skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst part is it doesn't appear to be struggling, but the CEO painted the only two options of dealing with $7M in increased healthcare cost as either passing it on to the employees, or decreasing some benefit.
"I've been working in that "real world" for a long time and I've seen plenty of what the author is describing and relate to the frustration."

Thank you.

"However, there are a couple of things that I'd ask someone new to that world to consider:
* It's trivial to point out all the ways some existing system is broken and how much better it could be given a imaginary greenfield to recreate it.
It's legitimately hard to figure out how to remediate or replace that system while keeping the business moving by scheduling downtime, training users, managing expectations, working within a budget, working within the abilities of your staff or finding new staff.
I've seen more than a few otherwise smart (typically young) people poison themselves and everyone around them by being impatient, idealistic and simply ignorant about everything beyond their own desktop."

Maybe I'm one of the typical young people. I don't know. But when I come to a Company and see thing that can be improved why not improve them?

"* Doing the hard things, taking the broken stuff and making it shine builds credibility and trust. It's rare that you can come in the door and start reinventing a place, but given a solid track record - you absolutely can or at least be given the autonomy to work on more satisfying things."

It should be more like a transition. Take one peace make it shiny and then take the next.

"* If you take it seriously, I think there's actually something a lot of satisfaction to be had in an enterprise. You're not racking up a million users, but you are getting a shot to change the lives of thousands if not tens of thousands of people who depend on your software and systems for their livelihood and interact with it for 8 hours of every day."

At the and its not just about the revenue. The people how make the revenue should have a good nice workspace plus nice software which helps them not throw stones on there path. If people are not so frustrated they work better (I think).
My friend wrote this thing. He said he used Phaser.js.
"We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general," said Armstrong

AOL does something like $2 billion in revenue per year. This cost would have been a fraction of one tenth of one percent of revenue. What. a. shithead.
I think that when Wine was originally started, the goal must have been for it to be obsolete one day. That day is still very far away, and regardless, Wine is a technical marvel.
Taking advantage of sessions in Vim (with vim-startify)
Interesting.

He drives his Jeep, falls to a 4.3 rating and is about to get released from the service. He starts driving his Tesla, finds that passengers start treating him as an equal and give him a perfect 5.0 every time.

Somehow that's not at all surprising and disappointing at the same time.
Phonegap?
5,000 FLOP per cycle using 2,880 CUDA cores, so less than 2 FLOP/cycle/core.
I'm confused as to how this will actually save them any money over time. Won't it just encourage everyone who wants to quit to wait until the 401k payout date to the extent possible and then do it all at once?
No, it's not like that. The only thing the OP indicates happens is the infiltration part, not the upstaging part. I'm pretty sure MSFT sends people to Apple demos whenever possible.
Don't be one of those tiresome bitter sysadmins.
it's open source by the way
https://github.com/uralozden/flappy-bird
I guess this is good advertising for Adzerk, I never heard of that and never knew there were that many people banging down the door to get at its founders. Interesting.
Tumblr isnt real life. Its more likely people will stop being offended by things once they realize it's the weakest form of argument and serves no purpose other than to be used as an argumentative social trump card and non-sequitor: to reduce credibility from one person and move authority to another.
...copyright?
Corporates are not human so I'm not sure what your basing your opinion on.
If management is going to do something to anger the workforce, it's in their interest to get workers angry at each other instead of management.
I saw a tv show about Simon Cowell once where he told about losing everything and moving in with his parents after having owned a successful company. One thing he said stuck with me in particular: "Losing everything isn't as bad as people think".
Our terrifying troll culture
My bank has a small business ebank site which is IE only (and you need to put IE11 in compatibility mode). It might suck but my income is in USD and I live in Canada and via this web app I have access to the FX trading desk from my home. That access literally pays enough to put up with IE.
I had loading issues, so thank you.

I feel like the people linking to cached pages have a tendency to get lambasted here for reasons I do not understand.

So I tip my nonexistent hat to you!
That context of size is important. To some people, 500 is a large company. Indeed, in many respects, 500 really is a large company. Only ~0.3% of US companies have more than 500 people [1]. But HP has 317,000 employees. So depending on who you are talking to, "large" suggests different things.

[1]: http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
So you'd rather give up on the open web and turn it into a proprietary system? Just for a seamless experience? Sorry to say this. But that's just plain stupid.

The web is not proprietary, not an app, and only to some extend controlled by the w3c, which is much more than Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
Suggestions:

> 18-year old web dev looking for work

1. Don't tell people your age.

> Since severing ties with my cofounder I've found myself under-inspired, under-challenged, and feeling lazy with no commitments or projects to work on. On top of that I'm lonely, since I don't live near my friends.

