skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "average cost including benefits" is the important part. For me, I was concerned with finding out what the average base salary was for a union employee - and not just any union employee, but those that are affiliated with SEIU and ATU, since those are the ones in negotiation. What I found was that the average base salaries were between 45k to 70k for these SEIU and ATU workers.

A lot of the information on salaries that's published out there include overtime, pension, medical benefits, PTO, etc., but that's the total cost for BART, and not necessarily the annual income that an employee pockets. For me, I wanted to see if a BART employee could make a comfortable living in the bay area, and for that, things like overtime and pension aren't as relevant since you either have to work more to earn them, or you don't really see them until the future. Thus, the much lower 45k to 70k I arrived at.

It's fun to explore this if you can: https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/bart-comp-a...
It's a list of BART employees' total cost of employment, scraped from http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area
Let's not discount what Apple pulled off. Before the iPhone, carriers ruled handsets with an iron fist, dictating what features they would have and what apps would be available.

Apple completely smashed that. Carriers now, for the most part, accept that they don't get to decide what your phone does, only how you use your connection with them. The carriers used to do things like disable Bluetooth and charge you extra to turn it back on, or force all apps to go through their own internal approval process and purchasing.

I'm not terribly happy with the status quo Apple has left us with. Rather than place control with us where it belongs, they've just moved control to Apple. Apple is a far better overlord to have than the carriers, but it's still not great. However, we should still recognize that Apple pulled off a massive change that nobody really thought could be done.
sneer smeared smoothly - have a point
yeap definitely looks like it. I would not be surprised if Python has something similar too.

For me OO is not the big reason to use smalltalk. For me the biggest reason is the whole live coding environment which is a big plus for workflow and speed of development. But maybe other smalltalkers could chime in with features I am not aware of.

Also Pharo has Pooldictionaries , which are doing the same thing Traits are doing for methods , for instance variables. Probably Ruby has something similar too.

I really think highly of Ruby , its a really powerful language. The reason why I chose python instead is that I can't stand the "Pearl" syntax. All these weird symbols etc. Definitely not my thing and make code less readable to me.

But as a language Ruby looks great to me. So definitely would not recommend against learning it :)
I do find this quote problematic: ""It is difficult to have this debate unless we know for sure whether this radiation is from Fukushima or whether it is naturally occurring background radiation," said Pieter Franken, founder of the Japan office of the environmental monitoring organisation Safecast."

As others have pointed out, the sievert is already weighted with respect to danger. In other words, the source makes absolutely no difference at all. If you somehow managed to get a huge radiation does from, say, bananas (which are fairly radioactive due to the potassium) it wouldn't be any better or worse than the same dose from a nuclear power plant.

That said, it always surprises me that there's no panic over naturally radioactive foods, like bananas. It's curious that the "unnatural" aspect seems to cause a disproportionate amount of the fear. FWIW, I enjoyed a nice, naturally radioactive banana as I wrote this.
Checking the source, it says that 18% of all the unwanted pregnancies where using a condom as contraceptive method, way different than 18% of times using a condom end with an unwanted pregnancy.
I think my biggest beef with them is that they tend to make up for their small amount of OSS in a negative way by being such patent trolls. This is more true of their presence in the hardware world.
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I love this, I happened to have Space Oddity playing at the time and it was an enjoyable experience the two work together well.
I'm usually not one to complain about what hits #1 spot on Hacker News, but this boils down to "I like T-Mobile, their customer service is good and I have a good plan with them" but not much else. Would it have been so highly upvoted if it wasn't from the "A VC" blog? I suspect not.
This. I don't get why so many comments gloss over the fact that this isn't just about Netflix types of content, but something as simple as "view source" becomes banned outright. Its a step above when sites restrict right clicks because damn that image/whatever is off the hizzy and needs "protection"

Minification and obfuscation have often been enough so far but the slope we're sliding down is pretty steep and if TBL wants us at the bottom a lot of people are just going to follow suit. As someone who's finally embracing that development is increasingly being pushed to the web over native devices, I'm likely to be looking for yet another career shift (first from IT to software dev) before its all said and done. I do not look forward to debugging DRM when I already loathe minified JavaScript. Tooling is already abysmally slow in spite of Chrome's excellent dev tools (unmatched by any other browser or plugin IMO).

