jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is very likely. My wife is a very well respected Engineer in her field and when she was asked to come out of retirement, she retired to start a farm and enjoy the outdoors, they called her back and made what I thought was a very low offer. She was going to accept it because to her it was a work from home gig and was near what she used to make. I said no and helped her negotiate an additional 30% in her rate that she would have simply left on the table because she didn't feel comfortable asking for more.*

*Yes, anecdotal evidence but I hear it from her and her female engineering friends a lot. To the point I've offered to help any of them negotiate their contracts in the future.
We do, but it takes quite a bit of work to actually look it up for someone.
> When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'

You say, "Are you ashamed of how much you pay me?", and start looking for another job.
Is "BuzzFeed Generation" supposed to be an insult against Millennials, or some sort of lament on the dropping quality of news and science coverage dumbing down the planet? You're at least 130 years late for the latter, and none too visionary for the former.
My contract did not specifically mention salary though it was argued it was covered by the general confidential information clause. I'm used to working for the government where salary is publicly available, so I didn't even think twice about mentioning it.

It came up when we were reviewing another consultants report, and he had put his compensation in the report. I made a comment of surprise about how much he was being paid, which pretty much gave away I was getting less and they were paying more.
Although it offers an interesting thought to consider, this paper is pretty much gibberish from a scientific perspective.

Scott Aaronson has written a response to this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591
I haven't checked on the state of e-Estonia in a few months, but I think they're trying to be the place for this sort of thing? They're rolling out the services later this year I believe.

https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/opportunities/
Article L.3421-4 of the "Code de la Santé Publique" (law concerning public health) forbids incitation/encouragement of the usage or traffic of classified narcotics, even if it does not lead to anyone actually using them. The sentence is heaviest if it's done near schools. Isn't there something vaguely equivalent in US law?

The interesting part is that the act of presenting classified narcotics under a favorable light (in press for example) is punishable under the same article.

In some regards this is pretty vague, and I've seen government-funded studies that end up presenting cannabis "in a favorable light", so I'm not sure how much this is enforced.
This is a perfect example of how the interests of VCs and the interests of entrepreneurs can be (and often are) misaligned.

Because of the circles I run in I tend to meet many people who eventually do want to build large companies and therefore do want to eventually raise VC and “go big.” But they want to do it with leverage.

This ignores the scenario of "We plan to 'go big' and build an immensely scalable company, but we aren't worried about doing it super fast". And that, of course, is because that scenario doesn't work for VCs, where their funds are almost always time-boxed.

As an aside, I understand that this is one reason that it's a good idea to raise from brand new funds when possible - they have the maximum portion of their lifespan still in front of them, so you get less "time pressure" from the VCs. If you raise in year 7 of a 10 year fund, you'll be under a tremendous amount of pressure to have an exit in 3 years.
Not quite. It means a vulnerability that was being exploited before the software developer was aware of the exploit.

If Microsoft issued a warning about a vulnerability they didn't know was already being exploited, it's not a zero-day exploit.

If Mcirosoft was informed of the vulnerability a week ago and it's being exploited today, it's not a zero-day exploit.

If Microsoft issued a warning about a vulnerability they already patched but saw being exploited because the patch isn't widely installed yet, it's not a zero-day exploit.
Wikileaks was kicked off Amazon for breaking their Terms of Service: http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/

Follow Amazon's rules, and you can use their service. Not sure what's so hard to understand here.
The gp is an emacs user and zile is a bare bones emacs. If you are a proficient emacs user going to vi is going to be torturous even on small projects. I am a vim user and I see why the gp would want to skip vim and use something comfortable.
It depends... do you mean just "free speech" or do you mean "free speech" as in hotly controversial material which makes the hosting provider a lightening-rod for large-scale systematic DDOS attacks, possibly endangering their business and the business of thousands who depend on their services?
You'll have gained more time to obtain a fix, because Firefox vulnerabilities are not attacked as swiftly and as broadly as IE vulnerabilities.
The faster way would be if you used ctags and had your cursor already on the function name. Then, simply typing:

CONTROL-]

would take you to the function definition (wherever it was, in the same file or in a different file), and:

cw

would change it.

Three keystrokes in total.

There's no way a mouse user could do better. Especially as he'd need to type "c" anyway, to start changing the name of the function after he'd selected it with the mouse.

So the difference would really be in two keystrokes vs moving your hand to the mouse, scrolling down, using some error-prone and slow way of finding the function name visually, followed by a selection of the function name with the mouse.

A touch typist should easily be able to type those two keystrokes in the time it would take to simply move one's hand from the keyboard to the mouse.

