skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that in this post a title change was given without a raise. I don't necessarily think that doing that is such a good idea. I know the post says that they were already being compensated fairly. Here's why I think promotions without pay are a bad idea: It gives the employee more incentive to leave, and very little to stay. Superiors tend to give titles pretty easily because it's "free", but I think it may actually cost the company more in the long run. It's a gambler's play.
Yes please answer this because it sucks when software goes away. I want a great email client as long lived as vim will be.
Certainly! I've never written a line of Java but I had no trouble following the examples in the book. The naming of variables, methods, etc. makes for easy reading without any Java knowledge. You just need to be able to identify a class and the public/private members and variables. That isn't a problem in Java.

Overall, I found that the book taught me a lot about looking for deficiencies in my own designs or what to look out for when weaving new functionality into an existing software project.
Random slow person here: I had knee pain from running and cycling: physical therapy involved doing the exercises shown in the video, so +1 anecdata.
"Yet multiple studies of pre-workout stretching demonstrate that it actually raises your likelihood of injury and lowers your subsequent performance." This was the only claim that surprised me and the only one that didn't provide much of a source. Time to dust of the old search engine, I guess.
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Huh, that's interesting. I go to a CrossFit affiliate that actually focusses pretty intently on olympic lifts. Each one hour session includes 20 minutes of practicing a specific lift. The two - olympic lifting and CrossFit - have become so intertwined in my mind that it's difficult to imagine one without the other.
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Find out from the girl, either directly or indirectly, what she wants in a diamond. I took her to the jewelry stores with me. The first shop they gave us the whole spiel about the 5 C's etc. They had my wife try on this ungodly large diamond ring she would never wear. We thanked them and left. Went to another store, saw a few in our price range and we left with it that day.

Now that method isn't for everybody, some of my wife's friends thought it was pathetic I brought her along and had her choose, others thought it was a good idea. Generally those were the ones who were married and were upset at the ring their husband bought.

But at least in my opinion the ring is specific to the girl. Some want big diamonds, others like my wife feel uncomfortable with one. She wanted a fancier cut than others in that price range though. And don't forget there is more to the ring than just the diamond. The band is important too(Another reason to have her go with you. Instant sizing.) Diamonds are hard to buy online because the way the light hits the diamond is important to its look and again, every girl has a different look she wants.
Oh. Well, since you said, "End of story", I guess you're right after all.

That was a powerful argument there, I am in awe.
True, but if you're helping enough people that you can pick and choose who you help, then you just avoid people who are outright mooches. Usually they become pretty apparent pretty soon.

I try not to keep score when helping people, because I've found it's just more effort than it's worth. Folks who're a net negative soon start to feel like a net negative, so I just trust my gut judgments about people.
Yes indeed and I am loving the irony here.
Thanks for the sarcasm, but I'm not sure your points stand.

* Readability can be somewhat subjective. Neither Coffekup or any of the markup DSLs I've seen are inarguably much more readable than HTML. A few extra braces to closing tags do not immediately make something less readable to me, and the example given does not seem like a clean win to me. Better in some cases, worse in others, a wash overall.

* I do not think "portability" means what you think it does. Coffeekup appears to only run under Coffeescript. That makes it rather un-portable. Many other template languages have multiple implementations in many languages. That seems unlikely with Coffeekup.

* Reducing formatting errors would presumably be because of static syntax errors caught by a Coffeescript-aware editor, and dynamic errors caught by the Coffeescript compiler and JS runtime. The same is achieved with a HTML-aware editor and various available validators.

* I don't see how Coffeekup that generates HTML is easier to learn than just HTML.

* Or screw up the hierarchy because of whitespace errors. This is just the significant-whitespace debate brought to markup. If you want significant whitespace for your markup, I'm sure there are portable template languages with significant whitespace.
Is 25 hours of coding sufficient to make an MVP. My experience says at least 100 hrs for meaningful MVP when the idea is not trivial.
I could make myself remember to special-case you fairly easily, but I really don't want to have to special-case anyone. That's why I love iMessage--it's a progressive enhancement, not a separate app. When that breaks down, like when I can't fall back to SMS when sending from my Mac, I get annoyed.
Ah, fair enough - thanks for the correction. However, the problem still stands that 48fps still doesn't look "right" to most people. I saw The Hobbit, loved it. And I want a faster frame rate than 24 - I think it can add to the experience. But for whatever reason, 48 just never looked ..... "Right." And I'm not alone.
don't forget internment camps
I have absolutely ZERO knowledge on Enterprise Networking. But it strikes me that something as dump as Router, Switches or Network Equipment are still so unstable.

