skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general sales people are hired on a 12 month "understanding". The unwritten rule is they basically have 12 months to produce or get out.

The control is that they usually have lower base salaries than you'd think, but they can produce virtually unlimited income off commission if they can sell...usually with all kinds of thresholds in their employment contract on deals (e.g. 7% on deals <$50k 10% on deals >=$50k and <$250k).

It can take months to close a deal like that, so you can't just do a 90-day or GTFO trial like with other positions. But at the same time, if they aren't producing you'll know after a year. If you look at the resumes of professional sales persons, they'll usually have lots of ~12 month positions.

Good salespeople should also be bringing with them their contact lists and be able to start sourcing things very quickly. You have to make sure thought that their contacts are relevant to your company. A guy with deep insurance industry contacts might not be helpful in a B2C company.

They'll often also need to take over the pipeline that was in the works when they came on board, establish new contacts with that pipeline and go forward. They should also have basic managerial experience and know how to manage an inside sales person, a sales engineer, etc. They should be able to run a sales pipeline and figure out equitable commission sharing schemes with their team.

Something that's very hard to find it not only somebody who can do the above, but also actually sell. For example, if you sell complex software, finding a sales person who can provide even a basic demo of the software is like trying to skin a bag of rabid cats while you're in the bag. But you can use this problem as a filter. Give them access to your software and some information about it and have them come back in a week to do a 15-minute high-level sales demo and sell you your own software. If they can't at least do that, then you can pass and move on.
not realizing that as white men, they have literally no say in the matter

...Wait, we're excluding people from discussions on the basis of race and gender now? And calling that "forward-thinking"?
My guess (as someone who worked for a decade+ as a journalist before leaving to create http://recent.io/) is increased competition for readers and advertising dollars. What <guywithabike> said is correct, especially the decline of print. Who wants to wait a month or two to find out more about yesterday's watch announcement? How many HN readers are actually paying for a print subscription to MacWorld?

Also, even if MacWorld moved entirely online, it's not like its web site is one of the only places to find this info, as the print magazine was in the 1980s. A lot of news organizations that are fierce competitors now simply didn't exist a decade or two ago. Hence today's major layoffs as opposed to reassigning the existing staff to the web. (When I look at the Recent.io knowledge graph, the top of the list of news organizations that cover Apple includes: Fool.com, Cult of Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, BGR, and TUAW.)

I wouldn't be surprised to see MacWorld with legacy costs and pay structures that make it less competitive against these upstarts.

Some of the ex-MacWorld journalists who are freshly unemployed are looking for jobs, so if you know of anyone who's hiring in this area, I'm sure they'd appreciate the pointer:
https://twitter.com/PhilipMichaels/status/509752573763407873
https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/509749300683735041
https://twitter.com/danfrakes/status/509756139831975936
This sounds like a comment from the Apple design team itself.

The Apple watch looks very common and cheap; the only good thing about its look is that it is highly personalizable.
Using $http and callbacks is great to get started but it doesn't scale up to large apps very well.
Maybe a solution would be to focus on more in-depth style articles that cover exclusive information. I'm not sure that there's enough creativity around today for a publisher to be comfortable doing it but that'd be a way to produce non-daily content, if that makes sense.
Wonder why this is so far off the front page with so many points in under an hour.
What is the point of this article? New iphone has barometer, some android phone dropped thermo/hygrometer support, some other folks made dongles which communicate via 3.5mm...so what.
MacWorld was such a big part of my childhood, and a catalyst for why I'm able to make a living making things on the web today.

I hope the talented writers and editors who've been laid off get snapped up quickly.
Would be interesting to analyze favorite youtube videos that have stayed with the viewers.
I said that `site:` doesn't take full urls, just domains and subdomains.

Correction: this works as you (or a muggle) might expect: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%...

...Though logically the operator should be named `page:` now. :)
Google's robots.txt http://www.google.com/robots.txt disallows /search but not //search.

However, if you search site:http://www.google.com/search
and show omitted search results, you get a bunch of results (all 404s).

If you do this there are some strange results on the last couple pages.

For example:
Obama won't salute the flag |
Phallectomy |
horse+mating+video |
feral+horses+induced+abortion |
Lactating+dog+images |
animal+mating+video |
mating+mpg+-beastiality+-...

