skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a PhD offers no such guarantee in the federal government. I have a GS-11 friend who has an aerospace engineering PhD, granted only 4 years into her employment, but still no guarantee.

The GS grades are not about education, but job responsibility. The grade for a given position also depends on the agency you're working for and where. An engineer with the AF working for ACC might be a GS-11, but a GS-12 if they switched to AFMC, or GS-13 if they did the same job with AFMC at another base.
Well.. I don't think what your sarcasm comment state is literary what is happening but there is some true there.

ISIS is the result of the mess created by the western governments (special mention to the EUA) and the tolerance to those that actively promoted them (wink Saudi Arabia).

At the same time, terrorist attacks have been used to promote actions that have nothing to do with it (Irak invasion for instance).

If commentators less informed that you and me, see it like a conspiracy, can we really blame them?
Phan does not attempt to make sense of things like `$class_name->$function_name()` or `$$v`. I'd be happy to see a pull request that could handle simple strings, but otherwise I imagine the best we can do is emit a warning.

I'm not sure what SIMD refers to. Can you clarify that?
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That is one odd definition of deflation.

Anyways, the reason deflation is worriesome is that it is downright lethal to anyone with debt.

Just look at the great depression and its deflationary death spiral. Companies were dropping prices to try to sell anything at all, but the debt was ratcheting up faster, and to they keeled over in droves.

Compared to that mild(!) inflation is preferable, at least as long as wages keep up. This because debt is rarely inflation adjusted, and thus gets easier to manage over time.

Note thought that the only examples of "hyperinflation" are more likely to have been foreign exchange related. This because in both cases you were dealing with nations with little to no exports, and massive foreign expenses.
A beauty of the outdoors is that the outdoors can be whatever you need them to be. Alpinism can be risky, but it needn't be risky nor scary. For many, the right friends, the right view, the right goal, or the right sunrise might define success.

The one thing that does differentiate the mountains from organized sport is that there are situations, both obvious and subtle, that will harm or kill the uninformed without warning or recourse.

Steck and Honnold are absolutely getting paid; they're under intense social and fiscal pressure to perform. I hope they're both still climbing thirty years from now.

Alex Lowe's, 'The best mountaineer in the world is the one having the most fun,' is still true today. At some point, perhaps after an injury or losing a friend, risk for risk's sake loses its appeal, and the search for sustainable joy begins.

But, to reach my real point, if you stroll past a church-league softball game, you'll discover the soul of American sport. It's fun.
Apple Stores Start Selling Devialet’s $1,990 “Phantom” Implosion Speaker
Scientific Revenues teams up with China’s Chukong to help developers make money
More complicated to manufacture.
"Oddly, rather than demoing the speakers with Apple Music, they’ll be connected to speakers running a special Devialet app filled with music that shows off the Phantom’s high fidelity."
I remember watching an episode of Lockup and realizing, hey, plenty of these imprisoned criminals are really clever -- they just use it for horrible purposes, like building makeshift knives to stab each other.
I was generally thinking about the things Glenn Greenwald describes in his book, [No Place to Hide](http://www.amazon.com/No-Place-Hide-Snowden-Surveillance-ebo...). For example, even though Greenwald is a respect journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, when the Snowden scandal first broke, the NYT insisted on referring to him only as a 'blogger.' They also published a lot of op-eds bashing Greenwald's work as dangerous and non-journalistic.

Sorry, I don't have any better links or sources right now. I'm on mobile.
It's their job to properly research it before writing about it.
Art is like comedy... In comedy, you can get away with a lot. As long as you're funny. In art, you can get away with a lot. As long as the art is good. (I'm not talking legally, I'm talking morally/ethically/aesthetically/culturally.)

(Banksy's a good example. I'd really rather not have to see shitty graffiti all over the neighborhood. But when a Banksy piece turns up, I'm okay with it. Because I think his art is interesting and relevant.)

Prince's "New Portraits" series is shitty art. It's somewhere between tone deaf and behind-the-times. It's obvious. He's not adding anything interesting to the photos. He's not saying anything interesting about copyright. Etc.
All media is biased, etc. The important thing is to understand the bias when you're reading.

To sibling: only Fox News is owned by Murdoch. You can google for who owns what instead of guessing. MSNBC is biased to the (American) left and CNN is biased to insipidness. All are biased to the establishment and to distract, sensationalism.
Not so. The crossrange capability was driven by the abort scenarios.

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/001340.html
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=4998.0
Thanks for sharing this! I had been looking for something like this for a long time.
I wonder if an effective method would be to apply some sort of "shadowban" on the Twitter accounts instead of closing them.
Facebook avoids taxation just like Google, Apple and countless other multi-national corporations. You don't even have to be in the Unicorn club to make entirely legal tax avoidance schemes a worth while endeavor. Call up EY, PCW, or really any law firm/accountant/tax advisor and you too can enjoy an effective tax rate in the low teens or even lower.