A Hypothetical questions, why not something a 8 ARM 64 bit core Linux computer as switches? Making more logic resides in software instead?
I bought a treadmill machine 1 year ago, and I barely use it :/ .
If he' on commission, then either he's not wasting his employers time with these things, if they genuinely lead to high total sales, or he's wasting his own time as well.
I'm using mine as a synthesizer .. its the cheapest digital synth platform I own (and I have a few..)

Its pretty neat to be able to build onboard as well .. just having a compiler onboard means so much, in terms of power and functionality.
I don't think they got it wrong, but rather the market is reacting to the nature of the business. The Groupon's of the World are too labour intensive, and will keep the op costs very high. You can't keep posting quality deals without someone having that conversation with the vendor. As long as that's the model, the costs are going to be too high, and far from profitable. The market is properly reacting to their business cycle. Living Social the same.
There's a whole bunch of us (Times employees) who read/submit/comment on HN from time to time.

I didn't have anything to do with Snow Fall, but I did frequently walk past the people who were working on it late at night. We don't have anything formalized like 20% time, but these projects are definitely a labor of love.
I wouldn't know how much the convention is enforced, but doesn't Apple prefix private API with an underscore?

Edit: this is from the Apple naming guidelines, but it doesn't clarify that they always follow that convention for private methods:
Avoid the use of the underscore character as a prefix meaning private in method names (using an underscore character as a prefix for an instance variable name is allowed). Apple reserves the use of this convention. Use by third parties could result in name-space collisions; they might unwittingly override an existing private method with one of their own, with disastrous consequences. See “Private Methods” for suggestions on conventions to follow for private API.
Do you have any idea what Japan did to the Chinese? Those atrocities rivaled the Nazi's and they didn't have the excuse of antisemitism, they were just terrible people, for example: gang rape to death was the norm for a Chinese woman under Japanese occupation. (Read up on it sometime you will be traumatized but it's worth it)
Only the Italians can excuse themselves as not being any worse than anyone else in Europe at the time, who also handed over all their Jews to Germany for extermination.

To all those people who are claiming that only the leadership is to blame for the Holocaust, it takes a lot of man-power and planning to transport and kill 11 million civilians, this wasn't done by a small minority of the German Army or SS, even if the camps were administered by only SS, rounding up the people and stuffing them in cattle cars takes a lot of man-power.
I feel that the goal of libertarianism is to promote a framework of interaction that is most compatible with the nature of individuals. In that sense libertarianism isn't arbitrary because there's a goal that can be reasonably observed. Whether it's is a worthy goal is up for debate.

a) To a libertarian, force is bad for the same reasons rape and slavery is bad. It violates the preference of individuals by means of agression.

With that said, what principle do you hold that says rape or slavery is bad? Do you believe those principles are idealistic or unreasonable? Would you be willing to compromise those principles for 'the greater good' or some other abstract notion?

b) Who decides what's considered force? Typically the individuals involved. How do you decide if you're being raped? Do you call your congressman and ask if forceful sex is legal? If rape were legal, would rape cease to exist? If rape were socially acceptable, would it still be rape? Most libertarians would say yes because the ethics of action is not relative to legality.

If someone chose not to have insurance, they don't have the right to force you to pay their bill. You can just let them die. Like we're letting people of other poor countries die this second.

Now, I won't pretend that I have a formula for deducing whether an action is agressive -- but that doesn't make it less real. So why do you see libertarianism as a disease? Do you have a more consistent philosophy? Is there a specific idea that libertarians hold that is offensive?
What does "growth" measure?

If we buy a $7 kindle book rather than a $16 paper back does that halve GDP?

We have improved medical care that costs the same does that imply no growth?

If twice as many people use air travel, but it costs half as much does that mean there is no growth?
> Sounds like that would screw customers up pretty bad if they don't realise the problem.

I think there'd be a variety of ways to have the system to fail until the customer made some kind of adjustment that indicated they grokked that there was a failure (like say... changing your upstream).
This is awesome. I just got one for Christmas and the first project I wanted to do was create a miniature NES arcade system with the RPi and a 10'' screen hooked up into a custom wooden cabinet.
Chrome is taking a really nice change to protect users.
Yep ... in interacting with many developers, setups like this are almost commonplace.
Indeed. Of all the mechanisms i use to communicate, email is by far the least broken. It's not a walled garden, it's not tied to a device, it doesn't cost anything, nobody blocks it, and the concept of somebody not being on the email network is unthinkable. If only everything could be as awesome as email.
I'd agree with this. I've been pinned under 80-90kg weights a few times.

