skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 14. Humiliate people in public.

If you have to choose only one item from the list, this one is really, shockingly effective and easy to implement. My wife was in tears the other day because she made two trivial, easily-fixable errors on some paperwork she was doing as a stand-in for someone who was out sick. She fixed the errors and resubmitted it when they were brought to her attention, but her boss still sent the original one around to the entire office as an example of how not to do the paperwork, offering a prize to anyone who could spot all of the errors on it, and all-but-outright-stated that anyone who would submit paperwork in such shape was a moron.

I'm willing to believe that her boss is just a complete fucking idiot and meant it to be funny, but it was extremely cruel and totally uncalled for. Publicly humiliating your newest employee for the incredible crime of "volunteering to help take care of something when the person responsible is out sick" is really, really dumb and a great way to ensure that nobody ever helps anybody else with anything. It's working, because while we were on vacation she came back to a huge pile of work that nobody had even made an effort to handle, even though anyone in the office could have pitched in. And since she's a fast learner, she's also stopped helping other people when they're out sick, because it can only possibly lead to either 1) Her doing more work for no recognition, or 2) Her doing more work for no recognition and getting publicly mocked for doing something wrong.

For some mysterious reason, the office she works for has a hard time retaining employees and a hard time hiring new ones. People also take a LOT of (unpaid) sick days there, which are informally known as "sick of all the bullshit" days, because they're happier staying home without pay than coming to work and dealing with their manager.
I recommend reading the rest of the article; the author describes multiple state laws that apply in this case.
I've been on exercism for a while and this is the first time I've ever heard such a claim. The headline seems to be based on this weaker remark in the article: "it could help the legions of people out there trying to learn to code well enough to land a job in this fast-growing field". And even that isn't directly based on any quote from anyone related to the site.

exercism is definitely a volunteer-driven, open-source operation, and the exercises come from people willing to contribute them. I was going through the OCaml exercises and found that one of them had an error[1]; I submitted a pull request and it was accepted within hours.

I think this is a case of a clickbait headline that doesn't do justice to the article nor the subject.

[1] Unlike some similar sites, exercism doesn't actually build and test your submissions. This makes the site much simpler and cheaper to run, but also makes a point that simply passing the included test suite is only the first step. But it also sometimes results in sloppily-written exercises for the more marginal languages.
The letter that the authors submitted to Maryland's attorney general (http://james.grimmelmann.net/files/legal/facebook/MDAG.pdf) point out that Maryland's HB 917 -- which essentially applies the federal Common Rule to private companies who do business in Maryland -- defines "research" as "a systematic investigation ... designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge."

That definition is so vague that practically any sort of interaction with a person in which any information about the interaction is recorded and analyzed can be construed as research. If a Girl Scout troop makes a graph of which neighborhoods buy the most cookies ... boom, that's research on human subjects.

I'd be interested to know whether any entity has been prosecuted for violating HB 917. I can't imagine that the extreme vagueness of the definition would hold up against a determined challenge.

What puzzles me is why James Grimmelman, J.D., and Leslie Meltzer Henry, J.D., think that the ultra-vague definition of "research" is legally tenable. Like, can't they anticipate the objections to the definition -- that it effectively bans all sorts of everyday actions that no reasonable person wants to subject to these sort of legal hurdles?
Is Giganews an FBI Front?
And that's not to mention the fact that each user had effectively "signed" a TOS agreement that no doubt covers these sorts of scenarios. Informed consent (as I understand it, might very well be wrong) is given if the user in question had the materials made available to them for a sufficient enough time frame to understand both scope and intent.

You could probably argue that legalese pushes the boundary of "understanding scope and intent", but included in every TOS is a contact link for a user to learn more and ask questions so I'd be surprised if there was legal footing for that complaint.

The ethical nature of what they did is certainly in question, but I just don't see how one could declare either action "illegal".

EDIT: s/signs/signed/
Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of the phrase "on this news."

Perhaps you do understand, but it makes you feel good to say something nasty about bitcoin. And that feeling is more important to you than honest discussion.
Because humans are always the weakest link in any security mechanism. In the context of the government spying on you, it doesn't matter if you encrypt all your communication. The government can still force you (and/or your friends and loved ones) to give them what they want, and do it in a way that is completely secret (e.g. gag orders). When viewed in this light, encryption is simply an inconvenience for them.
How to Train for a Triathlon while working long startup hours
Agreed. Bitcoin is not competitive for small transactions. Given the average transaction confirmation time of 7 minutes (which will never go down) it clearly was not meant to be.
this is all you need to know .. http://www.theonion.com/articles/iphone-6-plus-vs-samsung-ga...
I wonder if a retailer hiking or cutting prices would fall afoul of the legal idea being pushed here. After all, it amounts to an experiment on people to discover the ideal price of a good.
Please add this sooner than "in the future". Obeying the robots.txt is a _MUST_ for any robots out there. This also from a content owner. Thank you.
The actual link - http://sixcolors.com/post/2014/09/the-dropbox-terabyte-conun...
I firmly believe that MVP culture the writer is referring to comes from Venture Capital, as a way for VC's to ping the market state faster at the cost of individual startups.

