skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's surprisingly common. Where I am, every department, no matter how big or small, has to be within x points of the average rating on a bell curve. If not, your whole dept gets scaled to it.

Where my friend works, it's more like yours and a select few get the stick. But they have this feature where you get reviewed formally if you have 3 consecutive "bad ratings", so mysteriously, no one ever gets the stick if they got it last cycle.

Just, for both of us, it's company-wide knowledge.
No. It's an internal list. But you were free to express yourself without almost any restrictions, modulo the usual workplace norms.
It's been tried. AdSense dropped Gmane, for "reasons". Some Amazon Ad program (I forget the name) was tested, but the ads weren't relevant at all.

Lars wrote a blog post about this, if you're interested.
It's not really valid to critique a compiler for being too system dependent.

Being used to this layer of abstraction being hidden in ld(1) doesn't mean that reimplementation of it is wrong, just perhaps an ill-advised maintenance burden.

An appeal to ASLR is a bit fallacious - that technology developed for C's deficiencies, including ISAs tailored for it. There are likely better ways than using an untyped language that begs attackers to forge object handles, and then kludging around that by making attackers guess.
Verizon Wireless.
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I not looking forward to the day when Apple dumbs down spotlight with Siri. OS X searching is fantabulous for me.
What really pissed me off about Audible is that they offered me a special offer after initiating the cancellation process, in a fully automated process.

Maybe other people like that, but this basically tells me that their good customers pay more than they have to, because they are fools that don't complain, possibly subsidizing the grumpy ones. And I find this to be totally unacceptable.

For anybody interested in an Audible alternative, check this out: http://downpour.com

That's DRM-free, high quality audio books at comparable prices.
I forget the source, but I read an article I liked once-upon-a-time about how startups should focus their innovations on their core products, not trying to revolutionize every business practice they come across.

Maybe more time spent innovating on software, less time on contracts.

p.s. HootSuite is no CoSchedule. We tried both and wow is CoSchedule better at all the things.
Throwaway.

Obviously stupid on his part. He needed a patsy. He needed to get someone else to do this. Some kiss-ass golden boy whose only value to the company was unerring unthinking loyalty. I have seen these douchebags destroy so much infrastructure, even without a malicious shadow revenge plot.
Ask HN: re. the darkpatterns article, what should ethical software look like?
Currently on the front page -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180072

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/dark-patterns-are-designed-to-trick-you-and-theyre-all-over-the-web/
I've seen several folks who would save email drafts only to send those later after midnight.

[One of them admitted doing so and added that it helps.]
> I don't know how good D'Aloisio is, but he's not that good

What does that even mean?
“Life on the Infinite Farm” by Richard Evan Schwartz [pdf]
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Whatever happened to the pay service model? I am actually happy to pay for services like this. Even if every user only paid $1/month it would probably cover most of the costs.
Yep. I unsubscribed because of less time to listen and being increasingly unhappy with the quality of their narrators (maybe I was just unlucky, but too many poor narrators often having strong unpleasant tones was spoiling enjoyment of too many books).

By the time I got to the end of the endless "are you really sure about this" and one time offer pages I was so annoyed I decided I'd never renew.
I would tend to agree, but find it incredibly hard to find any such modern examples of major content publishers using "good" advertising networks, especially in this modern age of social network infestation, 3rd party cookies, and data exchanges.
> Who asked what you like? That's irrelevant.

Parent did, when they asked:

> Why can't you say the same for v8?

My point was they did not know my opinion on the subject and to make an argument about my personal consistency in analysis (although this is off-topic) is impossible.

Oracle's actions do change the validity of the criticisms against Microsoft. That conversation isn't directly related to this thread and is a weak distraction from Microsoft's history, a history that many reasonable people could claim is shameful. If that's the best that can be done to defend Microsoft, then it seems that it isn't trustworthy.
I'm picturing a wide-eyed lamb wandering into the lion's den. "Hai guys! Let's have conversations LOL."
To distinguish from a nudist's casual disregard for garments and a hermit's inability to acquire substantial coverings, perhaps it would be better if Getty were not entirely naked, but instead had its underpants dropped to its ankles.

That says, "I own clothes, and usually wear them in a socially acceptable way, but I made an exception just for you and your formerly unstinky couch cushions."
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This seems like a funny place to cite that concept. The studies identifying it find it in roles like lead counsel or political candidate (which, at a glance, are both limited initiatives with well-defined success conditions).

Meanwhile it specifically wasn't found for turnaround CEOs: "A 2007 study of corporate performance preceding CEO appointments showed that women executives are no more likely to be selected for precarious leadership positions than males."

