skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having spent a lot of time both as a manager and as an individual contributor, here's the rub (at least for programmers): software developers are a classic market for lemons. The bigger the org and the more operational complexity the more space there is for poor developers to hide out and draw a pay check. But even at a small scale it's remarkably difficult to measure productivity actually.

Therefore, what you need is intrinsic motivation. You need engineers who really care about solving the right problem at the right time in the right way. 35 hours or 70 doesn't matter if they can't get that right, and it's very hard to have management that is qualified to make that judgement on people (especially as an org grows and management becomes a full time job). So the problem is that given this opacity, finding someone who works 70 hours a week is a better proxy than someone who seems excited about a 35-hour work week—the former are people who are clearly driven whereas the latter are literally everyone. It's far from a good metric, but perhaps the best one available to the pointy hairs of the world.

Speaking from personal experience, it wasn't until I had a kid that I found out what I could do in a 40-hour week. Once I had that time constraint, it forced me to be more efficient in a very deep and fundamental way from the core of my being. When I was 25 I would hit 5pm and think to myself: I still have another 8 hours to solve this problem before bed. Perhaps this is post-hoc justification, but I think that makes sense when you are just starting out and not really competent yet. Once you've passed the magic 10k hours or whatever, I think turning over problems in ones subconscious can provide a lot more of the value. So sleep / exercise / meditation can all help elevate your performance far more than extra hours—but only if your brain knows what it's doing.
I don't have good insight into the potential for demand/supply imbalance or how loans are distributed. I would like to believe that LC gives all investors a fair chance at equivalent loans, but I only use the auto-trade mechanism and match the portfolio.

What I HAVE noticed this month is that my cash is piling up. It looks like LC is currently not offering the best rate to potential borrowers? I'm OK with that personally.
This is how the system has worked, quite well, for decades if not centuries. The short term profit motive prevents the vast majority of companies from carrying out basic research like this and without IP protections most won't risk investing into manufacturing infrastructure that will quickly be copied in lower cost jurisdictions. There is a lot wrong with our patent system but it does its job for the most part.
Amazon and BN sell _some_ books without DRM as well. To encompass your Sanderson example, all of Tor ebooks[0] are DRM free regardless of distribution channel.

[0]: http://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/torforge-e-books-are-now-drm-f...
It can be virtually guaranteed that not everyone who might buy or sell will know about and properly understand a given event.
I see Defcon doesn't have quite as stringent a media policy as HOPE, which booted Vice in response to blatant violation of the signed-consent requirement.
DRM is a symptom. The disease is ridiculously expansive and one-sided copyright law.

This is still good fight. Although I'm not optimistic. If DMCA wasn't laughed out of the courts when it made Sharpie(tm) markers illegal "circumvention devices" I kind of doubt that logic and rationality is in control at our legislative and judicial systems.
Shadow Brokers => Mass Effect fans?

Can't say I approve of these tools being leaked, but you have to admire their style.
We will always put our customers and community first
MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model
You know, I think you're right. But the thing is "without religious bias." We can say ESR isn't a hacker because his code's not good enough, and having stated your case, I'd agree, but saying he's not a hacker because he doesn't agree with us ideologically is undermining our own ideology.
Sorry, I see people participate constantly in local politics. Some are often referred to as NIMBYs. The kooks typically don't get voices, but if you want to effect change, find the locallest bit of politics you can and work on it.
No, Sandstorm does not rely on being behind a firewall.

Sandstorm sandboxes apps and enforces access control on them such that security bugs in the apps themselves are almost entirely mitigated. See:

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-non-event...

Meanwhile Sandstorm itself is designed to manage its own security, e.g. by automatically updating, relying on hard-to-do-wrong authentication mechanisms (i.e. not passwords), etc., so that users running their own server do not need to know about server security.
Billing clients or projects per hour is like billing lines of code. It's a metric that doesn't correlate to real productivity as much as some people think.
Just not paying a fine is not an option for most of us. If you don't pay the fine (that you have the means to pay) and take steps to prevent the government from collecting, then the next step is jail.
The kid is a public figure, so I'm not sure what you mean there. Public figures are frequent subjects for comedians because of the shared experience between them and the audience. If it was some random disabled kid I doubt anyone would have found it funny, Mike Ward included.

And whether you like it or not, it is a job. HN seems to be pretty hip to letting the market dictate whether or not an enterprise should thrive or fail. Don't like what a comedian has to say? Don't support that comedian with your money. If you're at a comedy show and you're so terribly offended, get up quietly, find a manager, ask for your money back. If you're offended watching a comedian on TV, turn the channel. Tell your friends and family you don't like them. These are all ways you can "vote with your dollars".

