skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, why disparage things? It never works in your favour, and the catharsis is never worth the ricochet factor.
You're right and wrong.

The issue here is that one of the core competencies of the US war machine is our air superiority, which has reigned completely since around 1943. Naval superiority is really a variant of this, as the surface Navy doesn't exist without a dominant air arm.

Just the notion that we are approaching a level of corruption and decline where we're shutting down our ability to dominate the military manned aircraft space in the next decade is just plain disturbing.
No disparagement clauses are a lot like non-compete clauses. I would never sign one, but at the same time, I am reluctant to speak poorly of a former employer or to go into direct competition with former colleagues.

I want the right to do those things, but I don't actually want to do them.

Now of course, they always say, "Yeah, maybe not you, but somebody." To which I say, "That's why you took so long to check my references before hiring me. I'm no longer somebody. And if it mattered that much, you should have put it in the employment agreement so that I could have declined the job before taking it."

The only people who should feel morally compelled to sign no-disparagement clauses before accepting severance are people who are being fired for leaking confidential information on the job.
One more ruby framework that might be interesting to test would be grape. https://github.com/intridea/grape Thanks for the work you've done with bench-micro. I was not aware of all of those frameworks.
It seems to me like he would have quickly signed the agreement if it were, say, for 3 months salary.

So his "I'll keep my self respect" morality argument seems a little weak.

Like the joke goes, "We've already established what you are, now we're just negotiating your rates...".
> Your former employer (and anyone else you have done significant business with) can always find some flimsy basis for a lawsuit that will cost you several dozens of sleepless nights and $10k-$20k in lawyers fees, before it is thrown out by the judge.

I think this actually cuts both ways, since companies usually have deep pockets and are responsible to investors. This is the only reason companies offer severance in the first place -- it's cheaper than dealing with the lawsuits.
I believe that people is starting to get sick of this over-narcisistic trend in blogging where you imply that you are a genious because you cracked X secret of life and you are going to share it with the less enlightened masses. Its going to backfire unless you provide a truly genius or novel insight.
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Is this why Skunk Works announced they're 5 years away from practical fusion? Is Lockheed Martin looking to make up their revenue shortages by switching from the DoD to the DOE?
With all due respect I can absolutely see why many people would no longer be interested in your opinions after such a self-centered post. This might be the path to achieving something big, but it also the path to loneliness. If you can't take off for even 15 minutes at a meal to talk about what's important for your family, then you can't expect them to really care about your work either.

"At dinner, have a great meal with your loving ones and tell them what’s going on with work."

I can only think what Freud might. They might be loving but they're not loved and they won't be loving for long.

It is the content that might disturb folks, not your English. That you don't perceive this might be part of the problem.
Good catch. T-Mobile's JUMP is twice a year, plus you can upgrade a lost or damaged phone (http://www.t-mobile.com/phone-upgrade.html).
Personally, I would sign it, and then if I felt I had something negative to say and wanted to say it publicly, I would return the money.

Also, could you use ASL to communicate your feelings about the company, since that is neither oral or written?
Have always been curious about setting up an ISP. Especially so recently. I have been unsuccessful finding much information, though I haven't tried as hard as I probably could. Anyone have any good links?
I suppose pretty much everybody is against mass surveillance, academics or not. But what choice do we have? I think the problem is that we don't really live in democracies. It's not only mass surveillance, but also wars, inequalities and so on...
cotap could not be more annoying.
How else could you do it? Tax only the people in favor of infrastructure improvements and prevent everyone else from using them? Only arrest people using recreational drugs if they voted against legalization?
Hmm... Adds up in head Yep, I lowballed it!

Definitely agreed - and as an analogy, it works.
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Wow! I didn't know that, I've always thought it was written in Perl.
Ask HN: Got a prototype, what's next?
Hi HN community.
I've just recently built a cool working prototype of an idea. I want to take it to the next level. I'm already late for submission to ycombinator winter funding cycle, but I do not want to wait until the next round -- time is precious. So, what should I do? Should I just pick a phone and start randomly calling VC firms? I'm not sure it would lead to a desired results. I'm fairly new to the world of VC funding, and would like to avoid some common pitfalls. Anybody has a practical advice of the next steps?
http://theweathertron.com/

Done with (IIRC) PhoneGap, AngularJS and ClojureScript. The actual utility as a weather app is debatable (I like it), but the UI is beautiful and responsive, especially considering it's PhoneGap!
If the US would just stop procuring "perfect" aircraft that are all things to all men, the aircraft might just be cheap enough that we could afford to buy them. As it is we end up in a cycle of funding too-expensive aircraft with never-before combined features, fail expensively and require an even more ambitious program to fill the gap. A great recipe for the industrial complex that feeds off this cycle, but not so great for our defensive capabilities or our budget.

