skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I look at it, there are two kinds of CEOs. There are the ones that founded the company and have led the company according to their own personal vision. Many of them hold stock worth billions and they're generally looked up to as "captains of industry".

The other kind is the CEO who is hired by the board of directors. They're usually very well paid and given a lot of stock, but aren't wealthy the way, say, Bill Gates is wealthy. They also tend not to be as admired, since they didn't build the business from the ground up.

People wonder why the second class of CEO receives such lavish compensation, when they're essentially just a regular employee. I suspect that the compensation is actually part of the qualification for the job. It makes shareholders feel good if the CEO holds a lot of stock, because it's a strong incentive for them to put the interests of the shareholders (whom it's easy to stereotype as rich, entitled lazy people living lavishly off of passive investment income) above the interests of the employees the CEO works with every day (who are usually hard-working people who, if the company is successful, generate far more wealth than they're compensated for).

Normal human behavior would be to put the interests of the employees above the shareholders. Large stock grants counteract that. Sometimes I wonder if a hired CEO were to refuse to receive large stock grants, would that cause the shareholders to revolt and/or the board of directors to not hire or try to fire him/her, simply because they're not comfortable with a CEO who doesn't have an incentive to pump up the stock value.

(It's worth noting that shareholders can change their investments much easier than employees can change employers, so shareholders are more likely to prefer policies that pump up the stock value now even if they're bad for the company in the long run.)
I wonder how many things are hidden that way.
It helps that the "caterpillars" in question look like dirty tequila maggots instead of friendly, bumbling, inchworms.
These are some awesome feedback. Thanks for taking time.
1. Very good feedback. The app is designed by me, I am no designer, but we could not afford a designer as we are bootstrapped. So I took the lead and designed it. Given a chance, I would definitely hire the best designer but need to live with it until I can raise funds

2. Makes sense. I will work on it

3. Great thought. Currently we leverage some college students to manage the Instagram account. They are not designers, but very enthusiastic about social media. Point well taken!

4. Thats awesome idea. I will implement it for sure.

Thank you so much for your time. Loved the feedback
why almost a third of your revenue?
Yeah, it cuts off new email, but my Gmail account has over 13 years of data -- I'm sure a lot of other people have had Gmail for as long. It's the initial load of data to Unroll.me that hits hardest.
I was pretty peeved about losing Magsafe in the newest MBP, but being able to charge via any USB port has been amazing.

Even using an iPad charger is good enough for travel a lot of the time. Sure it'll still discharge while in use, but it effectively doubles the battery life of my MBP when its plugged into it, and I don't have to carry another charger with me.

Also cables are dirt cheap, and I don't have to worry about anything fraying and having to spend $88 for a replacement.
Gah, thanks for the proper link. I should've double checked (and realized it since no updates in 8 years is unlikely).
Previously posted under "Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn" [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015859
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They prob have various retention bonuses in place (either cash, square options, or both) to keep the acquired engineers at Square for x months/years.
Looks like this has been know for years...

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es504038a
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/plastic-loving-bact...
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-09...
Because a fair rate is always determined by what number base you use.
The article is not about filtering bad bots. It even says so right near the top:

>We won’t cover black bots because it is a huge topic with sophisticated analysis and Machine learning algorithms. We will focus on the white and grey bots that identify themselves as such.

This is about not wasting time & effort showing advertising banners to good bots.
I think what it does is mask/smear the fine detail - the texture of the sound - but in a way that we are used to, so still sounds natural.
I don't think that's true, could you provide a source?
Most SSHDs offer 8GB of flash storage max, and often post numbers that indicate that the flash storage is mediocre. This will absolutely annihilate the vast majority (or all) SSHDs. Is it really so much more expensive? $44 for 32GB of high speed caching is impressive.

Extraordinarily few SSDs, even commercial, have battery backed caches (and those that do often turn into a reliability nightmare), and when they do it tends to be relatively tiny compared to the scope. Queue depth is profoundly important in the real world.
Why not? They make plenty of money elsewhere and there's no value-add here aside from the storefront that you're forced to use anyway. It's basically a self-enforced monopoly.
Thank you so much for your comments. Coudnt agree with you more specially the last part :-))
There's already a much better solution to deal with plastic pollution, a naturally degradable material made from corn.

We heavily subsidize both wind power and solar. We even still subsidize gasohol even though it doesn't produce the environmental benefits we first thought that it did.

But we don't subsidize degradable plastic made from corn which isn't used widely because it costs a few cents more than plastic made from oil. That has never made any sense to me.
> "DevOps" is a teamwork style and process pattern...