In aggregate they get more data and more likelihood to get find a single success faster, but you as an individual startup are far less likely to find success.
The Common Rule linked doesn't apply to private businesses at all. So therefore I don't understand the author's point here?
Guys slightly off topic, but please do keep the colorblind people in mind. The colors used for the graphs are so similar that I can not differentiate them.
1. for recreation, to improve my cooking skills, and to not eat sandwiches/pizza all the time
2. I used to contract a basket of seasonal vegetables that would come weekly. I had to cook what I got. While this may sound suboptimal, it was a great experience for various reasons: I got to learn about new veggies I had never eaten before, I had to find and try new recipes to do away with the leftovers, and last but not least I always had some main ingredients to start with so I didn't stress on coming up with ideas for lunch
3. anything mediterranean/asian/not greasy
4. nope
Beats TD Waterhouse that used to charge me £17.50 per trade!
thanks! I've sent you an email. Also couldn't figure out how to use select boxes, radio buttons, or fill a specific text field on the page. The "expression" page in the doc is also 404. I guess you must have too much on your plate right now, so all this is just fyi.
and the WSJ has their take on climate change ..

http://online.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settle...
Hmm, I got to see Lonesome George in Pinta in 2005 and will take my kids to see him at the American Natural History Museum. But this makes me feel old, and mortal.
Transportation was a solved problem when horse carriages were invented. Every solved problem can be solved even better. Isn't that what most startups are about?
> Eventually it may get dull to the point where you might want a whetstone to sharpen it again, but you'd probably need to use your knife a decent amount before it gets to that point.

I completely disagree. It gets dull slow enough that you don't notice it, but there is a difference after 1 month and big difference after 4 months. Although it probably takes a year to get as dull as most people's knives. Although you did mention Shun knives which are much harder than the German steels.
There is also a core for security in there somewhere running an L4 microkernel, as described in the security guide[1] page 7

[1] http://images.apple.com/privacy/docs/iOS_Security_Guide_Sept...
The tutorial was quite excellent. Unfortunately I get stuck at the "zooming" portion. Pressing ctrl+[ does nothing for me. (Firefox 32.0 on Ubuntu 12.04)
More like OSX.

Poettering makes frequent references to it whenever he talks about his projects (Pulseaudio, Avahi, Systemd).
Sounds like U.S. has not been a sovereign country for sometime. It's intelligence service has been working for another country, passing sensitive information of its own citizens to Israel. Interesting. Even more interesting is that the bulk of the comments are on somewhere else whether this is a witch hunt or not, if it resembles to what Mr. Hoover did or did not do, if the committee in the past succeeded or not.
Creating a memory leak in Java
Why not using /tmp?
Yes, the data will probably be completely irrecoverable from an encrypted drive. However, instead of hoping that you will be able to recover data from a broken drive, back it up.

I strongly recommend Tarsnap[1] for that. All your data is encrypted before it leaves your machine, it is run by our very own 'cperciva, and the key used for encryption (which you need to store securely somewhere, like your parents' house or a bank) can even be printed so hard to destroy accidentally.

The key itself can be encrypted, too. You can use the same password you use to encrypt the drive and now you safely and securely store all your data in such a way that only you can ever access it by remembering a single, longer phrase.

(Although to be fair, another backup would probably be a good idea if the data is really important. Maybe another encrypted hard drive kept at work.)

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/
> Because someone can point a gun at your head to defeat ECC.

You can store an encrypted paper wallet in a safety deposit box at the bank if you're worried about that threat. You don't, however, need to hand it over to the bank to lend it out to bad debtors if you don't want to, which is the threat FDIC protects against.
sounds like you're an extrovert and the poster is introvert.

>However in terms of practical changes, this post can neither benefit you nor anyone else.

Your post can't benefit introverts the same way his can't extroverts like you.

Anyway, i'd argue that it isn't actually bad retention policies. They are actually quite good at retention. It is just that it retains the specific kind of employees, the ones that "learned to stop worrying and love ... err... it is actually enough just to stop worrying" (speaking from my personal experience - had worked and is currently working at such a place where the "not worrying" is the fundamental skill and the most of the current employees in the department have been here for 10+ years)
This makes no sense to me. The algorithms employed by Facebook, OkCupid et al. are not published and presumably changed regularly both to better serve their users and to advance commercial imperatives - apparently this is OK but if you measure the outcomes and call it an experiment it's not?

