skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He could learn programming with just a C book and a used computer. Or if he really needs Internet you could pay for the monthly service and rustle him up a hand me down computer.
Maybe all sites on the Internet are getting less attention as the number of things to do on the Internet increases.
> You'll probably win a Nobel prize if you succeed, why care about a journal publication?!

Presumably because getting published opens up large number of potential funding sources that would otherwise ignore them.
Utterly ridiculous statement and you're clearly showing you're lack of understanding of the industry. The latest research I saw had 2/3 of new drug developed at both biotech and pharma companies. Only 1/3 came from academic settings and that only includes discovery of the lead, which is about 1/10th of the work required for a new drug and at a cost of a about 1% of the total for R&D.
He's probably just covering his ass. I guess he learned some operational security since his mails were used as evidence in the anti-trust trial.
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This is going to be a heavily unpopular opinion, but I bet the whole drive of "Teach everyone to code" broadly comes under the same umbrella. Shortage of tech workers? Well, there is a predicted massive shortage of doctors and nurses in the US too [0] (huge healthcare expenses, anyone?), but there is no drive to teach everyone to learn basic nursing / medical skills. Why?

Because doctors are very careful to promote the worldview, "This is very important, it can't be done by just anyone, can it?" even for minor things like coughs and colds; while completely glossing over stuff like community health. Ever seen your doctor friend volunteer for a "Let's teach everyone basic emergency responder skills!" campaign? Why not a "Let's teach everyone basic vaccine administration" project; so we can stop paying through the nose for, say, birth control shots? Because nurses and doctors are heavily unionized, unlike, say, software devs or sysadmins -- and such initiatives would be strongly discouraged by the unions.

So, when you participate enthusiastically in that "Let's teach everyone to code!" event sponsored by $BIG_CORPORATION, be aware that you are slowly but surely driving down wages for tech workers.

[0] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230450690...
If only opa were released under a license that let normal people feel safe about experimenting with it/reading its source :(.
The bad behavior of techies isn't erased by the bad behavior of VCs. The bad behavior of VCs isn't erased by the bad behavior of Wall Street. The bad behavior of Wall Street isn't erased by genocidal and warmongering dictators. Let's not be so quick to shirk responsibility up the foodchain, when there are local immediate actions we can take to reduce our own bad behaviors.

(Of course yes, we should nationalize the abusive rentier FIRE industries, and use the incomes to fight inequality, but that's a relatively different topic).

The idea that people can work 50-60 hours a week to the benefit of some non-corporeal entity then sit on their ass the rest of the time is also a bit ridiculous. We should be active citizens in some manner, not labor commodities looping while(1) between office and apartment.
A 'collapse thread' function would go a long way to eliminating the damage meta-threads and troll/flame-threads do to discussions. Yeah, I know there are extensions/userscripts that do it.

And yeah, I get the concern PG has about community fragmentation, but when I see a comment "leave HN" that has half a dozen replies under it, I really don't think I need to go down that thread of discussion any further.
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>the value these barons robbed from the economy.

It's genuinely impressive how you contort people willingly giving their money to Apple, Google, Pixar and Lucasfilm for goods and services into them robbing money from the economy.
They way you change it is by starting your own company.
not even nearly close from a fiscal standpoint.
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Then in three years the Google data charges start. Sigh. I never saw how people think these non-computers are a good deal.
React meant to replace the V in any MV* client frameworks, so yeah you can use it instead
Every tech job creates 4.3 other jobs[1] Maybe that would be 5 or 6 or 7 other jobs if the market was allowed to function without manipulation. So yes it does directly effect social inequality in general.

1. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tech-hiring-creates-other...
They could be, it's all relative of course. The most affected engineers in this case were likely the cream of the crop. It's in a way analogous to professional sports, where (if salaries were truly unrestricted) the very top players could easily demand a multiple of their already astronomical salaries. To combat this, some leagues like the NBA have 'salary caps' and 'maximum contracts'. You won't see the government going after this extremely obvious anti-worker collusion because there isn't much sympathy for multi-millionaire athletes. However, salaries for the best are almost certainly artificially low.

In a larger sense, argument isn't about what the affected workers "should" be paid, it's about who gets to decide: the potential recruits or their prospective employers.

As someone who believes that free markets generally "find a way" (in spite of information asymmetry), I'm hesitant to endorse the government's view point. One good thing that can come of this is more of these top-notch engineers get fed up with this sort of behaviour and start more startups. At the same time, I'm not going to shed any tears for Apple or Google if they lose in the courts.
I've used Julia for couple of projects and it's amazing, I seriously believe that Julia is better - in several ways - than all of the widely used dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, Clojure, Octave or Lua. It's a brilliantly designed language. There are so many things to like about this language.
TL;DR two doses of stupid aren't the way forward.
They are equally borked for typing names, addresses, text messages, shell commands, numbers...
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Wow, they really did their homework, huh?
I just learn Python/Django for a side project over the last couple months and launching tonight. I like it way more than rails, that's for sure.

