skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very unlikely that this is a bug.

There is no reason that that a failed form validation would save the states of all the input fields EXCEPT the bundle selector.
Of course they don't. That information is classified!
RAW is pretty much unprocessed.
Hasn't anyone read Atlas Shrugged?
The problem with bonuses is that you aren't attracting talent with them. Say on paper you're offering a new hire 80K. At the end of the fiscal year they end up costing you 80K + the bonus. Sure you'll have happier workers, but your getting lower quality people.

We have the same problem at the company I work at. We have a ~20% 401k (not matching, just on top of you salaray - it's an ESOP). So your effective salary is 20% higher then your listed one. However, would you rather get 100K and 20K in a 401k, or a taxable 120K? Most young developers would say 120K - I have student loans to pay off!

So weird benefits packages, like large semi-random bonuses, are kind of bad because you can't compare them to straight up money.
What's with this OBSESSION with how wealthy the wealthy are?

That's how this bogus article starts, it says "the poor are not better because so much is owned by the rich", a "Look, a squirrel!" head fake which totally ignores how well off the poor are or aren't. And you're just continuing that focus.

Bottom line: do you care about the poor, or about the rich?

Your statement above only touches on the latter.
Last time I checked they didn't apply to private jets flying within the US but do apply to international flights.
I believe the author is right, this would not be right for every company. However, for small companies with a diverse skill set it is likely warranted or at least fair that everyone is paid the same. I also like the idea of letting the employees vote, because it gives them (A) more connection, emotionally and financially to the companies success (B) enables employees to imagine their self-worth which in turn makes them strive to be better.

One comment I must make is that I do not believe this will work in the long term. I am guessing when the company goes onto hard times there would likely be a unionization to force to keep from a pay cut (which is bad). However, there are cases where because everyone is in it together they are willing to not be paid for a period of time.

An example of this would be an interesting conversation I had with a founding member of Molex (they make connectors in every computer pretty much in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex) who claimed that the owner came in one day and said there was no way to pay any of them, but if they stuck with him they would have a job for life and the pay would be based on company profits. The old man I was talking to was the janitor from 1940 and was still the janitor in 2005 and was one of the highest paid in the company (ironic huh!).

Anyways, the point is even a billion dollar corporation starts off this way and it seems reasonable enough and good enough to get loyal and hard working employees. There will be a time for change, but for now it is an interesting experiment and will likely work.
The t-shirt is a conversation starter, not a protest. Furthermore, he's using it to crowd-fund his defence. You can support it here:

http://www.tfund.com/nsashirt
Some hardcore worker coops do this though when I worked for a well known coop in the uk they had moved away from a purely flat model.
Need Feedback on Game Concept
Activist Storms Microsoft's Board
So the fence benefits you, but the people on the other side of the fence are human too...
This is sad, I have arrived in the valley just a couple of days ago and I found striking the contrast between San Francisco, where there are literally hordes of homeless on the main streets, and the actual valley (Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View...) with its idyllic single family homes in the middle of the trees, all clean and shiny.

I wonder how many residents know about the existence of these camps ?

I guess it's easy to forget that poverty exists if it's not screaming at you in the face.
Whenever anyone says "It's not x, it's the principle", it's x, it's always x.
Errr, rather obviously the state cares a lot about it as well.
New Mac Pro will be iblack
Branding is their business. Caffeinated sugar water is their product. Red Bull's target market is presumably males aged 13-26, who respond positively to sports and testosterone-driven imagery. This positive response means more sales of said sugar water.
That is true. We've been doing a big refactoring with AMS lately, so forward progress has been slow, but it's all going good places.

Ember + Rails is a potent combo because the two frameworks are built off of the same underlying principles.
I'm not sure it was intended to solve a problem, but I think it does provide benefits of increased employee autonomy and mental investment.

That may move the needle on employee hiring, retention, or performance. Or it may just make the owner happy, specifically in the example the author appeared to value shared ownership as a goal in itself.

The author also appeared to appreciate the vote on pay as a metric to determine how the employees viewed the state of the company (i.e. how big the communication gap was between himself and the employees given the company's promotion of internal transparency).
If someone chooses to be homeless (e.g. lower their responsibility until they are homeless), you can't really help that person stop being homeless until they decide that they no longer want to be homeless.
How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard
Robocars with shower, kitchenette, and bedroom would not be within the means of many homeless people.

Edit for response: a robocar with all of these amenities would be an RV costing much more than $10,000; the land cost would just be shifted to the public as these vehicles take up all available parking. Not to mention that a shower and kitchenette would require utility hookups, meaning they would really need an RV camp...
Two Ancient Roman Techs Could Disrupt Modern Industry
The real question is: why was he able to get a medical license in the first place? Why was he able to get good enough grades to get through medical school? Why was a man this incompetent so impossible to spot much earlier?

