skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay-wise, worst I ever had was my first job as a kitchen porter at a 'local' hotel. £1.60p/h and it was a 3 mile walk to get there (buses were once every 2 hours and 2hrs wages). I once did a 22hr shift with one half hour break when the other 2 KP's failed to show. Earned just over £20 after tax for that :) The minimum wage kicked in a year later and would nearly tripled my pay if I hadn't quit.

Worst otherwise: cardboard box production line. Worked on the gloriously named ZOR-D machine. It had a speed dial that went up to 21 but anything over 8 resulted in instant jamming. Of course the floor boss would always run over and turn it right up to prevent slacking. Cue 40 minutes unclogging machinery. Worst part though was washing your hands at breaks/end of day. You'd have thousands of tiny paper cuts and applying water would cause what we knew as 'involuntary fisting' (ooh er!). Your hands would clamp shut as the acids reacted.

I enjoyed both these jobs considerably less than my current work.
One I went to high school with, another I found at TechStars for a Day, another was a designer I worked with on another and the final one I knew through a blogging network from when I was like 12 and we recently connected in the past few years.
This is one of those cases where it's totally appropriate to just do what's right and lie to your parent company.
If you put traditional (well paying) ads on Reddit, I think the userbase would revolt scream etc etc.
Depends on what you're farming - technology certainly has an impact with crops like wheat and potatoes - grapes, lettuce, melons, citrus, berries, etc. are a whole different story and require manual labor with technology having less impact.
I'd bet the % of adblock users on Reddit is way higher than the average.

So, actually, this could be an interesting experiment - the ad blockers slogan is often "I prefer to subscribe".

I hope it works out that way for them!
Anyway, most canny farmers have incorporated. The heirs get stock, not the farm. So taxes are avoided/deferred.
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F McKinsey and their consulting lot.

The company I was at prior hired our CEO from McKinsey and what a joke that turned out to be. All yakity yak and no action.

He kept talking about scaling up, and hiring people so that we could scale the business. We ended up with more C levels than actual staff. We just wanted to ship features and stick to a working game plan, but he ended up fucking that all up with all his excel spreadsheets and power point presentations. One minute we are this, the next we were this other thing.

He nearly analyzed the company into the ground. Thank god he got fired, unfortunately it was after I quit (because of him).
Where is the revenue? I think that blog post, 1700 upvotes, and 1400 comments is pretty good indication of the possible revenue. Hint: it'll probably be more than the 3 readers of my blog will be ponying up this year.

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cnth8/making_...
I do not believe that anymore.
Dropbox
Github
Although that is admirable, shouldn't they get themselves on solid financial footing before donating?
I haven't used any of these apps, but being that I live in a high-density area (Hoboken) I know very well how useless this kind of an app would be. Parking in Hoboken (and NYC) consists of the following - circling. Even if you had a realtime stream of all of the metered spots and each meter had some means of determining if it was available or taken, the demand almost always outweighs the supply, so when you really needed this app to work is exactly when it would let you down.

Particular to these apps, do they have an expiration on these spots that are marked empty by the person leaving? After a few false positives I'd be inclined to throw the app away and rely on the circling technique and save the battery life on my phone.
All I will say on this matter (to any post about the GIL) is that Python is a language I love very much.

But my main work use is concurrency and threading; writing that native threading in C is fine and dandy, but it does seriously offset the benefits of doing the rest in Python.

(for the record; I do understand and agree with the rationale behind needing the GIL - but it is frustrating to come up against it when trying to push python to your boss as a "really simple language we could hack this up with")
That is not necessarily a good idea. It is quite a few years old, but http://www.bitmover.com/llnl/smp.pdf is very informative of potential problems in the path that Linux is heading down.
Almost certainly its the school break, family holidays, and the like. FWIW, I can only name one of the many FB users I know who thinks that the new privacy implementation isn't sufficient. Most people are pretty apathetic about privacy. I recall a study a couple years back that was held here in the UK and found that most people would have to have their identities stolen twice before they would start to re-think how they handle their data.
Inquiring minds would like to know what you do with these emails that isn't spamming?
Microsoft readies for war with new 'Small Business Division' for cloud push
Lifehacker is still recommending task killer apps? Those things are almost entirely regarded a Bad Idea™ among the Android crowd.
I wasn't on board with this analysis - "Zehr assumes that the Predators would have evolved to be less physically impressive and more reliant on their tech. If the Predators have... maintained a constant state of strife, then they've been failing as a species for a long time."

Another explanation could be that the decision to maintain physical strife, whether it was made consciously or not, could be the thing that has rescued their gene pool from wussification by their reliance on tech.

