problems are mostly in spite of the Constitution, not because of it.
> That's good that you didn't experience any bumps in the road, but did you notice the supposed benefits of systemd yet? Namely faster startup times?

I have, for what it's worth, but it's worth noting that the biggest benefits of systemd are invisible to end-users. Startup time is the one mentioned most frequently because it's one of the few that's directly observable by end-users, not because it's the most important.

For example, systemd makes it much easier to write services (both system and user services), and it definitely has delivered on this promise, since I take advantage of it frequently. Most users still don't have a need for this, though for the ones that do, it's now several orders of magnitude easier to write basic services.

But more importantly, systemd is far easier to maintain. That's the real reason distros like Arch switched so rapidly[0]; it wasn't part of some vast systemd conspiracy. They were willing to support sysvinit as long as there were people to maintain them, but it turns out that almost nobody wanted to maintain it. And since it's a volunteer/community-run distro, you can't exactly force people to maintain code they don't want to.

There was one guy who posted to the mailing list and was very adamant about providing an AUR package for it, but last I checked, it didn't have much traction.

[0] Arch switched back in 2012, long before most other distros. And they deprecated sysvinit within less than a year - far faster than they originally planned - for the above reasons.
In the context that it was said, it's not very ambiguous. It's obvious what they do and you can see what they're branching out into. It sounds vague and like corporate-speak on first gloss but it does make sense.
ZenPayroll Moves into Benefits, Changes Name to Gusto
That's not confirmation bias, unfortunately. The argument was not that women aren't concerned, although I would also argue that they, in general, are not.

Bias aware bias: the tendency to bring up biases in an online argument, regardless of their definition or relevancy.
Why not outsource and pocket the difference?
That must be new. I bought HW back in 2009 when i didn't see that option anywhere. :)
It tends to be amazing how certain closed platforms magically get new features right after they get released in open source projects.
I still don't understand what it means to have consent without having similar power to the agency you're consenting to. I consent to someone who asks me at gunpoint to strip and get on my knees, just as much as I consent to something that will lock me in a cage if I don't give them a portion of my income, just as much as I consent to be ruled by multi-millionaire X instead of multi-millionaire Y. What needs to be understood is that consent is not always possible. That's fine! But we can't reasonably discuss people's relation with society until we stop lying about the scope of individual choice.

Your criminality point is not meaningful; the initial point was about the societal effects of actions. Governments and government officials also go against their own laws all the time.
you're coming down on my side, but I think this 3-paragraph tirade is a bit over the top... the comment you're replying to was 11 words, and also correct in that, yes, I had assumed the author was male.