skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a exec can make one decision that can save / make a company millions or billions of dollars. In that perspective, a few million dollar salary seems like a bargain."

That's only true if there's nobody else who could perform equally well for a lower price.

Problem is how to assess that. To play safe, boards typically go for 'proven' winners (where 'proven' may mean 'got lucky a few times when a 50:50 or even bad decision won the jackpot due to an earthquake/economic turmoil/...).

Those 'proven' winners typically have inflated egos (it's hard not to think you're brilliant if everything you do turns into gold), and start thinking they are worth more than they are.

In a sense, there's a dissimilar similarity with salaries for sportsmen who play offensive vs ones who play defense. The former score, the later blunder, and that is reflected in their egos and their salaries. Nobody knows who is more decisive in making the team win matches.

And yes, the above is just an opinion. AFAIK, there is no good way to measure whether exec A is better than exec B for job C.
How is that even legal?

Whether it's legal doesn't matter very much in practice if you lack the means to enforce your theoretical legal rights. For small sums, it's not worth the time to go to court for most people. In the US legal system, it's probably not worth it even for quite large sums, if you're likely to get stuck with paying significant legal bills even if you win.

For serious money, it probably becomes worthwhile to take action in apparently black and white cases like this, but I suspect many advertisers using Facebook ads (and Google etc.) are small outfits that never really spend serious money. They can effectively be mistreated with impunity regardless of anything the law says, unless they have recourse to something like charging back the payment for the campaign and relying on repossession of the funds being 9/10 of the law.
Since 1930 productivity in my home country Sweden has increased fivefold, mainly due to technical achievements. Does that mean that we work 20% of the time we did then? No it does not. Wealth has increased of course since the 1930s, and perhaps we want a higher material standard.

But also consider than since the 1970s productivity in Sweden has doubled. Does that mean we work 4 hour days instead of 8 hour days now? No, of course not. Instead, since the 1970s we work 100 hours more each year.

As a society i feel that we should be using the technical achievements to give us more time for the things and the people that we love. Is that too much to ask for?
Could you be more specific?

There is plenty of general advice around, but a complete lack of actionable steps to take.
Ask HN: Why Does Craigslist Have No Official Mobile Apps?
It's reasonably beyond doubt that mobile is where most people will access information online - including classifieds. I understand Craigslist was founded on the desktop web however my question is; why do they still not have a native app for mobile? Is this due to resource, or perhaps a business or philosophical choice?

Ebay appear to have revived their marketplace businesses with Ebay.com, Gumtree etc on mobile. Personally in regards to ecommerce, I much prefer mobile to the desktop experience.
That's how it should be, but I suspect that in most cases, people work simply because they are supposed to.

E.g. (quoting the article)

> If it is 2pm, then I will stop what I’m doing and start work on the report Bob asked for.

What's the long term goal here?
Being in good terms with Bob? Keeping your job? Are those the goals that you should care about?
Additionally, it means serving photo assets can be way faster. The authentication step is done at page generation (essentially inserting an obscure URL), so the photo can be moved to a CDN or non-application code server.

It's pretty standard practice. For example, Gmail does something very similar for attachments.
"move fast and break things" seems to apply to customer service too. is it legal? surely not, but given that our overall ad spend was much larger we didn't have the time/couldn't be bothered to chase FB. As some colleagues see this: "the bright side is that in the long run we have saved money, as we are no longer going to advertise with FB"

We thought of creating a post about this experience on our company's blog, but given that we are not a "tech focused" company, and this post wouldn't fit with our clients/blog readers interest, we decided not write about it.
Does their website work well in a mobile browser?
It's Python on ZeroVM.

I'm interested in the seccomp option, but it looks pretty intimidating to setup. I suspect I could do much of what I need with AppArmor, but I have no idea how to apply that to a single Docker container.

Edit: I also tried the MBox sandbox, but it doesn't work on Ubuntu.
DNS 101: A Journey Within (Part I)
ChatSecure is using XMPP
You still have to find the money to pay that universal basic income.

IIRC, the idea is to get that money by taxing capital and making it cheaper to hire people. As you indicate, getting it by taxing labor leads businesses to automate away labor, making it even harder to get that money from taxes on labor.

Think of it: that $5 an hour job currently costs a company $10 an hour or so. Without taxes on labor, they could pay $7 for a win-win situation. Even paying $5 would still be win-win, as the employee would have his basic income plus the $5 an hour.
Actually I see Python as a good example why you want to change. Python 3 has much cleaner concepts than Python 2: Strings are not byte arrays, use efficient generators by default, etc. On the other extreme take a look at C++: Lot's of ugly as hell syntax and pitfalls because of decades of backwards compatibility. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6939986/c-nested-constru... for an example of both.

