skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar reaction, so I blogged about it here: "News flash: Yes, Facebook is selling you to advertisers" http://gigaom.com/2011/12/23/news-flash-yes-facebook-is-sell...
"extreme cases, like working on sundays"

Oh, Germany.
Unions in developed countries with good labor laws don't make sense. They cater to the mediocre and the masses - and their policies go against the vien of competitiveness and innovation.
A threatens to shoot B.

Most informed and enlightened people agree that this is a terrible idea.

However, companies C through Z actively support this/don't oppose this shooting.

The Internet gets really pissed with one such company G. A grassroots movement pillories G. Thousands of people donate time, passion and money to this effort. Amazingly this works and G's revenue plummets.

Meanwhile, A shoots B.
Mysterious nodding syndrome spreading through Uganda
Tesla produces publicity rather more than cars.

Very well said! Tesla is in the business of marketing their brand and begging for corporate welfare, they only manage to build products as a side-effect.
Pitch to your grandma
I wish GoDaddy would retract their support already, then the internet might realize all this sound and fury over boycotting them is meaningless and a distraction from putting attention on the politicians.
As far as I understand, Europeans count stat holidays, and Americans don't.

A typical American gets 2 weeks of stat holidays on top of their 2 weeks of personal holidays, so that's almost the same as the European getting 4 weeks.
My guess is that it's too messy and too time/resource consuming to do cleanly.
They need to keep making the roadster.
People are so happy they can do something and get responses ("Our company will stop using G!") that they forget it's meaningless.
Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
Am I the only one who thought of that story about the programmer who occasionally checked in unnecessary loops, so that when performance bonus time came around he could just take them out?
We use easyDNS and they're great.
> Update (6:18 PM): GoDaddy seems unimpressed by the boycott so far. They made the following statement to Ars Technica: "Go Daddy has received some emails that appear to stem from the boycott prompt, but we have not seen any impact to our business. We understand there are many differing opinions on the SOPA regulations."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/godaddy-face...
I watched the second video. When I saw the launch rocket flip around and use its propulsion to come to a graceful, upright landing, my jaw dropped. That's simply not what rockets do in my lifetime of casual observation. Is it really possible to store enough propellant to boost the upper stages into space, and still provide a cushioned landing? Is that really doable?
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well I've seen some local jobs asking for people who can contributed to the core of Jquery or Prototype for example and their github accounts to go with that. If this fits in with your previous job description like you say it doesn't take long to tidy things up but being a really valid part of any open source community whether takes a lot of time and is definitely comparable to another part time job on top of a normal job
I've been managing the development team at my startup for 3 years now and have had zero engineer turnover. I follow a fairly simple process:

1. Make sure that people are learning.

2. Let people use new technologies and give them interesting challenges.

3. Make sure that people are paid above average salaries.

4. Keep the hiring bar high so that smart people get to work with smart people.

5. Demand that code quality stays high so that you don't have to work on a pile of shit.

Every time that I see an article like this I want to send the writer this list of things so that they can put it on their wall and look at it every day. It's really not that hard.
"""I especially hate it when schools and universities in my country (almost all the ones I know) make students use Visual Studio in CS 101. Most of these students struggle when confronted with a UNIX system where they actually have to use the shell to do tasks."""

I'm a UNIX fan myself (cut my teeth on Sun OS back in the day, and use OSX/Ubuntu today), but that could also be interpreted as a failure of the UNIX system, though.

If:

1) the end result is that same (produce a program that does something I want)
and
2) Visual Studio makes it easier

then why do we accept to go back to the harder way?

That should only happen by CHOICE, i.e because to get some specific benefits of not using an IDE, etc.

But if "they actually have to use the shell to do tasks" and they "struggle with it", this means that UNIX does not give them the option to bypass the IDE by choice, but by necessity.

"""Giving beginners raw components of a system to deal with rather than everything bundled together in point-and-click interfaces goes a long way in cultivating the hacker mindset."""

Perhaps, but I could care less about that kind of "hacker mindset", which I prefer to call "the tinkerer mindset".

For me the important thing is to work in INTERESTING and/or USEFUL problems, not play with the "raw components" and feel fulfilled by non-work like setting up a development environment.

Anything that removes the distance from thought to actual problem-specific code is nice.
GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA
There could be serious/hilarious consequences to this send-but-not-receive policy... inability to correct a mistake in an email sent right before the embargo-period... a bunch of work done on cancelled/already-solved issues... expectation mismatches with new/outside/other-time-zone correspondents.

