skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't hinting at other programmes for women. I was hinting at programmes where men were at a disadvantage and fought for equal rights. Or even better, where women acknowledged the fact that only 20% of psychology, teachers, or whatever are men. There suddenly it isn't a problem to have the imbalance? Should we favor men in those categories over women? Just because we have fewer male teachers? So unfair! To think that women are better with children and thus hire them faster.. (Just to be sure: im exaggerating)

I do curse the fact that women who found a job in tech are handled differently but in return I would love to have front fighters for women equal rights drop the whole "we have so few women in tech" statement. I think most of that is due to the difference in what men or women have affinity with, not hiring process or disadvantages.

In other words, stop confusing amount of women in tech with equal women's rights. These are not casually related.
>I've been sorely disappointed over the last 2 years

I bought a thermostat about a year ago and I've been disappointed too. The marketing I read and a couple people I knew that worked there implied that new features were in the pipeline but since I've installed it I haven't seen a single substantive improvement in the experience.
"Stealing" jobs, is that the narrative we're suppose to subscribe to? Or are they breaking up a government backed monopoly and democratizing it. I personally don't care if there aren't any net new jobs if they've created thousands of small entrepreneurs and provided much needed competition.

Side note: I find it interesting how media outlets decide what the debate is, create a false dichotomy, then us simpletons are just suppose to pick a side.

What do you think chuck? Is it ok that they're stealing jobs?
Walking must be practically suicidal by that measure.
People who are willing to endure being a grad student in order to become a professor are probably relatively less motivated by monetary incentives.
> "I was 20 minutes late because I had to take my newborn to the hospital and they only gave me a written warning!"

Or: since my child was born I've been able to be home by 5pm every day without any problems.

> "On the fifth wednesday of every month I can work from home!"

Or: one of our people is currently taking part in Remote Year. He's just spent the last few months in South America. http://remoteyear.com

> "I worked from 9am to 10pm yesterday so I get to come in at 10am to 10pm today!"

Or: we don't track working hours at all, and people often choose to work from home or do whatever makes sense given their circumstances. They work because they want to get their work done, not because someone's hovering over them with a finger ready to point at them.

> GrantTree might be one of the few outliers here and if so I congratulate you, but this is typically what employers mean when they say those sort of things.

Yes, it is quite sad that every good thought gets copied and corrupted. I can't do much about that.
It isn't clear that the permits systems provided better protection than UBER's system, and there's at least theoretical reasons to think UBER's data rich system could become better than permits, especially if combined with stuff like background checks,etc.
I like the question about a great manager as a way of learning from others' experience. Do you find that it's useful in assessing the candidate as well? Are there good and bad answers to that?
I really like the browser, but still doesn't work with Apple Keychain so using it is not an option here. Guess I'm too lazy but it would take weeks to migrate over, and then I'd need to store the passwords in dual locations, which seems like a bad idea.
I suggest 1) publicly shaming them, and 2) creating a completely separate throwaway email account instead of using the "+" trick.

I'm not a lawyer, but I've heard you can sue over these things, but you generally have to prove damage. Getting an errant email is probably not damage. Your only recourse is to report them to some governmental authority and hope that action is taken (unlikely).
Yes, but it's typically a factor of a bad HR department.

Don't let the recruiter hang up on that first phone screen without satisfying yourself that they could make a competitive offer. Otherwise, you're just wasting time. They should have the same desire, hence this is only an issue with bad HR departments.

It's not worth it to jump to salary immediately. You come off as either selfish or naive.

So yes, I've done it. You get to the end of that call, and you realize you haven't talked compensation. So you tie in with interest and next steps: "Sounds like I could be a great fit for this position, and I look forward to talking further with the team to confirm that. I do want to make sure we're on the same page in terms of compensation..." Then you go from there.
Generally when building servers on top of a jvm, it's a good idea to be able to capture eg 1m requests, replay them, and monitor your memory allocation / gc as part of quality tests. If you create nests of objects in java, it quickly gets expensive, both in terms of net memory and gc costs. One common place this happens is parsing json/xml; use thrift or protobufs instead.

If you are eg building an ad server that is supposed to sustain some XX thousand requests per second, you want to also monitor eg eden, survivor, tenured, and promotions. Bump pointer allocation and gc is very fast -- normally faster even than manual memory management -- as long as almost nothing survives. The problem is if some objects start accidentally living past requests, stuff goes boom fast.
And if anonymity is of no concern, why not run OpenVPN on Raspberry Pi (or something similar) at home? Cheap to set up, and no running costs (assuming internet access at home).
It's okay, was a very reasonable assumption! I'll make sure I comment on HN appropriately in the future.
We asked you before not to do this. Since you didn't stop, we've banned your account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.
>C programmers don't trust anything written since K&R.

