skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just goes to show that sound financials in a startup without lots of outside investment expecting outsized returns are often smarter choices.

What sucks is that many companies that are healthy and not facing layoffs are going to use all this doom and gloom news (that really seems to be trying to feed off itself and spark a downturn that is smaller than they want it to seem) to ride their employees harder, depress salaries, etc.

I strongly advise anyone with any power over salaries and such to consider strongly that if your business is healthy, continue paying a fair market wage. The job market is still strong, and your employees loyalty will disappear overnight the moment you start trying to knock down their pay if you are clearly not in the same boat as over-funded/valued startups and just trying to take advantage of the situation.
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Like, for example, corporations preying on people who have no choice but to take any job that's available, and offering wages that are below a starvation level?
The clearest call for copyright civil disobedience:

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/
Do you take the original study seriously?

http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345
Early 37 Signals (Basecamp now)[1] and github[2] are two examples that started out this way and the former continues this way today. StackOverflow is another[3].

[1] https://37signals.com/remote
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/14/at-github-you-dont-need-no-...
[3] https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-...
Mattermark sounds exactly like the kind of startup-serving-startups that will be the first to disappear when the boom turns to bust.
Yeah I guess it depends on your situation. For us it was a lot easier due to EU freedom of movement laws. It just sounded funny ("funny") cause it always seemed so much easier than moving to the US when I looked into it.

I also know a lot of Israelis who got German citizenships via their grandparents, but there might be special rules that make it easier for victims of the nazis (and their descendants) or people that fled the country.

Either way the salary is probably never a reason to move to Germany (I don't think wages are higher than in any other western country), I meant more like that it's not a reason NOT to move in that particular example.
Nobody is forcing anybody to make their code public. It's their choice. You can have your code on your machine and on your servers only. Hosting your code is an option.
I'm referring to other real estate markets in the country.

Also, in this case, if the price of your home appreciates, it is likely the price of other homes appreciated, so your gain may not actually amount to anything (particularly after realtor fees). Likewise, you are taxed every year on real estate.
Whooo boy. Good luck. Fixing up SF into something meaningful is going to be like taking over a dilapidated skyscraper and trying to turn it into luxury condo's.

Actually sounds kinda fun.
Always thought about this myself.

I've heard of companies doing the opposite. Instead of laying off, they hired more. Sure, you cut shot term cost by firing, but you also lose the human resources to develop any long term value. What of your product? If every of you competitor is laying off, and you decide to actually hire more and double down, you might be able to get the competitive advantage.
Seems to be paywalled.
I used a fee change of a few pennies to get out of an ETF on a Verizon Wireless contract on two subsidized Blackberries back when smart phones first starting to blowing up.

The best part is, I didn't even have the credit for the subsidy so I had to give them a 2 year deposit on the full price of the phones. But since THEY (technically) changed the contract by raising my monthly fee from 5 cents to 8 cents or something, I GOT THE DEPOSIT BACK!

I sold the phones on eBay and made a lot of money (for a high school kid).

I think the charge was called 'federal universal service charge' and there was a whole guide on how to use it to your advantage. You had to sound really confident and have your contract open to the relevant clauses so you could confidently read it to them over and over.
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If you think this is bad, try configuring AWS elasticsearch.
What you're leaving out of the equation though is that often times people that old who have lived here forever either have their home fully or mostly paid off. Sure it likely appreciated quite a bit, but depending on their savings, they may not be able to afford a new home in the area at market rates regardless of the tax situation, especially if they are retired and on fixed income. So instead they stay in their home and don't sell. Or they pass it on to the next generation who doesn't sell.
No idea.

They have included parts of OpenJDK 7, that is about it.
Maybe the domain is flagged? Or the user who submitted it?

This is really weird. The title isn't inflammatory at all, and the article is pretty objective. The original article was way more controversial (see by the number of flamewars in the comments) and yet didn't get flagged off the front page.
>When I call up a company and they say the call may be recorded... they've just given me permission to record the call.

>No.

Ok, well then when you get a Call Center rep on the phone, tell them that this phone conversation may be recorded.
To me, the benefit is what Kotlin has less than Scala.