2. Don't put out a lot of personal stuff. Just describe what you're good at and let people draw their own conclusions. I say this because people who might hire you will want to see evidence of your personal drive and focus on work and technology, not how lonely you are.

I wish you the best of luck.
SubjectiveEye3D: Nielsen Ratings for Everything
He's mentioned before that he's not into full-time work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7136027
Understood, can't be everything to every one. BTW thanks for sticking around and answering questions/engaging :)
You're ignoring the relevant part that is quite different from how most countries have thus far ruled on bitcoin-

"Anonymous payment systems and cryptocurrencies, including the most popular - Bitcoin, are currency surrogates and can't be used by physical persons and corporations."
He also says he's pulling $21/hour but I don't see any maintenance or depreciation factored in...
Except it is the law. Liberty dollars were intentionally similar in design with US currency— any random joe would confuse them. Literature from their maker encouraged (with indirect language) people to pass them off as US dollars and they were priced to make it profitable to do so (E.g. $8 in melt value silver, sold to you for $15 with a "$20" stamped on the front). (See: http://truthalliance.net/Portals/0/Archive/images/news/2012/... plus there are a whole _additional_ set of laws covering the minting of coins of precious metal in the US which aren't relevant for Bitcoin discussions).

The counterfeiting charges in the Liberty dollar case basically went uncontested.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...

To do otherwise rapidly runs into a mess of regulating every single private interaction people have.
How much money would you bet on the answer to the question being "no"?

Based on the evidence we have, couples in more equal relationships seem to have less sex and are less satisfied with the sex.

This is a conclusion based on statistical inferences made from sample containing about 4,500 marriages. It is much more valid than a "no", even if it is imperfect.

If we return to our bet, how would you propose that we resolve the answer? How large would the sample size have to be for you to be satisfied?
Control Home Lighting with the Parse Webhook
Using Selenium for automated functional testing
I'd personally be annoyed if my UberX driver came in a Wrangler; one of the most uncomfortable-as-passenger cars on the market.

A Camry or something is totally fine; doesn't have to be a Tesla, but should be something relatively quiet and comfortable.
"it feels really productive to take my kids to school and get paid to drive home"

Drivers using Uber to fill free time or excess capacity is a radical shift away from how Uber started, with professional drivers using it to make a living. A friend of mine does this with Lyft. Imagine how many cars are on the road right now with only one driver and the rest of the seats empty. Lots of potential new drivers...
Um, household chores are not unlimited, and there are many that are considered manly, and still, still, you don't respond to my repeated statement, nothing about doing manly chores, or being manly necessitates being a dick.
I'm curious about the no-remorse, humans-are-replacable ethos which is evident through the author's description of the recruitment process. I see this time and time again in stories about software startups, and it really gives me a queasy feeling. It does not make life at a startup company seem very inviting.
The creator of Flappy Bird seamed pretty supportive of someone else making an HTML clone of it

https://twitter.com/dongatory/status/431060041009856512
The following kinds of interactions are useful to founders:

1) Simply talking about another person's startup with them for more than an hour makes that person feel like they are not alone in a world seemingly filled with Googlers and Facebookers. I think the feeling of solidarity here sometimes even trumps whatever silly advice you might be giving.

2) Making meetings feel more like brainstorm sessions helps. I think there is value in "experience" and "expertise" or even just raw intelligence. I'm pretty sure that it's wise to listen to PG's thoughts on your idea even if it's to sharpen your views and beliefs. But the key to these being productive is people asking questions, thinking from first principles and being honest about the experiences they are trying to relate to each other. Needless to say people shouldn't force things on founders and founders should be smart enough to test things quickly and discard them if they are silly.
I feel for those poor women whose colleagues probably know about their "distressed" babies.
Blaming this on distressed babies is disgusting.
Tim Armstrong already has a reputation as being a bit of a jerk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6197081

Previously, though, he was head of advertising at Google (1999-2009), and I don't remember him causing much negative publicity in that role.
I use MS Office 2010 under Wine. There are tutorials on the Internet that make it really easy to set up. It needs a specific version of Wine to work (some 1.5.x release), so I'm using it on a PlayOnLinux virtual drive (that way I can easily have multiple Wine versions and configs on my system, tailored to each software). The hardest part was making the file associations work correctly (because that was not explained in the tutorial, but it was easy to figure out). Word, Excel and PowerPoint work fine. VBA does not work (not something I need).

It suffers from some graphic bugs (mostly in the properties dialog, for objects in PowerPoint for example; usually you can fix it by reloading the dialog), also, TrueType doesn't look perfect. I can't remember having it crash heavily.

