skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could very well be an exit scam - I wouldn't want to cover it as an insurer, either. "Hey, I screwed up and sent this money to the wrong party!" without any way to show that you are not in fact still in control of the money through some means. Hacking into your own system puts a much higher barrier on orchestrating such a scam.
Stupid question: is there a service which you can hand off the evidence-gathering to? Seems like a very good opportunity.
It was solved with a lot of tedious, manual work. I've been using ZenPayroll for the last few months, and I was surprised at how well done it is, how easy it is to use.
Have you ever asked a black person what they think about that?
If the market crashes, yes, it could be hard. But I would argue that the decision to fire people won't be based on loyalty but rather on 'what have you done for me lately'.
The page outlining the ranking was submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10234071
You have eagle eyes :D
One proposed mechanism for doing server push is for the application server to send Link: rel=preload headers: https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/issues/38

Once you've got code running on the client then there's significantly less need for server push, as you can initiate requests in a bunch of ways, XHRs or <img> tags etc.

Server push's big win is in getting necessary resources down to the client on the initial page load without waiting for numerous round. As such, you'll see the biggest gains on high latency connections, e.g. mobile.
I sympathize. I've actually had some negative reactions from close family as well. Thoase reactions are hurtful but I believe this choice to be the right thing to do. I now rarely speak about my charitable gifts, unless questions of ethics or beliefs arise in conversation. There's nothing wrong with keeping your giving to yourself if that makes you feel more comfortable!
So the author now knows only one software product, after 5 years in the field, and has a 150K salary and stock. Sounds like he worked his way into golden handcuffs at a very young age.
> His repeated threats to leave, as well as lies about other offers, only worked because the company in question was already struggling and needed to hold onto him for fear of not finding a replacement.

It's called leverage. Or a strong negotiating position. Or whatever else. Point being that he was valuable to them, knew it, and was willing to use that. This is how any and every negotiation plays out.
The credit card problem is quite easy to solve: allow a few months of free "pro" functionality upon signup, and then allow users to upgrade. During that period of time, you can also track whether they actually used the service at all.
Announcing Rust 1.3
Some approaches to hard instances of set partition problem
If they are trying to prevent major crime or acts of terror with this, it seems like it's doomed to fail - those people will not care whether encryption is legal or not
Thank you for your comment Dalke, we will check this question and try to change it to a better way to explain what we meant :) Have a nice day!
You realize that "We cannot afford to pay that" is also being dishonest, because they can afford to pay. Basically lying is standard procedure for employers, yet why should it be a moral smear for employees in negotiations?
Yes, the existence of on-demand resources is a good thing for game developers. No doubt about that! But forcing developers to use them after 200 MB is a hindrance, no matter which way you slice it.
I'll focus on the consent of the governed in my reply, but happy to elaborate my argument about the other points if you want.

In a country with advanced propaganda techniques and several extremely well-funded intelligence organizations (foreign ops and domestic secret police), consent is an interesting word.

I think the more relevant thing to measure is dissent. It's missing.

There is a constant fray on cable news on which actors make ideological pronouncements about everything from moral issues to the dresses worn by the first lady. They stay strongly in character and gather followings of people who find such content entertaining.

Then there is the serious news in which the overriding theme is the legitimacy of government institutions and the subtle bashing of other nations and foreign institutions and foreign ways of life.

Barely half of Americans vote, and nearly half pay no income tax whatsoever.

Such apathy and lack of dissent is a remarkable accomplishment. Many Americans think it doesn't matter which of the two parties they vote for, and they are right.
No. From the article:

> The SPDY support is removed, as it's incompatible with the new module.
What we're going to take for granted 100 years from now
More than just a name change - they'll start offering health benefits and simplify workers' comp payments.
You're absolutely right. I get to work at 8 and start to lose steam around 1 (hence why I'm here). I would gladly buy an extra two hours in return for the expectation that work is for work goofing around is for home.

I think the contemporary startup idea that people have to be "working and playing" at the office for 10-14 hours a day to make anything significant happen is at worst, misguided, and, to a cynic like me, just a way to grind people out of your company before they can vest any significant amount of equity.
Well, not necessarily. Starting off with a more accurate keyword (payroll) and then broadening it up as you extend your service (benefits) makes sense to me, and I'm far from having an MBA.

Also, the prefix "zen" is being a little bit abused these days.
Another cool feature of the existing Fire TV is that you can start a music app, hit the home button, and then play a game, while listening to the music app. Just make sure to turn off in game music.
But it's tempting. My hypothesis is that it's too tempting.
XIGNITE picks brutal founder of firing squads and labor camps as icon of new api
The law pretty much mandates that unless you're carrying a firearm, your luggage cannot be secure. Anybody can pick these locks, even without the "master keys", and trying for anything else will just get your luggage cut. Anything which needs security needs to travel on your person.

