skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from reproduction it also applies to survival. And feeling good is clearly on the side of supporting survival. Take tails for example, it does not provide any reproductive support (i believe) and it was unnecessary since we started walking on ground instead of trees so it eventually went away. Same for gills. All i am saying is that if it had good enough use, it would have made some development in the regard however small or trivial it may be.

Also my first question was regarding its side effects, evolution is just something i used to support my question, but my question in general still remains unanswered..
Doesn't the usage of the Pirate Bay logo still constitute copyright infringement, though?

This story just oozes irony.
Ask HN: A startup just offered me more money. What should I do?
So, I currently work as a web developer at a medium sized development firm with a few hundred clients. They've been in business for about 10 years and have a good track record. I don't have a CS degree, and my current company pays me 31,000. A startup with DEEP, DEEP pockets has offered to pay me 45K to start as their lead front end developer. The question is, do I take the money and ditch the security, or stay at my cozy, super-simple web dev job? Also, my current job would be totally screwed if I left them now, which is making it harder for me. Help me HN, thanks.
Off-the-shelf incandescents should do the job: the resulting spectrum matches daylight best compared to other sources (you get close to full spectrum black body radiation, like from the sun). It just becomes a question of supplying enough, but a 100W lamp (or two) near your work area may be enough to boost your mood. I'm no expert on SAD, but from the lighting physics side, "daylight" lamps sound like a scam.
It just seems very unlikely - that reactivity to light would serve no purpose and hence could be optimized away.

And I think there is something more than "either proven or disproven". If you claim you have an invisible dragon in your garage, it seems very unlikely that you are telling the truth. No need to run experiments for that. (brain and light might be more likely than invisible dragons, just making a point).
It looks like he's using their logo too.
You seem to assume that skin cells don't need to detect ultraviolet light.
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This doesn't cause inflation. It just shifts money from everywhere else to the poorer people who remain employed on the new minimum wage.

Inflation is caused by increasing the monetary base and having that new money circulate through the economy. Both the US Fed and the Chinese central bank have been doing this.
Bootleg items are one way to make money, and you can bet that the market for that is already huge for DVDs and clothing knock-offs. I also recommend reading up on human trafficking, which is also a huge problem, too. I don't have any figures, but it's also worth considering how much money can be earned by robbing someone at gun point and holding them for ransom, as well - cartels in South America have done this for quite some time.
IANAL but I thought the normal probationary period was 3 months, never heard of a year.
Pound (£) sign was fine for me, even though I actually drew a lira sign (₤ - is has two crossbars). Hash (#) was ridiculous, though:

Tifinagh letter tuareg yazh: ⵌ

Vai syllable pu: ꖛ

Equal and parallel to: ⋕

Viewdata square: ⌗
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I have no idea why you're bringing some contorted-beyond-recognition Trolley problem into this.

The situation is more like:

1) Founder hires an employee at a depressed salary using the possibility of making it big via vested options to compensate for lost income.

2) Employee works first, second, and third years performing to satisfaction.

3) Before IPO, founder goes "I can make that employee give up their money through a threat of firing them."

Actually, isn't that pretty much the situation?

If we really want to talk analogies, it's like if someone took a health insurance policy, but when they get really sick and the "big payout," the insurance company cuts them off because they haven't contributed enough to merit the million dollar payout.
It's more like anti-plagiarism: giving credit where none is due.
"Being capable of self-restraint" does not automatically imply you are always, in any circumstance, capable of self-restraint. Conversely, finding yourself in a public argument of this magnitude does not automatically imply you are incapable of self-restraint. There's a lot of shades of grey here. People are emotional beings and that sometimes gets in the way of rationality. I've never been involved in a public fight, but I can readily imagine that happening, given the right person and the right provocation. I was attempting to elicit some empathy. A little consideration for the shortcomings of others goes a long way.

I certainly don't agree with your assessment of 'the bounds of privacy society is prepared to accept'. That's shifting the responsibility for your personal response onto 'society'. You are responsible for your actions, independent of what 'society' feels about it. That something is possible does not give you, you personally, the moral prerogative to act upon it. That's a naturalistic fallacy: taking the state of affairs as it is in the world and labelling it 'right', because it is the case.

