skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not at all. An employee of yours might decide to copy it, you might accidentally expose it in the future, or whatever.

Employees (or anyone else for that matter) can be held liable for breaking contracts. And if my own negligence exposed my hidden code to the world, then so be it.

> It seems you're making the argument that only what you can keep secret is yours. But to align it more easily with reality, are you saying you'd be cool if I started copying your blog posts or the design of your site, which are published to the world?

Sure, if you're willing to do all that engineering yourself, go for it. I don't think it will pay off for you. (In tech it's better to differentiate.) Nor do I think will hurt my company. (Au contraire, it's likely an HNer will discover the copying and post about it, resulting in positive publicity for Siasto.)

I do not sell HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. I do not sell blog posts. I'm not in the content business, because I think it's a shitty business to be in.

> I don't have a major issue with this particular legal decision. I'm just taking issue with your notion that being the originator of content provides you with few or no rights over it. I really don't see any similarity with your street-corner analogy.

Being the originator of content provides you with a limited monopoly over it. It should not, however, make you all-powerful. As long as I'm not engaging in unfair competition (e.g. copying and selling your content en masse), you shouldn't get to tell me what I can and can't do with it. If I want to hold readings of your book in my home, or distribute free copies of your movies to my friends, then I should be able to do that. And if you don't like the fact that this makes your business less profitable, then get a better business model.

That's not too much to ask. Live performances make tons of money. So do movie theaters. And individual paintings by artists. Some forms of content production can be lucrative. I just don't like my rights as an individual being unduly curtailed simply to turn someone's poor business model into a good one.
The big problem for me with Google services is the unnecessary and unwanted integration with Google+.

I couldn't sign up for a YouTube account without creating a Google+ account with my full name. Why should all the videos I watch be made public ? Likewise I can't search today without being constantly asked to sign in.

I want the old Google back.
> How long must we endure programming cults with no science behind them?

Until someone invents a cost-effective way to do science on programming techniques. I'm not holding my breath, because we're talking about workplace habits, communication through code, and team dynamics, which is an altogether different beast than mathematics or physics.
One humbling thing I try to remember, is that before an asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, mammals were no bigger than a field mouse and our warm-bloodedness was specialized for hunting insects at night. Then this lucky strike caused a huge climate change, and those dinosaurs that hand't evolved warm feathers died off, and we were in the right place at the right time.

The day before the asteroid strike, we had zero merit.

Now, this is a narrative with many factual errors, but I like to remind myself that we happen to have been doing well for the last 100,000 years or so, but it's the blink of an eye and who knows what will happen next?
You've just made it a circular argument.

Why is it a meritocracy? Because the meritorious survive.

Why did the meritorious survive? Because it's a meritocracy.

Value and virtue are not the same thing, is the problem.
Good to see some competition, even though it's not quite as advanced. I have been having grave doubts about Dropbox's management since they bought Mailbox and it will be good to get some depth into the field.
Most interviewers don't seem to care either way. They don't hold your laywerdom against you, but you don't get any bonus points for the "attention to detail" or "grace under pressure" type soft skills. Also, most states let you go inactive without termination - all you have to do is some back-CLE to restart.
This is an interesting story, and as a hardware engineer looking to get into pure coding, I find it encouraging. That said, there's no shortage of online code-camps that are willing to accept your tuition. As my company isn't going to front the $5-10k that many schools want to charge, I'm more interested in hearing about the employment prospects/ROI that result from these schools.
IIRC, Aereo only lets you watch channels you could pick up with an antenna in your current location. So it's a DVR for the free channels you're already getting OTA, but with a much more convenient delivery mechanism (straight to your phone). And no need to set up an antenna, as they take care of that.
It is unfortunate, however it would seem to me start-up founders are much more likely to be up on their high horse and believe to be some world-changer. Poor programmers are more likely to consider themselves good programmers, but not the best in the world.
A walk from 2nd to 7th isn't that bad. Agree, though, could use another crosstown like the L somewhere else. I hate buses.
The main problem, as Hayek pointed out, is that folk confuse value and virtue.