For some reason I'm also reminded of the scene in Swingers where Jon Favreau's character leaves a string of increasingly pathetic chopped-off voice messages, each trying to soften/undo/complete the previous, but in the absence of real interactivity, failing miserably.
How to Talk to Congress about SOPA
The power of reality and real feedback from technology leaders - and not just a suit in an office checking the [yes] box on a document.

Amazing discussions on Reddit and Hacker News - it'll be till Sept 2012 that this goes to vote again, let's make sure the SOPA discussion doesn't die during this time.

Nice job keeping the fire on this.
> In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

> "Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," Jones said.

Translation: we got caught this time, but will not hesitate to do it again.
Gruber gets it right:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/23/samsung-ics
This didn't take long:

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...
You seem to be ignoring the fact that although an easy step, it also has to be taken.
Being able to survive on Mars is irrelevant if you can't even get there.
Short selling doesn't cause a stock's price to go down; it allows you to profit if it does. Basically, if I want to short a stock, I borrow it from you and agree to give it back on a certain day (paying some fee for the privilege). I then sell the stock. If it goes down, I can buy it back for less money, return it to you, and pocket the difference. If it goes up, I still have to return the stock to you, so I'm out the difference.

There are ways of manipulating stock prices, but they're generally illegal and short-selling isn't really one of them.
I'd totally lease one to try it out and see if it fits my lifestyle and availability of charging stations in my city.
Hashtags don't work here. It would be different if he said "Just saying..." instead of using a tag from a social network. Also, how does it leave "everyone with their underwear in a twist"?
I agree with the maintainers. I view these pre-configured init files as a good middle ground. They help you be productive while you learn.
For a few months that's possible, but at 12 months it starts getting tricky if you ever want a job again. May be less of a problem in tech, but in a lot of areas if you're "long-term unemployed", HR just screens out your resume; companies seem to only want to hire employed or recently-employed people (cf. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/tribu/ct-biz-0905-wor...).
That solves problems and creates problems.

Many things that are decided today based upon merit or by management discretion become tenure based. That is good and bad.

The good:
- Your contract will require things to be done in a fair and equitable way, per the contract.
- Your pay will be more predictable.
- Benefits will probably be better.
- You will have an advocate in the event of a dispute.

The bad:
- Your contract will require things to be done in a fair and equitable way, per the contract.
- Everyone has an incentive to stick around.
- Certain types of people are very good at manipulating systems to their benefit. (This is present in all organizations, but the dynamic is different with a union)

I've worked in union positions in the past. IMO, the best thing about it is that there are no secrets with regard to compensation.
GoDaddy drops support for SOPA
I know I'll get downvoted since HN frowns upon culture and fun, but 'qdog: code mercenary' has a nice ring to it. Get someone to make a webcomic about your exploits.
Well that was a quick turn around.
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Erm, I've never received so little holiday, even when I worked low paid manual work.

Currently I get 25 days per year not including 6 days stat, for 31 days total or just over 6 weeks total. This is considered average for London and the UK, I would consider 5 weeks to be the absolute low end in the UK. At the upper end in London the news about the Tube Drivers strike disclosed that they have 40+ days holiday, which is just over 8 weeks.

When I lived in Sweden the numbers were higher, with it being compulsory to take a fortnight in a contiguous block in the summer. The UK is the worst of the lot, and we have it OK.

Just my experience, but it varies so greatly from what you're quoting that I felt obliged to respond.
GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA:

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...
Clean out your ears. We The People are making a statement: corporations with no regard to the rights and liberty of individuals and who buy out politicians are going down.

Simple as that.
Realistically, the best way to stop systemically bad legislation like SOPA is just to keep delaying and delaying it until it loses momentum and peters out (at which time another systemically bad piece of legislation will arrive to take its place, starting the cycle over again).
GoDaddy Drops SOPA support
It seems to make sense to me if A only answers to C through Z.
It depends on the country, but Denmark counts them separately: there are 12 official state holidays that you get off regardless, plus a minimum of 5 weeks of movable holidays (often 6, but 5 is mandatory), so 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 weeks total.
Your Bloomberg interview was the first time I'd seen or heard you speak publicly and you came across as likable and intelligent. Doing an interview about SOPA would be free and easy.