Mayer was publicly linked to this phenomenon, but the studies and proposed explanations don't seem consistent with hiring a CEO for an obvious turnaround role and massively compensating them for it.
What would you do for an internet connection?
I never understood why security-conscious people would choose to use a service (e.g. Lastpass) that stores all of your passwords in the cloud. Why not just use KeePass instead? Yes, it's a little bit more hassle, but all of the other password managers have been subject to serious exploits like the OPs that put people's data at serious risk of compromise.
It's backwards to say the pronunciation is irregular. Spoken language is more fundamental than written language. The pronunciation is fine; it's completely arbitrary, like that of any language, and no way is inherently better than any other.

It's the spelling that is irregular.
It's unfortunate to see that you rage-replied item by item, not bothering to read the overall context before firing off irrelevant commentary that was addressed later.

Manager types definitely do systematically have a dehumanizing agenda, as was well-researched in e.g. Moral Mazes, among other places.
I absolutely have seen people post that they would not visit or move to the USA because of our human rights (real or perceived) violations. On topics from draconian drug laws and penalties, general treatment of minorities, surveillance abuses, or our international record (particularly wrt actions in the Middle East or people from there). I'll see if I can find a couple examples and edit with links.

EDIT: My google fu is weak, and I'm not coming up with anything at the moment. I have found discussions about people avoiding transit through the US, but not about avoiding the US as a destination.
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They interviewed him assuming he was a senior candidate, the interviewers gave feedback that said "Good enough to hire, but not good enough to hire as a senior."
> Also: she used to use pine(1) to read her emails.

And ed as the editor? Or was it pico?
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I've had this trouble in Chrome quite a bit too. For example, system level text expansions break in the Chrome omnibox. I think that's independent of LastPass, but I could be wrong.
Selling it to sketchy vendors and doing "see no evil" appears to be perfectly legal. Unless you have some data otherwise?
It's the glorification by the people making 8 figures that gets the people making 5-6 figures to do it too. The profits flow to the top.
Just to be clear, one can setup OpenVPN on their home network (I have it running on my dd-wrt router). So, Netflix has taken measures to prevent usage of VPN services, but not VPNs, per se.
The issue isn't really with Getty charging for those images. If they're in the public domain, then (as I understand it) the photographer has relinquished her copyright on the images. It's perfectly legal for other people to make money with them in that case, but that doesn't mean those other people own the copyright.

I think the issue comes into play when Getty tries to enforce a copyright they don't actually own by threatening people who use the images. That's where they've crossed a line, and I'm fairly confident that if Getty tried to sue anyone over it, the courts would decide in favor of the defendants. Of course, just defending oneself in court against someone like Getty could get expensive, so it's obviously better if the issue could be sorted out preemptively (as this photographer seems to be doing).
In USA law isn't wilful blindness an example of what might be considered deliberate negligence in other jurisdictions?

Your link discusses the ill-defined nature of the middle ground, indeed if someone is apathetic as to whether the actions they take are negligent, those actions being deliberate, then it appears to fall in the even less well defined middle ground between recklessness and negligence. The link summarises with 3 conditions for recklessness, the first two being:

>As to recklessness, the better rule to apply is that requiring a strict test, i.e., the defendant must (a) actually know the course of conduct he is about to embark upon involves the probability of death or great harm to another, and (b) choose to risk occurrence of harm. (duke.edu link, ibid ) //

It primarily discusses criminal recklessness and only briefly touches on torts, as copyright infringement is, so I'm not really sure how relevant it is.

Perhaps you could comment on this imagined scenario:

A company deliberately includes CC-NC works (for example) in their morgue files and then neglects to check whether those works are then sold or included in the works that they chase up as infringements. Indeed they consider the problem but choose not to investigate whether they might be inadvertently charging for works that they have no rights to charge for, isn't there deliberate negligence there? They chose to avoid doing what the notional reasonable-man would consider to be necessary to avoid copyright infringement? They don't know they're infringing and so their actions aren't reckless??

TL;DR I propose that if you avoid acquiring the knowledge that would make you aware how reckless something were, you continue to be negligent just deliberately so.

(Didn't read your link entirely, sorry).

>"I'm not sure which law school taught you that" (morninj) //

Isn't the point of the link that judges don't even the line between negligence and recklessness correctly and that state laws muddy the line considerably; that "criminal negligence" should be an oxymoron under what the author considers to be proper interpretation of the USC. However, and correct me if I'm wrong, "criminal negligence" is a charge that is currently brought quite properly in various States of the USA.

IANAL just butting in with my tupenneth in the hope of getting educated.
To be fair, the confusion between media and tech has existed for as long as Yahoo has. Marisa didn't bring that with her. IMO her job was just to stop the bleeding to allow Yahoo to divest Alibaba and sell off the rest of the company. Without Marissa, Yahoo is a flaming dumpster fire a la Sun -- where the value of the company was in patents alone. She allowed the company to retain some effective talent and keep the lights on until they could find a viable exit -- definitely a win for the Yahoo shareholders.

