skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, have another offer in hand. CarMax is a good way to establish a minimum quickly and easily. You can always get more in the private market, but you should weigh the trade-offs in speed of transaction. (E.g., I could spend 10 hours and the next 2 weeks posting on Craigslist and dealing with people and get $12k, or I could sell to the dealer now for $10k. That might be worth it to me.)

I've done this a couple times: the first time the dealer came back with a better number, and I took it. The second time the dealer was way low and I sold on the private market for 100% more.

The real key is to separate out variables. Negotiate only on the bottom-line cash value of the car(s), and know when to walk.

Last car I bought, the dealer tried to play hardball and told me there was another individual looking to purchase the same vehicle for more. I told them to take the other offer, and put my coat on. I should have gone over and introduced myself to the other guy.
That's pretty cool! Do you have any plans to have it respect the boundaries of solid objects it comes in contact with such as the poles it's tethered to? Currently, the cloth will go through the poles instead of interacting with the poles as solid objects.
As a consumer, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to". You then create a race to the bottom, negatively affecting your fellow citizens.

You don't want to pay for safe airlines? Non-rancid meat? Agriculture runoff regulation? Too bad.
Something old: /r/TodayILearned

Something new: HN

Something coding: StackOverflow / Pluralsight

Something coo: youtube.com/SmarterEveryDay
The first half of your post reduces to "know how much the prospective employer is willing to pay". Anchoring high only works if you know what "high" is. If the recruiter had a 150k-200k range in mind, and you throw out 150k, then you've just cheated yourself.

There's lots of advice in this thread to "know what you're worth", but where is that signal coming from?
Yeah, that all sounds really noble, yet it doesn't really mesh with the modern Republican party successes being built on the "Southern Strategy" which sought to attract white Democrats by playing on racial fears.

I mean that's a double whammy, the voters were previously democratic, putting them on the opposite side of your dichotomies, and various members of the Republican party are on record as using race as a wedge issue, trying to convince white voters that equality was not in their interest (which the chairman of the RNC later apologized explicitly for).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
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"Liberal" means exactly what it always meant: there have always been different strains of liberalism. It's just the conservatives and libertarians who are picky about what they call themselves, defining themselves in opposition.
Perfect, thanks very much for taking the time to respond so helpfully.
I would also guess it is much higher than 7x on a per-mile basis.
Chromium-based Slimjet Browser with Continued Support for XP and Vista
At this point, nothing will. I still see people come up with arguments that myspace was in a similar situation,but FB is nothing like MySpace. Users have spent more than 10 years sharing things, sticking to them and there's no way to step them from it. But what other companies can do is to try create services which helps certain kinds of people. Like people typically use FB for news, friend's know how, photos, random viral videos and if a company can take off users from FB by creating a better way to read news or share pics, there might stand a chance.
Nest Leader and Co-Founder Leaving After 6 Years at Helm
Great Software Isn’t Built to Last, It’s Built to Die Gracefully
> Since when is an individual expected to just defer to a greater good in an employment arrangement? Which is most likely "at-will"?

1) You should never "defer to the greater good". I would not advise it. If this environment doesn't offer something of value to you definitely do not apply or join such an environment.

2) I completely agree that this approach is incompatible with the ultra-violent approaches to "at will employment" of the US and much of Europe. I find the process by which most people are fired in american companies abhorrent. I don't want to go into too much detail about what our current process is to deal with situations where there is a performance problem, but basically it involves engaging with the person and providing them with a lot of support to help them figure out what the problem is, and how they can fix it, and offering them a number of decision points about what they can do to fix it. Obviously, from a distrustful viewpoint this might seem even worse than a clean firing - and rightly so. This kind of stuff absolutely doesn't work in a distrustful, fear-driven environment.

> I'm certain the shareholders and executives aren't making such self-defeating sacrifices.

On what basis are you certain of this? Do you know something that I (cofounder) don't? I suspect that in the long term this approach will result in a more successful, longer lasting company that I feel even more proud of being a part of, so I don't think it's self-defeating in the long term - I disagree with doing anything self-defeating, I think no one appreciates it and it rarely results in anything good. But I don't know for sure that it will actually result in a better company. In the meantime, my cofounder and I could certainly have taken far more money out of the business and have not done so, so your assertion is incorrect in the short term (5 years) at least.
Please stop posting political horse-race and sensational stories to HN.

