skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 7 years old, I distinctly remember telling my dad "I give you all my money" (my parents never had money, and had a few pretty rough periods). At the time I did not make the rationalization that the money was coming from him anyway, but I sure knew giving it to him meant I would not be able to buy my candies and stuff.

I also didn't really understand what his job meant, but I knew it was among the "stuff that needs to get done even if you don't like it and don't know why you have to", of which I had my own share (cleaning the room, etc).

It was never a (big) problem when he or my mom weren't around for reasons we didn't understand; what mattered was that when they were with us they were WITH US. Reading, telling stories or listening to ours, going hiking or playing sports, teaching maths or showing how to beat an egg.
Or it could be rephrased - effectively he is only working a four day week spread over five days. If he is to work a full five day week he will 'need' 25% in more pay.

The chances are that if he does move to somewhere else he will have to do the full 8 hours a day but his pay will be commensurate with that. Again, this could be explained like that rather than 'you pay badly'.

So it may work if the manager 'sees' him as only hired for a four day week. He can then make the case for paying him for five days a week in order to achieve certain objectives, e.g. meet deadlines.
Yes and this generates other tensions: those who fail the almost free higher education are totally left behind, with almost nochance to catch up (statistically speaking).
That's not the point. The management team is showing solidarity with their team by serving them in the only (more symbolic than economically valuable) ways that they can.

It's a symbolic (but real) sharing of the sacrifice, not a straight up bribe.

Same reason I've come in on Christmas night (we scheduled the work after the families are reasonably in bed, but the calendar still said "12/25") to spend time with my teams doing major site maintenance activities, or why I travelled with the team for a major as-the-ball-dropped New Year's Eve datacenter migration. It's not because I'm especially good at carrying servers or building SAN racks...

The engineers make the sacrifice because they believe it's necessary for the product/company to succeed. They feel better about it because their executives are physically present there with them rather than on a golf course or diving into their pools of gold coins...
I would just like to highlight the 'promoted comment' that showed up for me (not mine; the author is listed as 'theotherjim'):

> It's been almost 30 years since a colleague suggested to me that all the keyboard designers in the world - except one, any one - should be shot.
Looks like what we really need to do is to remove those universal permissions entirely, then. Say after some particular date, no new extensions or updates to existing ones are allowed unless they remove the universal permissions and switch to the site-specific ones.

Of course, then you need a solid extension update system where there's some way to alert the user of when an extension needs new permissions, and have them see and authorize them before the update goes active. Hopefully something like the way that Chome updates work now - instead of throwing a modal dialog at the user at some random time, have a tick or light in the UI somewhere that they need to do something.
Valve: The future of Virtual Reality is just one year away
Feminism in programming and everything-is-an-object
It is interesting to read this from Sten having heard him speak a few times about improving work relations between the US and Europe (ostensibly Estonia) while at Skype. Having spent significant time working at Nokia (and interacting with Finns, Estonians, and Germans) as well as living in Helsinki and Germany for a period of time, I usually found his prior discussions missing something -- but maybe I was coming at it from a different perspective than the typical Silicon Valley engineer. I will need to reread this.

Personally, I would like to hear more from entrepreneurs in Berlin, London, and Helsinki on how they view the interaction. Berlin is a current hotbed, Helsinki has a few more international startups, and London is english speaking and a tech center as well.

I'd like to see more interaction between the Valley and Europe with startups originating cross culturally. Build on the strengths of both regions and less of things like the Samwer brothers that basically copycat things.

Locally, there is certainly an echo chamber in the Valley. Lots of press/blog inches dedicated to social and the hip/popular startups in San Francisco. In other parts of the Valley (Fremont down to Almaden Valley) you have many startups working more internationally with components in Asia and Europe depending on their focus -- hardware, etc.
Java Primary Cause of 91 Percent of Attacks: Cisco
As an occasional (and increasingly frequent) long-form journalist, I'm not the least bit concerned here. Do we really expect that the most popular journalism in the 21st century will follow a function derived from an outdated form?

The 'Regional Dialect Map' was a piece of interactive software. It was interesting. It was engaging. It was sharable. It provided entertainment and, I'd argue, legitimate utility to people who took the two to three minutes to fill it out. It wasn't Pulitzer material, sure, but it was a far cry from one of those "One Weird Trick to Lose Bellyfat" spamvertorials.

Traditional journalism has a place in the modern world, but its form is going to evolve over time, and we shouldn't bemoan the inevitability. Everything is not turning into a "Which Star Wars Character Are You?" poll. Everything is not becoming a 132-character sound bite. Some things will. Maybe even most things. And other, newer things will come along. Many of those things will be useful, though they'll take forms that freak us out at first. That the NYT's most popular piece of content was something untraditional is not necessarily cause for alarm. If anything, this piece will be remembered, five to ten years from now, as the primitive ancestor of the much cooler and more engaging things that descended from it.
I believe that the layman resents someone who is either introduced or makes himself known to be an expert, without any empirical evidence pointing to that fact. What makes this "Tom Nichols" guy an expert in social sciences? Why is he considered that? Does he have any interesting views on the subject?

