skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jobs which pay well have bad reputation: ads, banks, betting/gambling, freemium games for kids, etc. Do what you like and focus on what makes you happy.

If you care too much about pleasing others you'll end up at a workplace with good reputation but may feel sick for not getting challenged enough, not doing what you love with colleagues you may dislike in a culture you don't fit in.

So my advise is: take a job that suits you, not a job that suits others.

Finally, I've worked for a niche bank with very interesting ambitious people and fun challenges, but I guess that varies greatly between different banks.
JUCE is perfectly aligned with your requirements.
The parent probably meant "parametric polymorphism", i.e., generics, and not "subtyping polymorphism", i.e. inheritance.
Isn't the feel of working with Python all about inheritance?
"Why" is covered pretty extensively in the Innovator's Dilemma and Solution. I highly recommend those books!
Awesome! I was looking for something like this a little while ago and ended up using better touch tool, which does a lot of other things in addition to window snapping, but all I wanted was the window snapping.

I noticed that it doesn't want to maximize the window when I have an external display set up to be stacked above my laptop display. That's my default setup so I won't be able to use it, but still neat!
> It'd be great if they finally recognized that a proprietary format was blocking their success, but...

FWIW, I also think that Lytro has been seriously off the mark in how they market the output of their cameras: as weird black-boxes for end-viewers to play with. IMO, the idea that an audience of image viewers want to fiddle with the light-field knobs themselves (e.g. post-shot focus) is actively hurtful of Lytro's products.

The holy grail here is a light field camera that obsoletes the need for focus the way that digital cameras have obsoleted the need for color filters used in B&W film photography[1]. Unfortunately, Lytro's first product was well before its time. Their tech didn't have adequate still-image resolution compared to even a halfway-decent phone camera, certainly not enough to make the focus vs quality tradeoff make much sense vs conventional cameras.

Lytro's approach is worth comparing to Apple's Live Photos in the iPhone 6s. Live Photos clearly aren't for every shooting situation, but AFAICT, they're becoming quite popular for what I'll dub "affective photography": moments of kids, pets, friends, etc. We'll see how well this feature lasts past its novelty phase, but it's got a far better hook into what motivates end-users than Lytro has ever had.

[1] A quick primer: colored filters were used with black and white film to change the relative contrast of different objects in the scene, e.g. sky vs skin tones vs grass, etc. A skillful photographer learned to look at the colors in a scene and pick a filter that would produce the desired B&W rendering. Converting color digital images to B&W allows these rendering decisions to be pushed into post, with more creative freedom than was ever possible with film (or the odd, rare B&W digital sensor).
Nicely done. Interesting how a website design will make people take a second and consider that's being presented. I remember going to the old website and immediately dashing out thinking this was something beyond me. The current design is tasteful, and well executed.
Thanks for your suggestion,i will take care about it.
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> That's not what this is about - the question here is that Exxon might have prevented the public from understanding the health risks from using Exxon's product. That means that they way the population votes, the way the population buys products, has been a directed by the lies of Exxon. We can and we will hold them accountable for those lies and the damage caused.

I know it doesn't seem that way, but they must have perceived a danger of being sued over climate change (not health, by the way) in order to have taken these actions. I take issue with a society that would ever allow them to be sued for climate change.

> Oil is only that important because the industry has actively prevented alternatives from being developed. If they had been more forward-thinking, then oil wouldn't be that important and we wouldn't have all our eggs in one basket.

Not sure about that. Traditional oil production yields massive net energy gains. There's a lot of net energy from solar, but w/o the convenience of a liquid that can be burnt in day or night, and stored for a while.

> Well, I certainly do. Are you saying that I'm not in my right mind? Let's be more polite here, please.

Okay

> They are not being sued because they sold oil. They are being sued because they lied about the known health risks associated with buying their oil.

I only read the NYT article. Did you read some other source? The only time "health" is mentioned is in a tobacco comparison.
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You're not going to VCF on a whole genome in several hours.
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We should all follow Linus's example
If you haven't read it, here is an article that discusses some of what Exxon knew in the 1970s. They did groundbreaking research and determined climate change was a problem before it was a public issue. Then, instead of doing something to avert catastrophe, they made the decision to actively thwart public understanding and government action. It's pretty damning.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-c...
How Failing Better Could Advance Science
The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel.

Experimental music from very short C programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg

Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8
> They are not being sued because they sold oil. They are being sued because they lied about the known health risks associated with buying their oil.

What are the known health risks associated with buying their oil? I think my life is better now because I and people bought their oil and refined it into gasoline, and products that I use.
This is your place I guess: http://www.microconf.com/

I never went to one, I just follow patio11 tweetstorms whenever he is on it and it is full of gems (the tweets, I can only imagine the conference itself).