So, given that "Secure" is out, I've opted for "obvious when tampered with". I just use boring zip ties that I mark with a sharpie to make them unique (and show if they've been replaced).

I'll also toss a handful of unmarked ties onto the "top" of the luggage, so the TSA can zip up when they've had their way with my luggage. I've occasionally sent a piece of luggage through, and found it re-zip-tied with a new tie, with a TSA love note inside.
"Support for HTTP/2 with weighted and dependency-based prioritization." @ http://nginx.org/en/
It is interesting to here of situations where traditional oral histories line up with scientific measurement. It's a fun topic. But after a while these articles give the false impression that oral traditions are somehow trustworthy. Few ever talk about where the oral history is fundamentally incorrect. It always seems that the scientific discovery comes first, that the oral confirmation is just window dressing in the press release. Is the "extraordinary thing" of confirmation the norm? How many oral histories were disproved during this research?

These articles also tend to polish out the rough edges. How exactly did this people fleeing the rising water levels "negotiate" with peoples in the interior? Was this controlled mediation? Or does the term "negotiate" also cover outright war between cultures? Perhaps part of the reason these stories survived was the bloodshed surrounding their creation. I'd like to see the transcripts.
Perhaps, that will come. We need to learn more about how people use it, and get more feedbacks.
Ultimatums can be useful both for cutting the negotiation process short (to avoid pain from inferior negotiation skills, for instance) or to show your business understanding. If you want executives to respect your business acumen, demonstrating your skills like this is one way to go about it.
> Please stop perpetuating the false dichotomy of systemd versus sysvinit, it gets tiring.

It's hardly a false dichotomy to compare what a distro was using previously to what they are using today, which is what I did (and what OP asked for).

> Indeed, I do recall Dave Reisner of Arch Linux complaining about systemd's pace and its poor test suite, requiring lots of patching.

I didn't say it was perfect, and in fact, I have a long list of complaints about the initial switch in Arch (though not Debian). That doesn't negate the point that the reason Arch (and other distros) dropped support for sysvinit was that there ended up being insufficient interest from maintainers in maintaining it.
Databall:It may not be long before big data transforms cricket
Are there some students who can’t learn how to code?
The idea that centralized violence is necessary for a "functioning" society is a common misconception. It's rarely discussed in political circles but we've got to remember that the state as we understand it is a technology, not some divinely ordered system. And as HNers should well know, something new can always come along and obsolete the old.

There are a number[1] of anthropological investigations into this (outside the scope of anarchist theory to which this tenant is integral) although they're fairly diffuse.

This is similar to the idea that a a voting majority is the only reasonable way to make egalitarian decisions. As anarchist[2] and non-heirarchical organizations (whether we're talking Kobanê or Valve) are illustrating, governing by consensus is a rarely discussed but viable alternative.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=society%20without%20ch...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities
You should watch for the menu icon to change to dark color then :). Thanks for sharing your thoughts. btw
The Witness: the creator of Braid talks about his fiendishly difficult new game
Your points are interesting but I think that saying government=organisation=mafia ignores the larger differences.

Large organisations might have better propaganda but the nature of the organisation might be a bigger factor in the equation.
Can you provide a link to a good overview of his arguments? I'm interested but the wikipedia page is all about critical reception.
Me and David Letterman
Insurance fraud is a crime. They already insure against technical hacks, which I would think would not be much harder to fake if you wanted to.
Report: Google Hires Ex-Amazon Employees for Glass Reboot
I looked over the types defined. I'm guessing it uses built-in types for scalar float/double, and integer? It looks like the only defined types are for complex floats and 128 bit integers.

EDIT: I looked at the functions listed for multiplication. Although it has a 64-bit x 64-bit multiply, the result is not in the internal 128-bit format. Also there was a warning that 64bx64b multiply was not yet optimized.

Still very cool though.
Dear HN: Are you racist?
Follow up questions:

How do you know?

Do you believe in "culture fit"?

Do you oppose special outreach to black coders/entrepreneurs?

Do you oppose affirmative action?

Have you ever heard of or taken Harvard's implicit association test?

Would you hesitate to hire a black programmer who scared you a little?

Do you believe that ignoring race altogether is a viable path towards harmony? Why?

Whence your concept of blackness?

Have you ever been intimate with a black person?

Have you ever worked closely with a a black person?

Let's just go ahead and talk about it.
From what he's said, it's less that the managers were spineless and more that he made himself very valuable.

