skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i have never had a facebook account. seeing everyone agonize over the pros and cons of using facebook is ridiculous to me. is it better on a phone? with or without notifications? are my privacy settings dialed in? facebook is genuinely useless, if you agonize over how its so bad but also so good, just stop using it. if someone is really your friend, you can keep up with what their current email and phone number is.
Thank you jepler, for the valuable feedback. I improved the post a bit.
That is a good point. When I wrote my note, I was wondering about the middle-ground. An engineer that meets the criteria above but aren't interested in risk so instead of the spoils of millions, they trade their risk for the spoils of tens or hundreds of thousands. Basically, good bonuses for being a high-performer in a high-performing organization. The more I thought of it, the more I realized the middle ground already exists in Corporate America. If you want to trade ping pong tables for income, found a start-up or move in to Corporate America and starting playing the ladders.
I don't feel strongly one way or the other about these results, or their implications. If anything I think they are fairly interesting. You're right, these would be weak arguments if I were trying to discredit the findings (and are fairly ad hominem-y).

I am not a genomics expert, so my comment above was intended to be more of a question directed to Real_S and those versed in genomics analysis (i.e. given this list of concerns, are these findings still legit?).
Yet another thing that doesn't work without electricity and a network connection of some kind.

I bet there are some hurricane survivors recently who are glad they had cash.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
When I lived in Vegas, the Clark county sherif had a "Jeep Posse". We did S&R. Completely volunteer.

Then LVMPD decided it was their responsibility.
Since FB got Instagram under the belt, it's no less annoying. On the mobile app, I've turned off all notifications, because why? If I want to check in on my Instagram apps, I'll open the app myself, thank you very much. No need to litter my screen with that stuff. But guess what? The app of course knows if you have notifications turned off, and there is no way whatsoever to get the app to stop bothering you about this when you open. Every time, it asks me why I don't have notifications turned on, and does so in a half-screen-sized banner that is obnoxious. No matter what I do, this never tops appearing until I turn on notifications again.
I am only a user, but I find TickPick a solid alternate choice to all other ticket sales sites. The "no BS hidden fee" got me hooked up (plus the company always give out promo code). Other products aren't as transparent.

But this sort of false urgency is misleading and should be illegal.
I've never heard of a hurricane in Sweden, though...
The war on cash: Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe a cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's time to fight back

http://thelongandshort.org/society/war-on-cash

HN (About a year ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12325843

Top comment:

Banning cash is such a monumentally bad idea its a miracle of modern propaganda that a single person is willing to even consider it. From negative interest rates to ubiquitous tracking of your every move and purchase (by stores, banks, governments, and whoever else they choose to share the information with), to the total paralysis society would face from any sort of blackout or network disruption, to limitless technical vulnerability by hackers, eliminating cash is truly one of the worst ideas ever conceived. Its bad enough that the government enforces a legal monopoly on currency. Extending that monopoly to digital-only currency is a huge step in the wrong direction for business, commerce, and freedom.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12326166
You could always just use the mobile version of the website.

Uses less battery power, too!
The tests for emotional distress are very stringint in every state. Have you seen a psychologist about your anxiety related to Equifax?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yelp-ratings-20140905-...
I trust the vendor whose primary revenue stream comes from me, rather than the one whose primary revenue stream is me (or my private data). I trust Google to abide by their T&C's about as much as I trust the NSA to abide by the laws governing the extent of their actions. Which is to say, precisely none.

You can argue until you're blue in the face but Apple have little to no incentive to exploit my private data while Google have every incentive to do so.
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a competitive selling environment, which is horowitz's conclusion in the article, is definitely part of reason to pay commission, but it's actually larger than that.

whether you have sales people or not, and whether you pay them commission or not is dependent on all parts of the marketing mix: your product's scope and complexity, its price, its visibility in the market, and how it's delivered.

the more complex your product is, the more customization it requires, the more (higher-skilled) people the customer will need involved in deploying your product. that requires more convincing (i.e., sales). the higher the price, the more senior people are needed to be involved in the decision, requiring sales. the more complex your product, the less likely an ad will be effective, and the more likely that the purchase is a big deal.

sales is the marketing channel of choice for highly complex, customizable and expensive products precisely because sales is very effective, yet expensive, so it only makes sense for products with high costs (typically at least 5-figures). you'd typically use less expensive account managers for 4-figure sales, and other marketing channels for less than that.

