skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's the same thing, isn't it? My wife is an Architect -- a real Architect, not a BillG wannabe -- and is gobsmacked at the arrogance of people in the tech industry towards hiring.

"I'm not here to be interviewed, I'm going to interview you"
"These tremendous company benefits totally suck"
"It is my divine right to work from home"
"Co-workers are to be seen and not heard"
etc etc
I don't know what you're trying to say. If you are trying to imply that someone on a developer salary in Europe or the US are not well off by global standards, you're out of your mind.
and I believe should read nginx-1.3.15
Google it and see what you get. I typed "language shootout debian" to find the result. I guess Google still remembers its old name.
This seems an easy to grasp example of how the free market actually benefits the wealthy disproportionately. I think its an over-simplified concept.

Yes, we definitely need to remain free and diverse, but we need to figure out how to factor more actual science, especially science related to human needs, into our decision-making systems. Right now its just whoever manages to collect the most money buys the policies.

I think that the concept we have of money is inadequate. We need to start tracking and taking into account more data rather than just how many points everyone has regardless of how they got them or how they want to spend them. And I think to make things fair and effective the rules and enforcement need to be automated.

Imagine a computer game where there was only one stat. Does that sound like a fair, fun, or sophisticated game?
That's a fair point, but there are also many of us who want to be friends with our co-workers, and not just see them as little automatons that we interact with for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and never again.

Personally the kind of companies I prefer to work for are exactly the kind where lots of people are genuinely friends, where they do group activities (voluntary, of course) together outside of work, and where people actually like and enjoy each other.

Likewise with the company I've founded... when the day comes that we have employees and all that jazz, I do care about "cultural fit" and I would prefer to bring in people who want to be in that kind of environment. It has nothing to do with wanting to control anyone's "outside of work" life, or denying them "separation of work and personal", it's just that it's more fun to work in that kind of environment and also, IMO, more productive.

None of this implies that we would ever demand that someone sacrifice elements of their personal life in favour of doing things with co-workers, of course. And we would not be doing group events where participation is mandatory or where you would be "dinged" for choosing not to go. It's just that I like working in a very collegial, friendly, inviting culture where people genuinely enjoy each other.
It's presumptuous to say so, but I think it should be said since it is good advice: you should work towards removing that separation as it will likely improve your life as a whole. I get where you're coming from - work is just how you support the enjoyable parts of your life - but it really is possible to make work also an enjoyable part of your life by working with a team you enjoy on a project that you're passionate about. It's not easy, but it's worth working towards!
Indeed, but I've never found that necessary. The reactions to the question, including non-verbal, tell you a whole lot, as does the specificity of the reply.
But whose principles? The employee or the company?
The fact that a tax-hater such as Grover Norquist opposes reforming the tax-filing procedures illustrates the complex dichotomy between giving government good responsibility without giving it dictatorship-like responsibility.

In Norquist's opinion, making taxes too easy to file will make citzenry too complacent about how they're being nickel-and-dimed and will lull them into not pursuing reform. OK, fair enough.

But what about a scenario in which for 30-50 million Americans file for their taxes by sending a SMS (as it's apparently done in Scandinavian countries)? And all the other taxpayers, they're wondering: "Why the f-ck can't my taxes be that easy??"

Isn't this scenario as likely to lead to overhaul of our complicated tax code?
"2) Paying taxes is one of the few transactional relationships you have with your government. If you ask me, a government representative should come to your office and you should pay him in cash, not hide and automate taxes so that they disappear."

Yep. My brother resists giving his credit cards to businesses to keep on file because it makes it much easier for them to get your money habitually, unconsciously, accidentally and by sleight of hand. There should be a little friction at every transaction wherever possible. Frankly, this goes double for the government, which has way more power than any business.

I like the government. It does lots of good stuff for me. But I like it at the right price, and I know that just like any other powerful entity, it will take more than its best share given a bad dynamic. In the same way that unconscious eating habits make people obese, unconscious tax policies makes the government obese.
So every type that can be returned from a service call has to implement Reply?

Yes, if you want it to actually be a Reply, it has to implement Reply.

That's acres of template code being duplicated all over the place

No, if you need to reuse code you can use other techniques like embedding (not shown in examples).

