skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, certainly there are a lot of programmers writing software because it's fun for them. They're contributing to FOSS projects because they believe in them. Are they doing what _you_ want them to do just for fun? Probably not.
Hmm, I wonder if Amazon was doing this with their new store at Santana Row in SJ: https://imgur.com/a/qSVYG
It comes down to quality of product vs competitors. Where you have a very in demand brand, you can get away with no sales people (eg Telsa).

In a field where your products are indistinguishable from competitors, you need to pay for sales people.

And in field where your product is probably worse than cheaper (or free) alternatives, you have a company entirely made of sales people (eg Oracle)
I was there, too, but I wish I had left earlier. I really didn't enjoy anything about it.
Compression stress due to insufficient slipping at the boundary with the North American plate?

This also suggests that the sea floor may now be shallower (or deeper?) in that area.
Meg Whitman Joins Dropbox Board of Directors
Microtubules? Hah! Such an outmoded and unfashionable quantum model of cognition. Here, let me introduce you to the lithium-7 spin-based phosphate-calcium ion-ball entanglement hypothesis of quantum mentation; https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-spin-on-the-quantum-bra...
Japan is the opposite. Basically a cash only society. In my time there i really enjoyed it. It's nice to know that no one knows what you're buying. You are also much more aware of what you're spending
The criminal bribing a cop has broken the law by bribing a cop, whereas lobbying is perfectly legal (and justifiably protected as free speech), so there's a pretty big difference.
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>direct access to the block device

And that's more or less a thing that is in widespread use right now! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
Ventura here. Where is my high speed rail?

Normal rail's an option too but I've done the Coast Starlight and it took 12 hours to get here from Sactown.
I've been doing the following for my keynote slides.

1. Write in emacs org-mode code blocks
2. Export to html (requires htmlize)
3. Copy and paste the html from safari to keynote

The Emacs theme determines the syntax highlighting. Org-mode controls the html export (font family, font size, line spacing), with optional line number or output from executions. The copy-pasting from safari to keynote preserves all the formatting.
It's far not the first time when Facebook is using cheap manipulative tricks. I remember when I only registered on Facebook for the first time, its contact suggestions were mostly females (I'm a guy) in a proportion way more than I actually have females on my contact list or in my social circles. Manipulation is deeply in Facebook's DNA.
It basically sounds like a left wing text book. A way to introduce socialist economic thought before introducing the basics so students will be less capable of questioning socialist orthodoxy.

The way it jumps into complex topics without providing much base material, such as its immediate dive into income distributing, seems like it is more about indoctrination.

This overview of complex topics instead of foundational ideas seems more appropriate for Econ For Non Econ Majors.
I don't really have the skills to cook nice Kangaroo but I think it has a lot of potential as pet meat.

We switched our pets to kangaroo and feral goat, supplemented with some chicken necks and offal, with some veggie scraps for the dog. The price is not much different from processed pet food (~$4/kilo) but it's done amazing things for their health.
No, we are arguing opinions here. FPH was not conducting double blind scientific studies on the efficacy of shaming as a weight loss intervention for the obese (AFAIK). And, in fact, if that study does show promising results, I may admit they are right and help them in their noble effort to solve the obesity crisis.

But what I hear them saying is, "Hey it's cool to hate and harass half of the US population based on appearance!" I am one of the people you reference who thinks that that "cannot be corrected," but that's because it's not a falsifiable hypothesis! Neither is it "the truth," it's just their opinion. And it is something that I think bored, mostly teenage, people may buy into due to "digital peer pressure," which is admittedly a somewhat hair brained new concept, but based on real effects.
good choice :) it's a cool name i have been using in my private projects for more than a decade.
I don't see see anything which would intuitively suggest that some degree of uncertainty regarding a worker's output would make per-piece payments preferable to a fixed wage in the eyes of the firm. There's such a thing as an uncompensated risk.
Australian here, looking forward to my $25,000.

/s
Ehhh. Yap, in coarse we gotta db dat can handle dat shit. Look bro.. you gots an issues, we got da, uh, ting dat can service you!

Dats watt we 'ere fer.. we do what's you needs.

Now, I'm not gunna lie to ya, I love ya, why would I lie to ya... what I got 'ere fer ya t'day is da best deal yer gunna see in yer lifes!

So whadda I gotta do ta get you behind this deal ofs a lifetime fer, say, twenty cores on da best DB on da freakin planet for a fraction of what da others would even dream of?

You sign right now and I promise you I'll take dis deal all da way to the top and get the CEOs personal sign-off on dis deal so dat you get da best pricing you ever seen!!

