skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's essentially the same thing that has happened across many other areas of the economy - it's impractical to own slaves, so they're rented instead.
The game should really be named 'The Momentum Trading Game'.

Without even knowing the company's price-to-book and p/e ratios, let alone what the company is, its past history, the market it's in, and who runs it, it's just chasing the dance of a number.

Doing nothing, I tend to beat about 20% of the traders. Without the future leak, it'd surely be better than that.

Edit: Just got Enron. Did nothing. Beat half the players.
>Entry level Position.

Median salary for SF Region in 2014 was $75,900. Thats ~10k over the median for an ENTRY level position. Sure, could Google pay them more, absolutely. But I don't think 86k a year is anything to scoff at.
Who claims that you can't have a passively secured transport without authentication? I mean, SSL/TLS itself uses DH key exchange, which can be used for that purpose.

The problem is having secured transport against active attacks as well, and without forcing the user to know anything about the site besides its domain.
What I got from this article is that Google is making money every time I open a web browser on a desktop, type in "facebook", and click on the top search result. Now on mobile devices, there's an actual app for Facebook, and opening the app is cutting Google out of the loop (and the Money). Is that right?!

If that's the case, then it seems pretty shitty from the advertiser's point of view. Especially since Google came up with the all-in-one search and url bar "feature" in Chrome.
Indeed. The Barbara Streisand effect...

The NYT must be loving this. So many ad impressions on their site over this. Amazon's PR are doing a god awful job putting this to bed.

Amazon should just release a statement that says:

"Amazon is a large global company employing thousands of
people in a variety of locations and teams. We do not deny
that there may have been situations where employees have worked
long hours under difficult circumstances.

This is part and parcel of working for a company that lives on the
cutting edge of technology, in a highly competitive business.

We are striving to make changes that improve the working hours of
our employees and their conditions, in order to reduce stress and
improve the health and well-being of our most valuable asset."

There, job done. That's how you do PR.

Good PR isn't about defending yourself when you perceived as being wrong; it is about showing humility, regardless of whether you are actually wrong or not.

People can believe what they want and you can't change that, but (at a minimum), you can distance yourself from a specific action or incident, by demonstrating that you are but human, and whether or not people like or dislike you, at least you are perceived to be making an effort to change for the better.
> Why doesn't it address the issue?

It is quite simple - the link you provide states that customers are not responsible for fraud, but that does not help if the issuer claims either that the cardholder authorized the transaction or was careless in protecting the PIN (that they can do this is also covered in your link.) If you were to read the link I provided, you would find cases in which issuers denied restitution for fraud on these grounds, even though they could not possibly have evidence that this happened (and there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that it didn’t). The reason they don’t have the evidence is that they chose to open an exploitable hole in their own protocol.

At least at the time of the article, the law allowed the issuers to act as if the protocol was as secure as it was intended to be, instead of how it actually was. If things have changed since then, I would be grateful if you could present evidence that actually shows that to be so.

Instead of being annoyed that I dare mention these inconvenient issues, you should spare your ire for the idiots who created this completely avoidable problem and who tried to brush it under the rug.

Edit: It is telling that the issuers didn't take this seriously until a case involving unissued cards arose - a case that cannot be blamed on the customer.
>Agile can be defined

I tend to find that if you line up 4 developers and ask them what agile is you'll get a minimum of 5 definitions.
$86k at Google in 2015? That's the lowest starting salary there I've heard in 5+ years. I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying that not even the cachet of Google could get me to accept that salary in the Bay Area when I could get the same salary in Texas and live twice as nice of a life.
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I'll give it a whirl, thanks. :)
> The debate, a spokeswoman for The Times said, prompted a fresh flood of readers to the original article.

They're shooting themselves in the foot with all this.
On the other hand, you should hold the press accountable. It's easy to say fighting the press is a bad idea, I don't even disagree most of the time. But that doesn't mean we should excuse their failures.

Have fun when the press happens to make you the target. Have fun not being allowed to defend yourself while they skirt whatever truths they feel like they can legally get away with to promote their self-serving narrative. Have fun when people come in and tell you that you should not bother to tell the truth in the face of lies, because you'll just cause a snafu. Have fun seeing your associates share the article with each other as if it's credible and honest when you know it is full of half-truths and omissions, and you can't say anything about it because they have ink to spare to bury you with more lies.
Power BI is a series of free add-ins for Excel starting in 2010. Depending on your year and version they are either included or are downloadable. They are available in the standalone products and Pro Plus. Additionally there is a standalone, free program Power BI Desktop Pro which includes all the pieces without a dependency on Excel at all.

