skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice. I agree, but it seems like this is easier to accomplish. Should we aim to stop a system which emanates from Obama on down, and which is already about to get a vote in the form of multiple bills restraining the NSA? Or should we remove someone who represents me, and isn't providing effective NSA oversight?

The question is can we peel away enough Dem votes for the #2 in the open primary to be a more liberty-centric candidate rather than her last challenger, Republican Elizabeth Emken.

Also even a failed primary challenge could pressure her to swerve left.

I do agree that "Stop spying on us" is way more appealing than "Remove Feinstein from the Senate Intelligence Committee" :)
My knee-jerk response was equally cynical. Something about saying, "Look at this 'good thing' I'm about to do!"... Why not do the thing and see what happens first before making an announcement? It's good clickbait either way; just then the article would have some substance and not be so cliche feel-goody. Am I a bad person for thinking this??
"sissy little girl"? You sure you don't mean "scared little boy"? Why use such antagonistic gender language?
Most age discrimination isn't overt or explicit. It's "cultural". They don't care if you're 45, but most of these VC-funded startups don't want to hire and promote people who (a) don't drink, (b) show up before 10:00 and leave before 7:00, (c) never discuss their sex lives and work and avoid others' disclosures thereof, and (d) aren't interested in moving into management, which being a 45-year-old programmer implies. But there are a few especially juvenile older people that I've seen fit in to the VC-funded culture.

Also, older programmers (even those who've declined management by choice) threaten the lie on which the VC-funded world stands, which is that being a subordinate engineer (and getting jack-shit equity) at 22 is a sure path to being an exec at 27, a founder at 31, and an investor (either an angel, meaning "rich", or a VC, meaning "given a soft landing") at 35. The brutal career age-grading comes from a need to exclude those who refute the lie of promised progress.
Not required if you use bundler.

But after you are done with the project, there is no easy way to delete the gems that the project uses all at once.
Which is often a breach of your current employment contract. How do they handle that situation?
Because that engineering budget you just had now became your legal counsel budget.
One of our original project goals was to publish an open, downloadable database. Some smaller geolocation projects have downloadable databases, but Mozilla's legal and privacy teams were not ready to take that step yet. Geolocation is a very sensitive privacy issue for "stumbler" users, WiFi access point owners, and end users. Once you publish data, it's hard to take it back. <:) For now, we're just hosting a public API.

You can read some early ideas for obscuring access point identities (using hashes of one or more MAC addresses) on the mozilla.dev.security newsgroup:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...

You can read some of the Mozilla discussion about data licenses on Bugzilla:

https://bugzil.la/911306
What a horrible idea. You're only going to find total newbs / fresh out of college hires. People that, like, "have jobs" already aren't going to give up a week of vacation for the honor of working on your hamster wheel. This probably isn't even legal.
Sounds like you have some ideas here - who's your money on? Cruz?
The comment made perfect sense. OP was extrapolating the "animals are jerks because of evolutionary pressure" idea to humans, and reasoning that non-zero-sum ethics are also the result of that pressure. "Ethics is power" was the summation, not the initiation.

It seems like you need to work on your critical reading skills before getting so snarky.
I didn't run the numbers but the correlation between poverty/education and cancer+heart disease seems relatively high. The mortality rates for those appear to be highest in the deep South, Appalachia and lower Midwest, which are some of the poorest and least-educated areas of the country.
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I don't mean to propagate bias. I don't really have my own opinion, I was repeating something I heard from insiders in the US PhD process. They no doubt have some home team bias. But how well the PhD helps you get jobs is something that's potentially measurable and testable.
Yea, so does everyone. John Gruber, to name one, wrote his 5C/5S review on 'reviewer models' of both phones - it's pretty standard, and good reviewers will call it out. You sound a little unfamiliar with the entire system.
MacPorts has worked just fine for me. Brew needs me to hold its hand for just about everything I install, especially when a vendor supplied library is updated.

I use BBEdit, oh-my-zsh, Vagrant, VMWare, Django, virtualenvwrapper, Selenium IDE, Python's selenium, lib::local, Puppet, Sequel Pro, OmniGraffle, Jira, Stash, git, Mercurial, SURFRAW, psman and a few other tools on a daily basis.

The article did point out Dash to me, and for that I am thankful.
Aim to get what you want, all politicians are equally horrible, some are doing what you want, instead of what you don't want.

Stop thinking locally, start thinking globally, a few thousand dollars could turn a congress race in a close district in the middle of nowhere.

You're allowed to donate to where ever and whoever you want, as much as you want, you're allowed to vote once where you live. Which do you think is a more effective strategy?

