skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's separate out the two things here.

One is the deliberate insertion of errors. He should stop doing that. That's not cool. (I wouldn't label it as "fraud" though.) If the employer found out about that, they'd be well within their rights (legally, ethically, whatever) to fire him over that point alone. However, it doesn't sound like the intentional errors are any more than what would naturally occur if he hadn't automated the system, so the end result is unchanged, so while I won't give him a pass on it, I also can't demonize him for it.

The other is having built an automation tool without telling his employer, drastically reducing the amount of time it takes to do his work, and then not having other work to take on to fill his time.

To me, at the heart of it is whether he's being paid for his time, or if he's being paid to get a specific job done. It sounds like it's the latter (and I would say that's the case in any salaried position), so while the company might be annoyed/pissed that their estimate of the time needed was way off, that's really their problem, not the OP's.

We wouldn't be having the same discussion if he didn't automate, but just got more efficient at the job because he'd done it for a while. So say initially he had to work 40 hours a week to get it done, but after 6 months on the job he was able to drop that down to 35 hours a week due to familiarity with the work. Why is it ok to work 5 hours less but not 38 hours less, while still getting the same job done?

Fraud, though? No. The only way it would be actual fraud is if he were getting paid hourly, and he was marking up a time sheet with 40 hours when he really only works 1-2. But it doesn't sound like that's the case here.
It is the PGP Word List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_Words
The article is about something that should be obvious, capitalism: money goes to the capital owner.

Of course this has a lot of problems, but it's the best we have today. On this system, the rules of the game are: we need to work and spend less than we earn, and use the money to accumulate more capital, an not buying more things.
> It's also fairly transparent that RedHat would like Linux to be more obfuscated so that more enterprises will have to depend on it for support.

This is not a fair criticism to levy against an entire Linux distro company. There are many people at RedHat, SUSE, etc that very much cafe about the future of the Linux ecosystem and abhor the idea of obfuscating the operating system.

Sincerely, a SUSE developer who abhors the idea of obfuscating the operating system.
There's a question of jurisdiction. Should any country's courts be able to restrict what happens in other countries?
I finished VIM adventures a few years ago and found this approach quite helpful to improve my VIM muscle memory.

What's very unfortunate though is that the licenses are limited to 6 months. Occasionally I wish I could go back to one of the levels focusing on a specific feature, but paying another $25 every time just seems excessive.
From the article:

> She doesn't need to find other sources. Fair use means she can do what she's doing and Zillow should shut up, other than maybe offering an apology.

That sure sounds like an assertion of what a court or jury would actually decide, and it's far too strong. (I am a lawyer, and there's almost never a justification for being this absolute.)

As for Zillow not owning the rights, it's entirely possible that it has some licensing arrangement with the rights holders that empowers it to bring suit. I have no idea, and neither does the author.
Oh, interesting.

It does, yes, but as I alluded to that differs from 'ay' in which I'd linger slightly more on the end 'y' note if you see what I mean.

Less extreme than the way Americans linger on a syllable-ending 'r', but the same sort of thing.
Betteridge's law be damned, the business of scientific publishing is bad for science. Scientific publishing is a complete mess. We have a large scale business built around an industry funded by public money.

This creates barriers to scientists getting access to research papers. As research papers are the lifeblood of discourse in the sciences, we are artificially limiting the effectiveness of our scientists.

In case you were not paying attention, science and engineering is ultimately responsible for all economic growth, so the public has a vested interest in enabling successful outcomes in this space.
Techstars Alum Kinvey Gets Acquired by Progress Software for $49M
You learned that people value effort over results.

Here's a common situation from programming. A programmer, Steve, works long hours but writes sloppy code. Steve is often seen by management fixing critical issues in production, and 'saving the day'.

Eventually Steve, leaves to work at a bigger company and is replaced by a new programmer, Dave, who is more methodical. Dave eventually cleans up the code and gets it to run smoothly. The problems in production go away, and Dave can work at a leisurely pace.

Management will typically think to themselves: Dave is pretty good but that guy Steve was a real rockstar!

Humans are biased to like stories. The story of Steve slaying software dragons[1] is just way more compelling than the boring tale of Dave watching a machine smoothly do its work.

When that company hired you to work for them, a subtext of that arrangement is that you were both going to go on a quest together. I believe this to be a deeply embedded bias in human thinking, and that it explains part of why they were miffed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Nicely done!