They have lots of videos on the website, but a "playbook" format would by an awesome resource!

BTW, I work at "trying-to-be-big-with-outside-investment" startup applying to YC, but I see A LOT of value on the advice of these people when I'm daily executing stuff and not daydreaming how to big a "YC startup"
> And had they done this 40 years ago, they should have been sued by their shareholders.

I don't buy this idea one bit - but let's say I did agree. That would be the most damning evidence ever presented that capitalism is a direct path to extinction for society: your idea that the only legal path forward is to heat up the Earth as much as possible and drive the cause of a mass-extinction event. No thanks, let's not be capitalists then.

In reality I disagree - they would not have been sued by their shareholders, nor should they have been. Isn't it becoming clear that their business was built on lies? I believe their shareholders should sue them right now, for telling those lies.

> Oil is still going strong

Oh really? It doesn't look that way to me.
One dead littletimmy is not going to make the world any poorer, in fact it might be better.
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Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago
Preventing an iPhone from downgrading to 2G (as a user-configurable option) would solve the problem. 3G/4G/LTE prevents spoofed tower issues.
It works great for me; my OS crashes much more often (and that's rarely); I'm a heavy user with dozens of extensions installed and often 50-100 or more tabs open.

But yours and my general anecdotal experiences aren't useful. There are hundreds of millions of Firefox users; we [EDIT: i.e., you and I] could have great or horrible experiences and they would indicate nothing. Perhaps if we could point to specific bugs our posts would be substantive, though still probably not of much consequence. We need data.
That article explains the original post about alcoa downsizing than any of the other posts. Thanks!
The penny booksellers always fascinated me. The reporting in this piece has some interesting data: Thriftbooks sells 12 million books a year, for something like $2 per book (on the $0.01 cost + $3.99 shipping). I imagine Amazon could have some serious leverage if it wanted to.

And yet, 300,000 new books were published in 2013. Wow! Doesn't that seem like a lot? Is that maybe the source of the industry? Supply is overwhelmingly high. I know this model is the same for Hollywood and VCs, but wow. I can't imagine if 300,000 movies were released on DVD every year.
Does the government have a Strategic Tobacco Reserve? Oil is more important that you're making it out to be. Also, regulation and taxes are different from prosecution.
I think you're not supposed to take away the absolute numbers, but only the ratios: so 10 MVPs really means only make MVPs for 1/10 of all your ideas. So one MVP at a time follows the guidelines if you have around 10 ideas!
The reports here break out the numbers some:

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/aluminum/

Recycling is ~75% of imports. About half of recycling is from manufacturing waste, about half from recycled aluminum products.

The major source of US imports is Canada, in 2013 they supplied 64% of US imports (China was 4%, behind both Russia and the UAE at 5%).

It'd be interesting to see if China is exporting raw aluminum or finished products.
> they rationally chose the latter

That's the kind of "rationality" that would end up with the whole world in a smoldering pile of ruins.
Ownership of IP doesn't matter if the licensing of the IP is made in unrestricted or exclusive fashions.
> The parent comment used "consumer" in another sense: an "I am not a computer person" end user. Windows 2000 was certainly intended to be fully usable by these kinds of consumers, at home or at work.

I think many people attempting to sell into business don't quite realize that there are novice users there too. Ease of use, ease of deployment, and maintenance without a highly technical internal supporter are critical issues that products with massive business adoption have to get right.
I didn't propose this test as a solution to PG's data. I have no idea how to handle the First Round Capital question, or whether FRC is biased, and I didn't claim otherwise.

I solved a toy problem - my goal was to understand one piece of the problem and solve it in isolation. In this case, I was handling the marginal vs mean problem. I.e., PG took step 1, I took step 2. (Both of us repeating work that Gary Becker did a while back.)

Can you do step 3? Or is your sole point to sit on the sidelines saying "haha, you don't have the answer yet, stupid math geeks?"
I'll second this, it really is a "scene." When hiring or looking for contract work, people reach out to their network first and it almost always produces someone. Reaching out to the open market is seen as a last resort and rarely happens.

Also, chatting with random people at coworking spaces could be fruitful.
The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors
New MCU-Like Intel Quarks Sip Power, but Skip the Linux
And we might well have invested more in nuclear power if they were making more realistic energy decisions.
Why has the quality of brick buildings declined steeply in the last 100 years?
If you told them in 1975 that they'd be one of the biggest companies in the world in 2015 if they didn't change much, the smart play would have been to continue on the same path, not dive in to renewables.

