skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loyalty and passion are two words that don't belong in a discussion about employer/employee relations, except in exceedingly rare personal situations.

The Employer/Employee relationship is a business relationship. You may enjoy good personal relationships with individuals, but the relationship documented by your paycheck is a purely business relationship.

What you owe your employer, and your employees, is professionalism, the same as your plumber or pharmacist.

As an employee that means show up most of the time, do the best work you're capable of, improve yourself, play well with the other children.

As an employer that means don't exploit the asymmetric power relationship, for example by not making death marches the norm, maintain a safe and pleasant workplace, pay reasonably well with reasonably good benefits, support employees' self-improvement efforts, and be an ethical member of the community.

A business has no "loyalty" to any employee when business doesn't work out and they need to shed workers. Loyalty in this sense would be when a family goes above and beyond to house a family member even when it results in economic damage. I would never expect that from an employer.

So an employer should never expect loyalty beyond good work and a two week notice.
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When did Ninite ever infringe on anyone's copyright?
Indonesia Readies Mass Production of Drones
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Intel Core i “Haswell” CPUs May Require New Power Supply Units for PCs
There's also the ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice: http://www.acm.org/about/se-code
Apple sells a record $17 billion in debt
I'm notoriously bad at predicting what technology trends are going to work and which ones aren't... I'm leaning towards this just wont catch on, which I've learned means it will probably catch on like a wild fire. Haha
Huh! are people still stuck on this? Yet another post that justifies this comment[1] James Shore made about 7 years back:
"Dependency Injection is a 25-dollar term for a 5-cent concept"

[1]: http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Dependency-Injection-Demystif...
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You're correct, and it gives me the shivers to see an application like 'photo sharing' wanting several useless permissions

Here's what I would like: for Android to allow me to deny or ask for a confirmation for each permission of these.
The cond example isn't related to vector-style syntax. There are two options: either the unpaired elements are the last (so you can get them from rest parameters) or the unpaired elements are already grouped somehow (for instance, by being in a vector). Cond does the former, let does the latter. I'm not sure why you're mentioning vector syntax at all since the comment you're replying to was specifically talking only about grouping.

Literal syntax for composites other than lists is totally unrelated to this.

I actually really don't understand why if you had (some-macro ((f x) (g y))) you'd have to "force expansion inside the parens", since well-behaved macros won't expand their arguments. You'd iterate through the elements in the parens, but ... that's what you'd do with clojure-style partition macros, too, you'd just call partition first.

For a function call the obvious choice, and one you see in Scheme/Racket quite frequently, is either `(,(f x) ,(g y)) for your second example, or even (list (f x) (g y)). Yeah, then your macro gets a list whose first element is 'list, but ... so what? Your macro probably shouldn't be looking inside what it receives anyway, and if it does then it should be documented that it expects a literal ((foo bar) (baz quux)) or whatever (just as in Clojure you can't write (let (vector 'a 'b) (+ a b)) and have that work).
Yes, great insight! One of the reasons quantum mechanics is "quantized" (which means limited to certain discrete values instead of being continuous) is that standing waves are reinforced as particles move around. For example, the rotational frequency/energy of an electron is limited to integer multiples of the circumference of the orbit. The "particle-in-a-box" model is the name of this quantum model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box
I would change the push from ethical software to ethical development.

Software, like so many drugs is not "unethical" on its own, but the user (or doctor compared to medicine) is the one that makes an unethical use of it (or medicine)

I agree that in our society where software is pervasive, an ethical framework needs to be in place. As an oath, it will not force everybody to comply, but the choice will be based on full knowledge that it is an unethical choice. And that amounts to intentionality

Can I advocate that software developers should be oath to write software that do not harm? The ideal would be that the law should protect software developers that refuse a particular assignment on ethical grounds.
No kidding, they could probably make so much more money this way.
Maybe it is just Canada, but I have been lucky to get 1/3 of those qualities from McDonald's lately. A big mac (just the sandwich, nothing else) is $5, and isn't very filling. Every other fast food place around here is just as cheap or cheaper, and very few are as low quality and inconsistent.