Different but similar joke for C++: http://www.eelis.net/C++/analogliterals.xhtml
That's a pretty classic ad hominem.
It was also rhetorical as the rest of my post was critical. Also looks like it went from - to +, so you can ignore that comment now.
Chrome is simply an amazing piece of software. We have a fairly large Javascript app and Chrome seems to be running circles around Firefox and Edge. Safari used to suck, but they caught up recently. So yes, if Firefox wants to stay in the game, for us performance is the key. They made great progress (for example flexbox layout has seen huge improvements recently), but there is still a long way to go.
Why? I recently interviewed a Senior Backend Dev whose last job was at a Pornsite.

He was easily the most qualified candidate for the position and we failed to win him over because a bigger company offered some perks we couldn't, he was fought over by a couple of companies afaik.
Container Isolation Gone Wrong
I find articles written by people in early stages of dementia almost too sad to read. Few conditions rob us our humanity like dementia.
At first I thought "Great! They're looking for intellectual diversity of thought! Breaking out of their thought monoculture!"

Then I saw that they were only interested in identity groups, not intellectual diversity, and my identity, as defined by them, is apparently already well-represented ... even if my intellectual positions and experience are not.

Pointless, lame, and wrong.

[edit] Don't misinterpret "poorly represented" as implying that my experience is "special".
Don't Stick to TDD's Red-Green-Refactor Loop to the Letter
But you can't compare education systems between countries, NZ has a fairly unique education system with a different focus than most countries, it has been very successful for NZ but has never worked when other countries (most notably California) tried to copy it.
This reminds me one study that I've read sometime ago (sorry my google-fu is not good enough and I cannot find link to it) - when people call locksmith and get inexperienced technician that takes an hour to do the job they felt the charge was reasonable and justified. If they get experienced technician that does same job within 10 minutes, people feel ripped off when they pay same money as in the first case.
It might be against some contract he's signed, which would make it illegal.

Aside from that I'm not sure I buy this "duty of loyalty" idea. What social purpose does it serve? Sounds like something that's common because at some point it became normal to be able to get people to agree to it. After all, most people in history could not work remotely.

There's also plenty of other professions where you can work for several people at once, for instance you can be a columnist and do prep work that's useful for more than one column.

What I don't like is this idea that he's being paid for his time, not his product. It seems pretty clear cut he's being paid to maintain this legacy system. He's doing it. If something happens, he should be available, but otherwise he should be able to do whatever he wants, including other work.
Rage? Hate? Not here dude. Just asking a question. It's really unhealthy for humans and society to be so wrapped up in the honor or respect (or whatever this is) of houses. These houses themselves are sort of bad for their inhabitants and communities. Only you can change you.

Besides, your hypothetical dangers have literally never happened.
More fundamentally, I wonder if this just boils down to an oversupply of inexpensive labor (or shortage of low skill work depending on your perspective)? Would be interesting to see what the models predicted if we removed a huge portion of cheap latino laborers that currently occupy almost all minimum wage jobs in every state I've lived in (CA and WA) in service and agriculture.

BTW, for people who are economists, are there models out there that are freely available where people can tweak variables like that? Would be fun as hell to play around with.

(Just to be clear, I am not a Trump supporter in general. Heh.)
The numbers don’t lie: Why women must fill the data scientist demand
But Vimperator didn't survive the switch to Electrolysis, right?
Yeah, it'd be nice to have the archive available.
Some older threads had many comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250190

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689971

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877880
I don't know if they should, but de-facto they can. American companies are, for instance, forbidden from doing business within Iran, North Korea, etc. Likewise, nothing stops the US from passing an enforcing a law that requires any foreign companies that do business with the US to follow US laws, even in their operations outside the US.
Slightly related, Facebook lost a case in Canada over a forum selection clause in their standard online contract (that any legal actions have to be brought against FB in California).

[1] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/06/clicking-agree-may-no-lon...
New York Insurance Company Assets and Liabilities
It can however be unhealthy and ultimately lead to a worse outcome to continue in the same job with very high levels of stress. You will not interview as well, and you will have to decide to make health sacrifices to brush up on skills necessary to make the next jump.
Completely read that wrong. Thought it order google to remove it's own website addresses from search results. that would have been interesting.
well... Vitalik so far seems pretty confident a sharding system is feasible, and I would be loath to bet against Vitalik. Certainly he scares me a bit at this point because he's already basically stated that he believes it's impossible to implement blockchain sharding without erasure coding, so it certainly doesn't look like sharding is going to be a simple undertaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code
not sure if it's 'Tab Mix Plus' or Tree Style Tabs, but one of those appears to provide the exact functionality you describe.
FWIW, when you middle-click the back button (to go back in a new tab) in Firefox, history is cloned, too. (At least on Nightly.)
>The market didn't think so. If you think you're worth more, you have to push for it, since the market can't read your mind argue on your behalf.