> Everybody who gets shit done is still using 2.x because they need the old libraries.

And, btw., I hold each and everyone of these responsible as part of the chicken-and-egg problem.
Given that we know from leaked slides that the NSA has a policy of restricting the use of exploits in order to avoid information about them being compromised, and that obtaining the same level of access through code execution would involve leaving code behind that's at risk of being detected whereas this leaves no trace - which is actually the bigger compromise?
Isn't gardening a popular hobby amongst the rich?
quality is a bit different though.
It's a box
Unity powered game, made in 10 hours by UCD students at EA's hackathon CodeDay2014
Compensate them appropriately, how about?
>There just isn't that much money.

A $10k/yr income for every American would cost $3T.

Current US gov't spending is over $6.4T.
my guess lawyers
What kind of fictional characters should I allow to influence my world view? Those from books written in the 20th century? Shakespeare? The Illiad? Any advice appreciated.
An Interesting Tesco Shelf Replenishment Development
It was probably in response to a question about a specific problem, in which you could argue one was better than the other.
The same thing that keeps them from raising prices today:

Competition.
Robotics on the cheap: artificial muscle made from fishing wire.
There is a lot of joy to be had in doing something for someone, that they want done so much that they are willing to pay you for the work. After I've slogged 80 hours in a week on something, getting a huge fat check from my customer is a great joy, indeed.

Its not work that matters - its the formal exchange of value that occurs when someone pays you for something you've done for them, because they want to pay you that amount and are happy to do so.

The value of work is in the exchange - not the doing, not the acting, not the 'being a worker' mentality - but in actually receiving a great reward which prolongs ones own life and increased ability to survive in the world.

Fat checks are great! Work hard for them: even greater!
it does have a basic mobile site that has the same functionality as the main site
Would this work for utility companies too? How about mega food corps (http://www.miaatipx.com/corporations1.jpg as an example), who probably have very good statistics about what percentage of the population in an area regularly buys (and "can't live without") their products, and thus figure out the optimal price increases for each area? Gas? Cars? And what about the partners of all these other companies whose customers are other businesses not individuals, but are going to start charging more and expecting the customer business to pass it along to their individual customer -- refineries, mines, mills, graineries, farms, storage warehouses... (As I mentioned before, everyone who has anything to sell will want as big a piece of this new income that they can get and will raise prices to try and find out how much they can capture without starting to make less profit than before. Over infinite time and with everyone having perfect information of the market, I think $x/yr would become the new $0/yr.)

Is it fair for me to think that universal basic income, if it has any chance of achieving its stated goals, is insufficient by itself at least when expressed as "give every living adult $x/yr" and nothing else? Now if the only effect of UBI is making a new $0 baseline and nothing else being changed on average, then it can't hurt that much by itself, so it may be worth trying in a limited area (such as a smaller country like the mentioned Switzerland) just to get an experimental result on record before trying it out on an economy the size of the US. But when you have to do all this other stuff to make UBI achieve its goals, like have the government build housing (it already does and has done that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green), it makes me wonder why even bother with UBI itself and instead just get busy with the other things.
Sure, I guess it does work but from a distribution perspective, they could probably reach a larger audience with apps (The UI could also be improved but that's another debate).

You could argue their current approach works for their mission - though not consumers.
% curl www.google.com/humans.txt
Google is built by a large team of engineers, designers, researchers,
robots, and others in many different sites across the globe. It is
updated continuously, and built with more tools and technologies than
we can shake a stick at. If you'd like to help us out, see
google.com/jobs.
Defence is best in depth.

Put all your login etc on a separate box. Have that box send code to the dedicated runner box to be run.

Boot your runner's host OS from CD and reboot each midnight too.

Plus the zerovm in docker and everything you already have. And look at firewalling and rescinding capabilities to further isolate the sandbox.
It's much smaller, and apparently far less back pressure.

Watch this video:
http://youtu.be/Hm-jX-rSKS8?t=2m4s

Around 2 minutes.

You'll see it being removed, how large it is in the instrument, as well as the reactions.
Tips on getting your MVP Funded By A VC
Check their comment history. Haters gonna hate.
we only hire experts at google

Combined with the fact that Google ties roles with geographic location, and doesn't reveal what post people will work on during recruitment, this assertion is quite amusing. I suppose he thought he was an expert too! That interviewer is selecting for hubris with this question at least - often those willing to call themselves experts are anything but.

If the best people in x live happily in Toronto and Bangkok and the team is in Mountain View, Google won't be hiring them or even probably interviewing them because of their opaque and broken interview process, which is a shame for Google I guess. The insistence on relocation and the refusal to recruit for actual roles must put an awful lot of good people off.
That last line:

> Customs when returning home to the United States. See? It was all just a harmless mixup.