The desktop and mobile apps are completely free and the desktop pieces can be used without a server. The web portal is cloud-hosted and freemium to anyone with a corporate email address and the mobile apps require at least the free web portal.

Feel free to email me if you're curious about more details. Gregory.Baldini at gmail dot com.
It's probably a trap comment. I'd wager the actual trap data is not as described there.
What will the automated Slack/text chat workplace look like?
Is there any analysis of the security of this browser?
How would you translate work-life balance to an equation?

WLB = being suitable for the role + sallary + freetime + company friendliness
'finding/ordering kit'

How is that not search?
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> Technology from the future will be able to break today's encryption in a heartbeat

I don't believe that's necessarily true. IIRC, certain algorithms would require computations involving every particle in the universe, operating for billions of years, to brute-force, provided that they are not actually broken. Will every current algorithm eventually be broken? Probably—but if not, they should be good.
Thanks for the feedback. I planned to do an interest filter in the beginning but decided I would get the first batch of feedback without it while keeping UX as simple as possible.

I plan to roll it out eventually.
Sure it's not that active but I wouldn't call it dead. last commit: 2015-07-26

https://bitbucket.org/portix/dwb/commits/
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so sad how jarring this perspective is and yet i still can't stop...
Love Appsheet! My wife uses it for her nonprofit New Incentives.
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That's absolutely right, with all the apps on mobile there is very little reason to search.
tons of your pages are 404s (including most of your static assets, so when there is content, it is completely unstyled)
You can edit data in Google Maps directly. It still has to be approved, but it often goes faster than trying to do it with bug reports.

https://www.google.com/mapmaker
Ask HN: Is resourcefulness undervalued?
Places I have worked appreciate resourcefulness but do not reward, encourage, or hire for it. Anyone else experience this? Perhaps I'm just confusing complacency with lack of ability
There's a major problem with his calculation: the number of queries per month.

The latest available number is from 2012:
http://searchengineland.com/google-1-trillion-searches-per-y...

That's 3 years ago.
About headless version , it is so great to hear that , although I am not using windows , but hearing that is good news overall , it seems with new CEO Microsoft back on truck .
I would not remember with ballmer they released windows server with Metro UI . WTF !
Usually folks say "LEO" for Law enforcement officer(s) afaik
I wouldn't use this for scripting, but if I'm troubleshooting a rest endpoint or something, it might be useful.
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A few do. But most do not offer the incredible user presentation freedom the web does.
I do tons more searches since voice recognition improved. I really like it. Google should push it harder.
I'm in the biotech business and I've never heard of the first option in France at all. That said, individual countries regulations can be quite complex, so it might be true.

As for the second option, France, Germany and the UK all have a system where an independent body evaluates a drug in order to determine it's value. They do this by comparing the new drug against what's currently available and provide a rating. In France it's an ASMR rating, but I think that's changing.

Once the drug receives a rating (Important, moderate, mild and insufficient improvement over current agents, ASMR I-IV), the company and gov't enter negotiations over the price.[1]

[1] http://www.has-sante.fr/portail/upload/docs/application/pdf/...
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. For the most part, mainstream media organizations are not really "checking sources" so much as presenting a coherent narrative that their advertisers want propagated.

I don't doubt that the original anti-Amazon article was a hit piece that was commissioned. That doesn't make its claims false, however.
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There's nothing in that comment that implies that the author believes the writer isn't intelligent.
Pay is not an absolute number.

If you make $100,000 per year at an 8 person company, but the company's profit is $12 billion per year — do you have low pay?

The tech industry has discovered you can make employees happy by paying them more than "average," but it's still a lot lower than the benefits, productivity, and supernormal growth powers employees are providing to companies.

A productive software developer is worth at a minimum $3 million per year.
Thanks for the feedback!

You are right, now that I think about it, hitting back while you are browsing product should totally bring you back to the homepage, I just never thought of the scenario.

The fact that you mentioned awesome landing page makes me extra happy. I hand drew the pixel arts myself and had a lot of fun doing it :D
Obsolescence as a Service! It can even be A-B tested to optimize the migration to new phones.
About a decade ago, the NY Times wrote a story about an event and a group I started. I was interviewed and my wife was present, occasionally saying something. When I read the piece that came out, it was clear the writer had a story line and anything that interfered with the story line was omitted. At least one of the quotes attributed to me was said by my wife.

