skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a well spread practice in the federal government around here, since you've been in Argentina for many years by now I'm surprised you've just found out.

The government is the biggest "en negro" employer of the country. It's also the biggest hirer of workers under precarious conditions such as fixed time contracts. Ironically, one of the biggest "en negro"-hiring branches of the federal government is the Labour Ministry. I suppose you're also not surprised by this, since you must already know the government to be the biggest everything in Argentina :P

Hiring "en negro" or under precarious conditions is not only terrible because of tax evading, in this case they would only be cheating themselves. It mainly sucks to be employed that way because you loose (or its harder for you to enforce on your employer) most of the labor benefits you usually get when you are employed by someone here. In Argentina that means no social security, health plan, granted days of leave to study for exams, extra money on holidays, bonus 13th month salary, increasing days for vacations when employed for more than 5/10 years, etc... the list is in fact pretty extensive.
I'm serving mostly cached html from the server.
This is exactly why Facebook should not do an IPO. Regardless of whether or not these rumors are true, hungry public investors will demand significant revenue and profit growth regardless of long term plans and prospects.

I'm afraid that this IPO is going to be a mess.

This might be where we see Zuckerburg get in over his head.
Many of these client-side JS-heavy apps are private "workspace"-like pages ... nothing that would ever need to be indexed by the Googlebot.

If you want to serve screen readers, then yes, you need to make sure you're serving only reader-compatible HTML and JavaScript.
I've driven my car until the tank was empty, then left home to go on a trip for two weeks. When I came back, there was still enough fuel to let me go get more.

Everyone seems to think that Tesla owners are housebound in these threads.
Much of modern macroeconomics revolves around the theory of expectations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_expectations

So, one way to diminish the crippling effects of inflation is to lie and say there is none. Of course, as you say, in the long run you'll get hammered, as people's expectations fly out of whack and they are required to guestimate future rates of inflation.
"predicting Facebook's advertising revenue growth will slow"

They are talking about second derivation here, right?
I'm skeptical, but even so, I still need to render it on the server for googlebot.
In all fairness even the guy who did something got $850 for his months of work. Not exactly bloodying up anyone's nose with that kind of a settlement.
I feel like using AdBlock is unethical. You are using a sites resource, while depriving them of the revenue they need to provide you that resource. I vote with my feet so to speak, and stick mostly to sites with subdued advertising.
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Not many people would bother keeping the receipt for their vehicle batteries.
Crawlers, less so. The major search engines are getting smarter about it, but for now, you still need some kind of HTML output from the server if you really want to be indexed properly.

It doesn't rule out a pure client-side app at all, but you do have some extra work involved to output HTML from the server. Which is why NodeJS will ride on the coat-tails of this approach; less redundancy.
They should just limit comments to those who have paid subscriptions. Typically the Economist has a decent comments section when nutters like this batch don't show up. Sure, if it's part of a concerted effort by an organization they can just buy a few subscriptions but at least it'd keep the one-offs out.
Seems like a pittance, given the value you're receiving in return.
If I leave my house long enough, the roof will decay and I'll get massive water damage.

If that happens in the space of 1-2 months of no maintenance, you have a very, very, very shoddy house.
Also, if you get or already have MDR-7506, I strongly recommend getting the velour pads! They are made by beyerdynamic and are really for DT-250 but fit fine to MDR-7506.

Since I didn't find a product number to give you, here's an amazon link http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-Velour-Earcushions-MDR750... that lists them currently unavailable though, but just to give you easier time finding them from some other retailer.

bayerdynamic DT-770 is another popular choice in pro-use (just anecdotal evidence). My experience is that they are slightly more bass-heavy than Sony MDR-7506, but the sound is very equal otherwise. Also their round shape did not fit my head as well and caused pain on long sessions. Overall I see that some might prefer them over MDR-7506.
It's pretty much impossible to read any article about banking/economics/finance nowadays without people spewing nonsense about conspiracy. Pretty sad, when the understanding and information is so important to everyone in the world.
I worked with Steve for a number of years at Williams.

One of the most remarkable things about Steve is that he never retired. He came into the Williams plant every day up until the close of the pinball division and for years after. He was in his late eighties by that point.

I've never had a job before or since where I could walk across the hall and speak with someone that was in the business since nearly the beginning. The man had over 60 years of pinball knowledge in his head and readily accessible. He would always take time to answer any question you had. We avoided a lot of mistakes by having someone like him on our team.

At Steve's wake an ex-coworker remembered a story about how AutoCAD was first showing up on the design floor. Pins were still designed on drafting tables up until the early 90s. Steve saw a few guys trying out AutoCAD and immediately ran to the store and installed it on his machine. He was probably 85 at the time.

