skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you rather have something that looks nice or actually works? Especially when it comes to nontrivial things like benefits and payroll? Don't you think it's a bit silly for you as a user to be swayed to use one thing or another by a pretty interface?

We seem to understand never to "judge a book by its cover"...except when it comes to web interfaces.
Reality Web TV idea: Follow a few kids who have only worked one or two jobs right out of school in the Bay Area as they move to smaller industries throughout the country. Watch as the struggle with day to day activities like understanding why they need to pay for their own lunch or why they can't get a brand new macbook every year.
But let's be fair, traffic tickets are rarely about safety.
As a privileged human in many ways, I feel guilty when taking advantages I don't need. It doesn't bother me when others do these types of things though, I just won't.
Haha. Indeed! I would definitely read that one.
I wonder when we'll get to the wall-screens of Fahrenheit 451.
Yeah, but MD5 is broken in the sense that you can generate a collision on purpose.
Well stated. It applies to all age groups. I recently forced myself to 'stop and smell the flowers' (or however that phrase goes). I discovered something that had been around me my whole life that I had never noticed. I noticed the beautiful singing of the cardinal (the little red bird). Since then I listen for them and hear them often. It's a beautiful sound and it's a reminder to not take work life so seriously and enjoy the beauty of nature.
Is it really "the industry" if I'm not running a business?
First thing that came to my mind was; where I work, if employees do not get paid on time, company will have to deal with quite a lot of grief and substantial monetary loss due to the work arrangement company has. I am sure something like this exists in other jobs/industries/countries too. How come such a critical component was not taken care of?

Also, I had to wean off from using the Mint app because I was concerned about violating my bank's TOS by giving login credentials to a third party, and if something happens in future my claim will be a bit weak. So are SMBs not violating ADP's TOS by providing them login info?
Outside the US the term "pension" also is used to mean that the company pays into some(semi-) government scheme that provides a pension. I think the company itself paying the actual pension when you retire is a US only phenomenon.
Your complaint basically boils down to "I don't know how to do it correctly and don't want to learn it". I have a game I'm working on that uses the same setup for both Android and desktop. JBoss does things a crazy way, but for everything else the same approach can be used.
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Well, they are coming out with Klingon sometime in the next year. Granted, it's a small language, but it seems they are amenable to conlangs. Maybe, they will also have an ability to add your own conlang, so that you and friends can communicate and expand the lang.
On "System Technology": See esp. at 17:00, ca., this is very similar to the view conveyed by your rendition (note the swarming aircrafts).
So go get it. A number of growth businesses - Uber, AirBnB, Stripe, Lyft, Zenefits, Slack - are hiring aggressively. Join one of them and in 4-5 years of slaving away at the computer you'll probably have the cash (and desire) to throw this kind of tantrum.
Agreed. Whenever I read these pieces complaining about the current state of things it makes me as, "do you even Lego?"

If you want a bucket of bricks they sell that set at Walmart, or better, get on ebay and buy a bag of bricks used. It's awesome.
Paying off a mortgage is just like any other investment - you need to look at the terms to see if it's worth doing. It's very illiquid, you can't get your cash back without getting another mortgage. On the other hand, it's a guaranteed rate of return that's probably significantly more than any other guaranteed rate you can find.

If you think you can do better with a different investment then go for it. But remember, someone with a lot more money than you decided that their best bet was to finance your mortgage.
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Ask HN: Favorite RAD/CRUD system?
I have to knock up a lot of admin systems. Over the years I've used PHP, RoR and Django. But in order to improve the user experience I'd like to use a SPA (in EmberJS, Angular or React+something) for the UI.

All frameworks have a datagrid, custom input fields etc - but I've seen no unified system for quickly building datagrid + crud. Or for handling file uploads when editing a record. Or quick mapping for linked records in an autocomplete field (like Django did in 2006).

Is there a great JS frontend CRUD framework you've used?

And is there a great CRUD/RAD system in any language for the web?

Bonus Q: What is your favourite RAD/CRUD system/framework EVER?
Is it too grumpy for me to complain about Spark's name? It postdates the more well-known one by like a year or two.
I respect your point of view, but I don't want to believe that people should feel "awarded" to have a job. This might be how it always worked and how it still works for the majority, but it is, for me, a defect of the economic system, not a virtue. Maybe we (as humanity) actually never get to that utopic society where mundane tasks are all automated and people are completely educated and free from the burden of wage labor (instead of bow down and thank for the "opportunity to waste your life"), but we must set some goals in order to progress, and the "perfect" economic system seems like a praiseworthy one.

