skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addendum to the last paragraph: I think the last researcher thought the ones killed through hunger were more random -- take most food from a population and you don't know exactly which ones will die. With murder, you are more specific. At least, I can't find any other way of reading that.

Again -- argue what your schools taught you (or whatever source you have for your claims) with the researchers on the subject, not with me. (Or go the popular way and claim that Wikipedia and/or all the academic research are in a conspiracy... :-) )

Edit: Anyway, as I wrote, the original point is that you can define living in the Eastern Bloc as slavery. The slave owners did whatever they felt like to anyone -- e.g. if individuals or groups complained about the situation or tried to leave. Torture, murder, genocide and throwing complainers into prison or a mental hospital. See Pussy Riot.
"What’s most in­ter­est­ing to me, how­ever, is that so many more read­ers were will­ing to buy a font li­cense (at $59–299) than to make a do­na­tion (at $5–10). Don’t get me wrong—I’m ut­terly grate­ful. But it’s coun­ter­in­tu­itive: I never ex­pected that the cheaper op­tion would be so much less pop­u­lar. Econ­o­mists, I in­vite your explanations."

This is not surprising to me at all. There are multiple reasons why the font sale is easier to make.

The whole book is an excellent sales pitch for the fonts. It's hard to believe you didn't design it that way, because you did everything right. You establish credibility as an expert. You give the reader a gift of useful information. You explain at length the value of the product. You even help the reader see herself as someone who's savvy enough to buy the product (copy like: "You are not apathetic" in the Times New Roman page.)

So you have a great sales pitch for the fonts. Whereas the donation suffers in comparison. There's no quid pro quo -- I understand you see the book itself as the value they'd be paying for, but that value is already in the past by the time they're deciding to donate. It changes the psychology.

Also, plenty of people can plunk down a company card to buy a font (or a book). It's a legitimate business expense that's easy to justify. It can be much harder to justify a "donation" to a random author on the internet. For this reason alone, you'd be better off changing "donation" to an e-book sale, even if the e-book is just the same content as the website.
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The HR lady asked me what is my minimum salary threshold, below which i wouldn't be willing to go. How does one respond to that? Note that the HR interview was my first contact with the company: the tech interviews had not even begun yet.
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Indigenous cultures are kind of a special case because of the whole conquest and genocide thing

There isn't a homosapien alive whose ancestors' people weren't subjected to some sort of brutality. Either the rules should apply to everyone or they should apply to no one.

Carving up perpetual special classes in any society will always serve to divide that society and promote dysfunction.
Time to invest in wax and a signet ring
> You can't say "if you don't like it go back to your home country" when it was taken from them.

You can't really validly say that to anyone but aliens and non-citizen immigrants -- for everyone else in the country, it is their country, whether or not their ancestors came from elsewhere (which they did, at some point).
There are people offering this kind of advice for free or nearly free (I know because I read this kind of thing).

It's probably not worth your time if you only do it for the money and don't feel any need to share your experience. To be honest, as someone with plenty sailing experience (more racing than cruising though) who has been pondering about this, I probably wouldn't write about it.
The writing on this piece is so elegant and smooth. I didn't even care about the game really, I would pay money to read this woman's autobiography. Or writing about eating candy bars. Or anything. And she has a blog! I'm having one of my 'the internet is amazing' moments.
> Ad blockers are not starving the web, they're a feedback mechanism. They're saying "this particular money channel doesn't work." And advertisers and sellers may (I hope) be forced to think of something else.

I feel the need to point out that the part about ad blockers you're responding to is a small part of a report on the OP's experiment in "thinking of something else." You've taken it out of context.
Why crazy? It's not that impressive; with the proper training it's actually trivial.
The fact is, training resistance like this it's not optimal for working on pecs as far as I know.
I will definitely listen to the broadcast. It surprises me that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often, given how easy it is to record conversations these days, and the liberality of the relevant laws in most states (one party consent).
Amazon Takes a Big Step Toward Making Its Own Deliveries
Yes, I agree with you. But here is the bigger point: unless your job is working with technology (and sometimes even in this case), you don't disrupt a business that is working for you. While this seems strange for people who are trying to disrupt existing business models, this is exactly the right thing to do if you are in a traditional company...
I can't attest to the motivation of Al Gore and the others, but I can at least tell you what the scientific consensus is.

Climate change is real. It is caused by us. The evidence is overwhelming.

"The facts are very clear: CO2 increased, temperatures have not."

A strong correlation between CO2 and temperature has been observed by several different groups using several different measurement method.

Explanation of the science and citations:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-...
https://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2006/techprogram/paper_1007...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6826/abs/410355a0...

"If humans cause climate change and industrialization began around 1850, then logically, there'd be an exponential and consistent increase of global temperatures."

