skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, the whole site is basically a poll.

I'm not taking sides on enabling or disabling actual polls, though.
Just go out there and make friends..Once you have a friend, the rest is easy
Really? I suppose you have some research to back that up or are you just being dumb?
That seems like a high salary. What's your title?
you can have laws without having police officers or prosecutors or prisons

How do you enforce laws without enforcers?
Before Google Glass, There Was Transcend
I have a T42p with 1600x1200 display. I am actually afraid to use it in fear it might break so I use a T41 from the same time period with 1024x768 :(
It's Stallman's own title, but a much more accurate title would be "RMS Opinions"

I think it's interesting for that reason though, because it doesn't say as much about his actual lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other people. For instance:

> As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie.

Tells us more about an opinion he's made about other people. If he wanted to be more descriptive of his lifestyle, he could have said that he was aesthetically minimalist (or minimalist with accessories in general). Instead ties become a value judgement, and he sees tie-wearers as "victims" at best.

In fact, though many would describe him as minimalist in lifestyle if they had to sum it up in a sentence, he doesn't use the term. This piece is really exclusively opinions.

> When I wait for my baggage in an airport, I always do one of these two. And I notice the people around me, feeling anxious and getting nothing done. What a waste.

His reasoning in general here seems arbitrary and condescending. If I didn't know who we were reading about beforehand I'd gander they were prone to being capricious. I wonder if we should tell him that trains run non-free software, just like phones.

In general the biggest takeaway I got from this is that he seems to have a very negative view of almost all other people.
Too many Adam-12 reruns?

The number of fictional car chases in LA is also ridiculous. One was filmed on the block where I grew up, and I'm sure we weren't unusual in that.
>How do you stop another oklahoma city

I think this is really the key flaw in what you're arguing for. You're asking the wrong question. The assumption you're making is that there is a group of people wanting to commit an act of terrorism the consequences be damned, and we have to stop them. But you're closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. You're fighting terrorism in the wrong place.

Apply your logic to any other crime. Murder is a good example. How can we stop spouses from killing each other unless we bug everyone's home in real time? The answer is, we can't. Anyone can pick up a knife in a fit of rage and commit murder. Anyone can mix common substances to make a bomb and kill a dozen people. You can't stop them. Stopping them after they've already committed to doing the deed is too little too late.

What you have to do is to not allow anyone to get to that point. The normal law enforcement method of doing this is to deter with punishment: If you murder someone you will be convicted, so you fear the punishment and refrain from committing murder, and then we don't have to stop you because you stop yourself. Notwithstanding the occasional zealot, this works just fine for most types of terrorism: If the terrorist expects to be executed, most people don't want to be executed, so they're deterred from committing any acts of terrorism.

This is the part where people's heads explode. Some terrorists don't care if they die, so you can't deter them. The normal law enforcement method doesn't work, so people assume we have to come up with some new draconian method of actually physically preventing crazy people from blowing stuff up, as if that's ever going to work. But here's the thing: In order to martyr yourself like that, you have to either be batshit insane or extraordinarily dedicated to your cause, if not both. And the first one is a mental health issue having nothing to do with law enforcement. The way you fix that one is to get the mentally ill into treatment before they decide that God is talking to them through a dog and wants them to steal an oil tanker and crash it into a fertilizer plant.

The second one is the one that makes people angry because the solution looks too much like allowing terrorism to be effective. But the fact is that going into foreign countries and killing mothers and fathers causes children to become radicalized. Nobody sane is ever going to be willing to die in order to punish Americans for eating pork. People may be willing to die because you killed their family.

But doing the right thing is not "letting the terrorists win." Completely regardless of its effects on terrorism, we should not be killing innocent people in foreign countries (or anywhere else). Stop doing that and soon enough you discover a dearth of terrorists to have to stop.
For phones to function they have to talk to cellular towers continuously. You can triangulate a location based on the chatter. Phone companies also keep detailed logs.
he was still building the product demo when I last talked to him so unfortunately I don't know the answer
Well, there is the cellular tower, which is on the grid... give me three and I can triangulate you. Assuming you don't spoof your MAC, yeah, I'd say tracking is feasible.
So because your father is a cop, you don't even want people to question the actions of the cops in the story? And anyway, so what? It sounds like the gang members were the ones out of control, not the police. If the police had struck Reisse that would be different, but they didn't. But then what if the police had done something reprehensible? Nothing should be said because we need to respect your good natured father? It's not about you or your father.
My sentiments exactly. "Let's plunder these unfortunate countries for their talent" is a bit unseemly. I'm not against immigration, in fact I think the US needs it if we're going to avoid having our birth rate go flat/negative. But why couldn't these companies open offices in Spain and Greece instead of trying to siphon off their talent?
You are still not facing facts.

