skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to argue, but I believe you don't understand.

My point was that you seem very happy with explaining the systemic reasons for problems, even being very proud of your progressive social attitudes and willingness to pay taxes, but none of that money, explanation, or enlightenment does the actual poor one bit of lasting good. They deal with despair as a primary obstacle. Explaining sociology to them and the systemic nature of poverty does not help them despair less. In fact, and this is critical, for many it may have the effect of making their lives substantially worse. There's a very fine line between explaining a complex problem that you don't currently have the solution to and telling people their life is pointless. In fact they can look and sound like the same thing to an outside observer.

I have no qualm with you -- the things you have said are most likely true -- but there is a difference in talking about a thing from an external clinical standpoint and living the thing, as you know so well.

As a sidebar, why would you even mention that you weren't angry with your parents? It seemed such an odd thing to say. Why would anyone think of being angry with their parents for something like wealth?

I'm done here. Sorry to take the thread so far down. Just sounded like we were talking past each other. Thanks again for the conversation.
Because I had no idea what it was:

Gallium3D is a software library for 3D graphics device drivers being
developed by VMware, after they acquired Tungsten Graphics[1]—the original
authors.

The Gallium3D library operates as a layer between the graphics API and the
operating system with the primary goal of making driver development easier,
bundling otherwise duplicated code of several different drivers at a single
point (this is done by providing a better division of labor, for example,
leaving memory management to the kernel DRI driver) and to support modern
hardware architectures.

Gallium3D is currently used by the free and open source nouveau graphics
driver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D
A bit of both. I wanted us to have the same name, but she is very proud of her French family name and disliked mine a lot (can't blame her - I had always felt the same). We looked through extended family names and couldn't find anything we liked, and then I think it hit us both at about the same time - we could just invent one ;)
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I was at a company that laid off a few dozen people on my team when things went south at the end of '08 (many more got the sack worldwide; I'm being intentionally vague on the company as it's irrelevant to the story). We were all remote employees so none of us saw anything; the only way I knew it was going on was the flood of "you safe?" messages I got over Skype. I figured something was about to happen, though; at 9pm the night before the layoffs, the CEO sent a mail calling a worldwide all-hands conference call for what would have been the day after the layoffs took place.

People's direct managers weren't the ones to make the calls to the unlucky employees, that came from their manager's manager, someone with whom we normally had no day to day interaction. It wasn't until the next day that we heard official word of what went on from company leadership.

During the all hands call we were told something along the lines of "we made some very deep cuts so that we shouldn't need to do this again." So it came as a surprise when one morning a few months later, I get half a dozen more "you ok?" messages. This time nobody heard a word from upper management, and radio silence from my super. Finally three days later she mailed to say that there have been layoffs and she herself was one of them.

It did a great job of inspiring confidence within the team. Out of the people who were left, quite a few jumped ship over the following couple months and joined a startup that looks poised to eat this company's lunch.

Moral of the story: don't make promises like "this isn't going to happen again" if you have no way to keep them. Communicate immediately, especially when people are geographically spread out -- the rumor mill actually runs a lot hotter when the "survivors" only have email and chat to keep in touch.

On the other hand, if you want to destroy morale and push your best employees to start polishing up their resumes, by all means follow the above recipe.
I have to comment...

One interesting aspect of dating in the bay area is that the woman's ex-boyfriend always happens to be on the set of the first date, every time. Every single time.
Funny, I first noticed how they don't eat their own dogfood. They don't have a captcha on their contact form: http://www.solvemedia.com/contact.html. Seems to me like that would be a good place to have one.
Moorier. My mother's maiden name is Moore, so we tweaked that a bit to make it sound French (my wife being half French).
If you can negotiate, then sign a contract that isn't a trap.
To prove you are a human please enter the text from the following image:

"Coke is better than Pepsi."
Not quite, because not everyone will install that stuff, or will be able to get approval from their higher-ups to install it (folks who run RHEL tend to be pretty conservative...).
This is how I do my debug, seems a little more compact :)

DEBUG = socket.gethostname() != 'your.domain.com'

I'd also suggest you add

ADMINS = (
('name', 'your-email@domain.com'),
)

and

# Email-settings
SERVER_EMAIL = 'your-email@domain.com'
if DEBUG:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
else:
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

So you get notified of any errors via e-mail when debug is off.
Half of the base salary is about $650. Probably I'll have to pay at least that much for every month short of contract period to the company if I quit.
How about tattooing the word "thief" across his forehead?
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I'm surprised that he says to make the announcement before telling the laid-off employees one-on-one. When I was at GE and they had layoffs, the individuals were told first, and then there was an all-employee meeting to announce the layoffs. I thought that worked out fine. That way, the people who are in the meeting don't have to freak out and worry about being laid off. Does anyone here have experience either way?
One word: Priority.