Apart from that, I wonder if this article's analyst would draw the same conclusion about a subculture that values suicide bombing?
There's advantages and disadvantages to switching. However Verizon has been the saving factor. In my area, the 3g of Verizon is 2 to 3 times as fast as it was on my old ATT plan.

Also, its very nice to be free of some of the stupid iphone limitations (like not being able to download podcasts to the phone automatically). It's also very nice to have a a couple extra spare couple batteries that I can swap in (motorola droid) to extend the battery life.
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> requires some kind of synchronization and for CPU-intensive code slowdown from this synchronisation tends to be larger than from sequential execution with GIL for almost any significant number of concurrent threads (such as 3 threads on Core 2 Quad on Linux 2.6.2something)

what? You're saying the absolute worst case synchronization scenario is on par with the GIL, so you might as well not have it?
You might want to obfuscate it though. No need to unnecessarily add to the mountain of spam that you already have to wade through because of the surprisingly large number of false positives in Gmail's Spam folder. I have even had SVN commit notifications end up in my Spam folder, even though I have rules in place to tag them! You'd think they would put any emails that I have tag rules for on a whitelist.
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"When people speak of concurrency in functional languages, they don't mean that each function executes in its own thread"

Erlang does do that, more or less, although Erlang processes are much lighter weight than what we usually think of as a "process" or "thread".
Brett in the comments points out that they would accept a patch doing away with GIL if it keeps C module compatibility.

However the GIL cannot be done away without breaking compatibility with existing C modules while keeping the performance up. That's impossible requirement. Doing away with GIL means doing away with refcounting, or the performance penality is unavoidable. Doing away with refcounting means major changes of third party modules C API.

The issue people have is that Python 3.0 is introducing a bunch of stuff that makes code incompatible in different ways - mostly for aesthetical reasons, but does not deliver stuff that people are calling for again and again - performance and dropping the GIL.

Oh, and for people saying "use multiple processes" have never really had a problem where the process has multiple gigabytes of state that it needs to do its work. The state that can be easily shared in multithreaded mode, but can be only shared with a great deal of manual work in multiprocess situation.

Yes, you then do distribution over multiple machines too, but that doesn't solve your problem that you cannot afford running a separate python process on each of 12 cores, each process taking 10gb of memory. Because you only have 32gb.

However complaining won't help. Maybe Unladen Swallow or PyPy eventually resolve the issue, but it doesn't look like it's on their priority list either. Well, though luck for us lazy programmers who are getting all this stuff for free.

So thank you Brett, Guido and others working relentlessly on Python. It's great. You know what bothers us, but even if you don't ever fix it, I'll still be grateful for all the hard work you did!
Have Facebook fixed the problem where people can't log in to your site using Facebook Connect if they don't have JavaScript enabled? I find that enormously frustrating - no other feature on my sites require JavaScript (though I use lots of JavaScript for usability enhancements), so adding it as a requirement for logging in really annoys me.
I wrote an article a few years ago about my projects with crowdSPRING (which applies to other spec contests in general), which boiled down to clients acting as art directors. The people running the contests will ask for changes ("Oh, I'd rather have this over here"), which in a normal designer/client relationship, the designer has more power to say, "I wouldn't recommend doing that because of the UX/standards/good design/etc". However, with spec contests, designers will keep making the changes that the client wants because that's how they'd win the contest.

Your home page isn't just about what looks pretty. It's also going to be how well things work/how to drive your customers to converting. And spec contests reduce it down to just prettiness.

I'd recommend working with a freelancer or a design firm, who will do more than just placing a skin on your site but also keeps conversion in mind as well.
Is there a different kind of fork that would make "fork/join frameworks" work?
We used PSD2HTML for www.steves-digicams.com and www.ultimatecoupons.com. I would definitely recommend them.
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It's now $13,000 as of last year, I believe.
It's not just emails, I collect all manner of information in local cache so that I can search it.

I haven't done this on this site, but on other places I've used this to identify some subset of people that I want to contact. Superficially, that sounds like spamming but I'm not sending mass messages or advertising or wasting people's time or contacting people that don't want to be contacted.
That's not useful for the purposes of my discussion of the '80s and '90s, which was a narrative of the shape of the changes without specific figures except for the starting ones for Reagan (where I seem to have been off by 5% for unearned income). As the table itself notes, it's grossly oversimplified (I would say to the point of uselessness, at least for comparison with today's tax regime) and I'd add that it obviously doesn't go into the critical (and all too common) changes in capital gains taxation. Or how inflation drastically changed effective tax rates for many families as it made the personal exemption more a historical curiosity than an effective tax policy for, say, the middle class.