I needed MS Office because while Open/LibreOffice is good enough for most things, and is actually more than sufficient if you write your materials from beginning to end in them and never export to proprietary formats (i.e., always keep saving in ODF), the compatibility layer with MS Office is not perfect and is not sufficient for more advanced things (such as the fancy 3D-and-the-like styling options my colleagues insist on using). The imperfections* of the document compatibility layer become a problem when working on the same document with people who use MS Office.

Using a virtual machine would probably work, too... if I had an infinite amount of Windows licenses. I can't use the license from my real-hardware install, as I still need Windows-on-real-hardware for a few things (to do with drivers and device flashing).

Using Office was the main reason why I had to reboot into Windows, and so I couldn't be happier with this setup. My productivity has increased a lot (no need to wait for reboots). Besides Office, I also use Wine to run the emulator of a platform for which I develop software (the emulator is not open source, and are not available for any Unix but OS X, which I don't have access too). So Wine does a really great job for me, doing things that I think can be called "effective usage" (in fact, I don't run any games under Wine).

* MS Office import/export is actually quite good for a FOSS piece of software, and while the "imperfections" are being perfected as new versions are released, Microsoft too keeps releasing new Office versions with more shiny features, so I understand the difficulty on keeping up with the compatibility on closed formats.
"... of the divorces studied, apparently regardless of demographic, there seems to be a statistically significant ..."

Most generally, correlation is not causation.

Maybe people who are more attracted to each other sexually form more asymmetric marriages or maybe people with stronger sex drives are more likely to follow gender stereotypes. Just taking a sample from a self-selected population doesn't even indicate anything about causation.

What we need is a study where the researchers randomly assign men and women into marriages with partners chosen by the researchers where they will divide up roles according to gender stereotypes or divide up responsibilities evenly. Then the researchers will return a decade later to see how they're doing.
... And would be fully insured. That's literally the reason why insurance exists.
this is the original version: marksteve.com/dtmb
This is cool but it seems a lot easier to get further than the game on the phone.
Facebook gives away Origami
UberX is actually about 20% cheaper than Lyft, although I think TaskRabbit rides still are often the cheapest (although by far the least convenient).
I paid for Christmas for my family with the BTC I bought a year ago. Net win for me :)
Luckily, thanks to "Obamacare" they can leave AOL and know they will be able to have affordable insurance.
There are things you tally in the back of your mind as costs -- like, for example, a couple of outliers in the health benefit cost spreadsheet that correspond to newborns with urgent medical needs -- and then there are things you kinda-sorta bring up to the media as having caused you to cut benefits back.

It doesn't reflect too well on this guy's people skills if something in his brain didn't say, "I'm about to blame sick children for cutting my employees' benefits, maybe I should shut up."
Battery life is indeed bad. My advice:

- Turn off WiFi. This drains battery faster than just having the camera record everything.

- Take only "snippets". This makes editing easier later anyways, since it's usually more convenient to browse through smaller files than through one big long video over an hour. I try to keep every snippet < 1 minute. Most of the time, only 3-5 seconds of one snippet end up in my final video to give it a fast pace anyways.

- Keep a spare battery pack.

But I have to admit that this won't help you a lot, if you're in difficult situations where you can't easily change batteries (under water for long periods of time, climbing somewhere, flying, driving).
http://bitlegal.io/nation/RU.php
People don't always optimize. I've known two people in this situation who left money on the table. Even if you quit on Jan 30'th, that's one month of money left on the table.
Wow, what's with the rage? Find a job with a company you like, and get some proper job gratification and self respect, please.
Well hey...if you can bait civilian drivers with no real contract into taking these costs for you, more power to you, right? After all, you're creating shareholder value. If the drivers ever pick up on it, just raise the payout. They'll have made money in the meantime.
Wow.

So you watch a YouTube video and thinks you know everything about oil.

Try reading Yergin's "The Prize", which won the Pulitzer Prize award.

http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power-ebook/dp/...

and also try reading the Quest by him as well.

"That is a good manipulation. I do not think that this is a joke becaus you must know that the major manufacturer is the China yet the major oil conumers are Europe and US, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consum.... The consumers consume 15 times more oil per capita than average chaneese (and 3 times more in absolute figures). So, you do not need the oil to produce. You need it to consume."

You're the one doing "manipulation". You made the bold statement that "ALL" of it goes into cars and I point out to you that not "ALL" of it goes into vehicle, which is backed up by the link you cited. http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/oil-i... . Do you realize that your link actually supports my claims?

I can stop here because either you don't understand the meaning of "all" or have some kind of weird grudge against the western world.
They could fire a lot of people before the end of the year...
I explicitly meant not doing a fair share of chores when I talked about "being a dick".