What this "death of expertise" has brought us is not a closing door into a world of knowledge, but rather an empowerment of common humanity, so that anyone has access to the same information that "experts" have.
He's clearly put a LOT of research into this and knows what he's talking about. For example, I do agree with him that everyone in Japan has a job.

One of my friends is Japanese and doesn't really have a job and lives in Internet Cafes. But it's definitely because he's been Americanized. For example his name is Kenji, but we called him Ken when he was in the US.
I'm surprised by the reaction -- I thought more people would be in support of this.

Since I'm from the U.S., I'm curious what the attitude is around the world. Does the layman have a lot of resentment towards the "expert" in other countries?
"The policy levers are all on the supply side, though"

Are you kidding? Remember the big white buses that everyone is mad about? They play a role here.

The valley tech companies have mitigated the natural barrier that would ordinarily limit the number of tech employees living in the city -- the pain of commuting. So rather than staying close to work and building communities where they live, they use the city as a glorified suburb, but with cushy private transportation. There are a variety of things wrong with this, not the least of which is the fact that they reduce housing supply for the natives.

Econ 101 theories about supply and demand don't apply when large external forces are subsidizing the demand side of the equation. One can quite reasonably argue that instead of "building up" (which is expensive and disruptive) SF should just ban the private buses -- it would be cheaper, more natural, and would solve the same problem.
Or just using thunderbird. I can't be the only one who doesn't like gmail's wonky interface.
Bash One-Liner for Getting Arduino Serial Data to Stdout 
Have the data go directly to stdout, or you can send it to a file, and monitor it. Timestamping and triggers can be set within the `awk` portion

to stdout
```bash
cat /dev/cu.usbmodem1421 | awk '{ for (i=0; i<NF; i++) printf $i + system("date +,%s")}'
```

this will say "ITS OVER 9000!" when the data increments.
```
cat /dev/cu.usbmodem1421 | awk '{ for (i=0; i<NF; i++) if($i == 9001) {system("say ITS OVER 9000\!")} printf $i + system("date +,%s")}' >> sensor_readings.dat
```

Just remember to change the `cu.usbmodem1421` to your arduino's serial port, and fire away!
Ditto. The 10% or so I found to be "true" would probably be considered polite manners anywhere else in the world.

Important to note the author does not seem to have ever set foot in Japan (unless that is hidden somewhere outside of his bio), and is adapting this from a book he read
I want to relate this to Richard Branson's family advice to Elon Musk sprinkled throughout a recent Google Hangout[1].

> I hope he can find some wonderful people to help him. He's got five children at home, all boys... he just, uh, he needs to... uh, yeah, I hope you can find lots of time. You just got to find lots of people to help you.

I can't imagine the kind of family life Elon Musk can have if he has five boys while running two companies. He advises young entrepreneurs to work 70-80 hour weeks as a clear no-brainer way to get ahead. Hearing the hesitation in Richard Branson's voice in the quote above says a lot about this I think.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy9y_YSpYxA&feature=share&t=5...
1. I know a fair few europeans that do those sort of workloads, some are founders but most of them doing it by working several jobs.

2. I'm not sure you even made an argument there. Less restrictive laws and stronger regulations? What?

3. Linux?

4. Are you using 'debatable' in a new and exciting way here to mean 'not'?
Where do you get the idea that there are Rails articles here? ;)

I only see JS, Java and PHP.
You were suggesting that with modern technology, surveillance is within even small governments' capabilities. I don't disagree with this, but just wanted to point out that the US government is large too.

At least there's a correlation between a government being large and a government being oppressive, right? A small government simply has less influence in the general populace's everyday lives.
Stopped reading after they equated 'a man who helps drug dealers' with 'sociopath'. There are a lot of reasons a good smart man would want use his technical skills to help spread narcotics.

There's an essay by Aleister Crowley, 'Cocaine', where he argues that free drugs (even hard ones) are better for the society as a whole.
He says he's in the office 6-7 hours a day, but that doesn't mean he's only working for that amount of time - he could also be working from home (and being much more productive during that time than he would be at the office).
> The path to success for management lies in controlling larger staffs and larger budgets. Good development just gets in the way.

