skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do think about why you insist on labeling yourself. I don't care if you're gay, and it's certainly not the most important thing I want to hear about you.

Ah, surely what's most important about me are the things you want to hear about.

> I am not untitled because I am following others, I am untitled because I am unique and un-titleable.

But these are not labels, and are in no way ideas about yourself to which you attach an undue importance. If I were to blithely negate your perceived individuality by suggesting that you were utterly banal and unoriginal, that certainly wouldn't be a blow to your nameless ego, right?
most of the non-google code is stored in a special subdirectory, and AFAICT, it's less than 10% of the total.
I actually thought they were the same company until right now, so this certainly makes sense.
So I think you are drawing a distinction between doing what you expect to lead to the greatest increase in utility, and doing what leads to the largest mathematical expectation increase in utility. You're right that the latter is not actually possible, and the former could possibly lead to worse outcomes than following the rules. But this is not a stable equilibrium.

1. If you discover that you're so bad at predicting the consequences of your actions that always following the rules would produce better outcomes, then the good utilitarian thing to do is to give up on your own judgement and follow the rules.

2. If you discover that people you convince to follow utilitarianism end up in situation #1, then the good utilitarian thing to do is to lie to people about your beliefs and convince them to just follow the rules.
Thanks for that top tip! Just tried it on Bloomberg and it worked.
I was abbreviating. We're talking about an open end of the interval right?
Try using google. This isn't a controversial statement or hard to find reporting on:

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/cfpb-sues-for-profit...

>The Bureau alleges that Corinthian lured tens of thousands of students to take out private loans to cover expensive tuition costs by advertising bogus job prospects and career services. Corinthian then used illegal debt collection tactics to strong-arm students into paying back those loans while still in school.

> Corinthian Colleges, Inc. is one of the largest for-profit, post-secondary education companies in the United States. The publicly traded company has more than 100 school campuses across the country. The company operates schools under the names Everest, Heald, and WyoTech. As of last March, the company had approximately 74,000 students.
I believe ZenPayroll is in all 50 states as of a few months ago. Looks like benefits is CA only.
I would be interested in seeing some real-world figures for HPC applications (e.g. VASP). I think most people use Intel MKL these days. A 30% performance increase over MKL as in the first figure would be huge.
Zenefits does not do payroll, they "integrate" with other Payroll providers. Of the providers I've been most impressed with ZenPayroll so this is a very exciting announcement.
Turn that frown upside down buddy, have I got some good news for you!

Having read that article, you now know about the demand for karaoke vans and can go serve that market.
Reading the complaint, it's clear that, if true, the plaintiff was discriminated against, but it's not immediately clear if it was because she was a woman or if it was because she was a bad employee.
Well, and in fact the wavelet-based JPEG-2000 standard does produce better visual quality at smaller file size than the DFT-based JPEG standard. JPEG-2000 compressors haven't been as broadly adopted, probably because they're slower. I'm not sure if that's because of wavelets, because of unoptimized implementations of JPEG-2000, or because some other aspect of the JPEG-2000 standard makes it more computationally intensive. There's further discussion at https://lobste.rs/s/oxuu1k/jpeg_2000_the_better_alternative_....
No doubt. I actually stepped away, because the upward trajectory, means your performance has to match the pay. As said before in the thread, asking OVER the top - simply means HR finds your replacement faster. Appeasement is what started Hitler's demise. Those who do not learn from the past, will repeat the failures in the future. However, its like a skill of knowing the timing of things - how I got this far, myself.
It's interesting to me that debian has written systemd-shim, hadn't heard about it before.

I remember that for a while, the primary criticism I heard of systemd was that it would make software linux-only because of systemd dependencies (gnome was the primary example given) and that it was impossible to write a compatibility wrapper. I guess the debian guys busted that myth.
- Smaller organizations lack the propaganda reach and expertise to sanitize their actions and so they are classified as criminals. Larger ones have hordes of academics, journalists, philosophers, etc., proclaiming the moral righteousness of their use of lethal force and intimidation (see the "Bush Doctrine").

This is very much missing the point of there being any state at all. The notion of a single group having the monopoly on violence in a society is very important for that society to be able to function. To say it's the same because both government and mafia use force to get people to pay money is missing the point completely. Having only one source of violent coercion is vital for a society to function properly (see Syria for examples of what happens when you have many sources).

If you can have democratic constraints on how that violence get's used, then all the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(book)
That was beautiful. I found myself smiling as I read it. Thank you.
This all seems pretty straightforward to me, though I don't pull the "I'm leaving" tactic, I just leave. Overall I agree, engineers are too timid about this and you have to grow some balls.