The features and restrictions differ from many other OO languages but I think the creators of Go deserve a little more credit than you are giving them - they do not produce unmaintainable code (see std lib for Go), worked on a large scale with C++ OOP previously, designed the forking Unix operating system, and are not unaware of the ramifications of the decisions taken.
So what happens to the three employees who didn't clear Yahoo's interviews? Do they get nothing? Just curious.
I think it's a great question to ask anyway, even if the interviewer doesn't ask about weaknesses.
Ask HN: SMB employees management, invoicing and accounting, one-stop shop?
A friend of mine runs a small shop, where he and couple of his employees/contractors do the job.

He lands a client, gets himself on retainer or on hourly rate, sends invoices out every month, tracks invoices as paid or non-paid, manages his bank account and distributions - essentially he needs to have a good understanding of P&L at any given time, as while he does some work himself, sometimes he hires other people to sub-contract to.

Essentially he needs a tool to manage his hourly and retainer-based employees, who can track their time at their rate, as well as to pass-through these timesheets to his client, billed at a different rate.

Also, he manages distributions, as some of his partners get royalty share, etc.

Currently he uses spreadsheets to track all that and I should tell - that's quite a mess. He doesn't want to get engaged with more complicated solutions, and he doesn't have accountant for anything but his taxes, at the end of the year.

Is there any one-stop shop that you are using and can recommend? Really appreciate your hints.
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It's actually 35%, if you don't count people who file with just the standard deduction. While technically a "deduction", the standard deduction is pretty dead-simple to compute. It only gets more complicated if you're taking itemized deductions, and that's about 1/3 of taxpayers (though that's still a high proportion of itemized filers compared to many countries).

Source: http://taxfoundation.org/article/most-americans-dont-itemize...
Except they would be even more vulnerable to government's monitoring the conversations, since they'd own those satellites. Unless we can envision a future where even a small business could have such a satellite.
That was my overall point. Fairness is manmade. We decide what's fair and not and certainly your concept is different from mine. Nature doesn't care. Markets don't care. Systems don't care. All we can do as humans is impose our view of fairness on others by legal means or social norms. Most of us agree killing is bad and unfair to the person who got killed and their family/friends, so we legislate against that.

While many might feel that kids of rich people have an unfair advantage, we haven't as a collective decided to do anything to put that to an end. We have made it a bit easier for non-rich kids to get some of the benefits that rich kids get like daily meals, access to education etc. but the gap is far too wide to bridge for everyone.

You can certainly try to design a social structure where nobody is rich or nobody gets preferential treatment but those haven't worked well so far for numerous other reasons. In a capitalistic, democratic/republic society, we haven't legislated the unfairness of being born rich, mostly because most of us don't think it is unfair enough to be illegal. In fact, most of us would think it is fair when looking at it from the parents' point of view. If you work hard and make a lot of money, why shouldn't your kids have it better than you did?

What I was trying to say to the parent was that fairness is not a concrete standard, especially when it comes to things many of us can disagree on.
This is very interesting as it reminds me of my youth (and probably also the experiences of other people): After the obligatory QBASIC dabbling, my first experiences as a child with GUI design and programming was through macros and the VBA Editor of MS Office, which, at the time, had a good offline help system. Albeit not having any formal knowledge, creating some simple (mostly text-based and excel-cell-based) RPGs was possible thanks to that.
A few caveats: "Current implementation of SPDY protocol does not support “server push”.

Processing of requests from SPDY connections cannot be rate limited."

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_spdy_module.html
I'm confused. Are you saying this kid should have his $30M (or whatever he gets out of the deal) taken away from him, because you perceive he didn't earn it?
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Will free MOOCs destroy Higher Education?
> "But that issue has nothing to do with PyCon, women in tech, or software development."

I disagree. The shitheads in our community who would stoop to death threats do not threaten everyone equally. The way I know that is that a woman who complained about a joke got a bunch of abuse, yet the company who fired the joke-teller — by all accounts, an overreaction — got nearly none.

Also, it's not just death threats; it's harassment, too. Jesse Noller, who ran PyCon, commits the sin of "having a Code of Conduct and enforcing it," and ends up getting hate mail and harassing phone calls (https://twitter.com/jessenoller/status/314417532842950656).

Internet geeks have weird and sadistic ways of dispensing "justice." That's unfortunate, but even worse is what they decide to point their magnifying glass at.
Deterministic JSON.stringify()
Poverty is not normally distributed on a bell curve, more like a power law distribution; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Larger smartphone screens lead to increased Web usage, but only over WiFi
In Norway, if you qualify for simplified tax return (which I think most people do), you don't have to do anything anymore. You get a default pre-filled tax return that you can access electronically (or on paper if you prefer), and you only have to return it if you need to make changes.
US Golf Courses (http://www.usgolfcoursesapp.com) was the first and most successful app I made back when I was starting with iOS development in the early spring of 2011. Over the course of it's lifetime it has averaged about two sales per day but out of the gate it did well after a mention on Mashable.