I am a fighter jet fanatic, but let's be honest: What the hell is a Eurofighter, Raptor, or Lightening going to do that can't also be done by an Eagle, Falcon or Hornet to more or less the same degree?

Let's be clear: The US and NATO established air dominance over the skies in Gulf War I in days, the Balkans in hours, and Afghanistan and Iraq in minutes with aircraft designed in the 70's. There is really no credible threat to western air forces that makes a new generation of fighter jet a priority.

Or at least, there wasn't. Now that Russia and possibly China are building realistic opponents that will challenge the dominance of F-15s/F-16s and F-18s, there is pressure to upgrade.
I disagree, not with the stats, but with the idea that the stats imply in any way that she could be at additional risk. Conventional wisdom (I'm surprised by the lack of data around this topic) is that most people re-offend because they have no real connections with people anymore and can't find reasonable employment.

Of course, she could be the lottery winner, finding the guy who was looking for a reason to become the next serial killer, but that is unlikely.

In fact, it is highly unlikely the guy will ever come across this article. He doesn't seem the type to google his own name.
Good for her. I went through something similar a few months ago. I had my car parked in the driveway and similarly someone broke into it (it was locked, but didn't have an alarm) and they stole my GPS and chargers.

I found the post on Craigslist the next day and contacted the person with a fictitious email and name. He emailed me back asking for my phone number to set up a meeting.

At that point I had three options:

a) File a police report/contact the insurance company and have my insurance rate hiked up (for a < $100 GPS)
b) Meet the thief in-person and pull a Chuck Norris on him
c) Let it go and pick another GPS up / Fix my car door

I chose C as I didn't like the outcome of A, nor the possibility of him and his hooligans retaliating against my family if I went with B.
That's funny, because on my federal tax return there's an entry where you deduct your state income tax. Sales tax, of course, is entirely different from income tax.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch22.html#en_US_publink1...
Yes, it's an allegory related by Cyril Parkinson, originally in his lectures, and then eventually in his eponymous book. I'm familiar with it.

My question is: why is the subject of this thread "The Original Bike Shed Email", when there were undoubtedly lots of Bike Shed emails prior to October 1999?
Society rewards people who contribute to society with dollars.

Society, with its money, is voting that it doesn't really care about Zuck's slight immorality. It actually prefers that he sacrifices his friendships and breaks a few laws in order to provide them with what they want.

The price of perfect rigid morality is several billion dollars.
http://democratic.ly/poll/23

http://democratic.ly
I have 4 kids. They all slept face down. They all lived.

The point being, even the stuff we fear in the western world is really pretty unlikely. Feed them, don't drop them and you are pretty much good. (for the first year)
Hahahaha...

Really? I haven't had that happen, other than this one time. And this time it was weird, because both ex and I were sailors, and our boats happened to be next to each other in the yard...total fluke. And then of course Girlfriend showed up in the middle of it, making it even more comical.

Anyhow, didn't know it was a local trend.
What sort of predators are you referring to?
If you're developing for mobile and targeting WebKit you're targetting iPhone, Android, Palm, and (soon) Blackberry. Those are the major smartphone vendors.
"With the exception of social networking features that I intentionally left out to avoid a second privacy firestorm..."

I think that about sums it up. It's very common to see many implementations of the same idea, with some being more successful than others. We all understand that MZ may have borrowed too liberally for his "adaptation" of the idea, however, his adaptation was actually popular. For all I know the dude really is a sociopath ready to destroy the online reputations of every facebook user, but that's beside the point, at least in regards to Greenspan's core argument.
Unfortunately, it's a standard contract. Only negotiation factor is the salary and that is as high as it gets in my current situation.
The distros should be shipping two versions of python (if they need), walling their required old version off somewhere but actively and explicitly including a newer one higher up in the $PATH so that people don’t have to mess with the “system”. The problem is the combination of “system”, “third-party tools”, and “users” trying to use the same python with completely different upgrade timelines. If all of these distros included by default a recent-ish version, and their package managers made updating that one a snap, then third-party tools could stop trying to use system python for anything at all, and users could forget that the “system” python existed.

