skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just guessing here, but they have a product that promises much more than what it currently delivers.

They are the personification of how the cloud facilitate the life of the final user (not a buzz word that no mainstream media really understand or that is only helpfull for a very restrict niche of developers). And when you know that they are expanding to other services (as acquiring Mailbox) you can easily imagine that the sky is the limit. They might just become the next Google. And entering Google when it still wasn't Google is much better than entering Google right now.

And I think the acid test for them was when Google and Microsoft launched their direct competitors. Passing the "what if Google launch a product to compete with mine" test is like equate with them.
PathAnimator – Moving Along An SVG Path
A tiny (1.7kb) , efficient and flexible library for animating anything along an SVG path.
It may be a role focused on hype, but many of the people who hold these roles are developers themselves. I have no idea if Adria codes, but many evangelists are more than just marketers. This is true of any job–you never know who is a programmer–but developer relations people more so than many.
No matter how they try and sex it up religion is still "guilt with holidays."
"Isn't the immediate goal to get more women into science and technology..."

Humor me for a moment: why should I, a white now middle aged male have a goal of getting a group of people "into science and technology" who include a subset who are a proven danger to my company, job and career?

Ignore the idealized world and goals and focus on reality: as incidents like this show, a generic woman is a higher risk employee. How does it benefit us as individuals, or startup companies where one major crazy incident can kill them (out of opportunity costs alone)?

Doesn't the rest of your posting support this position?
Companies that want to give the impression that they are thriving also hang "we're hiring" signs.
Perhaps those who are receiving entitlement (and advocating for its abolition), may be using reasoning that you don't recognize. For example, could some of these recipients be very guilty about their use, and, are voting to end them because they don't see any other way out for themselves? Accepting a free handout is a very hard thing in our culture, especially for those that know the gift they receive was forcibly taken from others.
I saw this situation coming a long while ago. These companies are now turning against those who made them what thu are. Worst is that they turned against us, the hackers. No or limited API access, real name policies, lack of gener privacy, no way to get your data back, etc. All of this as a result of these companies being run by the traditional corporate drone. This is why Nuuton is being developed, by me, a hacker with business experience. I know how the value Of a company depends by the hacker community that forms around it. When I say value I don't mean money. I mean how well the company is poised to do some re innovation and provide a good dependable service to the community at large.
Nuuton features a strict privacy policy with no re names, no tracking, no bubbles, and private data as a default. It will also allow for easy access to your data. All of it. To the hacker community, it has and will have a robust collection of APIs for you to use without draconian limitations. Best of all, Nuuton is not being developed as a one way lottery ticket. I don't need or want the money. I'm building it because I have had it up to here with dealing with these abusive companies.
It depends on the role. It can range from a tech-aware marketeer to an actual software engineer by trade who writes code samples and materials for the company's website or some combination there of.
I'm not sure how that could happen, since the entire system is transparent and entirely objective. There is no management discretion in how the system works. If you achieve objective X, you get a bonus. If you complete your monthly tasks for the month for 3 months, you get a pay raise.

Ok, perhaps there is some management discretion in setting the goals, but it'd be pretty obvious to the whole company if someone is being set harder/more goals than someone else, so I think this sort of stuff would be dealt with pretty quickly.

There's always a chance that someone will try and sue you for random reasons, even in the UK. This is the kind of thing I'm not going to worry about until it actually becomes a problem, though. Hopefully I will not hire the kind of person who would pull that sort of shit... interesting point though.
"That could mean websites will be required to include spoken descriptions of photos and text boxes for the blind, as well as captions and transcriptions of multimedia features for the deaf"

"Mr. Smith also advises companies to ensure that people with motor disabilities can navigate websites without the use of a mouse"

As if I needed more reasons to not host my sites in the US.
...their buy price sometimes fails to catch up with the current exchanges rates...

This is an existential flaw in their business. Why don't they just reject transactions at expired prices? (If they wanted to be slightly more evil, they could do this in one direction only.)
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There is research suggesting that exposure to bacteria (Mycobacterium vaccae in this case) can help cure depression. I first read about it in this article from The Economist:

http://www.economist.com/node/8956457
I work for the California State University system. Using FOIA requests, various media outlets have built up a database where we can see everyone's salary. For example:
http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/

Overall, I would say this has not been a bad thing for us employees.
1. Transparent government is a good thing.
2. I am very sympathetic to a number of people who receive less base compensation then they would in the private sector with similar responsibilities.
3. It shows the importance of career path as there are bands per department (e.g. engineers in one range, computer people in a separate range).