What are the renewable energy focused companies in 2015 that are doing any revenue (let alone profit) that in any way matches what Exxon is doing today?
patio11's stuff is pretty much spot on.

You need to solve business problems that people don't necessarily know how to solve by themselves. Generally you do this by applying your technology expertise, but that is not what matters to the client.

Don't model your business on the freelancers at oDesk. Model it on McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, etc. Look at how those companies describe themselves. You will necessarily be operating at a smaller scale than them. But that still leaves an awful lot of room.

One key point is that the client does not hand you a spec to implement. The client only has a problem, they don't know how to solve it, or are unsure of how to decide. You come in and teach them what's possible and then help them do it.

I find my clients through networking. Mostly it starts through people who know my open source work and appreciate that I've been helpful to them already, but also some random meetings with entrepreneurs who were looking for technology advice. From there, one project leads to another as people talk to each other or change jobs.
Besides laying bricks, brick layers who really understand their craft can supervise and train others on proper technique. Here's an excellent article lamenting the lack of "master masons":

A master architect and a master mason

Back in 1891, when the Citizens Bank building was under
construction, there were two essential people on the job
site. One was the architect. I imagine that the architect —
someone who clearly cared about water management details —
visited the job site regularly. The project was also
blessed with the presence of a master mason — perhaps a
recent immigrant from Italy — who knew how to sift sand and
wield a trowel. Both of these people oversaw the work of
others, and both insisted that every worker on the job site
needed to adhere to high standards of quality.

The results of their work included the impeccable mortar
joints at the Citizens Bank building.

http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/articles/dept/musings/qu...
It's just a button resetting to the default position. That's easy to trigger as a side effect of any number of changes.
You can use the guix command line tool and let it talk to a remote guix-daemon. I would not know how to set this up on a Mac, but Guix is in fact designed such that the command line tool is separate from the daemon.

I'm using this feature to provide users of our scientific compute clusters with a way to manage their software on all cluster nodes. The Guix tool on the nodes connects to one central guix-daemon.

That's all GNU/Linux, though. I don't know if this could work on a Mac. You could ask on guix-devel@gnu.org or on #guix at freenode.
Could you please elaborate on this?
Switch to Pale Moon.
ESR predicts the future again. Here is the market for sexbots.
We're arguing semantics of "storing."

They're not storing "plaintext." They're storing the "ciphertext." The fact that you can decrypt ciphertext to obtain plaintext, does not mean you are storing plaintext. You can certainly derive plaintext from it, but the actual plaintext, that is, the input to an encryption algorithm, is not stored.

If an attacker gets a database, but does not have access to the encryption key, they do not have your plaintext password.

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I agree, a more preferred way would be for MINT to use OAuth type data delegation. However, they're beholden to what the banks themselves support, and most do not support anything other than account impersonation via username/password.
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MICA: A Fast In-Memory Key-Value Storage (2014) [pdf]
Out from under
>I'll throw you a compatibility layer.

Cool. Now do the same in a commercial context without a HN hacker on standby? Say with a mediocre skill unmotivated IT department. Sane management takes one look at it and rather pays the 100 USD for a commercial package than dealing with their mediocre IT implementing some ledger/VCS/HN special edition. Thats 100 USD very well spent...
Of course, doing patches for pre-SP4 Win2000 was a pain, and the issues with this patch were a good example (see actual bulletin at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms03-00...). This is because Win2000 had no service pack branching.
Thanks, I'll have to look into those more tonight.
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I didn't think that my post was cliche at all. In fact, the more I lurk, the more I realize that Hacker News has a lot of people that care more about social change than the technology, or "hacking", that originally brought the community together.

It's fine to want to affect social change, but I'm honestly sick of prominent figures in technology today constantly complaining about misogyny or stereotypes, while at the same time creating stereotypes about people in technology, and sometimes males in general. I don't want to read about anthropology; I want to read about technology.

Also, I know that he runs NPM. It's in his Twitter bio. That makes the focus of his Twitter posts even worse.
When you say compute time, do you have in mind purely quantitative processing/analytics, or streaming and data transfer?

Is there any way you could describe a sample "experiment" and the associated storage costs and compute time, just a paper-and-pencil estimation perhaps?
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Especially since Exxon is a small player on the global energy scene. The state owned oil companies dwarf it.
Seriously? A niche site with a paywall?
as scott adams says: I agree with your analysis of your hallucination.

"Professional Engineers" (i.e. certification required) to write code?