It would be worth expounding a bit on the manager who was a skilled negotiator. What did that person do, how did you end up being glad with just an offer? I've read a lot about this subject but maybe others have not.

Is this in the Bay Area? (Edit: guessing Boston or that region based on the New England college)
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I'm sure with the current state of technological advancement, we'll see toys that can alienate small children very soon.
Welcome to the 2010s, where credit unions now run additional services for employers and HR departments. My company regularly uses The Work Number from Experian.

Interesting. I've always suspected something like this existed and have argued with people against lying about salary history on the assumption that it does. This is the first confirmation I've seen. Thanks!
Geographic expansion is expensive and many companies have died by expanding too fast. They may be trying to built out a broader offering before expanding to ensure that they have enough revenue per customer to expand profitably.
Speaking of which, it would be nice if chrome or firefox had a developer keyboard shortcut to delete the node the mouse is currently hovering on without having to inspect or open the dev tools. That'd make dealing with intrusive content on the web much easier/faster.
The flip side of this is the "profits without progress" that is endemic to classic enterprise software such as Oracle, SAP, etc.

Companies like that can't grow their businesses organically either because potential customers see them as an enemy but not a friend.
Gusto co-founder here! We actually changed our name because ZenPayroll no longer adequately described what we bring to our customers. We're not just payroll and payments. Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first.
Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer is by far the best sales book I ever read.

His basic premise is that the outcome of any negotiation(especially sales) is inversely proportionate to how intimidated you are by the other person.

His solution is to invest in creating a strong image before selling and using takeaway selling, which is basically taking away the opportunity to do business with you so that they stop thinking about whether they want to buy and start thinking about how to get you to sell to them.

On a side note, Dan Kennedy says,"if you lose a sale because of price, you lose that sale long beforehand." your job is to differentiate yourself and craft a powerful image so they can never even start to compare you to others.

http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Through-Intimidation-Robert-Ri...
Have you ever seen a phishing attack that actually asks for and uses the two factor auth code? I don't deny that this is possible, I've just never seen it.
not for Single People it doesn't JSA lasts 6 months and you have to jump though a lot of hoops.
I guess the debian guys busted that myth.

Nope, they haven't. systemd-shim is a fundamentally unsustainable idea: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/de...
The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project
> The 'leveling' power of the web is an illusion. The web is controlled by those who .. develop and distribute web browsers

I mean the leveling power of open content exchange, not the current technical particulars. If browser wars mess up HTML badly enough the world can invent a better system, or at least it could have. But once everyone gets their internet though walled-garden devices, that ship has sailed.
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Android 5 lock-screens can be bypassed by typing in a reeeeally long password
Europe is not the main cause. I'm getting 1.2s vs 0.6s consistently.
They are on Snapchat + Instagram.

Facebook is the social network for your mom. And everybody else's mom. No bueno! Their most active user demographic is over 50, according to someone I know who used to work there.
> To be fair, I allocated the stacks manually in one large allocation; otherwise it dies quite quickly running out of VM mappings.

Okay, so the test you did doesn't actually reflect the use case in practice. Can I expect to reach 200,000 threads if the threads are not all created at exactly the same moment? What if (God forbid) they're doing memory allocation? And if it does work out, will everything be handled efficiently?
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Indeed.

>Which States Does ZenPayroll Support?

>ZenPayroll is nationwide!

https://support.zenpayroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/207605278-W...
My wife and I enjoy buying gendered toys for our children, and our children prefer them. It could be an innate preference or one conditioned by us, but we don't care and don't lose any sleep over it. Our children are happy.

We don't discourage them from playing with each other's toys, and they do, but they exhibit a clear gender bias.

There's still a lot of parents like us.
My experience is the opposite: Python code generally looks like executable pseudocode, the opposite extreme from assembly code. If you're finding this wavelet code unreadable, like I do, most likely it's because you don't understand the math it's implementing, like I don't.
> people like the grandparent commenter

Not sure whose comment you are referring to. My comment was intended to illustrate some properties institutions built by primates with guns.

Obviously, governments (and criminal organizations) provide some valuable services to society (employment, structure, resource allocation, etc.)

The current status quo society and government provides lots of opportunity to some, and virtually no opportunity to others. "Criminality" provides a different distribution of opportunity. Drawing a firm distinction between legitimate and criminal pursuits is a profoundly conservative worldview.
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Contract to perm is the best way by far.

For whom?

It's bad for the worker because you're going to work for a company that is admitting by its behavior that it has little confidence in its abiliity to assess talent. Where else is it weak? (My experience shows that those who can't assess talent usually can't do a whole lot of other important things, too.)