Still, there are down sides.
1. The upper management has found ways to hide salary and compensation.
2. It does lead to some discontent when people are told their is no money for a raise, but person X manages to get one.
Someone here would like some helping hand on android work?
I am good in java and android development. I can work remote. Pls if you can offer me an help, i will be GLAD. Thanks!
If they're letting you "lock in" a buy price and then waiting for the incoming funds transfer to settle up, then they must be floating funds somehow, right? It might also explain the whole "we can only sell so many Bitcoins in a 24 hour window" thing.

I'm wondering if this has bitten them really hard during the runup.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have accidentally and temporarily turned into a kind of Ponzi and don't currently have enough BTC to fulfill orders, and are waiting for new cash to come in so they can, or waiting for people on Coinbase to sell, they can match it up with someone that bought and has been waiting.

The "technical" explanation to the situation does not add up because otherwise everything would be fine now for everybody. It looks more like the situation is related to finances.
Madoff is a straw man; he committed fraud.
I sometimes think companies fall under power law distribution, when it comes to being interesting. Most of it is CRUD app work.
A general rule for hiring is that one should never ask a question where its impossible to tell a good bullshit answer from a good answer. The bullshitters will always do better, and thus your biasing your hiring process to bullshitters. Answers to questions should be signal with extremely high information content. A question where a good bullshitter will get a disproportionate amount of points is in fact a net negative to your hiring process.

If you're the type that needs personal validation such that you would knock a candidate for saying something like "I need money, you guys are paying in money", then you simply shouldn't ask the question. Of course, people love to think that they have a highly tuned bullshit detector, are immune to blatant flattery, etc. The problem is everyone thinks that. We are all susceptible to these things and we need to make sure our process is such that its not biased towards people who are particularly good at telling you what you want to hear.
This will affect the response they get from "awesome software engineers in SF", even if they are actually thriving.
Impressions of Gaza by Noam Chomsky (2012)
Admittedly, at the same time Big Farming are just the same kind of bastards as any other large manufacturing or resource-extraction capitalist titans, and are often receiving very nice breaks from the government.
It would be nice to have some sort of "Here's what we do" or "Here's how it works" section with some screenshots or text blurbs.
How do I avoid missing each post from a handful of people who publish rarely in an endless stream of chatty publishers? RSS is how I sidestep the stream and catch the important things.
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I didn't take this quite as literally as Mr. Smith put it. He doesn't mean websites might need to hire voice actors to read out your content.

What he means is that you must actually use HTML's alt and title attributes properly so that screen-readers can produce these spoken descriptions.

That strikes me as a fairly reasonable burden.
The title of this story should be "9-Year-Old's Wealthy Entrepreneur Mom Raises $14,000 More Than She Needed To Send Daughter To Camp".
FYI It is hard to use Gitolite config files in GitLab since GitLab already stores the configuration and premissions in the database.
So, is the structure of your company such that you are able to constantly adjust these carrots (commission, bonus and pay) on an as-needed basis?

Would an adjustment down be possible (sorry sales, had to move 1% of your commission to ops to stave off a revolt!)?

Do you find the "boil the frog" method to help with this transparent structure? Giving someone 5x 2k raises over 15 months is far less of an event than giving someone a 10k raise after a yearly performance review. Was this something you guys thought of intentionally, or just the way you wanted to run the company regardless of the transparent structure?
If it's displayed on a networked computer, it can be indexed – Facebook and Twitter can be indexed, it just takes more effort. But let's imagine there would be no way for Google to index the web, then they would find other places to put their ads. Google is an advertising company, not an Internet search company.
When does preparation become procrastination?
Thanks for the feedback!

Short Answer: It works by connecting with your current retargeting software, 'spidering' through your campaigns and suggests improvements using predictive analysis to make you more sales. Like a well prepared audit, you receive actionable improvements with implementation walkthroughs.
At the time, I was young developer being asked to interview a somebody. If I'm honest, I was a little prideful that I was interviewing him, and not one of the other, more mature developers, so I took him through the process.

I think, knowing what I know now, and feeling confident in who I am as a developer, I'd probably at least ask about it in the interview. I'd say "Why did you choose to wear that shirt today?" Serious question. I'd be interested. Maybe the answer is "Because I don't really want this job" and then it's clear. Maybe it's "Because I don't want to work at a place that gets offended easily" or maybe it's "Because I didn't have any other clean laundry." I cannot think of a valid reason to wear that shirt to an interview, but I'd at least be interested in his reasoning (though he's still not getting the job).
This isn't just bureaucratic self-protection. MOOCs really aren't ready for that yet. They're awesome, but much of the educational problem is social (tutoring and study groups, group projects, evaluation that can't be automated) and even though "social" is the buzzword of the 2010s, we as a technological society aren't good (at scale) at that stuff yet.