To be honest, right now, I couldn't give a damn if we didn't buy any more toys for the damn armed forces to play with. We already nearly outspend the rest of the world combined and it isn't enough? Give me a break.
Make sure you include a few vanilla porn pics and only slightly embarrassing drunken party photos. If they don't find some evidence of vice, they will suspect it was just staged data, and they might keep digging.
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It seems strange that they talk about 2.3% raises. 2.3% may be the mean, but it's probably not the median or mode.

Very few people actually get 2.3% raises. The good people do a lot better. The less skilled folks get downsized, replaced with cheaper resources and forced to get pay cuts.
Breaking up the state might provide more representation on the federal level. I disagree that it would be better. Also, I don't know if anyone has considered this but, nothing is stopping California from creating six separate localities with their own "governors" and laws under the California umbrella (sort of like mini states within the state).
It's reasonable to suggest that certain folk have a greater capacity to work longer before burnout. However, that choice will always come at a cost, depending on your current position in life. If you are a young single individual this may work for you well and you may get ahead to a certain extent, at the expense of other fruitful activities that would enrich your youth and allow to develop into a well rounded individual. If you are married and have a family, chances are your lifestyle will seriously impact your family life.

The other point to consider is that work longer does not mean working smarter. I would chose the latter, and I personally work hard at finding ways to be smarter at what I do without working 15 hour days. I also believe that outside activities, other hobbies, socializing provides less obvious but valuable benefits to your skill.
I remembering being told something very similar about university. But I got the degree and it was nothing to me. Achieving hard things is not innately rewarding, at least not for everyone. Maybe it's rewarding if your goal is meaningful, but how many people honestly have meaningful jobs? Wiring in another CRUD app? Shoot me now.

If people enjoyed their work that much, they wouldn't probably need you to advise them to do it. For someone who's struggling with their work life balance, it's far from clear that 'Work more!' is the answer to their happiness.

I know that, before I started only seriously coding a few hours a day and taking three day weekends, and spending the rest of the time on less focused stuff like meetings and planning and mentoring our newbies (favourite work-related activity), I basically had to take a long break from working every couple of years just to recuperate; get my mental ducks in a line, do some stuff that has nothing to do with work. Something I worry that you may not realise is that, for some people, focus and creativity are finite resources.

What fuels those resources? Well, it seems to vary. Among other things, I enjoy swimming, reading fan-fiction of varying quality, and martial arts. I don't think I could function as a programmer if I didn't do those things.

There was a time - back with the open-plan office coincidentally - when I didn't. When I was just getting into programming and it was all work work work. Sure, I'll pull the weekend, sure I'll help with this. I just wanted to make people happy.

Eventually I noticed I was tired all the time, and my creativity and all the fun ideas I used to have just weren't there for me any more. I even stopped dreaming, and feeling emotionally connected to people. Not in a metaphorical sense, I was just so mentally knackered that I went to sleep and woke up in the morning with the impression no time had passed and not even a fleeting image of what I'd been dreaming. People would smile at me and it didn't make me feel happy any more.

Would the answer for me really have been to work more?

Your advice may be very good for some people, but in so far as you don't know everyone, it's probably a bit risky in terms of how people are going to respond to tell everyone to do it.

Would I have unsubscribed? No, not if I found what you were saying in other respects worthwhile - I understand that you probably just want to help people and that's a nice thing, so I'd go with the benefit of the doubt rather than the content of the post. (Like when someone wishes me Merry Christmas - so what if I'm not a Christian? They want me to be happy, so Merry Christmas too!) But not everyone's going to see it like that, and writing it as more like, "What I've found make me happy at the moment." Potentially offers less that someone might take offence to if it's harder to read it as a statement about how you think they should live their lives. ^_^
Let's say you sign such an exit clause and get paid your 2 weeks hush money. What's to stop the company blaming some performance or missed target on a project on you afterwards, possibly even publicly. And then you're not allowed to respond.