But it's not your (or the government's) responsibility to punish and take away from them for saying something you find to be offensive. At least it shouldn't be, and I find a world where that's okay to be pretty terrifying.
This sounds like "I prefer feels to facts."
Rust code looks very similar to ES6 or Typescript. The great CS language convergence has begun!
I think it's an age thing. Older dudes like me have "been there done that" with fear and uncertainty. In the seventies I had my first "wow" events (corrupt gov't "I am not a crook"; Japan making cars; Iran hostages) and thought there was no future. But as an old guy I know the future is better as it always has been. The younger people are only going through their first adult view of the world as newbie thinkers

It's like handling death. The first few times you suck at handling it and after many deaths of family and acquantinces it becomes very unscary. You become confident in want to say, etc
Ask HN: What should I know to start a business making websites in highschool?
So I noticed that a lot of businesses around me didn't have a website, or if they did it wasn't very functional. I thought a good way to make a little money would be to make some websites for local businesses around me!

I'm obviously still new to this entrepreneurial stuff, and I feel a little out of my depth. I've been lurking on HN for a while and I thought it might be informative to ask if any of you have any suggestions?

For example, I've quickly made a landing page for our "company" [1] but I don't know if it has everything we need. Thanks in advance!

[1] http://www.sitebyte.xyz/
It will disappear.

El Paquete Semanal is not at all unlike the combination of sneakernet and shareware CDs that I enjoyed in semi-rural western Canada, during the 80s and early 90s. We were crippled by long-distance fees, and very few FidoNet BBS' were available; IIRC, there was one in my local calling area, and it was hideously expensive.

The local community bookstore started by selling shareware discs, in 5.25 and 3.5; and when it came available, in CDs. They were professionally packaged, and they restocked every Tuesday. The demand for content was high enough that restocking so frequently didn't mean throwing out old content. If 1tb USB drives were available then we would have used those; but they weren't, and the most economical way to deliver content was through CDs and discs. Since burners were rare, and because disc and floppy medium aren't zero-cost, it made sense for the local bookstore to sell the packaged content.

With the advent of high-speed internet to our homes, we were a test area for the deployment of cable internet in around '96, the bookstore stopped selling shareware altogether.
A lot of people have adopted "grok" without understanding its subversive connotations. The shade of Robert Heinlein is laughing at us all.

Edit: just checked the Jargon File on "grok," and it mentions neither sexual congress nor ritual cannibalism. I think ESR may be chuckling as well.
I agree with that. Last ~1-2hours in job I feel bored and everything is not so productive than it should.

I would like to work in/create place where engineers work for ~30h a week including lunch/coffee time.

I think with that kind of work everyone would be happy and could easly balance work/life
No 'star wars' kid had his video stolen.

Then treated like shit over the internet on mass.

Given he didn't ever opt in, pretty awful.

The joke here is in the establishment loving him. Not the kid.

Its hard. No kid can sign off on what happens to them.

But if society is wrong and idolised a kid, can you not fight back, else you hurt the kid?
Start by figuring out what your goals for the interview are. In most cases, this will come down to information you want to learn about the candidate and information you want the candidate to learn about the company or project.

Once you know what you want to learn from the candidate you can come up with a list of questions. Think hard about them. Will they really give you the information you want? Rank your questions based on how likely you think they are to give you clear information and how important you think that information is. You'll probably want some redundancy in your questions in case you don't have a clear picture based on the first answer.
I think part of the argument the EFF will make is that section 1201 is inherently in conflict with itself in regards to fair use (an argument which was explicitly not ruled upon in the DeCSS court case) and free speech (to a lesser extent). On the one hand the DMCA states that no one may make available any tool that circumvents a control that protects a copyrighted work while on the other hand it states (c 1):

Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies,
limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement,
including fair use, under this title.

...and also (c 4):

Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any
rights of free speech or the press for activities using
consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing
products.

If a control exists and there's no mechanism to circumvent it how can those two paragraphs ever apply? You could make the argument that for certain works such as movies and music you have alternate means of obtaining the material but for something like a hardware device (e.g. pacemaker) there exists no mechanism other than circumvention tools for anyone to exercise their right of fair use. Therefore (in such cases) the anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA are a violation of constitutional rights.

If circumvention tools cannot be made available then citizens are effectively barred from exercising their constitutional rights.

I firmly believe that the judge made a horrible mistake in the original DeCSS case when it was ruled that posting the source code of a circumvention tool does not constitute free speech. It damn well is free speech! It's literally just a bunch of words and numbers along with a few math symbols (code). I believe the idiocy of the ruling was made abundantly clear when people uploaded audio of themselves singing the source code aloud.

Apparently it's time to put that "Source Code is Free Speech" bumper sticker back on my car.
I was fairly young, so didn't have huge awareness of oil crisis, as i didn't drive until the 80s. Slightly tongue in cheek here...