The first thing is, unless you're not concentrating, you don't really drop it. For me, it's normally not being able to lift the weight back up when I've brought it down to my chest. Without collars, you can just tip the weight to the side, the plates fall off, and the bar (fairly rapidly) pings upright. Makes a bit of a noise, and you feel like a fool, but that's all :-)
What he means is that POW camps/prisons will no longer allow games inside for fear of what they're hiding.
Do you really expect "citation needed" to prompt a useful discussion? How often do you think that happens? Here, click through the search results for comments with "citation needed" and tell me how many great discussions followed from it: http://hn.shomisearch.com/#comments+with+citation+needed

Don't you think it's boring? Don't you think there might be a better way of asking a question about a claim than merely throwing down "citation needed" after a comment, like an e-peen on the dinner table?

Now that I have replied with a comment lacking a single claim, preventing another stupid use of "citation needed", do you see how ridiculous and twisted that vapid phrase could make conversation in forums full of silly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlike this one? Should we all begin using Platonic dialogues just so that we can avoid having to bring a database of references along for any claim, lest we get molested yet again by people so intellectually lazy that they hilariously refer to themselves as "scientific skeptics" despite lacking the curiosity to research a claim on their own?

edit: Bah, I can't put quotes around "citation needed" in the search link above, and I don't feel like fixing the parsing for %codes tonight. You'll have to put the quotes in yourself to get the appropriate results.
Do you have any evidence to support that you don't need evidence to backup facts or are you just being facetious?

If you said the world was flat, and someone asked for evidence, would you also ask that where is your evidence that you need evidence?
Perhaps you should read the article. Your snap judgement about it is incorrect.

Whining about why an article is on top of an internet news site is pathetic either way.
What service are you talking about?
Sounds interesting. Links?
You got my message pretty well 100%, I was just about to type a sentence very close to this one: "You really should try to use this in close cooperation with C, and not just as a stand-alone language. If you don't you'll miss a significant portion of the value."

Yes, you can just run 'lua' at the console and treat it as a local scripting language, with the default bindings available in the distribution Lua-interpreter .. but you can also take the VM itself, make it your own, and put it in your own project for domain-specific applications.

For a great example, take a look at MOAI: http://getmoai.com/

Essentially, MOAI is a collection of C and C++ libraries, tied together into the Lua VM to provide a cross-platform development tool for Android/iOS/Linux/Mac/Windows/&etc. This is accomplished by 'gluing' the Lua VM into the space between a variety of different API's and making those API's available within the Lua environment - in this capacity, it serves very, very well. I could imagine building an entire GUI/OS in a very similar way, and may end up doing just that one day soon ..
> I'm not married, nor do I have kids, but I've decided when that time comes I will put my wife first.

You are not prepared for the hormone storm that you'll experience the first time you hold your child.

For me, I wasn't sure I was ready. I said yes to having kids because my wife wanted kids. The moment I held my son for the first time, on the other hand, all my priorities shifted instantly.

Maybe you'll still hold on to the idea of putting your wife first, but you're not in any position to make decisions about it at this stage and expect them to hold firm.
Exactly. A title bump means that the person will just leverage their position for the same/better position somewhere else with better pay.
I have an "old" 2006 era laptop with all of 176 MB of RAM (oh, and 1000s of bad addresses, so it keeps segfaulting all the time). On this setup i use stock Ubuntu 7.10 (the last Ubuntu which "worked"). And its not stripped down or anything --- run firefox, emacs, beagle destkop search, watch movies, etc.

Seriously, if you have low hardware resources, pick a 5-7 years old distro and you'll be fine.
Romney was running for president then. His whole life really, excluding his gay-bashing days in high school.
I know. Can we not get ONE email client for the desktop that isn't Thunderbird? I'd pay money for this if it was on any Linux distro.

Geary is the closest thing to date but I don't think it's production ready.
I hit the submit button a couple of times due to ISP latency and I think the multiple submit blocked me from posting for a while and probably has to do with greyed out links. I don't see downvotes (even though I know the bitter truth is not appreciated by many folks here who like to think highly of the murderous military industrial complex regime).

Did you read anything about the new definition of militants that has been adopted by Mr. Hopey Changey? Any male adult in the region where Obama wants to play game is considered a "militant" by default.

"In particular, given that the above link established that 2% of drone kills were on media-confirmed terrorist leaders, that means your article is claiming all the other kills, all 3000+, have been on innocent civilians."

So if some media confirms that "according to the government officials a high-ranking terrorist nicknamed Dove was successfully killed in the latest drone strike" then your murder would be a justified murder and your loved ones can sleep well at night trusting the government and media that you must be a bad guy....?
Henry Ford was the Foxconn of his day. When the average turnover at his factories dropped to 9 months because people would leave over low pay and bad work conditions to go work at another automaker, he implemented the $5 day. It roughly doubled pay for the workers at the time but it came with a cost. The workers had to have their home life inspected, couldn't be drunks, drug users or abusive to their spouses, their kids had to be in school - essentially he used the wage increase to give license to tighter screening of employees lives both at work and home.