Every time I read a HN story about being too old for the job, I remember that story.
The AT&T subscriber agreement requires you settle claims through binding arbitration. You give up the right to enter a class action suit by subscribing. The Supreme Court has upheld these clauses in contracts as valid. This was in the article, above the fold.

It's unlikely there will be a class action suit.
None of that is true. If you think it is, you're in a sheltered bubble too focused on the new hotness from the valley. Out in the real world, where there are millions upon millions of business apps being written, most people are still banging out apps server side.
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Coincidentally, I just went out today and bought a pair of Bose QC 15's at lunchtime after someone from our customer service department was moved into the next cubicle. You can imagine the constant chatting.

These phones worked surprisingly well for blocking human voices, which is something that they weren't designed for and are not known for.

Add a little low-level music and I was in my own little world.
The data sample sizes are too small to draw any real conclusion, but it's pretty obvious what's going on.

Audiophiles care about sound quality more than anything, and spend time researching what kind of cans fit their personal listening preferences as well as listening environment. They spend money on headphones because music and audio quality is their passion/hobby.

Hackers, for the most part, have more money to spend than the average "consumer", but music and audio quality isn't necessarily their hobby. If those Bose ads are everywhere and the mini-stores are in airports, or if everyone and their mother has "Beats" labeled headphones/earphones, then they're more likely to just spend whatever their budget is on Bose or Beats, because since it's not their passion, they are less likely to research.

So we end up with hackers paying more for worse listening experiences than audiophiles. I bet car enthusiasts get a better deal on buying used cars than audiophiles. And chefs pick out better produce than car enthusiasts.

Is this really interesting?
badness such as this IS background radiation, but for private companies. On the eve of a highly anticipated IPO, these types of rumors that strike at the core of Facebook's business could quickly blossom to full-on nuclear fusion - regardless of whether or not they are true.

I don't disagree that Facebook's prospects look extremely strong, but I do think that their decision to IPO now was wrong and potentially sets up a poisonous precedent for how they run and manage their business.

Facebook is still figuring out how to properly grow their revenue model, and now they'll be faced with the very public distractions of being a public company. Not only that, it opens up all kinds of intelligence for competitors.

I think that Mark and his team are in for one heck of a ride this year. And it isn't going to be fun.
Who is behind TweetRoast?
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Hah! "The major search engines" - you mean Google, right? ;)
Here's an article that describes a $77.5B TV advertising market in 2008:

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/can-google-c...

Here we see a 750MM subscriber base in the US:

http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/19/internet-and-telco-tv-eat-away...

So, that's what, ~$100 per subscriber...PER YEAR, to compensate for zero commercials? I hope my math is wrong!
Which is the only perspective that matters for the company.
You're probably thinking of the V600 which has heavier bass and swiveling earcups for DJing.
>You wouldn't expect a family owned pizza shop in a small, sleepy Ohio town to be a hive of scum and villainy but that's what installing a computerized ordering system discovered.

Actually that is exactly what I would except, nothing to do with Ohio or a sleepy town I thought it was pretty well known that businesses of this type deal with a large 'skim factor' just like its common knowledge that many in the food/beverage service industry don't report all income to the IRS (pocket tips and not report it). In fact it was my understanding that almost everyone knows this (in regards to tips not landing on IRS forms) and lets it slide as really its the only way those that do this as a 'real job[0]' get by. This is why it is, at least for those I've known, considered 'bad form' to tip on credit card as those tips flow through company pipes to the employee's taxable income.

[0] real job meaning career employment vs a job while getting through college or whatever.
I tried 7506's (I think?) and found them really bright and fatiguing - kind of the Genelec of headphones.

But as others have pointed out, you're optimizing for a different variable in the studio. First of all, you'd never mix or master on headphones unless you're testing to see how your mix sounds on headphones. So at that point, you probably want cans that translate well to "average" headphones, and it may well be that the Sonys do. Think about NS-10's, or even Auratones - they're not great speakers, they're just a common reference point that everyone knows.

And for tracking, you really don't want flat response; you want cans that'll reinforce the musician's ability to hear themselves, the headphone equivalent of a presence peak. Isolation is critical - no headphone bleeding. But the most important quality for tracking headphones is ruggedness; they are going to get abused, and they need to be easily repairable but rarely need repairing.