It is hard to consider McDonald's the "cheap option" when a big mac and fries is $8, but a gyro and fries that taste way better, and are ~30% more food is $5 at the place across the street. McDonald's is actually the second most expensive fast food option I've found, only being cheaper than Mucho Burrito (which is far better food).
Nginx cache purge emulation
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I had this stroke of insight while watching my mother trying to open a pdf from outlook.com

Firstly, what percentage of the population knows (or cares) what PDF even means? All they want is to read whats attached and do what they need to without "downloading" something, finding it on their own computer somewhere and then finding out, after much stress that they need something called "adobe".

This way you could take every single step out of the process :)
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Non profits like Mozilla still pay employees.
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Something similar to this is done with bacteria and other life forms for all kinds of reasons. It's called directed evolution, where you take a strain of bacteria with a certain property (say aerobic nitrogen fixation at 65 Centigrade) and try to force that property to evolve (say force the aforementioned aerobic fixation to work at STP).

It's a very understood method but it's really difficult to develop proper methodology since almost every experiment will be different. The success percentage is also relatively low and is like playing the lottery (literally, you never know if the evolution is even physically possible or it might be so statistically rare that you'd need millions of parallel cultures).
Probably because of bad network connection, try reload it.
The monthly power bill in my apartment is consistently $7 / month. If it went up by a factor of 5, I'd never notice; a while ago I got fed up and paid several months in advance because it seemed so ridiculous to have a $7 bill every month.

What's a typical power bill like, and what's going on with mine?

(my power uses - lights, fridge, and one to two old computers in a 400 sq. ft. apartment in downtown SF)
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Title is really weirdly worded, and it's not necessarily OP's fault; the article itself is poorly worded, and it shows in the confusion from the first few commenters.

Google Web Fonts have always been available offline; when you start browsing the web fonts and then add one to your "collection", you should be able to find a link that says "download your collection". That's one way to do it.

Another way to do it is by accessing the font repository on Google Code, which is not new and has always been around; the fonts are stored in a Mercurial repo. This is mentioned in a link near the end of the article.

The point of this article, and what isn't really emphasized even though it should be, is that (apparently, I haven't used it) this SkyFonts tool keeps the fonts updated on your local machine. This might seem like a silly feature, but I can tell you from experience that the Google Web Fonts do actually update pretty frequently; not just new fonts getting added, but existing fonts will also receive updates. Having to pull down the deltas on the hg repo and then reinstall all of the changed fonts manually when you're using a large subset of the library is not a trivial task.
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Because all software should be free, of course. They can make money from concert sales and T-shirts.

Wait, that's not right...
It's kind of sad to see this kind of things on martinfowler.com. Clearly when it comes to writing about writing code without writing code, this guy is far less effective than Martin.
Agreed. Feel free to fork the repo and add a paragraph/section.
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Here's a link to the trailer Sirius which stars this "alien", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZuYO-bNfY

Also he's allegedly got some kind of free energy system in the movie.
You imply Ninite are charging for Flash, but they are not. The charge is for the Pro service. I don't use it (I use the free installers, and love them). I'm not in the target group for the Pro--admins that need to keep a lot of machines up to date. If I were in that group, I'd gladly pay.

The whole focus on Ninite charging is a red herring. This also has to do with the free installer that Ninite provides to people who do NOT pay for the Pro.
Bad as this is for the girl, it's dramatic overexaggeration to say that this is "ruining America." If anything actually ruins America it would be economic depression, major war decimating generations, internal strife or massive crime waves, installation of a dictator, pandemics, etc. And if you think kids were not being subjected to intensely unfair suppression in the 30s then you may be a bit naive.
Usually gets a couple emails per month from non-tech founders thanks to these threads.
At least she's getting the cash for making the stock go UP - compared to banking/finance where CEO's give themselves billions for flattening the stock price, I would have no problem with this as a stockholder.
Or ask upon usage. "Do you want to grant XYZ to view your contact list? [Yes, and don't ask again] [Just this time] [Never]"
A lot of open source os caught up in the security field, making the choice of OpenBSD less interesting because it supports less hardware.
And this is why zero tolerance rules are despicable.

Not because they were enforced in this case, but because of the countless times they were probably threatened and not enforced. These rules don't enforce justice, they leave justice up to the arbitrary will of an administrator.