The bad:

Constant strikes, works to rule, sympathetic strikes (miners going out in sympathy with the rail works and other such silliness), having to be bailed out by the IMF, three day week and doing homework by candle light due to electric strikes. Horrific fashions and decor. So much bad music! Godawful food - this was when the UK earned the reputtion for terrible food, and it was well deserved. thankfully we're well out the other side of that reputation. High inflation if you were a saver. I recall my childhood saving account paying 16% one year! Tech was a calculator, a record player and a speak and spell. The internet was having a penfriend!

The good:

Simpler expectations, no great media missions to have government "do something" after every minor crime and accident. No 24hr news so little chance of hearing about the 1:1,000,000,000 crime that took place 500 miles away. Terrorism existed, but didn't result in wholesale change of the way we lived. "They won't change our way of life" was the usual refrain rather than "we need a war on terror"[1]. As a householder, high interest rates. Yes really. As a worker it led to regular, large, wage rises - often perceived to be good whatever your stance on the economics. After 3 years at 15%+ the mortgage you made a huge stretch to take has reduced to affordable. After ten or fifteen years its become pocket money. The house was a much lower multiple of wage to start with. After all that you still got tax relief on mortgages (abolished in the 90s). Final pay pensions. Job security, even if you were a manual worker. Your 15yo wasn't demanding an iPhone 6 to replace her iPhone 5 as it's SO much better! (Meanwhile I still used the Nexus 4).
What if instead of a USB drive, it was a truck with wifi that would swing by the front of your house and rsync some files to your computer? To sign up, you'd give your address and wifi password.
What about the 3rd option, getting two tasks done?

- Grind for 1 hour and assuming 90% success rate, finish the task 9 out of 10 times

- Sleep

- Finish another task in 15 min with, again based on your assumption, a success rate of 100%

In start-ups there is usually a near endless list of tasks to solve so this would be the most productive approach. Again, based on a lot of assumptions.

[edit: formatting]
Are either curl or wget trademarked?
Also, a book by B.Pierce [ISBN 9780262660716] is a very good short introduction to Category Theory for programmers.
> So, make it an old parameter by having this from the beginning in your language.

It's already part of PowerShell. You can request a specific version when you run PowerShell.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/core-p...

> Users can use it proactively, before something breaks. It can be a recommended practice for deploying code.

I'm sure it is recommended practice. That's irrelevant if people aren't following that best practice. And they generally aren't, because it adds friction to development.

The "go back in time and do it right from the beginning" fix isn't feasible due to the lack of reliable time machines.

> It is substantially better than asking people to change source code.

It's really not. If the workaround avoided compilation, this would be lower cost. But the cost to make a small change to a script and the cost to change the way the script is invoked are pretty much the same.

> Windows has versioning mechanisms in some of its API's, by which it can tell that a program is calling it that was compiled for an old version.

No. Windows is just super-serious about backwards compatibility. Some APIs are versioned. Most are not. Microsoft just bends over backwards to keep stuff running (to the point of emulating bugs that programs relied on).

> Speaking of browsers, web pages declare what version of HTML they are in with <!DOCTYPE ...>. If your page begins with <html>, you can't expect it to render the same way everywhere.

Also no. HTML5 did away with the versioned doctype crap because it wasn't actually useful. It's just "<!DOCTYPE html>" now, because that's what you need to get browsers to render your site in a standards-compliant way.

> Backward compatibility is the normal modus operandi. This type of mechanism is just for "oh shit" situations: there is no way we can fix this thing while remaining backward compatible. Any newly introduced use of the version emulation is treated with great regret.

This type of mechanism 1) already exists for powershell, and 2) doesn't really help much here. I'm sure if they take this breaking change, they'll advise impacted people to use this workaround if they cannot for some reason fix their scripts. But this is not a "fix".

Disclosure: MSFT employee, but not on PowerShell or Windows
"Spam" folder in my Gmail account contains lots of malware too. It means Google is evil and gmail is designed to spread malware.
Some people don't understand this, and it was one of the reasons I was so happy to get to work from home. It's really hard to work this way in an office, but at home people really only see the end result and assume you got there using whatever methods they think are best. Nobody knows or cares I took a couple laps around the block mid-morning, they just know I fixed the issue.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately in my culture it is quite rare for candidates to be so open as to ask enough questions, especially because the candidate will be for a junior position.

I could see this working better for a more senior positions :)
I have brought up ESR only when it makes sense. If you looked at the parents, you'd know that.

I am sometimes skeptical of RMS and his organization. That doesn't make me a bigot. And I'm looking at my post history right now.

Also, that post doesn't really disprove my claim. And yes, I read it.
The article links to the actual law cited, read it, it only takes a few minutes.

http://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc07/#220

It does make it seem very cut and dry that any employee who has a single share is allowed to view not only the financials but also the cap table and shareholder list.