What say you? We gots a deal? C'mon, you have to only say yes and I'll get my guys all over dis and you will look like a freakkn rock star to your boss for savin da moneys! (Plus I'll be out dere in august and I'll take yous out fer a steak dinner, c'mon that will be our celebrations!!)

/oracle
Russia Used Facebook Events to Organize Anti-Immigrant Rallies on U.S. Soil
Yelp accuses Google of unfairly scraping its content
Lately Facebook has been pestering me to enable notifications in my browser nearly every time I visit. This is an anti-patern as I suspect once I accept notifications, it is hard to remove. Some services just fatigue their users into opting in.
I can confirm that Cruise Automation's software is simply not viable as the basis of a self-driving car.
There's often a considerable delay between sales work and revenue, too. "Sales" are generally counted on the day the client signs the contract, but the company doesn't see the revenue until actual delivery.

It's more likely to be because in sales, the individual can have a major effect on the numbers that their commission is calculated on, so (as the article describes) that attracts the strongest performers, because they know that they will be well-compensated.

In positions where your personal performance doesn't have a direct and immediate effect on the numbers, the strongest performers won't be attracted to commissions. If you were part of a software development team would you want a significant part of your compensation to be at-risk based on this quarter's sales numbers? Probably not, because you know that you could bust your ass this quarter getting an important release out but still see your paycheck dive because that big potential lead backed out of signing.
$25K is not a small claim in any of the states, is it?
When he said "did enough", he meant creativity, or easily could mean that.
Having empathy for fields outside your own is exactly why this article is written.

It sounds like you only have a single perspective, which is fine, but having more perspectives would help you move beyond being so rigid in your thinking.
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Agreed. As per my other post on here, I usually like cooking thick fillets of kangaroo meat. After marinating it, I like to sear the outside in a hot pan so the outside is almost charred, but the inside is still quite rare. Cooked this way, then sliced into 1cm thick segments and draped over a nice salad is one of the family favourites.
> It's also a way to ensure that you go through with the transaction because now your credit is worse and going somewhere else would lead to worse financing.

There is no need to spread misinformation. While it is true that a hard inquiry will have a minor effect on your credit score (less than a 5 point hit), multiple hard credit inquiries from car dealerships or mortgage lenders within a period of 45 days only count as a single inquiry.

You're not at all disadvantaged by taking your business elsewhere, you're just making things up to furnish your dubious story.
Yes. And that's the way around restrictions on class actions. Where the victims are identified and cooperating, and the cases are very similar, it works. There are some lawyers using this strategy. Huge numbers of cases are filed, they're all consolidated by a judge, and the end result is a suit on the merits.

The filing service needs to do more of the work, like shipping the paperwork off in bulk to a process server company to be formally delivered in daily batches.
Tesla has a sales team, you're just not looking in the right place. Their sales team works with investors, and sells them on a story.
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“Are you using a cell phone or tablet to reach AnnualCreditReport.com?”
Commission or Salary is orthogonal to Well Compensated and Badly Compensated.

Those students selling paintball packages in the mall are paid on commission, but they sure aren't being paid well.

(The article isn't "why sales people are paid a lot", it's about why their pay structure is based on a commission structure).
Agreed and to add: It is very much like a waitress / waiter. Lower base pay with commissions substituting for tips. The big difference is the Darwinian nature of the job. Bad food or service from the kitchen might decrease tips, but probably won’t get the waitstaff fired[1], but salespeople that don’t perform, regardless of the software or support, are going to be canned.

I don’t begrudge high salespeople commissions because that means things are pretty good, just don’t let them run the company (see Steve Jobs ‘lost’ 1995 interview with Cringly).

1) until the restaurant goes under
IANAL, but I am pretty sure we don't need to think out the details too far on this because the actual lawyers surely can play the systems better than non-lawyers from HN.

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
This ban affects dog food that contains kangaroo, and affects states outside of California too:

https://www.royalcanin.com/products/royal-canin-veterinary-d...

> This product cannot be shipped to the state of California due to current California state laws. Additionally, this product may not be available to purchase from Royal Canin directly if you are located in Nevada, parts of Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, or parts of Oregon because your order may be fulfilled from California
That part scales fine. There are other problems with the POSIX open/read/write model, such as being too strict wrt consistency and too loose wrt ordering and durability, but it scales OK. It's the metadata/namespace operations that are hard to scale. I've been working on distributed filesystems for a long time. If all I had to deal with was reads and writes I'd be a happy (OK, less angry) man.
Tennessee I believe. Limit is $10,000 in California.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/small-claims-suits-ho...
Ah, wasn't aware of the S Plus models. You're probably right.
IANAL, do not take as legal advice.