Ideally what you want is a kind of sabre metrics for politics, it's about dollars for seats, not votes.

I'd say my idea is easier to accomplish, Diane Feinstein isn't going anywhere, she has consistent 20% margins. Diane Feinstein will only be unseated by her death.
Thanks, I think I edited it as you were commenting as I noticed it on my re-read.
I would love to see a 3-d printer friend explain to me how it's going to build a guitar from scratch.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-worlds-first-3d-printed-guitar

edit - and a video of a 3d printed violin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU3AZmf6O7I
Why get a nice car and customize it when you know you'll eventually have to drive someone else's shitbox Ford Focus? Your seat warmer and ergonomic gearshift handle will help you not a whit in that testament to True Detroit Steel.
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A more relaxed analogy to a music band has often come to mind. There's certainly a place in the world for a successful 83-piece orchestra but the piece is mostly written by a single composer. Plus, concerts most people go to today are to see smaller bands.

I did notice a strange thing about my earlier comment though. When I read an HN article in the morning I'm much more apt to write a comment or response. An argument seems to be quickly evaluated based on its feasibility rather than how rewarding it is. It's the opposite in the evenings.

As a model at least, it kind of explains why I'm writing such a thoughtful explanation tonight, after having been downvoted without an explanation that morning.
Ember was heavily influenced by Sproutcore
Their hire rate is 66%, so you get a near 90% chance of getting a job after doing this with two different companies using the same policy.
I see two parts to this product. The one everyone's complaining about (metrics about "productivity"), which is really a bad idea because lines of code, commits, hours "active", emails sent, etc are not a good indicative of productivity.

But there's also this "feed" of work-related activity, which might not be bad, but I'm not sure how helpful it can be. I see it as Basecamp's "Progress" view, but for all your apps.
Insane, goes totally against the idea of less is more. The more inane coding for the sake of coding the better your numbers.

Where do you plug in the whiteboard or your notepad/sketchbook or is there a Theta/Alpha wave interface?
Look at latest salaries

http://www.salarysquare.com
> I tell people that the worst case scenario is that they use a week of vacation, but because of the extra pay they can take a nicer vacation later on.

I don't know about you guys, but if you're only getting 2 or 3 weeks of vacation a year, I think it's pretty insane to waste up to half of it on testing out a job. You need your vacation days for, you know, vacation, for your long-term mental sanity.

For a candidate who's already employed, that comes across as a completely unreasonable request. I mean, imagine if you interviewed at two companies like this -- you get no vacation that year! Ugh.
Personally, I've never understood why Apple even has message boards. They offer nothing that can't be found elsewhere and if they are not going to respond to users, what's the point?
Look at facebook inc salaries

http://www.salarysquare.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&company_jo...
Deleting a comment that is threatening with a lawsuit is not a surprise to me. I'd like to know if the same comment without the threats and accusations would also get deleted.
It would be nice if I could find a non-OSX download on that page.
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Thank you, that's what I was afraid of. It seems the upgrade to 15" retina is not worth it and I should stick with a 13" Air then.
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Also: anyone who has freelanced knows that those clients who are most reluctant to pay are the worst people to work with, right?

So why do we assume that everyone trying to cheat his system is Tiny Tim? lol

Maybe it's not good to reward them for trying to cheat? Maybe this enables entitled people to keep on feeling entitled to everything for free? Just saying. I get a little bothered when this sort of thing is met with no criticism at all. Like, he's giving something away for free? He is better than us! If only we all were so noble! lol
My wifi went gray on my 4S during iOS6. I could fix it temporarily with resets but it'd always go back to being completely greyed out.

Applecare replaced it without hesitation.

Not sure the issue is necessarily tied to iOS7...
Liveweave is spamming Hacker News and Reddit
They've been spamming /r/web_design and Hacker News for a few weeks now. For example check out this new guy's only submissions and comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=browserspot

Here's some more (all new accounts besides the first submission which I assume is a dev of this CodePen rip-off):

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=liveweave.com&start=0

Some of the comments by those accounts are ridiculously fake:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6525760

2 out of 8 of this guys comments are BS replies to the spammed Liveweave links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=filipedeschamps

And the other 6 are very short comments with no thought put into them (obviously to throw off the spam filter).

As I mentioned before, this is also going on in reddit.com/r/web_design. New accounts keep posting these links that get to the front page more than they should. I wouldn't be surprised if the person behind Liveweave was actually paying someone else to make these CSS/JavaScript demos.
I am curious how they figure that out - how many people 'declined to continue the interview process' but didn't say 'it's because you have a trial week'?
I didn't think it was about F#, and I didn't click through, but indeed I noticed the functional language right there.

