skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. You're assuming there's a correlation between demanding a high starting salary and being "better". That's a load of crap.

There are a lot of benefits to working in a company like GrantTree that are worth more than the money - and you can get the money eventually, anyway, you just have to earn it. At this stage, though, if your main concern is getting a high initial base salary, don't work with us. In my experience, concern about initial base pay is entirely uncorrelated to how good you are.

Edit: another way to look at it, is that what you're describing is someone who is both exceptional and an asshole. My view is, if you interview someone who is like that, don't hire them. Hire only people who are exceptional but not assholes.
The appropriate course credit for online classes is to finish a project demonstrating publicly that you know the material. This option is available right now.
iCat Phone coming soon too
No, it's just that wealthy people do not put the majority of their income into cost centers and instead put them into investments.
I was hoping the article would go into a little* bit more detail about how they manage to be so resilient, to be honest.

* where little means "any"
Google Drive Realtime API arrives, lets developers make collaborative apps
The Dart VM being faster than JavaScript can be a problem in itself. But with SIMD you'll get a lot of "Only usable in Dart VM" for a lot of apps (mainly games) written in Dart, because then the necessary speed for many game operations gets possible.

I don't want back to the "Best viewed in IE 5.5 and 1024x768 Pixels" times.
Why Android home automation could top Google Glass
The video is currently not loading for me, so the below is just an observation on the linguistics of these situations not a troll to downgrade the humor contained herein.

This isn't the first time a brand has had to rethink its name to adjust to the local language. The Ford Pinto was re-dubbed when it entered Brazil because pinto in Portuguese is a word reserved for the male anatomy. It also happens the other way: the Nissan 350Z from the 80s was called the Fair Lady in Japan, which would likely never have resonated with its target demographic in the U.S.
Reddit, Hacker News, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Flipboard, and any other service that aggregates good content or allows people to easily share content with one another. Have you not been paying attention?
yay, reblogging a flickr feed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/tags/eastsideaccess/
A few questions.

Doesn't this create a culture of constant value fixation and envy? People think in terms of comparisons rather than absolutes, doesn't this encourage comparison thinking?

Doesn't this create an odd culture setup where you can't promote superstars without getting clearance from everyone else (or at least creating drama), even those who are in no place to judge, or even understand what the superstar does for the company?

Does this work as a sort of mob-justice system for keeping employees from asking for more money... because now they have to do it in public and get labelled / deal with the politics of it?
Someone should hire you just for your ability to write documentation for your projects.
So, Donald Knuth has a web page full of programs illustrating aspects of his work. Why don't other famous computer science/computer engineering figures?

For example, Watts Humphrey - where's his code, dude? If PSP is so hot, why didn't it let him write a bunch of super cool stuff? Yes, I know Humphrey is dead, but do you suppose for a moment that Knuth's code will go away when he dies?

Humphrey is just one example of many. Without showing us the code, I think the "experts" should just go away.
Well there seems to be a consensus.
"In theory, theory and practice are identical. In practice, they're not."

A fair portion of the Western world's underemployment and unemployment problem derives directly from the overemployment of those who have the jobs. As people keep putting it, "Whatever happened to the 40-hour workweek?"

For example, among those sedentary professionals who can keep working for decades upon decades, most in the United States are classified as Fair Labor Standards Act exempt, and are therefore often made to work overtime. Health insurance is a fixed cost that needs to be driven down both through socializing medicine and, preferably, through requiring per-hour National Insurance taxes, but only the latter action would actually change the fact that firms find it cheaper to hire two professionals working 60 hours/week each than to hire three professionals for normal 40-hour workweeks.

And, here's the trick, neither of those two professionals actually receives overtime pay. The company is literally getting a 1/3 boost to their productivity-per-employee solely by using a legal loophole to not pay for all hours worked. This is not the lump-of-labor fallacy, it's straightforward exploitation.

To paraphrase many Hacker News-targeted blogposts, "Fuck companies, pay workers."
Apple may face penalties over 'unacceptable' court conduct
Right now not using G+ isn't hurting publishers. Those that do use it get a little bit, but not enough that they have to use it. Google is playing the long slow game with this. By the time everyone has to use G+ to stay relevant in the SERPs everyone will be.
The Week That Was in Social Media featuring the LBMA and Rent frock Repeat
Have to agree with this. I have a Huawei from back in 2010, each time it falls it just falls apart. It's got a lot of scratches, but screen hasn't cracked. The worst fall was onto tarred road.

I actually never thought that the reason why it just disassembles so easily when it falls would be the same reason why I still have a functional phone 2 years later
Sounds like they got outside of their reserves in the BTC run-up this month.
Agile DSL Development in Ruby (2007)
That old saying "A's hire A's and B's hire C's..."
Amongst other things, this is a great lesson for how naming can affect mass market marketing.