Our institutions are in shambles, at every level.
And now we know why Slim is one of the richest men in the world.
Well Java is one of those languages that a lot of people don't like working with because of it's verbosity and is overkill for a lot of simple applications. People to tend to favor Python for simple things. Java is best suited for Banks and high-level web applications for big corporations which is why Java developers make more than 100k at least.
First let me say that I don't think I have good answers for most of these questions, but that I think these are exactly the right kinds of questions to be asking.

Regarding how I would use the total resources, I don't know, specifically (which is part of my problem). I think in general the best long-term solution is to get the values of personal responsibility, hard work, honesty, and genuine charity better ingrained into our culture. Again - how do you do that specifically? I don't know. But I think that's ultimately a root cause of a lot of the problems in society. That's where I would like to focus my attention more.

As for who it is that becomes homeless. In my experience, it's been pretty evenly split between men and women, and pretty evenly split between "fallen from working class" and "long term hardcore homelessness with ... issues", although I suspect my specific work has been more than usually biased towards the fallen-from-working-class folks. I very rarely see families with children fall from working class, actually. Of all the classes we're discussing - I think that's the most significant pattern. (edit: I can think of several individuals who had children and nearly became homeless - they've always been the most willing to do work that was "below them", accept help, and make the necessary long-term changes. I don't know if this is because they had kids, or related to why they had kids in the first place)

I think it's hard to get good data because it's easy for existing political biases to cloud the data (and I'm as guilty of that as anybody), and because so much of the real, underlying issues are very sensitive and / or subjective. Labeling people as lazy, crazy, unlucky, etc. is a very hard thing to do consistently and fairly, if it's even possible. Anyone who tries is likely to be disagreed with no matter what anyway.
Well, it all depends on who gets to define what is abusive, doesn't it?

One justification for allowing unreasonable speech is that in theory it provides a high enough ceiling that all reasonable speech is allowed.

Not that that stops extremists in the US from making their number one speech suppression priority about their political opponents' core political speech.
The pain and suffering damage limit appears to be just one factor of several that worked together in Texas to make it easier for him to get away with his incompetent surgeries.

The other factors make it much harder to prove a malpractice case in Texas than in other states, and then the low limit on the damages (which, as the article notes will leave very little for the patient after costs) makes it not worthwhile to pursue the case.

If he could have been successfully sued then after his first two or three botched surgeries his insurance rates would probably be through the roof, and the lawsuits would be public making it easier for the public to learn that they should never go to this guy for treatment.
>The fun (and terrifying) thing about running a company is that you're allowed to do... anything.

When you stop and think about it, that is one really powerful statement.

Which must be why it's so easy to mess up running a company, because channeling that power is no easy thing to do. It takes a lot of self-control and even more control in general.

I think a lot of hackers/startups underestimate this by thinking that because they can control machines then that automatically implies that they can handle a petty company.
If they are trying to use it in parody, then they are trying to use it in parody, not to convey that such use is approved. In fact, by the fact that it is intended to be a joke, it is explicitly not trying to convey that such use is approved, unless the NSA is well known for producing comedy items for public consumption.
"Traveling With an Accent" - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/travel/traveling-with-an-...
Python would be another option, and many cheap hosts out there support it (HostGator and WebFaction, e.g.).
Those aren't even the interesting countermeasures. Good work with makeup can significantly change the structure of your face, completely reversibly, far more than is necessary to fool these systems running across the full set of human beings. You don't have to get the face recognizer to not recognize a face at all, you just have to make it a wrong face.
Awesome pictures! But Kelly Slater[1] didn't win the US Open of Surfing this year. Alejo Muniz did[2]. I find it odd that someone from Surfing magazine would get this wrong. Perhaps this pictures from 2011 not 2013?

1. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/winners-of-the-re...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Open_of_Surfing#U.S._Open_...
>> The homeless situation in SF is far worse than in any EU city I know of.

I don't know if I'd really call it a situation. Homeless people choose to go to SF because it's one of the best places for them. You won't freeze sleeping on the street, plenty of handouts...
For example, Ansel Adams printing notes:

http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Sexton,_John._...
IIRC, Silent Circle ran into a lot of issues because their product was not open source.
The query goes to the right server (not all servers are queried).

No cross-server transactions.
What's a reasonable workweek then? And why?
It looks very similar to the slums near my flat in Bangalore, albeit, ironically, richer.

