skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, at first I thought it was a new app. We use it too, and usually call it Pivotal, for short.
I have a hard time parsing your first sentence. As for your second sentence, I agree, and so does most of the friends and co-workers of mine that reacted to Adria's tweet with utter outrage.

Many in public because far more than me felt that a public response is a perfectly acceptable reaction to her public harassment of someone else.

The only way I can interpret your comment given the "You, obviously, feel differently" is that you are talking about "publicly outing" her mistake.

But she did that herself, and the moment she did, public criticism became fair game.

(The threats and insults against her, and DOS against SendGrid, on the other hand, are disgusting and shocking and reveal that certainly she would have plenty of valid gender and discrimination issues to comment on - just not by publicly shaming someone who did not harass her even if the joke might have been totally inappropriate for the setting).
Bing thinks she is dead too http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=amy+wilentz
You see communities surviving, perhaps thriving in their own way and you don't understand how.

Instead of thinking, "I must not know something", you think "these places don't produce anything of value".

Your comment said very little about economics and a great deal about you.
Mention.net just notified me about a blog post published yesterday mentioning our product. Nothing from Google Alerts lately.
ECMAScript 4 was implemented in ActionScript 3[1]; a very nice language to work with IMHO. The members of the ECMAScript steering group launched into a public fracas on their respective blogs[2] which eventually ended in the draft being canned, despite the fact both ActionScript and Silverlight were already based on the standard... shame.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#ActionScript_3.0

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/10/30/ecmascript-3-a...
Actually, I think they are pretty different. I've never seen Tom Yum Goong at a Chinese buffet.
Taken off the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424999
"China is a "repressive nation"? Says who? Britain, the leader in colonialist aggressions, mass slavery and blatant interventions to third nations?"

Yes, all true, in the past.

Decolonialisation, itself a problematic process, has occurred, and self-determination achieved to some extent for many groups.

When will the Peoples Republic grant self-determination to Tibet? That would be the action of a self-assured and mature state.
The problem is that at least 60% of people that call themselves programmers, and seemingly have no issue getting by HR, can't code fizzbuzz, let alone whatever it is you're working on.

Issue one for me as an interviewer, whenever I've needed to be in such a position, was just to figure out whether or not I was talking with a programmer.

After that though I tend to agree with you. Beyond demonstrating basic competence - which I think in the future I will look to put into some for of pre-interview screening - code writing tests don't do much.

Personally, I've found bringing my current work in with me and talking about different ways of solving the issue seems to work pretty well.
While reading this, I originally thought that the birthday aspect would reduce the attack population for such an exploit, but then I remembered that all the major social networks have birthdays (and will display it, unless the privacy settings say otherwise).

I am thankful for the recent increase in 2-factor capabilities, and I encourage everyone to take advantage of them.
We need to accept that a byzantine bureaucracy isn't the way to achieve social welfare.

Simply cutting everyone a check would be far cheaper and equitable.
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Our thinking is that it's an efficient way to grow responsibly while still gathering user feedback early and often.

We tried to include as much tangible product as is possible with an invite-only product.
Why? It has a more clear meaning than just 'understand', and a 'huh' response should be a pretty good filter for an unsuitable candidate.
I can't speak for black people - lack of qualification, so to speak -, but I wouldn't be surprised if they considered it offensive. It's perpetuating a stereotype.

It's a benign stereotype as far as that goes, but it still does. It's also a joke I'd restrain to people I know fairly well - it veers into incest territory.

None of that is to say that I'm terribly offended by it myself, but I can see the potential to offend. And as such would reserve use. That's really what all this is about - try to respect the other person at the receiving end. And if you don't know them, try to be as considerate as possible.

Not because telling one such joke per se makes you a bad person, but because it might offend somebody who is not you or not your background. And because the courteous thing would be to try not to offend.

If you told it to me as an actual joke (not as an example as here), and assuming we'd have never met, I'd probably reply with a "Dude, that's kind of not appropriate. Please don't go there". If you told it to me in a large crowd of your friends, and I'd be alone, I might choose to not respond at all, or let somebody else handle this. It's a sad fact that as a woman, calling out inappropriateness usually means you get a lot of flak, quite frequently threats. (See what's happening to Adria right now).

I'd assume that's why she opted for a public shaming. (The appropriateness of which is a whole 'nother topic. I was not comfortable with that, either.)
A job board has a 'resume wall'. It's like there's a very narrow slot in it you shove your resume through. Then you just hope. And hope. And hope. And then give up because that wall ain't talking.