I suppose it was meant as a joke, but I find it chilling.
That people are willing to pay for something does not indicate value. The same old story of price vs value. The last finantial crisis is a great example of being able to sell something without(or lesser) value. Value is a great market, but it is not directly proportional to value.

Another example, is that if you are sick and about to die, the value of the cure for you is infinite, so you would pay everything you have an everything you will ever have if you had to. Value != Price.
It should be a given that Apple provides a fix for OS X as soon as possible. On the other hand, it is telling that Apple gave priority to iOS.

(Although priority is relative even for iOS. We have many iOS devices in the family and not a single one had asked to install the fix until yesterday evening. The fix, however, was available after a manually initiated update check.)
The thing that really bites about this is the idea that the NSA could have taken advantage of the vulnerability rather than alerting apple to it.

The idea that they are as fiercely hostile to the security of millions of americans as taking advantage of the vuln would require, is absolutely terrifying.
An Australian here - there is absolutely no universal basic income in Australia.

We have a nurturing social safety net and it provides some minimal payments for those who are experiencing hardship. These payments are temporary and a meant to help individuals survive while they get up on their feet again. The selection criteria is quite forgiving because the system is setup to err on the side of overpayments rather than risking people in genuine need to go homeless. Therefore, there are a small group people who take advantage of the system, but it is not designed to be anything like a universal basic income.
Since YC alumni are now doing the preliminary application reviews, is there a process to avoid an unintentional conflict of interest (ie, an alumnus viewing a potential competitor's application)? Perhaps prescreening by YC staff and assignment to specific alumni for review?

Please forgive me if the question seems redundant. I am reluctant to even ask as YC has a reputation of integrity. However, the mantra that "ideas are worthless" causes concern that perhaps precautions might not be taken to avoid such a scenario (because by implication, it would seem this could be viewed as a non-event). My apologies if I have misunderstood the views of YC on the matter.
SVG Ironman
I don't know but all this looks like Reptilian conspiration telling young people if they don't feel like working they should not. You should party hard YOLO and that kind of stuff, then comes reality and depression, creating miserable adults who are lonely and have unrealistic expectations of life.
Here is an interesting basic income calculator:

http://mattbruenig.com/basicincomecalculator/

Happily, it suggests lots of proverty reduction is achievable with a very manageable percentage of GDP.
But it's getting to the point where dishwashing might not even be available as a job.

Right now, that's not the case yet. But it's not hard to imagine a future where it is.
Many menial jobs are getting automated and it's just getting worse and worse.

Soon, we will have to do something about it. These protests and revolutions are spreading like the plague. And social unrest is bad for everyone, including business. One day, it will become a necessity.

Just look at countries like Japan and Korea. Too many over-qualified people and not enough jobs. People are hired to do menial task like tearing tickets out of machines and handing it to people in a car. Suicide in these countries are skyrocketing because of hyper-competition.

In the rest of the world, these people don't commit suicide, they just gather into a big crowd and start protesting, violently.

There is definitely enough money to make work. The goverment just has to be smarter about allocating its budget.
I'd also add that SPA[1]/client-side applications are also an important consumer of databases with decent JSON support.

The "backend" for these types of applications are often relatively thin API wrappers around a database, with the bulk of application logic on the client-side.

Postgres' JSON improvements over the last couple of years have made it a pretty good choice already for these sorts of things, but the JSON indexing improving would make this a no-brainer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application
Works great and could get me using Google Music again. I wish Google would realise that for some things desktop apps are better than the browser currently and they should support that.
Some people view passion as an important part of motivation in a job - as in a passion for robotics meaning a programmer spends more time and energy in solutions for a particular team that makes robots than they would otherwise in any other position.

Clearly, given your process, you won't be hiring people who are passionate about certain areas, though they will be happy to work on anything, so the hiring process suits you and finds you generalists who are happy to work on any project (exactly what you want), but it will put off some potential employees.
So what? Do the Medicare numbers work for anyone? Health insurance in the USA is the worst in the world and costs more than anyone's else. USA citizens still use it and actively fight any substantial towards a more rational scheme that will offer more and cost less (ultimately). This as the basic income, is not about math - it's about politics.

NOTE: I don't mean politics in the negative sense, I mean it in the sense of ones beliefs/experiences/political-stance/etc.
In short - market. One landlord raises too much, tenants smash some buses and move to another apartment complex. Yes, there will be some inflation in rent market and other consumer goods, but unlikely so drastic.

UBI funds have to come from somewhere. Depending on the source of the money, UBI will either create low inflation or large inflation.

