skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Close loop with family and extended family
2. Same with friends
3. Explore culture (Europe/US/Canada/South America)
4. Hackerspace courier/evangelist
5. Documentary production/location shooting/stock shot collection
6. Meeting incubator: create meetings with people you've always wanted to meet
7. Nationwide volunteer: Habitat for Humanity/Red Cross/Hyperlocal Blood Donor (if you have a rare blood type)

Never feel guilty, just be creative.
> At it's core email is a list of messages that require further actions.

That's not always the case, in fact I read a lot more than I write emails.

I feel they took one use case of email and tried to solve it. Email is complicated because it has plenty of use cases and everyone uses it differently.
>Scarcity is a myth. There is plenty of food and shelter for everyone.

But only because people have incentives to produce food and shelter. Take away those incentives and there will certainly be scarcity.

>If there are no jobs then take the wealth from the superrich and use it to feed the poor. Human life trumps property rights.

No it doesn't. Or rather, you can't have a functioning economy without property rights, and then you'll have millions starving. We've been down this road, so this shouldn't be a point of contention. It's no coincidence China's economy didn't start growing until they junked all that silly Marxist claptrap and started to respect property rights.

I just have to ask - how old are you? I don't see how anyone could have reached middle age and hold these opinions.
With regards to skills, executing scripts written by others and finding zero day exploits require different levels of skill. Additionally he also may be very young, thus not understanding the implications of what he is doing, or how others perceive immature language.
"Social scientists and educators"? That's what I want to do - entrust my future to people who were too dumb to do anything that involves math.
Clarification: Are you actually claiming that the Fukushima reactor caused more deaths than a coal plant would have or are you just nitpicking the word "safe"?
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Yeah, that is one of the problems of working for a large company. If its any consolation one of the reasons that pushed me into leaving Google was they had this horrendous "we own any App you write for a phone" clause in their employment agreement.

It would be interesting to know how your company would react if you quit and decided to market this product.
Not in a single place but mostly in Boulder and New York. http://www.techstars.com/about/jobs/
Just keep running
Tonight I went out for a run, and 2 miles in I tripped and fell, cutting my knee and forcing my bad shoulder back out of place. Pried my shoulder back in place, made sure I could put weight on my leg, and finished the run as I had planned it.

Earlier in the day, I closed the first (and badly needed) major cash infusion from an outside source to my startup after 8 months of pure bootstrapping.

It the feeling I got after getting home from that run was remarkably similar to the feeling I got from finally getting the money my company needed.
Sure, but retirees had many decades to save up enough money to survive without a job. Since poverty is the default condition of human existence, i.e. all you have to do to be poor is not do anything to make money, most people will need some kind of gainful employment.
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I worked at a place with free food and this exact thing happened. At first it was order any two meals off seamlessweb.com a day. Then it was order one meal, which meant people ordered enough food for two or three meals once a day. Then there were spending limits. Then there was a "town hall meeting" the CEO claimed he had been doing some investigations an came across a worker who was drinking ten cans of coke a day. Out of concern for our health, they would be eliminating all beverages except water coolers. Then meals were only free for certain people. Then free meals went away.

It is easy to eliminate these kinds of perks because many people will be in favor of cost cutting. Not so for salary, not many people will argue in favor of across the board salary cuts. I'll take salary every time.
That's really weird for an iPhone app who's capable and was designed to answer anything under the sun.
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Apple has had over 90% market share since the iPad came out. It's a monopoly by all definitions of the word.
The most important rule of salary negotiation:
Always let them make an offer first. If you're lucky it's higher than what you would have proposed, so you'll just accept it.
If it's lower you just continue to negotiate.
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The middle class is smaller because we've added fifty million immigrants (legal and illegal) to the bottom end. So of course the people who were here make up a smaller percentage of the total.
What about that 10% raise the whole company got?
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Curious.. Do you think it is possible for someone to have an addiction to posting on FB or Tweeting on Twitter? I have heard people say such things like I "spent hours on Facebook and I don't know why?"
In aggregate, this would result in fewer products being purchased and fewer jobs. That said, the conditions in these jobs appear to humane- with a few exceptions.
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Way to put a positive spin on the article :)

Don't forget the lesson though -- if you use an extra-curricular in a negotiation it's no longer extra-curricular.
I've heard that tactic before, and it's a good one.

However, how do you force them to give you a number first? The only tactic I can think of is to say 'give me market rates'. One time, they just kept pressing for more and more of a number until I blurted out something. In this case it was $80k, in a Rocky Mountain state, in 2004, fresh out of college. I don't think it worked in my favor.
I wonder if they plan to take a percentage of the funds raised. I can see this being problematic.