This guy should not have tweeted and photographed the fighting couple, even if five other people were doing it simultaneously and even if they enabled it and even if they should have realized it could (would?) happen.
Exactly. If they didn't want early people to have disproportionate gains, they should have paid them with money. This just looks like what it is - regret that they didn't keep more, now that Zynga is successful. Cheap bastards.
I'm not sure I expect a "real" JVM to end up back in the browser, but everyone these days does seem to be trying to compile everything else to JS by hook or by crook, so anything that serves as a halfway plausible IR for that is interesting. The LLVM IR, for example, is used more or less because it was the least-bad option, not because it's great for the job (the Emscripten list has a lot of discussion of how not-really-platform-independent it is).
Local governments make a lot of money (both formal revenue and informal bribes) off real estate development. The states / cities can't balance the budget without selling housing plots to developers. And the banks have low interest, while inflation is insane (due to both government monetary policy, and the good inflation of wage growth - both of which encourage development at the cost of encouraging bubbles). Then there's the cultural preference for boys and the one child policy leading to more boys than girls, so the girls only want to marry boys with houses, encouraging parents to buy a house for their son.

On the other hand, China's deposit requirements for houses are draconian. Think 40% down. And the national government has been screaming bloody murder at house prices for quite some time, trying to ram all sorts of measures through to control house prices.

Also, some of the ghost cities are kind of fictitious. I know one which was built on edge of a growing city, which rapidly filled up. There were some more developments in cheaper locations that looked a little iffy, but the one on the international news sites wasn't really a ghost city.

What they really need to do is widen their tax base. Income taxes are a joke, because people lie on their tax returns. Taxing the sale of houses creates perverse incentives. One option (which fits in well with their Marxism and focus on productivity) is to tax land. That would keep house prices down, and create a fair tax base - no more millionaires living in mansions paying no tax because they have better accountants. They also need to reform government spending, and make the local governments more honest, but that's easier said than done - they are already executing bad eggs left right and center.
From the analysts I've been listening to from the clothing retail industry in Europe, it seems like China still have plenty of room for cheap labour just further inland and along the coast. Minimum wage laws will improve productivity in the more developed areas, even though it could be painful for them to adopt and innovate but it seems to not have been a disaster in the West. That said, this is also giving opportunities to India and Vietnam.
I honestly think you're simply an awful person.

No, people in 21st century US should not live in misery and fear of losing their job.

Walmart obviously has many other advantages over smaller competition other than the wages. It won't close because of say 20% wages increase.

If a Walmart store closes, local people obviously will continue to buy food. I.e. there will be many new stores open, ex-Walmart employees will be in a good position to take advantage of that, as they know the local customers.

IMO unionizing is the only sensible strategy for any employee, that is easy to replace. Especially for employees of not so ethical corporations like Walmart and Zynda.
Tell your current boss you want a raise. Put on a little bit of pressure. (I.E., I have another offer, I want to stay here.) I would not tell them what the other offer was or who made the offer.

Use the info you just gained to make your decision. I feel pretty strongly that the old guys will not give you a nearly 50% raise but some raise would be nice. The startup life is not for everyone. Keep that in mind.
I have said this before in HN, but I'll repeat myself: don't trust this study.

The Valkee company is financially backed by ex-Nokia execs and other people with money and influence in Finland. They have the means to get a small University in Northern Finland to make a study in their favor.

There have been interesting studies about light sensivity in the skin, so why not the brain. However, this study doesn't really prove anything.

Also, don't underestimate the value of placebo in the treatment of mental ailments.
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From the article: "the firm's executives reportedly justified their strategy by saying it was best for the company. With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could attract more top talent with the promise of stock."

The answer is simple then - the executive who originally miscalculated how much stock to give away should be the person who is penalised by having their options reduced to make up the shortfall.

You know ... for the good of the company.
how is this possible? i won't give my pass to them so how can they see anything that goes via secure connection?
http://www.nciku.com has a really good character recognition engine. I've never had it not find exactly what I needed.
As long as we keep printing money, raising taxes and increasing government budgets, stagnation will remain with us. As long as we're price-fixing money, taxing, regulating, over-legislating and having overblown government budgets, we'll never never see enough increase in productivity for the average person/job to see real, sustained growth.
If you believe this you are destined for a lifetime of being misunderstood and probably laughed at.

"Loose-yet-intelligible grammar, spelling and punctuation" doesn't mean friendly to me, it means ill-educated at best, retarded at worst.
or the presenters remember to repeat the questions.
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and also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1463580
This sounded to me much like the Soviet propaganda - what has not been said is more important that what has been. Note that he did not refute any claims by WSJ.
People think that the noble founder in your story is firing the chef because she can make more money hiring a different chef, not because the future of the company directly depends on it.