But an essay would be better than a presidential-address-style prepared speech. That has the potential to jump the shark and be a time sink.
Even if you assume the compiler is perfect and only making semantically valid transformations, changing performance characteristics often changes your odds of hitting race conditions.
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It's a pattern of behavior from Samsung, those of us that bought the original Galaxy Tab 7 inch are still waiting for an update that will never come. Abandonment of the platform to sell hardware is a huge issue in the Android market since most of the vendors are pure play hardware vendors, they have no incentive to add features to sold products. I believe that Google saw this problem in part of their move for Motorola.
I could've sworn I read a post from them yesterday saying they didn't care and it wasn't affecting business.
that is not true. In Europe, when you say "I have 30 days of holidays", that means 30 days that you can personally take off whenever you want (more or less). National holidays, like Christmas, are never counted because they are free for everybody. So assuming the US and Europe have a similar number of national holidays, you get about 2x more personal holidays in Europe.

(Again, this varies. In Germany it is usually around 28-30, in Spain around 22)
Maybe it just means that Mono is much more well suited for games and embedded usage. Which arguably is the case.
These guys make DRM. Who wants to work on that, except possibly as a i-need-money-now-but-i'll-take-the-first-non-douchy-job-that-comes-up play?

It's like a land-mine CEO complaining that it's hard to find smart, well-educated workers.
It's what the Lunar Lander did, though it's a bit easier to do on the Moon.
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I couldn't believe what I was reading when he said "They leave after a year for better-paying jobs." No, really?! Imagine that! I wonder what might possibly help with retention...
They are simply NOT trustworthy.
>We understand there are many differing opinions on the SOPA regulations.

That's a funny thing to say, because so far I've seen nothing but unequivocal disagreement with the bill from everyone who isn't a corporate shill.

Granted, this might be confirmation bias, and the reasons for disagreement are indeed quite widespread, but I've yet to see someone support this bill for any reason but "I'm involved with an industry or corporation that will profit from this bill" or "I am paid to support it".

tl;dr: Either you're against SOPA, or you're part of the group that profits from it, to the detriment of everyone else.
You're ignoring the longterm effects of someone who chronically creates work for others due to their lack of preparation or ability. It is not good for a company to put itself under stress like that. It's especially poisonous when the person shifting and creating work like that is in a leadership position in the organisation because it sets the template for everyone else. Organisations that let that kind of behavior run rampant; fail to achieve.

Being able to distinguish between a real emergency and a real problem that is solvable in the normal course of operations is an essential skill.
As an average FB user I must admit I don't see the appeal in Timeline. I don't find it clear nor readable but it could be some resistance to change.
I've noticed they are directly tweeting to people like @aplusk and @photomatt, trying to get the word out. Obviously the community has made a dent in their bottom line.
Or, you know, run emacs on the server and write a "ssh based client" for it. :)

What would be the value of running in a browser specifically? The files you are editting almost by definition live outside the browser's sandbox. And if they're going to be managed server-side, it seems like there's a perfectly working 40 year old paradigm for managing files on a remote host.
There have been plenty of mentions of Jerry Seinfeld's 'secret' to productivity. Any method that you stick with can work, and Commit is a fun way to track your progress. Love the design Nathan - so elegant and intuitive!
That European social model is about to go bankrupt. (The American one soon thereafter, though not for lack of hard work.)
Bunch of weasels.
They will think at least twice about it before lending their name to such a thing publicly.
He is not relying on the Space program...
OTOH, it's just your personal page, not your news feed. One probably has 100x the daily hits of the other.
What do you think happens to "good labor laws" in the absence of unions?

An unfortunate consequence of our lobbyist-driven system is that the most effective way for people outside the 1% (actually more like the 0.1%) to get any positive attention from the government is for them to band together and hire their own lobbyists.
Ok everybody, transfer all your domains back... :-P
Again, the people have won. I am truly looking to see someone productize the power of the people on internet, and urging us to vote for and against a company with our dollars. A place where we can see what each company is up to (socially, and in other ways), and encouraging or discouraging consumers to work with them.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...you can't get fooled again, once you're fooled. ~George W. Bush.

The man said it himself. They are not trustworthy.
I've heard this called "serial balancing" among startuppers, in this old piece and a more recent one I can't find the link for at the moment:

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/27/jobs/in-high-technology-th...
Reversing a decision only after costumers leave you in droves doesn't show your trust worthy. They either didn't understand the bill (in which case they shouldn't write a letter supporting it), or they are only changing now waiting for the bad PR to die down. If you have domains with them it is still worth switching to a company that will always publicly support freedom over oppressing peoples views to attempt to prevent some IP infringement. The rights to freedoms are more important than the rights to absolute control over corporations IP.
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GD's response should lie in the positive feedback loop for the boycott. Press on.
> In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

Translation: Go Daddy removed all incriminating evidence of it's past.
GoDaddy has been under fire for years for various reasons. While the SOPA boycott was definitely worthwhile and effective, we should really understand the power that the community has to influence a company's practices, and maybe shouldn't wait until it gets as bad as SOPA support to do this again in the future?
They actually already did: http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...