I wrote a short article last year about how the app fared when I had both a paid and free version: http://www.brianjlink.com/sucks-not-working

I haven't updated US Golf Courses at all since April of 2011. The app is currently both out of date and has a broken weather feature but still seems to generate at least some minimal interest every day.
You are right. I should have said constructed.
What is the difference, unless you are not a module author.
Another interesting project, Appscale (https://github.com/AppScale) from UCSB, is a GoogleAppEngine PaaS clone
Exactly, this is one of the first 2 or 3 questions I always ask an interviewer. I usually get some great, honest answers.
I'm arguing that without these prerequisites, this 'optimization' isn't an optimization at all - it'll be a step backwards, because it'll just end up ripping people off.

People certainly should demand reform, but not this particular reform at this particular time. People should absolutely demand a simpler tax code - I don't know about you, but I'm still holding out hope we'll see some tax reform in 2013.

'Competent government' is a harder problem. Americans aren't Norwegians or Germans, and simply aren't good at large bureaucracy. Unless America starts subcontracting out its administration to the Swedes, better government is going to take either a change in American character or something smaller and less-centralized.
The username/email thing is going to rule out large employers almost universally. They have IT departments with existing processes. Now, maybe that's your goal, in which case it's a reasonable decision (though a much easier way to get that info is just to look at the size of the building you are standing in instead of wasting time in the interview!).

Some of the responsibility of finding a "good" work environment lies on the employee too. If you go into the process expecting to find a "perfect" employer you're going to be disappointed. This is true in professional software environments just like it is in life: everyone has different values, and if you want to be happy you need to be willing to compromise a little.

I'm not saying that there aren't objectively "bad" professional cultures out there, but if you put your requirements on a big bullet list like this you're going to be ruling out a bunch of objectively "good" ones too.
> Had those two men been women, would we be having a discussion of the danger of stalking, death threats, and abuse that Richards put them in?

Yes.
I said that the price is suitable for Yahoo because, if they did not believe that the price was acceptable to Yahoo and its shareholders then, they would not have sanctioned an acquisition for the company. Likewise, I think your comment about there being no evidence to support the acquisition etc is a valid one although, it could be applied to any M&A deal such as it could have been applied (at the time) to Google’s acquisition of YouTube (with regards to the lawsuits etc) - and whilst the Summly deal may or may not end up being successful for Yahoo, if the Summly Team provides Yahoo with value beyond their acquisition price then, it certain cannot be debated that it was anything but a successful one.
YC should organize a mini-demo day the day after demo for all of these exciting companies to give small presentations on what they're working on. It would be very interesting for other startups to watch, and would give a lot of very much needed publicity to these companies.

I think a "YC-Demo Day" youtube video would generate a fairly enormous amount of traffic and publicity (and be interesting to watch)!
I got paid interest because the IRS took longer than they were supposed to when they processed my return claiming the first time homeowner credit. I wasn't expecting it, and I certainly wasn't expecting the interest rate I was paid to be higher than any non-credit-card interest rate, but it was.

I treated myself to a bottle of Lagavulin 16 and a couple good cigars.
I built something like this about a year ago called sticky-panel.
https://code.google.com/p/sticky-panel/
Mine only has a couple added features like before and after detach events and support for overflow divs.
Well, you can implement methods based on the Reply interface instead. As long as there are common fields or methods that all the types have, you can have a single CheckStatus() that uses those.

Maybe I don't know what exactly you want.

The Foo and Bar in my example have quite different CheckStatus() methods because those two structs are quite different. If there were more similar, then you could share more code.
Here is a fun one.

Why and when did the last 3 people who left your group, leave?

The answer tells you volumes of useful information. It gets at what organizational turnover is, what people are unhappy about, and something about how much blame there is. Furthermore the question is so specific and unexpected that you sometimes get startlingly honest answers.
Basing it on your income is even better than basing it on the value of the car.
That's a very narrow definition which would even exclude people like Alan Sugar who has an actual lordship and knighthood as well piles of cash.