So, Half Life 3 confirmed.
My password is on the list (afforess@gmail.com). I used a unique password for my Google account that I have never ever used for anything else. So I don't see how this leak could be anything but a leak from Google's servers.

I have 2FA and its been enabled for years. So I guess I am safe.

Link to full dump of emails (without passwords): https://mega.co.nz/#!rgFDDRSD!QyyLxZNnR8i9fF_aNkKI-wUIUV3fjX...
I live in the US and I can't get home internet
The frame of the Replicator 2 is very simple. You can get a 40$ sheet metal brake at harbor freight and a blind rivet setup for 20$. It was just an excuse on the part of makerbot to take things closed source.

Everyone should have a rivet gun though. Extremely useful when you have sheet metal that needs to be fastened.
Just in case anyone else was wondering what the most expensive rate is...

Array.prototype.slice.call($$('td')).sort(function(a, b) { return parseInt(a.textContent.replace(/\D+/g, "")) - parseInt(b.textContent.replace(/\D+/g, "")); }).slice(-1)[0].parentNode

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Thanks everyone. Date added.
Skype is available on more platforms, including Blackberry, Windows Phone, OS X, 'Skype Landlines', Kindle Fire HD, TVs, Xbox, Playstation, even iPod.

Skype is a standalone application where the only account you need is a Skype one, which is free, and isn't tied to any personal information other than an e-mail address.

If you've ever tried to run Hangouts from a 'non-supported' operating system / distribution / architecture / browser / mobile device, it doesn't freaking work. It's not designed as a proper stand-alone application so it simply doesn't work on platforms it wasn't designed for. Skype is a static application designed to run on basically anything.

Google appears to be the one lagging behind both Apple and Microsoft in terms of shipping free video calling with their platform. They have a lot of ground to cover in terms of user experience and getting users to switch from the established Skype and Facetime camps.
The transition to mixed print/digital or all digital. Not handled well by magazine people. Some are making the transition (The Economist, Popular Mechanics) some are not (MacWorld and pretty much every other IDG title).
IDG is slowly dying. I don't think they'll see 2025, possibly not even 2020.
The only time I've ever bought a copy was when I was flying and needed something to read while taking off and landing, and even those days are gone now. Pretty sure I read maybe one page.
Unity3d alone completely invalidates this claim.
I've added an issue to chidley to generate these classes, in addition to the Java/JAXB classes it produces now: https://github.com/gnewton/chidley/issues/4

(Of course only for json generation from XML)
Does nobody here understand robots.txt? It's pretty easy to figure out what's going on if you do. I assumed most users here work with web technologies, but maybe the readership doesn't skew that way as much as I thought.
Tesla Gigafactory Announcement
I was at the original iPhone launch for CNET, and there was a lot of stress, as you say. But watching Steve Jobs unveil it was a magical experience, and it also was very much a perk of the job.
If tokens are automatically stored in localStorage and automatically pulled out of it, aren't you right back to being open to CSRF? That doesn't seem meaningfully different than cookies.
the generic solution is:

https://github.com/mozilla/localForage
This is all wrong.

Or else, we're failing as a species.

An individual, or any group of individuals, should be able to sustain themselves by their own work, as long as there are enough resources in the environment (or ecosystem).

Given that children are not self sustaining, individuals, or rather couples, but even more so, groups of individuals (villages, tribes, countries), should be able to get even more resources than their own need by their own work, so as to feed their children, their women and their olds. Or better, capitalize resources so they can feed themselves when they're old.

A society that would really need fresh blood, that had too many taxes or retirement pensions to pay, and where women cannot bear children because they have to work to sustain themselves, since men aren't retributed enough to feed their families all by themselves, those societies are beyond failure. They have effectively failed. It's done.

But I'm not sure that's the case in Europe or in the USA. I still think that there are enough resources, and even more than ever, given techological and scientific progress; eg. 200 years ago, 98% of the population had to work to feed the remaining 2%; nowadays 1% of the population has to work to feed the remaining 99%; therefore people should be able to work productively 4 days a year (not at those useless jobs), and earn enough resources to feed himself. Working 12 more days a year, he should earn enough resource to feed his wife and two children. Similarly, to shelter and clothe oneself shouldn't require much more work. All the rest goes to pay taxes of all kinds, that we shouldn't have to bear with.

http://www.thevenusproject.com/
Really? setf is about assigning value to things which are accessed indirectly, via an accessor of some (any) kind. In other words, setf defines what should be seen (observed) when the given accessor is called.

