skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly enough, in the US it's legally advantageous for a company to disguise a firing as a layoff, but not the other way around.

Why? Because if you get laid off, you can collect unemployment, but if you get fired for cause, you can't. But if you think the company pretended they had cause when they didn't, you can appeal, and the company will have to spend considerable resources defending their position that they had cause. As such, many employers legally classify all firings as layoffs because it's often not worth the hassle. And there's no penalties to doing so, either.

So if you get fired but the company officially considers it a layoff, it's a good thing for you: you dodged a bullet.
If you want to say one is better, then you ought to at least define what being better means. "better" clearly does not mean the same thing to both of us.

Linux does have plenty of nice things and plenty of nice work, but I am not going to dismiss everything being done elsewhere by declaring Linux to be "better". At best, I would say that it is ahead in some areas, behind in other areas and the same in many areas. As for what some of those "other areas" are, I recall Adrian Chadd implementing time division multiplexed atheros wifi support in FreeBSD that Linux does not have. Netflix also contributed a rather nice thing to FreeBSD that Linux did not have:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/it-wasnt-easy-but-ne...

There are plenty of nice things in both platforms. Labelling one as "better" just doesn't do justice to either of them. It ignores opportunities for the "better" one to improve by denying that opportunities for improvement have been demonstrated to exist. It also denies the "lesser" one the acknowledgement of having done something worth while.
Bet they could rename sugar as "root vegetable extract" if it's derived from sugar-beet.
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you are right, I went too far. see my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081551

however, that just concerns the DNA argument. We know roughly how many neurons there are in humans and their connectedness.
I think your web server needs to know how to grow.
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Reminds me of the WSJ's infographic of tax-hike impacts and the forlorn expressions on their faces.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/944732/original.jpg
Whoa whoa, why do we have to get paid less? Here in lies (one of) the problems with our industry. We should work 40 hours a week and be done with it. Seriously. In the United States we are (more often than not) paid as exempt employees. This has some interesting legal ramifications in that according to the Fair Labor Standards Act exempt workers professional knowledge workers essentially have no rights at all (under that Act. Other laws and standards at other levels may affect this in other jurisdictions).

Why is that? Well simple. We are Professional Knowledge Workers. In every place I have ever lived I have been on the correct side of the supply and demand curve. There has been a low supply and a very high demand for my particular type of professional knowledge work. The theory goes that if you are a professional knowledge worker you have the ability to move from one job to another with more ease that other classes of workers. Thus, we as professional knowledge workers don't need the level of labor protection that other classes of workers need. Not only that but my particular brand of professional knowledge work sure makes organizations a lot of money; far more than I take back in the form of pay.

So, why should I work a substantial amount of overtime in order to make them even more money faster and without any additional compensation? Good question, I don't. If my employers would like to try to guilt me into doing more, I don't let them. If my employer wants to threaten me, I threaten back. If I have a team (which I often have), I hold them to the same standard as me. It can be painful at first. Companies can get really touchy. But after they see the benefits they praise this way of working (Better, less buggy, more stable code. Higher engineer retention rates. More successful feature releases. To name a few benefits).

Have I had to put my money where my mouth is on this? Absolutely yes. Interestingly, I have never been fired or reprimanded for not working overtime. I have however walked out because I have gotten tired of being guilted, threatened, or harassed about it. It hasn't happen often, but it has happened.

Work 40 honest hours a week. Go home. Enjoy life. Let your brain relax. Stop being treated like a slave to the organization who pays you and start working like a highly sought after individual.
The qualifications seem absurd, doesn't quite smell of a startup.
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You're right, but I would retort that not all innovations are created equal.

Example: The French artisans, the middle class of their time, created wonderful toys for the gentry but almost none of their wonderfully intricate work had any impact on the Industrial Revolution in Britain, while a handful of illiterate working class types turned the Roman water wheel on its side and massively improved mechanical power production.

Their work would have been seen as obscene by the artisans but it was fundamentally more important.

There is a wonderful 1973 documentary by Jacob Bronowski on this topic:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x206z0e_bbc-ascent-of-man-0...

Anybody can be 'possessed' by an idea, but it is clear that Silicon Valley has too many smart and well educated people wasting their time on trifles, their choices significantly retard what ought to be natural advantages.

Most important thing anyone can do is to choose their environment carefully e.g. having the right mentor, role models, choosing the right problem.
I find it sad what is happening to the journalism industry as it is 'disrupted' by the internet.

Where are we going to get our news from after all the news organizations shut down? From our friends on Facebook who already agree with us? From propaganda mills that hire people to write fake social media posts?