CO2 emissions during the industrial revolution were smaller by several orders of magnitude. We produced on the order of 3-7 million tons per year towards the start. Now, we produce 8000 million tons per year. CO2 levels have risen accordingly in those time. If you imagine plants taking CO2 from the atmosphere as a person drinking water from a cup that refills, imagine the industrial revolution adding an extra teaspoon worth of water to the cup. Now imagine today as shooting a fire hose into the cup.

Explanation and Citation:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/link_to_us.php?Argument0=23...

"Another fact: the climate changed long before humans were around to drive Escalades."

Climate changes according to whatever factors act upon it. Earlier in our planet's history, this force was the slow, natural cycle of CO2 as plants would grow in the early parts of the year and then die and decompose in the fall and winter. In every case, increased CO2 levels resulted in increased temperatures. Now, we're adding more CO2 than anything else ever before.

Citations:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/link_to_us.php?Argument0=22

If you rarely see a debate on the subject of human-caused climate change, it's because there is no validity to the other side. Skepticism is healthy, but there is such a thing as false balance. Just because there's another side doesn't mean it still has any valid arguments left.

That said, if you do have evidence that one or more of these papers is inaccurate, I'd appreciate the info. As you said, let the downvotes begin.
Particularly useful is the patch from source. I've already used it for an Ubuntu 11.04 server (past end of life for apt support), and am about to start on some RHEL servers
I down-voted you. You know your facts are wrong - if you really believe them spend 10 seconds on google. You're cherry-picking your information. You throwing out buzzwords and name checks instead of information. You're appealing to scientific principle without demonstrating any understanding of such or respect for scientific consensus. You appeal for balanced debate without actually starting a debate.

Also, please don't compare facts to religious belief - you insult both.
I always disagree with the single sentence thing.

Being able to turn a complicated idea into a sentence does generally mean you get the concept, but you can still get the concept with out expressing it at a 5th grade language level.
$12.3 billion. What are you willing to pay?

It is a negotiation tactic. They know perfectly well what they are paying their other developers, what the market rate for that position is, and what they are willing to pay you. The only purpose of this question is to trap you into a low number, don't fall for it.
cf: http://gapingvoid.com/2012/09/24/notdelusional/
Thanks for the plug :) Also relevant, a detailed case study about our sales by the Gumroad folks:

http://blog.gumroad.com/post/97148570338/discover-meteor-cas...
Why Free Online Classes Are Still the Future of Education
Have a look at lnav: http://tstack.github.io/lnav/
"As an example of how intense Brian Chesky is, he's the Airbnb CEO, he used to ask people if they would take the job if they got a medical diagnosis that they have one year left to life (sic)"

This is essentially asking - are you willing to lie to get this job.
I think Moses would disagree with you :)

Exo 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
As someone who has seizures I find this to be really awesome but I the name seems a little odd.
as a hiring manager, I never want to pay someone too little. training an engineer and getting them productive takes months, and having someone I hire cut out on a job after 3 months because they got a better offer is a huge waste of time and money. Plus, re-opening the req and re-starting the recruiting process can take weeks. It's totally not worth it to lowball someone.

If I ever ask a candidate what they're looking to make, it's to make sure I can out-bid other offers.
I agree, it's also not that great to have a list of "Insecure web servers" [0], there should be a "don't show checked site in public results" checkbox like on ssllabs.com's certificate tests.

[0] https://ssl-tools.net/webservers
The problem here is the size of the market, not the fact that people don't want to pay. I assume the market is fairly small (at least, I don't know that many people who live on a boat) so it might not be worth your time for that reason.

But I would be willing to bet that there are people ready to pay anywhere from $20 to $200 for a detailed guide or video course on how to live in a boat.

In fact you could replace "live in a boat" with pretty much any skill you can think of ("play the ukulele", "get better at gardening") and I believe that would still hold true.
That's your definition of a package manager. Users do not care as long as their apps work.
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> The HR lady asked me what is my minimum salary threshold, below which i wouldn't be willing to go. How does one respond to that?

"My salary requirements depend on the details of the position and non-salary benefits offered."
The particular form of excessive "everything everywhere is literal" Biblical literalism most Americans are familiar with is about a hundred years old, and arose in response to a fairly excessive "everything everywhere is allegory" Biblical non-literalism from the late 1800s.

In the past there was typically a balance. St. Basil the Great (~329 to 379) wrote "to take the literal sense and stop there, is to have the heart covered by the veil of Jewish literalism. Lamps are useless when the sun is shining." but balanced that sentiment with "There are those, truly, who do not admit the common sense of the Scriptures, for whom water is not water, but some other nature, who see in a plant, in a fish, what their fancy wishes, who change the nature of reptiles and of wild beasts to suit their allegories, like the interpreters of dreams who explain visions in sleep to make them serve their own end."

