skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in his shoes and decided to leave. And there were only two things I wanted in order to stay:

1. Skin in the game. Equity, profit sharing, guaranteed monthly bonus based on performance. Doesn't really matter as long as we share. Because if I'm good and work hard, I want to enjoy the results too. A fixed salary is not going to cut it anymore.

2. Freedom over actual implementation and veto power. You may be good at running a company. But I'm great at building things. So when you give me a task, don't tell me how to do it. Yes, we can talk about it and make decisions together. But I must always have the last word. Because, more often than not, I understand things better than everybody else. Including you.

If your lead developer does leave, expect a major slowdown, morale decrease and even further resignations. On paper he might look like a replaceable asset. But your development team doesn't see it that way. We're all humans. And relationships matter.
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> My wife, for example, slung C++ and Java while getting her MBA in evening classes. For her programming was a path to earn a living until she got her 'real' job on the executive track. Another woman I worked with only wrote code for a while and moved on to run her father's machine shop. In both cases these women were good at what they did, but saw software development as something to do before the real job.

It's been my observation that the bulk of female programmers aren't hobbyists and just program because it's a job and it pays well enough. When they go home, they don't think about code.

There are exceptions (hell, I'm one of them, and I personally know a couple others), but in general, female hackers are much rarer than female programmers.

I'm not sure if it's proportionate to guys or not. There are plenty of male programmers who aren't hobbyists either (think of the legions of VB drones in the '90s). I don't know if the just-another-job to hobbyist ratio is just more noticable with girls because there are fewer of us in general or if the percentages are actually different.
I think the oxygen prevents solidification which is what stops the object from sticking to the screen they project the image on to. By the looks of it the oxygen just diffuses from the air through the screen.
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I feel it would be better if the website has a few examples of how people are using it. Also there should be a way to anonymously post code and get feed back.
Lots of people with impressive accomplishments don't have self-esteem. Impostor Syndrome, Dunning-Kruger etc. If you don't have self-esteem, you'll let yourself get pushed around because you think you're not really worth anything. But with it, you'll start to see your own potential, which is a good motivator to start working toward it.
Maybe it's just me, but WOW those red/purples are hard to look at.

Maybe it would be better if they were not quite so intense/vibrant?
No, I don't. However, I believe this is a problem associated with how we approach education as a task rather than how we fund it.

If it were merely an example of "gov't funded education" causes poor education then we would likely see significant gains when private education models are used to replace public schools. Currently, gains with private/charter schools are flat compared to public schools.

I do, however, believe that in absence of a publicly funded education system a large segment of our population would simply be locked out of educational opportunities. How is a family that already struggles for basic necessities going to find an extra ~6-10k a year to pay for private school fees?
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The analogy I fall back on is the concept of a wave in a body of water. Where, in the body of water, is the structure that defines the wave? How does a wave arise from a bunch of water molecules?

What we call a "wave" is actually a broadly distributed energy pattern in the water. We just have created a single word for it to help us recognize and talk about that pattern.

Consciousness might be like that--a (very complex) pattern of energy in the matter of the brain. "Consciousness" would refer to a pattern of behaviors, rather than a physical "thing" like a rock or a hand.
I disagree, public entities owe the data to their users.

(especially if we are talking about entities that receive government funding or offer a public service under some limited license)

I think my attitude is widespread:

https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/

https://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicF...

That's a Google effort, but it is pragmatic, it opens the data for more than just Google.
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Thank you for writing this. I use to be good and patient listener, yet at one point it is like a switch and now I am very impatient and even though I am aware I am doing it, I still can't wait to tell you :) what I think. Anyhow, thanks for writing it out.
Not for me, I don't get extra time to fiddle around shaving milliseconds, my environment is so slow it's all I can do to get working software out the door in the timelines I'm given. I have solutions to improve the speed of my software and environment, but they take time to implement, time that I could be working on features that make tangible differences to the bottom line. Guess what gets priority?