As for my salary, unfortunately, software workers here in Brazil are actually earning way less than some construction engineers. In fact, if I had had a degree in Civil Engineering I would be way better off than with my current Computer Science major.

Again, I see you have a point, but internet forums are here for that exactly: discussing -- with moanings included.
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From their pdf report [0]

>>> In the case of Kaspersky Lab, the attack took advantage of a zero-day (CVE-2015-2360)
in the WindowsKernel, patched by Microsoft on June 9 2015 and possibly up to two
other, currently patched vulnerabilities, which were zeroday at that time.

[0] https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0...
> For now, drivers will need to keep their hands on the steering wheel even when the system is in operation. If it detects that the driver’s hands are not on the wheel, the system will turn itself off, Bloomberg said.

That'll be awkward.
> ADP is not likely come close to winning

Are they trying to win the case, or a longer game involving customer confidence?
>> 10% of capital on hand for the other.

Well , they just raised $ 500m, so looks like just 1% of the new capital raised ( or wasted , whatever way you put it )
> There is a risk that the Apple Watch will be viewed as a uniform - something that signals lack of individuality rather than ideals about independence and confidence.

This is why Apple's being pretty aggressive with the selection of watchbands and metals on the device itself. Right now the fashion side of the Watch is being hindered by technical constraints: It's got to be kind of thick and bulbous just to contain all the guts and battery. Apple will slim it down to just a thin screen given a few years. It'll probably still be rectangular, but the watchbands will be what people see more than anything. And there will be a million options for individuality.

People individualize their iPhones pretty well with cases and lock screen backgrounds. They'll do similar things with watchbands and watch faces.
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Does it ever go the other way? Did WoW used to be a word processor?
I think it came from dividing the $470M valuation with 10 and rounding up.
This is precisely why Google had 20% time and why other companies have hackathons; that ramp-up time to get anything done is definitely required.

It's also burnout; the dude is sick of working on something that he doesn't particularly care about anymore. I bet if Yelp offered him a few days a week or 1 week per month to work on whatever he wants he'd be happier and wouldn't be burnt out.
Would you understand United States of America better if you read a book by someone who was in an American prison,or if you went on a cycling trip throughout the entire country?

How about doing both? They are not mutually exclusive you know.
I would recommend not using Filezilla at all, honestly. The creator was entirely unapologetic about bundling malware.
I'm doing something with a huge financial impact, so I wanted to talk about how I was dealing with that.

I deliberately left out actual numbers, but I don't know how to be any more tactful than that. Sorry.
It seems to be Antiphrasis: 'The use of a word or phrase in a sense contrary to its normal meaning for ironic or humorous effect' [1] A common example I was able to find used cool with reference to hot temperatures, "it was a cool 110 degrees outside".

Perhaps writers extended the use of cool from high temperatures to towards high dollar amounts as well to achieve a similar effect?

Maybe 'A cool $20k' sounds better than 'An inexpensive $20k'? Though 'a mere $20k' would be another option which also sounds nice.

[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/antiphrasis
[2] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/81689/what-is-the...
> Polarization and naivety are easy, subtlety and deeper understanding are hard

Isn't precisely the problem that we can't have a rational discussion of this issue without people bringing out the X-word, the R-word, the I-word and others and calling for immediate stop of all criticism of the current situation?
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> In my experience driving in the U.K, most of the major roads (motorways/dual carriageways)have average speed cameras liberally placed on the road.

Most major roads definitely do _not_ have average speed cameras placed liberally along them. The only average speed cameras I can recall encountering are at roadworks sites (a move I 100% support) and along a couple of more scenic A-roads that are particularly enjoyable to drive along at high speed.

There are plans to introduce more average speed cameras on the new managed motorways, but I feel it is incorrect to claim they are liberally placed along most major roads.
True, but the issue is the keyboard. Notice they don't have really any Cyrillic languages either. Trying to get people used to using many ALT and key combos is a tough starting point for a lot of gamified learners. Japanese has been on the block since Duolingo began, but again, the keyboard is the main hurdle.
I am absolutely terrified, which is why I didn't quit six months or a year ago.
>~53% high tax rate with only about ~$35K in income

I'm sorry but you cant just go on to HN and make stuff up.

You pay 20% on the first €33,800 income and only 40% on income over €33,800 if single.

You pay 20% on the first €42,800 income and only 40% on income over €42,800 if Married with one income.

You pay 20% on the first €67,600 income and only 40% on income over €67,600 if Married with two incomes.

