skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fired People need Help, Power and a Lobby.

>> Real story: I hated when I found out that I got presumably 2x more than other people and weren't allowed to tell them contractually. What I found out was that it was a lie and that some pet or favorite employees later or earlier got the same amount as I did. I don't like unfair payments even when I win! There are alternatives way of payment, like self-chosen salaries and collective efficiency based correction, but I don't know how such things are solved on a social level without causing anger and hatred. For example, I have a "friend", who is such a lazy ass, he would consider him smart for doing only what's necessary to get things done without doing actual work. That means finding ways to apply pre-made solution etc. and he hustles at every single job that you may have heard about. Yes he makes themes, IT-Stuff, changes your tires, washes your car, sells stuff on local classifieds ads, sets up stuff at events, works on your mc donalds and more. What would you do about such people? That guy would choose the highest possible salary for himself, his salary would get corrected by the employees based on performance, well if he doesn't try to social engineer his way up. You see, it's hard. I don't know a solution to fair payments to be honest. Do you?
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How big the sampling of that 10% is?
Yuck. This is the sort of thing that is nudging me from "I never ever want to work for EA" to "I no longer want to buy things from EA"
> Basically, I find the current dealership model's incentives to be largely mismatched to the actual needs of consumers.

Agreed... the current negotiation model seems guaranteed to ensure that the customer walks away feeling screwed. If you buy, there's always that lingering worry that there was money left on the table.
Regarding bug reports:

> Guaranteed reply within a day.

That seems difficult to achieve--wonder how they're doing that? (Also, why??)
Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes
> PHP is as secure as any other major language

Well this is patently false. You can find a significant difference in the vulnerabilities found with PHP interpreter and core libraries then you find with other languages.

It's not just that people program badly with it, it's a badly programmed language that sets users up to fail and even when they do program securely PHP itself is insecure.

Lets see how PHP compares....

PHP (348):
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/128/PHP-PHP.html?vendor_id...

Python (17):
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18230/Python-Python.html?v...
and also (20):
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/2147/Python-Software-Found...

Perl (20):
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/1885/Perl.html

Ruby (42):
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/12215/Ruby-lang-Ruby.html?...

And so on and so forth. The only thing that rivals it is Java.
The median American simply does not earn $48k/year with one salary.
I'll tell other engineers that two weeks' salary is a piddly amount for the company for you to surrender such rights

So it isn't worth just moving on with your career for, say, $3k (assuming a moderate $80k/yr salary)?

Seems like Internet bravado to me. I click okay on all sorts of terms of use agreements for my PS3 just to play some games.
100 Ways to Make 2014 Your Best Year
You seem to be promoting a recipe for burnout, and that's not a popular viewpoint on HN. Of course you need to work hard at anything to be successful, whether it's sports, art, or a startup, but you need to have balance. For example, after dinner I like to read Dr. Seuss to my 14 month old daughter rather than books about programming or startups. When she's asleep, my wife and I like to watch crime dramas on TV. I like that my work stays between business hours and after that, it's family time.
> I do hope it's something more interesting than simply "the universe should make my chosen lifestyle easier!"

That's all it is, as long as that lifestyle is staying home and having kids. Otherwise you're a selfish bitch and looked down upon.
To my knowledge Attia has never claimed a low-carb diet is right for everyone, rather quite the opposite.

> the world of online nutrition is a nasty and insane place

Attia would agree with you, and not just regarding online nutrition, but nutrition as a whole. He started NuSi [1] not to promote his low-carb lifestyle, but to promote independent nutritional research, since there's clearly something wrong with what we're doing now and the motivations of government- and industry-sponsored research are questionable at best.

[1] http://nusi.org/
What a misanalysis!

Those "top skills" closely mirror the size of the departments which are hiring for them. Of course "service desk" is in demand, they need a lot of people. Am I going to rush out and brush up on my call handling skills? Nope, I don't want to work on the service desk right now.

They could at least have looked at growth trends by area, rather than just size.
That sounds cool! Is there a way to automatically generate BDD style Tests?
Have a look at http://funkload.nuxeo.org/intro.html
So, no comparison against non North-American games. No soccer, no cricket, no Australian Rules, no Rugby (League or Union).

Given that over the past 50 years these sports have been driven by television audiences and the demands of broadcast TV, is it any surprise that they've converged to something broadly similar at the highest structural level?
> We overvalue people who have been "hacking since middle school"

Nothing specifically Dark Ages about this. I think that's true with many fields. It's the theme of the child prodigy. A painter, a violinist, an athelete would all be given special notice if the excelled at these skills at a young age. One would expect an excellent engineer to grow up playing with legos or building toy bridges.