Anyone ever applying to me that sends me a legitimate application WILL get a response. And if you made it to a phone interview you WILL get a phone response even if we're not continuing.

It's all about respect. (Plus, I might want to hire you next year for a different role. I'd like it if you thought highly of me. And it's not difficult to be polite)

(If you or someone you know is looking for a Senior PHP role in Melbourne.AU, hit me up and I'll point you at the ad on Seek's resume wall :-P)
Andrew Mason posted on here a few times, but when the website was in the early stages. See below for the posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=picnichouse

However they were not well received (as has been discussed in a couple other threads)
You don't have to slaughter them, just let them die on their own accord
To me this interview underlines the accomplishment of CoffeeScript.

No committees. No marketing team. No developer evangelists. No PR team. No corporate interests. No budget.

Just code.
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I spent three weeks there, it wasn't an exhaustive study on the psyche of the German people I'll give you that. But it was drawn on substance, I had numerous meetings with berlin tech people, and just thought the jaywalking observation seemed in line from the impressions I got from those meetings.

But there are differences in culture, so I guess if referring to the "Germans" as a whole offends you there is nothing I can do.
Since when did telling a simple techie joke become sexist? And how did one individual telling another individual privately that joke become discrimination?

Eavesdrop much and then drop a nuke on the people your eavesdropping on? She got what she deserved. She tried to flex her e-peen to see how much clout she had online and that ended up biting her in the ass.
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OP referred to a Heinlein quote in his article. I figured that makes using 'grok' in a comment OK.
Was there a large audience to the comment? Was it directed at a general group of people? No. It was directed at a single other person, and she happened to overhear it. So it was private. That it was made in public and within earshot of others does not make it a public statement.
ES4 ~= Action Script (with packages , classes , interfaces ,etc...)

The problem with typescript is that there is no real built-in module support you either need AMD or CommonJS that's why i wont use it.

The language is great but i dont want to have to use requireJS to create reusable components.

Funny how Microsoft rejected ES4 and now is "praising" and "advocating" for better web scripting language. That's hypocrisy.
> Yesterday I had an interview that started off with "Tell me a bit about yourself."

To be fair, alot of well meaning interviewers start off that way. It's supposed to be a chance for you to mention all the good things that we may not ask about.

In fact that question is so common its a good weeder question; if a person can't blow your socks off with 5 minutes then you can probably predict how the rest of the interview will go.

I mean the interviewer basically says to you a golden opportunity to say why they should hire you. If you don't know what to say that pretty much says it all:)
Man I hate getting recruiter emails... I get this vague description of the job for a "hot startup" or "well funded startup" or "established startup"... and I have no idea what they actually make, what the company is about, etc.

STARTUPS: STOP USING RECRUITERS!

in fact... everyone stop using recruiters. Look on monster.com and dice.com and stack overflow careers and whatever else. I guarantee you, recruiters aren't going to magically find people that don't have their resumes listed there. Anyone who wants a job has their resume listed up there. Find some people that look good, and email them. It's not a full time job, and the quality of candidates you get will more than make up for the lost time in actually reading through resumes.

I pay 100x the attention to an email from a real person at a real company who can actually talk about what they do, how they do it, and what I would be expected to do, than I do an email from a recruiter who just wants to place me at whatever company they can get me into. Recruiters don't care about you and they don't care about me. They want a quickie - wham bam, thank you ma'am.

Maybe it's just Boston, I don't know, but you look on all the big sites, and it's 95% recruiters.

Do you think job applicants are dumb? That they won't do some basic searches to find the job your HR guy posted on dice.com?

Which of these do you think I'm more likely to click on?

Job #213 from TechRecruiterz.com
Full stack engineer for SomeAwesomeStartup.com

One is a position at an actual company, one is an advertisement for a Recruiter who doesn't give any identifying information about the job, and doesn't actually care if I'm a match for a job so long as I take A job... any job, so he can get paid.
Google the Good Friday Agreement. The test is in how the country deals with a persistent low level civil war. We talked and accepted the need for compromise.
I recently started getting serious about changing positions and I've become completely convinced that much of the so-called 'talent shortage' is caused by the job search process, from job listings through to interviews. Every step is unintentionally outrageous in a new way.