Personally, I don't see a problem with a mercenary attitude. It's simple, it's clear, and you always know where you stand with a mercenary. It's easy to work with, if you're willing to meet them on their terms. It brings the clarity of a transaction to what is ultimately a transaction anyway.
Speaking as someone who mentors a number of new freelancers, often the LAST thing you want them to do is trust their gut! :)
Companies that pull credit reports on candidates are a completely different form of scum, and they should be called out more often for this.

Yes, there are exceptions where credit difficulties could indicate an unstable employment situation (like having a security clearance or working in finance), but otherwise your personal finances should be completely independent of your employment.
But then you'll have people creating new accounts every time the trial ends, instead of paying! The sweet spot is probably 24 hours. Too long for a fraudster to wait around, and too short for people to bother making an account every day for pro fuctionality.
Why would changing the underlying workings of os.walk require a PEP?
Someone pasting that template to a client is doing the opposite of "honest" communication :)
Smaato Updates RTB Ad Platform with New App Monetization Tools
An equally cynical explanation is that they do it to kill anything you have going on outside of work (social life, side projects), which could compete with work for your attention.
>A more prominent and successful company would have jettisoned him as soon as it found a qualified and, in all probability, more loyal applicant.

Notice the implicit assumption that employees should be loyal to companies, but companies are free to "jettison" an employee aggressively negotiating because that's not "loyal"?

The only reason engineers are not getting respect as an industry (and I've seen this get worse over the past 30 years) is because we sell ourselves short.
can i edit this?
For internal usage s/mime is not really that bad. Works fine with gmail. $25 a year gets you a personal cert. All my work email is encrypted. Bitpay is small enough to be able to do this without any extra infrastructure.
Film footage of a person born in the 1700s
People are talking about this as if there are two options here: ads pay for the internet or the internet drops behind paywalls.

There's another option: we go back to using non-monetized or minimally-monetized services. Frankly, those are better. I don't care about giant media websites aimed at providing oversimplified, sanitized content for the lowest common denominator of people. I don't care about social media or snappy web interfaces that put a layer of varnish on crap. I care about quality information, and people who are knowledgeable and care about a topic will share information on that topic even if they don't make much money for it. People running blogs or small informational services will still do that. Services like PBS/NPR will still be funded by government and donations. Bloggers who are knowledgeable enough will still be able to sell books. Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/etc. can all go bankrupt and I don't care. Sites can go back to being straight unstyled HTML with no CSS and I'm fine with that. Web 2.0 is completely worthless to me. Ads AND paywalls can go to hell.

Sheldon Brown's website is still the best resource about bikes on the internet. The worst degradation it has experienced is the apologies for politically incorrect content that its current maintainer has added due to pressure from people on social media.
Use this site. http://data.jobsintech.io/
It's based on public data required for H1B/employer-sponsored visa. So typically will include not very senior engineers.
Agreed. This is more about seeing the perspective of the employer than the employee. Managers who claw their way up expect employees to do the same.

Also, it'd be interesting to see his manager's perspective in this all as he claws his way up. I'm betting there were points where, just as he thinks he's getting what he wants all along by lying (why are his lies always in parentheses?), management is thinking they had this planned all along as well.
"CTO for hire" sounds like pretty unforgiving work! It's a good thing you keep strong boundaries, it's wild out there.
Microsoft Gender Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit
I'm always blown away by how people lowball themselves. See how much you're worth, then ask for more. The worst they can say is no, the best they can say is yes, and somewhere in the middle is still pretty good.
I don't know if the documentary Into Eternity[0] is related to this task force, but it was the first time I was exposed to the idea of preserving information for thousands of years. Fascinated stuff. It never ocurred to me how hard it would be to instruct future generations to stay away of a nuclear deposit after so much time.

[0] http://intoeternity.co.uk/about/index.php
Yeah, outside of Linux threads are dog slow. But Linux's implementation demonstrates that they don't have to be, and if you have serious scalability problems you're going to know your architecture well in advance.
iPhone 6s is really bad news for carriers
Lincoln Nebraska Startup Week 2015
A comparison with (and/or bindings for) Julia would be really interesting, seeing as it makes similar claims about high-level performant programming. I think Julia was doing some work on SIMD-exploiting compiler optimizations, but I don't know off the top of my head whether or not that ended up coming through.
Rspamd 1.0.0
Emulating Higher-Order Modules in Haskell
4 Little-Known Factors That Could Hurt Your NPS Score
gk1, that's more or less what I was shooting for when I wrote and refined it. I'm glad you see it that way! At the same time, I wonder if nxb has tuned in to some tone-deafness that I can't see in the text.