As a matter of fact, I suspect that recent min wage increase by feds is an attempt to induce inflation. All this money are going to be spent - basically creating larger money supply in consumer sector, and, maybe finally inducing some inflation feds are trying to start since 2008. Look at priced tags of recent tech acquisitions - some sectors of economy already value money much less than consumer sector.
I haven't been keeping up, but a year ago Google wasn't using any static analyzer at all on Chrome. They didn't use a real memory access checker like valgrind even to load a blank page, although they came up with a weaker memcheck that mostly works.

Lax development is par for the course at these mega corps.
If you're a gamer, think of it as Skyrim: you have to craft a lot of iron daggers before you can make dragon armors, but it's worth it :)

(that or install a mod, but I haven't found the editor for RealLife yet)
Seriously mate, get with the program...
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What about the Donauinsel, the Prater, the Lainzer Tiergarten, the Wienerwald, and all those smaller parks scattered around the city? I don't think have had much time yet to learn to know Vienna.
It's hard to do when you have users counted in billions, and photos counted in trillions, and then have those photos stored across multiple datacenters and served globally through many CDN endpoints.

It is undeniably possible, but the cost (money, performance) is so extreme and the benefits so small (the edge case of people sharing confidential things by copying file URLs when they are always going to be able to take a screenshot in an undetectable and sharable way)... that it just does not come out as a thing worth doing.

Then when one considers that the faster you can make file serving and the UX of the web site and app, the more responsive and higher the engagement... which means increased likelihood to click adverts too.

So you have a huge cost, with little benefit, vs a drop in speed and potential impact to advert revenue.

No reasonable company is going to say that this should be done unless there is an overwhelming business reason to do so (i.e. you are Box and storing company secrets and the liability of leaking them is extreme).
Europeans are already working a lot less hours than american. It's ridiculous that many Americans can't even get 2 weeks of vacation. Things are even more brutal in developed Asian countries, and that's why their suicide rate is so high.
[Patch] Apple OSX 10.9.x SSL Key Verification Vulnerability (CVE-2014-1266)
Julia is looking more and more like a language that could replace C++ either for systems programming, scientific libraries or plain old business applications requiring high performance.
Clipping, not digging.
I said this in another comment, but what works for me is publicly pledging to work for x number of hours on y project or else I give z dollars to some charity.

Where x is normally between 2-10

y is anything

z is normally 10

If you are procrastinating right now, give it a go. Go on twitter or facebook and say if I don't work for 2 hours on Akasha(a project), I will donate $10 to watsi(the charity).

I think when setting goals we hope for some reward in the future, but the brain doesn't value rewards as much as it hate losses(loss aversion). YMMV
I've just sent an email to the vim_dev@googlegroups.com mailing list. I asked his opinion on the Neovim project.

The subject for my email is "Neovim", so let's wait and see what his opinion is.
It's always funny when you use one of those little tools to scaffold a little app and then realize that 500M of disk space were used to setup a simple hello world example.
I am not one so I can't really do that :P
It was completely irresponsible not to release the OS X fix at the same time as the ios fix. Apple also needs to setup a way to alert users when an update fixes an important security fix.

None of my ios devices asked to install the fix and I had to do a manual update check. This should not happen for major security issues.
The one thing I find that works with nearly all these is reasonably simple. It may be a broader solution than the Pomodoro Technique but it borrows some of the same focus.

What I do is take a task I am avoiding and come up with a small piece of it I can reasonably do as a goal. It might be a task I can do in 15 minutes. It might be something I might need two hours to do.

I then follow that to completion, and then decide whether to bump the rest of the task of and get started on something else or whether to continue.

Usually for the tasks I feel like I don't have a solid grasp on how to do this helps, but I may still bump part of it down the road. For the tasks I am avoiding for administrative reasons or don't feel like, this gets me started.

An important point though is that the bumped task is less intimidating and smaller than it was when I started, meaning it is less likely to happen again.
Finally a Chrome app to play Flash videos on Chromebooks
Thank you: Neovim bountysource goal reached in 48hrs
Maybe for the same reason HN does not have an API and developers are forced to scrape the site.
The deployment on iOS was not very active either. I learned about the 'bug' through online sources and I had to initiate the iOS update myself.
I am not an unconditional advocate for Basic Income but I think that the idea is intriguing and could potentially be very efficient. I am not going to argue about what BI could or could not do but I would really like to see more experiments with it to have some tangible information. I would rather see that it fails than hope that it would work. Of course, I'll be delighted to see it work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income
Many apps use WebKit and are therefore affected too. It is in particular obvious for special purpose browsers like Mailplane.
Anything that shows a big corp doing bad to small corp will attract interest. Go ahead and write a blog with evidence and all. I am sure it will raise eyebrows on atleast HN.