Edit: Similar in it's disarrayed outlook and temporary permanence.
Congratulations, you've reinvented the eugenics movement. I would have thought it was a little out of fashion in 2013, but I guess not.
I got to meet Grace Hopper many years ago. She gave me a nanosecond after her talk. This was in the 1980s, probably while she was working for DEC. It made quite an impression on me, and it's now framed on the wall. I wish I'd gotten her autograph!

She was one of the original hackers. I don't think that she was a woman was ever relevant to her, and by the force of her personality, and her efforts, she made it irrelevant to everyone else. For instance, I keep forgetting it. Not that she was female, but that it was unusual that she was female. EG: she wasn't a "Pioneer of Female Programmers", she was instead simply a "Computer Pioneer".

I don't know the specific barriers she had to overcome, but I know they must have been significant-- for much of her career, people didn't really understand what computers even were. Even as late as the 1980s, talking heads on TV would often say things that implied they thought computers were intelligent, or other equally silly perspectives... because they were so new they had never been exposed to society at large. Now take that lack of understanding in the population in general and project it onto the navy which, as a military, is generally lower tech and more conservative? Of course she was in the research area, but there were certainly huge amounts of misunderstandings she had to deal with in people who simply had never been educated about computers. So she gave these talks that continued after she left the Navy and started working for DEC. She made it her mission to teach people about this new technology. I can't imagine her refusing to speak at a conference simply because there are more men than women-- I imagine most of the conferences she went to, she was the only female speaker.

PS- I think her handing out the nanoseconds was brilliant, as a teaching aid. She took an abstract concept and made it physical. How rare is that these days? Plus if you can give someone something they're much more likely to remember what you're trying to teach them. Even if it is a bit of old telephone wire... that mundane piece of plastic and copper became imbued with the story she told.

Quite and impression!
I used to teach English to non-native speakers. All of them wanted to learn English with an American accent. I think they are actually doing themselves a disservice because they fail to understand the subtle differences of class status an accent signals. A more British inflected accent is an easy way to signal higher education and status to an American. They go a bit gaga for British accents. It's also easier to fake a British accent.
Not just rental homes, but AFFORDABLE rental homes. There's plenty of development going on here, but it's all $800,000 townhouses and luxury apartment buildings. This is not housing for the poor or even for middle class workers for that matter.
Free Minimal Resume PSD Template
Superstar Marketing 2 - John Divramis Internet Business Blog : Paramarketing
Plus. For sure. Came here for college, and almost every tech (startup) interviewer I've talked to has mentioned some family in Australia. Good thing to build rapport over :)
Don't forget The Big Picture from boston.com for similarly awesome content: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

I really wish all news sources provided high resolution photographs with their articles. This is 2013, I should not have to squint at a 250px wide photo.
Steve,

Is Data really as fudged up as everyone seems to believe? Do you see EPF having the potential to take its place?
Extreme realities—that a place so rich and so interested in change (in the jargon, "disruption") has so many homeless people—elicit extreme reactions.
When Science Goes Silent
I'd love having a marginal dollar in tax advantaged vs cash, but I see your point. It is probably the responsibility of the hiring manager to walk candidates through the offer. If you are hiring from your network, you might even be able to advise the candidate on his other offers as well (showing that our total package of 150k is better than the other job with a total package of 120k, but is less than the bigco offer at 200k, but there are these other non financial considerations too).

I think this gets even harder when you have employees in multiple offices and potentially multiple countries. I've seen posted wages for jobs where "Asians" got 1.37/h and "Western" got $20.45/h, posted on a sheet in the actual workplace wall.
I always think of Louis CK's bit about 'The N-word'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ
You can pivot and develop your idea and/or execute in different ways. Why get horrified by an initial litmus test, instead of making continuous such tests while deciding on many parts of your offering. A startup is not simply a validation of your idea, it is a validation of your particular execution too.

>>Want to start a website matching up job seekers with employers? Start a blog with tips for finding a new job or new employees.

Just in time advice for me. I launched last week Jobrupt, a web site to help certain types of job seekers/recruiters when people are reserved to make the first step. I must immediately start blogging.
Fuck the "Yes Man Society"
I know only one thing about what is actually involved in getting these various certificates, and it's that there are a lot of big, thick books with vague titles.

What I do know is that the whole concept of having qualifications which are closely linked to the proprietary technologies of a specific business has always urked me, so I feel like this is probably a positive step for the industry as a whole.
Ask HN: Do you use Go for normal MVC websites?
Does anyone out there use Go for their main website (rather than for auxiliary tools like REST APIs)? If so, how does it compare to, say, Django or Flask? I'm aware that Revel exists, but I rarely see anyone mentioning actually using it for "normal" MVC-type stuff.
This is retarded.

The owner has employees. Not partners. He is carrying all the risk. Slow pay? He pays. Personal guarantee needed? His house is on the line. Needs cash to hire the next employee or to float more payroll while the work ramps up? Ya its his cash.