They do pay taxes. They play loopholes in numerous jurisdictions to avoid tax as much as possible.

Why do they do that? Because everyone else does. Also they have a fiduciary duty to do so. Yes, it's technically, actually, illegal for them _not_ to avoid taxation as much as possible because, well, then they wouldn't be doing everything they can to maximize shareholder value.
I think the NFL is still growing
The NHL also lost a season due to the lockout... a huge part of the decline
Note: Hydro power is different than pumped storage. Hydro needs a river and a huge lake etc. Pumped storage can simply create a new lake on top of a mountain and pump water up there.

Colorado for example has a lot of high altitude lakes that are not used. Ideal locations need to be close to high grid producers or users otherwise you need to build a lot of transmission lines.

Further, current usage is designed for peak power output not total storage, if the goal is 10's of TWh we would want a lot of huge reservoirs with minimal pumping capacity each. Where current designs are focused on peak output which is the expensive part. So, massively increasing storage capacity would likely reduce costs per GWh stored.

Anyway, these numbers are going to have a lot of give based on goals. The point is the US government can make this problem go away for ~2 billion / year which means it's not a significant issue.
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I don't know about "ad hominem", but you are demonstrating technical incompetence while attempting to pitch a technical product.

That's a big, biiiig red flag. Yes, "it's a very minor thing", but then again it's maybe the only way you can reasonably screw up a blog post, and you did it.
LOL... Only FREELANCE WRITERS would consider a union... A union is the antithesis of freelance, but many writers lean socialist (read "left") so, giving up your independence for social risk sharing is okay, write?

Well, that is until the union you belong to decides that your content goes against the best interests of it and/or it's membership (the former being real, the latter being rhetoric).

Unions are not the answer. Ideally, unions allow the voice of one (or a few) to represent the desires of the many. Historically, however, as with the United Auto Workers, unions have become a way for lobbying efforts in the interest of the few to be paid for by the many, under the guise of fair representation.

Good luck with your union. I doubt we'll read later about how it was a bad idea, because nobody will write about that.
Definitely.

If you want to start working on that, feel free to open up an issue (https://github.com/etsy/phan/issues/new) to start a conversation about it.

We currently store method/function callers in the sqlite database (see https://github.com/etsy/phan/blob/master/src/Phan/Analyze/Br...), but aren't yet exposing an interface for getting callers. We'll want to store callers for constants, classes, properties and global variables as well.
I said nothing about swiper skimming.

What I said was:

> What the criminals are targeting is the card terminals themselves. Meaning when you swipe your card, as the transaction is being conducted they take a copy of the information and re-transmit it to a host somewhere they control (or to a C&C machine on that network, which they then exfiltrate somehow).

Which is accurate:

> The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot was aided in part by a new variant of the malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers at Target last December, according to sources close to the investigation.

So malware was intercepting the raw CC information inside the card terminal on its way to the payment processor upstream. This allowed them to remotely infect every single Target store in the country, and steal information without setting foot there.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/home-depot-hit-by-same-ma...
My money's on this-- the explosion of people in Africa and poorer Asian countries who have both the means and the need for cheap solar (plus batteries to go with it) will quickly far outstrip any entity's ability to keep pace by building out the grid. Large parts of western countries will soon follow.

I know I'd rather pay a reasonable up front cost to own my electrical generation capacity - which, as a bonus, can be set up almost anywhere in the world - and not have to pay a monthly fee for something I have no control over that's prone to outages at times when it's needed most.
It's not the same issue. In this case, it's a logic error:

1. Event A is read into a buffer.

2. Event B is read into the same buffer.

3. Event B is processed.

4. Event A is processed.

So, when (4) happens, its buffer from (1) has been clobbered.
> the scales are tipped in favor of those who have access to the money

Yup, pretty much. Turns out Piketty (and before him, Marx) are right.

Of course, since democracy depends on marketing, politicians have done a great job marketing a political system that doesn't work for the common person, yet they still vote for it. As long as they have a shiny toy in their hands, and something to entertain (distract) them, the masses are placated...
Sorry to be pedantic but multiplication requires O(n ln(n)) not O(n^2) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Fouri...
Bloomberg does this with data sales. They'll sell you particular financial information, like tick-by-tick for the Russell 2000 over the last 5 years. They embed unique hidden markers or fake trades with everyone they sell them to. They then go and acquire data from other "providers", and find the leak.
The is just so unimaginative that I can't believe you've ever seen the inside of a large operation. How are you going to sniff traffic that's communicating on a private network? And how does trivial sniffability not extend to all unencrypted traffic, ergo nearly everything is public? That's a totally useless definition and misses the point entirely.