It's an incremental improvement over Java and it fixes exactly all the complaints I have over Java and nothing more.

Also, its IDE support is just as good as Java.

But the language is not even out officially, let's see in five years how it fares. Right now, it's just a breath of fresh air over Java.
They certainly did go down. I was personally at a company where the CEO came in one morning during late 2001 and announced a cut of 10% across the board. No-one left as a result either, until 2003.
The Chinese stock market hasn't exactly been doing great lately either...
Clean Nuclear Energy, are we there yet?
To me, the problem is not iCloud being opaque, but that it's been unreliable at best, and a migraine-causing frustration at times. For example, some years ago when Apple rolled out syncing bookmarks across your macs and iDevices, I managed to completely destroy how my bookmarks were organized on both the source (mac) and the destination (ipad). iCloud in its infinite wisdom decided that it didn't like the way I had organized bookmarks into folders and subfolders, and tossed everything up to the top level.

Syncing documents across pages or keynote across my mac and ipad were about as bad as the article described. It would take multiple refreshes and delays before synchronization would happen.
I wonder how many of the HN readers don't remember how amazing sourceforge used to be. It was github before there was github. Easy, solid, project hosting for open source projects when that was often the main barrier to a good project getting more widely known.

I think it's one of the earlier examples of why "grow userbase now, figure out how to monetize it later" can be a bad idea. There was a time when (perhaps) a majority of open source projects were hosted on sourceforge, and I think they assumed that that would just translate to profit (or sustainability) eventually. When that didn't happen, and then they had to compete with Google Code, it began the slide down the slippery slope to the spam-infested site that it is today.

I hope that's changing. We need more options for hosting software projects, we can't rely on github being benevolent forever.
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So when is Google+ dying. That whole project is such an embarrassment...
And even after that, it wouldn't be reasonable for any big company to adopt a language that's not at least at version 1.1 or 1.2.

I don't think one can make any pronouncement about Kotlin's success or failures for several years.
I meant the part about starting during or surviving a downturn. It sounds nice, I just wonder if it's true.
FYI - We have been running GitLab internally for over a year, we have not had a single crash or unscheduled down time, not even once. The only few things we had was that prior to about 6 months ago we noticed a lot of regressions after a major upgrade, i.e. small things not working but they weren't show stoppers, I spoke with a few people at GL about it and they were fantastic, they immediately set off a program to improve testing quality and in the last 3 months we've upgraded the day each new release has come out (weekly now I think?) and haven't had any problems that we've noticed.
You realize that somebody who bought in 1940 or earlier is over 100 years old now, right? (assuming becoming a homeowner at age 25). Not a significant demographic.

Beyond that, those numbers are fudged and do not reflect the changing value of the dollar. $3,537 in 1940 is $59,711 in 2015 dollars[0] (or $43,382 in 2000 dollars[0]), so your "two orders of magnitude" claim falls to a mere factor of less than 5 times, or < 5% of the "two orders of magnitude" claim.

And again, that isn't even a level comparison given that housing construction costs are far higher (well beyond the rate of inflation) due to more features, stricter building codes, modern appliances, permits, ...

[0] http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=3527&year1=1940...
I wonder if an ACL can help.

# chmod +ai "group:everyone deny delete" folder

Should set inherited deny delete for any user.
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This is the most important question when it comes to trust. Incentives usually win in the end. Figuring out what that endgame looks like is paramount for anybody evaluating SourceForge as a platform.
I hate to break it to you but there are dozen of authorities that can come around and inspect your property whenever they want - this slippery slope has long gone.

I have no problem with someone with the appropriate authority politely knocking on my door to see if I am home if I am claiming a large tax refund for living there. The IRS and its fellow ilk are far more intrusive - the IRS makes my life a pain as it is and I am not even a US taxpayer.
I am not an american and just read about that. It was so bizarre, can't believe thats what ended his career and made him "creepy". People dont want creeps around their children, i suppose.
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All of your competitors have zero ads. Are you exploring potential revenue models other than advertisement?
Clearly, the endgame for Google is robots maintaining warehouses full of elderly people, all being forced to watch ads 24x7. (This is also their plan for saving Google+)
> I'm not seeing a great hiring market right now for engineers in the Bay Area, at least as a high demand JS engineer.