You pay 20% on the first €37,800 income and only 40% on income over €37,800 if a single parent.
I continue to be amazed by the horribleness of benefits web front-ends. I recently did a simple task in our Hewitt system, and it required five pop-up windows. It's just so, so terrible.

ADP EZ-Labour - not so EZ, but plenty of labour. There are 20 work days in a month. There are 20 rows in the timesheet form. Every one of them has 8 drop-down boxes, and every one of them needs to be filled with your work status, project code, etc, individually. No group actions. Seriously.

What's so frustrating about benefits front-ends is just how much low-hanging fruit is sitting there uncollected. I'm not asking that ADP implement some awesome canvas-based rendering with AJAX storage and async field update - I just want a lousy 'apply all' button and maybe working tab order between the form controls. Jeebus.
I expect a usage of the word that means they had a evidence for a certain amount of the causation.

It's a complicated universe so full causal explanations are pretty much always unattainable in the real world, but I'd hope for some identification and discussion of a mechanism.
This is incredibly cool!

If you can eliminate the extension setup and get it to work off a hosted service at crossdart.info it would make exploring Dart code on GitHub a breeze.

This is the kind of feature that easy static analysis supposed to enable, and the kind of thing that will make Dart developers lives much, much easier!
No, this has nothing to with micro-services. The point here is that in Java, most frameworks are huge systems violating the "single responsibility principle", and instead do everything. Currently, it's a movement to split these things into smaller, reusable parts.

Heck, even Spring is looking good now. Many smaller projects, not a huge jar.
mpdehaan2 didn't use the word passion but caring too much. I've found myself in a similar situation. I didn't care about the company or work at all but, within the realm of job, I still wanted to excel at it. When you're forced to be somewhere 8 hours a day, you tend to want to make that time matter. Otherwise, what's the point. I've been through the exact same cycle and it sucks. It's worth it as a learning process though. Finding what the right balance for you, what works, what doesn't.
I was wondering what this person's situation was. Then I read this in her(his?) blog:

> I currently work for Yelp from the comfort of my home in Las Vegas. I live with my ridiculous cat, my partner, her three cats, her husband, his dog, and our boyfriend.

Now it makes more sense. In my limited experience, when you're working remotely, you feel disconnected from the mothership. To this, add some work stress, and it's easy to get disenchanted.

PS: I don't really know how to parse that sentence. No wonder NLP is so hard! ;-D
Also control over your time. There's a huge difference between "9 to 5 every day" and "40ish hours a week, pick the times that are most convenient, and have some flexibility in that number based on how much actually gets done"
I predict it will also be more than 10% longer.
The article explicitly states that Duolingo moved away from this model though:

"As a company spokesperson told me, the company actually tabled its ambitions around translations about a year and a half ago and hasn’t scaled the businesses or accepted new clients"
With your fantasy you can work in tabloids like Wired.

Russia and Iran are allies? US is going to use Iran against Russia to sell Iranian gas and oil to Europe and subdue Russian influence - that's why US decided to fix relations with Iran and come to a deal allowing to finish the sanctions. It's more like competitors than allies.
Its incredibly low to prevent others from entering by taking all the forms.
Any word on getting over the hurdle of using another alphabet on english keyboards?
The collision-resistance property that all good hashes should have (and md5 lacks) states that an attacker with an input and its hash cannot arbitrarily produce a second input with the same hash. The possibility of it happening in the wild will always exist with hashes by their finite nature, but the only way an attacker should be able to find collisions is by enumerating the input space (rainbow table generation).
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I've been learning Mandarin, and after searching for something like Duolingo found Chinese Skill [一]. It's not as good as Duolingo, but does include a way to teach characters. It would be great if it could have a drawing interface like Pleco [二] which can reliably recognise most characters I draw, with my terrible handwriting.

They do teach English to speakers of Chinese, Mandarin and Hindi.

[一] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chineseski...

[二] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chin...
I do also have some pre-existing savings; I just don't want to use them if at all possible (and have to start all over, sob), so I've been deliberately pretending they're unavailable.
Hilarious. I just finished reading your memoir of that period.
I do some data work with a small UK charity. Right now we need some help with deciding how best to proceed with our IT stuff.

So probably not programming right now, but definitely the sort of thing a programmer could help with.

Hit me up at my email (in profile) if this interests you
For RAD my favourite system ever would be Delphi...
Go build something that doesn't require programming. Sounds like a simple case of burn out.

One of the most insidious ideas people fall into is that they have to spend all of their free time learning new things all the time or else they will fall behind. You should spend some time on professional development, but when you've hit the wall banging your head against it doesn't help.