WRT chores that are manly: Which are? Let's assume that car[s] either absent or don't need fixing and there's no lawn.
>* The hard reset definition is sort of dumb. When a device leaves the factory, it obviously doesn't have any knowledge of whom its proper owner is. A hard reset, by definition, has to nullify any owner-verification system and no technological solution can withstand it.

The way that I'm reading this, a limit to what a "hard reset" can be is being set by (1). It's saying: Any process that you have in order to return a phone to factory condition must not remove the ability for it to be remotely bricked by the State of California.

It's labeling whatever that process is as a "hard reset" but they only care about the we can still brick the phone part.

That is the diametric opposite of (2), though. Unless the "disabling of the technological solution" is expected to be through software.

In order to enforce (1) and (2), California is going to have to:

a) Start certifying operating systems, and approving of their solutions for the remote bricking disabler.

and

b) Implement the remote bricker in hardware.

This is actually a really scary bill.

edit: The "rightful owner" requirement could be interpreted as really hard to satisfy, especially combined with an inability for the "retail seller" to do it. That may mean that you have to get a code, connect to the manufacturer's server, etc. to get the app to disable the bricking chip unlocked or downloaded, and the additional security theater that would entail - and the bitrot that would happen for older model phones when you had to download it (after a "hard reset") and the manufacturer is either defunct or doesn't care anymore.

This bill has too many goodies for too many entrenched interests not to pass.

edit2: "Rightful owner" is really creeping me out. That might be seen as insuring that the State must be the one with the killswitch. Who can determine a rightful owner? It could be that you are the one who knows the PIN, or it could be that you file a police report, and they kill the phone from the station.
Yes, games. Works quite well for me. Not only for some old ones, also recent ones work very well. For some games, the trick is to use Wine's "desktop" windowed mode to make them work nicely.

Some games have a Linux binary as well (and unfortunately no source code), and yet the Wine one will work better. The Linux binary will be like "old-version-of-some-library.so not found" or "could not connect to X server", while Wine acts as a rock-solid stable graphics and gaming API!

The only sad thing is that relevant versions of Internet Explorer don't work in it, that would be very handy for testing something in multiple browsers.
Sure, but why make the commitment to build your whole thing windows-only when you are only a tiny bit away from actually doing it platform independent. Like, for having options in the future, and stuff.
I'm surprised the company (not the insurance) had to pay that much for the babies medical bills.

I had a friend die to leukemia a year ago (she had just turned 27). 6 months prior to that, her first month in Stanford Hospital for chemo led to a bill to the insurance on the order of one million dollars.

I don't know how much the insurance billed the company (a small one without AOL's income), but they upheld it.

Tim Armstrong is the same CEO who last year fired Abel Lentz, chief creative officer of Patch, on the spot during his company-wide layout call [1]. I'm inclined to label him a Gordon Gekko-level psychopath.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/08/14/aols-chief...
This objection should presumably apply to many other tech stocks but the entire sector averages a P/E ratio of 20-30.
A Haswell core can do 2 vector multiply-adds per cycle, which results in a peak of 32 single-precision FLOP per cycle per core or 16 double-precision FLOP per cycle per core.
But also much riskier. What if it transpires that the $4000 isn't enough? We know roughly what they're paying now, so when people find an issue like this they know they could sell it for much more.
"Well this isn't going to go well for Google. At least I sure hope it doesn't."

I sure hope it doesn't go well for Google either. It seems quite brazen, even arrogant, for Google to refuse paying a fine when it arguably tracks and records the behaviour of online users to an unprecedented degree. And Google does not tell users what they do with their data beyond the generic "we collect this information to improve services". What they do with your data and how they use it is different from simply stating what is collected (which is all that their privacy policies actually say).

Just to be clear, I don't believe Google does sinister things with the data it collects, but that doesn't mean it's ok for a company to collect informaion about users unfettered. And no other company has such a voracious appetite to track and record users online.

The thought of anonymising your data is clearly too much for Google:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/google-keeps-your...
Huh? Did you read the letter from github? It closes out: "Thanks again for your awesome work."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xqPTMgxhYmY/UvUCrsc9C8I/AAAAAAAADk...
5. The stolen phone can be sold to a hapless buyer shortly after it is stolen, before the theft is realized or reported and therefore before the IMEI is blocked.
Nice! HISCORE should be HIGHSCORE or HIGH SCORE
This is why both healthcare and benefits from employment beyond cash and salary are many times bad. Companies should have no part in your healthcare/insurance, retirement savings or any other private aspect beyond reimbursing you for costs. I think independent pools of healthcare is the only way, outside of a company, wider nets with less impact.