As a product guy and general geek, I want to believe that naming doesn't matter. It's the product and the value it creates that counts. I'm increasingly learning that that's not entirely true. Having a great product is critical, but you also need to market it, and a name that evokes emotional responses helps.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_evangelist:

...a person who attempts to build a critical mass of support for a given technology, in order to establish it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects.

Essentially, a PR person for the company who works by interacting with developers. They attend conferences, respond to developer concerns regarding the product, etc.
Whenever I see a US worksite I'm always surprised by the state of work wear. Strapped on hobby lights, cotton based jeans and hoodies, insufficient pockets, substandard florescents etc.
This might be a good thing. I am still not convinced that machine learning is so great it is pictured to be, but the potential is certainly worth studying. Better tools and languages are a must in this area.
Microsoft Says Paying Developers Is Not Its Main Strategy for More Apps
The Second Avenue subway is also under construction (finally!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway . It's been in various planning stages since 1929, and its absence is keenly felt by those of us living on the east side (in my case, First Avenue).

If you're just interested in big works, take a look at the Highway 99 project in Seattle: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020537494_99tunnelpi... .
I don't understand your argument here. It's not hard to look up how many patents MS or Apple have in the H.264 patent pool. It's then simple maths to see that neither of them hold a majority of the patents, so every H.264 licence they have to buy costs them money. Raising the price is against their interest while they continue to be big players in the market (and no, I don't believe MS have some long term plan to stop selling Windows and make money off video codec patents instead, the idea is ludicrous). I don't know how much say they have in the pricing, but I assume they have some influence.

The reason Apple and MS are ok with H.264 is that they are large and can easily absorb the cost, but it is harder for new players in the marketplace to do that, and harder for people at the cheaper end of the market where margins are much thinner. (There are other reasons too of course, like engineering time already invested in H.264, hardware support on millions of devices already shipped etc etc).

If you want to get anywhere with your argument then you are going to have to convince people at Apple and Microsoft and others. Calling them liars and dreaming up conspiracy theories about how they are going to make billions from MPEG-LA revenues won't help you convince them. Trying to publicly shame them with bad publicity isn't working and never had much chance of working because very few regular people care that Mozilla or Ubuntu might have to pay royalties for video codecs.

Final word of advice: move development out of the US. There are plenty of countries that don't recognise software patents. Remember the crypto situation? The answer there was to move crypto development outside the US. Make software patents into an argument about "US Jobs", and you will have a much easier time convincing legislators. At the moment they are being told that software patents protect US jobs, and that argument is always going to trump more ethereal ones about fair competition and freedom.
Highway 99 tunnel: Big buildup for a massive drill
The cost of getting an education in the US is minimal or nothing. The cost of getting a degree from many schools is very high. However, there are still small universities where you can graduate debt free even with a minimum wage job.
Even in that situation I would think hard to evaluate/define/explain roles would be nightmare.
It's possible that they've been undercharging for their service, and as a result have simply run out of cash. With the recent price growth, their buy price sometimes fails to catch up with the current exchanges rates, resulting in losses for them that their fee of 1% does not cover for.

My friends trying Coinbase have raised concerns about the long delays as well, and I have a bitcoin transfer to my personal wallet that's been pending for multiple days. This needs to be resolved quickly to keep Coinbase and Bitcoins reputation.
I had to laugh out loud when I read this headline. My guess is, most professors don't think most of their students deserve credit these days, thanks to grade inflation and consistently decreasing standards.
Sometimes the underlying processes an application is designed for are too complex to be self-explanatory. Look at e.g. Photoshop, would not work without tutorials.
I have had a serious question about this all week. From everything that I've read this woman is very demanding in her professional life and not always the easiest person to accommodate. Why on earth is she in the one role the requires the most community interaction? Why would you not select someone for that role who tries to put their best face forward and represent your company to the best of their abilities while being judicious in their interactions with others? I am really lost on this one.
EBay Could Steal Amazon’s Most Important Customers (They Aren’t Who You Think)
Nothing, it seems. But a benchmark is pointless if you aren't comparing like for like, yet people are clearly taking the results as some sort of serious indicator.

As it is, it's like sending two different cars around two different tracks and comparing how long they took.
At first glance, making the CEO pay a baseline seems really self centered. What was the thought behind that? From my eyes looking at:

CEO: $100k
Me: $33k

makes me think, "well, I'm a junior guy. That will change over time."

Me: 1/3 CEO

makes me think "why does he think he's worth three of me?