I don't buy this, as long as all representations made to customers about the service are met, it seems perfectly reasonable to tweak the already unknown algorithms behind the scenes for whatever reason.
1. I find the more natural (less processed) the food is, the better it is for you. I cook to ensure I know as much as possible what is in my food. Where possible I get my food from the butchers and green grocers and only go to the supermarket where necessary.

2. I don't plan ahead more than a day.

3. I cook meat and veg in some combination. If it was just me it would be a simple mix of meat with some veg and spices, probably with little variety. But I need to keep everyone happy, the wife is pretty picky and there are the kids. So I have to cook a variety of shapes and flavours. Our youngest kid is a good eater, probably because we have always fed her whole foods and little junk. Although she always prefers pizza and icecream she will eat most things we put down for her.

4. I try for paleo and succeed 80% of the time.

5. It is worth having a few dishes that you can consistently cook well. Once these are mastered then it is possible to start creating variations in those dishes to suit any situation. You can become quite versatile with just a few basic dishes.

Should also add, if you really want good food, grow your own. The difference in taste between a freshly picked tomato and a supermarket bought one is a world apart. This is what I am going to be focusing on next year.
It's also interested to look at the history of the Holocaust and the Nazis. They gassed the Roma/Gypises as well as the Jews.
It was yes, my mistake.

I read your link and it was a snoozefest, and I'm not really sure twitter posts count as references.

People want to see your code before they hire you. Github is a place to share code. That's it really - white male or not.

This is especially relevant to OP because he doesn't have commercial experience coding. Most interviewers will be nervous of this, a large portfolio accessible in a familiar format will alleviate much of their tension.

Don't forget, most interviews for the interviewer are basically an ass covering exercise. Nobody wants to be remembered as "the person that hired THAT guy".
(Disclaimer: tooting my own horn)

It sounds like you want my PhD thesis project.

Link: https://github.com/jcnelson/syndicate
So in this culture, is it common to do a few years of high-income work with 12hr days and high compensation, and then you get a "quieter" job somewhere else when you need a job that allows you to pick the kids up at 4.30pm? Or how does it work? Obviously children aren't unheard of in Silicon Valley, and as far as I understand it's a pretty progressive part of the US, so I assume that families have two careers to worry about? Something doesn't add up if long days are norm.
I recently had to sit through a presentation by an X-er in which was played a very smug GoogleX video that spliced an annoying amount of apollo- and shuttle-era space exploration footage to pump up what was essentially floating cell towers (Loon). I found it quite disrespectful to the apollo engineers, and grasping of Google PR, to try and equate what they're doing to landing on the moon. It went quite beyond the bounds of what is reasonable with a straight face, for my tastes.
1. Some of both. I've always liked cooking, and my wife and I both like good food and used to eat out a lot. When we got our own place instead of having to share with roommates/family members we just ended up cooking a lot more.

2. Only in a casual way. We have a few stapels that we rotate through on an ad-hoc basis depending on how we feel and what food might be on sale or in season, and plan 1 or 2 more complex meals a week. Planning is the least enjoyable part of it for me.

3. Pasta dishes, curries, roasts, occasional barbecue. I grew up in Ireland eating meta & two veg, my wife is vietnamese/Chineseso maybe 30-40% homestyle cooking (which we both do, eg I can make Pho) and 60-70% what we might have if we went out. We have good farmers markets near us as well so every so often we'll just buy ingredients that look interesting and learn how to cook with them.

4. LOL no. the nearest we come to health food is using olive oil by default. I don't like a lot of grease/salt/sugar in my food so I don't cook tht way. I could accomodate a special diet if I had to, two of my family have coeliac disease so I grew up dealing with limited diets.

5. Cooking is mostly about control of heat. So if you have a choice, use a gas stove. Spend money on pots and pans, you'll get better results. If in doubt, heavier is generally better. It's better to start hot and turn down than vice versa, I've lost a lot more meals to undercooking than burning things. Ceramic or anodized non-stick is totally worth it, but it's not appropriate for everything. 'Barkeeper's friend' will get the shine back on your metal cookware. You can cut your cooking time in half by doing things in the right order.
Show HN: Go-osc – OSC Packet Implementation for Golang. Implemented in Pure Go
That's what I also wanted to point to, you were faster.

The "Common Rule" appears to be a rule for the Federal agencies, and it is a rule, not a law.

Long jump from that to the illegality? But I'm certainly not a lawyer, whereas the article author seems to be "James Grimmelmann, Professor of Law, University of Maryland."

Strange.
I'm not faulting the Moz developers per-se, just saying that - as a group - developers should not just throw up their hands, shout "RAM is cheap" and then be totally cavalier about how their programs use RAM. It's a refrain that has become, IMO, all too common, and I think it's harmful.