When I looked into small claims court, in California. It was any claim <= 10k. You also needed to legally serve the defended with a non involved party.

That means for equifax, not being a california party, you gotta pay someone to send docs to their legal representation.
I would totally write code for fun and I do! But engineering ... that shit ain’t fun. Most of it is monotonous and boring and rife with managing process and people and working around things you built 2 years ago that no longer fit but you don’t have time to change. For every hour of coding, I am rewarded with 2 hours of engineering. Bleh
It really depends on the type of business - if it's a high-volume business, then your proposal is often used by sales organizations. You might call this an "order taking" business - low ASP (average sales price), simple product, etc.

For a low-volume business with high ASP, it's typically a complex product that takes longer to close which introduces some degree of unpredictability, and so a business must compensate the individual with a reward (commission) program reflective of that.
What damages can one claim if one's ID was stolen in the Equifax breach, but havent yet been the subject of fraud?
This assumes a specific philosophy of how companies work (good individuals) while an alternative model of good working systems is also effective. A systems view is less dependent on good individuals.

As W. Edwards Deming said, "A bad system beats a good person every time."
HN layout is great. Much easier to navigate than Reddit for example. I wouldn’t change a thing.
I've avoided giving PayPal my SSN by verifying a credit card and a bank account with trial deposits and linking them to my account. Otherwise you're limited to something like $300 in withdraws a month. I've had my PayPal account for 16 years though so it might be different now.
Nailed it. A commission structure is key when it comes to sales and a good one puts all of the right motivators in to all of the right places. It keeps them hungry, selling more, and they are motivated to structure deals and sell the product. Devs, the very best ones, don't want to punch a time clock either and they aren't a production line. We want to build good reliable products that are sold and ultimately used by clients. We too want our company to be competitive and to hit important goals and milestones to become bigger and stronger and compensation tools from management should reflect that. A good balance of 'Smart, Get things Done and Doesn't Jeopardize the entire business by building crap' must be handsomely rewarded and free beer doesn't cut it. It's hard to find those people, but, I know it's hard to find really good sales people too that are interested in selling aggressively, meeting goals but also building sustainable and fruitful relationships with clients instead of building a house of cards. I think startups nail this with the first few hires, they are incredibly critical to get right and they usually get a pretty good amount of stock.
There is another, more fundamental difference. With Apple, you are the customer. With Google, you are the product.
If you didn't pay commissions sales people would start coasting once they made their numbers. Imagine you have to make a million on sales per quarter, and three weeks in you strike gold in the form of a $1.1m contract.

Sure, you get bonuses for exceeding your numbers, but you could spend the next two months slacking off, which would probably be worth the lost income.

Worse, from the company's perspective, you might try to make sure your new prospects don't close until next quarter, just as a little bit of insurance in case it turns out to be leaner than this one. You're already drinking the coffee - what's the rush?

Sales is a tough job. It's a lot of travel, a lot of rejection, and a lot of stress. If I had to do sales you can be damn sure I would expect a lot of compensation.
Don't PETA have better things to focus on?
At this point I sort of wonder whether larger retailers are doing facial recognition (or other biometrics) on cash transactions.
Which also reminds me of 120V 15A/20A charging, which the vast majority of EVs will likely use.
I'd argue they aren't deceiving users as those tickets were actually sold

It would be deceiving if they showed an artificially falling stock counter or something to that effect, but in reality they are showing actual true data, it is only the way in which they show it (randomly inserted amongst search results) that can cause a sense of urgency, but there is still no deception here.
Yeah I am filling in Kansas. Max is $4k here.
We're also forcing all our welfare recipients onto a cashless card (with, of course, the forced drug testing that invariably comes along with it.)

If you guessed that the party currently in control also has ties to the cashless card provider, you'd be right (but probably not surprised!)

https://theaimn.com/lnp-welfare-card-true-facts-exposed-corr...

Australia is a very corrupt country, run by criminal opportunists.
I think the whole (non)deterministic thing is off.

Engineers could also execute a perfect development strategy to deliver a product and it could fail through for circumstances beyond engineering team (budget is yanked, project is delayed, etc.)

But I do agree sales is more risky as it is the "last-mile" of the business and they have a target to make, so it's their neck on the line and we live in a system where we reward how much neck someone is sticking out and yet survives, rather than work performed on the backstage. Same thing applies for C-level compensation.
And again you're confusing making fun of with hatred.