The industry may not have been perfect, but on its best days it uncovered important stories, and backed it up with fact checking and an attempt at being fair and balanced.
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Lol. Will be back up momentarily.
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There was still a driver, but all the bins and cans were ID tagged and had weight sensors installed. This was earlier technology (a lot of cities have similar things now), but it was basically a locking hydraulic lift that coupled with an interface on the cans. That picked the cans up over the truck and inverted them. So it just dumped things into the truck.

So there were no workers, just a driver.

Because of the jobs issue, they went back to having two men that pick up the cans by hand. But because everyone had the new cans with all the extra hardware now the work was harder. It was the worst of both worlds until they issued everyone new regular trash cans a few years later.
you are right - see my comments under here (1 down):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081551

however, that just concerns the DNA argument. We know roughly how many neurons there are in humans and their connectedness.
I wonder if your hours may be a bit off -- are you logging them like the article author? 6-8 hours a week on just groceries is an hour a day, that seems quite high. Personally we just spend an hour at the grocery store to purchase everything for a week in advance, and maybe anotehr hour to pick up things we forgot later in the week.
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I don't think anyone thinks its economical long-term over beans/maker, just that it is cheaper than going to a store to get coffee. The convenience of having a serviceable cup of espresso in less than 30 seconds (no warm up time!) all for under a dollar makes it worth it.

As for the environment, they do have a recycling program for Nespresso pods with drop-off stations in a bunch of places. It is Nestle though so they might just be taking the recycled pods and putting them in the trash.
Anyone know if you can actually type for the PASS and ARP minigames? The keypad is killing me (and I'm a few minutes away from getting another shot lol)
"to not know if you can do anything other people see as valuable"

1. I have never met a rich person that could offer me anything other than a loan. Someting they don't like to do.

(I live in Marin County. The place your founder will end up if successful. These people can't change a tire. They are as useful as the proverbial wart on a toad. They have one ability most poor don't have; they are masters at taking money from the poor/middle class and getting in their bank account. They are also masters at hiding their lack ethics/morality--for the most part. Some are born rich. Some have high barriers to entry--like a medical degree, in a dubious speciality. The drug dealing Psychiatrist come to mind? My neighbors would be the first to perish in a catastrophe. I honestly wonder what skills they offer society. They always fall back on we provide the jobs. Jobs that usually don't have a future, and turn the poor into working poor. Many work for for profit housing, for profit education, and for profit medical system.(All services that I feel shouldn't have a profit motive.) They are Titans in the financial world. So few provide livable jobs. Many destroy jobs, for their own enrichment,
But the majority? I can't figure out what in the hell they do. I know their wives, and kids are misserable.

2. I have never met a poor person who couldn't fix my car, repair my house, repair my website, etc. I don't think I have ever met a poor person that didn't have more skills than my neighbors. They just don't know how to capitalize on them. Or, will never be given the opportunity to capitalize on any of their skills, or good ideas. They will always be at the mercy of the people with money. Usually a a seed fund consisting of a few thousand dollars on a credit card at 29%.

Some days, it enrages me. I do know this, I haven't found one who I could stomach being friends with. It's not out of envy either; I just don't like the hypocrisy, and really question their ethics, and morality.

I often picture Chea Guevara riding that motorcyle, looking at the disparity of wealth; and feel his rage.

My rage has been brewing for years.

I don't have a point, other than the wealthy, at least my neighbors, don't possess viable skills. 99% would be living pay check to pay check, or homeless, if not for that understanding wealthy father, who usually really helped out that aimless kid who just returned from Europe and still couldn't figure out what they wanted to do. And all the second chances that most of us only get one--if we are lucky.

Ask yourself this; how many bad ideas from the wealthy are we forced to listen to? They have the platform, but their ideas always leave out a few pertinent variables; like it will take a lot of seed capital to do, along with a free house, a free workspace, free legal advice, and Insurance. Their ideas always seem lofty. An idea only a wealthy dreamer could begin to pontificate about?
This sounds a lot like HP Operations Orchestration.
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Back in 2008 Hershey's had to stop using the term milk chocolate it had to use "chocolate candy" because they started using cheaper ingredients. I guess they'll change again to this weird sugar to save on the formerly cheap ingredients.

http://www.today.com/food/chocoholics-sour-new-hersheys-form...

I used to like Lindt and was disappointed to see they use palm oil in their chocolate instead of cocoa butter. Even worse is palm oil plantations are made by cutting down forests and displacing endangered animal species.
The coffee snobs (I say that with a lot of love) are out in full effect in your replies, but I'm with you. I did the whole Chemex, Aeropress, weight scale, burr grinder, Japanese tea kettle, etc etc and my Nespresso machine is by far and away the easiest way to get delicious coffee. My wife also adores their Aeroccino for perfect lattes every time.