Perhaps this is a practice that doesn't do us any good, and should be done away with, but it is not at all limited to programming.
This website was on HN awhile ago.

http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/

It gives pretty accurate information (within a $20-30 margin for me) and if a plan looks too expensive try calling the provider and getting a quote.
"Then again I've also been looking at and using Fossil for my projects because it's a single binary with no installer which makes it pretty cool in my opinion."

It actually relies on some configuration files in user's directory. I had troubles even launching it on a heavy-modified OS. I assumed it was a pretty simple and straightforward CLI tool that could work on bare-bone operating system. I was wrong!
Why does Microsoft claim I am using Windows when I'm on OS X?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't propose doing same-day delivery for all items that they sell. They proposed doing it for their most commonly sold items. So instead of needing huge warehouse holding all of their items in urban centers, they can keep those farther out and only put smaller warehouses holding a smaller selection of their most commonly sold items in the urban centers.
Probably because the post was incongruous with why they subscribed in the first place. 10% of what number? Which post gets you the most subscriptions?

Picking Sam Walton as a role-model of happiness is unsubstantiated -- he was definitely rich, so a better title might be: "If you want money, work more" -- which is essentially what you wrote.
Yes, they are blurred out though.

To be honest, it's a fairly good benchmark for whether or not you should be concerned with someone. If they are running across the field with a rock in their hands, chances are is that you don't have to worry about them shooting you in the face.

...Most of the time.
I am just a single guy. I always make a point to reply back to issues/pull-requests on my open source projects within 24hrs.

Yes, sometimes I fail to make it. But it's a rule I want to live by.
no need artificially manipulate the evolution of the job market

Interesting point, though I consider things like "stop being sexist assholes" not to be an artificial manipulation of the evolution market but just basic civilized behavior which benefits men and women alike.
PBS' Poisoner's Handbook is killer
PHP makes it easy to do easy things terribly, but makes it extremely difficult to do normal things well.
With a sample of 10 that makes sense. We have done over 150 PHP tests over the last couple of years and the average number of issues is higher than other technologies. What would account for that bias?
Implying that most Israeli employers give more?
But why? It's the same number in the end. Is my willingness to play this type of game worth $500 to the sales person?
That's actually not true. The medical profession went to great lengths to create special programs for women. Medical schools went to great lengths to equalize the number of men and women in their incoming classes. Medical schools were in fact some of the pioneers in affirmative action (the seminal Supreme Court Decision Regents of University of California v. Bakke involved a medical school).
I believe this emphatically proves the point that cryptocurrencies are not at all different from Chuck E. Cheese tokens.
Speaking from the perspective of someone who doesn't code in Python: I recently considered doing so for a scientific computing task at work but quickly ditched the notion. Python 3 seemed the recommended choice for a green-field project, but good luck getting anywhere with it due to poor library support. Want to access a MySQL database, generate 3-D graphics, or use someone else's code? Good luck with that! Python 3 may have been released five years ago, but uptake among developers appears negligible. So why not use v2.7? Several features in v3 looked appealing, and documentation makes it clear that v3 is the future. So I decided not to invest in a language that can't make up it's mind and stuck with R.
These "LOC/month" comparisons are pretty useless, because it depends on the programming language and the project. One can churn out loads of code in languages like Java and C#, whereas dynamically typed concise languages usually need less lines of code.
Some of these are actually viable, that's the important thing. They seem mainly aimed at the UK market (finally!) and I'm going to have a proper read through later and figure out if any of them affect me and how I can break into the market.
I agree its nice to do it that way. But I found that not all APIs use hypermedia format. So, I did it this way. :)
The stuff I agree too just to play video games, I'm surprised I still have legal rights sometimes...
No. There are plenty of people that say PHP itself is insecure.

They are right.

Sure anybody can write insecure code in any language, but PHP makes writing secure code much more difficult then other languages and even if you do write secure code the interpreter itself has a pretty terrible track record.
Kirkpatrick: Apple Could Shake Up Wearable Tech in 2014
That sixty minutes thing will surely be remembered as the best value for money in PR for 100 years.
I have a separate secret mailbox for them to use.

I get plenty of emails in my whois-listed mailbox that purport to be from my registrar. Guess how many are genuine.
Read your Standard Libraries
"Non-profit organizations like Code.org, backed by large corporations and small firms alike, are rallying for “computer science” to become a core subject..."

"The movement envisions to produce 9-to-5 code monkeys who can write loops and conditionals, but who do not have any passion or true understanding of their craft."

I think those are the only two points you need to draw a line to the conclusion that this movement aims to reduce the cost to businesses of employing coders. It's a marketing campaign stemming from companies' frustration at having to pay programmers well above the minimum wage.
"Thanks for your report. I will read it later."