While I do understand the concept of protecting IP, this measure is inherently flawed right out of the gate. I'd honestly rather keep archaic Flash and not-so-archaic Silverlight around because at least their tooling is decent. I can't wait another 10+ years for this to catch up because everyone is foolishly starting from 0, not building on their successes (however much or little you define).
(momentumOfStartup > momentumOfAcquirer) ? "acquire" :
(passionOfAcquirer > passionOfStartup) ? "acqhire" :
(moneyInTheBank || scalableRevenue) ? "ship" : "pivot";
the bonuses look lower than the last time i looked at the sheet.
the salary diff between management and regular workers is pretty high too.

pretty sure many senior IT engineers (who probably work 2x longer) would like to do 124K a year in the SF area.. then the proposal is to give them 150K by 2015.

in a simple world i'd use that money to give 25% more to all other workers
Bart workers pay $92/mo for health insurance. [1]

This post is comparing the income for one Bart employee to the expenses for a family of four. I'm not sure why child care is included if only one adult is working.

Subtracting those out, I get $54,912. This seems about right for a frugal life in the burbs.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-pay-plus-...
Reading also has an additional cost, which is if you read things that are wrong it can teach you incorrect things in addition to wasting your time reading it. Especially in the startup space, a lot of people like to write their experiences into lessons when they have no basis for doing so. I imagine they want more people to read their article/blog post and it is some manner of self promotion. That is fine, but as a reader, you can just ignore whatever their have to say, it probably isn't useful.

Paul Graham is an obvious exception. He writes semi infrequently (1-2 essays a month as of recently), goes to great lengths to have them edited by people with diverse viewpoints and based on his position and experience has a great perspective to give useful lessons. There are other good writers, but not many, and pg is probably the best due to his unique perspective. And in my opinion, HN voters seem to vote up "entertainment" stories more than useful ones. So you can't assume if something is on the top of HN, it is useful in any way.
Ah, this is very close to >don't be a dick<. Why is it so hard to get people to follow this rule?
For frontend frameworks, I like Knockout.js the best, because it has a single purpose. It's starting to catch on.

As far as adoption goes, Angular.js seems to be the big winner.
Ah, but the fade is on purpose, because I wanted to show that while they do have a high "cost of employment", what they truly pocket annually isn't as much. For that, the most important figure is the base salary, which is a solid block. The other things like pension and medical are either money they don't see until the future, or money they don't use unless they have a medical emergency.
> "Ofek" clearly intended "whore" to be a gendered slur.

This is not at all clear to me. Clearly "Ofek" is a jerk with a strong sense of entitlement, but in the context of scientists being motivated by money as opposed to pure altruism, this is a common enough term. Here's an example of two men arguing in the media:

http://www.mmamania.com/2013/6/11/4417740/nick-diaz-unretire...

"Clearly" is frequently a code word for "I can't actually support this argument."

Here's another example from the comments: "Especially, calling a black woman "urban whore" is sexist and racist." Essentially, there's this point of view that if you're a jerk towards a straight white man, you're just a jerk, but if you're a jerk to some protected class, then you're clearly being a jerk for sexist or racist motives.

I dislike this attitude because it undermines being legitimately inclusive. It's the boy who cried wolf -- if people are crying "sexism" every time they get cut off on the freeway, then people learn to ignore it.
I think you're saying that they move the needle down? That's not how it works: only the returned money counts, so if you return none, or only a little, the needle doesn't move up.
Naive question: what techniques are used for reliably generating UUIDs? Can you do it without giving each machine a unique identifier first?
The diet of a hunter-gatherer is certainly almost always healthier than that of a subsistence farmer, but people in modern industrialized societies are hardly subsistence farmers.
Not a myth at all. I have seen this in real life many times. The engineer who finishes a task (correctly!) in 2 days instead of 2 weeks. Who fixes the system along the way. Whose code is readable and maintainable. Who doesn't get blocked.
3. That the market for engineers in SV is so ludicrously overheated that CEO's feel the need to go to these lengths.

It's nuts. Get people elsewhere. Thousands of engineers across the country (or planet) would jump at the chance to work remotely for half an SV salary.
Start with Shopify. Once you make money, move to a bespoke Wordpress installation running JigoCart.
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I implied that it was much more likely that his idea/company/metrics/space/personality/etc was the problem. VCs are motivated by money - they'll look past all sorts of other things, including pedigree, if they feel they will make a great return.
For scrolling small distances there's the mouse wheel; for everything else there's spacebar.
I am big fan of Ed Frenkel's lectures on youtube but this movie was one of the worst movies I've ever watched.
The penalty for you making a mistake is higher than the penalty for your accountant/lawyer making a mistake. By "penalty" I mean negative consequences, not just explicit fines.
i was reading until he played the sexism card. screw that. the bad guys there deserve to be put down socially for many dumb actions but sexism? just because she used the whore word when cursing? its probably 3 woman in the discussion to begin with. cursing is cursing. if you focus on the meaning you are overthinking it.
Given he's speaking in general terms about terrorist groups and not specifically Al Qaeda I dont think I see your point.