I still say people should withdraw their domains from GoDaddy regardless of their stance on SOPA. It's bad enough that they already did support it, but other entities who do support it need to realize that people won't put up with this kind of crap.
The only thing this means is that community action actually made a difference. That's immensely reassuring.

Can we keep doing this, but for SOPA itself?
More like "GoDaddy no longer publicly supports SOPA".

Just looking out for their bottom line, I'm sure.
The main "good" bullet point that I think we're missing in tech isn't so much the pay as some sort of collective advocacy on onerous contract provisions. If you're very much in demand, you can cross out parts of your employment contract individually, but it's often hard to individually negotiate those kinds of variances, while lots of people negotiating together could probably get a more reasonable deal.

The alternative is to negotiate really collectively at the government level and outright ban the onerous contract provisions, like California's done with many forms of noncompetes.
I could've sworn they said they would ignore negative customer feedback and spin off a company called "Qwikster".
Agree. They changed their mind because they were threaten. It's not an honest communication, they are just trying to avoid losing money/business.
Lol though anyone who called themselves an engineer would be on a non fixed hours contract any how - its part of the whole profession vs the grunts on the production line.

And I bet the demarcation lines in engineering grades are enforced rigidly in Germany.
Jimmy Wales has updated his user talk page a few minutes ago:

I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on #sopa is unacceptable to us. (More details below.)--Jimbo Wales (talk) 18:53, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Consider_...
I read it. The benefits are awfully dubious, and the downside is significant. It reinvents a wheel in the most literal sense. It claims to fix problems that are already addressed, or are easily addressable, in the current implementation and derivatives like rsyslog.

Lennart's not even planning on documenting the format.
I am going to do this if Wikimedia dumps them, even though Go Daddy has come out against it (though in the most half-assed way possible).
I second this! Readability ftw
There's a whole bunch of companies in this space, checkout this thread on linkedin:

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/hiring-human-resources/staff...
The Only Way to Stop SOPA
I don't believe GoDaddy on this, and I certainly wouldn't trust them.
We're getting used to it.

Samsung is well-known for not supporting their devices. It will be interesting to see if google forces a change with the Nexus.

It will be especially interesting to watch and compare the upgrade-schedule for the near-identical Nexus and Galaxy S2.

Oh, and we're also getting used to the next android finally being The Good Version of Android. I played around with a Nexus and it was still quite laggy. But I'm sure the next android version will finally fix that...
I am still going to transfer all of my domains anyhow. They should not have supported it from the start.
Well, it looks nice and polished. Haven't tried it yet, I will later. If I was looking for such an app I would have considered it, have I known about it.

But: it's an RSS Reader.

Most people have already settled on one by now -- NetNewsWire or Reeder mostly, but there are tons of others out there.

I don't see any great differentiating factor from those two, so any success you can have can only come from:

1) being there first with that app (you weren't)
2) having more visibility (which you don't, ie. less money to spend on ads, less reviews for you app in re: Reeder and NNW, etc).

My suggestions:

1) Check the sore spots of other RSS Readers, especially the market leaders and try to correct some of those. Then post about how you corrected such and such.

2) Add some unique, your-app-only, feature. Or a bunch of them. Post about those again.

3) Engage the community of potential buyers. Setup a forum and ask people what they would like to see in an RSS Reader. Add the best/more popular of the suggestions.
Perhaps it's telling that you intentionally left the links out because you didn't want your genuine question to look like a veiled sales pitch? I know personally I'm not a good salesman, and I also would have been inclined to leave out the link for the same reason.

Perhaps the problem is that you haven't been doing a good job of selling your product to the people you talk to?

Your app looks beautiful, and if it's as good as it looks, it deserves to be used. It will help people. It will be worth the cost to them. You'll be doing them a favor by selling to them. But people don't realize that, and (unfortunately) products cannot always sell themselves. So what you might need right now is to learn salesmanship or hire someone to help you with that. Get that person in contact with bloggers. If you have an amazing product but can't convince people why they need it, it's a real shame.

This is just speculation. Best of luck to you!