skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's well-known in startup circles that companies provide food/soda/beer to their developers in the hope that they'll work harder.
I invite you to apply the same sort of forensic analysis to the EFF article and then tell me with a straight face that it isn't awash in FUD.
It was time to leave, and the HR lady came to me and said I would have to sign a release letter and send it back within 2 work days (the following Monday was a holiday), otherwise I would not get any of the remaining pay, including my “stock options”. Apparently instead of full-time as stated in my offer letter, I was a “Contractor” and that the agreement was “terminated”. I guess that’s to protect them somehow. And the “stock options” that she said I would be paid amounted to $0 (as expected).

Based on the quotations around "stock options", the fact that the HR lady brought up the topic, not the author, and that the author adds "$0 (as expected)", it seems pretty clear that the author was not expecting, nor feeling entitled to any stock option compensation.
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It's not very uncommon in newly funded startups despite common belief.
It's like giving a kid a box of candy, they'll surely eat it all. Inexperienced founders would likely allocated resources for roles that they don't have a need for.
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Rebooting works as well, as does the usual shell updating.

$ sudo defaults write /Library/Mail/Bundles/GPGMail.mailbundle/Contents/Info.plist SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add "$(grep -A 1 "PluginCompatibilityUUID" /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep string | cut -f 2 -d ">" | cut -f 1 -d "<")"

$ sudo chmod 644 /Library/Mail/Bundles/GPGMail.mailbundle/Contents/Info.plist

The issue is that each version of Mail checks the available plugins for an explicit PluginCompatibilityUUID, which changes with each build. GPGTools 2 has updated its list on reboot (and install) since the beta stages, so if you're on a recent version, you should be good.
"But the solipsist has no reason to believe this as the other people don't exist outside of his own mind therefore he is not like them."

Except the solipsist is also unsure he exists outside of his own mind too, so why would he believe he is the sole exception to everything he's observed in the only reality he can be sure of?
What I'm saying is that the online version of Office is both free and will run in a browser on your Mac. In my opinion at least, the web-based Office 2013 apps make Google Docs look like a toy - especially if you need to interop with native Office documents.
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Nice idea (and having written an IMAP service, ugh, the spec is so bad...) But, remember: they have zero incentive for you to use a mail client. They WANT you use the web client, so they can sell you for advertising.
I built these free tools to monitor the web
Right.

It's a plausibly deniable cheerleading article for the Obama administration with almost no real content other than the fact that negotations are in progress.
Sure, the issue isn't so much the mechanics of jumping from one pool to another, it's just pools have a way of gauging exactly how much work you're doing for them.

You can't know ahead of time which pool to bet on, unless you know that the ES pool is ahead. There's nothing guaranteeing that pool miners are decentralized, in fact by design they would have to be centralized to keep completed blocks private.

If they were public they could be neutered by one rouge agent in the pool that immediately publishes completed blocks. So you have no way of knowing how far ahead an ES mining pool is. So on what grounds could you decide which pool to help?
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Walk a mile in their shoes, sometimes it's illogical that the offending party would not be disclosed.

However, most of the time it'd make perfect sense for OP.
This is a good point. I've never managed more than 15 people so I can only speculate, but it seems that the proverbial fish rots from the head (I'm sure I'll learn many painful lessons when it's time to grow).

The startup described by the OP is smaller than our company, and they already have this problem. If we were large enough to need middle management, I would be absolutely paranoid about hiring good people that understand management. There is a lot of culture around hiring good engineers and sneering at management, but it seems to me that hiring good managers is an order of magnitude more important. A bad engineering hire can be a very expensive mistake, but a bad management hire can be absolutely devastating. They can derail their own team, and a few other teams they interface with.

If I had a really insecure/misguided manager like that reporting to me, I cannot imagine not noticing. Here's one simple trick to do that -- have occasional one on ones with their reports. Most people won't necessarily say anything bad about their manager directly, but you can quickly gauge people's sensibility in what they don't say. It's like doing reference calls on hires. Few people will say "this guy wasn't good" but there is an enormous difference between references who say "this guy was ok" and "this guy was spectacular". You can sense it very quickly if you're looking out for it.
You said they weren't cheap. In this case, they were.
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The article makes the same points, but that doesn't change Google's positioning of the product. This is the "Google phone". It says so on the front of the blue box packaging. It says so in the Kit Kat OS we've waited so long for. To have to wait for some future Google Now/OS update to support background use of "OK Google" in such an otherwise well-thought out device... It's a bit irritating.