So however long it takes to perform the rest of the needed operations to find and select the function name by mouse along with moving one's hand back from the mouse to the keyboard would be time wasted in comparison to the keyboard method. Time that could be more productively used in continuing to edit something else.

Now multiply that time waste by 50 or 100 times you need to do that per day, the hundreds of days you spend editing per year, and the decades you spend editing in your life.

And that's not to mention the more complex editing tasks that are simply impossible to do with the mouse (without breaking out the virtual keyboard that you'd need to click on with the mouse, which would be a completely ridiculous way to edit if you had a real keyboard in front of you and were capable of using it).
Direct link to application: http://pmretract.heroku.com/
The obvious difference is that swap files are not as optimized for disk io. There is a serious performance issue if you ever have to hit disk often. It all depends on how you structure your in memory/on disk data. But it might never be an issue, have scaled to tenish million user in memory there is so much else that can go wrong first.
TIL, that's fascinating. I'm a member of a number of subscription libraries in the UK that predate public libraries and had no idea about Carnegie's role.

The role for subscription based libraries in the UK is usually for specialist nonacademic research, or perhaps just an old community of readers who like things just-so.

Back in the 19th century one of the things mutuals and co-ops used to do in the UK was provide reading rooms, circulating libraries, lectures and such, much like Carnegie's libraries. It was often working class self help rather than liberal philanthropy, too. There's a great history of this (and lots more) in Jonathan Rose's Intellectual History of the British Working Class.
How is this going to be implemented?

When it reach the cap, all your service stop working? This is incredibly user hostile.

If you want some warning when utilization is high, it can be relatively easy to setup with AWS's existing feature, but you need to do some configuration/tweaking on your own.
AIUI the plant is legal but consuming it, growing it for consumption, or preparing it for consumption is only legal for religious purposes. I could be misremembering, and state laws may vary anyway.
This dude should apply for some jobs. As a hiring manager, I don't spend much time searching for blog posts about someone being interested in a new job.

The part about resignation without having a new job may be totally fine, but I'd be curious to understand the circumstances.

A person that confuses a job application with a blog post might get confused about other aspects of work responsibilities.
Because of course people in China can't protest.

"The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8,700 "mass group incidents" in 1993[1] to over 87,000 in 2005.[2] In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010.[3][4]"
Engineers at Facebook make $100k+ a year and have absolutely no standing to shirk moral responsibility. By all means they should be called out. More effective than deflecting to some vague unaccountable company policy.
Maybe it was the intern's fault to set a weak password but it is the CEOs fault for setting up an organization where things like these can slip through security review or monitoring.
You're thinking is limited to your experience only.

PayPal charges a big percentage to send money to friends overseas. 3.9% + $0.3 in my experience, some countries may be higher, how is that lower than Bitcoin's fees?
Are you going to make it open-source?

I need something like that. I started trading this month, and the first thing I did was putting $1000 on AMC shares which then lost half their value :/
Hi Dalia. Great article. Very nice of you to pass on concrete career advice to people in your region. I hope you have a fantastic experience at Google.
If I had a nickel for every time an algorithm was found to have an exploitable weakness due to unforeseen alignments of input, I’d certainly have some nickels. We know what the common screwups in crypto are, and we could know what common screwups in network graphs are. I’m just wondering if anyone actually does know of any of those.
There's a lot of negativity here, and I think I understand where it's coming from. A lot of you sound like you do this sort of work for a living. I am getting into small electronic projects in my limited free time.

Things I care about:
* Board fabrication AND final assembly
* Quick turnaround time
* Small minimum order size (preferably 1)
* Help choosing components

Things I DON'T care about:
* Getting the absolute cheapest price
* Being locked into a vendor for a particular project
* Tight tolerances on things like thermal management or AC signal integrity.

I just want to have a custom board for my PIC-based project, or my one-off guitar pedal circuit.

I haven't tried this service, but I will. If anyone knows of other similar services, I would love to hear about them as well.
I remember trying to buy a 2 GB SD card once for an old device that didn't support SDHC/SDXC. Was almost laughed out of the store.
It's CTRL+X and then N to not save changes
So the whole world has to bend to the US's language/culture. What about the other way, when american words sound offensive in other languages?
Well, sure, but you have to have some instinct for the difference between theory and practice (particularly when the theory is naive, as it is here). The concept is broadly supported, but the uncertainty for any particular measurement is wide -- like most things in biology.

Engineers have a poor sense of the level of slop in biology and medicine. I can tell you with near 100% confidence how PCR works, but if I set out to run PCR in the real world (which is actually one of the most repeatable things in biology, btw), it's just going to fail some of the time, even if I've done the same exact reaction many times before. The biological world is noisy.