To be honest, if this is the case I'm very surprised that fund managers like T Rowe Price and Fidelity haven't been invoking it for as long as they've held shares to do their monthly marking of their private positions. I mean, doesn't it seem like they actually have a fiduciary duty to do this as it lets them most accurately value the holdings that they have?

If this is really the case then, unless the companies can force some sort of NDA on shareholders, then this opens the floodgates where any company that has vested shareholders, not just option holders, is going to have its books made public?

This seems like a positive thing for employees as each new round would be scrutinized looking for provisions in the new raise that could screw employee's ie ratchets or liquidation preferences.
Sup bdrop.

-Remagi
The title is oddly limiting, to one cell carrier and two OS developers. The list is as follows, and includes ALL national mobile carriers, several ISPs, most OS developers, many major hardware developers.

It's continually annoying that headlines focus on Google and Apple to the detriment of everyone else. I recall recent studies done by large groups of researchers that included a couple Googlers, and was then headlined as "Google publishes..."

AT&T, Apple, ATIS, Bandwidth, Blackberry,

British Telecom, CenturyLink, Charter, Cincinnati Bell, Comcast,

Consumers Union, Cox, Ericsson, FairPoint, Frontier,

Google, Inteliquent, Level 3, LG, Microsoft,

Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Silver Star, Sirius XM,

Sprint, Syniverse, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Verizon

West, Windstream, and X5 Solutions
I disagree, a deeply technical discission is about anything but bullshitting. If the conversation does not flow naturally when discussing a deeply technical topic I would claim there is a knowledge gap or serious lack of communication skills.

But, like I said, contexts are different and those things might not matter.
If you lean to the Right at all, you see that this happens all the time, and has been happening for a very long time. There are always groups of people who try to set themselves up as an elite, who can never face justice for anything, and who can destroy anybody they feel like without consequences. America was set up so that it's harder for actual politicians to be truly elite, so it's more media figures and bureaucrats.

The real elite are leftists, but that doesn't mean they're the same as the left. Witness how almost the whole DNC lined up against Bernie Sanders.

This sort of thing happens all the time, to many arguably undeserving people. It's only getting attention because it's happening to an organization that was supposed to be part of the Elite. As such, I don't feel much sympathy for them.

The article was right on on this point. This quote:

> Gilles Wullus of the group Reporters Without Borders told the BBC that the Gawker case poses a dire threat to press freedom. “Journalism ethics should be taken care of by journalists themselves,” he said. “In case they do not, we think that nobody else can do it in their place, neither states nor governments; especially not wealthy individuals.”

Seriously?? Just like they say, can you imagine the uproar if somebody said the same thing about petroleum industry executives?
> when I was self-employed I humble-brag tweeted about my production deployment ~15 minutes after starting work

What a truly bizarre thing to do. You sound like an awful person. Can I ask why you are so self-obsessed?
Yes, but I did say the mountains, not the suburbs. There is stuff (for me) to do in the mountains. I would rather pay the extra rent to live in a city rather than the suburbs.
> Yes, now the government can't hurt you, but your opponents can use their “free speech” to silence you.

I'm interested in some examples of this. At first blush this statement reads to me as a "marketplace of ideas", which is a feature in my opinion. But I could be interpreting your statement wrong.
Windows VM in KVM/Qemu using GPU Passthrough = sandboxed windows with full-speed games.
PostgreSQL vs. Hadoop
Except that he's made a career of trying to pose as a hacker, define what a hacker is, tell people how to become a hacker, viciously attack the person, the philosophy and the life's work of one of the world's leading and most respected, influential and successful (if not quirky) hackers, and even hijack and distort the definition of the very words in the hacker's dictionary to reflect his own extremist political ideology, which most certainly does not align with the non-bigoted ideology in the Hacker's Manifesto that we're discussing.
> Why is a fine violent, but repeated deliberate public humiliation not?

A fine is enforced with the threat of violence. Knowing that someone somewhere is laughing at one is not, in fact, violence.

It takes two to humiliate: one to mock, and one to accept the mockery.
11MBps for 8$ a month... My ISP is ripping me off!

In all seriousness, this is amazing. Once again it proves that nobody should underestimate the bandwidth of a van full of harddrives speeding down the highway... or in this case Cubans exchanging Harddrives.
They can publish your location and tell vigilantes to go to your house and beat you up.

That's speech.
Sharex qualifies for Zawinski's Law[0]

0. http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
Tor/Forge E-Books Are Now DRM-Free (2012)
Five factors for global SEO success
It will be fascinating to see how fast Cuba in a post embargo-lift landscape can build up ip infrastructure, its cool that by year's end 2017 its probably good enough for a Cloudflare PoP.

(though imagine being uniquely placed to the USA along with other factors is a huge plus for building that infra).
>and that casual WikiLeaks visitors might now be endangered

The horror.
This would be difficult to do unless you can tell which alias you are coming from in `Invoke-JsonRequest`.