And the camera could be fixed with software but... see above.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great phone, but I'll be trying the iPhone 6 next and I'm looking at Wi-Fi enabled photo cameras for the interim.
Is this kind of like Conway's game of life?
I wish I could upvote multiple times.
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The end-product doesn't technically exist yet - it's still in "development" according to their most recent blog post.

http://blog.soylent.me/post/65760097009/as-mentioned-in-the-...
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If you read between the lines, it's clear the methodology used to extrapolate this data is shaky at best, and borders on "you've never taken a statistics class in your life" at worse.

Complete garbage... Favorite snippets:
" The paper further cautions that reliable depression surveys don’t even exist for some low-income countries -- a common issue with global studies -- forcing the researchers to come up with their own estimates based on statistical regression models."

My interpretation:
"There was no data so we guessed".

Terrible.
Good to see it's still alive. I learned immensely about Linux by using it during the 00's.
From the original article.

"When the PS3 launched, according to most estimates, Sony controlled about 70 percent of the console market. Seven years later, it’s on even terms with Microsoft, whose Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 in the U.S. for 32 consecutive months."

Going from 70% to "even" with Microsoft seems like a non-win?
American infrastructure is creaking. There's lots that can absorb resources. (Though probably not in a very short time, it takes a while to get projects shovel-ready.)
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That graph is incredible. I had no idea holidays mattered so much. They may as well be the reason the industry exists.
> will always [...] will always [...] will always

Can't we hope a bit that on HN a little of auto education is possible?
What in the world is going on in the Netherlands? Why is this country such an anomaly in terms of reported depression rates?
Soylent has been consumed safely and is sourced from known safe ingredients. Early adopters validate the use cases for a product. They are willing to take risks to receive some benefit.
And the labour-theory (or labour-definition) of value is not all that useful.
Automatically organizing all the mixed up files in my folders, namely: Desktop, Downloads and Documents.

Currently working on a command-line client that can organize all photos, videos, pdfs, zip files, installers at their proper places.
50x trailing revenue... This is terrifying. When was the last time we've seen valuations at 50x revenue for a $1bn+ company?
First I will note that Sony hardware has reputedly never been easy to develop for, so the PS3 wasn't anything new there.

Second, you state while they can drop prices and relax controls, it may be difficult to make their console more powerful. We still don't know how the dice will land in this regard. Microsoft managed higher-than-expected frequency yield, and nobody knows where Sony's chip sits. It also remains to be seen how the SRAM vs GDDR5 plays out.
> and I'm sure Tesla's engineers are working overtime trying to figure out a solution.

What could the solution possibly be? Puncture the battery and it catches fire, and the battery covers almost the entire bottom of the car. Practically speaking there's only so much steel you can put on the bottom of the car.

It seems that Model S spreading the battery across the bottom of the car may simply be a defective design.
Godaddy signs with a low exponent (3), so you might find you have to lower the security on your app server (like we had to on weblogic)
I took "similar accidents" to mean "collisions with road debris", because that's what triggered both Tesla fires reported in the US.
Small tech companies use stock data center photography all of the time. It's usually kind of tacky honestly, but is it really that different?
Anyone have a link to details?

...or is this just an 'up vote because I want it to be true rather than that the article contains any meaningful information' things?

edit: nevermind, found it http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130813/ncomms3336/full/nco...
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That little comment is a life saver.

I've noticed that Outlook, particularly 2007+, will play nicely with CSS so long as your styles are only applied to table elements. Put some padding on a 'p' tag and you won't see anything happen.

Likewise mobile gmail on a phone browser will not render a responsive email. Not sure if ZURB has given that any attention or if they intended to focus on the rendering of native clients.
I've always thought that's a sketchy claim. The market would have sufficient liquidity without the bots.

More importantly, they're a huge waste of resources that produces nothing of economic value.
I love the fact that this site, the video, the whole thing appears to be entirely a spoof -- but it's just not.
Spending years as a short term on site contractor I've picked up one question I find invaluable. I always ask "what are the pain points you have to deal with"

I've asked it so often and been in so many different teams I can more or less tell what the working environment and management will be like now.

Generally they aren't expecting this question so you catch them flat footed and get a clear unfiltered emotional response. The emotion on there faces betrays them. Every team has pain points, they have to answer the question with something negative, but its how they react with them that gives away a lot about the work place.

From a good teams you'll get a chuckle or story, which indicates to me a culture of understanding and dealing with things sensibly. Sometimes just a smile followed by a negative statement like "well releasing is problematic". But its that initial positive reaction.