And realistically, what options did Yahoo have? They didn't have the cash flows to aggressively invest in content to become a media company and they didn't have the cash reserves or engineering talent to aggressively invest in R&D to become a tech company. What vision should Yahoo have invested in? I'm not really sure they had any good options; so she rolled the dice with her best ones and lost. Can't fault her for that IMO.
ghoti actually can't be pronounced like "goatee", since the only way to pronounce the former is by stressing the initial syllable.
One thing is that a lot of testers are still working in a very rigid way. First, design and write down the test cases (based on a specification that is most likely flawed and incomplete). Then, perform the tests. Then, document the results. There is very little room for creativity and exploration in such a process.

This is basically what you do when you write automated tests, except the execution (and reporting) steps will be done automatically and repeatedly. Which is super valuable, but when a skilled tester goes at it, there will be ideas and crazy connections flying around everywhere. Even if many of these tests were to be automated (which in many cases really isn't feasible, considering implementation time/execution time/maintainability costs), you'd need someone to even think up the tests, and typically developers don't have the time or breadth of knowledge of their system to do it.

I used to work in a team with 5 developers and me as the tester. Besides finding tons of bugs - many of them very subtle - I became the one person who understood the product best since I was the only one touching all parts of it, so I was the one people came to for questions. Now, working as a developer, I do write automated tests, but I refuse to release anything our tester haven't had the time to test yet.
This was most of the Cablegate leaks - not scandals, but these kinds of peeks into the opinions of very smart State Department officials regarding assorted foreign countries. (The scandals usually involved foreign allies that the State Department doesn't think too highly of, like many of the Arab dictatorships that soon after experienced the Arab Spring.)
A Boolean circuit is a circuit that implements a Boolean expression (given input signals set to 1/0, output the 1/0 value corresponding to the result of substituting them into that expression.)

Computers at their core are machines designed to implement many such circuits, of many varieties, per second, and send their signals to output devices or their own internal state. When CPU makers design them, they are optimizing for the efficiency (with respect to cost, space, mass, energy consumption, et/vel cetera) with which they perform that task. They do not specifically optimize them for hosting forum discussions; instead, the software or OS designer chooses instructions for the CPU that allow it to accomplish that efficiently.

All of the above was in response to your claim that computers are only (somewhat) efficient at what they're designed to do. But they're designed to implement boolean circuits (and write to peripherals), they're not designed to host discussion forums, et cetera, and yet they're still good at the latter.

What do you disagree with there?

>Bottom line: vNA based computers are inefficient, regardless of what they are trying to compute

If modern computers are "inefficient" at summing numbers (or hosting discussion forums, for that matter), then may I forever be dredged in Soviet bureaucracy!
Android makes them billions in advertising and is profitable.
Interesting view on the matter, even if I don't quite agree with your prev comment (too tired now to argue why, sorry).

I very much agree that downvoting without comment (indeed except for the truly awful ones that would just draw needless noise because of it) is an anti-pattern. But I am occasionally guilty of it myself as well, partly because writing a reply to a not-quite-awful comment costs me a lot of time (even if it's a short cmt).

The greying-out of downvoted comments doesn't help with the perception of receiving a downvote without comment either (makes it feel more harsh, IMO). I'd prefer showing the counts again, actually.
There isn't even a difference between $60k and $120k, from the employer's frame of reference. That's not even real money. The tens of millions are going to the top managers, VCs, and shareholders, who leave the people that actually generate that profit to argue over scraps. Everyone should be arguing for a lot more money, regardless of geography.
Coding is different from normal work though, isn't it? I mean, if I have 3 hours of data entry ahead of me, I get in the zone almost instantly and crack through it at high speed with little difficulty, take lunch, then go on to the next thing. I've never had 3 hours worth of emails or administrative work to do, but I imagine it to be the same. 3 hours of solid code, on the other hand, takes a special day of the office being unusually quiet, at least half an hour to get in the zone, and at the end of it, I'm done for the day. It's not just my own arrogance, is it, to say that "code" work and "admin" work are two completely different categories that ought to be evaluated differently?
> ...did not release them into the public domain

This is incorrect. According to the Library of Congress:

"Ms. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain." [1]

[1] http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/482_high.html
Ex-Amazonian here, this is indeed the answer to this question.
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> One's employer doesn't owe one a job

Labor laws disagree to a certain degree -- at least in that you can't fire someone for any reason you choose (see the EEOC poster in your breakroom/mailroom/kitchen for examples). Also employment contracts can stipulate various things that prevent a company from firing you, particularly in union jobs.
I'm kind of surprised that Citibank had such weak internal controls on their network configuration. On the other hand, internal controls are not free. Separation of duties and the two person rule are expensive in manpower and coordination of larger teams. It would appear that whoever accepted the risk of the network internal controls at Citibank, lost that gamble.
This may be true, but I don't think Mayer is a great example of excelling. Maybe if she had a different approach than answering random emails in the middle of the night, her tenure wouldn't have gone like it did.
The accent is a reflection of the British pronunciation; note the original French never had an accent either. It is absolutely incorrect in America and implies a different pronunciation than anywhere but Britain.