and lastly, the percentage of compensation that you pay as commission is directly correlated with the riskiness of the sale. the harder the sale, the higher the commission as a percentage of comp. account managers, who typically do sales via email and phone, usually get most of their pay as salary. outside sales people typically get a large percentage of sales as commission.
I think this is analogous to the "lump of labour" fallacy. You argue there is less demand for software engineering because lots of software is available as open source, but actually there is more demand because this enables a wider range of software to be made in a cost effective way.
It's more succinct and stands alone (as opposed to the actual quote, which requires additional context), I agree. It's just not quote attributed to anyone in particular, as far as I know.
Commission isn't the only mechanism of performance based compensation: bonuses and revenue and profit sharing (which commissions might be considered a subset of, I suppose) are also things. Equity (real equity, e.g. of a public company or profitable, stable company with a clear, real value) is another form.

Besides that, it's certainly possible to measure at least in aggregate the impact on revenue non-sales team members have, e.g. by the value the products they work on create. It's obviously not as clear or direct as a sale.
Just like Afghanistans, and like the Afghans, the norks have run the numbers and decided that it'll be worth more if they just sit on it.
You can send an invoice on PayPal too, though it might seem a little odd to use that feature with your friends, it's very business-y.
This would be awesome.
Interpersonal valuation is a logical impossibility. Those guys are selling snake oil. I could easily make the point that 'standards of living' (interpersonal valuation assumption) have gone down. We have less clean air, less clean water, less forest, less cultivable land, less sea-life, etc, than ever in our history. Does anyone really think the Nile delta is now more beautiful than 100 yrs ago? Big-mouthed delusional priests, all of them.
> I feel that the 'dirty' attitude you're referring to is shared by almost every non-USA society (or at least, non-USA western society), especially amongst those that are informed regarding USA style gun laws and consequences of same.

Switzerland, Czechia and all the Nordic countries disagree. ~Every house with an adult male Swiss citizen living there has a gun. Czechia recently added the right to bear arms to their constitution. All of the Nordic countries have large national gun clubs, I think the Norwegian one has over 10% of the population as members, to dissuade Soviet and now Russian aggression.
I've yet to eat one, but kangaroo leather holds up nicely too. I have some boots made from kangaroo that have broken in well.
My preference is a stew.

http://kitchenaut.com/post/129627783499/mums-kangaroo-stew

Can confirm that this recipe is great.

Might even turn someone that thinks kangaroo meat is too gamey.
Can anyone explain how that honeypot works? i.e. how would anyone try to go to this page?
this isn't infallible but this psychology PHD researcher disagrees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCujWv7Mc8o
Assuming you have access to a no-fee checking account, you could save that cash in a separate bank account and store the corresponding debit card at home.

If you have access to a no-fee credit card, you can also have a back-up at home.

It's probably a good idea to have some cash at home, but you can do the same with cards.
I believe that they simply dumped the NAND to circumvent the passcode entry limit then brute-forced. But it was also an iPhone 5C model which does not include the Secure Enclave. This method could not be reproduced on any model beyond the 5S.
To be fair to the Austrian school, mainstream economics is about as far away from a science as are there positions. It's just that latter' ideology is more compatible with the contemporary operation of power.
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I wouldn't take it as 'extremely skeptical', it's fact that this is junk 'science'

We can look at story drift even in non primitive societies where they have writing and it's huge within generations.
As a would-be designer turned developer I'd say their old icons were good enough. IMO colors and logotype consistency are probably more important.

Soaking of text... maybe consistent defaults for markup among products would more appreciated than anything.
Every product only needs one sparkline anyway. 0% on the left, and bit of up and down (to make it look realistic) then a steep climb to 101% on the right.
The author likens this to automotive safety, but I think a better analogy would be airline safety. When an airplane goes down, an immediate investigation is done by third parties to find the cause. Then remedial steps are drawn up and the entire industry is expected to follow them, not just the company involved in the accident. Data breaches need to be held to this standard.
I like the "brutalism". The only thing i would add is a night mode.
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Depends on the level of creativity and if it can break out of the learned styles and create something different.
You had free food and shelter and you didn't even have to lift a finger, even to wipe your own arse. Sorry not buying that sob story ... Try again.
mmm it's nice to get multiple perspectives, especially when your investing in internet money ;)
My resume doesn't have enough frameworks.
Do you mean Cyprus? I agree that due to their 2012-2013 financial crisis [0], I also assume that Cypriots would be wary of this.