My school has a rule that states "If a phone is seen out, you will get 20 lunch detentions." And yet most of the teachers do not enforce the rule. In fact, here I am typing a response on Hacker News. Yet if a teacher were to not like me, he/she could single out me and only me and give me lunch detentions. This may only be a simple example, but it scales all the way up to serious offenses and the higher level administrators as well.

"You seem like a nice kid, I'll let you off this time"

It becomes even worse when bias and prejudice are involved.
Why Google Glass is so important
I don't care much about advanced security or networking features but I use OpenBSD because of its simplicity and the quality of its documentation.
Things are amoral. The use and creation of things, however, is open to moral and ethical considerations.

Making a radiation therapy machine without the inclusion of safety mechanisms could be considered unethical. Making a computer vision system that tracks targets is amoral (what's a good word for something that is neither ethical nor unethical? I'm not fond of using moral/amoral for this), but applying it to a weapon targeting system hits an ethical gray area (as with any other weapon engineering task).

Like most things, the ethical status of an act is largely related to the intent and foreknowledge. Knowingly creating a system that will (not just could) be used for harming others (physically, emotionally, financially, etc) can be considered unethical. Making a system which is most likely going to be used for harm might be on the unethical side of gray, even if it has a number of potentially positive or neutral uses. Making a system that might be used for harm (consider knives) is probably not unethical, but then the manner of sale and marketing would become important for the calculation.
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Guns are pretty unambiguously tools for killing. Arguably, not all killing is "bad" though.

Nuclear bombs are pretty unambiguously tools for killing an awful lot of people.

Software is interesting because it is tools for making tools for making tools. If your software has a big green button as the input and a 3D printed nuclear bomb as the output, you may have created a bad tool. If it takes 2 steps to connect your software with one other piece of software to achieve the same result, you still might want to think about what you're doing. Three steps, four steps, five steps, and the ethical boundaries get just as difficult to resolve as most other human problems.
Since when is making inoffensive jokes considered trolling? I was amused by the similarity between the words 'homomorphic' and 'homeopathic' so I thought other people might be too.

The number of downvotes my attempt at humour received would suggest that I was wrong.
why don't compare it to the built-in Notes or Evernote :)
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Ahh…I don't run the business. In fact, I'm a pretty recent hire.

From where I sit, it's clearly a different beast from where I've worked before (BigCo and a YC startup). We're probably not going to get rich or have a million-user product, but I wasn't ever chasing that anyways.
I think it's more that OpenBSD has always been aimed at "infrastructure" tasks - it chugs away as a router or firewall with aplomb. The core is very mature, thus most development is on refinements, not entirely new features.

It might be better to follow the papers/presentations given here that detail what work is being done:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/

Additionally, undeadly seems to be, well... more dead than usual. I wonder if this is just based on waning interest from the website maintaner than OpenBSD slowing down.
Ask HN: Can someone loan me a questionnaire they give for clients please?
I just got a lead, and they want to do a tech project/web app for the first time. I have been more engaged in discussions, and I want to avoid things like project overrun, feature scope creep, and other melodramas I hear about on here too well. Problem is, I have no experience before really preparing for a contract of side work. Can someone please send me a draft of a questionnaire or checklist they give to those clients who might be come cumbersome mid-project? Thanks. My email is in my profile, and here it is as well:

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It sounds patronizing because it is. It sounds silly because it's that, too.

Doing the right thing is sometimes difficult. That's not an excuse to do the wrong thing. Indiscriminately spamming hundreds of contacts is always the wrong thing.
I'm developing "zero tolerance" for the morons infesting and increasingly apparently driving the decisions of our society.
I'm a bit curious as to who uses *BSDs these days. At one point I knew of at least a few with copies of FreeBSD, but these days most of my acquaintances, social & professional, use OSX or some Linux flavor. As far as servers go, I haven't seen one in the wild in quite some time.

This is of course highly anecdotal, but even on the distrowatch page hit rankings FreeBSD ranks below distros I've never even heard of (Zorin, SolusOS) at #19. OpenBSD is down in the 70's. On a complete tangent, I was also surprised to find Mandriva well in the 40's. [1]

What is the community & ecosystem like these days?

[1] http://distrowatch.com/
Only thing it's missing for me is multiple cursors.