I have never signed a clause like this in a start/end employment contract nor will I ever.

If a company doesn't want to be spoken ill of, don't do ill. If the only way a company can keep its employees/former employees from speaking true ills of them is to contractually obligate them not to, that's not a company worth giving the time of day to.
The lessons you learned then are the ones I'm learning now.
> Small warehouses in big cities still cost a lot of money. Land is expensive in big cities, and even small warehouses are pretty large.

They don't have to be downtown.

Regardless, you're thinking about this the wrong way. As a service that must serve everyone and deliver everything instead of as an opportunistic service, which is a smarter way to approach the problem from a business perspective.

Amazon already has warehouses, fulfillment centers, in several major metro areas.

Let me state that again, because it's hugely important. Amazon already has warehouses in some cities. They have to have their FCs somewhere, and the places where they are, like Seattle, already have a comparative advantage when it comes to fulfillment of commonly stocked items.

This changes the problem dramatically. It transforms it from: buy high priced land in major cities, build FCs there, set up drone operations; to: set up drone operations in a few cities where you already have large, well stocked warehouses, and then pilot the program opportunistically in those cities. Then expand the program to other cities depending on how successful and profitable the pilot program turns out to be.

This is business 101, you leverage what you've already got to mitigate risk and reduce development and acquisition costs.
Because that would include non-argument locals, if you have any.
Keep in mind that this is two different US companies fighting against each other (Boeing and Lockheed).

With regards to the 'cult' -- there are plenty of reasons that cults put thinkers and doers behind bars. They don't like all that messy fact-based thinking, and they don't like competition for hearts and minds.

I can reuse your argument. The CIA has no reason to bring an Islamic state to Turkey. That means the cult made these arrests on their own.
It's not about me; it's about everyone seeing it.
Their main page (ffdn.org) has this description:

Members of the FDN Federation are Non-Profit Internet Service Providers sharing common values: volunteer-based, solidarity-driven, democratic and non-profit working; defense and promotion of Net neutrality.
Adopting a sane electoral system (i.e., not FPTP in single-member districts) will do that. Breaking the state up will not in any significant way do that.
My memory is fuzzy, but I think it happened around iOS 5.
A good part of DIY ISP don't have customers, they have users, it's a major difference, they are made by the people for the people.

It really depends on the country where you want to do that, but, generally, it's hard and expensive to setup a traditional (think *DSL, FTTH) ISP.
Ford’s new concept teases upcoming solar powered cars
What's interesting is that in the early days of the jet age, fast protyping and testing was the norm when designing new aircraft.

The dozens of experimental planes from that age are fascinating stuff.
A nice interview to finish out a not so nice week on the subject of women coders. I love how, although she has a successful career outside of CS, she still goes home and hacks on apps that scratch her own itches. Note that she confirms pg's position somewhat since she has been coding since the age of 13.
The shocker for me was seeing that MySQL-python didn't support v3. And I recall all sorts of problems getting IPython 3 running in Emacs alongside the system version of Python 2. Porting a library to v3 was more than I was willing to bite off and a brand-new user when I had a customer deadline approaching.
So what happens when I sign and still rant about the company. Say on my blog. The company is already struggling financially it will cost them to fight back.
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Bah! The termination agreement is just a bunch boilerplate legalese cover your ass bullshit, really. So sign it and take the severance check, then go say whatever you want anyway. It's very unlikely that a company that can't afford its current staff will then spend time and money with lawyers just to smack you around for saying mean things about them.
Utility is overrated. Personally I find this stuff fascinating.
So, labor is a new concept to you?
Do MacBooks have the option to password protect the BIOS?
Exactly this. If it's "no big deal" then ex it out of the agreement. Oh? You won't? Then I guess it is a big deal after all.
The web page was very pretty, but I still have no idea what this is/does. Help?
You could do it the way it is done now. Geographically.
Get out of the building and go talk to your customers. Learn how it does or doesn't solve their problem, go home, improve your prototype and repeat. By the time you can enroll for the next YC batch hopefully you can already show some real numbers.
Can you clarify what the 'obvious reasons' are, for those who are not domain experts?
That autonomously phones home so they don't even have to borrow your laptop next time you fly in order to dump the data.
Well, to be fair, given people like you, that's really no surprise. That's not to save that they necessarily do not deserve it.
You don't know what fingerpainting is :(