It's an emotional distinction, so it could just be me.
Not in an IT dept, but when I was going to school, I worked in a restaurant where I was the only male most of the time. Well, I was a shift manager, and all the shift managers and store manager were females except me (4-5 others). I got the crap shifts, had my schedule changed on a whim by others, and was often given crap tasks - moving/unloading stuff "because you're the man - I can't lift that!" It was funny for about a week, but never got any better. Regional manager gave me no support - he didn't want to be seen as disciplining any of the female staff for fear of some sexism/discrimination lawsuit. Eventually I left, but not soon enough.
If you can't afford to lose your investment, you shouldn't be investing at all.

I doubt they would have let Madoff use this excuse.

I'm not saying these dudes are anything like that jackhole, but rather that there is a difference between the risks inherent in the security or commodity (in this case bitcoin) and the counter-party risk of your broker screwing up the bookkeeping. Coinbase have made the latter risk appear significant.
Giving someone a windfall each year of several thousand dollars is not the same as increasing their wages. It gets spent on very different things.
Scroll-start and scroll-end Directive for Angular.js
I am not sure I am adding: But there's a difference between have autonomy to focus on one or many thing as you wish vs. having responsibility/role dictated by others, and not being able to leverage your personality type/work style to its strengths to fulfill that role (and perhaps go above and beyond or take on an "epic endeavor").
> Doesn't this create a culture of constant value fixation and envy? People think in terms of comparisons rather than absolutes, doesn't this encourage comparison thinking?

The way this manifested itself is that after the first salesperson earned their first bonus (pretty substantial), there was certainly a bit of envy. The solution to that was to create a relevant bonus scheme for the operations/client management side that enables them to earn bonuses as well. For client management, instead of being based on new sales, the commissions are based on client retention and getting referrals. This way, client managers know they can earn good money too - they just need to do stuff that brings income to the company.

> Doesn't this create an odd culture setup where you can't promote superstars without getting clearance from everyone else (or at least create drama), even those who are in no place to judge, or even understand what the superstar does for the company?

Bearing in mind we're a relatively young company, this problem hasn't occurred and I don't see it occurring any time soon, for two simple reasons: 1) the "superstars" can see what the benefits of this open, transparent system are, and they want it to continue, so they don't want to break it for their own personal benefit, and 2) if they're superstars, then they're already earning a good bit of money in commissions.

> Does this work as a sort of mob-justice system for keeping employees from asking for more money... because now they have to do it in public and get labelled / deal with the politics of it?

I guess you can see it that way. The way I look at it is not that anyone is afraid to ask for more money - in fact, I would hope everyone wants more money. But they know what the answer will be. There's a known, proven way to increase their base salary quite substantially every 3 months if they put in the effort, and there are known, proven ways for them to earn commissions. So if someone wants more money, it's there for the taking. Why break the system by asking for an exception, when there's ways to achieve the same result relatively quickly within the system, that don't break the transparency culture?
Accounts of “High-profile” Microsoft employees targeted in hacking spree
Very strange, because what I see has obviously been done deliberately.

From the main menu, after playing the game and dying and clicking the 'x' in the top left to quit, the game goes to the nag screen. It's the same screen that appears when you start the game, with with an icon in the bottom left to click if you want to buy the game and one in the bottom right to continue to the menu - only the bottom right icon is missing. After about 5 or 6 seconds the button that lets you end the game appears - the button says something like 'Fight evil another day' - and the game finally lets you click it and leave.

When I get home, I might fire up a screen capturer and upload a video to demonstrate the behavior for you.
I used to work at SUNY too. Every January, when this list came out, my boss (a professor) would send his secretary to the library as soon as possible to get this information. Then he would use it to pester the dean.
But, wouldn't it be just as awkward if you went to you boss and yo said your co-worker that makes 2.5k more than you per year and your boss goes, "yeah, (s)he is smarter and more valuable than you".

Seems to me that rejection is rejection either way (compared to another employee, another company or just in absolute terms).
That sounds really interesting. I deliberately avoid high volume RSS feeds due to the difficulty of finding the things I actually want to read.