Everytime I see a posting hiring a DevOps developer, I grind my teeth a little.

It's like a posting for an Agile Developer from a couple years ago. There isn't such a thing as an agile developer, just developers who use agile. I feel like its just turned into a way for a company to signal that they are modern and attrach developers.

It reminds me of https://www.commitstrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Strip...
I have no problem with `vim-go`. Go works without an IDE because the language has a simple project model which lends itself to good, modular tooling. You can still use an IDE with Go if you like, but no one is twisting your arm.
The posts would get auto-deleted if their vote count got to -5. It was popular enough at my university that this kind of community moderation worked reasonably well, but in a lot of other locations it got abused.
I live in a small college town, and it's still fairly active around here. I downloaded it to see what it was all about after someone Yaked (Yiked?) a bomb threat at the college and it made the news. Most of the time it's just kids complaining about finals and being melodramatic.
A "graybeard"?

I think he made the right choice there.
Sure, but again, the clocks on those are starting at zero just like you might get at any new job.
I don't know - I'm better armed than most, but I don't think I'd want to shoot it out against 40 people in a train car.
How would I be joking? Do you even program with JS or are you basing your opinions on hearsay and a bad introduction you had one time in the past and haven't looked at it since?

Last I checked, Javascript is Turing Complete and has most of the common features you'd find in every other language. Just because it doesn't have OS interaction on the browser side doesn't mean it isn't a general purpose language. Have you ever even heard of Node.js? Have you not seen the wealth of great things implemented in Javascript?

Where does your claim that Javascript is not a general purpose programming language come from is what I'm asking. I can't seem to grok how one could come to that conclusion, which is why your comment doesn't make sense.

Don't get me wrong, Python is a great language as well, but outside of a slightly more preferable syntax, I don't see why you seem to think Javascript is such a bad language.

Javascript (in Node.js 7.9.0) even seems to have better benchmarks performance than Python 3.6.1 [1]

Please elaborate rather than making snide replies.

[1] https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...
I agree, I love dogs. You wouldn't know it from my comments, but I actually like them more than flies ;).

I think you're right, dogs' historical utility along with their near human-like qualities have brought them much further along on the scale of "things that are not ok to kill" (towards humans). So perhaps there's a point when an animal becomes similar enough to us that we start viewing it as "one of us." This isn't just cultural, as you point out, but a sort of shared viewpoint of the world.

I'm also curious if size in general has something to do with it. Small animals have less value because we're perceiving killing "less of" something. Most people wouldn't think twice about killing a fly (myself included if it's a deer/horse fly) but would feel bad if they killed a bear that was attacking them, or even stepped on a lizard by accident.

So maybe dogs are a bad example (granted, I inherited the argument from a post up the tree from me), but I still think there's a cultural worth put on various animals.

Funny enough, I was in a catholic school when I was in third grade (9 years old?). I'm not catholic, and wasn't then, so I was always a bit suspicious. One of the teachers was talking about how there's a hierarchy to life. Rocks are at the bottom, then come plants, then animals, then humans, and angels/god on top. I remember, even then, thinking "without rocks, none of this would exist. without plants, no animals/humans could live, and without animals humans would die out." In other words, although we put ourselves at the top of the pyramid (of physical beings), the rest of the world would be just fine if humans disappeared tomorrow. Our existence has no meaning beyond our ability to evolve into better life forms. The point being, we have these odd social ratings for the value of other animals' lives, yet in many respects, our lives are almost worthless with respect the rest of the life on the planet. Our lives have value to us, but in essence we live in a bit of a bubble of self-importance.
I don't think so. YC values idea, team and traction as someone mentioned here. I guess we lack on all of these fronts and hence did not make it to YC
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If those things are required, then why do so many immigrants become entrepreneurs?
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I'm not sure I understand you - You would blame the users of a third-party library if the library was found to have a vulnerability and it was exploited against the people using the library?
A few rules of thumb:

* fixed wing flight is faster, has a longer range, and is "more efficient" than rotorcraft

* gasoline, for now, has roundabout 50x as much energy per mass ("specific energy") as batteries.

* however, electric engines are 4 to 10 times more efficient.

* so basically, with electric power for now you can only fly about 10% to 20% as long/far as with avgas - ok for a few specific applications, but not yet good enough

* on the other hand, electric engines are much simpler, lighter, and more reliable than piston engines (turbine engines are also very reliable, though)

(* note that one needs sufficient specific energy to fly long/far enough, and sufficient specific power e.g. for takeoff)

* lastly, batteries appear to improve at around 4% to 8% per year (some incremental improvements, but mostly switching to new "chemicals", eg lead to NiMH to Li-...), so electric flight could become really interesting in the next two, three decades.
> To do it, we're using C, maybe C++, maybe Python or even perl and bash, not Java, definitely not JavaScript or any of its variants, or Erlang, or Clojure, or whatever. Not always, but much of the time. The things we need to know are scantly represented on SO.