Can you explain this further? If by "high demand JS engineer" you mean "front end" and not just node (which is not bad or anything btw), and by "high demand" specifically you mean you are:
* you understand JS well, doesn't mean we get to grill you on all the weird corner cases - but you understand the language
* want to work with a modern stack (i.e. react, flux/redux/whatever, backbone, that sort of thing)
* are mature and want to help grow a team, can communicate with PMs and all that effectively

we'd kill to hire you (250-300 person company.) Every friend of mine that has started a company asks me every time they see me if I know a good front end person (that isn't busy counting their RSUs at Uber, etc and isn't going anywhere.)

Our company (in general) and team has more than one designer focused on bringing a good experience to the table, before it even gets to the code level. To translate, that doesn't mean our reqs go from sales person to "make it do this now, code monkey", but rather we want to make good, long lasting products, in a thoughtful manner. And still, finding someone is tough.

So I find it hard to believe the hiring market for what you describe isn't great.

Personally, my experience is all back end. I consider myself a good engineer in general, and feel I could ramp up to being a decent front end engineer in 3-12 months time depending on how much depth we're talking, but think that things are specialized enough now that that would be a waste of effort, and plenty of people would still be better than me. However, from what I've seen, being a F.E. eng that understands CSci and what's happening under the hood should make you SUPER in demand right now.

I'm not trying to make this a hiring post, but if you'd like a fun job with a decent company trying to expand its front end capacity on this coast, with a relatively green field project (i.e. you get to build new stuff), and at a place making real money, not just selling to other startups, and not in a moon shot social space, PM me. If not, I'd still be curious why you think being a "high demand JS engineer" isn't a good spot to be in in the current market.
Thanks. :)

Yeah, it's pretty reasonable for doing stuff with SQLite databases, and supports encryption. It's also GPL/MPL licensed, written in C++/Qt, so is fairly cross platform. Precompiled downloads available for OSX/Win, and it's in the packaging/ports system of several Linuxs & BSDs. :)

We're kinda needing more C++ dev's though, as the GitHub Issues list is getting a bit out of hand at the moment. O_o

Download stats wise... I think it's about 120k/month through GitHub:

https://api.github.com/repos/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases

(that's a rough guesstimate from last time I looked :>)
Nah, they just roll it into an omnibus spending bill. The president isn't going to veto a small-ish bill like that if it means shutting off funding to the VA.
As in, can feel it all over their body as a kind of pulsing, without having to measure it with two fingers against the wrist (for instance). Most people can't normally feel their pulse without measuring it.
In general, yes, it is gonna cut a lot of the fat.

But in the transition period it will make VC/angels more risk averse making money harder to find for good startups as well.
"Everywhere" does not have the same need for heating during winter as Sweden does.
Eh, why would they not be able to afford a new home after selling the old one? Usually when people retire they're looking for a smaller home that's easier to take care of.
Is this sarcastic? If you think 100k is the minimum wage law should go at, what a wonderful world we are living.

No. Engineers are spoiled during up time because the market, so we have to bear the correction during down turn which is also from the market.
PG has an essay on the topic.

http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
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You can't even say "only run software you bought from a bricks and mortar store" or "from reputable sources".

Java downloaded from Oracle has the Ask.com toolbar in the installer ffs !
That's a very good question. My guess is that we might see an implosion or two, but I highly doubt we'll ever see a struggling b2b SaaS company cause serious problems for its former users when it goes out of business.

If a company could inflict so much damage in the broader ecosystem by when it goes out of then it can charge high prices for what it offers. As a general rule if you're providing something people sttruggle to function without. then you can always stay in business if you want.

Of course, there are edge cases involving mismanagement, but I suspect they're extremely rare.

Perhaps what might be more likely would be acquisitions where the acquiring company kills the service for some reason - like what happened with Parse.
Where is the link to github? I was unable to find the sources from the site.
Then, the only sensible conclusion would be that for s true democracy to exist we need to be able to vote for points-of-view rather than some persons.
Found more info on thermal mirror effects, see around 12m @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGqZZthc_l4
I doubt neo-nazis care about the copyright of a book written by "a dirty Jew."
Well said. Democracy in America is battle of egos, not of ideas.
It gets weirder when you consider that Christ was most likely born between 7 and 2 BC.
Many years ago I became so disillusioned with the state of photo management (churn, inscalability, vendor lock-in, lack of Linux support, etc.) I built my own. Have never looked back - I will never enter metadata into a propriety system again.