All of which is to say: being universal doesn't imply being the best-sounding or the most-comfortable; it implies being optimal for the needs of a recording studio.
Despite this, a lot of plans (at least here in Australia) do offer unlimited text messaging.
Most cable set tops have dedicated decryption, video/audio decoding chips so the main CPU available for running the UI is very weak by design. Cisco & Motorola make these set tops pretty much by spec of what the big cable providers want. They don't want a general purpose platform and truly just don't understand why they might want a better user interface. Only in the last year or so have these set tops started to get faster but they are still gimped by the guide software the cable providers use. They usually opt for consistency over quality. The same guide that runs on a 2012 set top needs to work on a 1997 set top.
The tv shows are great, but the networks and broadcast model are broken. The whole argument about content is missing the point of the original article, which uses a clever slightly askew title to draw in readers.
Here's the full prepublication text of the article, "Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives," mentioned in this story:

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/dbenjamin/IQ-SNPs-PsychSci-...

Psychologists are getting to be reasonably good about sharing full text of their papers on their faculty websites.
I'm not sure about that. If AT&T sends a lawyer to every one of these things, it will quickly become very expensive. If they don't, they risk it becoming very easy to get awarded this money. Plus with precedent set, it will be considerably easier for someone else to do this.

If the settlement dollar values hold up and this becomes easy enough, it could become far more costly to AT&T than any class action suit would have been.
Why don't actual phone call minutes use all these expensive resources?
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Argentina is also taking a lot of other extreme measures to combat inflation and flight of capital, like not printing money, leading to a shortage of coins for example; and severe restrictions on exchanging pesos for dollars, hurting tourists and imports. Newspapers even report the paralell exchange rates!

I suspect there will be an economic crisis in the next few years, and it will hurt us Uruguayans as usual, we're already feeling the pain of export restrictions and now they want to restrict services and software which will direcly affect several friends and colleagues.
Inflation and economic disaster is the norm in the latest 30 years of this country. I believe this government is saying "fuck this, we might as well try something new before everything crash". I believe they actually succeeded in delaying the inevitable crash. All the world economy is crashing anyway.
It is not about money!
Facebook regularly pisses off large swathes of its users and they stay anyways. You can look at basically any feature they launch and subsequently have users trying to revolt over or the numerous privacy scandals.
So the telephone network is secured by a $100 entrance fee charged to any DDOS attacker?
To be fair, it was the Supreme Court ruling on the (big-business backed) Federal Arbitration Act[1]. The Supreme Court didn't just decide out of thin air "hey, we should really fuck everyone over and make it so that all your grievances have to go to a secret court where the judge is paid by your opponent".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act

(Though I would be interested to hear how such an act isn't unconstitutional as it seems to me to remove the right of a person to petition the government for a redress of grievances - isn't that a guaranteed right?)
My first MDR-7506's had very soft rubber on it's cord, and eventually it broke. Changing the coil requires soldering and I and another person who actually had experience could not get it done, the wire resisted all attempts somehow... So not as repairable in my mind, but it is obviously somewhat relative term.
Still bought new ones and the cord has been fine, if someone is wondering. Would prefer if the cord could be changed by just plugging a new one in however :)
Thanks for the info. I guess I missed that.
Ablock Plus gets rid of them.
I need a time machine...
Well, that's the very definition of a talent acquisition, isn't it? Software developers can move on just as easily.
Your question is no more interesting than the question of why we don't pretend to do surgery on people and then euthanize them.
Can't wait to leave this country. I'm sorry for the honest people who don't have an option.
I'm going to Uruguay or Brazil. =)
historically, artists were sponsored by wealthy individuals or institutions to create art. Some of the great European painters of the last few centuries were sponsored by the Catholic Church. If Kickstarter can provide that, what's the problem?
> Ten times as many channels, and now I wasn't sure if there were even twice as many as in the old days.

I dislike the fact that they make such a big deal about the number of channels available. DirectTV, for example, offers between 140 and 285 channels! Who would want to flip through that many channels?!
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For a minute, I thought this was a real app. When I read that copywriting, I thought hm.. wow these guys are funny and don't take themselves seriously, I might actually download this... I was disappointed =(
Seriously? Not printing money? Inflation does not come from people's imagination.
This is the second time[1] you have said precisely the same thing in response to a comment of mine in this thread. I don't care about whatever agenda you're trying to push; stop being so belligerent in your attempts to get me to say something completely orthogonal to my point.

[1] The other: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631295
I have totally had that after 2 all-nighters in a row.
I had the same feeling, and was so proud I figured it out. Guess not.

This was probably one of the most engaging 'articles' I have read in awhile. Very fun and really gets one to think.
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I thought everyone knew that Google had the most incompetent recruiting machine on the planet, just barely propped up by the mountain of money that towers over the recruiters' shoulders, which is what actually wins candidates.