Value is an economic thing. Virtue is a social or emotional thing.

Hayek argued quite comprehensively that value does not flow to the virtuous or vice versa. They are entirely unrelated. Moreover, attempts to align the two fatally break the mechanism which allows value to be created in the first place.

People want value and virtue to go together. But they needn't. And they can't be made to.
One of the interesting effects of college is that they self select for their "kind" of people. I wonder if this is part of the problem or the solution.
I would contest the feelings about Google are shifting from "AWESEOME!" to "Ugh, is there anything else around?" because Google has stopped innovating in its day-to-day software production. There are driverless cars, but those are just TV-News-OMG things—they aren't coming to me soon. At the same time in the day-to-day you have everyone from Paul Graham to Alie Ward (a celebrity TV chef) complaining about the new Gmail compose. That's a huge diversity! One writes about lisp and created YC, the other cooks and uses Twitter and they both agree on had bad it is. Not a good sign, right? You'd be right to argue that's just one example, but scratch the surface with a search and you see people most recently angry about Google Reader and before that a plethora of other products.

The bottom line is, people have fallen out of love with Google because Google is no longer different. They're on the path to becoming a new Microsoft. (Heck, they basically had a freebie with something as neat as Google Glass and they even fucked that up. Just wow. Let's award it to Newt Gingrich and the guy who joked about cutting himself with it. Good job Google. Good job. )
This is because the lights are synchronized to make north-south traffic fast, which is a smart trade-off made because of the island's shape.
But that latter is a bullshit statistic. The number of dropout billionaires is so low (32 out of 1400) that a factor of 2 difference in average wealth is not statistically significant.
I think it is a post about the word "meritocracy" meaning many things to many people, and not being very useful for certain types of discussion.

If two people understand each other and agree to disagree, fine. But recently, I've seen a lot of online arguments about these kinds of things, where I get the impression that there are two reasonable people talking past each other without really understanding each other.

I think that meritocracy is somewhat orthogonal to the issue of equality of opportunity. Given a pool of candidates, we should pick the best ones (eliminate false positives). AND, we should invest as much as we can reasonably afford to ensure that we get people with good potential into the pool (eliminate false negatives).

My overall view is that we're going to go into a serious economic struggle in the next twenty years, and like any sports team, scouting is as important as coaching :-)
Private land can be viewed from many angles. One can see it as a privilege given by the state, and others as property owned by the person living on it. The biggest difference is how one want to look at it.

If the state owns it, then they decide what to do with it. Build a road through the house? No problem! If its a property owned by the individual who lives on it, then no way a road can just be built there.

The person arguing that land is owned by the state then must accept that the state then has ll the right to do what ever they want with the land. Its theirs after all.
I don't think a company that has clients all around the globe like Heroku has "off hours".
I think this is wrong:

>53. If I had a choice of living in a society where I was materially much better off than I am now, but was among the poorest, or in one where I was the richest, but much worse off than I am now, I’d take the first option. | It’s absolute poverty you want to avoid, not relative poverty.
Personally, I just don't like to use Google because I think they are gaining way too much power to circumvent fair competition in the market, and even too much power over the lives of individuals. When I see google hardware devices running google operating systems with google web browsers and an increasing majority of people using them to almost exclusively access google web services and run google software... I'm sorry, but it's just bad news.

No matter how ahead-of-the-curve google innovation can be, I just don't think it's worth it to sell our souls to one company for the sake of convenience.
They just have to build it and they will come eventually. Things will get denser near rail stops. The traffic situation is just not sustainable in LA and it's kind of pathetic. It takes time and it takes subsidization. Two things US democracies don't play well with.
If the exclusive video is hosted on YouTube, I'm struggling to understand what sort of API Hipset is using to control access.
> bitcoin has a guaranteed rate of deflation.

This is not true. There is no guaranteed rate of deflation.

The rate at which you can 'mine' bitcoin is limited and there is a hard limit to the total amount of bitcoin that can be mined.
It's really a shame because the only jobs which really interested me in any way required US citizenship and security .