He's effectively made everyone an equal partner with unequal risks and responsibilities.
That's a silly response. There are seven million people in the Bay Area. A tiny fraction are homeless. Try lifting up an adult human being sometime. It's not easy. These people are frequently mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or otherwise incapable of taking care of themselves. Example:

http://www.businessinsider.com/former-business-owner-homeles...

She ended up homeless when she turned to California's
shelter network and hated it. ... Five years ago she moved
into The Jungle and says she has no regrets.

If you think differently, I recommend you go down there and try to lift them out of poverty. Once it's your responsibility, you'll quickly find there is a reason they are living like that.
Better yet, if they have any additional income , they will have to spend it so it goes back in the general economy right away.
Everyone in this thread is missing the point. This T-shirt is obviously a political statement, and the NSA is using the law to suppress it. This is clearly a freedom of speech issue.

Whether US law permits this type of dissent suppression is only ancillary. If your law says that this type of protest is forbidden, you have a big problem! Americans always get stuck on "this is actually illegal" when having a discussion about rights. Your constitution is pretty clear about this issue, and a reasonable interpretation of human rights/freedom of expression is crystal clear. This shirt is a political expression, and preventing it from being sold is denial of the right to protest.
"I don't notice the same level of problems in most other parts of the US"

It's probably a combination of various factors :

- The mild climate makes it much easier to face cold winters and hot summers for a homeless, as bad as their life is there it would be worse elsewhere.

- The local administrations are probably more tolerant than the ones in other parts of the US.

- The area is expensive (housing ridiculously so) by US standards, meaning that is way harder for people on minimum wage to save money, and losing their job can be a fatal blow.

I think the problem is at national level, it's just more apparent here, given also the contrast with so many people that are well-off.
Canada has universal healthcare yet the homeless problem in Vancouver is only getting worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Vancouver
PandoMonthly New York with Warby Parker CEO Neil Blumenthal, the full interview
Newsletter highlighting great open source software
Your argument is not sound. If women are less "genetically" suited for programming, then that fact doesn't imply that there are no women programmers or that women couldn't have been programming's pioneers.
The weird thing in the Middle East is (outside of Saudi) most of the formal instruction was in British English, but everyone watched US tv, and the demand was generally for a American English (even after 9/11 and the unwelcoming US immigration policy).

Same thing in China and Thailand; I don't know about other countries.
Had a laugh after the revelation :)
President Obama Speaks on Syria (live stream)
I like white people a lot, and i'm glad most of them aren't like you.
The cost of producing a car is only a few thousand dollars, and a robo-car is just a car with a few extra smartphones. San Francisco spends about $40,000 per street homeless person http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/05/hult-gov-policy-homeless...

Even in slums in India people are capable of affording low cost cars like tata nano's. And with the great efficiencies brought about by robo-cars, they would be even cheaper to manufacture and sell.

And the above doesn't factor in the value of land. Much of rent/mortgage goes into paying off the actual land-owner (usually a bank). Take away that exorbitant cost and robo-cars would actually be much cheaper than even a small apartment. At $700/month, $8,400 per year VS $10,000 one-time cost robo-car.
The template looks nice but having it in PSD means it can practically used only as printed copy.
Translating it to a doc (any format that can be exported to PDF) or html/css would be much more valuable.

still, good job.
I figure you could be living on the other side of 12th Street and be largely unaffected by this. I think you're assuming too much about people's innate preferences.

You can slice the world to arbitrarily small groups of people, making any problem someone else's. I don't feel the national borders are particularly meaningful in this context, especially considering the amount of Indians living in Silicon Valley.
Perhaps; it's certainly unclear enough I normally wouldn't forward it, but I think the burning managerial incompetence shines through the confused prose.

I mean, a manager who doesn't understand his "pictures" which everyone focuses on are charts based on current data, which may change to his detriment? An "architect" who defeats challenges to his designs with glossy brochures?

Hire a bozo at this level for your startup and it will probably die. That they have high positions of authority in an $80 billion dollar technology company is appalling with two 'p's.
This happens everywhere, not just in Silicon Valley. Maybe I'm missing it, but where does this article give evidence that this is the biggest in the US?

My home town has 20k people, and has winters with weeks of sustained below 0F temperature. Yet, there is a forested section behind a low budget grocery store where a 30-50 person homeless community exists perpetually. I know this is smaller than the 175 mentioned in the article, but its in a 20k person winter town in the middle of nowhere.
Charity tends not to elevate anyone to the working class. Most money ameliorates poverty temporarily, is spent on fundraising and bureaucracy, or is diverted (stolen).