I can make fun of my wife and my kids and my friends, call them funny names. It doesn't mean I hate them.
Object detection with deep learning and OpenCV
Only reason I ever get cash out is to buy weed, honestly.
It's pretty common that some software removes a feature, an extension or alternative is created to mimic the feature, and then over time the extension dies. I chalk it up to human attachment to workflows.

Usually, when some Apple UI component baffles me, I find it's because they and I assumed different things about how the work should be done--so the friction disappears when I step back and figure out what the devs were thinking.

In this case, I think they believe the task of reviewing all open pages, and of finding a specific page that is neither nearby nor recent, are unsuited to the tab bar and better done with the Show All Tabs screen.

I suggest you force yourself to rely on Show All Tabs for a week, then reevaluate.
The parent didn't display any rigidity of thinking, they simply criticized your inaccurate characterization of engineering work... a point which your non sequitur reply does not address.
(cynically) sparklines are awesome eye candy for flogging your product.

Any new HR product should have a hero page with:

- a couple of sparklines

- a mugshot of user/candidate

- some important looking numbers in a giant-assed sans serif font

Throw in a social media-like feed down the side of the page for added oomph.

Things have moved on from the days when a pie chart was table stakes.
The no-lawyer in small claims rule doesn't apply to corporations. They usually send a paralegal or operations person who has some experience with legal matters and the relevant paperwork.
So? Isn't the point of copyright to compensate artists for their work? I.e. It's to encourage artists to produce art. Ostensibly, we would like pictures of wildlife. If the artist went through all that trouble to take pictures of monkeys, and we don't give him rights for that, we'll just end up with fewer pictures of monkeys.
You're free to do that these days if you'd like with Square Cash… it lets you build a balance on their system just the way Venmo does. But it's not required and I personally disable that.

I don't like to have random balances on money-transfer startups' system, especially since it's uninsured.
> Isn't that the logical approach to teaching it though?

If you assume what used to be called “the standard social science model” centered on rational choice theory is, if not a actually right, a reasonable approximation for common conditions akin to Newtonian mechanics, sure.

OTOH, if, as seems to be increasingly common (across the social sciences), you see it more akin to Aristotelean mechanics that coincidentally looks like some real phenomenon but gets the mechanism wrong for the general outline of how things behave, then, no.
Depends a bit on where you are, in my experience. In Melbourne I had a few instances where they didn't take card (so I went somewhere else), whereas I've not yet had that in Brisbane (I paid $1.50 at a coffee shop on card this morning).

Probably the only place where I use cash now is Sunday markets, but even there, most places now take card.

Interestingly, there's also a few places here which are either cash or contactless card only, including the cinema.
Salespeople also come in tiers with overlapping recruits and cattle calls. The recruits get bigger or quicker commissions on "who-they-know." Some cattle call younger salespeople find a mentor or get lucky. But attrition rates are high. I brought in IBM fed sales head for a talk years back. IBM only adjusted base salaries once around 1974 or so. They just let them die on the vines otherwise when sales go down.
Exactly. If a corporate-government complex wants to "starve" cryptocurrencies and untracked assets while maximizing financial intelligence gathering for a myriad of purposes, they can eliminate physical currency and make sure the banks are as walled-gardens as possible. Control to track more of what consumers do for the benefit of the elite under false promises like "convenience" and FUD like "black money."
2013 or newer yes, but anything older it's recommended ever 3000 or less.
Cool story. What was the original field of engineering if you don't mind me asking?
If it's pure java, it's possible to compile using GWT to JavaScript for use on the client side.

If it's C++, then emscripten might be a possible choice.

If it's a mixture, then that's a much harder problem...
I've noticed a shift over the last few years here(in Japan), a lot more cards being used. Hell I haven't used cash in over 3 months.
The flooding in Houston did that, albeit 2 centimeters.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/hurri...

(I'm not suggesting a link between the flooding and the quake. It would be fascinating if there were a link though)
Except if the cashless currency is on a decentralized blockchain ;-)
I'd be curious to know why the author decided to pen this article. Did they have a rash of friends who burned out by going "all in?"

I am seeing a trend of people writing more or less the same thing:

"A slow business is a good one, you don't need to devote everything to it."

Which is of course, true, but I'm unsure why it needs to be stated and who the author is trying to reach.
> This is awful. The predecessor to some massive government control.

Corporate control too. Every electronic transaction you make gets recorded and cross referenced so advertising companies know who you are and how to reach you.
Sure, but in the context of this article engineer style compensation compares poorly. That is, it's essentially a statement that engineers aren't compensated as well as sales workers, and one of the reasons given as to why that's possible is because engineers "have fun" doing engineering work even outside their jobs.
Transactions are like 10 cents right now with SegWit I think
Yes, that's the only way it could be a survey.