Your point #1 is totally unjustified: you don't know what you could learn by e.g. looking at a data structure used internally. #2 shows that you are unable to answer the question of which of Dropbox's incentives are satisfied by doing this.
Firefox desktop has numerous adblockers/tracker blockers already available. Mozilla is even sourcing the list from one of the more popular ones, Disconnect. I assume they didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel in that ecosystem.

Disconnect may be available on Firefox mobile as well, I'd need to check. I never bother beyond uBlock Origin and Self-Destructing Cookies.
Deep Learning Tutorial at NIPS 2015 [pdf]
The comments are even more interesting than the article.
If you read the paragraph which you say I am attributing 'attributing JC Penny's 32% loss to the CEO' then you will find that I was talking about it being unpredictable when a new CEO is hired, he had a good track record at apple before he ballsed it up at J.C. Penny by not taking into account that the customer demographic was different, he just went with the one thing that worked for him before. And no, what I said doesn't support the claim of Gizi because showing someone can destroy or damage a company does not show they can run one excellently, or that a high paid CEO will run one better than someone who is willing to work that job for substantially less.

Here is an article that shows that higher pay only increases performance until a point, then performance drops:
http://eganassociates.com.au/high-ceo-pay-inspires-better-pe...
These results came from data that compared CEO remuneration to average employee remuneration. This directly contradicts what Gizi was proposing, because the real world data shows a negative correlation between CEO pay and performance after a point. The full paper is available here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2529112 if anyone is interested in it.

Consider the GFC, it shows how well upper management really stuffed things up at the largest companies and still got away with it, no problems, still getting huge payouts for sub par leadership. Yet when things go well, the CEO gets bonuses for things that may have had nothing to do with them. Random fluctuations are wrongfully attributed to CEOs, and they get hefty bonuses for it as well. Here is a study that shows this http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151022192337.ht... , unfortunately the original source is behind a paywall so I am not linking it.
Depends on why they'd want to know about "new" domains. For indexing content, it would certainly make sense to index stuff people (appear to be) read(ing). Just because someone registers a domain, doesn't mean it has any (interesting) content.
I highly recommend this writeup of someone bootstrapping half a language from raw hexadecimal upwards:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler....
I'd like to see how solar output over time correlates with global average temperatures over time. Specifically on a timescale longer than one solar cycle.
Most solar homes still buy power from the grid for shortfalls, and some can sell it back for surpluses.
Brock Pierce: Bitcoin Foundation 'Close to Running Out of Money'
A couple of things that are misleading here:

1) Most of the high profile ESPN personalities departing had little to do with finances. Some of it was internal feuding (ie, the Bill Simmons departure), some of it was firing loose cannons for boorish statements that don't fly in our hyper-PC culture, and some of it was people leaving for more money from competitors. As others have noted, for a company the size of ESPN the salaries of a few high profile personalities are mostly negligible.

2) Same thing with the Grantland shutdown -- the site was never realistically expected to be a money maker, it was essentially shut down because the departure of Simmons made the site's future unclear, and ESPN decided to get out of the pop culture business and fold the sports writing back into their main site.

3) A lot of ESPN's cutbacks are because they (foolishly) forecast their finances on the assumption that subscriptions would continue to grow. That doesn't mean the well has dried up, it just means that they've been a bit reckless the past few years.

4) I think this is excluding that a lot of sports are consumed on the free broadcast stations (CBS, NBC, FOX, etc.). Even with cable folding, those networks are still going to be paying billions for TV rights.

That said I agree with the overall gist of the argument that valuations are going to drop when the cable money starts drying out. I just don't think it's going to be a catastrophic crash or something; I doubt the average consumer will even notice.
It should if you hire competent ones. One guy can maintain many many more Linux servers than he could Windows servers.

I had a job at an IT outsourcing shop several years ago. Before I got there, one guy administered some 50 Debian / Ubuntu servers. They needed two Windows guys to maintain half as many Windows servers.
The NHL isn't the greatest example (they left ESPN the same year they also skipped a season with a lockout to implement a hard salary cap), but it's the best of the major leagues.

* They had a small national contract with NBC and showed top games on OLN, a tiny cable sports network that mostly showed fishing.
* OLN became Versus, which later became NBCSN (after Comcast & NBC-Universal merged). NBC airs the higher-profile games (many playoff games, marquee weekend matchups, and most outdoor games), so cable ratings will be a bit lower as a result.
* Looking at the ratings for the final round, they're up more than 100% over the current period (2007 averaged a 1.2 rating, while last year's final scored a 3.2 rating; these ratings fluctuate greatly based on the teams taking part).