That said, this template has worked like gangbusters. People have even gone away and come back later, having cleaned up their act, and ended up working with me.
Is this an ad or an article? It's Both! Extremely well done job of blurring the line between the two while keeping things compelling. Kudos to you, Adespresso.
I believe turning over this data by the employer without the employees consent is illegal, forbidden by the FCRA and privacy acts of 1974. I know the article you linked to claimed it was legal, but what this is telling me is that I should get employers to sign an NDA (not that they would, of course.)

So, yet another argument for starting a startup rather than being an employee.
The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust
That's how you unroll a loop, not how you write one. As far as I can tell in PeachPy you can do something similar with anonymous labels:

counter = GeneralPurposeRegister64()
MOV(counter, 64)
with Loop() as loop:
...
DEC(counter)
JNZ(loop.begin)
Help Zidisha extend P2P microlending to a new country (volunteer/internship)
The Seasonal Blog Redux
> If you spend $600k on four days of advertising anything using any medium (and then quit), the odds are that you will not meet your goals. It doesn't matter if you spend $600k on one thirty second television slot, a full page ad in the newspaper, or 10 million Facebook ads.

I disagree with you based on personal experience.

I know several companies with an online marketing cost per order of say (number fuzzed just in case someone links me, but order of magnitude), <$5 and average order size of $100 and gross margin of 40%, and average time between entry and purchase of an hour or two.

I've heard several instances at these companies of someone saying "let's make our end of month numbers look better" and subsequently blowing extra cash (sometimes millions) on online advertising with immediate results, and little change in company CPO. The budget is literally a function of what capital is at hand to be allocated to marketing. E.g. you don't want to grow too fast or you get operational issues, so you cut marketing spend a bit and sales slow down a bit so the warehouse can catch up.

At a (very high) CPC of $1 those $600,000 are up to 600,000 visitors... that's a lot of data to think about. Spending it in chunks, optimizing for ROI instead of fluffy "KPIs", and doing a bit of stats, is usually enough. As the original article effectively says.

What is true is that how "X" is doing (where X can be any marketing platform, channel, magic solution sold by slick suited, Rolex wearing sales guys) is impossible to generalize. I was fortunate enough to see the same methodology used in around 40 countries around the world and yield vastly different results: sometimes Facebook display ads are your best channel, sometimes they cost you 100x what you make back; sometimes Google is amazing, other times display retargeting is it. You should always try everything and make decisions once you have enough data.

And sometimes it even changes after a few years: e.g. a country which goes from blackberries to large screen touch phones with massive CPUs is going to see an improvement in display ads. So you keep dipping just in case. It's a high dimensional problem, further complicated by the quality of your own team (and evolution of the product) - as Ogilvy wrote at length, the intrinsic quality of the ad goes a very long way towards its success.
I make the same observation. My friends that own restaurants often talk about Yelp messing with their reviews and not showing the good ones. Myself, as someone that usually just uses Yelp to find a place to eat, I find it very useful and have no real complaints with the reviews.
Personally I agree completely. As someone in tech I find it very difficult to ascribe meaning to a meaningless number. Especially when people "like" things they hate for comedy or irony purposes, or clicked accidentally a few years ago. Reading online reviews is a case of trying to glean a little truth from something everyone should know is being heavily gamed. But they don't.

Amongst the non-tech population there is trust taken from these numbers. People believe those reviews. People seem to believe that a lot of likes is indicative of trust. People used to believe that clicking blue links was good, and so the web used to be a cesspool of adsense sites providing no real information.

Sad fact is it works. Both with the algorithms - more likes gets more random likes from nowhere over time, and with the visitor perceptions. probably only the non-technical ones.

If it's on the web it must be true, right? /s
SQL on Kafka
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

Myth: systemd is about speed.

Yes, systemd is fast (A pretty complete userspace boot-up in ~900ms, anyone?), but that's primarily just a side-effect of doing things right. In fact, we never really sat down and optimized the last tiny bit of performance out of systemd. Instead, we actually frequently knowingly picked the slightly slower code paths in order to keep the code more readable. This doesn't mean being fast was irrelevant for us, but reducing systemd to its speed is certainly quite a misconception, since that is certainly not anywhere near the top of our list of goals.
exactly. which people? employees? customers? someone else?
> My own take in MFi controllers is that they were always intended to primarily be used with the new Apple TV.

Then Apple shouldn't have allowed Lightning-connected game controllers. I bought one for development purposes when their price dropped from $99 to "let's clear this shelf" ($15 in my case), and not only can I not use it with an Apple TV, it's also a terrible controller, on par with a $10 USB gamepad.

I agree that tvOS was probably the driving force behind MFi controller support, but I also think it was a complete failure. (Sadly!)