From bad teams I've seen panicked looks between interviewers to make sure they don't divulge something, people turning white/clammy/sweaty, refusals to answer/insisting to move on/changing topics, silent stars at me LOL anything thats not openly a positive emotion.
I would say that the title is slightly misleading. The map and article clearly say that is clinically diagnosed depression, but that is not clear from the title. By leaving out "clinically diagnosed" the title makes the article feel like it has a stronger claim.
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How else would you suggest designing an email? Plain text? Clients aren't just going to be like..."yeah, we don't want any images, or buttons, or fancy designs"...

I swear all the devs on HN work in product.
It's difficult to do better than xkcd in bursting these sorts of arguments so succinctly: http://xkcd.com/1232/

The fact is that the tradeoffs between important endeavors (like feeding the hungry and exploring the universe) are not as simple as people make out. To a certain extent there is a justification to do "useless" things even at the cost of "critical necessities". Should people stop pursuing art, music, philosophy, etc. in times of crisis? Certainly there are extremely hard times when you absolutely can't afford to do anything but concentrate on survival, but such times are rare. The world is never going to be perfect, but we can't let that stop us from making the world better, in every way. By pursuing science and art, and so on.

Moreover, by investing in R&D and by advancing technology we frequently gain more than we spend. Consider, for example, the invention of the automobile. Originally a toy for the rich, today they help vastly increase the yield and efficiency of crops, and help to feed the poor.

Imagine where we'd be if in the year 1200 the entire world had decided that it could not in good conscience pursue advancements in science or the arts until everyone in the world was no longer in danger of going hungry. We would still be in the middle ages, and there would be very much fewer people who were well fed.

In the specific case of India, their investment in spaceflight technology is likely to bring them returns far in excess of the cost of this mission. Both in improvements to their industrial/technological base as well as in bringing new business for their growing aerospace industry.
I'd also argue that a library developed and used by Stripe is pretty commercial grade too.
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I imagine the slogan is something like, "Reduce > reuse > recycle > compost."

Just because PLA biodegrades doesn't make it more environmentally friendly than other sources of reusable underwear that also biodegrades....

Printing durable textiles at home sure would be cool, though.
Oh wow, I remember reading this years ago, but it's still surprisingly relevant (took the words from me :) ).
So, I came across this today, and my first throught was that HN would probably like it. My second thought was "Oh wait, that's me 2 years ago."
Lol, that looks exactly the same to me!
Wikipedia tries to be precise. For simplicity, you can look at the simple.wikipedia.org pages when available. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque vs https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque . Most people aren't aware of this.
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Or he expected them to screw him.
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Speaking of not all that useful...
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That the text and all associated material must remain secret for four years after the negotiations have ended (whether successful or not) shows the level of trust negotiators have in engaging with an informed democracy.

^ not actually true. The final text would most certainly be public; you're probably referring to an agreement to keep negotiating documents secret for a 4 year period as described here (by an organization opposed to that approach): http://www.citizen.org/documents/us-transparency-letter-2011...

I'm actually in favor of this approach. WTO negotiations involves full transparency, as mentioned in the letter above; it's also true that the WTO has been unable to reach agreement on what's known as the 'Doha round' for almost 13 years now. There are multiple reasons why that might or might not have happened, but the upshot is that trade liberalization has been stalled for over a decade. If negotiations out of the spotlight increase the parties' willingness to conclude a more limited and offer that for ratification, I'm willing to put up with it. Most of you here seem to be assuming that this is the result of corporate secrecy; it seems as likely, if not more, so, to be at the request of the various countries involved in the negotiations.

Trying to guide discussion towards whether people are 'pro or anti trade' is risable misdirection or wilful ignorance at best.

It's interesting that you complain about this when I made no effort whatsoever to guide discussion in that direction. I called out the EFF article for being factually incorrect on its face and I stand by that. I mentioned elsewhere that I was personally pro-trade but uncertain about the TPP pending futher details.
I was trying to remember the rant you refer to as well. I vaguely recall the core being that Mark Crispin's[1] RFCs were internally inconsistent, such that it was impossible to implement a standards-compliant IMAP server.

Of course, UW-IMAP preceded the RFCs, so there was already a "reference implementation" against which other implementations could be compared and found wanting. Mark was especially obnoxious about protecting his view of IMAP.

This was a weird time at the UofW. We had a hypertext system (UWIN) that was a mess and HTTP was banned as a server technology. Run a webserver for any reason, and disusering was a very real threat. They may have allowed gopher, but it's been a while.

PINE, of course, came out of this, which wasn't too bad, as it inspired a number of decent successors.

Best of all, Ada was the pedagogical programming language for the computer science program. Fortunately, you never used it past the second-semester CS course.