The biggest issue is price discovery and knowledge of wages. There's not a stock ticker that everyone follows for "X-language Developers" getting hired at a particular price.

Such a stock ticker would be dumb because too much goes into pricing people's work, but it highlights that there is more going on than you are able to discover, and some feel that's an unfair market because the businesses employing most people hold the cards in their favor. If it's a private company, you can't see their financials to see if they're telling the truth when they can only afford $X.

It's only with time and effort that the cards start going to your hand, but to get there, the market might have already taken advantage of your underpaid work (that you agreed to, ignorantly or not). The market has the power to lie and collude to lower your price if you don't hold these cards. I, too, have the power to lie and collude to increase my price.

And while most of us should just simply strive to be indispensable, discovering indispensable skills is also a lot of work.

If I wanted to truly maximize my price, I would have to apply to every job available to me (time-consuming because we don't have a product for this) at every single company I could legally work at world-wide. Then I just pick the highest paying one that would hire me. That's a pretty easy concept, but no mechanism like that exists in the job market, and for that reason, it's a pretty terrible market to find your price.

>Since they don't get it, they're upset, so they try to make laws to mandate everyone gets X

That is a form of negotiation and that's what they did in Seattle. Just because I won't play my boss's game doesn't mean there isn't another game I could play. This shouldn't be surprising, but even political lobbying has risks of not winning.

Now, if businesses want to come back and try to argue that this is hurting them, then that's part of negotiations as well, and it's entirely possible that businesses can convince Seattle's population.
I found this the most interesting. For one thing reminding me of Erik Naggum's existence, insight, and causticity[1], and for another exploring what seems to be a promising but dead branch of programming.

As we continue wishing we had "better ways to write programs", constantly re-exploring visual programming (Scratch and its spinoffs), it's interesting to me that the ALGOL-children (C and the like) have completely lost this way of developing programs. What is there to learn, both from the technology itself and from how we forget?

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum
Maybe so, but I don't think that accurately describes the groups the parent post listed.
> keep people poor, underfed, and uneducated so that they will always be a cheap source of grunt labor.

Poor, underfed, and uneducated is the default position for human beings. We were born into this world, as a species, with nothing.

There is no conspiracy to "enslave" anyone, nearly all public health and wealth measures over the last 100 years are overwhelming up and to the right. That growth did not happened through magic or luck and certainly not from some misapplication of noble intentions (see communism), but through the slow accumulation of societal benefits, over time, across an open market economy.

It is not and will never be "fair", there will never be equality of outcomes, but jesus, we've faired a lot better under this system than by the whims of kings and politburos trying to distribute "fairness" with a clumsy iron fist.
Foundry Board: 6 white men, middle-aged

Percentage of LGBTQ in U.S: 3.4%

Percentage of women in U.S.: 50%

LGBTQ individual that should be on board: 0.204

Percentage of women that should be on board: 3

Yea, they're full of shit. That's a 0% diversity score, so objectively they discriminate in employment. Like I said in my above post, I don't even understand (translated for you: It's fucking absurd) how this happens.
I consider this the nuclear option and one that is unlikely for a large corp if we're just talking about fines (as opposed to purely opposing laws as in my hypothetical). For a normal company if the ROI of their presence > the negative ROI of complying with orders, they will remain. My question was more targeting the public and whether they accept that more restrictive regional rulings will win out.

This also comes into play w/ recent EU rulings. With a large company, fragmenting features in location-specific ways is reasonable. But for other smaller companies, they have to weigh whether the loss of customers costs less than location-specific feature implementations.

In general, with the internet, we should err on the side of lesser regulation IMO (which can appear to favor businesses over consumers). But this has been a political discussion for ages, predating globalism.
Analysts think Petya ‘ransomware’ was built for targeted destruction, not profit
That's $3M in transactions, sorry I forgot the $. Yes, it could be part of the scheme, but most exchanges charge a percent or more. So it's more than just a copy-and-paste (the term for new currencies that come out without any substance behind them), if they're also spending $40K/day in exchange fees. Now, speculation is that C-CEX is involved or behind some of these bogus coins, so you gotta look at what exchanges it's on. Diamond is on Bittrex, which seems to be on the up-and-up.
That's interesting as a data point for biologists or other scholars

When it comes to social policy, the only valid position is "who gives a shit?"