[0] http://www.lse.ac.uk/fmg/dp/specialPapers/PDF/SP232-Final.pd...
I understand your position now. You're a conspiracy theorist. Google and Apple have exactly the same incentive to exploit your private data — money. They also have exactly the same disincentive to disobeying their privacy policies — lawsuits and bad press leading to loss of money.
No it is not. It signifies a divide between the tech sector which strives for privacy and government (which is/was supposed to protect the people)
That's changed now, from the article:

> Under iOS 11, this sequence has changed to also specifically require the passcode on the device after the "Trust This Computer?" prompt.
That is a tempting idea but health insurance can be cripplingly expensive when not on an employer's plan, and with the uncertainty surrounding the US healthcare system right now, sometimes it just doesn't make sense.
For code heavy presentations, I've seen a few people use Jupyter notebooks to solve this problem. Then just intermingle the rest of the presentation as markdown cells around the code cells.
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Oh no, I am just asking from a general legality PoV. There must have been a precedent on anxiety due to identity fraud. I just want to see if a lawyer can give two cents on this matter.

I do want to be part of the class action suit, even if it is only $15 (FB's settlement was $15 for all). The company must paid for its negligence, and I am happy to take $15 from them.
I haven't read the book, but I think your fears are somewhat unfounded. Skimming through it, chapter 8 discusses Supply and Demand (in fact, that's the title of the chapter). And it's certainly not devoid of math.
If the camera was in a continuous shooting mode, I take it you're suggesting that the initial frames were authored by the photographer, and at some point the authorship changed after the monkeys had moved the camera enough? And the final frames in the sequence again became authored by the photographer when he grabbed the camera back?

What if it had been wind moving the camera, rather than monkeys? Do you feel his authorship would have been equally lost in the middle of that sequence of frames?
Has anyone quantified their myths properly? If not then they're just cherry picking.
robots.txt is a publicly accessible list of pages that bots aren't allowed to go to. It's like publishing a list of home addresses you don't want robbed because you have something good there. So, some bad crawlers might go to the robots.txt since it tells you where the good stuff is hidden.

(In reality, it's likely nobody would put actual secret URLs in the robots.txt, but some developers might without thinking. This is likely just one of many ways Yelp attempts to catch bad webcrawlers.)
+1 for a dark mode!
> I have had way too many evenings after I get the kids in bed where I think, "I'll just unwind on my phone for a few minutes and then work on something."

There's a hack for this which I find works, just go to sleep at 8pm or 8:30pm instead right after the kids. Wake up at 4pm-4:30pm (yes I need a full 8 hours every night, not negotiable), you'll have much more willpower to tackle your side project in the morning before your kids wake up.

Given the choice between reddit and side project, reddit will win. Given the choice between reddit and sleep...it's much easier to pick sleep even if reddit is more tempting.

In the morning you have 2 choices, reddit vs side project but you just invested effort in waking up at 4:30am, side project it is...

Edit: I actually see sleep as a precondition of productivity so sleeping is a 'productive activity' for me.
So Allergan paid for the patent, and then paid to transfer so that government officials in the Mohawk Tribe do an administrative procedure in benefit of Allergan's business?

Thats nice, so hit Allergan with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Reading those examples hurt my brain, but probably because I'm used to reading figures with labelled axes. My first gut reaction was, "great, figures with no x-axes," however, he had the x-axis in the text, which made my head hurt more.

First, my eye gravitates towards the figures. This forced me to look at the sparkline to get the shape, go back to the left to see the y-axes min-limits, then scan to the right to see the other limit. Then, I had to read around the line in the text to understand the x-axis, then look back at the sparkline again to understand the trend line in context. It caused more confusion for me than enlightenment.
But a good salesperson who is making quota can also apply their craft to carving a larger piece of the pie for themselves. Just because they're doing well, it does not mean their compensation is an accurate proportion to their contribution to the whole.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should try to quantify the efficacy of SW devs more. I had a PM do that once in the form of ticket quantification as a KPI. I had to expend a lot of political capital to opt out from that nightmare.
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They wouldn't let me see my messages without installing Messenger.
To catch and block scripts scraping Yelp in ways they don't like.

If you fetch that url, you are most likely a bot that isn't following the rules and can be flagged or blocked outright without impacting any real users or search engine rankings no matter what your user agent claims to be.
>An engineers actions are so far removed from revenue that they can't make a claim so directly.

Really? I see it the other way around. How did the salesperson contribute to building the product? A well built technology solution can sell it self in many scenarios. If we didn't have sales people, we could still build a product and push it into the market.

Of course all of this depends on the type of product, but still...