We give babies the MMR vaccine at 12-15 months. I do not know of any cultures where 10 month olds are kept indoors. And even if YOU think that OTHERS should do so to protect them from YOUR BAD DECISIONS, the fact is that they do not.

Furthermore babies of that age get sick. (In fact for their long-term health it is good that a baby gets a serious cold in their first year, it helps their immune system out.) And sick babies will go to the pediatrician. Where, inevitably, you'll find other sick kids.

Let's take a real near miss. In 2008 in San Diego a 10 month old baby boy (too young for the measles vaccine) went to the pediatrician where there was a kid with measles. The baby, too young for a vaccine, spent 3 days in the hospital, and the parents had to take a month off from work to nurse him back to health. You can verify these details at http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/news/20100322/vaccination....

So what are your expectations? That 10 month old babies be kept inside? That babies not go to the pediatrician for fear that your decisions will put their lives at risk?

Now let me turn it around. Were I on a jury and Megan Campbell was suing YOU for her child's suffering, her hospital bills, and her lost wages accrued due to YOU NOT FOLLOWING STANDARD MEDICAL ADVICE, I'd support her side.

If her baby had died and it was a criminal trial, I know that I'd be entirely in favor of a manslaughter charge against you.

And your protestations that people with young children should keep up a good enough bubble would not endear you to me at all. Because I'm a parent, I know how hard parents work at it, and I know that the kind of bubble you're recommending is essentially impossible for real working families to do.
That's why I recommended including how much money the company has raised. Companies with lots of money also have a lot of employees, hence skewing 'market rate' up to something significantly higher than you'll get from any < 10m raised company. It's like (obviously not as extreme, but I'm using hyperbole) comparing salaries for similar roles at non-profits vs. investment banks just because they're both in the same city.
A lot of people have unusual hobbies, and they end up knowing a lot about some odd topic -- medieval history, say, or some genres of music. Most of these people escape criticism, though, because they aren't RMS.
Senior Software Engineer. It's actually low. I'm fairly certain that it's below the median from talking with coworkers.
AWS sells convenience at a huge markup. Heroku also sells convenience, and (for what it does) a lot more of it than Amazon.

When and where that convenience is worth it depends entirely on you, personally I cannot imagine building directly on servers again without a very good reason.
rms is probably the first, original troll. His very life is the punchline to the joke of annoying mainstream people.
I selected a random option.
"The Free Software Foundation's dress code says that a propeller beanie is required, but other clothing is optional. However, we don't enforce it."

Thank goodness for that.
If we're using master passwords, why not go all the way and use a password file program like KeePass?

I can instantly generate passwords of arbitrary length and complexity and I do so for each new account I create.
I think it would be simpler and easier to remember one password to your non-cloud based password program such as Keepass. That way, you can create not only random passwords, but random usernames (since usernames are one key to unlocking your account).

The disadvantage of this approach is that your more restricted on where you can login to services (since you'll need your password manager there, and a trusted computer to run it on).
This needs cross-tabs with years of experience and/or position in the company for it to be useful to those seeking to understand their relative salary position.
does RMS actually use a checking account?
There was a big amount of noise about this stuff 6-7 years ago http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
the average age of a homeless person for Poland is 51(f) to 55(m). around Europe to be homeless & young you usually are a junkie, the rest just stays with their parents.
I think he makes a good point about ties.
If you're curious to know more about RMS for some reason this is fun to browse through: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...

"I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up."

I really want to know what horrific experience RMS had with breakfast in the past such that you can't even mention it to him!!
>there was a physical altercation between police and 26-year-old Gerardo Diego Ayala that ended with a fatal officer-involved shooting.

That doesn't necessarily mean the officer was shot.
Because life is random and stochastic. The sooner you realize that your very existence was simply a roll of the dice, the more liberated you will become.
The vital different between Stallman and McVeigh is that Stallman has never killed anyone (as far as we know). His "free software" ideology is not militant. Yes, some of his views can be called radical and extreme but that does not automatically mean he is dangerous.
Atlantic Media fails a hacking test
> It's like comparing salaries for similar roles ... just because they're both in the same city.

Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that.
It works fine for me now.

Condolences to your server though...
Considering this requires you to go back to a single source to retrieve your passwords, I fail to see what this offers over tools such as 1password. I am aware that passwords are not actually being stored anywhere, but ultimately you are doing the same thing: copy and pasting. 1password with a sufficiently strong passphrase to protect the keychain (is it even called that?) is just as realistically impossible to crack.
I get the impression that this lifestyle is a very solitary one although it does seem to be by choice. Which is fine but he seems to make quite a few assumptions about the way other people live their life and why.