Done.
What is printing software? I can Google '100 Dollar US Bill', download and print it.

I think you think printers work different than they do.
It's an educational experience for sure, and has some bearing on how we build software. Imagine using scrum to develop an F18. Or a heart monitor you strap to your wide to monitor your kid's heart beat during labour. How stable or even coherent would Excel be if it was built using eXtreme Programming?
Would you challenge that? I'm a bit out of my league here, but it seems like there are proportionally more black men in politics than white women. ("Disadvantaged" is a poor word for these stats; however, because it implies that white women are interested in being in politics, but these stats don't confirm/deny that.)
This is a great segue for the "pump and dump" scheme. Essentially you can create your own coin and mine it with your buddies. Then create a mini exchange for the coin and target the older, less tech savvy people - who won't be able to tell the difference between Bitcoins and a more obfuscated virtual currency. Basically you'll accumulate the virtual coins for free and sell them off for a profit. Maybe I'm missing something but it feels like all the ingredients are present.
Bitcoin in 2031
A Vibrating Watch That Messes With Your Perception of Time
While I agree in principle, opposing surveillance is like pissing into the wind. Privacy is becoming extinct. Soon devices and technologies will be impossible to regulate - specks of dust that record sound and location; recorders that stick to clothing, hair, skin; phones and tablets that come pre-infected in their OS and hardware.

We can oppose it, and maybe stave off for a few years, but inevitably we are all going under the microscope. Better to design new social mechanisms to protect against misuse of the data, than try and prevent its collection.
Even if you are in California, it's a good idea not to sign such a clause. You might think that CA 2870 would trump a signed agreement, but 2870(a)(1) might hurt your chance, especially with large companies like Google that have involved in many areas of technologies.

For reference, CA Code 2870: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
Damn, that's pretty awesome. Looks pretty legit too. Now to just decode every dogs' actions into what we "think" it means.
Can data be evil?
OP, do you have a family (e.g. significant other, kids)? The post reads a bit preachy. When I read this, I think: the only type of person who would recommend this lifestyle is an early 20-something male who doesn't have much else going in their lives. That may or may not be correct (and it shows as much about my own personal bias as it does about the post), and even if it is correct, that's not a bad thing since if that's the significant demographic that you might be aiming for.

However, if you have subscribers who have a life at home, with family, that they enjoy, or just enjoy hobbies that are not congruent with making a living, I can see why they felt alienated by this post.
If philosophy teaches you that ideas need to fit in one of binary opposite buckets, that sounds like an argument for not studying it.
I don't even see it as a nonsensical statement. Public healthcare does create a public interest in public health and a minor conflict with free society. But to extrapolate from that places with public health are slave societies where everything goes so stop complaining about freedom is the most annoying kind of extremist logic.

It's like listening to mullahs and rabbis talk about how since you are all a debaucherous bunch anyway with your shorts and music videos, surly you shouldn't be complaining about child molesters.
Regarding the dig at stack ranking: it's really just Yahoo now. Microsoft abandoned it 2 months ago. [1]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-s...
Worst. Idea. Ever.

Stop for a moment and think about what you're promoting: exactly the opposite of most HN readers's want: a work-centric life and an existence that's obsessed with more money, more knowledge, more power.
Thanks, that example makes the issue very clear.
I'm sorry, but that's just a false blaming statement and completely counterproductive to the conversation. There is absolutely zero evidence correlating LOC and productivity.

About the only time you could link LOC to productivity is in the very early stages of a project - where some type of visible progress is needed to plan for a possible feature set for the release.

Sarcastic statements are considered to be negative blaming statements. They don't help the conversation.
You may enjoy a book he wrote called CODE[0], which is one of my absolute favorites, but I doubt it will convince you to share his political opinions.

0: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
You can't train someone to be good at something they fundamentally don't want to do, and you can't train them to be passionate. I've been hacking since middle school, and I'm a terrible programmer, even after a couple dozen programming classes ranging from Visual Basic to C++. Anyone would be able to see this within five minutes of talking to me. Fortunately, programming isn't what I do for a living (at least not today). I'm much more interested in breaking things than building things.

The point is, if you want to understand how computers work, you'll put in the time and effort and experimentation that's required to learn that. And you'll be better for the experience. If you aren't comfortable experimenting with your computer, you won't have the experience of doing something really cool with it. You won't have the experience needed to understand at an innate level what is going on. I couldn't explain half of what I know about computers. It's just simple familiarity. It can't easily be taught except through trial and error and experience.