If you went to a big university try Google, Facebook, etc. They don't care what you code in, they just want to see if you understand programming fundamentals and problem solving capabilities. The bay area is flooded with Junior and Entry level developers so it is hard to land a spot. You have to go to networking places. The best way to find a job is by meeting someone who is hiring.

come listen to Jeff Atwood speak (created Stackoverflow.com)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeff-atwood-founder-of-stack-ov...
That's a nice feel-good rhetoric but "ideas" worth protecting don't pop up spontaneously in the shower. They are the end product of a long, costly and risky process. They cost time, money, effort, skills and other resources to develop and (more to the point in this case) convince government organizations that they are safe and effective to be available to the general public. IP is the tool we have to compensate those that take up this huge cost and risk. Feel free to suggest alternative realistic compensation models but until then, enforcing IP is the lesser evil compared to disincentivizing the discovery of such "ideas" in the first place.
I'm just finishing up work on a foreign exchange data platform:

http://fxdata.net

The client is JavaScript and SVG.

Backend is Nginx, Java, and C++.
I'm not a Node.js user and I'v certainly gotten the feeling that it's rapidly proliferating and shaking things up. Given that it's less than 5 years old, I think that's pretty cool.
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It's clearly a satirical post. I'm sure that if he was publishing a nonsatirical article he would also not have implied that correlation is causation.
But not for all use cases. A completely blank static document will have the best possible performance characteristics, but the lowest possible utility. Writing needlessly slow things is stupid, but the blind pursuit of performance is missing the point.
I saw you got downvoted for another comment, but in general you've got the narrative right.

Microsoft sent a patent demand letter to B&N. B&N went public as part of its defense. Microsoft countered with two separate deals:

1) Settled the patent issue privately for a revenue-sharing deal and cash payment.

2) Microsoft committed to invest in the Nook business (called New Corp by B&N) which eventually led to Microsoft purchasing Nook for a premium.

So, while the immediate settlement was probably measured in hundreds of millions, the total outlay from Microsoft shareholders to B&N shareholders was close to 1 billion even though it was spread over multiple and disparate deals.

Prior to the patent letter neither company had a significant relationship.
I would think that the way it would work is that you when you sign up for the service you create a master document with accounts and passwords that gets encrypted before it's uploaded to their servers. Then, in the event if a catastrophe, you just send them your encryption key for that profile and they do their thing and reset all of your accounts.
If it's promising, even with long shot odds, you've gotta wonder why Gates isn't all over it.
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Those look like numbers from Facebook's SEC filings, which says all there is to say about which metrics they're choosing to publish.

(Read the post, didn't miss it.)
We are seeing it with HIV.
Except for the fact that startup founders by in large perpetuate the owner-employee inequity that they themselves were a victim of. Really, it reminds me of fraternities/athletics and hazing.
This is how analog clocks should be. With a polar projection of the world.
In other news: http://glengilchrist.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pirate...

It is really easy to find something that correlates with your data, when your data follows a simple trend. Now if princeton enrollment was going up and down a lot, and the google trends followed the same shape, that would be something.
I agree, but my point is simply that these added expectations for engineers and not others makes no sense at all.
Well, they're picking the drugs that they can sell the most of -- i.e. the ones that will benefit the most people. That's not a bad thing.

However, the cost of human trials are still a problem. Because of the costs, drug research to treat rare diseases aren't going to get funded by anyone.
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The software problems are bad enough. Then there's the hardware which is crippled by the marine corps's insistence on VSTOL which means that it will never be effective. The plane is all but an open joke within the air force.
yes, that's the problem.. I don't like too much the blue because hangs all the time on jquery on page refresh...
Definitely a cautionary tail. And a reminder that we should often ignore the FUD and put (some) faith in digital systems.

Specifically:

1. Enable full disk encryption.* Unless you lose your memory, this should never prevent you from losing files. If you're still concerned, store a backup of the phrase in a very secure location.

2. Make offsite backups. Encrypt them.

* One of the things I love about Boxen is that this is enforced across the board.
Alex St John has good details on why using existing epidemiologically formulas don't work: http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2014/01/23/forecasting-demise-f...