For example:

"However, there is an absurd social pressure on men to wear ties. They do this as a form of sucking up to the boss."

Perhaps they just like the way they look in tie?

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Edited to add more context to quote.
Flawed data is sometimes worse than no data at all. Data with sampling bias, too small a sample size, lack of double-blind rigor, etc.

Strictly speaking, "surveys" are only really used by the softer sciences, like sociology and psychology, and both fields agree it's the least rigorous (albeit easiest) method of accumulating data.

Corollary to this, a little bit of flawed data can sometimes give a good idea in the general direction, but more often than not it's worthless because it shows false correlations, leads to erroneous conclusions, stimulates debate in the wrong area, questions prior evidence, causes one to hypothesize irrelevant answers, etc.
Not to discourage you from the idea of moving to the bay area... but shit's crazy here if you have a family.

If you buy into the idea that where (and with whom) your children go to school will heavily influence their success/happiness, you'll find yourself choosing between expensive-area public schools and expensive private schools.

Most of the public schools in California are pretty crappy (and the bay area is no exception), and to get into the ones that are good (by some measure), you have to swallow either huge rent or a huge mortgage so you can live in their area.

There are some good private schools, and you don't have to live in super-expensive areas to send your kids there, but aren't there excellent private schools outside the bay area / in lower cost-of-living areas ?

For your particular situation, you may find that the math works out to stay in the midwest. Additionally, that's just the raw numbers; there are lots of "intangible" factors that favor the midwest over the bay area, especially if you have any kind of roots there.
I'm pretty sure Xanza simply means that Reisse's death is a tragedy, and a conversation about the death of an important member in the developer community is hugely different from an argument about the role of police in our society.

Especially since internet discussions about police often turn into emotionally charged and hateful arguments, I think keeping the discussion focused on Reisse is a very good and respectful request.
I wouldn't say Armory works fine on OS X. In fact, it's a bit of a hassle to set up. From their website:

>WARNING: This does not work on all OSX systems. We are working hard to expand the compatibility set. If it does not work for you, most users have success from the directions on the Building Armory from Source page. It takes a little bit of effort, but it works!
Sounds a lot like Dwight Shrute from 'The Office'. At least, I found myself reading this in Dwight's voice.
While his eccentricities mirror those of a mad scientist (or really just an institutionalized person, depending on whom you ask), you cannot deny that RMS is a genius. His work in free software has enabled much recursive work in the computer science fields that wouldn't be possible without his contributions. gcc is without a doubt still the most advanced compiler available today. The GNU coreutils are nowhere near the simplicity of the old UNIX and BSD userland utilities, but they improve upon them exponentially, and offer far more ease of use and efficiency bar perhaps the Plan 9 userland. While I don't use emacs (VIM junkie), I think emacs is still brilliant operating system, and the editor is actually finally good enough for daily usage.

While his strict insistence on accurate semantics, such as GNU+Linux versus Linux and "free software" vs "open source," seems annoying, pushy, and generally weird, he has valid reasons to back the insistence up.

What reasons do you have to back your criticism of him up?
It certainly doesn't imply you're being truthful.

Glassdoor also suffers from the same problem. It's voluntary, unverifiable data. Using it as a source does not help your credibility.
> I selected a random option.

Based on my data, you selected one of 100k-109k, 120k-129k, 130k-139k, 200k-209k.
Anyone with a Reddit account can now receive and send bitcoins
To expand on this, flawed data is something you should avoid like the plague. It's like introducing anecdotal evidence into an otherwise rigorous double-blind study. True, it can happen to give some truthful information, but if it's flawed you often don't know how flawed it is or how deep those flaws run in the variables. It's like contamination. Exceptions are simply a case of a broken clock being right twice a day.
BuzzFeed Writer Resigns After Plagiarizing '10 Llamas Who Wish They Were Models'
No need to continue acting like a jerk. Just email pg and let him know you want your account deleted.
No, really. You can locate any transmitter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finding
This is truly upsetting. We just lost a brilliant mind and creative genius. RIP, Andrew Scott Reisse.
Hey Yuri, thanks for your comments. I hope you didn't miss the point of my post, which basically gives the same advice your entire post just repeated. Not sure why you seemed to inject a bit of condescension into your last line.