As for pay as you go, sure, but not too relevant in an era where Federal spending is generating annual deficits of a trillion dollars this year and last as of about now (http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/107669-deficit-...), three months before the end of the Federal fiscal year. It's hard to imagine any level or type of tolerable taxation that could cover that.

Anyway, as I said, I'm willing to fact check myself and look up numbers.
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And?

Are you a puritan preacher trying to minister to me?

The world is not a thing that can become perfect, nor is human society. You cannot eradicate vice. Attempts to do so, at least when it comes to drug use, have almost certainly led to far more human suffering than they are seeking to avoid.

The harshest drug I use personally is alcohol, but that doesn't keep me from recognizing sense and non-sense when I see it. Prohibition has led to a corruption of the criminal justice system, corruption of the police forces, para-militarization of the police forces, increasing distrust between the citizenry and the police, and massive empowerment and enrichment of organized crime and street gangs. These are not good things.
Charitable giving is exempt, though...
The same, if not worse, can be said for PHP - where I came from. I've been a casual Python user for some time and a serious Python programmer for the last six months; the Python community is a godsend in comparison with that of PHP's.

Granted, there are helpful and genius people in both communities but there is a larger share of "muggles" in the PHP camp due it's low barrier to entry (everyone wants a website!).
Time to hire some business folks? Really, now it is not the time to talk about server expansion or more page views. The highest priority now is monetization. They need to come up with ways to get paid sufficiently to expand.

Here are the things they can do:
1. Place more ads. I don't buy the notion that many reddit users run ad-blockers. Even half of them do, you still get 140M/month page views.
2. Get Google AdSense, to place content-related ads.
3. Sponsorship. Have companies to sponsor some subreddits and add companies promotion and events.
4. Paid submission, clearly marked so. Company ad and product/service announcement can go there. E.g. all the webhosting promotion deals going on now.
5. Create some deal/coupon/onsales subreddits. Have companies feed them and pay for them. Rather than just having user-generated content, have companies generated content as well, and get paid for them.
6. CPA revenue sharing. Give redditers some percentage of discount when they go to a merchant's site to purchase something from a reddit link. Reddit takes a cut. It's a win-win-win setup, merchant sells a product minus the marketing cost which becomes the redditers' discount and reddit's share.

There are so many ways to skin this cat. They are sitting on a good problem to have. Why are they fumbling on this?
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Heist is definitely one of the better-designed interpreter I've seen. I've been a James Coglan-fan ever since I stumbled upon it!

He also has an excellent video where he creates a Scheme interpreter in 15 minutes (no sound unfortunately): http://vimeo.com/4339116
Exactly, because in other cases the GIL does not matter (in best case both approaches would be on par, which they probably would not, due to greater lock contention in finely grained case).

Trying to optimize synchronization on so fine level as is done inside various kernels (Linux) would not help, because it is very hard to do correctly in user space ("very hard" as in "probably impossible"). Only way that I see is to try to optimize away majority of shared memory accesses, which would require clever compiler and probably slight modification of Python semantics, or you can simply write your code that is so easily parallelizable as separate processes not threads.
Thanks. I have a lot of faith in the engineers we got going here.
I'm posting with my real first name at least...
at first I thought you are joking now I am ???
I don't know about you but I have dozens of emails, my "real" one is the one for people I take seriously and close friends.
I'm sorry, I have zero sympathy for anyone distraught over this issue. If you're contemplating whether to live or die based on how much tax will be collected from your estate, then I have an easy answer for you: your life obviously isn't worth even a penny, so might as well get it over with.

As for the issue of the tax itself, there is something to be said for using estate taxes to prevent the establishment of an aristocracy. I wonder how strong the correlation is between the estate tax rate and the wealth divide...
They'd scream, and there'd be a rash of "this sucks, I'm quitting" diaries and then like 5 people who were going to quit anyways would actually leave.

Look at their site, 2 total ads on the main page, one per comment page.

They could bump that to 5 per page without breaking a sweat. There's their revenue.
This is really horrible stuff. Reporters frustrated that the stand-off isn't like in films ("Are you SURE there's no shouting and imploring people not to do things?!"), harassment of a poor women, reduced to tears as her elderley mother is trapped in her house surrounded by snipers, BREAKING NEWS as a van speeds by ("Oh, it was a dog van"). What is it now? 6 hours coverage with 20 minutes worth of actual developments?

24 hour rolling news has it's uses, but flogging an armed horse isn't one of them.
Most likely the end of the school year.

As much as I'd like to imagine that Facebook is dying (it has truly horrific usability), I don't think it's going away any time soon.
Well I guess that's also one way to free up budget. I'll let raldi know his days are numbered.
Of course, I just moved away from the Twin Cities.
Hey, I think my original post was totally misinterpreted. I was referring to the instance near the beginning where Arrington drove the robot forward, directly into Dan Casner, a few times. That mistake will almost certainly be repeated by everybody who uses QA, as they try to get a better view of the people they're talking to. So, I was commenting on the lack of a hard limit on how close one can get to objects directly in front of the robot. Will this be addressed in the final implementation?