I'm actually in favor of of commissions, and engineering bonuses for the same reasons from this article. But it cannot be said that engineers are so far removed from the revenue.
I'll go on the record and say that Equifax makes subpar quantitative decisions; i.e. cannot do the math.

And also that their attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys' attorneys are very busy right now.
A couple recent discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=allergan&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
This is true, and now even scientifically backed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/04/30/study-l...

https://www.nature.com/news/how-facebook-fake-news-and-frien...
I think I know what you're saying all too well, if I understand correctly. In my Master's program, my advisor had to keep asking me to stop saying, "we" any time I described efforts. I didn't even notice I was doing it, but very naturally I would say, "we applied X." "We then did Y" instead of "I", being the sole researcher.

It's very hard for me to be so bold as to flatly say, "I designed and built this, and I feel responsible for why it has been such a success." The most I can get out these days is, "I am very proud to see that software still finds value among the other dev teams."
Don't know if Yelp does allow any search engines to scrape, but if they'd allow duckduckgo to scrape and help build some marginal competition against Google, it might give them more leverage overall.
Humans are flexible and adaptable. We can take any good fortune and make it ours while feeling entitled about it. In one generation or two, the new normal will be old. I think my parent's generation has seen a more dramatic raise in their conditions of life than I ever will (going from countryside to the city, in the period around 1970's). My grandma's never had a water closet in their life and raised water by the bucket from the well, and yet lived well above 80 years old, yet I now use a Japanese washlet - spoiled rotten, that's what I am by her standards. I don't even have to wipe my own damn ass.
I think it is clear there is a need for something like this.

I am curious what you envision the first version being. How could I help get it off the ground?
Did you ask for a spare card? 99% of banks would happily send you one if you ask. My friend always kept a duplicate in the glovebox in the old days.

EDIT: not sure how it works with chip cards. Discover still lets you request for duplicate cards from their website though.
No disrespect to the Times, but this is coverage from PatentlyO:

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2017/09/tribal-immunity-challen...

Stealing the article's thunder:

> As the Supreme Court wrote, “without congressional authorization,” the “Indian Nations are exempt from suit.”

You've constructed this property right (patent) outside of the Mohawk Nation and then sold it into the Nation. This would sorta kind've mean that it can be used as a patent to sue but then it can't be challenged. That's just nuts.
Is the Forsvarets Radioanstalt (FRA) or National Defence Radio Establishment involved in implementing Sweden's cashless society?
Does any country have to respect the patent rights of other countries ? I'm sure there are treaties in place but with those it would seem like transferring the patent to a sovereign would just mean there is no US patent
Crypto and bitcoin and machine learning and equifax. Is that all we're getting excited about nowdays? Come on people, let's jump on the Bret Victor bandwagon again.
Right, plus this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206796.
I hear cryptocurrency fans defend taking the entire name "crypto" for their hobby because "it's not confusing in context". Here's a headline where it's confusing in context. The business case he leads with is even about cryptography.

Crypto means cryptography. With any luck, it will still mean cryptography after this speculative currency bubble bursts.
In my experience, for personal email, text-only is a non-issue; for work stuff, it's not even an option.
I get no notifications from my
Facebook app (I'm on iOS). What am I missing? I do get notifications of messages from the Messenger app but I want those as they are from friends
Thinking about it, Apple is benefiting right now from the same debt-based economy that benefits the FBI/NSA. I don't think there even is much local US manufacturing, so Apple imports products made in China and sell them at a high profit margin. Apple's cash piles came from debt, and I think national debt is exactly the thing that increases when FBI/NSA spends more money, right? (Of course, it is only one kind of debt, but it is important for example because of the bonds other countries buy with their FX reserves)
Untested code.. even if you're writing a kernel, you've got to find a way to mock/stub/double/fake your way into unit testing, smoke testing and integration testing. Cucumber isn't a requirement, but having appropriate layers of assuring production code is correct is fundamental to sustainable software engineering.
It's such a powerful mental model and a phenomenon that presents itself in social, political, and other types of systems.

I recently applied dialectical thinking in a discussion about progress in programming. The main question I was trying to answer: "are we make any kind of progress in programming or are we just randomly traversing the space of possible languages and frameworks?" (https://amasad.me/dialectical)

At first it seemed like there is a lot of arbitrary jumping back and forth. One example: in web development we started out by rendering the UI on the server, and then client-side rendering became the norm and now we're back at server rendering with the various "SSR" techniques. This seems like a totally useless hop back and forth. But in reality we might end up in a -- to use Hegel's language -- "synthesis" where we have universal rendering (server + client rendering).