The point of the post was to inform people that these three were possible pitfalls that a new self-employer could fall into, and I gave advice (the same exact advice you listed) on how to avoid them. You clearly have figured it out for yourself and seem to agree with my points, so it sounds like you agree with 3/3 of my assessment and advice. I believe you misjudged the point of my post -- it is to advise newbie self-employers, not ones who've already figured it out like yourself.
Just post the typical cost of a 3 bedroom house in your area and watch the bay area folk get depressed.
Yeah, because body count is the only comparator that matters. Extremism is extremism. RMS is an extremist. I want nothing to do with someone who is incapable of empathizing with the other side.
[citation needed]

I don't mean to be rude, but what data do you have to back this up? Not all engineers are in the "startup game" or have any reason to read the writings of pg. It's very conceivable to me that some engineers making $250k+ a year at a big corporation like Microsoft don't frequently browse Hacker News.

We aren't just programmers. We're a unique blend of hackers and entrepreneurs and those who stumbled on this forum by being inundated with the culture. But you could go through school and find a very well paying job without being on an intellectual, enthusiast forum like this one.
Firstly delete is a very expensive operation in EXT4 due to clearing of the file contents bitmaps among other thing.

rsync definitely builds a list of files to delete first. so that will help.

perhaps it also puts the files in to inode number order which would also help since its related to directory hash order and order of inodes in the inode table.
The comments here, are for the most part, incredibly disappointing. I don't understand the point of bashing a guy, however public, for merely stating his preferences: I'm sure people could find some of everyone's preferences equally curious.

Whatever the intent in submitting this to Hacker News was, it's turning into pointless bullying and should probably just be killed.
What's his email address?
Remember when you couldn't even make a shape other than a square or a rectangle with CSS?
I didn't have any issue with it. Unpacked the DMG, copied it to the applications folder, started bitcoind and off I went. Hated the program of course, but that's a different kettle of fish,
It does occur to me though, that it could be turned into a browser plugin. I'd have no idea whether that would be an improvement over anything, though.

Either way, it is an interesting thing.

And just to play devil's advocate, there is the possibility that someone hosting this code theoretically could add an event handler to surreptitiously send them the content of the text fields by ajax, so there is the issue of implicitly trusting the host even if the passwords aren't stored anywhere.
On a touch screen, so I accidentally upvoted you. Your comment perfectly embodies everything I hate about the Bay Area, and recently HN. The smugness seems very ignorant; so many people have convinced themselves that they are smarter than the rest of the world. I'm sick of the culture of Silicon Valley.
Nice job. No doubt css is getting better and better with every new release and same goes for browsers.
Waiting for the day when all the browsers will become completely unified and one don't have to worry about cross-browser compatibility.
Maybe, but then you also introduce hobbyists who don't technically do this job for a living. Add to that that the same sample of hackers here is the one cut from Jeff Atwood's post about programmers who just can't program.

We have no reason to think that just because we read a lot of hacker-centric articles we don't have people bringing down the average just like the rest of the world does.
Comprehension time.

I never said that we know everything that we need to. I've repeatedly pointed out that our models have big error bars on them, and there are long lists of things that we need to improve, of which your list doesn't even hit on the most important parts. But the fact that we have significant unknowns doesn't mean that we can't put order of magnitude estimates on our uncertainty, plug those into models, and come up with error bars. In fact that is how those models are developed, and how we develop error bars.

"Everything that I am describing is standard and has been known for decades." How many times have we heard this, just before big leaps in understanding have occurred? It's hubris to believe we know that much about the weather.

I said that after getting through a description of how the jet stream works, and was clearly referring to that description. I did not say - nor did I imply - that the jet stream is everything to do with the weather or climate. Important? Yes. Everything? No.

It is certain that there will be major discoveries over the next 20 years about how climate works. Why is Greenland showing far more melting than expected? How does soot from China affect everything from arctic ice to rainfall in the USA, and how does that affect climate? How much methane will be released as permafrost melts, and what will the climate impact of that be? These are all areas of active research.

But I'd be shocked if scientists 20 years from now disagree with scientists from 20 years ago about how the jet stream works.
Thousands of Istanbul citizens walking to protest government
I disagree with him on ties. I think a lot of people enjoy wearing ties because they think they look good. It's mens style. Just like how he likes plain t-shirts. This from someone who almost never wears them, but thinks they look good in general.
You'll know what's wrong with trading commodities when you see untold volumes grown and then destroyed because certain price points can't be met on wallstreet. Combine subsidies and capitalism and you get the weirdest excesses.
I second this. I would appreciate if people with $130K+ tell more about their role.
Wow this is just a couple of miles from our office. This is definitely shocking, and scary at the same time.
Doesn't seem to me like the police were the ones who hit Reisse:

> Investigators allege 21-year-old Victor Sanchez and two
> other suspects then took off in a Dodge Charger. With
> Sanchez at the wheel, the Charger slammed into two
> vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse, police
> said.

(from the article.)
My suggestion is to avoid telling a potential new employer what you make now. They'd then work hard to cap you at current + 30% instead of what a comparably-skilled peer might make.