How is it different than what's described in the article? I mean, I don't know Idris, have no idea what codata is and only skimmed the article, but the similarity seems obvious.
Looks nice, but there is a lot of whitespace near the top and bottom of blogs. Have to scroll to see the main content.

But otherwise a great tool!
Let's say their employees are paid $100k each per year (average). And let's say they cost $50k work workplace/perks/... each.

Then let's say they lose 10%-15% of revenue in licencing cost (apple, ms, google, xbox, and let's say some facebook/twitter campaigns and software).

So then you'd have $322m * 0.85 - 40 * $150k - 128m (notch's pay) = 139m profit.

That looks reasonably close on the money. So you'd expect net income to be about $265 million.
For those writing largish non-trivial apps its essential to separate concerns for maintainability and testability. Controllers and UI logic get separated from domain logic and your Model layer. $scope is no Model layer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8295817 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8209351 are related.
Quite. My wife works for a discovery vendor and while computers help a lot may things require judgment calls - the other day, for example, she spent an hour redacting handwritten expletives and strategy questions (which were privileged) that had been scrawled in the margins of a discoverable document. Although the cost of document review has fallen due to outsourcing, even a small matter typically involves hundreds of thousands of documents these days. A large one (like an SEC enforcement action) can involve tens of millions.

One other thing to bear in mind if prosecutors and plaintiff's attorneys start putting mroe people on the stand is that while the level of proof in criminal trials is that guilt be established 'ebyond a reasonable doubt', in civil trials (eg lawsuits by disgruntled investors or former business partners), the standard is 'preponderance of the evidence' - the trier of fact is justified in drawing inferences where evidence points towards it, even if there is no 'smoking gun', eg a series of communications leading up to a vanished CyberDust conversation.

Of course the other possibility is one that is ironically showcased in the article: you might believe you are communicating ephemerally, while your correspondent is taking screenshots of everything you send.
Why I think mobile payments should be banned on campus
Is there "responsive book design" targeted at human brains instead of web browsers? Important books could have different versions for different audiences, and readers could change the version on the fly.
symbiosis with cats and dogs carried our civilization through thousands of years. Now we're forgetting it and just exterminating cats and dogs - yearly only in US about 6-10M are put to death.
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Nice! These results must represent all the hrefs people have posted that point to google search...
Of course, we shouldn't be surprised that the other extreme is also bad, if not worse. Especially since "dictatorship" as it's used excludes monarchical systems, in some cases fairly absolute, but that include formally passing on the reign to one's heirs,

I'm quite uncertain how useful it is to observe systems like open source projects where the stakes are so very low compared to governing a polity.

The extreme of dictatorship says nothing about the middle, such as a republic with a limited franchise (e.g. own land or pay a hefty poll tax), or adding other types of bodies to government. Such as the US Senate back when its members were picked by state legislatures, or a power sharing arrangement between a monarch and a legislative body or three, like the U.K. of long ago.
How Apple’s Jony Ive Became the World’s Most Important Infomercial Star
hell I have seen people laid off on employee appreciation day, fortunately they allowed them to enjoy the free lunch first.
1. Then you haven't seen very much sugar. Take a look at the transformations used in Racket, for instance. Entire parts of the language that would be built into other languages are seamlessly expressed through extremely sophisticated sugar. You can "argue" all you want, but it's a perfectly sensible language definition approach, and it works superbly, without any clear indication of anything having "gone wrong".

2. I don't know what it means for "sugar" to be or not be "decidable": that sentence isn't even type-correct. But even guessing at what you might mean, making something language-specific isn't going to help you, assuming a typical Turing-complete language, if the underlying problem is not decidable. (I don't even know what a language-independent "magical sugaring oracle" might be, because any "sugaring" procedure would have to be defined relative to some language that it works on. Except, maybe, in the "magical" case, about which I don't know very much, I'm afraid.)

Of course you can approximate it – you can always approximate anything you want – but you're then solving a different problem. It's fine perfectly to define that as the problem you want solved. But it helps to be clear about what one wants, and the OP was not.
I was surprised The Barbican wasn't mentioned.