So how many MLs of champagne do you expect?
Concurred. "William has been coming in early this week." (first tooltip/person on homepage header), irrelevant and borderline creepy to actually log this into some monitoring software that someone is supposed to frequently use. I can almost hear Mr. Burns saying 'Excellent' while tenting his fingertips.
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That. Is. Fucking. Genius.
This comment was likely deleted because it is caustic, unhelpful and generally useless.

I think any forum administrator would be perfectly reasonable to delete a comment of this ilk.
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We are facing this issue where a hacker is trying to validate a stolen credit card using our platform and randomly creating accounts with different user information and the accounts are not coming from the same IP. Anyone else having similar issue?
The point, I think, is that by the time you get to "trial week" phase you are pretty much set on joining, and it's just to avoid complete disasters. So the odds of you burning through two of these is incredibly low, and it's worth it anyway, since if you actually ended up not getting through trial week you are avoiding what could have been several years of a dysfunctional work environment, not to mention all the other opportunity costs of moving, etc.
Here's why this comment was downvoted: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The appliance could just try every SSID it sees as the password. Won't take long before someone looking at the sign enters the password in the SSID field of their client.
You're picking apart my example of a luxury, not the argument. People aren't forced to spend money on iPhones. If they spend money of iPhones that they need for food they otherwise couldn't afford, then that's their problem, not the world's. Substitute 'iPhones' for any other luxury item. Plus, the agriculture industry is highly regulated, while the cell phone industry is relatively free, which I think has a strong impact on this price discrepancy.

My point is that capitalism allows a significant majority of people to have the basic necessities of life taken care of in exchange for some other contribution to the world.
I assure you, Dropbox is laughing all the way to the bank!

Anyway, do you realize who uses Dropbox? Many are people in IT related fields and it is simpler and quicker to share files than asking their sysadmin's to setup an FTP or allow file-sharing or use VPN etc. It just works and you don't have to get into all this nonsense of helping your friends configuring FTP clients.
> When we put it that way, very few people have declined to continue the interview process because of the trial week, less than 5% of applicants.

How many people decline the interview process before you've offered them trial week because they are aware that's how you hire?
> Not every appliance needs a motor or batteries, let alone a computer.

So true.

What's even worse is the half-baked stuff. There are, like, a dozen clocks embedded in various objects in my house. I've learned the whole list. How, you ask? I need to change them back or forward 1 hour twice a year.

The darned things are not DST-aware, to say nothing about the absence of any capability of syncing to NTP or GSM or GPS.
Alaska and Nevada have some of the highest rates of suicide, but those areas are not suitable for farming. Another article posted earlier in this thread indicates population density isn't a factor, and the map seems to show that as well (Nebraska and Minnesota have low suicide rates and low density). Date of statehood is nothing more than a coincidence.
So they get free music distribution and free lessons from a moralist.
Now that's just pretentious and not true.
Lets not forget last.fm.
The story is told in The Boys on the Bus, that Johnny Apple of the NY Times was disliked by other reporters on the state house beat, and that one group who regularly lunched together decided that griping about him had become boring. They enforced the rule of a 25 cent fine per mention of his name. Then one day a regular walked in, through down a $5, and let go his rant.

[Edit: I'd have forgotten this long ago, except that I've worked with people who have that way of getting under one's skin.]
WhereShouldIDonate.com based on big data would be super useful. Rather than wading through political blog comments.
This - rewarding deviousness - troubled me about the system too.

Perhaps, instead of explicitly mentioning the Scholarship accounts on the homepage, there could be text along lines of "Struggling to get by and can't afford it? Email us and we'll see what we can do."
Not necessarily - it's quite possible that the kind of reasons that get a 'no hire' at this stage will show up consistently in this environment and consistently be a problem for employers.
> Micromanaging your team sucks.

So, Peak makes micromanaging easier?
This appears to be one of those situations when you need either:

A) A dumb old-school programmable thermostat

or

B) A Star Trek computer for the house, that understands people.
Yeah, he had a few minor incorrect details - the $q one was a big omission, it sounds like he never explored using $q.all, much less $q at all.

I think Angular's complexity can be daunting without someone who can help set you back on the right path when you're stumped. We (the regular denizens on IRC) do a pretty good job in #angularjs on Freenode helping people out when we can, but it's obviously whenever people can spare the time to answer questions. I am constantly helping people at work grasp how to think the Angular way, and it has resulted in my team being incredibly productive due to Angular's excellent upsides.