I get the feeling though that the issue with RSS was not altogether an issue of uptake or ux.. but more an issue of sites wanting to track their users. If RSS could allow for some sort of phone home (opt out / anonymisable of course) then maybe there might be more of a push from content creators.
Winklevoss Brothers Move On From Facebook
It's a hard lesson to learn (everyone believes they know this, until they find themselves under pressure to hire and they hire a B, and end up regretting it), but I believe we've learned it.
Yes, yes they do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7kgO7lFA4
I've had a pending payment transaction to a couple places for about a week now. :( Still waiting....
127.0.0.1 Sweet 127.0.0.1 (Home Sweet Home)
Python script migrates from dying Google Reader to Evernote
The Internet lawyer in me gasped when I read he was pair programming, especially driving. Did he sign a transfer of IP rights and copyright beforehand? Placing his code into production? He still owns the copyright on that code...
Promising start, but in the spirit of "Don't Make Me Think", it needs to make it obvious what to do next, ie that you can click anywhere, and whether real clicks would be ignored or not. e.g. a translucent mask with instructions.
All I know is the Zendesk problem they had, and never to provide information solicited via e-mail. The confirmation must just be a formality- they've already got you.
ActionScript/Flash and .NET/SilverLight require a plugin, with Dart the "plugin" is optional.
Amazon Cloud Storage Clone Goes Open Source
I really love the concept. This is something I'd like to do myself.

My biggest worry/concern is with people who would take that information and use it against you. In particular the whole "lies and statistics" thing.

For example, what if someone ran the numbers and found that across your entire company women got paid on average 10% less than men. Then tried to start a class action suit or otherwise create a huge hassle about it.

Even if your procedures are entirely fair and transparent, there are a great many people, I have found, who will intentionally ignore facts that go against their preconceived notions (like the media for one example).

Does this kind of thing worry you? Would you change the policy if someone did make a huge stink about it?
At first I was convinced that this just a joke website, but there is way to much content for this to be anything but real.
Video: Allwinner A31 Quad-Core Based Onda V812 Breaks 20,000 in Antutu
This is ridiculous. If they are trading real money, they are not "in beta".
> I think a potential employer would be able to sniff out somebody unqualified pretty quickly

In the technology sector, sure. Here we do not even concern ourselves with credentialing to begin with because the work we do is out in the open and easy to evaluate.

Other industries, however, are not so lucky and struggle to sniff out the unqualified even with a strong credentialing system. I'm not sure an evaluation of determination helps them any more than what they have to go on today. People determined to get the job will always find some way to slip through the system without any real understanding of the underlying fundamentals.

With that said, I think MOOCs open up a whole new way to find talent, which could make the entire idea of credentials a thing of the past.
A ten-year retrospective on Python
> focusing on what mattered, when it mattered

This nails it. The article isn't entirely wrong but focus isn't a myth. Our eyes can't focus on two things at the same time. We too can't give full attention to multiple issues at the same time.
::1 sweet ::1 ? :P
Perhaps she is really good at her job despite these drawbacks you claim she possesses? Perhaps because her professional interactions normally don't contain anything that pushes her buttons?

I've interacted with tons of people in similar positions (though not Adria specifically), and I've never had the relationship get anywhere near any kind of button pushing, aside from some friendly competitive banter (oh, you use X? you really should try our Y...).
That kind of bullshit doesn't happen in the UK. Not to say that bullshit doesn't happen in the UK, or there isn't bullshit that is unique to the UK, but bullshit lawsuits are very very rare.
Not everyone has connections!
Fltdsgn -  a showcase of flat UI design
somebody kill this - idiot copy/paste fail on url
It depends on what the base salary is. If it's at the 95th percentile mark, I think a lot of devs would be ok with that, especially if all the other working conditions are good.
Seems unlikely. From their blog yesterday:

This is probably as good a time as any to mention
that if you are in SF and are an awesome software
engineer, we’re hiring: https://coinbase.com/jobs

Companies that are running out of cash tend not to hang big, "we're hiring" signs in the window.
As someone who never understood the appeal of foursquare/gowalla kind of apps, I do like this one — saving locations just for myself and sharing only if I really want to.
Well done using media attention for your benefit, you're handling the "controversy" well. Selling apps is a tough game and every user counts, good luck out there.
Namecoin does this: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
Fltdsgn - a showcase of flat UI design
RSS isn't about aggregating or sharing content it's about following content.
In an interesting side note, the whole situation is getting worse in mobile-land. On iOS the accessibility framework (which allows devs to label UI elements for screenreaders, among other features) has been almost entirely co-opted for use in automated testing.

Lacking a real way to trigger UI elements programmatically testing frameworks have almost universally fallen back on hijacking the accessibility features of the OS to do its work.

This makes me very concerned for actual app accessibility, since not only are we failing to implement accessible features (Apple's defaults are quite good, though imperfect) but we're actively breaking it instead.
Are we overloading our kids with homeworks and killing their creativity?
Problem is, the price of the nonlabor factors will never actually drop to zero. Energy and materials are basically things you pull out of the ground, and there's always going to be rent-seeking on natural resources.
Google displays ads on search results that are possible because it indexes the open web. No open web > no index > no search results.

Were there only closed systems, there would be no way of building a transversal search system.