I think that the next step of evolution is free coursework and flat social features (forums with voting, programmatic expert discovery) while the gold-stamped examinations, coursework reviews by PhD'd humans, and tutoring sessions from vetted experts will cost money. If you take the free version, you're matched by an ML algorithm with a volunteer tutor and 95% of the time, you'll get quality. The paid version sets up with a TA at 8:00 pm on Tuesday, and you pay $40 for a half-hour video session.

MOOCs will get there. There's another way to look at this: 28% of professors do think MOOCs are ready for prime time. That's much higher than I would have thought.
This was so on point I started crying while reading it. This sentence hit home 'At first your only real emotion is rage.' It feels like rage is just under surface for me at all times. I hurt all the time. It is just a matter of how much. If the pain goes over a certain number, I become a mess. I always think 'oh no! Is this my NEW norm???' Thank you for writing the article. My husband shared it with me.
Those allow you to follow people and what they think are important. RSS readers allow me to follow what I think is important.
If anyone was thinking his transactions with a bitcoin exchange or their bitcoin account with some website was remotely as safe as a bank in Cyprus, we can't really call him a fiscally responsible adult...
zdnet? really? This "thing" has always been the low of the low and they've been constantly defending MS everytime MS did embrace, extend and extinguish.

Actually zdnet is a pro-MS propaganda medium.

Who does seriously take this junk seriously?

There may a lot to criticize about Google's move regarding RSS but posting links to zdnet isn't helping the cause.
Or just raise more money hoping that the price of a bitcoin will stabilize in the near future. Their current system is very convenient for users.
If you said this was a poor example, I would at least understand what you're trying to say, but how on earth is Madoff a straw man in this instance? Try to to separate your [legitimately] dim view of Madoff from the fashion in which his example illustrates the phenomenon of counter-party risk.
This looks interesting, and I'm going to try back testing this.

I would suggest trying out-

1. market neutral positions. Eg- If you go long AAPL, go short XLK ( The tech stock ETF).
2. going long slightly out of the money call options instead of stock. ( If the options are liquid)

I mostly do stat arb, and for back-testing, even I tried Metatrader, Quantopian and several other platforms and didn't think any of them were suitable. FXCM's Strategy Trader is worth taking a look at. It can only trade forex live through FXCM, but you can import CSV data and back test on whatever you import.
It's been great for me. I switched to Feedly after the announcement, and I'm glad I did. It bridges two worlds for me. I get the classic Reader-esque view for the post-a-day people, and the magazine view with features ranked by sharing to filter the top few stories on the 400-a-day sites.

I even made special folders: Tech Gaggle, Science Gaggle, Politics Gaggle. I skim these when I've got nothing else to read, and it doesn't overwhelm me with things.
So can we all now please get back to LibreOffice and syncing and leave google documents for temporary or short-term work?
That is pretty great. Too bad the same team isn't updating the project's website, it's ridiculously out of date (safe to say none of the budget overruns were spent on the PR campaign).

http://www.mta.info/capconstr/esas/

Under project news:

> "Excavation to create the caverns with in Grand Central Terminal are currently underway and have an estimated completion date of early 2012"

Yea...
I worked for a public university and the salaries were public by mandate. I found it harmless for a while, but it ultimately led to me to search for other jobs when I discovered a new co-worked who I considered lazy made $15,000 more than me.

I think a better idea than going completely transparent is to calculate the group or division averages and publish that number. It offers some of the benefits of transparency while depersonalizing the controversial data. But of course that would only work in mid- to large-sized companies.
> What we're seeing now is a state of perpetual war.

Poppycock.
Hey The Chronicle and techcrunch: even this ◕ is closer to the actual numbers than your plainly wrong pie chart[1]. 72% is less than 3/4. You show something about 77%. Please get some more editors.

good luck i'm not alone:
http://fyre.it/Los9xk.4

Yet it's kind of scary that for 4 days, of this being published on The Chronicle[2] with it's supposedly well educated audience nobody seems to have noticed it. Guess that shows that charts are even less relevant and precise to transport information than I imagined.

[1] http://imgur.com/UtIm43c

[2] http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/...
We call that "certain type of person" a human. The vast majority of people do comparisons relatively, not absolutely. It is human nature.

You covet what those around you have, you compare yourself to those around you based on the little knowledge you have about them and everything else going on.

Transparency is easy for pay, but not for value.
Explicit actions would have been better.
Ideally the use of a robot is supposed to bring down prices on what the factory makes, which redistributes the new wealth to everyone in society.

In real life, we've been shifting ever-more-steadily towards a rentier economy as actual production grows more and more efficient.
What do you like better about Feedly? I've switched over as well, but the less compact interface (even after switching views as recommended by the bog post for migrating Reader users) and general sluggishness compared to Reader have annoyed me. I'd like to appreciate some of the differences instead.
If I ever return to school, I'd certainly be willing to consider online courses in combination with testing at an approved location.
Sorry I should have cited my source:

> Amanda Blum a female figure in the tech community shared her thoughts on the situation. She defined the entire fiasco as a loss for everyone and pointed out that Richards, "is not an easy person [to work with]". Blum suggests that Richards doesn't have a positive track record in the tech community.

http://www.businessinsider.com/female-tech-community-adria-r...