FWIW Basil emphasized a 24 hour day, but he also describes the elements of air-fire-water "hidden" in the earth: "Do not ask, then, for an enumeration of all the elements; guess, from what Holy Scripture indicates, all that is passed over in silence." (I have quoted elsewhere other scholars from both before and after him who found a slightly more figurative balance point with regard to the same passage.)
The documentation doesn't seem very mature, but Python is supposedly supported as a scripting/macro language, and it is also possible to interact with LO at the API level.
I've seen that video and definitely agree.

Users just want their app to work. Static linking or bundling dependencies inside the .app bundle (really just a directory) like OS X does is a fine solution in today's world of multi TB drives.
That's actually great, and I wish more hiring managers felt this way. That's not always the case, and based on my own experience I wouldn't tell a recent grad to assume the hiring manager has their best interest in mind.
You can hear Big Ben chime on an FM radio before you hear it in real life
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SPI had a good episode on exactly that:

http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-get-paid-for-your-i...

http://traffic.libsyn.com/patflynn/SPI126-How_to_Get_Paid_fo...
While it's good to understand the market prices for your skills, negotiation is a lot about understanding the other party's goals and needs and best-guessing their maximum price. They will have a maximum price in their head. So, determine that maximum price.

Assume that since you've gotten to the negotiation phase, you've exceeded their expectations.

Ask, 'how many people are you hiring?' If it's more than one, at the same position, then they may have more demand. It also may imply that their budget for hiring is above average.

Ask, 'how difficult has your interviewing been?' If it's been difficult, and you've reached this stage, then your in a better position for negotiation.

Ask, 'what have been your main criteria in hiring?' If it points to a rare skill that you have or some background experience or knowledge that is unique, then you're in a better position.

Ask, 'are there any other candidates that you're interviewing, and how do I measure up?' If there are no other candidates, and/or you're the best candidate that they have, then you're in a better position.

Ask, 'do you have upcoming milestones or deadlines?' If so, then may have higher immediate demand.

Ask, 'what are your goals in hiring me?' If they want to put you to work immediately, then you're in a better position. If they are primarily interested in grooming you, they may have more patience to hire.

Ask, 'who approves the hiring, and are you able to hire me today?' If someone else approves, it may be a harder negotiation. If they can hire you immediately, then you're in a better position.

Finally, don't set your price, first. If they ask, 'what is your price?', ask them 'what is your typical range for this type of position?' Get them to offer their price first because it's always on the lower end of what their range is. Then, consider your position. Ask for something that is slightly outrageous. For example, let's say you determine that you're in a good position. They offer you 80,000. Say that you were thinking more in the 120,000 range. Read their reaction to that. If they seem offended, say 'but, that can be negotiable, based on your benefits, etc.' Then, talk to them about the other benefits of the position, and come down slightly. But, once your initial price is set, that will be the baseline for further discussions.

Always come to the table with as much information as possible.

Always ask for add-ons. Ask for more non-financial benefits. Ask for more vacation. Ask for a more flexible schedule. If it's a big company, you're not in a good position to ask for extras, however.

Tell them that you'll give them an answer very soon, and set a specific date. It will show that you're serious. If you plan wisely, you can have multiple offers from different companies at similar time. Use these other offers to both gauge the demand and to play each offer against other offers.

And, remember, it's always supply and demand.
Here's the original story at This American Life (no slight intended to Bloomberg, as the attribution and respect is crystal clear in the article):

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/536/t...
Working title? As someone with family that has epilepsy, its just something i've wanted to do for awhile :)
it's almost as if capitalism works...
Another one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jquery-event-callb...
It's actually a backronym. https://github.com/soatok/furbb

This is a good idea, though. :)
I can be cynical and say that the invention of the wheel did not look like much to the cavemen either..
There's also a print version of the story at ProPublica: http://www.propublica.org/article/carmen-segarras-secret-rec...
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67% of America is either overweight or obese.. If someone gets off their ass and walks around the block its impressive. Purely based on statistics, I'd assume you probably couldn't do 5 push-ups to save your life.
Really depends on location, 100k/yr in the midwest would be insanely high for a junior developer but in SF it wouldn't be unreasonable.
Hmm... just how much stuff in the JS universe is actually not 0.x.y?
Agreed. I still use it for more complex operations that are just a pain in the CLI, but the interface has really gone downhill over the past year.
This may not be an issue where you work, but how do you get away from those who "want to see the formulas" and "want to be able to modify the spreadsheets"?
I've marked lines I think need to be further analyzed; would be amazing if people dropped knowledge! e.g. http://tech.genius.com/4101810
To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, being an entrepreneur is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are one, you aren't.
Same argument can be made about people calling themselves CEO of startups with no employees or product.
> Clasp exposes the Clang AST library and the Clang ASTMatcher library. This allows programmers to write tools in Common Lisp that automatically analyze and refactor C++ programs. Clasp can be used to automatically clean-up and refactor large C++ codebases!