The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting: gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Tony Fadell “Leaving the Nest”
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Marwan Fawaz as new CEO. Anyone know much about him?
I really hate this kind of article. Good writing has a summary of the most important stuff at the top and then drills down into various interesting aspects. Thanks for the TL/DR, I had given up after the first paragraph.
You've hit the nail on the head. To a lot of people (myself included), they're more like electric motorcycles.

I don't really care if people choose to ride them, but there are already designated trails that allow motorized access, and poaching mountain bike trails is going to ruin it for everybody.
Usually the banks take responsibility for that as it's their duty to do due diligence (say that six times fast!). I've had my credit card # stolen plenty of times and never been liable.

LifeLock's insurance covers court/lawyer fees/damages, IIRC.
> where this kind of mindset will have all sorts of side-effects that will make it difficult to work with you.

I find it difficult to work with people who are compensated less than me. I want my coworkers to be better than me.

I do not want to work with people assessed as "masters" making $155,000/year in San Francisco, CA. I am accustomed to working with people being paid more.

Full disclosure: Over four years ago, I was receiving offers $10,000+/year more for like roles (SF, FTE, backend development). I would certainly not proclaim myself a "master," either. Especially not 4 years ago.

> I love about your comment is that you are far from alone to have this reaction, but because we are very upfront about our culture, people with your reaction never seem to apply.

Please do not turn this into a matter of "culture."

I find nothing wrong with a culture of transparency. I find Buffer's actual compensation packages problematic.

The lack of negotiation ability makes what might otherwise be a fruitful business relationship impossible. I do not believe that transparency and negotiations are mutually exclusive.

Sincere counter-question: how can you retain talent with fixed salary ceilings? Why would someone stick around when they're leaving a ton of money on the table?

Entirely my opinion: this is potentially the A/B dichotomy.

If someone is developing their skills, is extremely productive, is increasing their worth, at one of these companies they can choose to leave money on the table (altruistically donating their higher value to a for-profit company) or leave. Are they a "bad culture fit" because they wanted to make what they are worth?
What type of white? Slavic is different from Anglo-Saxon is different from Germanic is etc., not too long ago all the various white groups in American had their own gangs and gang wars because "white" as a broad term wasn't good enough. Do you think that because of the threats of Mexican-Americans and African-Americans (do you also have any issues with the over-representation of Asians of various types in tech?) it now makes sense to band "broadly European" peoples together in reaction, or is it something else?
Tell that to the guys riding them.

I beginning to see a few on the local multi-use trail (where motorized vehicles are banned). One even has a giant fairing and looks more like a tuk-tuk or e-car than a bicycle.

Right now, there are few enough that it's not a big problem. But, the tuk-tuk e-bike is larger than a normal bike, so it's hard to pass (or make a pass) and will do more damage in a collision. Some of them are faster than the average road bike - I've seen several hybrid-style e-bikes cruising at close to 20mph with the rider soft-pedaling.

It's a can of worms for sure.
Microsoft brings Outlook mail and calendar to HoloLens
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I think there's a terminological confusion here. "Liberal" in its American, Hillary-Clinton-esque sense is of course going to be favored by highly-educated professionals: it's designed for us. It's our class ideology.

If you like immigration because it brings in competitive STEM workers and only eliminates jobs Americans don't want to do, it might be because you view yourself as educationally and professionally advantaged enough to afford to suppress wages for everyone else.

If you like the idea of piecemeal reform packages crafted by lobbyists and haggling (like Obamacare), it might be because you've been trained to think of committees of experts as the best way of accomplishing, well, anything.

If you want to tax smokestack industries out of existence because blue-collar workers can just learn to code, it might be because you've spent so much time among people with postgraduate degrees that you've come to think of yourself as normal rather than as belonging to an identifiable class.

And so on and so forth.
> The ability to refer to memory addresses (all languages, except the C family)

Someone should learn about Algol family of programming languages.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marwanfawaz
Nope. But don't beat yourself up over it! Missing a piece of a comment happens all the time. Hopefully you see there was no offence intended to people who have different views on this. I think it's totally fine that different people think differently about these topics, and I don't consider my view superior in a general sense. It just works better for me.
Small point, consistent use of BCE/CE is preferable mixed usage or use of BC/AD. Thou shouldst not cross the streams... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
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.
Google pulls Chrome extension used to target Jewish people
Wow. I honestly never thought this would happen. Hopefully this means that the change in culture at Nest is real, and we can expect better innovation going forward. As a heavy Nest customer (thermostat, 2 protects and 5 cameras), I've been sorely disappointed over the last 2 years, and hopefully this means that my investment in their technology isn't for naught.
Unfortunately, that's not how it works. A single anecdote (which in true "data engineer" fashion you insist on calling a "data point") does not demonstrate _anything_. Otherwise the face that there has been one rape this year demonstrates the existence of rape culture, the fact that someehere someone was fired for being an immigrant demonstrates a climate of xenophobia, etc. I repeat, a single anecdote is not enough to draw any conclusion, and the fact that you can't recognise this one simple fact boggles the mind.
The cells are not injected into the same part of the body that they were extracted from.
This is really frightening.