The NHL is interesting, since the hard cap puts them in a position to be able to slowly ratchet down without putting as much pressure on teams. On top of that, hockey has always been more gate-driven than TV-revenue-driven, so as long as attendance figures stay high, they'll be OK.
Elasticsearch cross index Join plugin
Related: http://wiki.osdev.org/James_Molloy's_Tutorial_Known_Bugs

This is not a criticism. The wiki states that Molloy's tutorial is one of the best available. It's additional information to make the tutorial more useful.
Basecamp moved their blog (37svn) over to Medium. Should we all do so?
Yet most CEOs don't increase performance to that degree. Steve Jobs was a founder, not an MBA placed on the job.
People should start learning from history. Microsoft tried just that, the launched a curated competitor to the WWW in 1995 along Windows 95 called "The Microsoft Network" (short MSN v1). Bill Gates micropayment per view vision he detailed in his book "The Road Ahead" just didn't work out. The free ads based WWW got very successful, and MSN v1 gone nowhere.

If you want see "The Microsoft Network" in action, watch the following advertisement video from Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

Last time Google disrupted the bad ads market when the annouced their Google text based ads 10 years ago. Now it's time to disrupt the ads market again, with a better "good" ads concept that is okay for the consumer so that they don't use adblockers.
It surprises me very much. I understand that many in tech may not have close friends from outside tech, but family? Do so many people are second-generation technologists, so they don't end up in those uncomfortable situations where they avoid the topic of salaries near their siblings, parents, or SO?
Not downvoting, but the number of corporations storing credit card information would terrify you.

Seen it at former jobs as a dba, helped to change that at some, and its among the top ten list of things to check when I start at new one.
Questions to the people from Mozilla who're here. How or why is this different from efforts like Privacy Badger (from EFF)[1] when you look at what gets blocked, the methodology used to update the blacklist, etc.? Was there any collaboration with other prominent players working in this area (I only see that you're using disconnect's list)?

Please note that I'm not talking about implementation details like the creating and maintaining a content block list for Safari vs. a browser extension on the desktop.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
"Calling for mass murder isn't a valid case of free speech." To be pedantic, yes it is, free speech isn't conditional on the message.

Your second statement is true, 1st amendment applies only to the government ability to restrict speech.
Yeah, the difference is that the "narrow hypothetical" is a concern a real person at any company would have when tasked with deciding whether something should be open sourced. It's appropriately conservative.

You, however, are asking everyone to assume that it's totally safe to reveal any/all source code.

> There are no private APIs nor secret data structures in software that you've distributed to users.

That's fine. What about the code that lives on your servers and supports the client?
That's not surprising at all. From an economic perspective, people choose jobs to maximize utility, salary being just one component of that. They don't have to pay them that much because being an astronaut is literally one of the coolest jobs ever.

In addition, the demand for astronauts is astronomically low :), so the supply of people wanting to do it is very high compared to demand.

Think about scuba diving instructors. They don't make that much money because it's such an awesome job. If I could make 150k a year doing that, I would quit my job in a heartbeat, move to Hawaii and never look back. However, they don't because if they started paying that much, a million other people would do the same, flooding the market with scuba instructors which would shift the salary back to what it is now.
I hope evaluation will use more diverse set of images than the subset given. Only a couple of example images have highly saturated color, and all example images will tolerate poorly done chroma subsampling.

On the web there are categories of images, such as logos, screenshots, renders, large icons, photos with captions, that aren't simple enough to compress well with lossless encoders, but become a mess when compressed with codecs tuned for high-res photos without any sharp highly saturated edges.
From the article:

So far, none of the women Prince stole images from have sued him -- but one of them, a user by the name of “Missy Suicide”, has done something even better: she’s begun selling (wait for it) photos of Prince’s photo of her original photo. While Prince’s version sold for $90,000, she offers hers for a mere $90; all proceeds have been donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights to preserve digital content rights.
Only kid on remote island to get hundreds of Christmas cards from Redditors
Tracking goes way beyond advertising. An ad-blocker won't block Twitter's "Tweet" or Facebook's "Like" buttons or any third party service that isn't directly involved in serving ads. If your concern is your privacy, then an ad-blocker doesn't help as much as you think it does. See: https://donottrack-doc.com/en/
You missed an important point: if they wait until checkout then the payment process will complete and they'll get to walk away with law enforcement's money.

They have every incentive to wait until the very end to tip their hand.
I enjoyed this slightly snarky response to this general issue on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2tdsev/compilers_with...

Regardless, this is one of the reasons that I'd really like to have a second Rust implementation exist.
> Anecdotally, I would assert sports (NFL, NBA, futbol/ soccer) seem to be growing more popular to every day people.

Are they? As average IQ continues to rise (the Flynn Effect), I would expect to see fewer and fewer people being as heavily devoted to sports as previously, not because sports fans are stupid, but because intelligent people are capable of enjoying more than just sports. The folks in my D&D game like to talk about the game sometimes, but they have other fun things in their lives too.