Yep. Bilateral mismatch. Here's the dirty truth: people don't actually care about talent or even how good you are at your job. They just want to get a mission fulfilled. That'd be fine, with competent execution-- hire the right kind of person, get it done and done well, make your money and move on to something better. The problem is that it seems that 90 percent of them have no clue what they want or how to evaluate the relevant talents, and there's a hardcore Design Paradox effect going on as well.

By the way, I'm pretty well-known at this point. I'm probably in the 96-97th percentile for programming skill and 99th for loudness. It makes job searching easier to be "a quantity" and I'm finally getting to a point where it opens up some great options... but I've still dealt with a lot of frustration. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Those you do hear back from will often mis-represent themselves and their businesses in an attempt to get hires. In fact, I was a victim of this at my current job.

This is a problem in stodgy bureaucracies and VC-istan. In the former, it's because in Douchebagland, one's value is based on how many reports he has-- not what those reports actually do-- so bringing in marginal people through dishonest means improves the boss's resume. In the latter, it has more to do with the way companies are valued by investors and acquirers-- some $X million per employee.
Also stop with: interviewing based on rote memorization.

Yesterday I had a really crappy (third-party!) phone screen assessing my ASP.NET and some general web dev knowledge. Questions included asking me what the stages are in the ASP.NET page life cycle, how to create Web Control in ASP.NET, what elements are new in HTML5, and how to pop up a new window in Javascript.

None of which I know off the top of my head (except I know <canvas> is new), each of which I can learn in about 100 milliseconds, and none of which assess skill and intellect.

Did you want a skilled programmer, or someone who memorized their Foobar Enterprise Framework cheat sheet? Because you're only interviewing for one of those.
The point of a basic income is to ensure everyone has the means to improve their standing, and keep from sliding into abject poverty. Any use of the funds that furthers that goal is legitimate. Social pressure can be exerted to limit frivolous uses, but it's easy for that to go too far and become counterproductive.

The worst that happens is someone has more than they need. And then what happens?

One of two things:

1: It sits in the bank, where it's lent out for investment

2: It's spent, possibly on something optional but still legitimately useful and non-frivolous, in which case it flows back out into the economy

I don't see a bad outcome. The vast majority of people want to have the self-esteem boost of fulfilling employment, and will seek it out once they're not stuck in the welfare trap. There's even a solid chance this will bring civilization to a point where no one needs a minimum income.
I think the pivots usually call it "tracker."
Thank you, it's a brand new Tumblr template, wasn't aware that it had a problem, will get on it.
Holy crap, someone's doing this for real?!
Stop the (Boring) Fighting
You can't opt-out of server-side tracking. They could easily architect the app to require a round-trip to the server on every call (this is how typical early web apps worked). In that case you really don't have an option to object.

Does that bother you too? (A service recording your usage of it)

Why is measuring on the client-side different from measuring on the server-side?
I could have done without the gender-specificity in the article. I'm not just talking about the title; there was also a glaring omission of a certain gender combination in the example of how to talk to an eighth-grader about this.
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Is this common knowledge?

I grew up on the other side of the tracks and it was common knowledge even to me over a decade ago. Quite a few of my friend who barely graduated school knew where they were headed in their future.

If you're a guy you practically don't qualify for any aid, period. So with no future prospectes you get a job doing intense manual labor; roofing and warehouse were particularly popular. Do that for a year then "develop"[1] a back problem. File for workman's comp. Now your unemployed so you get UI as well. The UI money eventually runs out so you file for disability, bring your workman's comp dossier as evidence.

I first started hearing about this in 2001 from some colleagues working in factory. They were actually looking forward to being injured. A lot of them were real schemers, too. So one of them told me that Clinton fucked them by changing the welfare laws. He put in a hard limit of 5 years and made it difficult to qualify. They took no joy in the factory but took the work serious because they needed at least 6 months to qualify for UI and workman's comp can be denied if you don't do follow procedures (ex. breaking your back by following off scaffolding and not wearing a harness or being clipped in).

I have friends who are coming back from both wars and they are really fucked up, physically and emotionally. I can't imagine if there numbers fall under SS disabilities or VA disabilities.
I'll go one further.

I had an interview several years ago. Talking with the owners, small shop (6 people? 8?). We get to a "let's code something on the white board" segment. Fair enough. "Write me some code that does XYZ" (I honestly don't remember what it was - something basic but not trivial).