I think it's reasonable to say WeTheLobby needs to keep the lights on. I think I'd feel a lot better providing ongoing contributions if I knew WeTheLobby were a NonProfit and either publicly disclosed all management salaries or had a salary cap.

Anyone here from WeTheLobby willing to chime in?
How does this have anything to do with the passive voice? They could easily have written "Jobs told by Palm CEO that deal was likely legal."
Jonathan Coulton said it well:

"I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time."

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
> Has rachelbythebay ever written a post that is not about bashing Google as evil or all engineers as sexist?

Suppose Hitler said exercising is good for health. Now Hitler was one sick son of a bitch, but that has nothing to do with whether exercising is good.

May be rachelbythebay holds a grudge against Google, but here she is specifically pointing out negotiators taking free food into account while negotiating, cafes closing down and shortage of food.

I don't know about you, but her article sounds pretty genuine to me.

That might be because I dislike the "green initiatives." Most of the "green initiatives" are done as a PR move or cost cutting measure, totally disregarding the employees.

At an earlier workplace, man, was I pissed when they replaced the urinal flushes with bio cubes. Thankfully, it didn't last long(1 week).

Another workplace switched off escalators after 5 in the evening, even though the escalators were the auto on/off model, and didn't consume much power when they weren't actively used. What pissed me off more was when there was some HR conference going on in the same building, the power saving mode wasn't engaged.

I remember the conversation with a senior folk:

Me: Hey, escalators are working today?

Oh, there is a HR conference going up on the 2nd floor, and people need to use it.

Me: Has it ever fucking occurred to you that there are engineers working on the 3rd floor, who regularly stay well after 5, and need to use the escalators?

Oh, you can use the stairs or the elevator in the other section? Come on, it's not a big deal - we are being green.
Also, if you're somehow pressured into making the first offer, aim high and let them negotiate down from there.
At the end:
Or, worse, they'll assign blame to "rogue contractors" and say it was never their policy to do that. Right.

Now where have we heard that before? Rogue contractors?

I may be wrong, but... Is she implying that (in her personal opinion), Google knew and instructed them about OpenStreetMap sabotage? That's controversial at least.

Edit: I mean, I'm not defending anyone, but without proofs, I think that's a very harsh sentence.
That's the best thing customers should do, password-reset and should be encrypted.
I don't think I've ever read a post by her previously but I'm looking at her index of posts and at least by title there sure seems to be a lot of variety.

Regardless of her previous comments on Google (I don't think sexism is relevant here) I don't think the authorship in this case warrants dismissal. I think your point about 10% salary increase is relevant, but perk-baiting itself is a very important issue that more new hires should be aware of.

I've seen this many times in many different industries. Without good advice early on I would have fallen for it myself more than once, I'm sure.

So let's not shoot the messenger in this case.
I don't follow the ins and outs of Canadian politics quite as closely as perhaps I should, but I was under the impression that the federal funding still exists. Wikipedia[1] seems to agree:

> For each registered federal political party that received at least 2% of all valid votes the last general election or at least 5% of the valid votes in the electoral districts in which it had a candidate, the per-vote subsidy, also referred to as the "government allowance", gives the party an inflation-indexed subsidy each year of $2.04 per vote received in the last election.

Now, Wikipedia can be inaccurate, I know, but major changes like this do tend to get documented, and major pages like this tend to have a lot of people watching it, so I'm reasonably confident in this content.

If you have a citation which refutes this, however, please do share because I'd hate to walk around believing false facts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in...
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The author complains that she was dissatisfied with her offer six years prior but took the job anyway. Then it turns into a rant about how she was robbed of her entitlements.

"But what happens when the economy improves? Those wounds will never heal. Anyone with half a brain will say "hey, these guys are evil!" and will bail for greener pastures."

Because they don't have bagels in the microkitchen Google is evil?

As someone who works at Google, I can assure you that the microkitchens are overflowing with drinks, snacks, fruits, coffees, and candies, The cafeterias are plentiful(24 in mountain view alone) and the food is incredibly delicious, even for a foodie like myself.

Plus, the pay is very competitive. The author must not have stuck around for this:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-11-09/tech/30024423...

It's unfortunate that her experience didn't end well, but this article comes across as hyperbolic and catty.
Thanks, these ideas are awesome. Only concern I have is with Airport Security becoming suspicious of someone going around taking videos and photos of the airport. But I'm sure that can be mitigated by establishing a rapport with them and explaining to them what I'm doing ahead of time.