Sure, Firefox, and every other program should use as much RAM as it needs. But we should be mindful of keeping that need as low as possible, at least for any program that falls into the category of "runs in a multi-program environment and probably won't be the only program running from a finite RAM pool".
This blog post's interpretation of "illegal" would include any change to any product with the intent to stimulate user behavior. It's a very slippery slope.
Isn't a currency fungible by definition - a dollar is a dollar is a dollar? And we are getting away from the question I asked - what are the advantages of using Bitcoins, advantages that average people actually care about today and that are not offset by disadvantages of using Bitcoins.
I'm fine with subsidies. It's the programming standards that should go away. In economic terms, they are a moral hazard. There's less incentive to make good films and shows when you know they are going to get preferential treatment in programming. Aside from that, it's a burden on companies that really have no responsibility for Canada's self-perceived problem.
I always felt bitcoin was more about replacing paper money than replacing banks. Banks give you interests, Bitcoin just sits there and the amount (in bitcoins) never changes.
Do you live in Italy or are you stuck in the U.S. where it would take few months for most people to upload a TB of data to dropbox?
Could you clone the DOM into a virtual HTML element and save/serialize that?
> Still, there is nothing that should make Apple pay more because they can

No, but to hear people complain about how it's impossible to hire anyone...

while inflation- and cost-of-living-adjusted salaries actually have not increased at all... what's going on here?
> "If europeans were intolerant to other european nations, perhaps they'd despise many of them equally and not just one."

Nope. Racism is not exactly the same as "hating all other countries/races/ethnicies equally". Even the Nazis* treated different countries differently (treating the jews worse, eastern europeans / slavs very bad, and western europeans bad etc.)

* I think it's OK to discuss the Nazis when talking about the history of inter-european nationalism and wars, goodwins law be damned.
My sense is that the Go developer culture is a lot more open to frequently updating their dependencies than the Java developer culture. Fetching dependencies from git is built into Go, after all.
Ask HN: What do use to start an email newsletter/list?
What tools or resources are handy to start a new email newsletter or list from scratch?
Share your list or experiences.
All you really need is a long view. You can ship something with, say, two features now, but done in a way that anticipates the other 10 features you'll implement later. Planning should take a while. And when it's done you can ship bit by bit without screwing up your timetable or the product's integrity.
I confess, I don't see "exploratory thinking" in your post. It actually looks more like a categorical judgment.
this is almost exactly the same as me - uncannily so. the asker should 2x all these data points in their tally.
True. I was trying to think like a lawyer. That never ends well.
> It's possible that "What if?" has different permissions than the thrice-weekly xkcd, but there's no obvious reason it isn't the same.

I can think of one obvious reason -- the fact that it's a book. Most publishers won't publish works whose distribution they can't control, or that are expected to be copied freely. Book retailers work by the same rules -- they won't carry a book that can be coped online without any copyright limitations.

> It appears that the linked-to site is not-for-profit, in which case the license to copy has already been granted.

No, it doesn't work that way in the case of a book, and Mr. Munroe's remarks about his Web site apply only to his Web site. Can a not-for-profit site post a copy of a motion picture or some tracks from a commercial CD? The fact that they're not-for-profit can't enter into it.

I just examined my copy of "What If?", and it has all the usual publisher protections -- all rights reserved, contact us for information and permission to copy select portions of this work, and so forth. The normal, strict copyright protections. The book cannot be freely copied or excerpted without one of the normal exceptions being true (critical review, satire, etc.), none of which apply in this case.

One of two things is true. Either Houghton Mifflin expects to be able to control the distribution of the book, or they don't. The fact that they published the book strongly suggests the first case is true. Same for their distributors and retail outlets.
Indecision is sometimes the best way to decide
Fingerprints are your username, not your password. Apple should really know better.
You could own a window from the Manhattan Project
If this was based on atime instead of mtime, and was coupled with Time Machine backups, it'd actually make an interesting form of Hierarchical Storage Management. Files would "expire" from your local disk, but still be restorable.

On a tangent, that's really what I (and I think most people) want from HSM—not "files canonically being on slow media but being cached on faster media", but rather "files canonically being on small/fast media, and then migrating to slower media when you stop caring about them, as if a garbage-collection pass had occurred, leaving your disk with more space." Basically, HSM should do automatically what people do manually when they e.g. burn files to optical disks to clear up space.
Ah yes. I can't think of the last time I was in a house that had doors to the kitchen that close.
> The internet is not a "safe space" it is A SPACE.

I don't see why we can't work toward making it a "safer space" without censorship. I think we should call out misogynistic, ablist, transphobic, etc. statements wherever we see them. Even if it doesn't convince the poster, at least it lets other readers know that these are not attitudes that we, as a society, think are acceptable.
VRoot download and Root your Android device from a single click
IBM also has a patent pending on this.
Mailchimp and AWeber.