It's bad for the company because it limits its pool of candidates. Good luck recruiting desirable high achievers by telling them you can't tell if they're good enough to hire.

Assessing talent and determining long term resource requirements is like anything else in I.T.: it's fundamental and must be mastered to become any good. Contract to perm is a red flag that something is wrong.
The complaint calls stack ranking sexist, and calls for the suit to be made into a class action.
9 days. There is a bunch of commits, sure. But if nodejs team is really aiming for stability as was stated in the 4.0.0 announcement IMO they should give it longer time to stabilize.
Just to add to this list, amything by W. Clement Stone - specifically The Success System That Never Fails.
Lol, perfect marketing. Instead of the kid saying "I don't like this doll anymore" she can now say "I need a new doll, this one doesn't like ME anymore."
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To pick a contrived example, I suspect that if you offered unlimited free heroin for personal use! that would make the world a worse place.

More subtly, charity could make one person better off and others worse off. You could go around to every doctor in the world and ask them if I gave you a million dollars, what would you do?. Then you could give a million dollars only to the ones who say they would retire and spend it on bribing law enforcement officers to overlook the murder spree that they can now afford to finance.

Those are both pretty actively evil, but it's at least plausible that well-intentioned but poorly-thought-out charities could have negative effects.
It's for people to be alerted. So humans still have to decide whether they act on the intel. I don't think the HFTA's are acting on this.
It's probably transliterated right out of a math textbook into Python.
A Tale of Many Cities. Spacial-Temporal map of phone activity in popular cities
I'm not sure 2 factor would help. The hackers could echo his 2 factor key he typed into their fake login page to the real login page.
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On the payroll side, Gusto is actually a full-service payroll provider in all 50 states, meaning we do all your tax calculations, direct deposits, tax payments, and quarterly tax form filings.

For workers' compensation insurance, we're also nationwide.

For health insurance, we're currently available in California only, but we're already expanding to get nationwide.
Got 1.71 (HTTP/1) vs 2.40 (HTTP/2) at the first test

And 2.31 vs 0.64 at the second
Do you really think it's ethical to give "the jedi mind trick" on someone to make a sale. Really?

I agree with "thinkdevcode" a few messages up. The better solution is find the best solution to the underlying problem. View yourself as a problem solver, rather than a salesman.
Some site don't check this in the logout page on purpose, for example google: https://sites.google.com/site/bughunteruniversity/nonvuln/lo...
The student is signing for the package, I bet the dealers reuse fake ID or reuse the same airbnb places. Now do controlled delivery next time those addresses with patterns have packages and merely threaten the student into cooperation or follow them for second controlled delivery and bust entire crew for conspiracy to traffic which is a decade in jail at least, especially interstate trafficking. This is a weak criminal scheme made weaker by taunting the police by telling a journalist about your scheme, now they have to bust you to save face.
Same. For the price of a toughbook you just buy 5 Chromebooks and throw them away.
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I don't think so. The best predictor of university physics scores is...wait for it.... university physics scores.

Likewise, the best predictor of on job performance is on job performance.

If this isn't a recent grad, interviewing on the resume will tell you more any proxy for on job performance. Sure, people may be seeking to step up from a drudgery type job, but I think that usually comes out (citation needed, I admit).
"I wanted to replace the terrible X with the wonderful Y, but I was over ruled".

"question about why this was rational".

"rational explanation ensues"

"want a job here?"

I admit it ain't perfect, people lie on resumes and take credit for other people's work, but we all know the whiteboard tests and other things are just voodoo. Google's hiring data proves it out - only one person in their company was able to give better than chance ratings based on interviews.

And, who really cares about resume inflation? I'm scrupulously honest in my resume, but if someone can describe all the trade offs, costs, and benefits of an architecture from a previous job, and answer speculative questions about it ("what would you change if you needed to scale X"), then heck, they can probably do the job. If I understand engineering and am an active contributor, what more do you want? No, "doesn't get nervous during a highly artificial situation of whiteboarding" is not a rational want, since it will not add 1 dollar to your bottom line.
It tires me that there is so much talk about the problem of hiring developers and very little about the problem of "what do you do once you hire them?"

That is, they may treat you like a rockstar when they sign you, but then if you complain because you got a crappy Dell laptop that was a hand-me-down from a salesman who couldn't sell, that your build process takes 40 minutes and that this could cut that to 20 minutes. Of course they have the "sick system" excuse that there is no money, but you get blamed for complaining about the 40 minute build, and then you get blamed that it takes forever to do anything because you are always waiting for that 40 minute build to finish and the system is such a house of cards that if you work on anything else in parallel whatever you would have learned from that 40 minute build is invalidated.
I don't believe Gruber is complaining about The Deck being blocked, rather arguing that some ad networks are "more equal than others" (which I believe is true BTW).

