skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The middle classes throw their weight around to prevent new houses being built

Most middle- class folk I know are too busy cutting expenses to clear their mortgage sooner than to care about the ability of other people to buy houses.

Why would they care? You pay off your mortgage and you're done.
The article fails to mention Vick the Video Game programmer and Saul the security researcher.

Hackers and game developers are some of the best programmers in the world, just because there's no academic departments for these, this author would probably dismiss them as not doing real computing. But they are doing real computing, focusing on areas where the application of computers has the most impact in real life. So if "real" computing is different from "in real life" computing, so be it, I'll take the latter.
A simple torrent per decade would be nice.
Exactly this...

If I am friends with someone, I want their feed unless I explicitly turn it off. But then I remember that I am not the customer, I am the product.

For I don't think the problem is that my less garrulous friends aren't writing about their lives, but rather that some stupid machine learning algorithm has decided on my behalf that I don't wish to hear from them because I don't tend to reply to or "like" the things they post. I know this because I occasionally seek their facebook pages out and find out what I've been missing.

And still, blatant tangent, I can't edit my Facebook updates from the mobile client.

That IMO is an example of the true robot apocalypse: a bunch of "performance enhancements" and marching moron machine learning algorithms that pass A/B tests by some ill-conceived metric and get inflicted on us all to improve shareholder value by Google, Facebook et al.

Facebook isn't alone here: On my Android phone, Google Now was initially useful. It provided location-dependent weather, stock information, time/date-sensitive commute information along with occasional bits of news that related to frequent search terms. If only they'd stopped there. Recently, they "improved" it with a new ridiculously white-spaced layout (WTF is up with whitespacing a 6" screen anyway?) and a tsunami of distracting trivia about anything I had searched for in recent months and nearly every place I had driven, even #%$%ing gas stations and one-time doctor appointments. Obviously, this also passed some sort of A/B test to make it into production, but all it made me do was factory reset my phone and turn off nearly every feature of Google Now.

And that's why IMO people are opting for relatively simpler systems like Instagram and Twitter.
I think, there are some good spam-filters out there.

Gmail as replacement of FB is a little troublesome solution, I think. Gmail also has his privacy problems, though absolutely not as huge as Facebooks. I think, own (challenging) or paid Mail-providers should be preferred if you really want more privacy. Paid Mail-providers should be able to do the spam-filtering for you.
Is it just me or is the way back machine behind a 2400kbps modem? When I try it either doesn't work or it takes minutes to load.

I can also say that hard experience has taught me to fear nonprofits. A corporation makes money by satisfying needs as well as from rich people financing it. Non profits are financed by rich people so you are working 100% for the 1% instead of 99%.

You see all the same niggardlyness with nonprofits but at least in a corporation it is possible you can improve your service and make money and get rewarded for it. Nonprofits tend be lose-lose or no deal.
That seems a more promising idea. Then you could use all kinds of plays on words in your advertising to clearly distinguish the brands: "Why stay Here when you could already be There?" and the like.
I find it interesting how people use Facebook in such widely different ways. For me, Facebook is strictly for friends--most of whom I don't have any sort of professional connection with. I never follow a brand/company/etc. on Facebook. I use Twitter and Google+ for professional stuff. (And still use RSS as well.)
> My own limited experiences and the countless anecdotal similar experiences I've read on HN, etc. over the years raises the question of how some of these people get hired.

I think I clued in to part of that a couple of weeks ago: they tell management what management wants to hear in a language that management understands. This sort of rapport leads to a completely misplaced trust and the associated trainwrecks make for interesting projects from a recovery point of view.

In a nutshell: it's all people and psychology and being antagonistic will more often than not cause you to be ignored, even if you're right and so the bozos get to have their run.
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I hope someday I have a project that someone understands well enough to compare it to sex or diabetes.
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Forget the 1% of most likely noncollectable debt and get 60 thousands customers instead? That seems like no-brainer. I don't think banks needed much convincing.

Poor people will repay their debt in trick fees for the banks in no time or just become indebted again.
Like the simplicity but can't get past task creation on tablet. It shows a gear and something else for a second but g hen switches to edit mode.
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I think one of the most interesting paragraphs in this essay is the one discussing where VC money comes from. This seems to be something that is not very clear on HN, and without understanding who's money it is and who is spending it, it is hard to understand the incentives behind VCs, which seems like an important thing to understand for anyone contemplating a startup.
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Hi! We're Nilas (previously known as Inbox)[0] and we're looking for help building the next generation email platform. We're building a missing piece of Internet infrastructure and are looking for frontend engineers and designers and backend systems and infrastructure/operations engineers to join us.