I went there (from the US) for a trade show several years ago, and the low ceilings were oppressive. Can't imagine what the tower flats were like.
While I see your point, I cannot agree with you. Business is not separated from the people that form it. Yes, good businesses are profitable. Yes, if it weren't for the profits, there should be no businesses.

But from my point of view, when you hire someone to work for you, you have some moral (if not legal) obligations with that person. You could say that laying them off was "good, financially". Maybe it was even the only thing to do. As I don't know the specifics, I don't blame Macworld for that.

Although, it is part of your businesses COSTS dealing correctly with your employees. Making theses costs disappear is not "maximizing profit". That is turning your head on a cost you have to pay in order for your business to work.

If you do not do that, you will pay the consequences. Dealing incorrectly with people will hurt you not in a way you can represent in your books, but will definitely hurt you.

Good businessmen are wise if they treat their employees well. It need not be for a higher sense of morality (although it should be), as there are at least a couple of good self-interested reasons to do so.
Thanks, I had no idea why you were talking about thumbprints.
You may want to have a quick chat with an employment lawyer in your country before you make your first hire. Employees in the US are owed minimum wage by law, along with FICA taxes, unemployment insurance, etc. Interns are not a special case. There is not a legal way to have an unpaid intern who does marketing work for your business, nor to pay them less than minimum wage if their "profit sharing" happens to add up to less than that.

Have you considered running an affiliate program?
How feasible would it be to put a netflix cache box on each airplane? What capacity is required?
Off Peak, on Line
I have a Tactix GPS watch. One of the features that swayed me for that instead of cheaper ones is "a battery life of up to 50 hours in GPS mode (depends on settings) and up to 5 weeks in watch mode." So I don't worry about it, and it doesn't take long to charge when I notice it's about half uncharged. And if I ever go that long and forget ... so what? I have a phone.

So probably the answer to your question is no, I would not. I have a long lived GPS watch, and I already charge my phone once every few days (Moto X).

Whenever I'm in a context where I could use a smart watch (as opposed to an athletic watch), I have my phone anyway, which is better (for me).

I'm also curious if a smart watch is subject to a voided warranty if the water detector dot inside indicates water got inside, like a phone. My watch is advertised waterproof to 50m, which is much deeper than the odd creek or a toilet.
I thought you were joking about those search keywords, but indeed: http://i.marceldegraaf.net/sitehttpwww.google.comsearch_-_Go... (screenshot)
Gear Circle requires a smartphone for connectivity. I'm interested to see what kind of battery life the Gear S is able to get with a 300mAh battery.
Seconding that, and it should be well known around here that Apple in many cases wasn't the first company with a certain product – and they don't need be. (Though I'm really curious how the whole watch thing turns out)

TL;DR Article's point unclear, essentially a list (of existing-pre-apple stuff), the only remote possibility of a point long well known.
On the other hand, we could imagine, given the kind of occupations we can dedicate ourselves to productively nowadays, that the "professionnal" and economic environments wouldn't be detrimental to the birth rate and the families.

Basically, if you work not because you need it, but because you have something to contribute, you should be able to do that while raising a family at the same time.

Ie. I think that citizen revenue would help greatly in this aspect.
The startup world is one big hoax
> Does that mean he should stop and go back to being a barracuda?

Of course not.

> It's certainly not fair to make the comparison of saving one life in exchange for taking another.

It's exactly the right example because it makes the moral choice clear and that same choice applies to the lesser scenario.

> A better comparison would be

We don't need a better comparison, it's already been made clear that you can't make up for sins against one by helping another.
Now google will index searches of its own searches.
one of mine was too, however the password was an old one from quit a long time ago.
Given how many comments there are mentioning how lowbrow this list is (which I don't necessarily disagree with), maybe you could offer some suggestions of books which have stayed with you?

Personally, Godel Escher Bach was pretty formative on my path to becoming a programmer; and The New Jim Crow is a monument to overkill, there are so many statistics that it's impossible to read the entire thing and not come to believe her thesis.
How to Land a Plane in an Emergency
Evidence for Peter Thiel's Pessimism About Technological Innovation?
There's a little nod to it toward the end: "London's Trellick Tower and The Barbican are now both listed and desirable places to live."