The languages you mention using are all in the top 20 tags. Yes, JavaScript, Java, and C# are the top three, but Python is #7, C++ is #9, and C is #18. Bash is on the second page and Perl on the third, but there are a bunch of other, less trend-sensitive, tags in between (e.g. regex, string, and multithreading). http://stackoverflow.com/tags/
But in the end if you look at the opportunity cost the Acquihired engineers paid brings them to the same level of compensation as others. e.g Working 2 or more years at low pay.
Could be anonymous but still keep the unique phone ID and boot/hide disruptive users. Users probably want anonymity at a far weaker guarantee than, say, Tor offers.
Excellent work. This will find widespread application in the film/tv/music industry and beyond (and we're not that far away from being able to do the same thing for video). Unfortunately it will also be widely abused, but given the near-inevitability of such technological development I'm already reconciled to that :-/
Didn't know about that, thanks! Curious why they invented their own system (maybe jailbreaking was still a problem, because people knew about it).

But yes, a strong account system is the best way to go. For a company this mature, it should be feasible to require phone number/email/payment authentication for new users prior to providing services.
Amazon is basically creating an ecosystem for subscription based businesses where they hold all the customers hostage in return for a piece of your action.
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BIOS ROMs can be copyrighted, without which a system won't work, though they can be reverse engineered in a legally defensible way. An interesting read on the history of computer cloning here:

http://www.filfre.net/2014/10/send-in-the-clones/

The NES had no BIOS, though.

What I'd be more worried about is patents, though I think they've all expired by now for anything that would have applied to the original NES hardware.
I read it as "if it's open-source, a company of Atlassian's size should be being good stewards and taking care of things that are helping them make money."
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I believe that none of those effects are inherently part of alcohol, but the social context.

It would be interesting if there were a study where bartenders were in some way blinded, perhaps needing to use specific bottles of mix for specific subjects. Some subjects in a group would be actors, intentionally /playing/ drunk, while others in the group would be real participants. In all cases subjects in the groups would be instructed to act as if the drinks were really alcohol, irrespective of if they were or not.
A hackernews user, `pkfrank, wrote about some of the strategies for mitigating bad posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663064
Apple tax to me also means the average ~$1000/year I have to spend on replacing otherwise completely perfect Apple hardware that gets conveniently software upgraded to be too old for normal daily functions :)
* Also, lists are a reasonable way of managing unrelated types.
If I own a software business that earns 500k-1m a year, currently, I can organize as an LLC and induce pass-thru income that is taxed marginally at ~50% (federal, state, NYC). If I organize as a C-corp, I pay the corporate rate which is also roughly 40%, and I also get double-taxed on salary and any dividends paid to owners.

Under these new rules, if a C-corp gets taxed at 15%, there is a strong incentive to pass all income through this C-corp, even after double-taxation.
I would use this (the audio tech from the OP) for some edge cases in film production right now. It would also be easy to combine this with Twilio and a chatbot to scam people over the phone.
I disagree. An answer such as "Ask them not us" is not productive either specially when I am talking about a serious matter. There are so many people who answered in a useful manner. I accept critical comments but can't handle sarcasm. Sorry.
AFAIK the prevailing theory is that humans did not domesticate cats, and instead cats just learned to coexist with us because we attracted lots of tasty pests.
That's not the acquiring company's problem. Certainly engineers at the acquiring co don't care about this. They took that risk fully knowing and willingly.
I've seen $1M+/engineer compensation (over a 4-year vesting period) given to ordinary employees at big companies. It's actually not that out of the ordinary. One of the things that surprised me about working for a big company is that the compensation structure is not quite as lopsided (in favor of acquisitions) as I thought.

There do need to be two conditions met to bring in the big bucks though: 1) you need to perform, such that your value to the employer is > $1M, and 2) they need to be afraid of losing you. Many employees fail on one or both conditions. They either slack off or don't work on the right things (so they're not actually worth that much), or they're "company men" who will unquestioningly stay with the company regardless of whether they're compensated fairly.
>"Any sufficiently complicated database-using app has a buggy implementation of half an ORM with major cache-consistency problems, some broken/outdated assumptions about the schema, and a few SQL injection holes you could drive a truck through."