Example: "The amount of time you spend sick with the flu is constant no matter how many of your friends ALSO contract the flu"
I consider this to be little more than a testament to owning rather than renting. If people have spent generations in the area but are renting, then they were always living on borrowed time anyway. If you've lived there for years and own your flat, it makes zero difference what the housing market looks like today.
> does anyone think that this was the intention behind these agreements?

Absolutely.

> Isn't it more likely that ...

This is a just-so story.

> It would seem as though ...

All companies are vulnerable to losing key employees. There are two ways to address this problem: (1) do good, legal things to address it (2) do bad, illegal things to address it.

I mean, to use a perfectly ridiculous analogy, suppose for a minute that engineers are cards from Magic: the Gathering and that CEOs and their executive teams are the players. A CEO can probably count on the loyalty of their inner circle. Or at least I would hope so. A CEO with a disloyal inner circle is going to be toast sooner rather than later. But generally speaking you can't count on the loyalty of engineers. They care more about the challenge, the money, the excitement, being a hero, being a rock star, etc... and the high-level ones tend to act like rock stars (not all of them by any means, but a substantial and vocal minority). These are the "rare" cards in Magic: the Gathering. They are super-valuable and they can make the difference between winning and losing.

Now imagine playing this card game where the cards have minds of their own. We can sorta rationalize an anti-competitive agreement between the players, a prohibition on poaching each other's engineers, product managers, designers, etc... because the players all want to play the game a certain way and don't want the headache of dealing with brain drain. They rationalize, "it just makes playing the game a little bit easier and allows us to sleep at night". The problem is that in the real world, it is real people who get hurt when these kinds of agreements get made. Doing this is not only illegal, it is wrong. You're creating an agreement that essentially says, "these engineers are my property, those engineers are your property. We agree to not steal each other's property."

By making such an agreement, you're intentionally depriving another human being of a legitimate economic opportunity. You're saying to them, "I'm going to deprive you of an opportunity for my own benefit, and I don't care about how it affects you or your life."

I find this sickening. You might as well say, "I'm going to sacrifice your happiness to increase the size of my bank account". It is a form of exploitation. I mean, I'm a fire-breathing free-enterprise capitalist, but the Marxist line of reasoning about exploitation and alienation rings true on this one. The problem here is that free-enterprise principles are being violated.

> The result would be a destruction of value

Perhaps, but I can use a similar style of argument for the opposite conclusion. If a few key employees would have gotten substantially more money, then you would see those employees, as a group, making different decisions. They might have gotten together to create a new innovative company in which they were much more personally invested. It is possible that huge opportunities for value creation have been missed and can never be recovered.
I wonder how much things have increased beyond the initial 10% pay bump in 2010: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/11/10/on-googles-10-percent-pa...
Right, but that only gives you an old version of the application - it doesn't include a matching version of the online service the application is connecting to. If the service has changed sufficiently, the old application may no longer work properly (or may just get a "too old, please upgrade" message).
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I see this as Facebook's willingness to use its unfair influence to discredit anyone who dares challenge it. In other words, "if you have a page here, we won't hesitate to use it against you".
So, you read an article about how easy server-side rendering is with React, and your first impulse is to rant about client-side rendering? Did you not read the post or did you just feel an overwhelming urge to posture?
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> fear of others having access to your data

> online back-ups.

that combination merits a post of its own.
... he also gave me some of the best advice I've ever received. Trying to decide whether to major in psychology or art history, I had gone to his office to see what he thought. He squinted and lowered his head. "Is this a hard choice for you?" he demanded. Yes! I cried. "Oh," he said, springing back cheerfully. "In that case, it doesn't matter. If it's a hard decision, then there's always lots to be said on both sides, so either choice is likely to be good on its way. Hard choices are always unimportant."

Adam Gopnik about Albert Bregman, professor at McGill University, on http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/28/130128fa_fact_...
And in Germany I'd be hard-pressed to find you a non-management tech job that makes north of 90k USD/year.

It would be great if someone could prove me wrong.
Only if the safe is properly secured. Thieves are more than willing to carry a safe away if they can.