Re: Social safety net:

That's why child support stops after the child turns three? (that's a joke for those who don't know it continues to 18)
Ahaha
Good example to make your point.
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No books for you: U.S. starves public domain for another year
The NSA is building a quantum computer to break all encryptions
Yes. We must preserve diversity... by crushing it under a single government. Power to the people... the people in Sacramento, am I right?

Keep on trying to control the frame ("weird rich kids", "embarrassment", "hearts and minds"). We've reached peak centralization. The future is decentralization, subsidiary, and localized control.
You can also do some interesting design work in Powerpoint. Change the slide size to something bigger and screen shaped, toss down a rough sketch of a page on a slide. You can even hyperlink buttons and objects on the slide to go to other slides to simulate partial flows through the interface. Use animations for things sliding/fading in-out, etc. triggered by mouse events.
I've always thought that "good design" has nothing to do with software. As in you'll have to nail the art elsewhere, then bring those lessons to your software.
>I'm not sure how that couldn't be an argument to break up all the large states

It might be worth considering some kind of population density clause for when the number of constituents to representatives reaches a ridiculous value.

>You should instead get the congress to move over to a parliamentary system where all percentages of votes are counted instead of a plurality takes all.

This kind of a fix isn't pragmatic and will have a bigger disruption than breaking up one state. It's not like the geography is going to change because the lines are redrawn.

>And then you will not be breaking up my home state with these outsider ideas.

Have you considered whether other residents of the state share your view? Maybe the larger metropolitan areas are alright keeping around the sparser rural areas, but not the inverse?
I'm going to start a cool new service called "iwillclickit.com". You can sign up for youraccount@iwillclickit.com, and then for any email that account receives with a link, I'll click it. And maybe charge $5.
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I'm pretty sure that it will increase your credit limit and make your junk bigger--at least if it is anything like Hacker News.

After a HN karma of 2000, for example, I started getting hit on by VCs of the preferred sex and gender at bars in my city. At 4000, I no longer needed to wear glasses. At 7500, my deadlift went up 300 lbs.

Currently at over 9000, well...I don't want to brag, but I've been to some parties with some people who, you know, well, your eyes would just bug out.
> and most people reading HN (in fact, most people working at startups in general) are likely to be employed at-will

I'm not so sure about that. While Silicon Valley particularly, and the US in general, has a disproportionate number of high tech startups, you also have some of the weakest workers rights in the world, and while I don't know the exact demographics of HN, I'm not so sure it is that focused around California.

Pretty much all of Europe, with a population of about 800 million, for example, have protections that are vastly stronger. A substantial majority of countries have 1-3 months notice periods that are hard or impossible to get around, in some cases with a legal right to actually continue to show up to work and carry out the contracted work during that period even if your employer would like to pay you to stay away.
Looks like you are correct [1] - this was not the case last time I checked. Thanks!

Any others?

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-runtimes
Great idea! Including Obj-C would be very helpful.
That is definitely one of the reason for http://www.diyisp.org to be setup right now. The idea would be to have a sort of http://hackerspaces.org (one stop website for hackerspaces around the world) to facilitate discovery and spreading of useful information.
I know, and I love Ralfy's reviews. Can't say my palette is up to his level, but luckily, practicing is fun.
I don't see a false hit.

What's wrong?

What's disparaging?

If you've done nothing wrong, you have no reason to fear being searched for something wrong.

If you've nothing disparaging to say, you have no reason not to agree to a non-disparagement clause.

I don't see how unreasonable search and seizure or whether the employer is monopolistic or not even enter into this.
Try observing other people's work and emulating it into your own compositions. Deconstruct what they did ant try to understand what they were thinking of when they did it. That's a good way to improve.
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BlackBerry sues Ryan Seacrest's Typo over iPhone keyboard case
So can someone setup a service that auto-replies and we all use that email address?