Al Qaeda's activities in Afgahanistan dont tell us a lot about the motivations of the various incarnations of the IRA, or ETA, or FARC, or the RAF, or November 17, or the Red Brigades, or the Tamil Tigers etc etc etc. Unless your suggesting that Al Qaeda s the only terrorist group ever, in which case your just wrong.

And even if we limit ourselves to talking about one terrorist group, Al Qaeda have not been successful in achieving their stated political goals beyond the Russian retreat from Afghanistan, so the 7 puzzles about why they actually bother are still legitimate questions.
Fascinating reference to the Black September dissolution (covered here: All You Need Is Love ):

"
My host, who was one of Abu Iyad’s most trusted deputies, was charged with devising a solution. For months both men thought of various ways to solve the Black September problem, discussing and debating what they could possibly do, short of killing all these young men, to stop them from committing further acts of terror.

Finally they hit upon an idea. Why not simply marry them off? In other words, why not find a way to give these men – the most dedicated, competent, and implacable fighters in the entire PLO - a reason to live rather than to die? Having failed to come up with any viable alternatives, the two men put their plan in motion.

"

This makes sense--when you have no family, no ties, no vested interested in the perpetuation of society, mad-dog terrorism doesn't seem unreasonable. It's easier to blow up a school, presumably, when you don't have kids in one yourself.

I think that improving economic conditions and availability of care to would be a major step in eliminating terrorism, as well as I imagine crime.

Conversely, current domestic policies in the US seem to be willfully ignorant of this fact.
yes so what all employees cost about 2.5 3.0 times the headline salary rate.

And what a lot of HN news readers probably dont realise (unless your in production engineering) is that for lower level blue collar jobs Bonus and OT are major parts of those workers pay packets.
Fair. I was just trying to find a thing they could stick this on for basically nothing. The $49 plan would have been fine too.

FYI, I didn't notice this limitation on the pricing page.
3. that these supposed perks are so fake that the CEO has to stage employees using them.

I've worked at companies that looked "hip" by having ping pong tables and playstations/xboxs. In practice almost nobody used them as it would look like they're slacking rather than working. It was nothing but a sham, trying to make these places look less like what they actually are.
That's a more reasonable opinion. I believe that the solution is to make sure people in situations like these have real, viable options. For example, places of employment with decent working conditions.

Incidentally, many of the complaints against Chinese/Bangladesh/etc. factories could also be leveled against US factories per my experience. Other than the child labor bit, I've seen just about everything here, too, though I expect some of the problems are simply more widespread and occur more frequently.

Factory managers know that their employees don't have a lot of options and tend to squeeze them hard. (Then collect bonuses for cost savings...) It was always amusing to hear them tell the crew how great it was that labor expenses were down. And yes, I did point out afterwards to the people that "labor expenses" === "your paychecks." For whatever reason, this was not obvious to some.
The Dude invents phone (late 1800) > phone goes wireless (1980's) > iPhone (2006-7)

Dudes invent a a computer (1940s) > availbable to public (1980ish) > internet > I know more than my teacher and my dad

Dude invents penicillin > 100 years pass > people complain about not enough donors (1990s) > stem cells(now)

That looks like a rocket ship to me... and we are about to take off as far as I can tell....so buckle up man..

Or may be not if you are still carrying the glass slab from 1989...
Ah yes, the cost of living figures I have gathered from http://www.epi.org/resources/budget/. In my footnotes I address that for BART employees health insurance is $92/mo, but because I wasn't so sure what their co-pays and other expenses may be, I left in the health insurance figures from EPI's budget calculator.

To account for my uncertainty, I built in a "Custom" option in the dropdowns, so you can play around with what you think is a fair cost of living for a BART employee, and how those numbers compare to their salaries and the proposal figures.
What really bother me is that is only a subset of TED talks.

What about science and art divulgation?
At least two great talks come inmediately to my mind:
Those by Benjamin Zander and by Richard Dawkins
If it were worth the trouble: cell phone location records, taxi credit card transaction records, or taxi dispatcher records.
Agreed, and I wonder how much things are gonna go google car/glass. Meaning ubiquitous invisible computation interfaces with at most some connected flexible ~realtime epaper as the desktop computer, no more boxes etc.
What nonsense. The KKK are directly linked to countless acts of physical intimidation, violence and murder perpetrated against the targets of their prejudice.

Military units socialize over dinner, doesn't make them less lethal. I'm sure Al Qaeda members break the bread together from time to time, doesn't stop them being terrorists.
Oh come on -- this was in the hotel bar before the conference even began. It was not an event in any way associated with Codemash except for the fact that Justine and her boss were both there for the conference.