There was no Medium at that time so I wrote a rebuttal piece on my blog. The author of the NY Times story thought it was great that I had a chance to give my take on the whole thing, which I thought was grand because his piece was on the NY Times and mine was on a personal blog.

Before then, I knew that you couldn't trust what's written in newspapers, particularly those that favor story telling to make the news more interesting. The incident really drove home that opinion.

This is not to say that Amazon is a good place to work. There's been a lot of substantive reports that it isn't a decent workplace. However, it's not surprising the NY Times cherry-picks its quotes to backup the theme of the article.
I don't think people get less productive using smartphones (but I'm not 100% sure that that's really what you are implying). I think the demographic of web users has/and is still shifting. Desktops have always served the more technologically inclined people better and left less technologically "literate" people behind. Thanks to smartphones a whole new demographic of less "technologically literate" people gain access to the "web" (although mostly through native apps). It should be no surprise that we see less web searches, relatively speaking. The only move Google can do to capture this demographic as well is ever deeper integration of the search engine into Android.
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In Safari, type in your search into the address bar, then scroll to the bottom of the autosuggestion dropdown - the search is in there.

Completely unintuitive, I love Apple's design team, but it makes me aware that Apple designers are mortal after all :-)
you're right!

I live in the land of UNIX and commandline, I was not talking about GUI applications. But I see why you interpreted it that way, I apologise.
I'm not super familiar with what ITA does, but what if someone does decide to try and book the flight?
> I'm guessing you didn't have to spend a lot of time dealing with procurement of individual policies prior to the ACA. I did, and its a godsend.

A lot? I guess not, but I did shop for individual (+family) insurance plans before the ACA, and I much prefer the before to the after. I absolutely despise the stupid metal-color tiers, in which every single plan is a cookie cutter of another within the same tier. Nevermind that plans that before ACA could be obtained relatively cheaply are now quite a lot more expensive - in some cases, more than double. So there is far less consumer choice, and everything is more expensive. If that's not a trainwreck, I don't know what is.

P.S. - I 100% agree about price transparency. I'm ambivalent whether the way to accomplish it is through a regulatory rule.
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Hm, based off of the wage-fixing done by some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, I'd say that the pay that tech workers actually get is probably lower than what they're worth. Doesn't mean they have low pay in absolute terms, but I think that for the most part, tech workers could do much better, given the high demand we're seeing right now.
hmmm.. looks like dillo isn't an available package?

pkgin avail | grep browser
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100%? Nonsense. Unless you expect us to beat Death, and that's a little outside of our jurisdiction.

Innovation is always expensive but it always has been. There's a rolling wave of upgrade costs and older treatments becoming commoditized or dropped.

The fundamental of a fair system is that people are treated according to their clinical need.
Sure, but it really, really depends on the user. People with accents seem to have a hard time getting it to produce usable results. I only have anecdotes, but they seem to suggest that foreigners and first-generation English speakers have a hard time getting accuracy out of speech-to-text.
In the past I've used a trap unicode character in a name in a public wiki-style CC-BY licensed database of politicians to confirm that a site was (not maliciously) failing to credit us.

This resulted in the person who was using our data reverting the unicode character edit in our database, probably because it was breaking their import scripts.
An amazon gift card, or cash or a good book is a safe bet for any occasion.
When you already know which vendors you're using. If we get our misc bits from newegg, I might search newegg, but I don't need google.
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Oh! I think I will tomorrow - I just finished a stint developing some Qlikview reports so I'm interested in other BI solutions.
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This is an issue with Wordpress on my old blog that I believe was caused when I changed subdomains. It has nothing to do with Blogful so it is not something I'm extremely interested in dealing with. I plan to migrate the two non-post pages over to Blogful and leave the old blog as an archive in whatever state it is in.
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Brains are good at habits and patterns. If you start to nap every day at 2pm, you will begin to crave that nap every day until you de-condition yourself from it. Not necessarily damaging or wrong or broken, just different patterns.
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You're assuming the police and the military attract the same sort of people, keep them under the same sort of discipline (or lack thereof for the police), etc. That's not my impression at all.

In fact, there tend to be two different types of militaries, the expeditionary type, which is ours, and the internally focused type, which our increasingly paramilitarized police seem to be becoming. The latter suck when they're asked to fight a "real war", and one advantage we in the US have right now is that their numbers are quite small compared to the size of the nation or our formal military, something less than a million total.
If the FF didn't leave any trace and its proxies are fully transparent, do you think there's a way to detect that?
How is this independent body selected?
>That's highly optimistic. I would say that history does not generally support the idea that militaries in general, or the US military in particular, are more reserved when dealing with a perceived internal existential threat than they are fighting overseas.