Inherited a product that used an ORM. The application was a java application running on multiple hosts and non-sticky sessions. It used session caching, which round-robin load balancing broke silently. Hah, no I'm kidding! It used global caching! Then it was replete with transaction annotations, but it was the wrong transactional level and the transactional annotations were not configured to be used anyway. Then the schema was hard-coded (which I'd usually say is a good thing) because they'd had the database fall over when the ORM attempted to update the schema. Of course the hard-coded schema was missing things and only fixed when the, now manual, updates to the DB caused the queries to outright fail. While the ORM prevented SQL injection, the belief that the ORM somehow handled any kind of injections, meant that the outputs weren't sanitized and XSS injections were not handled at all.

So perhaps the problem isn't SQL or ORMs, its that some programmers don't know what the fuck they are doing, and ORMs make it easier to postpone that enlightenment, sometimes indefinitely.
Sure, but there's nothing really special, just some json parsing and some variable assignments back into an internal nginx request. I'm on mobile at the moment but I'll follow up on this in the next 24 hours.
I'm 71, I wrote a best-seller in the early 1980s (Apple Writer for the Apple ][), I still code regularly but not for income, so my circumstances might not be what the article focuses on. I write a lot of Python, JavaScript, some Java, I have a number of Android apps listed at the Google Play store -- all of them free, no ads (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Paul+Lutus&h...).

Why do I still program? Because I like programming. I never experienced serious burnout, probably because I didn't have to program for anyone else -- I was always my own boss.

Apropos the article's topic, I often visit StackOverflow but I never post anything there, I only read the inquiries of others, which invariably provide the information I need. This practice might make people like me essentially invisible.
Author here.

This project is aimed at making end-to-end testing easier.

It's at a usable stage and was built out by implementing a couple of my employers functional tests.

I would really like to hear people's experiences with tools like these and any requests for features, or what would make this useful for your work.

Thank you!
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Hi! I'm new to programming, and didn't take any programming courses in college. I've been learning JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL and most recently, Python. I've found that most of my issues with programming come from my lack of the basics of computer science principles. Does anyone have any resources to help with this, specifically websites or books the explain fundamentals in an easy to understand way? Thank you!
Are you saying that acquired engineers have a $1M value to the acquirer? From what I've seen, most are simply waiting for the handcuff to cash out and exit.
Can I ask how much do you weight and how tall are you?
I actually keep them in my car velcroed into the door pockets (the combo seatbelt/glass breaker kind). I'm arguing that Tesla probably would be better off providing a tool like that (easy) vs. trying to figure out how to do a good manual override (hard).
I accept all opinions - but not the ones that are not useful. For example someone said something about roulette. How is that useful? Why did they even spend time to write that statement? I love critical comments, I really love them. I have replied to each comment above. What I can't take is sarcasm. That's it.
Thank you for exposing me to the Psalm, I found it beautiful.

There is something about ancient texts and mythology that when put in a juxtaposition with modern advancements truly makes me appreciate humanity and how far we've come. It adds a completely new emotional layer to it, dare I say spiritual?

I hope one day I'll have the time to read the Bible, purely out of intellectual curiosity and historical appreciation.

I blame the Civilization series.
Going further: if a few dead dogs were the price of some significant increase in human welfare (something more than bag recycling, I guess), I think most people would be OK with that. This is exactly the trade we make in the pharmaceutical industry every day (not with so many dogs per se, but with organisms at least as complex, cute and fuzzy).

I don't see much evidence for a "shaky belief system". Or maybe you're making a specific point about dogs, given that they were bred specifically to "feel like people" to us? Meh. I'm a cat guy.
This is just how humans view the world. We attribute everything the government does to the President, we attribute everything in a film to the director, and everything in a company to the CEO. We view the world this way, when in reality things happen at every level.
Or the Volocopter, an 18-rotor "drone" that did its first manned flight March 2016.

http://www.volocopter.com/index.php/en/

(Disclaimer: I have crowd-funded invested a modicum in it)
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It's older than that, how many innovations are credited to Emperors, and victories in battle to Generals? I think it must be the product of some parts of human nature.
> Why single digits?

What's is their cost? When you look at an ebook Apple makes more money then the Author of a book. Most developers don't make a profit but Apple is guaranteed a profit form each purchase. http://alltopstartups.com/2016/03/30/do-apps-still-make-mone...

When the creator makes less then the deliver there is a problem. When the deliver makes money from purchase 1 and the developer might never see a penny after thousands of purchases there is a problem. A developer makes an app that cost her $10,000 and she must sell $14,300 to break even and not make a dime. Apple will make $4,299.
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