One thing I'm curious about is this: is 2 years of experience really the lowest requirement for a junior developer? [1] It seems like if the applicant had any more, they could hardly be counted as a "junior developer" and would just be "a developer."

[1] http://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.acti...
A Peek Into the Control Room of Space Shuttles
Most probably for tracking. I do not really see any other reason.
Here's a similar rough thing I made but it uses last fm data : http://fmix.heroku.com
I've been following Julia for over a year (basically since their first public announcement), and I'm genuinely impressed with the team, their attitude, and their approach to designing a new language. Their performance numbers (on microbenchmarks) are awesome. The use of LLVM shows sensibility and pragmatism, and while I don't yet fully grok the type system, I think they're on the right track. I'm also really excited to see a couple of experienced R guys (John Myles White and Harlan Harris) join the Julia bandwagon. Despite the lack of a convincing story when it comes to distributed computing, it's a really promising project.

But, when I think about pushing a significant project on Julia, it feels really risky. I think it feels like betting on Python in 1995 would have. Sure, sitting here today the decision should have seemed obvious, but how many promising languages rose and died in the same timeframe?
>>That was the result of a study (in other words, science). Where is your proof that the study is invalid?

I'm afraid "science" is quite a bit more complicated than you seem to believe.

One of its most basic tenets is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. One study is not enough to prove the assertion that people who sleep for 6.5 to 7.5 hours a night are the happiest.
Depression for me. I've used it multiple times in law school and afterwards. I stopped because for a couple days afterwards I would get seriously depressed.
There goes my night. That site is like a black hole.
Think you own your downloads? Court deals blow to 'used' digital goods market.
Peak Battery: Why Smartphone Battery Life Still Stinks, and Will for Years
The verb ape is not simply a verbed version of the noun. It means "shallowly imitate".
Slow down, mate. New York City's lights have been synchronized for years too, and I doubt the NY Times missed that. The first part of the sentence you quote contains the key detail: "Los Angeles has synchronized every one of its 4,500 traffic signals across 469 square miles..."
From your experience, does this two lines reply works as well when you address it to a named email instead of job@company.com ?
The "Law School changes how you think" line seems to be a popular one, but I'm not sure I buy the premise that it's inherently different. Anyone know of studies done to compare neurological effects between fields of study? I wonder if she'll feel the same about coding after finishing hackbright.
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You’re ideally...

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If Dropbox hasn't been working on a way to get off S3 this whole time, well, that's a huge oversight on their part.
I almost stopped replying to HN job posts because of that. One time I even tracked a personal email on the company as their jobs@ email was bouncing and I wrote to the ceo (only email I could find) to let them know about it. Forget about a thank you, not even a reply.
For me, it was a pretty euphoric high and short term memory boost the first time. With repeated use, the effects diminished alot. I am much more effective/productive/clever/creative without it, though the drug makes it feel like im better at all those thing. (I was prescribed it long ago)
This is offtopic, but it caught my eye.

> President Obama’s visit here in August 2010, for example, forced the closing of a major thoroughfare, unleashing gridlock on the entire west side of the city.

Is it really necessary for the passage of one person to cause so much delay for everyone else? Why would a thoroughfare close for the president, anyway? Security?
It's quite possible the brain isn't optimised for the current availability of nutrients. Judging by the number of overweight people walking around it seems likely that evolution has selected for efficiency rather than performance. Given that our gene pool hasn't changed much in 250,000 years a little chemical nudge in the right direction is probably the way to go.
Yeah, really a critical PR mess that Oracle hasn't stopped installing the browser plugin. Who uses that anyway? It's not worth the confusion anymore.
True - it was its vulnerability as a browser plug-in that is most disconcerting to me.
Were you sleeping less when using the pills?
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I believe the larger dynos are mostly to better handle using Unicorn as the webserver. Unicorn allows multiple workers to run per dyno, and has it's own smart routing, so it compensates well for Heroku's routing system. The downside to Unicorn was that the workers share a dyno's memory and often you couldn't have more than 2 per dyno with 512mb memory. This change helps that a lot.
This is one of these situations where the first (pg's) choice is rationally better, but has also been shown to result in higher chances of low self-esteem and depression. It's very hard to shake off the feeling of being "among the lowest", even though in absolute terms you're perfectly well-off.
Those at the bottom deserve to be there.