Where's your ire and indignation for the bartenders, hotel staff, and the firm where they both worked? Codemash, its organizers and sponsors aren't even on the radar for "people not actually the assailant yet are somehow responsible for the assailant's behavior."
And they would be disappointed to find out they have been misled, as the scene was staged for them rather than representative everyday activity.
I was just going to say the same thing - here in Germany Deutsche Telekom is at the very opposite end of the spectrum: expensive plans, premium prices, no innovations to be found anywhere.

It is interesting how even huge corporations like Telekom adjust their marketing and overall strategy depending on their market position. I like how they handle their role as an underdog in the US, but I'm not under any illusions. This isn't a grand gesture of goodwill, but a necessary evil in their eyes, I guess.
I am python coder. Smalltalk is much more readable than Python and so is Lisp.

I dont know why you think dots and parentheses make things easier to read. Maybe its a matter of preferences , but even though I have grown up with this style , I dont find it more readable than smalltalk.

I dont see

Door.open(1,3,30)

as more readable to

Door open: 1 times: 3 andCloseAfterMilliseconds: 30

And this is exactly how python code works and how smalltalk works too. Also smalltalk culture is oriented towards clean code alot more than python world. You will rarely see methods in pharo more than a few lines long. And if you do , is most likely that code has not been cleaned up. And I find that a huge plus even more than the syntax itself.

Of course if I had to choose without smalltalk, then python would be my first choice for readability. But still nowhere near as to how easy I understand smalltalk , even though I am using it for less than a year.
> Incidentally, many of the complaints against Chinese/Bangladesh/etc. factories could also be leveled against US factories per my experience. Other than the child labor bit, I've seen just about everything here, too, though I expect some of the problems are simply more widespread and occur more frequently.

When a US factory burns down and kills all the employees inside because they'd been locked in during their 15 hour shift - which has happened more than once in Bangladesh - you can say that US factories are similar to Bangladeshi factories.

I agree that conditions for many workers suck, but let's not pretend there's much similarity.
When you communicate in text you can just sell the idea you're talking about. When you do public speaking you have to sell yourself AND the idea (in this order, because nobody will pay attention to the idea if they are not alresdy paying attention to you). So good public speaking will always have a "cult-ish vibe".

And unfortunately, with current declining attention spans and younger generations preference for video over text we'll have to get used to this annoying media and its side effects. Even people learning programming want "video tutorials" and "code-casts" nowadays...
There is no standard W3C DRM. The W3C EME spec that uproar is about is only a plug-in interface for launching arbitrary binary vendor-specific blobs (just like the <object> element, except as a JS API on <video>).

A browser that is 100% compliant with all W3C specs (and nothing non-standard) will not be able to play a single Netflix video, because that requires (deliberately non-standardized) Netflix DRM Extension (CDM) to be licensed and baked into the browser.
Why is it that when you go from 2 parents + 1 child -> 2 parents + 2 children, the cost goes up 6K, but when you go from 2 children -> 3 children, the cost goes up 18K? If anything it seems like per-child costs should diminish as you have more children?

Also I think all these analyses that assume a BART employee is going to be a single income-earner for a family are a bit strange - surely there are some BART employees who fall under this but I'd imagine not many? It seems like a luxury in this day and age to have a parent staying at home full time. And honestly I find myself having trouble sympathizing with people who have a lot of kids without secure high-income employment - I don't think it's the employer's responsibility to raise wages for employees that make a very expensive lifestyle choice. I do feel bad for their kids, but I think the responsibility for making sure they're taken care of should be the government's.
You make some good points, but I'd disagree that it's too late when you're 45+ to regain your creative spark.

Maybe it's not about "too late", but I think it gets a lot harder to change yourself as you get older. If you're on a good track, you're more likely to stay on a good track; the same for the less-than-good tracks. Creative people will continue to gain creative competence, which is why most peak in their 50s-- it takes a long time to get good-- but I think that someone who voluntarily gives his creativity up, in order to become a social climber, if he hasn't reclaimed it by middle age, probably won't.

There are a lot of people who go into banking and consulting expecting to cash out, retire young, and become novelists or philosophers. Very few of those actually do it.
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I have a similar opinion as the commenter above: I like Clojure more than F# and Haskell.

F# is no-go because of the .NET/Mono dependency. Haskell is no-go because of the community attitude. ML (the non-.NET F#) is an option; as well as Miranda (precursor to Haskell with less attitude).

Sometimes these discussions forget to take the human side of things on board, which is really important for many applications and long-term projects.
Correct. The EZUHF is my preferred transmitter.
So, what you're arguing is that a good way to improve inclusivity is to be open-minded when someone calls a woman a "whore"?
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