The duty free shops thing is a great idea too. Gotta do a little more research regarding what's already out there in that arena, but the ability to travel definitely would be a significant advantage! Thanks again! BTW, where are you planning on travelling to?
It is amusing that Google offers "free lunches". I wonder how many compensation discussions include the quip, "there is no such thing as a free lunch".

Just out of curiosity, does Google gross up salaries for tax purposes? I really think the IRS needs to crack down on companies using excessive perks as non-taxable compensation.

If Google is using the perks to justify a "lower but equivalent salary" then they should be paying taxes on the non-cash compensation. If they are not, then Google is taking advantage of a shady tax dodge.
I'm having a hard time sympathizing. At the end of her negotiation, this was the state of the world: the company didn't want to go any higher, and some handwaving about how much food was worth was enough to convince her to fold.

Why bother calculating "effective salary"? Personally, anything that isn't cold, hard cash I view as tangential to my compensation. Even options are questionable - sometimes the salary hit over 4+ years is comparable to the additional options' value. Sure, perks can make the work environment nicer. I'll take that into consideration given competing offers. But it seems silly to attempt to fix a monetary value on these things that the company has no contractual requirement to fulfill.
There is a happy medium between outright fucking communism and outright corporate fascism.

The superrich acquired their wealth through illegitimate means: nepotism, cronyism, bribery, monopoly, oligopoly, war-mongering, and all sorts of predatory scams.

Money acquired through illegitimate means is illegitimate and anti-meritocratic. Property rights do not apply to those who distort markets for their own benefit or avoid competing in the marketplace by creating a cartel or bribing a politician.

Superrich who engage in this behaviour are making themselves bigger than the market and bigger than the state, they are making themselves into autocrats, aristocrats, plutocrats, tyrants, slave-holders.

China is a slave state dominated by unmeritorious Party cronies and their nepotism. Chinese workers are slaves.

The proper response to slavery is rebellion and liberation. Humans are obligated to provide for themselves, not to be enslaved by psychopathic businessmen and broken economic systems.

When CEOs award themselves $100million salaries and golden parachutes they are engaging in cronyism and oligopoly. The free market no longer holds sway and this is immoral. Money gained through these methods is not private property, it is stolen goods.

Anyone who distorts a market or corners a market is an enemy of the public and forfeits their property.
Reminds me of Slashdot comments.
Is it that different from getting "pager duty"?
So this is the CMOS equivalent of the astronauts whose retinas are bombarded by cosmic rays? Neat stuff.
Like every other interesting StackOverflow question I ever see, it's been closed.
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> it does not work for scp and sftp

The .ssh/config tip does work though. I'd rather have them there anyway since I can give the host an alias.

Host myproxy
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User xxxx
Port xxxx

and ssh will autocomplete on my<Tab>
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Came here to say this... as a former google intern... if this was your reasoning for hating google, you weren't right google in the first place.
The direct cause of poverty is the police. A naturally born human goes into the forest and hunts for deer to eat. Then the police arrest him and throw him in jail.

He was not born poor; he had a forest full of food. The police made him poor.

In this way what you are calling natural poverty is actually a creation of civilization. The natural state of a human is that he may live off the land. Civilization has broken this connection in favor of the state and so the state has an obligation to the human to provide him with a fair chance.

Note that the superrich or even the middle class are not born in poverty. Rather they are born with silver spoons in their mouth. How is that justice? These wealthy families then engage in nepotism to ensure the wealth of their offspring at the expense of the poor. This is deeply unmeritocratic and is injustice. For these upper classes to then turn around and tell the poor to be enslaved or die is the height of evil.
I was just about to go to sleep, but this is an important question.

We want to spend as much money as we can on lobbying efforts. The site itself was made completely pro bono because we all believe in the idea.

We are committed to being as financially transparent as possible. Right now our only costs are for hosting and setting up the site; a little under $100 to date. As things progress we will disclose the information on the "money" page.

As for operational costs, we've toyed with the idea of having a separate donations page to fund the site; keeping the money pledged for lobbying separate. There is also the more obvious method of taking a percentage.

Again, once decisions are made, we will fully disclose these changes. But as stated earlier we are committed to ensuring as much money as possible is spent on lobbying related to the cause.
My wife works at Google. We both live in San Jose, and she frequently gets the shuttle to work in the Mountain View office. For tax reasons, I'm not allowed to get the shuttle with her to or from work, so I'm pretty sure that some if not all perks are offset somehow. Various things like the holiday gift (this year it was a galaxy nexus) are also offset for tax on your payslip. Net it works out at zero to you, as Google puts extra money into your paycheque to cover the extra tax charge.
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- Technology is not taken seriously in this country. That's the bottom line.