You seem to think it is clear that Zynga can't afford to attract 'top talent' without the clawbacks. Other people, in the face of a billion dollar IPO, think that is silly.
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Experiences beat products, but what about products about experiences?
The "WHATWG spec"? It's not pretty, but at least it's reasonably accurate.
The right way to do it is to make it pretty obvious.
Kind of like text-area enhancement with a slider and status bar at the bottom at the bottom with the words 'Auto Save: On', that the user can toggle.

The truly paranoid will write stuff in a text editor and paste it in, the less paranoid will turn it off. But I have a feeling most people will leave it on.
Is there a CoffeeScript to Go translator?
Then I'm interested.
If you are referring to Africa, there's a good reason multinational corporations aren't opening up shop.

Namely, the multinational corporations of the 1880's and on made such a mess of things that many of the countries now have very little infrastructure and spigot economies where multiple parties jockey for control of the natural resource(s) and hence power in the country.

Barring some sort of radical change, this situation isn't changing any time soon for most places.

The irony is (excepting south Africa and Egypt which have their own histories), the only stable countries where companies might be able to set up shop are the ones with no natural resources, because there's not much to fight over.
> Apart from reproduction it also applies to survival

Still irrelevant, evolution isn't an intelligent concept that looks at every option and picks out the best solutions. What's more, evolution isn't something that happened in the past, it's still happening; we are not the best possible animal, we are probably not the best possible human.
>Also, another problem is that student classification is based on faculty opinion.

This is not strictly true. The elite group were taken from students who were violin performance majors. The non-elite group were taken from students who were education majors but played the violin.

There may be bias from teachers built in, but there's the added component of their assessment of their own abilities as well.

I would hope that those excelling as violin performance majors would actually be better performers than education majors that the instructors thought were poor players, bias or no bias.
I think that the paragraph about "THE LEFT BRAIN VERSUS THE RIGHT BRAIN" isn't really described well. I am amateur, but there are some facts you need to know. Both sides have pretty much individuals, who even come to different conclusions. As long as they are able to communicate everything is fine, but there are diseases (and I am not talking about "having multiple personalities") where the effects can be seen.

I am curious how this does affects people who have one half of their brain removed (because of epilepsy for example). I know that the brain is incredibly good when it has to restructure itself. So people can still study at the university, etc., but it seems these things are not understood very well.

Also I think nobody really believes in these myths anymore.
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how about 'post-IE (6) internet'
I think the parent was saying he would love to see Pincus' own rules applied to Pincus.
Thanks fredsanford, the startup life certainly isn't for everyone, and I'll need to consider that. The hours would be considerably longer.
Skin cells are not part of the nervous system, they apparently use rhodopsin just to regulate melanin. You can make any part of the brain photosensitive by injecting Channelrhodopsin viral vectors, that's an exciting recent experimental area called optogenetics.
Heidegger (and fellow philosophers) predicted this decades ago (and it has been taking place for decades). His "The Question Concerning Technology" (Die Frage nach der Technik) foresees how technology increasingly demands our attention and changes us through what it enables, when even mass television did not yet exist.
I had the same problem and I ended up to build a simple web based pomodoro timer and time tracker called Tomatoes.

You can use it for free at http://tomatoes.heroku.com and get its source code at http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes
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Don't do things for the money solely; do you like to work in a startup, long and hard hours, knowing that they might belly-up when the startup-bubble bursts for a measly 14k extra? You can of course ask your boss for a raise anyway, that's usually a good plan if you didn't get one for a while.

It's important to consider stuff like: is this enough career advancement, do I need the money etc. Getting jobs for more money is not that hard if you would be looking atm, so other considerations outweigh the money.
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I tried the policizer with some copy and pasted policies but it frequently told me "CAN SELL" just because the text did not include any specifics regarding selling and bankruptcy

it that the intended behaviour?
Well, you can simply do 2 pomodoros without having the break.
few people are surprised Mark Pincus (Zynga CEO) would pull this.

A company that produces what I think are pretty scummy products is acting scummy? Why would anyone be surprised, especially the people working there?
I administer a community news and public affairs site. Early this year, after reading about bcrypt on hacker news, I witched the site authentication to bcrypt from salted md4 hash. http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2084
I think it's unlikely too - however I think the point being made is that maybe it's not completely optimized away yet. We are not at the pinnacle of evolution such that every part we have serves a clear purpose.
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Ask HN: What in your opinion, makes Steve Jobs Great?
I've seen many presentations of Steve Jobs, even-though I never buy Apple products (probably never will). I Envy him for creating so many meaningful advances in technology. I've been reading Steve Jobs book, and have also seen "Pirates of Silicon Valley" earlier, like always "the book is better". The film portrayed Jobs as a hero, mostly without reflecting his shortcomings, book goes into details of everything, good and bad. Seeing, his incredibly dramatic life, abusing employees, failed products, what in your opinion makes him the icon, people look upto.
Until recently, WHATWG had labelled the combination "Web Applications 1.0". Now it's just "HTML" (no "5") and subtitled "Living Standard".
But this makes your entire article nonsense, do you not get that?