It matters little financially though, Gruber's main revenue source is not the puny little square at the bottom left corner of Daringfireball.net anyway.
we worked around that and it works quite well
As a counter example, one has to only look at large European companies, like Seimens, Airbus, Philips, Volkswagen, etc. Their multinational spread transcends language barriers. Why would this be a problem for start ups?

Because these companies are all based around companies communicating with customers, which can be localized and has no real network effect.

Many current "unicorns" are social companies or companies with inbuilt network effects where customer-to-customer communication or cultural familiarity is important.
My runner up sales books are:

Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton
The Success System That Never Fails by W. clement stone
The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Watch all of Brene Browns TED talks about vulnerability.
Sales requires trust and trust is built on connection and connection is built by being vulnerable.
Seems like the io - node merge is working well so far.
Frequent releases in the non breaking stable branch are the way to go.
Yeah, my company has 3 overlapping products now.

Zenefits, zenpayroll, and indinero (bookkeeping / accounting). They all offer some sort of employee onboarding and have their hands in payroll to a certain degree.

We seem to spend a lot of time syncing our employee records between all 3, it is not great.

Of those, I probably need zenefits the least of all of those, and I would consider switching to gusto's service just to eliminate the complexity.
If our ancestors had thought like that the human race would not exist as we know it. It's very much the exception to the rule to value 'societal progress' over one's own family.
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But everyone who wants a job already has one, by definition. (Think about it.)
Wasn't payroll solved decades ago? How have companies been paying their employees? We paid our employees through BofA and it was cheap and easy.
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> you are afraid you don't get the job (well, then you wouldn't have been a good fit if they hired you)

Or, you rubbed the wrong, politically-connected person the wrong way. Yes, this is always a danger, but a contract employee is more expendable and easier to get rid of.

Or, they weren't really looking for a permanent hire and this was just a means of tricking someone into a contract who wouldn't otherwise take one.

Or, the company hits a rough patch and decides to freeze hiring to avoid layoffs.

There are a whole host of things that could go wrong in a contract situation that are either tempered or nonexistent when you are permanent.
One thing I've noticed, having 3 small children, is how today's toys compete with each other for attention. If it has batteries, it exhibits the same needy behavior: About a minute after you put it down, it will cry out something like "Play with me!" or "Let's sing another song!".

It's really irritating when you put a baby down to sleep, sneak out of the room, and a couple of the toys cry out their last desperate attempt to be played with. I'd like to [meet] the genius that dreamed up this idea.
> It's bad for the worker because you're going to work for a company that is admitting by its behavior that it has little confidence in its abiliity to assess talent. Where else is it weak?

You seem to think that willingness to admit that assessing fit for a particular job is unreliable without actually experience of the candidate working in the real conditions is correlated with the relative degree to which the company is unable to assess such skills relative other companies (rather than being driven by the degree to which the company is aware of difficulties affecting all companies hiring for similar jobs, or differences in the features of the specific job which make assessment difficult.)

There is no justification that I can see for this assumption.
It likely won't for mainstream but it's always been popular in niche areas. Here's a few projects using it and pages on it:

KolibriOS
http://kolibrios.org/en/

Anything by 2ton and w/ their library
https://2ton.com.au/Products/

Gibson's guide on Win32 Assembly w/ links
https://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm

Hyde's AoA and High-level Assembly are cool
http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/

Or for the elite: 8-bit GUI desktop
http://www.symbos.de/
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I wouldn't idealize the past too much. I had stuffed animals that I played with too as a kid, and readily gave them up for video games and consider myself better off for it. I'd put Minecraft up against "playing outside" in terms of social development any day. Wish I'd had it when I was 6.

Interacting with technology as a child means you're exposed to someone else's vision and imagination. It does not destroy your own. In this regard, books should be seen as just as bad, but they're not. I don't think people are quite rational when they discuss this subject.
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Reboots aren't that uncommon once you hit stuff like updating the kernel, kernel modules, systemd itself and etc. I never got that notion that Linux doesn't require rebooting with updates. It's not always necessary, but with certain updates it always happens. May be in the future there will be a way to do it all dynamically without rebooting, but it didn't happen yet.
To a small business owner, I'm not sure they know or care about the difference. Zenefits advertises themselves as payroll, benefits, and HR.

Defintely see your point though it seems like a distinction customers won't know
On the contrary: there is something odd on 'everything is for free'. Because there must be money involved at some point.