Auto-tagging AI makes me a bit envious though.
Ever look at an eclipse project file?

Barf
And yet it was written in Scala. That shows how little the compile times offset the goodies of using Scala.
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What OS? iOS and Crystal make it just fine. It's a pity add block isn't a default position for everyone.
If only there were a way to get ~painless~ sync with repositories hosted elsewhere.

I'm stuck with TFS here, which is a PITA and broken on so many levels, it's not even funny. Running a GitLab front would solve nearly all of my problems while still complying with the dreaded "everything in TFS" policy. :/
The trepidation in the market is certainly good for getting things back to reality.
<So, there's 220x gains>

In nominal dollars.

<Property tax in 2013 was about $1k in both cases>

I really doubt that. I just checked a friend's house who has lived in PA since 1952, and they are paying $3200.

Anybody can look up what actual property taxes are paid here:

https://payments.sccgov.org/propertytax/Secured
Will do. And yes, I did read your rationale. The intent is not bad, the names probably are.
That's interesting to hear. I've seen a very sharp drop off in unsolicited emails lately from recruiters (50 per month to ~2). I already have a job so I'm not looking, but the silence has been noticable.
> Consider a couple in a 4 bedroom house who's kids have moved out, but don't move into a smaller place (say 2 bedroom condo)

This would theoretically deal with the problem of having young couples with many children who can only afford to live in a 2-bedroom condo, because all the bigger housing is occupied by old people with empty nests and the only new housing is 2-bedroom condos or smaller. But, if you're not interested in forcing the old people to leave, it doesn't solve the problem of housing supply -- you'll still need some housing for the old couple and some more, separate, housing for the new large family, and if you don't build additional housing to accommodate the incoming people you'll end up with a housing shortage, regardless of whether old people shift from their existing homes into smaller ones or not. As long as you're building housing for the people who move in, you might as well build it in the sizes they demand.
So this guy criticises recycling by creating an economic model that fails to take into consideration externalities of product consumption and discard.
Not a very useful model and we would do well to not pay it much heed
I think the biggest reason is the generic self serving reason. They simply aren't going to waste time on you unless you can help them. Something to keep in mind.
I'm tired of the Kotlin hype (particularly with it unreleased, and so rarely used in production). Many of its features are already part of modern Java, and its language features are very ad-hoc. I can easily see a future for Scala (it offers more radical improvements that Java will never adopt), and maybe see a future for Ceylon (it's a very clean design and the union types are a genuine innovation). I can't see one for Kotlin.
He's not a dev, strictly speaking, he's the new president of SourceForge Media. That actually raises my hopes, as the brass roughing it out in the comments and interacting is a rare thing these days.
Housing here is just limited supply and high demand. I don't see prices falling, given how strict getting a $1m+ loan is in the first place.

Prices won't really go down unless people are forced to sell.

That said, I have sympathy for the LinkedIn engineers who were holding all their stock for a down payment. That's gotta hurt.
Which is why wealthy Chinese will be seeking a safer place to put their money.
> I fear that part of the problem is that stories get posted, have good discussions, and fall off the front page before many readers see them.

That's it, and I share your fear. I don't know how to solve it. Maybe it's what the majority wants on the top, maybe it's what a vocal minority with high karma points doesn't want (flagging/whatever negative news). I just see the end result. I would just like to get the big picture on the frontpage and not have to rely on algolia search for that.

One thing I realized is that HN front page has very different topics depending on which time I check HN. It shifts its focus depending when people tend to visit HN from east cost, west cost, europe, asia. A useful function would be to check out the HN frontpage how it looked at a specific time. Let's say I would like to see HN as it looked like 8am Pacific timezone yesterday. I know about https://news.ycombinator.com/lists , maybe add another filter to that list.
Are you in the UK? What are the DPA implications of this? Is it not PI?