Do we let self taught basement dwellers design bridges crossed by millions of people and 100 story buildings?
"We all are totally okay with this." Just be aware when you cross cultural boundaries. In one real-world story, a woman was asked, on a 10 point scale, how much pain she was in. My take of the story was that she interpreted it linearly, so said something like "2", where most people would have said "9" or "10". She was told to come back when the pain got worse, when it was already excruciating. My memory might be off - it's from Bliss's essay at http://www.radiolab.org/story/233143-pain-scale/ .
Atlassian going after 100M MAUs next
> They only collect stats how much those "directory tiles" are clicked, pinned or removed. Maybe I'm unaware, though.

No personally identifiable data leaves your machine, AFAIK. It's actually an innovative way to provide advertising, necessary to fund many things today, while maintaining privacy. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation about it and knee-jerk responses to any advertising.
Future of email
Yes! Twitter requires too much work to be useful!

Sorry for the plug, but this is exactly how http://svven.com can help. New user tweets a couple of links - gets other people that tweeted same links - and also the other links they tweeted. How's this for a solution?
But that will not happen regardless of how good or bad the individual provisions are.
> You could think of them as static variables in a singleton class.

So... global variables?
The bigger they are the harder they fall
http://www.microconf.com/past-videos/
Im not a lawyer but from what I can tell, the allegation currently being investigated through subpoenas, is whether Exxon knew the existential risks global climate change poses to their future earning potential and misrepresented them in their financial filings. If this is true, it means that their shareholders has been trading Exxon shares at an inflated price based on premeditated lies that the executives might even be personally liable for.

This is a bit different from how the tobacco companies were sued for actual health effects (although their attempts to mislead the public were a component, though had nothing to do with misleading shareholders AFAIK). It's more akin to prosecuting Al Capone for tax evasion when there isn't enough evidence to get him for the main crime. Since the attorney general can't realistically win a law suit on the ecological effects of fossil fuels he's trying to get them for knowingly misrepresenting how future regulations will effect Exxon's bottom line.
You may want to toggle "showdead" option from your HN profile to be able to view dead submissions and comments.
Check this out for some general info: http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

A lot of the sources are specific to San Diego County California, but not all are.

Best of luck.
Straw man. I didn't suggest that the treaty should be between citizens or negotiated publicly, but I rejected the claim that it should only be criticised by citizens as a whole.
"Crumbling" might be a bit much, considering they are still one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. To me that sheds some insight into why.
Why am I saying this?
Any chance we could follow up on this? I'm conducting research in this space and would love to have a chat regarding barriers to such large-scale analysis.

If you could message me at hngenometemp@forward.cat that would be terrific!
That's a good point - I'd really be interested in someone modeling/visualizing the size of the primary market vs. the secondary market.
This is Sherif from Qualcomm. I know LTE-U is a new concept so there's a lot misconceptions around it. I'll be happy to answer your questions.
Making a programming language harder to use, or making a build chain more difficult to get working, doesn't make software better.

Raising the barrier to entry doesn't "raise the bar" when it comes to software quality. It just adds artificial difficulty.

The hard part about writing software shouldn't be Hello World. It should be building a user experience people enjoy. The less steps to get to that point, the better.
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Yep, and that's where we're heading.
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The richest get vastly more benefit from government policies and structures than most of us, so why shouldn't they pay more?
New Relic Acquires Opsmatic
guix design is 'fresh' too but a lot less inviting :)
I don't think I could deal with losing Swift's type system and working in JavaScript, plus the whole Optional vs null issue.
It's pretty, but it also warms up my laptop with 20% CPU usage. Everything is tradeoffs.
Are 802.11r/k branded somehow? Sometimes spec sheets omit these kind of features. Is there a way to see if the feature's enabled from the NIC's host?
Wow, that's impressive for an 8-bit computer in 1979. Especially within 8KB of RAM. Elite (1984) was more sophisticated on essentially similar hardware but had a little more RAM to play with.
> split staff into often tiny units that make their own plans

The problem is this just doesn't work in some countries. It is as much about Japanese society and culture than the CEO that even makes this possible to begin with.
You don't have to understand it in this case, you just have to make sure that code path isn't invoked by anything other than clicking the button. This can be pretty easily verified.
And that's the problem with systemised bad incentives.
>But instead, they are a crumbling company...

What are the best indicators that Exxon is a crumbling company?

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=XOM+Interactive#symbol=XO...
You can't require everyone to go to college and then also have it be an academic paradise. People "need" college now to work on Starbucks (which is beyond ridiculous). We've bought into a social narrative where college is a magic wand that makes everything better. Well people want you to _wave the damn wand_ so they can move on with their lives.
My show HN (a side project on side projects) was reasonably successful, I wrote about it here:

https://medium.com/@laksman/sideproject-book-launch-7c0aeb4f...

http://www.sideprojectbook.com/