People could have been clicking through more because one was better at conveying information than the other, so they didn't need to click through to make a purchasing decision. Maybe the list meant that they ignored the text?

What if the end result is you still only sold 20 boxes of tea for each? Your assumption would then be wrong, the grid would be better because it's serving less page views.

What if because the consumer had to click around more you actually had less sales? They took too long to find what they wanted?
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I've never heard a German not from Bavaria recommend living in Munich! Among my German friends (both in IT and elsewhere) it has the reputation of being the place for Bavarians, CSU-voting conservatives, and tourists looking for Oktoberfest and lederhosen. I think they're particularly annoyed that Americans' image of what Germany is like is so heavily based on Bavaria, too.

Their recommendation if you want to make a lot of money is to live in southern Baden-Württemberg and commute across the border to Switzerland, or if you want culture, to live in Berlin...
>France has had huge problems recently because they have strong 'workers rights'.

[citation needed]

France is doing fine. They laid off thousands in the Auto industry when they were in trouble. "Strong workers rights" isn't a "problem", it's a trade off. It has good sides and bad sides. IMO, more good than bad and I think this Zygna scandal just reinforces that.
I'm happy to hear it, just one more info about Tomatoes: it's free software and you can get its source at http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes
Well the origin of the term came because when Indians gave a gift they expected something equivalent in return or their gift back, i.e. it was bartering rather than gifting (OK, the source is Wikipedia so this is probably specious).

So Pincus is genuinely an Indian giver if the options are only being clawed back from people who underperformed. Of course there would be documentation predating the clawback threat which identifies such underperformance.
Evolution does not optimise away. It removes disadvantageous mutations.

I think there is something more than "either proven or disproven".

Then, I'm afraid, you are not a scientist.

This is not an invisible dragon: they have done an experiment and produced a result. If the effect is accurate, measurable and repeatable then it is fact.

If you can scientifically prove the existence of invisible dragons through experiment then I would be prepared to believe in them.

Have you ever seen a germ? An electron? A black hole? Here be dragons!
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I think it depends on the context, as above. If your friend that you know is well-educated sends you a message with loose grammar, are you going to go on thinking he's retarded now?

I don't do this personally, just taking a potential angle on the letter. It is interesting that some people are so judgmental and stringent about this, though.
But therein lies the conflict: They don't want to fire these people. They want them to keep working for Zynga, but not vest their options.

This isn't Zynga saying "I'm sorry, you're not pulling your weight, I'm going to have to let you go.", this is Darth Zynga saying "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further.".
It's fairly difficult to pinpoint something that humans have that couldn't have been placed there intelligently. Evolution drives organisms, if at all possible, to co-opt anything that develops because of structural constraints. Most of the time it is possible.

This class of traits is something that Steven J Gould named as evolutionary spandrels. So in practice, I would expect the ultraviolet receptors in the skin to have at least one meaningful function. The fact that exposing people to ultraviolet light changes their hormonal balance would tend to suggest this as well. They're definitely doing something.

As a separate argument, a creationist could also provide some information theoretic arguments for why some cells have pointless features. Unnecessary complexity in a biological organism, like in any other computer program, is a dangerous risk. As risk management, we might want to handle that danger by accepting a harmless redundancy and not building an additional subsystem that chaotically interacts with all our other subsystems.
Of the two sites of mine that I checked, one came up as "Danger! Warning! They're going to sell your information in case of a Bankruptcy!!!"

Why?

Reading one of the submitter's comments below, it seems to lump "sold the entire company, therefore the user database went with it" into the same category as "we're running out of money, so let's sell everybody's email addresses to spammers."

They're not in any way related. I'd suggest splitting out those two categories, as I suspect it will drop that "bankruptcy email fire sale" category down to somewhere near 0%.
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The Chinese horoscope compatibility demonstrates the properties of every man or women given birth to for a specific year.
No I'm saying that the lenders needed no government encouragement at all - they were making the loans because they were making money hand over fist. Simple. The government didn't force them, greed did.

Are you arguing that Countrywide made all of their so-called liar-loans based on the threat of government sanction? If yes, what percentage of loans were forced, by the government, under enforcement threat? Where's your data?