Unfortunately, since the problematic old python versions are on existing old distro versions, it’s not clear that there’s any easy way to fix this problem.
Yuck. That's a really crap attention-whoring headline from techcrunch. The "sucker born every day" quote is actually from some random anonymous friend of Zuckerman about paying for servers. The quote doesn't even warrant inclusion in the article (the opinion of some nameless person outside the organization is of no significance whatsoever) and the cynical decision to stick it in the headline is an outright insult to the reader.
What other low-level mobile JS frameworks are there other than this and Xui?
Sisu
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He summed up the best arguments against himself with this:

"I did stuff like that in college, too," or "he was only twenty-something years old; give him a break," or "most college students are immature,"

Those sound perfectly reasonable. Also, copying good features you see on other sites is business as usual in the valley and responsible for a whole lot of progress in software. Reverse engineering is fine as long as you aren't stealing code.

Most innovation is just copying the best pieces you see in a variety of products all around you and putting them together in a new package.
Because Person A is paid more than B, is older, lacks a critical skill or difficult-to-replace experience, has less seniority, has distracting family obligations where B is single, or maybe A just doesn't have as warm a personal relationship with the manager as Person B. There are plenty of bad reasons A might get the boot.

And that's assuming the manager has any discretion. Often it's whole departments that get cut, for purely financial reasons.

Considering how many posts there are on HN about how difficult it is to measure performance, I'd be skeptical just how well the average company can rank performance, especially amidst the stress and time constraints of a large layoff.
In this metaphor, who's the invisible beast we have to work together to defeat?
> There's no mechanism for identifying such minimum possible dependencies.

Is this true? It seems like this would be one of the most obvious essential features of any package management system.
For things that occur so rarely, you can't extrapolate based on your experience. By your logic, we shouldn't get vaccinated because "my 4 cousins didn't, and they lived."
For people who've read 'A New Kind of Science' on here...what did you think of it?

I find that people's opinions of the book are quite polarized either they found it fascinating or were put-off by Wolfram's self-congratulating. So what does HN think?
Sorry it's not much more than a version checker for OS X, we're still working on building Ninite for that. As a consolation prize there is an iOS easter egg.
I disagree with the parent, but I'm disappointed to see so many people voting their agreement with a comment, not with whether the comment is valuable or not. You guys can take that attitude back to reddit, please (yes, I've been hear more than a year...).

Regarding the comment, the problem is that the "data" is more than the actual pixels on the scraps of paper. The data includes the knowledge that the scraps were actually held by the giver. The data includes a part of the relationship that is embodied by the the scraps of paper. A digital version would never replace that.

If you are robbed, it is not your fault. While I agree that our current efforts aren't working and really need to be re-evaluated (unfortunately, that always falls on idiotic, extremist "hang them all" or "give them a kiss and tell them it's all right" politics), when you are robbed, it is always somebody else's fault, even if you left the garage open and the car unlocked.

Excusing others' illegal actions will never make the problem go away, and there will always be sociopaths who believe they deserve what they take. They will never have permission to take from me.
Your use of sarcasm made you difficult for me to read.
Note that the book itself had a build process! (which he linked to in the post)

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/scrapbook/page8/#2002_build
He was full of sisu.
They're talking about the encryption of the executable code and data of the worm itself. It can't run if it doesn't decrypt itself at some point. It's not meant to be bombproof, it's just another hurdle.
For a real world exemple, check out our app http://beebole-apps.com/?demo, the rendering is entirely built client side with a Javascript templating engine (PURE).
I'd personally be very interested in seeing this code.
Mr. Scalzi is a fine writer, but may not be a great reader. He completely overlooks the point of the article to which he referred.

To be sure, some of the criticisms he makes may be true. But to focus entirely on them, rather than the main point of the original article, is doing a disservice to those who really are more concerned with this issue than with financial envy.

So for the record, having followed the links to the original post, let me reiterate the intent. The "little guy" will be affected if the "rich" need to cut back. Luxury expenses (yes this is the point: it's a luxury to have a gardener or housekeeper) will be cut back, so anyone whose income relies on those expenditures will be hurt. In many cases, such as the immigrant gardener, forcing the rich to cut back causes a much more serious change to "downstream" incomes.

Of course, the number of rich people who really will react by cutting back, and the number of gardeners and the like who are affected by those cuts, is a matter of some debate. It may well be that in the balance, the harm is less severe.

But Mr. Scalzi doesn't even acknowledge that there is any debate. In this way, he's playing chicken with the rich, but the stakes will be paid by those who may be affected profoundly.
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A good book on how airplanes are designed and produced is The Jet Makers http://generalatomic.com/jetmakers/index.html

Yes, my father is the author.
What about Netscape? They did a re-write after their product reached a critical mass no? Or maybe I'm wrong (hence, Netscape is not THE most sought after product)?
Instapaper should be on Android. Its parsing can also get better, Apple's Reader feature does a better job at grabbing the whole article and just the article (with Instapaper I usually need to first find a print this article link).