I didn't put this in the article, but a few hours later I think this is an interesting point, thank you.

If the post's proposition is correct and that "meritocracy" is all about minimal false positives, then we can also agree that there are people at the bottom who are qualified, but that's a cost of setting up a system optimized for minimizing false positives.

I know from many discussions about interviewing that this is one of the major families of strategy: It's better to miss out on a few good people than it is to mistakenly hire a bad one, so there's a real emphasis on only hiring perfect "A"s. Which means that you'll miss a few As and lots of B+ people.

This isn't a problem until people start assuming that anyone who wasn't hired is terrible or doesn't deserve to work. I'm trying to avoid controversy, so I'll return to the straw man scenario of the post: It's as if the Lisp people said, "If Python was any good than there'd be Python people on the schedule."
Well the no free lunch theory is I think wrong, we are vastly better off with modern medicines. We are already getting free lunches of longer and heather lives.

My experience, obviously not scientific, with modafinil is mild mania, grumpiness/quick to anger (What I think is the tiredness coming through), increase concentration and attentiveness to a task. My intelligence goes down. Mixed with alcohol it can cause blackouts (It has a long half life so this can be a day or so later). Hard to sleep on. Euphoric enough to take recreationally.

Listening to other people they have different effects.

For me I'm not sure it's a effective drug. Because it's said long term you can build up tolerance I've always only done it one pill per week for small projects, so maybe doing it on a regular schedule it might stop some of the above negatives.
Google AdExchange is 80/20 in your favor
No.

Exponential effectiveness can only come from improving maintainability, readability and reducing code size. Fact that minimalistic approach also diminishes original development time is only a minor side effect. By the way, a true rockstar developer most of the time reduces code size and improves readability while adding features.

So when you see next time a commit, that adds features and reduces code size, - you know who you are dealing width.
Sure, I didn't say that Marx invented it, just that it's from studying Marx that I remember it.

> He read Smith and Ricardo.

Absolutely. The subtitle of Capital I is "a critique of political economy" for a reason. Marx's innovation being, among other things, the 'socially necessary' component of 'socially necessary labor time.'

Also, economics is only a small part of Marxism overall. (1/3 if you ask Lenin.)

> The key problem with original Marxism, as it was with classical economics, was relying on the labor theory of value.

We can get into a big argument about how the LTV is not predictive, it'd descriptive, or maybe about how some studies have shown the LTV is just as descriptive as the STV is. That's not really what's important here, though.

> That's the bottom line.

Your comment has a lot of these assertions without a lot to back it up. Ideology can always shore up weaknesses in theory. ;)

That said, I'm not an orthodox Marxist by any means.
With out knowing anything about the type of company or the type of work/responsibilities you have... I'll give this advice: Just talk to the person who is in a position to "OK" such a thing. Find out if there is a technical barrier. If there is, offer to assist in working through it. If there is no technical barrier, then they may just have misgivings about people working remote. If that is the case, have some things prepared to try to alleviate those concerns. I would not go in expecting (or even asking for) a switch directly to full time at home (if that is what your end goal is). That might be too big of a leap if they have any concerns at all. Perhaps propose 1 or 2 days a week for a fixed period of time (a month or something). Discuss how you both will measure the success of you working from home at the end of that fixed period.
Hey, reviews and anecdotes save time. Everyone does it.
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FYI: all this visionary track was built largely by...wait for it...for-profit companies running competing tracks. The city socialized the subway in 1940.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_Su...
russel was simply assuming that the institutionalised speciesism if the airline industry was still in place. Animals fly with the cargo, except some small illiterate/non-communicative cats and dogs.