As far as recycling, Nespresso provides free, self-addressed bags that you drop in the mail with your spent pods and they handle it for you.
I don't support any follow-up comments ala "fuck you" etc. - however, if you consider this sort of "accurate" representation of how things go already as harmful, you know the reason of president-elect Trump.

...just because you don't want to hear it, doesn't mean it does not accurately describe a situation. And the OP was not overly mean - just very concise in describing a typical SV situation.

...I don't have any stakes in convincing you, nevertheless I considered it an overreaction worthwhile to react myself
I agree on the status point - talking about how 'busy' you are is basically bragging about your status.

I suspect the working poor or people who actually have less control over their time are more likely to say they're exhausted/tired/overwhelmed than 'busy'.

Busy to me is someone just advertising they're important.
The profanity is a movie reference, which if you've seen that movie would perfectly illustrate my personal frustration towards the tacit acceptance of incompetence that this thread signifies.

They did very little with an extreme amount of advantages handed to them vis-a-vis A16Z's involvement. It's not intellectually honest to praise them for being able to raise money while simultaneous consider them immune from criticism for failing to do anything notable with that investment.

I staunchly disagree with the general ethos of accepting failure as if the mere effort of trying is somehow notable. Ryan may have made the best decision that was presented to him at the time, but that doesn't invalidate the fact that a whole host of poor preceding decisions placed him into that bind in the first place.

I also find myself extremely skeptical that you'd take the time to so vociferously defend the "tone" of this conversation had PH not been a YC company. Given that a large part of this acquisition looks and smells like a life preserver thrown by one of their existing investors, it makes me cringe even further at PH's inability to harness that emotional capital into anything more substantial and at the amount of which people will ignore the reality to defend their own biased interests.
I didn't mention antivirus quality and don't care much about the topic nowadays.

Browsers do a lot of things web developers and browser developers want, that's why they transformed into a frankenstein OS that at this point is probably impossible to secure.

I disagree that they do "a lot" of things users want. They can show web sites, more or less like 16 years ago except with more ads, animations, tracking.
They like to pretend that websites are apps, but that always fails sooner or later.

My point was: browsers are probably the number one attack vector today. It doesn't matter that it costs a lot or that antiviruses are crap at security.
Very few are likely going to get compromised through their antivirus. A whole lot will be compromised through their browsers, irrespective of the existence of antivirus. The push to web apps, insecure core OS elements and browsers guarantee this.

P.S: I don't use Chrome, so the fact that it's above avarage at security leaves me cold. I get it that it perhaps offers better protection than Firefox, but what's the point of that if everything one does is uploaded to Google anyway? From that point of view, the whole discussion is quite repugnant. Google worrying that others will install spyware on the systems that they spy on through Chrome, analytics, docs, gmail, etc.
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That is shockingly out of touch.
20-20 hindsight works both ways; it's easy to see both obvious failures and successes once we know the results with certainty.

For Google, I don't think it was certain at all that they would succeed and there was a real chance they could have failed. Their first business model was selling their search engine to enterprises via hardware boxes, which grew very haltingly.

In fact it wasn't until Google came across Overture's idea of selling advertising tied to web search results that they found the success they now have, and which they appropriated despite Overture's patent because they were so desperate to find a working business model.

Overture(later acquired by Yahoo) sued Google, and Google had to pay in stock worth hundreds of millions in 2004 (tens of billions now had Yahoo kept them).

So how does this relate to ProductHunt? Google had a real product, knew who their users were and put their experience first. ProductHunt has polluted their site with junk and allowed their voting process to be distorted, making it practically useless to anyone who came there to find great products.

See here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/business/technology-google...
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Is it just me or does this look like AWS Data Pipeline with an actually feature-complete and usable user interface?
> Ryan may be "in the circle" now, but it's not like he had a rich VC uncle. It's not nepotism; he had no connections when he started out. Product Hunt didn't succeed because he's "in the circle", he's "in the circle" because Product Hunt succeeded.

No discredit to Ryan, but this isn't necessarily true. Prior to Product Hunt he hustled his way into the circle by interviewing individuals connected in the VC community:

http://ryanhoover.me/post/69599262875/product-hunt-began-as-...

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Huh? IMO, the parent's comment is a perfect example of something deserving of downvotes: "Why are you arguing something that has absolutely nothing to do with the article, or really even global warming in general, and displays a complete lack of understanding about what the discussion is even about."

In other words, I can't imagine that engaging with someone whose argument is basically "CO2 isn't a problem because plants love CO2" is going to lead to any sort of insightful discussion.
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