EDIT: I am wrong.
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I work with major company C-suite guys on a regular basis, and while not everyone is the "4 hours a night" type, they're definitely overrepresented. Keep in mind I don't see this as a positive thing -- I think it's unhealthy and sets a bad example for your employees. But there are some people who just have more stamina, and that's something I've had to accept. I have less stamina, so I need to be more effective with the time that I do have and delegate work to others.
Note that they are also doing a different kind of work. Paul Graham's essay on
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html - is a good highlight of the differences. (It covers what both sides take to get into the "zone" etc.)
Sign up with Twitter with what speculates it may be my biggest income for the site?

That seems a bit.. odd. I'm not sure why, it just sort of puts me off.
> Yes, the square footage of my apartment went way down. Pretty much everyone out here lives in less space, generally it's less a "standard of living" thing than a "that's the norm" thing

I see you've gotten Stockholm Syndrome already :) But yes, it is definitely an individual-situation type of thing for sure. I'm merely responding to the blanket assertion that just because you ~double your salary in a ~2x CoL area you are always coming out ahead. As you say there are assumptions built into calculators that you personally have to decide how to value, and how you value things like a good commute, schools, and a backyard can change over time as well.
That's not a valid counter argument. He's using an analogy to produce a practical counter-example where private funded research is producing better / cheaper solutions (presumably, I'm uninformed on the subject). I think a more valid counter-argument would be arguing SpaceX isn't better, or that the domains share no similarities.
Flat UI and minimalism has destroyed UX. What's a button? What's a badge? What's a tab? What's clickable? What's an indicator? Who knows? It's all plain boxes or circles and it's all washed out.

There were problems with skeuomorphism, to be sure, but the design communities reaction has been even worse.
Although being asked to code on webcam is obnoxious, it's probably also a symptom of cultures where people exploit every trick in the book to game university admissions, exams, job interviews, etc.
Kudos on the author for sticking to what he said was his bottom line. This episode benefits all developers/engineers because we need to incentivize software companies to branch out beyond SF, Seattle, Boulder, and NYC.
Busted link, y'all.
Yeah it's currently estimating my not amazingly popular but still frequently visited site will earn more than my day job income.. Through ads.. In 2016.

If only!
Nit: It was not the domain that was included in the title but the authors name, they happen to be the same.

Whilst on reddit and other sites I will check the domain, on HN they are posted so infrequently that I spare myself the strain.
I think you're right and people aren't productive working 10 hours a day.

Occupants of executive positions aren't expected to actually produce anything.
> I do not believe a man would have been treated the same way.

This. Larry Ellison fucks around on a sailboat. Larry is busy with "X" for years. And no one bats an eye.
Google search seems complicit in this misconception. A search for gravity waves (without quotes) yields only results for gravitational waves. Searching "gravity waves" is only slightly better, yielding the actual meaning as the second definition (and result).
Ex amazonian here. About 5 years ago I was invited to beta test an online automated coding system, the stated goal of which was that upon passing, you would be given an offer for an SDE1 position. No webcam stuff, just checking your coding solutions. I don't believe that ever rolled out in that state.
What gets me is this trend of taking random important buttons and hiding them unless you hold the option key. It's so bizarre that they think this is a good idea. Finding detect displays always requires a google search. They also did it for the Library entry in Finder's "Go" menu.
I never understood why stamps.com existed.

* Anything that isn't first class mail can be accommodated by USPS.com, Paypal and others.

* If you mail enough letters to justify a label printer, you can get a better deal on a meter.

* If you hate going to the post office, you can spend the same money that you spend on Stamps.com bullshit to buy a bunch of stamps from the post office, which are now good forever.

My mom fell into this trap a few years ago. The easiest way to disengage: Use a good credit card like Amex. Call twice, hold for 60 seconds, hang up. Dispute the charge. Do this 2-3x.
Yeah, but Gramsci is not an unbiased observer. He's going to have a very ideologically biased view of many things, fascism among them.
the incentive is to achieve the credential while spending the least amount of time and money earning it. in the private sector, you'd get laughed out of an interview holding one of these credentials; in the public unions, you get an automatic pay and pension increase.