It's not an especially useful definition anyway, if your family has a lot of money it doesn't make much practical difference whether they got that via inheritance or via starting facebook you will get similar advantages either way.
Designing for high-resolution Retina displays
Same in Denmark; you also get the refund automatically paid, if they owe you anything, with interest (0.5%, but still). I screwed up my withholding my first year here (failed to apply for a tax ID at all, so taxes were withheld by default at the highest rate). The next March I got a letter saying, your taxes were over-withheld by large_amount. If this is incorrect, please log in and fix it, otherwise we're going to deposit a huge pile of money in your account in N weeks. Did nothing for a few weeks and the money showed up.
It doesn't matter. What does matter is how strong a commitment is shown to principle. Giving up a million-dollar contract because it supported something shady is impressive. By contrast, someone who ums and ahs and comes out with something lame may well be someone who always puts themself first.
You should love paying your taxes because you love your government. That means that you and the government should have some sort of transactional relationship. I give the government 100 bucks every payday, and I see the things it provides for me. Then, every election, I get to vote for folks to make adjustments based on my desires. We have a relationship. I understand and am reminded on a regular basis that there is a trade-off

I can't emphasize how much that making this relationship go away is a tremendously bad idea. Yes, tax paying can be easy -- if the tax code is easy. But you should do something on a regular basis to think about the agreement you're part of, even if it's just sending an SMS every week to transfer your funds.

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the person responsible for making sure the Social Security agency sends out statements to show how much you've paid into the system. He felt, and I agree, that government systems for which there's no interaction eventually become perceived as either magic or worthless -- and either choice was really bad for a democracy over the long term.

You shouldn't run a government the same way you'd run one of those companies that wants to automatically deduct money from your account every month -- hoping you'll never miss the charges once the benefit goes away and then they can continue billing. It just won't work.
I did 4 years of contracting and by the time I was tired to chasing cheques I had accumulate more pairs of pajamas than I had jeans let alone business casual (and one suit for when I went to meetings.) First place I applied the Director of Tech was wearing a baby blue hoodie with gold gilding and the VP was in a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, I knew I could get along here. Summers in Canada are terribly short and I don't want to waste them wearing slacks and dress shirt.
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See, that's fascinating! I was raised to believe that asking "what do you do" demonstrates interest in having a conversation with someone. Until now, I had never ever posited that asking "what do you do" is a pry into income level.
Clipping agencies used to have to buy the newspapers they read through to find articles about their clients. It seems fair to expect a similar relationship when the news goes electronic.

This use is very different to a short quote - properly attributed and linked.
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Maybe that reply was simply toooooooo sarcastic for you (and many many others) to detect?

One thing I have learned about forums etc on the net is that humour written down can be so very badly misunderstood. Particularly dry, witty, sarcastic humour. I used to fall in to all sorts of trouble when I thought I was being oh so funny. I now try to be very careful when I want to be funny.

Dunno if this will mean much to you, but have you ever seen the UK comedy Blackadder? If you have, imagine it written down. It just reads as plain rude. But with Rowan Atkinson performing the lines, it becomes funny. If you haven't seen it, and like oldish Brit comedy, see it. Im sure there must be US shows that work like that too. I suppose reading a script of "Louie" might well seem very unfunny? Perhaps?

I shall now posh mumble and apologise a lot, and go!!!
Seems to me that it is more likely that Samsung, who he is an official spokesman for, told him to post that as part of his duties as spokesman. Also it seems more likely that Samsung is behind the CCTV campaign as they are the ones that would gain from such a message, so I'm not sure why people are putting it on CCTV as the orchestrator. In my opinion the worst violation of this story is the weibo censorship following the incident.
I think you mean THX-1138s.

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According to Alexa, yahoo is the 4th most visited website in the world. They have innumerable ways to generate traffic. "Traction" implies a company that is not being visited at all trying to get a jump start, and is just not accurate.
I for one avoid using my debit car online and I know many others who do the same, so I've always assumed few people use them online.

While the extra protection offered on credit card purchases is not overly significant for the size of most purchases, it is more than nothing so worth having.

The stats you link to don't specify the marketplace sampled, but I suspect it covers physical outlets as well as online ones which will skew the figures for debit cards at least (unless my experience is not representative of the larger population).
>> "What's the most interesting thing you've worked on since you started at Potential Co.?"

This is my new go-to question. Plus, it works both ways, great to ask interviewees and interviewers. It really opens up the conversation and immediately gets to the core of the company/applicant.