C is one of the most used languages in the world, and the number of programmers is surpassed perhaps only by a handful of languages. That alone tells me any generalisation you make about C programmers is most probably erroneous.
Pete Frame's book are very fun to read. Good luck finding them.
My first introduction to Pete's work was from a poster that was included in a Paul McCartney Box set for Flowers In The Dirt.
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Indeed. Democrats/liberals are the class party of white-collar professionals and self-styled "meritocrats". Democrat vs Republican should be read as new money vs old money.
"We should all be disrupters!": I really don't like reading bullshit like this in the middle of a blog post. Anyway, I hope this announcement means that Nest employees will have a better work-life balance, it looked pretty terrible from the recent articles posted on HN.
Been like that for 20 years, believe me. I gave up on calling/emailing, etc. to point out errors in normally high quality publications long ago. Now I'm impressed if I make it all the way through an article without a single grammar or spelling error.
To be fair though, and this is a common mistake, there is a world of difference between "Someone who holds general liberal positions" and "Someone who specifically subscribes to the policies of Classical Liberalism."

What you are referring to is Classical Liberalism which is a very specific thing.

What most people mean by "Liberal" is ideas of liberty and equality. Which is the generic form of Liberalism. (There are many sub-categories, including Classical, Conservative, Social, and Economic Liberalism)

Under those terms property would be a social construct (and contract).
Your comment isn't an argument that the level of regulation (and subsequent regulatory capture) for the taxi industry in most U.S. cities is appropriate and on the whole beneficial.

It's a much less controversial argument that some regulation is for the common good. Sure.

Isn't it obvious that some level of regulation is too costly for consumers to justify the benefits they receive? To me, that's the charitable reading of bsbechtel's comment.
I remember working on a research project in statistical physics and my professor taught us the 'politics' of being published. I was crushed.
Garbage collected languages are slow though. So you are giving up performance.
ftfy

> As a consumer, in $my_economic_model, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to".
Let us take the whole thing with a pinch of salt as it is highly one sided story.

Governments having their services on web is absolutely must but passing a decree against apps does seem a bit odd to me. Isn't it the case that more citizens own phones and have relatively poor connection speeds than other combinations ? Isn't it the case that citizens would be better served by apps that do one job right and do so more efficiently than web ?

I can understand the cost part but it appears to me that the government agency has shut down a completely new avenue of innovation for government agencies with this decree.
Flagged for unattributed repost of this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/faking-being-bay-area-jason-m...
There are excellent reasons why this is not the case:

http://harpers.org/archive/2016/06/hashtag-prescription/
The camera is supposed to have an intercom feature. It still doesn't work. I read about this issue since before Dropcam sold to Nest.
Everyone is talking about this but no one is saying it: how much are your services worth in general? Would you share? Anyone is welcome to answer, not just Tactic.

I'm just curious.

I'll go first. I know developers that make 70 a year and some that make 120. It does depend where you live of course, but for me personally I need 90K minimum or I won't consider any gig, anywhere. If I can't get that, I go into subsistence living, doing odd jobs or finding a gig at McDonalds. But I won't lower my standards for dev services.

While 90 is a minimum, 95-110 is what I want. Depending on the role. If I were more senior, I'd want 120+.
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thought this would be social commentary on why i haven't left my parents basement yet
> Constraints provide freedom.

For a great video on this, see Runar Bjarnason's talk "Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw).
Here in Sweden the left wing fight to prevent universal social entitlements, but right wingers want them means tested. That's coherent with tho line of reasoning
I wonder if this has to do with the internal problems at Nest[1][2].

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-going-on-at-nest-2016-2

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11105510
Like someone else said. Love your job, but do not fall in love with your employer. You never know when your employer stops loving you.
25kmh with pedaling (you can go faster, but the engine will stop assisting at that point) and 6kmh on just engine.

I keep seeing videos on /r/ebike and similar from USA where some yahoo has ordered engine and battery from Ebay or China that can push the thing way into motorcycle range.
Should You Learn Fast or Slow?
Want to name some numbers? Ideally with context.

I'd like to know how high is high in SV. Especially for junior positions.
> Staying on the web and skipping native isn't a panacea for budget bloat, poor project scoping, and loosely supervised bidding processes

No, but bidding on one (web) project rather than three (web, Android, iOS) certainly helps.
That's a bummer. You probably already know about these, but just in case you don't, HN has monthy job-finding threads:

* Who is hiring? (June 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814828

* Who wants to be hired? (June 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814830

And, if you feel like freelancing:

* Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814829
As a consumer, I strongly prefer the protections I get from Uber/Lyft/Olacab to those that I get from the regulated taxis.