I remember surfing in France a few months back after a major storm, the amount of small plastic particles washed up on the beach was sickening.

It was broken up into tiny fragments in all colours, there was miles of it.

This is the world we're creating, its' not a nice place.
death knell
previous (Feb) discussion about "Troubles at Nest": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11105510
> Enter regex macros! While it is presently slower, and requires a Rust nightly, it has the very appealing property that if your regex is not a correct expression, your program won’t compile!

To be clear, it's not just slower, it's much slower. See the benchmark comparison here: https://gist.github.com/b0f6a17744dd1df60752b6e8ced47afd <-- That's why the `regex!` macro isn't even in the docs any more.

It looks like `regex!` is the only thing preventing your project from compiling on stable Rust, right? FWIW, the Clippy lint tool will check your `Regex::new` calls at compile time for you (assuming it's a string literal, which it is in your case).

Also, I'd recommend not using `*` as a version constraint in your `Cargo.toml`. You do have a `Cargo.lock` so it's not as bad, but with better version constraints, you'll be able to run `cargo update` and get semver compatible updates.
Marwan Fawaz used to run Motorola Home. It didn't really have much to do with "Home" in the sense of Nest though.
Liberals are capitalists with a heart. Social democrats are capitalists with a heart and a brain.

And personally, I think social democracy worked pretty ok except for the fact that it required a pretty strict anti-socialism, which meant that when the '70s arrived and the elite decided to "restore growth" by clawing back every concession to the working class and the human heart that they'd ever made under social democracy, nobody could stop them.
Nope. And when I try to download it, as part of the Basic/Free plan, I don't actually get a download. Just a request for my email.

Actually same request for all three plans. And I see no traffic from me clicking them, meaning that they're not even validating the prices or interest in the different plans.
> There is a potential fallacy that should be evident that you can not necessarily and simply equate more education with always producing the correct perspectives and therefore liberal view points are the correct positions.

This. If there existed a world in which only liberals were right all the time conservatism would have been selected out of the gene pool by now. That's not a metaphor. Political tribes have been battling for probably tens of thousands of years.

There is too much world for one true path.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was CEO for Motorola's Home division at some point.
Ask HN: What to do when a website violates their own TOS and sells your data?
I gave a website my email in a specific way with the Google + trick. Their TOS clearly stated that they neither sell nor share the data.

Now I'm getting unrelated emails that are addressed to the Google + email address I used to sign up. Evidence that they clearly sold my data.

Can anything be done in this situation? Are TOS's legally enforceable?
double -> treble? Only reasoning I can think of. Why do we use double? Who knows.
Is it quite normal to call him King "Tut"?
>I read about how it being more valuable allowed these ancient civilizations who had access to it, to have some more monetary value to their coins and also showed their political influence (Ex: a picture of their leader )

Probably 1 of 3 reasons Gold was valuable at all to the ancients:

1. Gold is the most malleable of all the metals, making it easy to coin in extreme detail.

2. Antimicrobial properties (probably known to the ancients).

3. Oh look, its shiny!!! We are no less vain now, than then. Or perhaps no less vain then, than now.

Edit: Sorry I think you were referencing aluminum.
Yes, it can be. And it can not be. You have NO data to say either way. A single event is statistical noise. Come back to me with actual data and we can continue this discussion.
News media ought to pay more attention to the confidence intervals associated with these metrics. Uncertainty is always present in statistics and the revisions to these numbers rarely get reported (it was reported in this case to fit the tone of the story). News articles like these have a powerful psychological effect on the public, so shouldn't the media do a more responsible job by saying "oh by the way, it's 38,000 jobs +- 50,000"?
They (probably) are, in that I submitted the URL to them when I originally applied 13+ years ago and it's been used by different parts of the company for various corporate purposes over the years (board/VC decks, recruiting, depositions, etc).