If it were up to me, I'd spend this entire year refactoring, but it's not.
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I use Windows every day at work. I work in IT and we're a Windows's shop. Last June I was looking for a laptop and a real nice display was important to me. I went with a MacBook pro with retina. I can say that in my experience Windows seems much more stable than my MacBook. I do like how my MacBook wakes up much like an iPad and is ready to go. Also love the screen and how long the battery lasts. That said, once the Windows laptops have more options for better screens at an affordable price I'll be moving back.
It's a state, but you can learn quite a bit on how to get and maintain that state. Things like "ecstacy/sex/[whatever] works short term, but maybe you should see a therapist instead" isn't something that goes without saying. Lots of people take the wrong choice every day.
BTW how different is the 3rd edition from the 1st? I had it for my OS course (along with the Silberschatz book), but it was >25 years ago. Still have the Minix disks somewhere, I think. It was awesome to get a # prompt on a 8086, but in the end, what mattered was to have GNU utils, gcc, emacs and X11 on a 386, which meant Linux.
Not to Spain, at least: "Sorry, this item can't be shipped to your selected address."
Those precious bytes of disk space though
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Perhaps in Russia or China.
In the UK and Europe there is a big effort to prevent accidental 'sabotage', usually from fishermen.
KIS-ORCA[1] project has a very detailed GIS map for undersea infrastructure.

[1] http://www.kis-orca.eu/map#.VQg_jnysWSo
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A good article but I just made the opposite decision. I recently switched to using GMail as a catch all email that I check about twice a day and use FastMail with my own domain for email from people close to me. It is not as much an issue of privacy as wanting to slow down the information firehose from Google, Twitter, G+, etc. I would like to reduce the surface area of marketing aimed at me.
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Best when it comes to skills. Equal when it comes to pay, benefits and professional relationship. That's how most companies see it anyway.
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Nice. I just hope they won't be as annoying as Apple.
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Well-being is a complicated topic, which only drives home why we need to teach it to children. Not only in respect to self-worth and work ethic, but in terms of empathy, morality, and the ability to rationalize the world around them. If we can help children think about why they feel the way they do, it can clear up confusion about the emotions of everyday life and prevent anxiety. If we do not, they'll simply have a more and more complicated world to deal with as they grow up, without the tools to help them simplify it.
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People are not happy here. The current president has taken unorthodox economic measures whose results we are now seeing. Electricity is up around 60% since last december due to the failure of the president's populist policies of controlling prices. Same for fuel, because Petrobras wasn't allowed to raise its prices, kept artificially low by the government in an attempt to control inflation.

The president was reelected on a campaign of lies, and is now doing what she accused and claimed her opponents would do, in one of the greatest cases of electoral embezzlement ever seen.

No, people are not happy with this government, and no, it's not only the rich.
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Really nice all in one guide (of course they are trying to sell you stuff but it is still a really good guide).

There are five parts which you might not notice on the left.
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I assuem this is for F2P games. How does iOS handle F2P cross-platform games? Can I buy assets on the Android version of a game and have them appear on the iOS version, or does that violate Apple's TOC?

If they go traditional pay-up-front, Android/PC has been done by Humble Bundle - they have their own app-downloader-app on Android, and use Steam keys on the PC.

If Nintendo targets PC they would probably go webapp since this smartphone-Nintendo thing is likely about Pokemon Shuffle (and possibly other Facebooky games). Webapp makes distribution simple. So they could do Webapp/DS/Wii/Android.
In the UK and Europe it largely is.
KIS-ORCA is one project.

http://www.kis-orca.eu/map
Thank you kifler. This is one of the steps I have planed. I hope to find customers abroad because the market here isn't quite good.
Wealth and power may have played a stronger role than 'survival of the fittest'
You must be joking about Dutch being difficult to master. Dutch grammar is in every aspect simpler than German. The orthography is a bit awkward though.

Also, it is weird that Tannenbaum makes a difference between masculine and feminine at all, since in standard Netherlandic Dutch they have since long ago merged into the common gender ("de" word). I guess he just got that knowledge from some old grammar book...
> Nobody is bemoaning the fact that they can't watch a DVD on their laptop - we've moved on from optical media.

I bemoan that about my work laptop. It's not possible to legally stream all the things I'd like to watch, and for whatever reason building USB boot drives is still more painful than burning ISOs to DVDs or CDs (no good reason for that, but each time it's been the case).
"all your devices try to broadcast your previous connections" Does all the apps on iOS and Android who ever have access to the location, can collect all these info ?
This line of analysis can be followed for almost anything we have a word for. Anyone can draw a typical chair. Now start morphing it: the back gets shorter and rounder, the legs get shorter, more and more... At what point does it stop being a chair? And what does it become then? Where's the boundary between a stool and a chair? A chair and a bench?