For instance, some months back I got in an Ola to Delhi Airport. The guy took some crazy long route while pretending he didn't understand my broken Hindi (with very clear street names and pointed directions), and very nearly caused me to miss my flight. I took out the app and made a complaint while waiting for my flight. When I landed I got an email about my money being refunded.

How effective do you think it'll be to try and make use of my government provided consumer protections? http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/doit_transport/Trans...

Another wonderful thing we are getting from the regulators - protection against drivers of the wrong ethnic group. Imagine how terrible it would be to be driven by a Bihari? http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-shiv-sena-defends-marat...

(Similarly, in the US, try to flag a taxi while black. Uber solved this problem, have the US regulators?)

We stopped the "free for all" because the incumbent taxi monopoly captured the regulatory bodies. That's all. Rather than ideologically defending all regulation, why not focus on having good regulation?
I'm running LFS 7.6 as a desktop development environment with Xorg and Awesome as tiling window manager. If I want to install other packages I systemd-nspawn the root of a distro like Ubuntu and use apt-get.

It started out as a server environment for an HP thin client. The only difficulty I remember was booting from a USB stick and having to set the rootwait/rootdelay kernel parameters otherwise mounting the filesystem would fail.
"...the commit that would end up the parent of whatever I commit next."

That's generally just called the parent of your working copy (or, working directory) in mercurial land. I know, not as concise as HEAD.
I'm also a cyclist, and I don't really care what other people do. However, my view is that if the trail allows other motorized use (dirt bikes, ATVs, etc.), it should also allow electric bikes. If the trail does not allow other motorized access, it should also be closed to electric bikes. I'm sure it's only matter of time before trailhead signs and regulations catch up.

As you probably know, mountain bikers already struggle to get access to a lot of trails. Zipping around even faster is a sure fire way to lose access.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832828
Facebook is notorious for this. It is 100% a legitimate cult. Don't worry about wondering if someone works at Facebook or not. They'll be sure to tell you.
This. It boils down to tenure. An open conservative is not going to get tenure outside the hard sciences, so there's not much reason to get a PhD.
He will remain as an "advisor" to Alphabet. That's an honorary position if I've ever heard of one.
There already are APIs for booking rides and package delivery through Uber. See https://developer.uber.com/

(Disclosure: I work on the Uber API team.)
Guided Meditation VR Launches on GearVR Oculus Store
I have been wanting to put something together for my kid, but right now at the age of 3, its a little too early. I have a great domain I have held since 2003 that fits this perfectly. I did break out a bread board and wired up a LED and toggle switch. At the age of 3, a toggle switch is pretty interesting.

I have programmed with Motorola HC12 micro controllers back in the day. I recently bought a Raspberry Pi, and I have a C.H.I.P shipping shortly.

If I were to develop something in this space, it would probably be something fun for Halloween or Christmas with some LEDs or animated physical characters.
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Parse Server – 100 days later
On the other hand: it's okay to be wrong if you can admit that you're wrong, it's okay to change your mind, and, of course, circumstances can change.
This kind of generic ideological flamewar, as unresolvable as it is tedious, is off topic on HN. Please don't do this again.

It's instructive how you managed to leap from gender to race without skipping a beat. That's an example of what I mean by generic. This is a marker—maybe the primary marker—of low quality discussion. It's always about pre-existing views, held for extraneous reasons, pretending to be a rational response to the story under discussion but reflexively heading straight for one of the same two or three places. A few people insist on taking every discussion there; the rest of us have visited countless times and wish not to return. This community exists for interesting things, of which these ideological back-and-forths are the antithesis.
The way to unseat an established network is to build a network no one controls, which makes it the obvious alternative for anyone dissatisfied with the monopolist. Decentralization yields powerful network effects, and we're all about to watch it unfold. If you want to be a part of it, dive into the decentralized application communities that are forming around Ethereum and IPFS.
Pushed from the nest?
That's if he uses a saddle.
I wonder when Google will do a writedown on this deal? $3.2B seems like a lot to pay for a thermostat company.
No wonder robots are now coming for what is rightfully theirs
Market research, competitive offers, friends... there are a lot of sources. If you don't have at least a sense, it doesn't matter what negotiation tactic you're using. Maxing out at $200k would just be a factor of luck or a mistake on the part of the company.

Anchoring is merely a technique: the first half of my post boils down to "it's ok to throw out the first number".
I'm not fabulously wealthy, nor do I expect to get so from GrantTree. Yes, I am fairly well off at this point, able to buy (jointly with my wife) a small 2-bed flat in an ex-council flat in London - that's after spending 5.5 years starting a business that has raised over £35m of government funding for 600 UK startups and employs 27 people. If you think that's fabulous wealth, you have a different definition of it than I have. Yes, the business is technically worth a pile of cash (we're about to do a valuation for the purpose of issuing shares to employees so I don't know yet exactly how much), but we're not planning to sell the business so that can only be realised through long-term survival and success of the company.