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, or give a man a fishing pole and let the man figure out how to fish on his own. Which one embodies the hacker spirit more?
http://fstoppers.com/photoshop-wont-let-you-work-with-images...
In his study of meaninglessness, Donald Crosby writes that the source of modern nihilism paradoxically stems from a commitment to honest intellectual openness. “Once set in motion, the process of questioning could come to but one end, the erosion of conviction and certitude and collapse into despair” (The Specter of the Absurd, 1988). When sincere inquiry is extended to moral convictions and social consensus, it can prove deadly, Crosby continues, promoting forces that ultimately destroy civilizations. Michael Novak’s recently revised The Experience of Nothingness (1968, 1998) tells a similar story. Both studies are responses to the existentialists’ gloomy findings from earlier in the century. And both optimistically discuss ways out of the abyss by focusing of the positive implications nothingness reveals, such as liberty, freedom, and creative possibilities. Novak, for example, describes how since WWII we have been working to “climb out of nihilism” on the way to building a new civilization.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/nihilism/
I think Written seems pretty cool. At least for what I do.. There's some other products out there that help brands and bloggers with syndication too like PublishThis. Would be interested to see how they differentiate?
The dual network + marketplace dynamic is amazing. They really took off in 2013.
Unfortunately, an app cannot be made `-568h` only. And -[UIImage imageWithName:] does not support `-568h` infix.
Huh, apparently I've already developed muscle memory for typing "2014". This is going to make writing certain powers of two difficult.
"Natural language designer" is a contradiction; one of the core defining properties of natural languages (like English) is that they are not designed.

You switched to "reformer" in your closing sentence, perhaps that was what you originally meant, too?

Of course, such a reform is not exactly easy to implement.
That may be true - "the present hacker zeitgeist" may disagree with my point of view. Today there's an emerging trend towards working less and spending more time with family and your hobbies (in some way, the newest book from 37signals supports that).

And, well, I don't disagree with that! Neither do I disagree in taking off some vacations, if that makes you feel better (and/or more productive).

But my point here is that we should strive to try to work on something that's aligned with our life goals - and those may include spending time with your family, traveling or building a charity. This way, work would have other meaning to us.
The industrial capacity is strategic. A large, well integrated fleet of F-22s with highly trained operators and support can ensure a war with a technologically advanced adversary doesn't start in the first place. Peace through superior firepower.

The cancellation of the F-22 program goes along with the strange idea that bombing brown people in far off places will continue to be the problem going forward.
The whole "clean eating" thing is mostly a fad. Nobody has managed to define what food is "clean" and what is not (see e.g. what the typical bodybuilder thinks is clean, and what someone doing paleo, what the average dietitian recommends, etc). The only important things are 1) the number of calories you eat, and 2) what nutrients your diet provides.

When I'm cutting, I don't make a fuss about "junk food", as long as I'm below my calorie intake limit and I'm not missing any important nutrient. Usually hovering around 20% junk food.
From a strategic sense, we would want to have (at least) 2 competing aircraft makers so that they compete against each other and innovations continue to be made. However, the cost of new aircraft is absurdly high, to the point where this might be unsustainable as a nation.

In a way, we have become victims of our own success. During the 1st and 2nd Gulf Wars, we lost very few aircraft. Mostly because of their superior technology and design, and ability to counter the threat of Iraqi defenses. In the future, we might face a more challenging opponent - either because they produced better air defense systems, or because we allow our aircraft to become obsolete.

Because our aircraft have been so good, it's tempting to mission-overload them. Build fewer, more-capable aircraft (or now, drones). But that increases the percentage loss of capability for each aircraft that is destroyed. Lose one plane out of two hundred, that's 0.5%. Lose one plane out of 50, that's a 2% reduction in airpower.

So it might make sense to build more planes/drones, each of which costs less (and is individually less capable), and run the assembly lines at a slower pace. The cost then becomes more predictable and more even over the years (no huge expenditures in one year, and nothing the next). It'd take longer to fully staff a squadron, but would also ensure that new aircraft enter service each year so that the entire force would be, on the average, fairly new.
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I would presume most people who are writing 3.x code have written 2.x code before, or don't care about 2.x. I personally have gotten used to the syntax that works in both, and tend to write my code in the most compatible manner possible.
Its not grains are bad for you - it is more like "over consumption of overly refined starches spiked with lots of sugar ingested 3 times a day could easily wreck havoc on your ability to regulate blood sugar and build up insulin resistance"
you're just another idiot with no kids preaching about life... you know NOTHING. the 90% of your remaining subscribers are also idiots. if you want happiness, stop being an idiot.
I tried for a while to use 2to3, but found it only worked about 95% of the time, which was enough to be really annoying. Personally I'm now just using python 3 where possible, but don't fancy the pain I imagine I'd get with 3to2.

Of course, I could very well be unfairly judging 3to2, but I don't have unlimited time and spent longer than I would like trying to get 2to3 to do what I wanted.