[1] I just found out that he passed away late last year.
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The word 'responsive' has been sprayed all over these pages. I take it I'm supposed to read that word a certain way in this context, but I don't know how. Does it mean you can click things? Something more? Something else?
Slackware's strength is it's simplicity.
Makes it easy to understand what's going on.

This also makes it a great learning tool.

There used to be a saying: Install Redhat, you learn Redhat.
Install Debian, you learn Debian. Install Slackware, you learn Linux.
More armor.
It would compute If you explored a little further than the front page, or even carefully considered the meaning of "bedrock".

http://bedrocklinux.org/introduction.html#what_bedrock_does
Previous discussion of an asm.js fork: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709128
Why is that flag not persistent? It drives me crazy, along with the "store junk on server" flag. I'm tempted to write a user launchagent that just keeps setting the flag every minute.

I've filed radars against both of them but of course never hear back, as it's undoubtedly a dup.
Oh entropy always haunting us.
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It's an 'upvote to discover whether it's true.' Like a significant fraction of HN stories.
> let me challenge you to start any new article, or make any decent sized edit to any article

In essence this is a stupidity filter.

This has been mentioned many times before where other people have gone off topic to discuss this.
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Oh, sorry, I misunderstood the nature of risk you're describing. You referred to lack of maintenance by the previous owner, I thought you meant lack of maintenance on the vehicle while on the lease. A good mechanic would be able to at least quantify the risk level on a used car, it seems, with X-point test that most of "certified pre-owned" places conduct.
Their article is written with a clear purpose of inciting an outsized reaction and waking people from just accepting the status quo. That's what they do and that is exactly why people donate to them - to kickstart debate on issues such as this.

I fail to see why you would want to compare a statement from a well known activist foundation with a supposed journalistic editorial from a major newspaper. The two organizations have completely different purposes and missions.

When I think journalism, and NY Times specifically, I always hope to see integrity and a check on those in power. Unfortunately, in this case it looks like a mouthpiece for special interests...
It was a different world then, but the original PSX was pretty straightforward. A commodity MIPS processor, relatively straightforward vector and image co-processors. In particular Sony made a bet that ram prices would fall enough to make the console profitable long term and that bet payed out. To remember how much things have changed, the CDROM format was controversial then, but was a huge win for developers.

Bluntly, Sony got it right with the PSX in making it very approachable for developers. They messed that up with PS2 and they should have learned that then. Instead they doubled down on the same misguided approach with the PS3 to predictable results. I'm glad to see they're not going to make the same mistake again.

Source: I was a subcontractor on a PSX title years ago.
Yeah, first? I agree that "cultural fit" is bullshit; It's the result of people placing the comfort of working with people "like them" over actually getting things done.

however...

>I see it as a byproduct of capitalism, bosses will be bosses, and I've seen people trashed with 'fairness' as often as I have seen them trashed with non-conformity to whatever the ones in charge (or even the ones in the middle) care about.

I don't see how you relate it to capitalism. This is about valuing 'culture' over money; you are going to see it even more in a co-op or commune.

Now, you could say in capitalism, this "cultural fit" is more top-down, but I don't think it's any less ugly or destructive because it's coming from your peers.

I mean, that's what some people like; some people only want to deal with people who are like them. But it's not a profit-maximizing move.
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I don't know, because I don't use them that way. I used units in my example because everybody is used to seeing them but I'm regretting it now, because what I really use it for looks more like this:

type FirstName string
type LastName string
type SomeUniqueIdentifier uint32
type AnIdentifierInAnEntirelySeparateNamespace uint32

Usually I'm using it on types that I want to be fundamentally immiscible, like that, not units. The point is that I use the type system so that FirstName and LastName aren't just "string", and I can't cross up which thing gets passed to which function, ever, because the type system stops me. An error the compiler won't allow me to make at all is an error I can stop worrying about, and I have plenty to worry about. I can fit more useful things to worry about into my mental buffers if I don't have to carry around things the compiler can do not only as well as me, but better.
'Responsive' simply means that a layout adjusts itself to the size of the device/screen.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design
This is not going to work anywhere except the continental US due to latency, unless they manage to provision servers everywhere (to the cloud!)
You should do some A/B tests to confirm, but I but the pricing table at the bottom was a little confusing because the price was not highlighted in any way, and the call to action was round when it is typically a rectangle.
So you mean that the where-the-brackets guidelines found in core FOSS mega-projects, big corps like Google, down to many github personal projects having their own "please follow the guides" in the readme, all of them are misguided, useless, wrong and even, let'y say it, plain stupid?

I, on my side, claim that guidelines are there for a reason, and should be followed.