The fact that consciousness, as a word, has fuzzy edges, does not imply that it does not exist. Most of our words have fuzzy edges.
This really surprised me. As a developer, I loved being able to iterate new app versions in under a few hours - live to Google Play. In fact, it was a major factor in prioritizing Android over iOS. The Apple review process, in my opinion, is overly draconian.

I had expected Apple to become more like Google in their review process - more friendly to developers. But it seems the reverse has happened - and Google is becoming more like Apple.

This suggests two things: 1) there are just too many apps now and discovery is too hard (So Google is trying to put the brakes on the app flood through a review process); 2) there are too many bad actors - so all good actors are being screened extra carefully.
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Why is he "lead" then, if he's not special?
The usual life cycle of high-rise luxury housing is that buildings move somewhat downmarket as they age. The bulk of your housing stock downtown is going to be 30-40 year old buildings that can't carry the premium rents of new luxury buildings. But you won't get to that point if you don't start building now.
Official numbers (calculated by the police) say more than 2 million country-wide. I don't see anyone claiming "1 million people in São Paulo" to be false, except government-sponsored media.
All that talk about maximizing utility, isn't about intelligence at all. Its about a sensory feedback loop maybe. Intelligence is what lets you say "This isn't working. Maybe I should try a different approach. Maybe I should change the problem. Maybe I should get a different job". Until you're operating at that meta level, you're not talking 'intelligence' at all, just control systems.
Unfortunately that means for each word you'll have to learn whether it's a "de" or a "het" word.

It's a good thing, since masculine/feminine doesn't matter much in the end (compared to e.g. German). Of course, it does matter for pronouns, but we get them wrong all the time anyway.

My wife is an excellent non-native speaker of Dutch. She has most problems with finding the right prepositions and the usual phoneme differences (especially diphthongs).

I can imagine that for a speakers of a non-Germanic languages V2 word order can also be strange (the finite verb is in the final position, however moves to the second position in declarative main clauses), and as a consequence what goes into the vor/mittel/nachfeld.

(Note: I am not an expert in language acquisition at all, just extrapolating from a sample of 1 :)).
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The previous customers had their job done and of course I keep in touch with them but their projects ware big and now they are focused on marketing etc. Probably won't be making any new projects soon. Thank you KhalPanda
Charles from Snipcart here. Pricing is indeed always a delicate matter in the e-commerce world. You'll always have customers preferring a model over another. We believe the Moltin pricing will make a lot of sense for some people, but others might prefer the no-risk percentage model. I'd say it strongly depends on the merchant's business model. Side note: the guys at Moltin really have a kickass website.
Ugh. I am considering your intentions good, but your statement sounds evil.

Most human beings need protection and help. Programming is hard. Learning to program is hard. Leaving happily in these crazy times is hard.

Just be empathetic, dont be condescending and bam, your help will be greatly appreciated by men and women. That's what I think one should treat anyone else in this particular regard.
The traits that we should be testing for in this article are great but what do you think it would take to adopt this type of testing?

It seems like public school are stuck continuing with the current tests because these tests are used to procure federal/state funding. For schools to change, the country's consciousness needs to change about how society defines a "well rounded" individual
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Yes, but we are talking about MIT students. It shouldn't be too hard for them to get hired by one of the big 4 or 5 companies.
Then I don't understand what you mean. You said the yardstick is accurate at some scales whereas Newtonian mechanics is always inaccurate, which to me implies that the yardstick is more accurate at some scales.
Yes, but the verification is tied to the phone, not the card. The way this fraud works is that fraudster has their "own" iPhone, then "loads" single or multiple stolen card details (perhaps obtained by mail intercept / redirect of new or reissued cards). The beauty of this from a fraudsters perspective is that you could have a whole deck of cards (all associated with different providers and individual victims) in your Appple Pay wallet and if one gets declined, well, cycle to the next. It's not like the teller sees the card name, just a secondary wave of the (apparently) legitimate customers phone. It's a beautifully anonymous customer journey for a fraudster in any busy physical retail environment.

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Public entities owe the data to the public.

For those of us living in the EU, there even are multiple directives mandating it for various kinds of public entities and data.
Put the bare minimum, and do not say anything about compensation, etc. As a3n says, just say you are leaving, and when your last day will be.