It worked, productivity went up, lots of free press, and sales went up. The common belief was the raise was about the worker being able to buy his own car, but there was more to the story. I recommend "Wheels for the World" as an excellent book about this. http://www.amazon.com/Wheels-World-Company-Century-Progress/...
And here is a good recent article about why most "cardio" is a waste of time from Mark Rippetoe:

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/cond...
I don't know what you mean by C being extreme .. for me, its not extreme at all, and rather I find working in C to be a comfortable, rewarding experience pretty much 100% of the time. But being able to extend beyond the scope of a static C application, and instead using C as the library/foundation for functionality that is exploited in Lua, is what I'm talking about. Bascially, you can have 'vanilla' Lua - /usr/bin/lua - or you can have "branded Lua" where, by branding, I mean - you add your own flair as you desire, to the Lua VM, using C (or C++).

MonoTouch/MonoDroid are not in my area of interest, since I prefer to have full sources available for everything, and I see no reason to buy such a tool when, with Lua+C/C++ I can just as easily build it myself ..
I think this is a very good list, and I'm very surprised at the negative reaction it's getting here. The habits in this list are all signs that an executive is making decisions, not rationally, but out of hubris. I'm amazed that people can't see that this is a problem.
25 hours may not be enough for a full project, but it's a massive discount which I can handle swallowing to work on the type of project that I love working on.

It's a reality of life as a freelancer that many of the jobs I take on are uninspiring. This is an attempt at finding some of the type of jobs that I would really enjoy working on, and hopefully encourage someone to take the leap on a project that may have otherwise stayed on the shelf forever.

For me, I'm hoping to find people and projects that I'll get excited about working with. Giving away $2000 of work for free is about as much as I can possibly justify. I've brought a number of projects through from start to finish (complete code base, from scratch) in under 40 hours, and in this case it would represent the difference between a project costing $1200 and the same project costing $3200.

This could also be enough to get a functional prototype in place to impress investors, etc.
That's the beauty of the scheme. The 25 hours is the hook, and it's unlikely that a person will take the product and ask someone else to continue it.
Good luck OP. I expect you're going to catch a lot of undesirable fish with this bait. :)
Solving vs. Fixing
Total sales don't determine whether a company lives or dies. It's the bottom line, profit or loss after all the expenses are paid, that matters.

Sometimes, the real cost of a sale can exceed the revenues to the company from the sale. For example, I've seen salesmen sell vaporware that the company then has to drop everything to implement, possibly a feature that's not of use to any of the company's other customers. The salesman gets his commission and doesn't care that the development group is tied up with the feature he sold and unable to work on the really important features.

If salesmen could receive a commission on profits rather than gross revenues it would give them incentives that are better aligned with the health of the company. Unfortunately, it's easy to calculate a salesman's revenues and very difficult to calculate the actual profits (or losses) attributable to him.
This article hit the nail on the head. In essence, the human kind is identical with dog. There are certain amount of people that need a indication that you are in a higher-order in the pecking order. Otherwise, you'll be imposed/bullied.
Is it okay to push ideas without evidence, specifically ideas that are not presented as an opinion?

This is a much bigger fault I have with the Hacker News and the tech community at large lately. People are agreeing with (and to crudely put it, "circlejerking") ideas that are presented as truths, even though they are NOT backed by any data. If the author prefaced his points by stating that this is his or her opinion, I would not be as snarky because then it would be merely be opinion that I disagree with.

This presentation of ideas is laughed at when done in academic circles, yet for some reason, it's okay when it's posted to Hacker News, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball or whatever random blog or news source people read and tend to agree with.

I do not find this acceptable, and I think we should hold people accountable to ideas they push, especially when they are backed by ZERO data.
I have not noticed that the New York Times is any more reliable than other sources on subjects that I actually know about.
Fortunately, it is very easy to implement these structures in Lua, if they haven't already. The basic datatype of Lua - the table - can be treated as a hash map, a sorted set, a priority queue, very, very easily .. in fact if you think these things need to be implemented in C, you're missing a big part of the picture with Lua. The power of Lua as a language is really derived from the "morphological" nature of the basic table datatype .. Lua has all of the structures you're asking about, already.

And anything it doesn't have, which one would truly need to derive from the C/C++ side, is a few simple binding calls away .. but anyway, tables will do all you ask, and more, if you learn to use them properly.
Great site for articles, definitely will be going through them.
Also remember that the type-feedback breakthrough of StrongTalk was done by one Urs Hoezle, subsequently Google employee #9 and currently an SVP of Engineering there.