If a culture is going to concern itself with notions of free assembly and association, and the right to both, there is no room for such distinctions
Calculus at 11 and never having been challenged for a while at school implies he self studied some courses that he is not explicitly mentioning.
There should not be an industry for scientific publishing in the first place.
Special relativity and the speed of light impose some fundamental lower bounds on the cost of consistency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity . This theoretically manifests as lower bounds on the performance of consistency in distributed systems.
It seems hard to claim making a mistake and deliberate sabotage are the same.
TLDR

Guy reads an interesting article that threatens his idea of success, incorrectly summarizes the article and resorts to personal attacks against the author.

Sounds like threatening core beliefs makes you defensive, not really a good commentary on the article itself.
On-line porn is not the refuge it once was. There are maybe half a dozen companies of any size these days to work for on the tech side.

The industry has vastly consolidated and the margins are now much leaner than they once were. No more refuge for that smart hacker type who has a computer crime felony on his record, unfortunately. It was one of the last places on earth folks like that could provide value.
Savvy headline writers flip the bit on Betteridge.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14658308 and marked it off topic.
If the article is correct, I quote "Equustek had successfully sued another company for relabelling its products and passing them off as their own.". That means that the offending company was buying Equustek's product and putting a different sticker on them.
You're asking people with broken legs to walk it off. Clinical anxiety is not easy to treat, and minimum-wage workers don't generally have the time or resources to go about it. In non-psychological issues, the risk of going an extra few months without a job can be hard for minimum-wage workers. They might not be in a position to accept the tail risk even if the average outcome of negotiating the extra couple of dollars would leave them better off.

I don't mean to ask sympathy for myself; I'm doing fine now, and I think you're right that I could use some negotiation training (I do read self-help books about it from time to time). I bring up myself just to make clear that this kind of issue can affect anyone. For people stuck in that situation (especially with kids), I feel a great deal of sympathy, and I'm interested in anything (minimum wage, training, Earned Income Tax Credit) which can help them.
This is unlikely to exist anytime in the near future. Remember, the only currently existing international courts are very limited and domain-specific: there's the ICC, which is specifically limited to heading cases about genocide and war crimes, and the various arbitration courts for trade disputes. That's pretty much it.

A new court for the issue on display here would require a bunch of countries to get together and agree on a common set of standards for free speech, and that seems unworkable at present. The US and Europe don't even see eye-to-eye here, never mind the US and the Middle East (blasphemy laws), or Russia (LGBT material is "degeneracy"), or China (criticism of the Party).
The multi-site critique is a dead end. Losses at multi-site businesses were likely worse, according to the survey.

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http://m.startribune.com/seattle-study-shows-low-wage-jobs-d...

The study doesn’t include large employers, such as fast-food chains, that have locations both inside and outside Seattle. But the researchers say they did account for big employers in a separate survey of more than 500 Seattle businesses. The results showed employers with multiple locations were more likely to cut jobs as a result of the wage increase than those with just one location.

“It’s fair to say that it is a blind spot in our data, but it’s not a blind spot in our survey,” said Jacob Vigdor, a University of Washington public policy professor who worked on the study. “Our best guess as to what we’re missing is we’re missing effects that are even more negative than what we reported.”
It wasn't a study; it was a guy who talked to a locksmith recounting their conversation.
New Dummy Video Gives yet Another Look at Prospective iPhone 8 Design
I hope that was meant to be ironic. If not that was one of the most depressing statements I have seen in a while.
Multi-national binding protocols have been done in the past and will be done in the future. Where the international community sees it necessary, there can be the creation of international law. Certainly this case is something for which international law and enforcement regimes can be created.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to solve practical math problems?
I find myself regularly needing to solve different types of math problems. Nowadays there's a number of powerful tools, and I've dabbled with many of them. I want to choose a set of tools and stick with them long-term so that I can become more familiar with the tools and thus more productive.

I'm being deliberately vague about what kinds of problems since others might find the information useful even if I do not.

Which tools do you use? What do you use them for? What do you like about them? What do you dislike?

Inexhaustive list of popular maths tools:

Languages:
- Python
- Julia
- R
- Lisps

Integrated Math Packages:
- Mathematica
- Maple
- Matlab
- GNU Octave
- Maxima
- Mathcad
- Anaconda
- SageMath

Notebooks:
- Jupyter
- Emacs/Sublime/VSCode/etc. IPython Notebook

Cloud:
- CoCalc (formerly SageMath Cloud)
- Wolfram Alpha / Cloud
- Desmos

Calculators:
- TI
- HP
- Emacs calc
- bc

Don't Forget:
- Pencil and paper
How are Chrome profiles different from the ones that Firefox has (and had for quite a few years, almost "always")?
I'd switch permanently if the Mac version was more adherent to the Mac platform w.r.t integration and HID. Last time I checked, I still can't highlight a word, CMD-CTRL-D to get a Dictionary definition.