When it comes to the exit interview, DO NOT SAY ANYTHING EITHER. It all goes into your employment record. You don't owe them any honesty, so just leave quietly and don't burn any bridges.
You just shut the conversation down. Congratulations.
Yeah, unfortunately the high salary is still not proportional to abilities. You get maybe 30 or 40% more for being 2 to 3x as useful (we'll forget about the mythical 10x-ers for now.)

Does this seem fair?
I've been in a very similar situation myself. Being the lead developer from a very early stage, working with shaping the product and the business itself as well as actually making it happen by coding as well as heading the development team.

However, in my case, a larger company group was the sole owner of the company and a significant part of the vision and goal went out the window after launch due to internal politics in the company group. This was demotivating because frankly, a large part of my purpose of getting on board disappeared. So this is one part to ask yourself, in terms of organisation/vision/company goals - has anything changed?

In terms of tasks, I'm motivated by actually creating value - shipping things that made sense business wise. During the first 1-2 years this was the case, but when strategy was changed to cut costs (yet again due to internal company group politics of the owner) I felt I didn't really contribute on the level I wanted (e.g. architecting/developing large scale, heavy traffic modern web application versus copy/paste the nth banner network JavaScript code for yet another ad).

Also, does the person have a niche in their role they particularly excel in and enjoy? Has it changed? In my case I very much was the bridge between business development and technical development. Getting tech people to understand business value of what to do, and work with business developers to leverage technology. When the company cut down on more or less all development and went into maintenance mode this opportunity kind of disappeared. Another take on this is that people may enjoy and thrive during different phases of a company.

In the end I asked myself - in the end of the year, would I feel I've made the most out of it in terms of personal development, experience and pure happiness if I continued with this - or would it be better to leave.
good points, especially that elementary and early school years should focus more on developing social skills than academic ones.

I hold that United States schools are stultifyingly boring for a great many pupils, because the lessons are too easy,[1] and as a consequence many pupils languish in their social development because they are not allowed the opportunity to pursue development of knowledge and skill while engaged in group work at school. One reason I think this is that I know a whole country, where my wife grew up, where most school pupils were instructed in school in a second language that they didn't speak at home[2] and where the school lessons were much more challenging. That seemed to produce better social results than have ever been found in United States schools.

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/201...

[2] My wife is part of the majority population of Taiwan in her generation that grew up speaking Taiwanese at home but was only permitted to speak Mandarin at school. (Mandarin is approximately as different from Taiwanese as English is from German, or as Spanish is from French.) The school lessons in Taiwan were, and are, much more ambitious in promoting deep thinking than United States lessons are, and include a mandatory requirement to begin studying high-school-level algebra and geometry by seventh grade--even for below-average pupils. Oh, and of course school pupils all over the world begin study of modern foreign languages--usually English--by much earlier ages than most pupils in United States schools, even if they are going to school in a second language, as many school pupils do in many countries. United States schools are too wimpy academically to fully develop young people socially.
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And while Nintendo doesn't embrace it, they do support it. Nintendo provides free multiplayer online in many of their games. What they don't provide is online community in those games. You either play with your friends or you just join a game with random folks, and everybody is mute in the latter. It's minimalist, but it works.
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Indeed, and so how they may be related is through this common cause.
The main problem here is properly paying your dues on monetization. If Nintendo sells you a $10 IAP on your Android, Apple is going to want its $3 to provide that content on your iPhone.
There were more than 2 million people in the streets country-wise, not to mention the nd pan-banging protests in apartment windows every time a government representative appears on TV.

John Oliver has put it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51W2N68zckY
Nothing about being a creator rather than a pure consumer? Too many are caught up in the cycle of chasing grades and completely forget what the point of an education is supposed to be.
Ask yourself what purpose you wish to achieve? Do you want them to change their decision? Are you concerned that they might want to accuse you of leaving for some other reason, and you want to document it?

Keep it short unless you want to achieve something specific, and then include only the verbiage relevant to that purpose.
I do agree with you that 802.11 security is lacking, but it's not always as straight forward as you make it out to be.

It's early and I may be forgetting something....but assuming their home network isn't an open network, how would you get a client to authenticate to your rogue network? Even though the client would think it was the same network, authentication should fail because the client would attempt to use the stored credentials, and you almost certainly wouldn't know their passkey. Thus, causing the client to receive a message indicating an issue with authentication.

Are you inferring that you would brutal force the WPA2 passkey for their network with something like cowpatty? Are dictionary attacks really that easy to pull off these day? Mind you, it's been almost ten years since I've played around with WiFi cracking.