Regardless though, I think it's good that this article was written, even if a little prematurely. People should know both the upsides and downsides.
We shouldn't be encouraging idiot CEOs to do virtual shoulder-tapping. All the CEO's I've reported never needed to ask "Hey, so... how's it going..." because my team and I are delivering. Constantly. More than expected. Every single time. Isn't this the way it should be?
I never understood this pessimistic sentiment. It's just more data. Of course when evaluating the data you get, you have to consider the context -- people work on all kinds of things that may or may not be measured. Without it you don't have those metrics anyways.
This seems like such a huge win, I'm it's not more common with other compile to js languages.
Look at one of those voting record things from ACLU, CATO or a number of liberty oriented orgs.
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Access to firearms may play some part, but the rates of death due to firearm injury is high in the South which has relatively low suicide rates.

Perhaps religious/cultural attitudes play a part? That wouldn't account for Utah though.
How do you account for illnesses / Old age / injuries / a reasonable setup for your children etc. on this forest living?

The main problem with romanticizing the unabomber life style is what it misses: All the benefits of regular society. I would rather be inclined to a good pitch for smaller footprint living (Make X money - live on it for the rest of your life doing OSS / charity).
Jebson CMS
A content management system based on static files aimed at ease of use and swift load times.
Sounds like it has some similarities to what Automattic does -- http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ -- Though of course being a remote work company Automattic can implement it quite differently, and probably more fairly (remote work is much easier to fit into a current job more seamlessly, and if needs be, more secretly).
I come from a "relatively" poor country with very poor musicians. A country where many national celebrities probably do not make the equivalent of what an engineer makes in San Francisco. However I am sure every last one of them can afford $19.99/year.
If that's true, the companies running "trial weeks" and other temp-to-perm arrangements should be able to quote the retention rate they have from these programs. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they hover around 95%, or in some cases even 100%.

But then, I'd respond to that by asking what temp-to-perm is actually buying you, in exchange for the expense of filtering your candidate pool down to people willing to do you a favor in the hottest seller's market for talent in 10 years.
You've obviously thought a lot about hiring practices. Do you think hiring for "culture fit" is always bad or do you think most companies have a poor interpretation of what a "culture fit" is?
It's a good idea. People don't want to think they can't afford it, so they will probably pay for it.

However, I think another pricing plan could be great :
It costs virtually 0/year, BUT, 50% of the first $40 of royalties are taken by the site, and the rest sent to the user. Thus the user can still see he is earning something from the first track sold.
At the end of the article they said they hired 66% of trial week candidates.
The candidate(s) who work for a competitor during their employment knowingly breach their existing contracts, get fired, and continue to undergo Weebly's trial week.
?

I'm using net income, Samsung has 9.6 operating profit. Why are you showing an article from last quarter?
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250k items is not enough for your history file?

Also, fish shares the history between the shells out of the box, unlike zsh... but it chose to do it in a different way (that is, commands are available even if one of the shells hasn't been closed, unlike bash... but they aren't available right away after entering a single new command, like most zsh configurations that I've seen)
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> Since she was just reelected and there's no recall procedure, we're stuck with her-- but we could get her off the intel committee with just a Senate resolution.

"Just a Senate resolution". So you only need to get a filibuster-proof supermajority of the Senate to agree.

> Feinstein has a faulty understanding of the Constitution and seems pro-elite and authoritarian.

Neither "pro-elite" nor "authoritarian" are likely viewed as a problem by other Senators.

> I'm a constituent of hers and want to start a campaign, but have never done this before.

It'd probably be easier to convince Feinstein to change her ways or resign than to get her off the intel committee (and I'm not saying either of the former options is easy.)
I've heard about another company offering this to engineers and sales people. As far as I remember both individuals had kids and turned it down, but I don't think the company offered compensation. I assume if you really want the job, you'd do it.
I found Angular to be overly complex and couldn't imagine training a team to learn to use it in reasonable time. That's the scariest part of adopting Angular for me. How would other coworkers adapt to the API and how long would it take for them to use it?

The documentation was o.k at best, but I find that isn't the core issue. If you take a look at http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/concepts, it takes a very long time to completely understand what's happening under the covers.

I'm definitely looking for alternatives.
I was actually wondering how to detection works.

Just checking if all users have the same email domain name (with the exception of a white list such as gmail, hotmail, etc.)?

Or flagging users that are using mailinator/5minutemail/whatever?
The west virginia->smoking->nicotine->no parkinsons link seems apparent. High lung disease though.
This is a great point. I like the idea of trial week but I think it's a non-starter for people who are already employed.
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I think the danger is that you might displace intrinsic motivation (pride in good work) with extrinsic motivation (doin' it for the Woos).

It's the same problem as with employee of the month awards, Dance Mom pyramids etc.

Also: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html

("doin' it for the Woos" T-Shirts available at CafePress soon :) )