I don't claim to know anything she possesses, only what I have read. Still I'm left wondering, is the role of "developer evangelist" mainly not one of community interaction? And if it is, is it not outside the realm of possibility that she will encounter things that "push her buttons"? Geez, I would feel awkward being in the same room as this lady knowing this is one step away.
Speaking of obvious...
Apologies. I get frustrated with irony of personal stories usually following an article which is discussing the scientific method. I rarely respond; probably should keep it that way. xP
Thanks nonpme, good to hear you are enjoying GitLab.
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> So, is the structure of your company such that you are able to constantly adjust these carrots (commission, bonus and pay) on an as-needed basis?

It is privately owned, by me and my cofounder, with no external funding, so we can do whatever we want. Bearing in mind the company is less than 3 years old, there will still be a lot of adjustment to do before we arrive at a configuration that I would call "final" (though I suspect it will continue evolving... after all, it's made of people!)...

> Would an adjustment down be possible (sorry sales, had to move 1% of your commission to ops to stave off a revolt!)?

We could, but I wouldn't... that would seem unfair. Sales do give up part of their commission but only when the sale is heavily dependent on ops, for example when it's a referred client (they were presumably referred because they got great service) or when it's an "enhancement" client where we go in and increase their claim size (there's a lot of technical work in that).

> Do you find the "boil the frog" method to help with this transparent structure? Giving someone 5x 2k raises over 15 months is far less of an event than giving someone a 10k raise after a yearly performance review. Was this something you guys thought of intentionally, or just the way you wanted to run the company regardless of the transparent structure?

I hadn't thought of it that way. From talking to our team, I think they're happier being able to earn smaller pay raises regularly, rather than having to wait a whole year to find out if they "made it". That was intentional - I don't like the way many companies wait a whole year to tell you whether you're doing well enough to deserve a pay raise, and right from the get go I decided it would be a six-monthly process, and then made it quarterly.
I'd like to know why people support that kind of project ? it doesnt seem like this little girl really need money. it's just a question.
+1... I've said here repeatedly that Usenet and Usenet readers were, 15 years ago, way more advanced than things people are using now. Questions about, say, Java in comp.lang.java.^ were leading to more interesting answers than what is available today in SO.

And, more importantly, it was so easy to follow a gigantic amount of threads and find the information that would likely be of interest to you.

Sure this required good readers and users willing to learn to use these but as a result it was incredibly more useful than what we have today. There were some people who simply geniuses and who were explaining things in great way: it was very easy to assign them good scores so that their interventions would stand out.

What do we have today? Inferior crap like StackOverflow because, supposedly, users would be too lazy to learn to use powerful functionalities.

I'm pretty sure one day we'll get some "Gnus meet StackOverflow" webapp which is going to rock our world. I can't wait for the next big thing because honestly we've made a gigantic step backward.
Feedly promises to have such an API and is popular enough that Reeder is likely to support it.
I'm sorry to hear we ruined your upcoming Monday. Which features are not in GitLab 5.0 that you really need?
I'm a Coinbase customer, and as an additional data point, their customer service has been wonderful. Now granted, this was about a month ago. I did send them an email on Thursday and haven't heard back from them, but my request wasn't urgent, so I haven't thought much of it.

Overall, I'm rooting for them, and being YC backed, I'm confident that they'll figure out their issues. I do hope sooner rather than later, as I can't wait to use their API.
Rumours of the RSS demise are exaggerated. Just put a notice for your RSS users to encourage them to use Feedly or something like that.
Acer C7 Chromebook Receives Battery & RAM Upgrades
This has the potential to destroy online commerce in the US, and severely damage one area where mom n' pop stores can still thrive in America.

Amazon and other giant retailers could still survive, even if they where made to comply with all of these requests (although it would slow innovation considerably). Small online stores couldn't afford it and would simply shut down. This is bad for everyone.

This reminds me of what happened in Julian, CA - a small mountain town. An overzealous lawyer decided to start suing everyone with steps into their tiny bookstores and coffee shops as a means to extort money out of them. Several just shut down.

http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060729/news_1n29pinnoc...
I wouldn't characterize the experiences of the customers on this thread as "convenient". If a commodity-trading system works except in cases of 2-sigma volatility, then the system doesn't work.

I'm just responding to metaverse's reasonable hypothesis here. Coinbase ought to diminish speculation by providing information, unless there are legal reasons for them not to do so.