I took the marker, went to the board, put the marker to the board, then turned around and asked a couple questions. They answered, I sketched out a few lines of code, and that was that.

I sat down and one of them said that I was the first person ever to ask a question before writing. Everyone else had started writing, got part way through, then asked for clarification on the ambiguous parts (or worse yet, never realized part of it was up for interpretation).

Everyone handles whiteboard tests differently, but it was interesting to me to get that perspective shared with me about asking questions before writing on the board.
There's been some interesting research on compressed-domain forensic watermarking; check it out.
No revenue sharing is not a scam, but be sure to put it in contract.

But the fact that it's not a scam might not mean it's a good deal.
Do an estimate of the cost of the project considering your rate at your job and the time the project will take.

Compare it with what you're expect to make with the 5% in the next few years.

Maybe they are added benefit of doing the project with him, like experience with a new tech or having first client of a side business making web apps.
Another right-ish supporter was F.A. Hayek, who had some positive arguments in favor of it as well (whereas Friedman supported it mostly just because he thought it was better than welfare systems).

Hayek's main argument was that a society based on autonomous individuals, rather than collectivist groups, is more likely if everyone is guaranteed at least a minimum safety net, because otherwise people are forced to cling to birth-related groups (ethnic groups, clans, clannish religious groups, etc.) for their safety net. A short snippet: http://www.kmjn.org/snippets/hayek79_minimumincome.html

Elsewhere he discusses it in relation to choice as well: above a subsistence floor, he opposes much government intervention because he thinks markets made up of individuals making free choices can make decisions better. But below that floor, when people are desperate, you have things that are closer to "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse" than an economy driven by free choices. It's unclear from my memory if his worry there is primarily an ethical one, or relating to proper functioning of markets, though it could be both.
No, but I think only pubescent teens enjoy telling those jokes to as wide an audience as possible. They might well be funny, but what's funny to one person can be hurtful to another person. Which is why you keep that kind of humor out of the workplace (and the public).

That's the whole point. Not that jokes like that are told. I find it sad that some of the ones being told are utterly degrading, and I'd hope people would let go of those, but as far as sex jokes in a group of friends go? Sure. Have at it. They have consented.

At work, I have not consented to be subject to those jokes, and there is no reason to tell them. That is what this is about.
I tend to delete when I reach minus figures...

Is this a common practice? If you do this do you avoid the existing karma hit, or is it just to avoid going more negative yet?
The difference is that with basic income if you start working just a little bit - your basic income would stay with you and your total income would increase.

In current situation, if you start working - you are losing your welfare/disability benefits.
This has been "out of stock" since right after it was announced.
Not smart bear. As much as I like their blog every time I have used their software it has always been a horrible morass of buttons and utter lack of simplicity.
Yes, that is right. Anyone who questions you is a troll.
Probably you've seen examples of ES6 which is actively developed now, and many features from it are already available in firefox nightlies. ES4 was abandoned 3-4 years ago. It was partially implemented in firefox, and ff addons used it. One of it's features that didn't made into ES6 was inline xml inside javascript. It was recently removed from firefox.
>Look, whatever “side” of this you’re one, here’s what happened:

>Some guys made some guy jokes about guy stuff

>A woman got offended and did something that was probably an over-reaction

>Some conference organizers over-reacted

>A company (PlayHaven) over-reacted

>The internet (all of us, but especially Anonymous) over-reacted

>Another company (SendGrid) over-reacted

>I’ve been cursed and pilloried and told to go kill myself by people on both sides of the issue, just for writing about these events. People from both sides see what they want to see and, like trained attack dogs, go in for the kill with little consideration, no mercy, no nuance, no shades of grey. They are so blinded by their self-righteousness that they’re perfectly OK with perpetrating more metaphorical violence in the service of their almighty god-blessed cause.

Amazing how things escalate.

At this rate I half expect to see this end in years of trench warfare and mustard gas.
Recently found out about this site http://betali.st/ that has lists of startups coming out with new products you can sign up for a beta. I've personally never put anything on, but I like to scour the site to see what new useful ideas are coming out.
Yup. I've got friends who have their PIs there, works like a charm. I would send mine but I use it as a TimeMachine server at home. But tbh it would be worth it to buy another one and send it there just to have a remote ssh server through which I could tunnel in times of need.
People who use grok properly in conversation move up a rung on my opinion-o-ladder.