> They're young, highly paid and, often, on a six month contract.

Huh. So this is why most Google candidates experience recruiter turnover during their interview process. No one at Google thought that it might make a bad impression to candidates to watch recruiters constantly getting fired mid-project?

Google's PR machine is incredible, though. Nice hit.

> Like so many projects at Google, data pumps through the recruiting organization's veins. An internally designed candidate-tracking program used by recruiters is said to be a thing of mathematical beauty.
> ...
> a happily-employed Google engineer finds a recruiting e-mail in her inbox — from her own employer.

Um, OK.
I have the RP-DH1200's (aside: why does Panasonic insist on such similar product names?) which I think are a lot more comfortable, at least on my head.

Both of them are DJ headphones so they aren't likely to win any prizes for fidelity. However, I think DJ headphones are a decent choice for coding since they are optimized for high isolation. You just need to find a pair that's comfortable to wear for long periods of time... and that's different for everyone's head and ears.
To me it all comes down to whether you have to force the cooperation of the defendant or not when gathering evidence. Part of the problem is bad analogies: "Demanding the private key to an encrypted volume is no different than demanding the combination to a safe" or any other equivalent concept. If the defendant doesn't provide the combination to a safe than the blowtorches are coming out. At no point is his cooperation a _necessary condition_ to the gathering of evidence. However, to demand the defendant disclose the private key --or the more common "we don't want the key, just what's inside" demand-- is to require his cooperation. It is now a necessary condition that the defendant comply in order to gather this evidence. And as such, it becomes an invasion into the mind of the defendant for the purposes of coercing a confession.

Indeed, the judge could grant immunity to the defendant, thereby requiring him under law to "testify" his private key, but then you don't have a case to prosecute. I wrote about this more thoroughly here http://aspensmonster.com/2012/01/26/on-private-keys-and-the-.... I'm curious to know what others think about all of this but lack the time to read through tens of pages of comments at the moment :P
> So the only time it will be the same is if a and b are the same type.

Which they will be in most of the example code he used. They're not the best examples.
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It was not destroyed. Some clever guy realized that people automatically trust statistics and you can fake them. Locally, INDEC lost all credibility years ago. The Economist just realized it, next time they will realize the "big mac" index is also totally useless here. Meanwhile people are having 25% raises in dollars every year, meaning that temporally we have a lot of money, until all business go broke, that is.
I decided some years ago that it really boils down to the name differences. Star Wars outclasses Star Trek in firepower and speed by far, it's a warlike place. Why launch a planetary invasion when one can just destroy the solar primary? Star Trek has a ton of underutilized technologies, they could optimize a lot but there's a general sense that the trek is more important than the end result. (As just one example, the Federation being perfectly okay with limiting warp speed to factor 5 when they found out warp was killing the fabric of space-time.)

Then you have the various Stargate series, which fix up a lot of the underutilization problems of Star Trek. Teleporting nukes into the enemy ship? Of course! Replicators replicating ZPMs, a non-Deathist attitude toward life, and in the late Universe series they had finally explored aliens that don't speak English!
I've always wondered what prevents a court from saying "Your agreement not to sue is between you and the person, we're not a part of it, i.e. take your agreement and shove it".

If I sign a piece of paper that says I won't sue you, I don't see anything stopping a court from ignoring that outright.
How many people would have paid money back in the '60s and '70s for the Internet? And yet ARPA funded it with "taxpayer money"
Here's my wishlist for Dropbox:

- Have a per-folder P2P option (maybe buy AeroFS to achieve this?) I really don't need an Amazon server to host my personal photos/videos, and they take up a lot of space. But I would like them on each of my family's computers.

- Increase quota continuously (like google does with gmail). They could do it slowly enough that people would still be incentivized to do all the things the do now to get more space.
>If AT&T sends a lawyer to every one of these things

Large companies have lawyers on permanent retainer - they're getting paid regardless if they're at a case or not.
Merging people's writing together doesn't seem to be as obvious as merging people's code together -- code is a means to an end, so whatever is the best solution should be merged into master. Writing is subjective, so if your paragraphs cause a merge issue, its not so simple to choose a winner.
Bring Development and Operations together
The same could be said about DOD and TSA.
Oh no, it's about money, it's just about punishing the company you're suing as opposed to making you whole.

When you see that a class action settlement led to each person getting a few dollars a piece, don't look at that. Look at the amount of cash that they had to pay out to give each claimant that cash (as well as the lawyers).

The point of modern class action suits is to form a large enough stick to beat misbehaving corporations about the head with - they never have and never will be about getting suitable restitution.