Companies are building their core businesses around our email API right now, and that means we have to be reliable, up all the time, and fast. We have more data for a single user than in most startups' entire database. That means big technical challenges to solve as we scale out our fledgling distributed backend. If you have experience with automated deployments, debugging running systems, release engineering, and on-call schedules, but are still comfortable writing code, this job[1] might be for you. :)

Many people spend their entire days buried in mail clients which haven't significantly changed in years. That means many opportunities to tackle UX challenges as we build out our client scaffolds and create a new framework for the next generation of mail apps. (Ever meet anyone who really loves their email experience? We want to change that.) Sound exciting to you? Apply here[2].

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

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I use git add --patch

My teammates probably get tired of hearing it, but every time someone erroneously commits some file or line I advocate its use.
I actually prefer `git add -i` if I want more fine-grained control like that.
Amazon Web Services security team is hiring.

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We're looking for security-minded engineers at various skill levels. Our positions range from support engineers (who we expect to have a good technical depth, but not necessarily a security focus) to principal engineer (capable of running a security campaign across 100s of thousands of servers and 10s of thousands of employees.

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Key focus areas include:

- Recognize, adopt, utilize and teach best practices in security engineering: secure development, cryptography, network security, security operations, systems security, policy, and incident response.

- Collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer. When none of the proposals is the obvious winner, you are still decisive, able to disagree and commit to the team’s decision

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- Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon

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I'm just talking about the general philosophical point of making it illegal to lie about peoples' legal rights (e.g. how it's illegal in many states to include unenforceable provisions in rental agreements). I don't think such a law would be an infringement on free speech.
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Hello everybody,

I am planning to open a e-company in Estonia, and I will need also some freelance help.

I have a big pool of trusted talented people that I will be very glad to employ but none of them got a real business, they don't have a VAT ID.

How does it works in this cases? Can I employ them with a fixed contract ?

What is the standard way to proceed here ?

Thanks
> Well, there's this crazy concept called "saving money" where you don't borrow from a bank but rather put some money aside every month to be able to afford something expensive.

Capital idea. I think we should outlaw all lending, to individuals and to corporations. If poor people are expected to save, then it should be even easier for those of much better circumstance and financial ability.

Imagine. No more mortgages.
> Part of the confusion stems from the fact that the rental economy — taking its cue from the Internet in general — sees everything as either horrible or great, with little room for nuance. Lyft nods to this when it tells passengers reviewing drivers that “anything lower than 5 indicates that you were somehow unhappy with the ride.” Drivers can be dropped from their services when they fall below 4.5, but it is unclear what it takes to get banned as a passenger.

I've never used Lyft, but as an Uber customer, it seems like someone at Uber graduated from college and, either as a result of, or in a sly commentary on grade inflation, created an ambiguous rating system that encourages rating-inflation, while penalizing drivers based at the whims of what riders consider "4-star" to be.

4-stars on every other rating service, is pretty solid...yet if a driver averages 50/50 on both 4s and 5s, they are sanctioned (from what I've heard from drivers, the rating-cutoff can shift depending on the area and excess of drivers...in Silicon Valley, it might be higher than in other locales, for instance)...I've never given a driver less than 5-stars because I've never received awful service (though, certainly, I've had drivers who were late, or cars that were messy)...it's bad enough that they're scraping by, I don't need to pile on by giving them a slight demerit that could end their driving. But since the star-rating is basically a binary system, why not just make the question, "Were you satisfied with your ride?" and solicit the user for comments if the answer is the rare "No"...such a system would garner real feedback and improvement, at a very small price in the sensory satisfaction of clicking on a star (this might also prevent the problem of fat-fingered/drunk users accidentally giving a low rating).
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And it is making it more fair, by bringing some people out of a crushing situation. Did you know some places give food to the poor, too? How unfair is that to the parent that worked hard to put food on the table? Or all sorts of other relief that aren't available to people whose work paid off.
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When it comes to web backends, I've used Python and Django, but I'm comfortable switching languages and/or frameworks, if you want to hire someone generally smart and somewhat experienced, and can afford a bit of rampup time.