This is sick and this is exactly the problem with the manager mentioned in the SE question. The manager should not focus on controlling staff, but on controlling the workplace environment so that developers can focus on building the product, and not on in-office politics, dealing with angry customers, faulty equipment, etc. The role of manager should be one of a servant, not of a boss. Some other terms for that: "shit umbrella" and "developer abstraction layer".
I would be wary about being completely open and honest about such things at exit interviews. There is nothing to gain for the ex-employee personally at that point in time, and everything to lose by 'burning bridges'. You never know when a few criticisms (even if they are accurate and correct) will come back to haunt you.
At the exit interview, the main thing is to do what is best for yourself. If you really want to change how the company operates, stay on and apply gentle pressure or guidance. Criticism presented at an exit interview will 99% of the time come off sounding like sour grapes (unfortunately).
The traditional usage of SMS communication is certainly declining. No doubt. But that doesn't mean I can take this article serious. The article lists the following as reasons to why SMS is declining:

You pay for texts: With a texting plan from your cell phone provider, you usually pay to send text messages.

Well, I speak for the popular providers out there. Most of them have unlimited texting at very reasonable price so it isn't like early 2000 where AT&T might charge you something per 100 text messages. For god sake, who does that?

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans/prepaidplans.html

AT&T's GoPhone (prepaid, no annual contract) can have unlimited texting at as low as $25 (that includes texting text, picture and video).

For example, you can set a time limit for how long messages on Snapchat can be seen; you can send audio or video clips with WhatsApp.

This is totally application dependent. SMS was not created for that purpose and this is unfair to say SMS sucks because message doesn't expire. So of course it doesn't fit some people's requirements.

You don't have to worry about phone numbers

But you have to worry about an account. FB, Google Hangout, Snapchat all have accounts. Your number is your identity in SMS's world, and your email / app account is your identity to your contacts. If we want multiple numbers, then how is it different from facebook requires a different account? The SMS works just fine. It's that we tight the phone with a single number and because SMS is distributed in a phone, there is a single identity.

Where young people go, their elders will follow

I consider myself an elder for being 22. Okay. Joking aside, I mean I don't use WhatsApp or Snapchat. I didn't really start using Twitter until Q3 2013.

And to be honest, when the author says people over 55 will be buying smart phones at the quickest rate this year, this doesn't prove elders are following young people. The old flip phones are going away in the market. It's 2014 and there aren't that many left. Smartphones are everywhere (at least in the US). Do you see people carrying mobile phone from the 1990s? Of course not. Was that because the people in their 20s back then was carrying those small flip phones? No. Of course not. It was because people found value in the smaller and smarter mobile phones so they ditched the big mobile phone. When AT&T renew my 2-year contract I get discount on new mobile phones. Of course I will take advantage of that. I am not arguing that young people don't influence the market and how we buy things, but to say the decline of SMS has to do with elders following young people's footstep is not right.

Many applications are integrated with SMS. For example, you can reply and get notify via SMS on your phone. You don't need to have FB Messenger or Twitter app installed on your phone. I can disconnect my data connection and get notify on my phone. That's a great benefit. I don't need to connect to the internet all the time. I just connect when I need to.
Actually, two emails a month is the upper limit, which we use for actively engaged new signups. With 2 emails a week in this category, we were able to get about 4 times more engagement and time spent on the app than single email a week.

Also, we measure when people use the emails we sent and it's generally of no use to send more emails, after two consecutive emails not being clicked on - so one can stop there.

I don't see why one should not send two or even more emails, when the user wants them. Users have understood our product better and it helped achieve what we define as activation, much faster.

On the other hand, If you were a normal trial signup who just registered and never actually used the product, we'd email you thrice in the first month (including the first email) and then once every 3/6 months. We're also thinking of sending some informative blog posts once in a while. This system isn't old enough yet to give significant data about the effectiveness of the mailers sent after the first month.
Perhaps. But managers have budgets, and at most companies controlling those budgets is the path to success. If I can deliver a great product with smaller staff (and less overhead) I'm generally going to come out far ahead.

I remember one of my first forays into management. It was a small team full of really good developers. We delivered ahead of schedule and way under budget. I remember thinking "this sucks, I'm not really DOING anything. I'm just letting these guys go out and kill it and keeping everything out of the way. This isn't going to end well for me".

It was the opposite. My boss was pleased as punch that we came in way under budget and ahead of schedule. The complexity (or lack of) didn't really seem to even show up on his radar.
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRNYxL-oPsQ

(That channel is probably the best source of information on "conspiracies" out there, in case you weren't already familiar with it)
Heh, I made 3 versions of it actually, this is the third, the first two were for iPhone, but I down own a Mac, so I cannot publish them on my own, and I think it is at least unethical to submit stuff to app store using my employer tools.
who cares? Comments like this are why innovators have to work in deathly secrecy.
Is this fairly standard for Apple?