It could also become a good way to find new content as Instapaper knows what's being saved and should also know what's really being read.
It would be nice to differentiate between "laying off" and "firing".
PURE had ~50 lines when starting, but then the real life came with its clunky browsers, various libs and functionality needs.
I'm guessing you've always been a programmer?

The problem is that it is entirely too easy to "CAD up" a design that is almost unmanufacturable, or that is ridiculously difficult or expensive to manufacture. Having experience actually building or fixing things is a hedge against this. Years ago, young engineers fresh out of school were put to work on the production floor for a few months to learn these lessons. When I graduated as an EE, the small company I went to work for wouldn't let me do anything other than documentation and repair for a year for the same reason.

It was an extremely valuable year!
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I'm sorry, I know this is a serious subject but this thread reminds me of this Monty Python sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
On HN, it's more like:

Your message is about to be sent to several hundred thousand very bored people that have nothing better to do. At least two man-weeks worth of time will be spent reading your message instead of looking at lolcats.

It's fun to think everyone is participating because they value everyone else's commentary, but HN is really just a bunch of talkative people mentally in between other tasks.
Is this a cleanroom implementation?

Also, I'm certain MS holds some form of IP on the DirectX line of products. Have they made any threatening noises?
This is an interesting comment. But let me point to Tyler Cowen, who I found more insightful. He takes the same sentiment expressed by Scalzi, pushes it to it's logical conclusion and finds it lacking:

"Let's say you live in a country which has some rich people, some people in the lower middle class, and some very very poor people...In such societies, do the "lower middle class but not very poor people" have cause to complain? After all, some large group of others has it much, much tougher. ...At what percentile of wealth does your claim to complain go away or diminish? ... Can't a rich person point out that he has a higher MU of money than a non-rich person might think? Or must that necessarily offend others? What kind of genuflections must he package along with that information, so as to avoid being considered offensive?
...
Beware of moral arguments which do not address "At which margin?" I see a lot of attempts to lower the status of Todd Henderson, but not much real moral engagement."

I recommend reading the whole thing.

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09...
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Does the $450k/year law professor have a right to complain? Who does?
Not sure that's true, most packaging systems allow the maintainer to specify the lowest version their software is compatible with.

Of course, it may be that the maintainer always specifies the latest version,
The root cause was and is the ability for people to gamble with other people’s money and only share in the upside. It promotes ever increasing levels of risk taking. Plenty of mid level people knew they were selling or buying crap but there was zero incentive for them to stop.
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One took risks - the other didn't. One located his competition and used him to his own ends - the other took moral high ground. One wasn't afraid of taking advantage of clients personal information for advancing his business goals. One is filthy (even if only paper) rich - the other is still struggling with his little business and playing with rubber duckies, while dreaming of yachts and camels.

Seems like MZ was the one with more business sense. And Greenspan is a sorry looser of type that accuses his adversary of using "unfair" tactics. Its a lot like when playing computer games and some people downright deny themselves the most efficient tactics on pretense of "playing fair" - only to accuse their adversaries who had sense to use every tool at their disposal.

And I dislike Facebook and its founder (hell I don't even own a FB account - since its intentions are too transparent to me). But I do admire its founders boldness and competitiveness.
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I believe so.

It's like instant teleportation all over the solution. No mouse. No struggling with the Solution Explorer. Example:

Ctrl+N, type FAM, all classes matching the pascal casing with (F)xx(A)xx(M)xx will be displayed, like FormsAuthManager. Select one with keyboard to navigate to the file. Once there, Ctrl+F12, type VU for ValidateUser and enter to navigate to method, etc.

An old but a good start is 31 Days of Resharper:

http://blog.excastle.com/2007/01/31/blog-event-the-31-days-o...
Now that was fun, thanks. I find it annoying that I am taught to spell a certain way, but then the British keep reinventing spellings with "s" instead of "z" and adding an "i" in there just Americans on their toes.
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I have a large web project (or a small start-up) that I would be interested in soliciting offers for. There are a handle full of companies that may be interested in buying this. What is a good way to initiate that conversation? Should I fire off emails to the CEOs asking for meetings? Is this a conversation that I can initiate, or is it better to wait for them to contact me?

Thanks
Even the high number is "only" 1.1 in 1000, so 0.11%. Still, 0.013% is quite a bit lower. My kids haven't had any trouble sleeping on their backs (yet - the young one is only four months), but if they had I think I'd let them sleep face down and just watch them better. There are devices that detect breathing in a baby bed and warn if none is detected for X seconds, which might ease the minds of worried parents - regardless if face up/down.