I believe there might also be a ROS package that detects ankles (well, legs) in 2D scans, which could help.
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I don't like "caring" as a noun much. I think "support" is good -- it means "emotional support for the family", not "I support this dead dude, he was cool".
Nice game. I logged in to play it a bit. I'd love to hear how the game is doing for you (e.g. paying for itself, ramen profitable, ferrari profitable). I'm actually in the middle of developing a browser based "MMO" myself right now. (Nothing deployed yet.)
I always thought I was the only HN reader in WBL. But now you are, since I've moved to Boulder.
Facebook connect is essential to the overall utility of quora.

It isn't he same without identity.
No, they're pushing, "there's no conclusive proof that climate change is driven primarily by human activity." There are plenty of papers written on climate change and lots of evidence for it ... Ice Age evidence, glacier growth and receding, etc,...
I also recommend the second one.

Not to hijack, but setting up a local server (MAMP or XAMP) and building/breaking things has helped me in learning a few languages. Its worth a night to do it.
Doesn't this happen every summer?
> Conde Nast were chumps when they allowed Chris Anderson, high on his own supply, convince them to buy Reddit for its supposed "Long Tail News" value.

That's not how it happened.

> Now they're chumps for not putting a grown up in charge

I like to think of myself as a grown up.

> converting 280 million page views/month and a dedicated community to enough money to support 4 engineers and a bunch of servers.

This is the crux of the problem. Marketing and ad sales is out of our direct control and has been lacking, so we've had to resort to other options. Self serve advertising last year was one of them, and it has done us well. This is more extreme for sure, but our plan is to eventually go towards the optional subscription model (like Ars Technica or Fark).
That argument happens to be full of shit. Even if you win $36 million in the lottery (surely the stereotypical "windfall"), the feds won't tax you 55%. The highest marginal tax rate is 35%.

Estate taxes are morally repugnant. If the idea of people passing along large fortunes to bratty kids is so bothersome, take comfort in the fact that money tends to "find its level". Spendthrift fools will eventually lose it all to mismanagement anyway. It might take more than one generation, but it'll happen.
Can't say for a variety of lame reasons. But it's a game.
Yes. If you do the whole redirect process yourself through http headers then it's possible to do facebook connect with no js.
I have a favorite one of these: "You and me, we're really on the same pagelength."
"App Store contributed to only 1% in profit!"

That quote is pulled directly from the presentation.
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>(also pacifism is neither extreme nor wrong)

You know, maybe the most militant thing most Redditors ever do is posting commenting online. If you're a pacifist (which is commendable imho) why write so aggressively?
Thanks again for buying that shirt, Zak :)
Regardless of what the Reddit admins or Conde Nast are doing right or wrong to monetize their site, I think it's simply a matter of assessing the value of the information Reddit has exposed me to -- not just via the links but also the user comments. That aggregate value I've derived from their service over the past four years is still far more than what I just donated. (arguably it was more valuable a few years ago when there were fewer animated gifs linked on the homepage)

But that begs the question: if I'm paying reddit, why am I not giving back to the content authors that reddit linked to?
Darn i thought this was going to use real time satellite imagery and heat mapping software to determine open spots. Alas, it's people powered and I am very lazy and do not care about the next guy finding a spot. If Im pulling out of a spot whoever is behind me gets the spot and I just meander around them and go on my way. Im not going to pull out my IP device, open this app and then mark soon to be vacant spot as open. I would fair to say the majority acts/feels same way as I do.

Hopefully this will develop and they will use the tech I had hope this would be using. It's a start though.
Yes, the quote marks are half of the whole "quote + attribute" thing. Sdurkin was so close!
In dense parts of San Francisco where this would be most useful, by the time I'm getting into my car, usually someone is already waiting for the space.

This summer, San Francisco is launching a pilot program with wireless sensors that will also produce a data feed that can be used to find parking:

http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/data-feed/
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> There's no caffeine in Fresca, so that won't kill you. You can go for death by sugar intake, though.

I thought Fresca was sugar free... death by sugar substitute?
Very wealthy people have the resources and probably the smarts find ways to lessen tax liability - setting up trusts, moving money offshore, etc.
Shouldn't there be more sign ups towards the end of the school year? So that people can keep in touch with their school friends over the summer.

Maybe everyone already has a FB account.
The one thing you do have to watch out for is BlackBoard, they have many patents and many lawyers to defend those patents.