Bolting to the floor/wall is a must.
For content sites, you are correct. But what about an in browser app, like Trello. Obviously in those cases javascript significantly improves the experience. So its just a case by case scenario. But I agree with the general point you are trying to make, and I work as a front-end dev who builds a lot of js heavy web pages/apps for a living.
Probably great, because enthusiasm is good.
Not sure what you expect them to publish beyond MAUs and DAUs by region. Those are pretty standard ways to measure engagement and if I were Facebook I'd be loathe to publish more granular data just to "quiet the critics".
The action of the two PH.D. candidates. The action of few employees. Yet they both represent the group to which they belong.
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For more "Steve Jobs does shady things via email," you might enjoy http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/the-stev...
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What? Everyone knows that throwing everything out and starting all over from scratch (several times, if need be) is the fastest way to get done!
About to launch Nota (http://nota.io/), a feedback/bug tracking tool for web apps.
Code base is mostly front end (Backbone) but some PHP (laravel) on the backend as well as some nodeJS.
A supplement: I was checking a Twitter account and, by following the permalinks to some tweets, saw these two tweets that I think are emblematic of this fucking-nerds attitude:

https://twitter.com/KuraFire/status/426393172302774272

https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/426495051875643392
>Even re-investment back into the company could lead to increased revenues for the people at the top.

I think the best comparison is Wall Street firms, where a disprportionate chunk of revenues are paid out as compensation to employees. There's longstanding criticism by shareholders that this outsized compensation should be reduced in favor of giving back that value to shareholders.

"re-investment" back into Google likely benefits such shareholders (the majority of whom are not employees of the company) than employees.
> Wouldn't it be nice to see the issues list refresh live when somebody else closes one?

Maybe a tiny bit. I guess. Really, I'd just reload the page if I wanted to see recent changes.
I get your gripe, but there's a good use case for this stuff in building dynamic web applications. Just because a technology is misused doesn't mean the technology is to blame.
The other big news was that Facebook was testing ads outside of their own platform. The possibility of taking on Google's Adwords and adding more than a few billion dollars in revenue should have increased the price?
> However does anyone think that this was the intention behind these agreements?

From the article:

> George Lucas believed that companies should not compete against each other for employees, because ‘[i]t’s not normal industrial competitive situation.’ As George Lucas explained, ‘I always — the rule we had, or the rule that I put down for everybody,’ was that ‘we cannot get into a bidding war with other companies because we don’t have the margins for that sort of thing.’
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Exactly - I read it as an expression of a tool designed as a tool, rather than an elegant and intellectually fulfilling exploration of toolness.
Ah great, ok. I'm really enjoying them, and would really like to finish both!
That would be actually quite awesome.
As the reasoning went, the American nuclear deterrent must
be credible, or else the Soviets would seize the
opportunity and launch an unprovoked attack on the US,
Germany, or both. If a communication breakdown between the
White House and the military could render the nuclear
arsenal unusable, that would tend to diminish the
credibility of the deterrent.

If you wanted the pre-delegation of Presidential authority to increase the credibility of the deterrent though, the Soviets had to know about it. Which makes you wonder - did they strongly deny it to the public whilst quietly informing the Soviet Union about the true situation?
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V/STOL capability was the one thing the marine corps absolutely insisted on, requiring the massive fan that makes the F-35's body so wide and high-drag. The decision to use a one-body-fits-all-applications approach means that even the non-V/STOL versions of the F-35 are fat pigs as far as military jets go. That's why these planes are so bloody slow by modern fighter standards and one reason why countries, such as Canada, that have no need for V/STOL variants of the plane are dropping out of the program.

In short, the marines screwed this plane up for everybody but themselves. If even they are not happy with the result then the F-35 project is an utter flop.
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I highly doubt SnapChat's audience of majority less than 18-year-old population (with most in their early teens) are going to pay $30 a year for a way to send auto-deleting pictures to each other. Especially when there are numerous other free multimedia messaging apps. Getting even 1% of that audience to pay would be impressive.

An RPM of $2.50 is also equally unrealistic for an audience of the mostly non-credit-card holding teen demographic, even more so when they're looking at the autoexpiring content for mere seconds before moving onto reply. Not only that but I'd bet a lot of those snaps per day come from a small subset of the 10M users.
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From what I understand main issue is that they are trying to build "transformer". Basically they want Navy, Marines, and Airforce to use same software/chassis.

Obviously Navy, Marines, and Airforce all want different features, and requirement to the chassis renders it extremely frail (they had to cut a lot of weight for VTOL capability).

So considering that, it actually might be good idea to stop completely, fire all top airforce/navy/marine brass involved and restart as 3 separate projects from scratch, albeit using all the technology already developed.

Morale is already super low and it is hard to see bright future for something so overpriced, over budget, over engineered (in a bad way), and over politicized.
If you decide to rent in one of, if not the highest demand city in the United States, live on a thin margin and start a family, its hard to have sympathy when you're forced to move them to, gasp, San Ramon. It's certainly no way to build a community, but I don't think demonizing people who work 60 hours a week and make 140k is the way to do it either.
at rentsent, we've been using Dwolla as an abstraction layer for bank accounts - it's not fast, but it is pretty cheap, and a lot easier than having to remember someone else's bank account number