Niiice. I want to program C++, but not in C++.
Came here to post this link. Definitely read this article and take it to heart.
On the other hand, Jesus tells us that male and female were made at the "beginning" of creation, when Genesis 1 clearly puts them in day 6. And even Moses' writing in Genesis 2 shows us the creation of man, and then plants, and then woman, which would place the day 3 creation of plants firmly in the middle of day 6. This suggests that what is meant by "day" isn't what we're inclined to think of in our 21st century mindset.

Moses was adopted to Egyptian royalty, and wrote a creation account that subverts the Egyptian account. Reading the Torah without an Egyptian background is like watching West Side Story without knowing Romeo and Juliet, or watching Shrek without knowing Prince Charming. You'll miss all the references, or think their importance is for a different reason than it actually is.
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It doesn't have to be groundbreaking to make a boatload of cash. Think Purell.
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Oh I did not know that, that's cool
Mac Excel compatibility is a big deal for us. Is this the only thing if its kind not rooted in Windows Excel?
Having fun with AndroidManifest.xml
The one bad thing about this strategy is that you can't actually go significantly above the offered salary...

I tried it on myself and I was offered way low then I expected - eventually, I was able to increase the offer by 5K, but that's it... I refused the offer. Of course there are other reasons - at least as they explained they had a limited budget (it was a startup...), and the latest negotiated value was 20% more than other people with similar responsibilities...

BUT, this was the startup... I guess with BigCo-s it is better to say your "BIG" number first.
Taplytics (YC W14) is looking for ambitious developers in SF
I have the pleasure of e-mailing with the CEO of a very small hobby-like website the other day.
What does consumerism have to do with religion and spirituality? Seriously, what's the non-hyperbolic connection?
Is this serious or a joke? If its serious I seems like a bloody awful idea!! What is the point of a maybe test??
He is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Using words I don't know (sockpuppeting) and telling everyone else off for their conduct without actually explaining what or why it is the way it is.
If the tapes only contain content describing a general culture of discouragement of rigorous oversight, it's not totally surprising or any more jaw-droppingly incriminating than previous knowledge concerning the Fed's relationship with the banks. Basically this is what we already knew.

The question isn't whether or not regulation is lax and whether or not this happened, it's how to fix it. And this poses a big problem because of the revolving door between regulatory agencies and private banks. No one wants to regulate a company that might offer them a million dollar job one day. It's kind of a tough problem to fix, since the only people who know enough about financial industry to regulate it are the people who work for the industry. And if we prevented people from working for the industry they regulate in any capacity for say, up to 10 years after they leave their government job (is this even Constitutional?), much fewer people would want to work for the government or the Fed. But even so I think that kind of reform is necessary - because it will attract to government service only people who are serious about regulation.
My point was that some OpenBSD guys rewrote OpenSSL in an attempt to fix it, yet also introduced some bugs (I read one article about a bug that was introduced by them, though I don't have a link, nor want to search the internet for it)...

nvm, here's the link-

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/17/libressl_crypto_bug/
Next time this happens try running evil-emacs-state. (Its bound to C-z ...I think that is the default binding that the evil install setup)
EDIT: just realized I posted this without saying why to do this. This command will put you into evil-mode even if the major mode doesn't start off in it for some reason. I use it all the time to navigate and search the output from package-list-packages for example.
Maybe we need a catchy name for this "anti-pattern".
I don't believe this people are great inventors. They could be great designers but not inventors.

The inventor of the "Dirt Devil vacuum" was Dyson who was the one who invented the system this vacuum uses.

The same could be said about "Crest Spinbrush". They added another brush. Wow, so hard to imagine!

Great inventors revolutionize a product:

Dyson completely changed the concept of a vacuum cleaner.

Tesla revolutionized the concept of a car.

Apple revolutionized the concept of a personal computer and telephone.

Igor Reizerson revolutionized the concept of cleaning your teeth.

Those Cleveland guys hold a thousand patents over little improvements here and there. Good for them, but don't call yourself inventor. You are not, at least a good one.
The epitome of programming in Ruby.
that "longest thread" includes some moderately enlightening comments which are not at all anti-religion, but are challenging in a good way.

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disclosure: I wrote some of them ;)
Are malware authors targeting people via marketing services?
Audio: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/536/t...

Transcript: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/TAL_536_...