Which angle are you concerned about: that I have a resume live on the internet, or that the contents are what they are(, or something else)?

As an employer, I would never worry about an employee having a resume out there (or being on LinkedIn/theLadders/other), nor do I care what content they put on the web that isn't company-proprietary. If a company thinks they want to control such things, they probably ought to find better things to concentrate on, IMO.
You're also devastatingly modest ;)
I always name a high number. That seems to set the tone for the discussion and they don't even try the lowball offer.
Has anyone had much success with negotiating the health care benefits out of the equation? For example, if your spouse carries the benefits, then you don't need them. I'm guessing most employers don't have the luxury of substituting $20k in salary in lieu of healthcare.
This is an interesting take on fantasy UIs. I'm even more interested, though, in truly visionary interfaces that make these handwavy, holo-touchscreeny UIs seem timid by comparison: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
It never seems to occur to anyone that maybe, just maybe ... there is an anti-conservative selection pressure or bias?

Look at the "nomenklatura" in USSR times - they were all good Party members, and they too, had the higher university degrees.

If you weren't a Party member or in other ways, indicated disloyalty to the prevailing political worldview ... you didn't get admitted to the choice spots.

How many "Western-style free market" (however defined) professors with tenure, were there in Moscow, in 1987? Must mean that as an economic perspective it was wholly discredited, right?
I think it depends on what type of person the company is looking for. If they are looking for a leader then they will respect you more if you bargain hard and maximize your worth. If they're looking for an agreeable doormat, then they will like you more for compromising on your worth. I've found that management likes rank and file engineers to be doormats, easily compromising and agreeable. Imagine if they have to work hard at the bargaining table, they're also going to work hard trying to get you to work long hours and weekends.
I honestly never understood the notion of not naming a number first (that is if you know what you're worth). Take the number you want to make, add 15%, and they'll likely negotiate down to the actual number you want. It's really not that hard.

Take this as an example:

Say you currently make $80k and you want a 10% bump. So you're looking for $88k. Take that number and add 15%. Your ask is now around $100k. They may say something like "we actually start all new engineers off at a base salary of $85,000". This gives you a ton of power in negotiating just a $3k bump. If you had said you wanted $88k, that "starting salary" would have likely been $75k. Thus making it a pretty big leap to the $88k you wanted.
I previously had a colleague reduce days in exchange for a pay cut, it was clearly messaged to us (a small startup) that there was a tradeoff happening, and the rest of us were happy to make more money working 5 days/week. I think the human nature part is wanting to be treated fairly -- it's unfair if you get paid the same and work less, but it feels fair if you make more money for working more.
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Good thing self-driving cars are coming, then.
These kinds of threads tend to be self-congratulatory, and obviously the answer is "self-selection". But I'll bite. Most of the conservative professors I have known in the Humanities have been in (military) history and classics, where they are likely drawn to classical or martial virtues. Economics professors are generally some variety of libertarian. Many Humanities professors are devout Christians.

But I've never known a professor to be an intolerant, hard-core social conservative. And perhaps that's because the only personality trait that has a correlation with intelligence is "openness to experience". A certain kind of liberality is necessary in academia.
>And I guess the converse question which has vexed socialists for decades - why do so many of the poor vote for centre-right, business-friendly parties? For example, why did so many working class people vote for Thatcher in UK in the 1980s? Why are they not massively in favour of Jeremy Corbyn right now?

I think the more appropriate question is: how many working-class people voted for Thatcher, as a percentage? How many favor Corbyn today? Which number is larger?

There has always been false consciousness, but I think it's often overstated the degree to which the working class actively holds and participates in false consciousness, rather than simply being repressed or ignored.
It's less spin doctoring than technical jargon. Security contractors guard things - buildings, convoys, etc. To call someone a mercenary implies that he's going to be engaged in offensive operations.

Most of the contractors we had in Iraq and A-stan weren't doing any fighting. They were people who did things like cooking and driving.
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That's pretty much the tagline of mutt[0].

> All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

I've become really fond of notmuch[1]. It's basically a mail database and library with really fast search, tags, and native support for threads. Numerous front-ends exists[2]; I use the bundled emacs client, but have wanted to try out nevermore[3] (it did not work well with Evil last I checked).

0: http://www.mutt.org/

1: https://notmuchmail.org/

2: https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

3: https://github.com/tjim/nevermore
From what I've read of this guy, this change is long overdue and hopefully a sign of better things to come (culture-wise and product-wise) at Nest.