Remember the old physics joke about "assume a frictionless spherical horse"? This is a "spherical horse" of the pandemic. It's one of those things that armchair biologists take way too literally, because it's in a textbook. Obviously, first-year mechanics isn't wrong...it's just not all there is.
So not every patch can commute with every other patch: “delete foo” doesn’t make sense until after “add foo” has happened. So patches have dependencies that they must come after, but for lots of vc situations, patches are independent. Sets of patches makes rebasing a branch trivial for example because adding the patches from the master after your patches is equivalent to adding them before. If you would get a merge conflict, you get the same merge conflict whether they are added before or after.

But nailing down the logic behind commuting patches can be important too as it can catch subtle problems that might happen with normal snapshot-based merging. Consider some people independently editing branches

Bob adds a file with line “foo”
Alice pulls Bob’s patch
Bob changes “foo” to “bar”
Alice changes “foo” to “bar”
Bob changes “bar” back to “foo”

In Pijul or Darcs you should get a consistent result pulling changes from Bob and Alice no matter what order you do it. But if you use something like git, the order you pull and merge, and if you do it at any intermediate times, might change the resulting snapshot (as well as just the history). The start and end state of Bob’s repo loom the same as snapshots but they are different because Bob changed his mind about the line “bar”—maybe the change didn’t work.
GNU docs have good design in accordance with W3C best practices: rendering is user agent's job, and if it doesn't do the job per your preference, you change the user agent to the one that does or submit an RFE to your user agent vendor to support your preference.
Have you ever rebased a long chain of git commits onto new branch, where one of the first of those commits have a conflict with the new base, and after resolving this conflict for that commit you have the same conflict over and over again for all the subsequent commits, even if they did not modify that place in the code, and you need to manually resolve it again and again?

Pijul will, as I understand, save us from those unnecesary repeated "conflicts".

See also the answer by @chriswarbo about removing unndesired changes from history
Oh, I'm with you. I'd much prefer to pull this up on a real computer so I can efficiently fill things in. I've adapted to typing on glass with my thumbs, but I'm not very good at it.
The second link is actually a pretty great speculation. My only objection is that it is rather improbable to lose all 788k BTC. How dumb you should be to keep all the coins in a single stash? Or to keep keys to different stashes in one place? I'm willing to believe Gox lost some, but all? Oh man, Mark's gonna be a nominee for the Darwin award of the century then.
and remove it whenever i want to access GA !?
WELL, f*ck! There goes my grand plan to reach 356 and post on Hacker news
Well, someone thinks the article was important enough to give it a catchy title, so that somebody else could leverage upon it.

It was old, but it at least pointed out a theme that still holds some validity.

I like getting injections of knowledge and themes, that one should be aware of, and from the replies and comments here, it seems that a lot of other people feel the same way too.

I got fucked by using .NET and Linq some years ago, so I found it to be an interesting read. Nowadays I use Objective-C and core data, and that is a much more pleasant experience, as you can see from the comments. :)
Mario West (as the cited lowest paid NBA player) makes 25,000 dollars... on a team (and league) he hasn't played for in 3 years. The NBA has a unionized workforce, with a collective bargaining agreement which sets salary minimums as well as caps, with all sorts of rules regarding compensation, employment, trades, etc.

Interestingly, an economist recently estimated LeBron James' fair market value at 50 million dollars a year, which is far above his 20m current salary (which is largely driven by the CBA to keep player salaries low).

Also, when you sign an NBA contract, most of it is guaranteed both ways. That is to say, a four year contract means you get paid for four years even if you get injured or your performance is lacking. The converse being, you can't simply sign with another team for higher salary if you feel you're being underpaid, underutilized, or under appreciated. There are exceptions, player and team options, but those are typically in the final year of a multi-year contract.

I don't have strong thoughts on the general point of the article, but I thought I'd clarify some of the basketball background info, because I feel it's somewhat misleadingly presented. And I'm not sure the NBA really serves as a great analogy with the author's points.
Core2's are 64bit chips. It's the graphics card (Intel GMA 950) that Apple is likely deeming too old.

Hopefully my 2008 AL macbook stays supported for another release - it's just as nice looking as a modern macbook pro, and with an SSD it's quite functional yet.
I recommend Scratch and editor.p5js.org

My kid is 7. He can't really code alone, but he can do nontrivial modifications to Scratch programs based on trial and error, he can create very simple but visually interesting p5js apps like this: https://editor.p5js.org/skinner/sketches/xjUwFm1pF , and he enjoys a lot being the product designer when we create more complex p5js apps like this: https://editor.p5js.org/skinner/sketches/bPh8JRHrV .
For the unfamiliar, this is essentially the line of thinking behind Roko's basilisk.[0]

While a mature superintelligence certainly could consign the human race to a fate of eternal suffering, the likelihood it would actually do this while sparing certain individuals in return for their assistance is infinitesimal.