Go build some hardware or a rocking chair, or a yoga studio or whatever. The lessons learned doing that can apply to your profession as well.
My guess is that the github account (GoogleChrome) is simply an account of Google Chrome developers, and so that demo was probably made by them.

That it works elsewhere - yay open standards :-)
Blame is an irrelevant concept here. Spotify isn't making them happy, so they are going to try something else.
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meh, in most businesses you'll still have to maintain these huge struts/spring apps. You can't call yourself a java web dev and not know all the Spring ecosystem, so if the goal is to make things easier, well for whom? not for new comers who'll still have to learn a bunch of legacy XML backed frameworks and all the JEE stack.
I would make sure you provide something before you have people sign up. By this I mean either actually provide the recipes or at least a sample or tell me a little bit more about the product.

Also - you have a typo on your signup page. "healtier" != "healthier" (https://eatbetter.io/signup)
I have a rule in my adblocker for ".css" which blocks all external stylesheets.

Inline styles are rare enough and usually sensible enough that I don't mind them when they appear. I have a bookmarklet to remove them on a per-page basis if needed.
Oh I'm not anxious at night, that's not the issue. I'm AWAKE at the wrong times and my brain wants to do stuff.
IIRC, they've said that they're targeting people learning english more than english speakers learning other languages. They have english courses in lots of languages.
My bet would be on the smaller physical size of the Apple Watch compared to the other smart watches on the market.
that's a good point, I forgot orbital mechanics. However, what's the ratio of the acceleration due to light pressure vs. due to gravity?

If you are at rest 1 au from the sun, and you deploy your sail perpendicular to sunlight, which direction will you accelerate in?
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He's been here three times as long as you so I figure he knows how things work. On top of that I got him just fine.
Except the VAT and petrol tax have nothing to do with income tax. So you can't just add it to the ~40% income tax. 21% VAT is quite normal in the EU, so that's nothing special.

Also source on that petrol tax? According to http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/uk-czech-tax-idUKKB... it seems to be one of the lower in the EU, as the cut would have "put Czech petrol taxes below minimum rates allowed in the European Union"
I crunched some numbers, and the difference came out to losing a couple grand a year over the course of a decade by paying it off now. I decided I'd rather have fewer bills and no debt looming overhead while I figure this out than the slight extra cash.
FWIW, I've got the Apple Watch Sport in black, and I haven't been getting significant attention. I think in black, it doesn't really stand out that much.

I live in NYC
Believing it's most poor people's fault they're poor is the null hypothesis. We generally believe people's decisions matter. It's especially the null hypothesis for me, because this is what I grew up seeing with my own eyes, in my own family. It's even more so because the people I grew up with would have also said "it's not my fault I'm poor," even when I could clearly see them make bad decision after bad decision. Then there's the additional circumstantial evidence of seeing who invests in poor financial vehicles like lottery tickets and playing slot machines.

Yes, I'd love to know these are all exceptions to the rule-- it would make me feel much better about the politics I'd like to believe, but the other camp is going to have to provide the data to back up their alternative hypothesis.
Does a prism get affected by the momentum of the light it bends? Can you use a prism to bend the light to any angle you need to drive your sail?
ADP was taken offline today for 65 minutes with a massive DDOS. Coincidence?
I am definitely hecka privileged. What would you have me do? Keep working a job I don't enjoy, out of guilt that other people have to do the same?
How about?

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Here are some citations showing the exact opposite. Believe it or not, scientists are humans and have biases, are occasionally bad actors, and sometimes just need to get that grant.

http://publicationethics.org/news/cope-statement-inappropria...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ - "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%... - Editor in Chief of the Lancet talking about about upwards of half of biomed studies are faked or over-estimated
Perhaps the people who care too much aren't that smart in this case.

See the Napoleon anecdote:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/27/dumb-and-gets-thing...
Ambiguity is a large part of social interactions. A polite conversation is very much about no one losing face, where ambiguity or small hints helps a lot in keeping things subtle.

You can nudge subjects without actually saying anything to anyone's face.
Silence is Not Violence
Additionally, I don't think the answer is to work less and have more leisure time. I don't think that really solves the issue. I think you can spend an enormous amount of energy and time on something you love, and be very fulfilled by it.

Coders have a lot of power in this day and age. Let's start using it to help people and do good work in the world. I'm so tired of meaningless tech achievements, one after another. Elon Musk may get us to Mars, he may help us reduce our energy usage, but we'll still be the same depressed people if we don't work on improving the system.
Thanks for this. The rest of the thread is also very illuminating. I finally understand what they are opposed to. It makes sense.
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