The team has themselves set a target for wages to 40% of revenues, in line with your suggestion. I would have set it higher (and in fact right now our wage bill is closer to 60%) but that was not my decision to make. The 40-60% is of course not evenly distributed, though I would also quite like the thought of that, but the team themselves decide how to allocate it, so I guess they're doing the best they can.

I find the reality you perceive distasteful too - and I agree that it is widespread and it is sad that that is so.
I think this should not be downvoted as people can learn a lot about someone's professional career by skimming through their LinkedIn profile.
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Fair aesthetic criticism. I don't find it to be an issue or distraction for my uses.
VividCortex has an agent that works similarly, which I believe they've written in Go using libpcap. It would be nice if they open-sourced it.

https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/network-analyzer-for-m...
Payment Gateway API Sandbox for Software Developers
Agreed, but Uber has no reason to support background checks, etc. Any move towards regulation would make their business model fall apart.
Your worth does not necessarily equal what value a company places on a given role they are trying to place you for.
It's interesting that Twitter made a name for itself as a platform that could "cause a revolution" (arab spring), but there is no way they can claim that now that they block Tor. Who's going to start a revolution when you're not anoymous?

I don't know what the justification for Hacker News not allowing Tor is since there's no economic incentive to track users.

Hopefully more people will be made aware of this and start asking the question: Why do you need to know who I am?
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> The difference between "social/political" and "economic" is superficial.

If you're including all issues that have economic effects, perhaps I'd agree with you. But I'm talking about the decision-making process.

We don't decide whether global warming needs to be addressed using a profit-maximization algorithm. It's a moral question.

The same is true of slavery from the North's perspective in the US civil war. (You can make an economic argument for the south, but it's still a stretch) Fundamentally it's a moral/social/political question, that has tremendous economic effects.

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I'd actually argue the contrary. There are almost no "economic" arguments when it comes to regulation. Any argument worth having is fundamentally moral or social.

* How much taxation is "fair"

* What level of economic inequality violates "justice"
I just sold a car and it took 120 seconds to do the government transfer. Kudos to that. https://www.gov.uk/sold-bought-vehicle
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5 Django Packages That Get Too Little Love
The difference is the Peapod delivers their own goods while instacart can deliver from several places. AFAIK Peapod doesn't operate in LA.
Here is a simple heuristic that's worked well for me: look at all of the job ads online for similar roles in the same city. Most will not name numbers. Find the highest listed number (top of range) in all of those ads and add 20%. That is a place where you will not be selling yourself short. You may not be maximizing your comp, but you will be above the average. Just understand this may disqualify you from jobs where they only pay below average. You need to be comfortable with being disqualified for high comp.

In addition to highest published umber + 20%, I would advise to carefully read any stated salaries on message boards like this when they come along and pay attention to the highest numbers. Then you will be aware of what is possible.
There aren't any good or bad answers. There are great people who haven't had a good manager. Good managers also manage not-so-great people. I ask really to understand more about their professional background. Depending on the role, on-the-job training may or may not be OK.
> Mr. Fadell will be succeeded by Marwan Fawaz, a former executive vice president of Motorola Mobility

> In the troubled Motorola acquisition, Mr. Fawaz led a financial bright spot, Motorola Home, a television set-top box business. He pared its product line, cut costs and oversaw its sale in 2013 for $2.35 billion to the Arris Group, a cable television equipment maker.

From the NY times article -

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/technology/tony-fadell-nes...
Do you want to be treated like a doormat? If not, try again somewhere else.
Not taking up the slack implies there's something wrong with the new bubble demographic. There appears to be less slack to take up. As you pointed out, lower quality jobs.
Just calling it how it is in countries with a real working government.
Unrelated to NTP, but I (network engineer at an ISP) have also recently observed a few DDoS attacks using the "rpcbind/portmapper" service being used for amplification as well.

The first time I saw this was fairly recently but I've seen a few more instances since then, which may be an indication that this will become more widely used in the future.

Ensure that you've disabled unnecessary services and put a (default deny) firewall in front of your servers, for fuck's sake!
Super silent but It's a frankenbike; Huge battery on the toptube.
On that note, i ran into a kickstarter on one that was styled more like a motorcycle than a typical bicycle.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/782844499/the-super-73
> I refuse to see the relationship with an employer as adversarial. It is a business relationship, I treat it as such and demand they do as well. Otherwise I don't do business with them.

Negotiating doesn't have to be adversarial. There are multiple strategies you could take to boost yourself without being adversarial.