Therefore, helping bring a superintelligence into existence on this basis is absurd.

Of course, it is possible to think of such collaboration as "rational" in an extremely selfish and perverse way, and only because the potential downside risk is unbounded (i.e. eternal suffering). However, anyone who genuinely subscribes to such a justification would have to be both a sociopath and a card-carrying member of the LessWrong rationality cult.

More realistic scenarios for a malicious superintelligence coming into existence might include:

a) Its creators explicitly imbue it with malicious goals or values.

b) The architecture used is neuromorphic[1] in nature. In humans, sanity is already an extremely fragile thing.

c) Plain old bad luck.

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[0] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Neuromorphic_AI
Checking in! Well, the 12-year-old me (2003).

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Admiralty courts used to only have jurisdiction over the sea as far as the tides ran up the rivers. Somehow that all changed. I think it first got extended to the Great Lakes because of action during the war of 1812. Then they took it up river and then covering all land drained by rivers and all wetlands. It was one way of getting Fed jurisdiction over state jurisdiction land. The Feds used to have only jurisdiction over forts, magazines and post offices inside states. This is why the Fed owns so little land in the first 13 states.
Good luck, the garbage industry has lots of participation from organized crime and they are 100% not interested being shaken up.
Yeah, I was able to hold out for the first two or three times, but by #5....
Unfortunately any attempt at regulation, like Bloomberg limiting the size of soda containers, is met with cries of "But my FREEDOM. I need to be FREE to buy as large a container as I want!"

Never mind that the only freedom being preserved here is the freedom of marketers to manipulate the public. Nobody asked for the obscenely large sizes of drinks we have available now. Companies just realized they can sell 3 cents of extra soda for an additional 25 cents and went nuts.
This does put the original announcement in a weird light. Although it doesn't specifically say that the 40 employees were let go without any kind of compensation... I suppose it's possible they all got a nice payout as part of the partners' FB deal? I don't know, just trying to avoid jumping to conclusions based on limited evidence.
> if a given test were to generate a false positive, you would expect that it wouldn't generate a false positive the next time if run on the same article

I don't think that's true. Remember that the test doesn't actually detect bombs. It detects certain chemicals. Now, sometimes it might just randomly report a false positive and then you'd expect it not to trigger the second time. But some of the chemicals it is built to detect can be found in everyday products, such as hair products, soaps, some medications, and--as I learned today--bug spray. And so for those chemicals, it's going trigger repeatedly because the chemical it's looking for really is there. So that second failure mode is actually pretty common, and so even when that happens, it's normal to take the person into a side room, search them more throughly, talk to them for a few minutes, and send them on their way. What we see here is quite different.

Which leads us to the real reason, which you wrote:

> It's not that such behavior is automatically suspicious, it's that the behavior is still almost indistinguishable from those who previously have caused terrorist attacks.

That's precisely profiling: "the bad guys have profile x and you fit profile x, so we think you are suspicious" where x isn't inherently suspicious. It sounds like you're saying, "profiling isn't such a bad idea", which I strongly disagree with, but I suppose that's a different discussion.
Who wants to bet that next year they'll shut down Parse?
Here are the two that I found:

http://www.coinfunder.com

https://bitcoinstarter.com

(I have never tried any of these by the way.)
Simplest method (what we do) is to set up OpenDNS Home (http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/) as your home router's DNS server, which should then propagate to all your machines.

It only blocks the most egregious stuff and doesn't do anything about monitoring/blocking chat, etc., but at least you have some basic peace of mind.

(Of course, a determined budding hacker could easily get around it if they can change a local machine's DNS settings.)
> Also, "casual observer"? Really?

Yes, really. Shit happens around the world all the time. Just because your media and government tried to make all Americans feel like they were under attack, these were isolated incidents that affected few Americans. (In fact, the people most affected are the countless innocent civilians murdered by reactionary war in the middle east.)
I live in Turkey and there's an online rumor about how the prime minister orchestrated this ban as some people were talking about his exploits in google groups etc. I can't tell if this is the real reason for the ban, but I can affirm you that if you want to have a time travel to the past (dark ages) you can visit Turkey anytime you want.
Thanks. I have heard Boulder has more computer scientists per capita than any other city in America. Truth?

What is your background - if I may ask?

I agree about working virtually, but I feel I need to get some traction with this first iteration.
I wouldn't claim my solution is the best. In fact, I think it's definitely not the best. It is, however, a starting point for comparison.

Given your comment I'd be interested to know which is yours - email me your submission ID?