Truth. I have (a surprisingly large amount of) friends who don't have internet to their house and the only website they visit is facebook on their phone.

Our current wired network is patchy and crowded, at best, even in population hubs. Gaps have been tried to be filled with wireless networks but with the proliferation of the smartphone all of the towers are oversold with prohibitive plans ($10/gb at least prepaid). The NBN might help but it will be many years before even 50% of aussies have access to it.

It's an uphill battle with our tiny population density combined with relatively low demand for top tier internet service.
I think responses will be less friendly if the only communication channel available is limited to 140 letters, that's just a limitation of the medium.

Responses towards constructive criticism have mostly been friendly, honest and helpful, I can't complain about that.

I think there is more talk about "bad reputation" than actual "bad reputation".

In the end, no one is arguing that. But there is a difference between what a person _could_ do and what is sensible.
Pretty much spot on of course, anyone who was at Google 'before' can trace the dots to today.

One of the benefits of a generous set of perks is that management can adjust the expense once they get close to the end of the quarter so that the 'numbers come out right.' Google is losing that ability. It makes things like their Q4 'miss' [1] more likely.

It is of course entirely Google's prerogative on how they spend their money. And if you look at their Q4 results [2] they deposited 2.97 billion dollars into the bank in cash based on the work done by their 32,467 employees. That is $91,477 in cash for the 90 days that ended December 31st. Lets say every employee ate 3 gourmet meals a day, at a cost of $15+$25+$50 or $90, and consumed another $25 in snacks so $115 per employee per day. (and those are gonna be some fat employees!) That is 32,467 x $115 x 90 days or $335 million dollars. Or about 11 cents of each dollar they dropped into the bank. The numbers of course reflect the costs that a typical restaurant would charge that was profitable, and $25 a day in snacks? That is probably way beyond what most anyone would eat so these numbers are way over if anything.

But at some point between the original prospectus where Larry and Sergei told potential investors that they were going to spend a lot on perks like this so get used to it; to today, where sometimes elaborate explanations about social consciousness and environmental justice precede the denial of those perks. Someone decided the company's interest was to build a cash pile, not invest in quality of life benefits for the rank and file. Sad really, they are the kind of company that can afford to do it, and now they choose not to. So much for being different.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/googles-strong-...

[2] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2011/Q4_google_earnings....
I'm pretty sure that nobody would have rejected the RSA paper with a note that argued that there was some 32-bit limit. If I've got my history correct, the Diffie-Hellman _New Directions in Cryptography_ paper had already been published, and it already used the same basic mathematical operation (exponentiation modulo a large number). Everyone knew that, sooner or later, a full public-key encryption algorithm would be found.
> I'm rather disappointed at the limited C++11 support in the upcoming Visual Studio 2012

As a C user who's been waiting 12 years for MSVC to implement C99, I had to sardonically laugh when I read this. They don't even let you declare variables in the middle of a block!

Ironically the excuse they always give is that their customers want them to dedicate more of their time to C++11, not C: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/3...
> Why bother calculating "effective salary"? Personally, anything that isn't cold, hard cash I view as tangential to my compensation

During the work week, I typically grab breakfast on the way to work ($5.10 at McDonalds, plus $1.25 for a drink out of the vending machine at work). If I have lunch, it might be Subway (around $7). Maybe dinner from Wendy's ($7). Toss in a snack somewhere in there and I'm at over $20/day.

If work provided acceptable free breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that would save me $5000/year. That seems big enough to me to not ignore when comparing jobs.
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> I guess my question comes down to what is the difference between contributing to whichever campaign forwards a platform and bribery (the assumption that Dodd was engaging in the latter being what caused the furor)?

Dodd's implication is that the politicians should not have listened to their constituents. Or at least that's how I pick up on it. The tone says to me that his money should have solidified or shaped the opinions of those his industry donated to.

That's very different from trying to get someone elected because you believe their view of how to best serve their constituents aligns with your platform. Now, I'm sure you will find many people here who will argue that that, too, is corrupt. But it's not so blatant.

However, there's one more piece to the puzzle: None of the politicians have said they are going to give up on passing legislation that fights copyright infringement. They've shelved two bills, that's it. They haven't announced any bad intentions toward his platform, and they haven't established a pattern of ignoring his platform. So to claim that they aren't supporting his platform would be a gross overreaction. It more like Dodd feels his industry is entitled to these particular bills, and he is whining that they didn't get them.