I recently picked up an old MBP and the logic board die on me. Turns out the faulty GPU unit was a known issue, but they never did a recall. Instead they extended the warranty portion for this part by four years.

This is the first real issue aside from iPhone battery woes a few years back.

The mmore I look through forums and such, the more I find Apple not shipping products that meet the market perception of a superiority.
Work contract is an exchange of services between peers for the mutual benefit. If one of the peers wants something that is harmful to both of them, it is the responsibility of other peer to point that out.

There is no moral responsibility to "honor your contract". The contract is a mutual agreement, not a word of God.
But the spouse is making sacrifices for you to focus on your career. It's a different kind of hard & still is demanding.
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> There was once a time when presidents would win elections and then scour universities and think-tanks for a brain trust; that’s how Henry Kissinger, Samuel Huntington, Zbigniew Brzezinski and others ended up in government service while moving between places like Harvard and Columbia.

I find it interesting that he mentions these controversial figures. It seems to me while he does present interesting arguments for the resentment shown towards experts, I think it's far more pertinent to discuss the greater death of ethics among experts. I think this is the primary cause, the lack of ethics, of distrusting experts when I speak to relatives and friends.

People, experts and laymen, obviously can't study all fields of knowledge so they put their "faith" in others. An expert in Biology is most likely a layman in Physics, so they implicitly trust their Physicists friends when relaying scientific progress. A physician is obviously an expert at medicine but most likely a poor software developer so they implicitly trust their software developer friends to advise them.

Perhaps I'm conflating institutional expertise with a mastery of one's field. However, the ethical issue still exists.
Airbnb Design May Lead Black Hosts to Charge Less, Say Researchers
> and keeping everything out of the way.

Because this is supposed to be the job of a good manager. Not bossing people around, but abstracting away and isolating things irrelevant to their tasks.

Congratulations on your success!
Mavericks (and server 3.0) was released on October 22nd.
December 19th the update was released for their vpn issue. Less than two months does not equal "like half a year".

The issue was vpn behind nat wasn't working as expected, copying raccoon over from 10.8 server fixed the issue (not ideal but it took all of 5 mins).
TFA should be nominated for a Useless Use of Cat Award [0], particularly since the dissected command apparently "showed the power of true Unix mastery".

[0] http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
Not Mavericks-specific, but Finder is notorious for hanging when mounted volumes become unavailable or unreliable. And it's certainly possible that some of the network filesystem changes in Mavericks — in particular, it now uses SMB in certain cases where previous versions would have defaulted to AFP — could lead to this behavior in situations where you didn't see it before.
IMHO a manager is to a good engineer what a tennis coach is to a tennis player.

The coach cannot play tennis any better than the player, but he can help him, keep him practicing, have him not miss any tournaments, manage his time, etc.

The coach trusts the player that he knows how to play tennis and player trusts his coach that he keep his back free of distractions.

I think the main task of a manager is to enable the engineer to do his/her work. Presence-obsession seems counter productive and this manager does not seems to understand how to manage smart people.

Lastly it has been shown, that the human brain can concentrate for about 6h on every sleep-wake cycle, everything else is subconscious drifting and distracting.
A 40h or more mandate is counter productive.

So a candid discussion with the manager making these points and explaining the mutual benefit would be in order.
If that does not work one has three choices: (1) accept it (2) escalate up (3) leave. Which of these is appropriate depends on the specific circumstances.
It's related to the audio driver and is triggered most frequently when you close the laptop with headphones in. Simply unplug them, close the laptop, and wait for 5-10 seconds. reopen... you will still see the cpu spike, but it will end within a few seconds of everything awaking... it is annoying, but this seems to resolve it for now.
That doesn't seem true in Denmark, at least. First, even minimum-wage jobs with no education requirements will pay a living wage (minimum wage is about $37,500/yr, plus benefits and 5 weeks vacation). So, economically speaking, people with no education are not that far behind, nothing like American minimum-wage workers. And second, going back to university as an adult is pretty common.
How dare a person be concerned about their own life and wellbeing, and not whatever minority group is being promoted this week. Why do rich, White, privileged founders think their lives are of any interest on news.ycombinator.com anyway?
Thank you for the reminder to completely RF-shield the sensitive equipment. I hope that this + airgap would be enough should these transmitters become widespread.
I have a theory that the strength of the evidence and secrecy with which it is held are not unrelated.
There's more hardware in a laptop than a CPU, RAM and a Hard Drive.
that's sad bro, you deserved a really fair gift for that discovery. I mean others (could've) used it. We need more people who report security issues and go public, if nobody listens.
> How could he put yet more effort into something besides his business success when he said that he was pouring everything he had into it?

By redirecting some efforts into optimizing the way he handles his business and family, thus making them require less effort for the same level of effect.