That's... Not exactly true. History has actually shown the contrary, WASP are usually very soft on other WASP while bloody on everybody else. Examples:

-The US civil war is a perfect sample. I don't think you could find another battle in history but Gettysburg were opposing armies of many tens of thousands fought with just one civil casualty (and an accident, this one). Usually, after a battle is won there is this period of pillaging, raping and general dead and destruction. If you want to see how a real after-civil-war-repression looks like, look at what Cromwell did in Ireland, it's the stuff of nightmares. (Which also supports my argument, because he was very soft on his British opponents).

-There is also the anglo-american war of 1812. The British "sacked" Washington, with, again, only 1 (ONE!) casualty. I mean, come on, it's like they weren't even trying. For contrast, look at what a real British occupation looked like at the time with the suppression of the rebellion of the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka in 1818.

My point: If the US start killing each other seriously, that would be a new in history.
Why should you expect a very technically demanding position that requires passing strenuous filters and interviews to not pay much beyond the median in the entire area across all jobs? Should doctors who've just completed their residency start at $75-85k too just because they're technically entry-level?
Perhaps it might be appropriate to link to these:

Get Your Shit Together[0], and related discussion[1]

[0] http://getyourshittogether.org/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569934
IMHO most new smart phone users haven't figured out what they can do with their phones. It could very well go the other way - search volumes explode as search gets better and users of search get better at searching.
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Techcrunch clearly very worried about this. Josh Constine just uploaded a fairly hysterical rant about it here: http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/20/smoothing-publishers-out-of...

The publishing economy has been broken for a long time, promoting quickly-produced, attention-grabbing content. I actually wonder if big platforms like Facebook and Twitter can play a role in fixing that, perhaps via some sort of micro-tipping system where consumers pay directly for content. There are startups already trying to do this by creating plug-ins for publishers ('tip' buttons) but I expect it would be easier to drive adoption for something like that when you're Facebook or Twitter. Personally, I'm excited to see where this goes.
Anybody with the most basic understanding of the US legal system should understand that it's obviously not true.

You'd expect for someone who is as ready to criticize the system as OP is to actually sort of understand what he's talking about.

Honestly, I'm just really pissed because statements like that are actually really harmful as they only work to divert attention from the real issues that need fixing. Some kid killing themselves because they were too scared to face court isn't an issue with the legal system, but with the (mental) healthcare system. (Note that at the time Swartz hadn't even been found guilty, much less sentenced.)
For some users, sure. But that'd be about the user, not the platform. And more specifically, that'd probably be mostly about the time and place of use, not even the user.

If those same people had a 27" screen during that same slice of time and space, they'd probably be doing the same thing.
Other methodologies have their pitfalls as well, but agile is the methodology that many are adopting from the get-go or changing to. As such, it's head is on the chopping block. Developers are scrutinizing it to evaluate the trade-offs. You'll see people celebrating agile as if its the messiah to save all projects, and you'll see others decrying it as smoke and mirrors.

I think it's important that people are openly (not overly) critical of trends. It can help people make more informed decisions. The problem then lies with others trying to wade through vocal idiots masquerading as experts and legitimate information hidden in the cruft.
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I've also found that it can also damage your career. Being a yes-man does not gain you respect or the time to do well on what you take on. Not to be construed as "being difficult to work with is a good career move", it's just worth noting that saying no at the right time can be just as good a move as saying yes at the right time.
Dupe detector not working? Same article posted yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10414798
Given that 50% of people do actually search, then I'd not say you are an outlier :-) The analysis behind this article is pretty bad.
>Public money should be spent on open (source) software

I agree but only if the costs are reasonably comparable. For example if there's a commercial product that would cost 10x to replace then I don't think that's appropriate use of public money.

But if the costs are similar then OSS should always be prefered because it creates new value for other users and while a commercial entity can't necessarily capitalize on that value governments don't need to.
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> Your returns were 5257.4%, against the stock’s -75.3% and the S&P’s 57.1%. You outperformed 99.2% of players, ranking #14.

interesting, but ulitmately, just a game about fast reflexes...
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Actually, if you just type your search phrase in the URL bar and scroll to the bottom of the suggested URLs that pop up the local page search results are there as well.

Under the "Find on this page" heading.
I like Real World Functional Programming by Tomas Petricek if you are already doing C# development.
Many of our current encryption algorithms can be broken by sufficiently powerful quantum computers [1]. We're still a while off from usable quantum computers, but they are coming, eventually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography