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Ask HN: Wouldn't a “Who is hiring” thread requiring a salary range be nice?
I think this lack of disclosure is often a frustrating aspect of job ads, and I think a lot of the HN community recognizes this. I have wasted too much of my life on job interviews only to later find out they have a ridiculously low salary range. Can we try to make HN a change for good and have separate monthly threads for those who want to post salary ranges with their job openings?
I've experienced this before at the federal level. They're corrupt. All of them either are themselves corrupt, or complicit in the knowledge of it.
I didn't claim either of those things.

I'm just speaking from the practical experience I have.

It's just that in static languages, you write unit tests more around business functionality. In dynamic ones you end up writing unit tests essentially for typing and stuff like that. And, you know, you have tooling so you can actually perform the refactorings at scale across the code base. Like real tools, that the rest of your team know how to use, and your business can hire another person from the same hemisphere to work with after you've moved on.

The tooling around static languages is generally stronger. I've written very similar types of code in both Java and Python, and hands down, I've found it easier to develop and maintain in big code in Java.

I still script quick stuff up in python for personal use.

YMMV.
They could easily allow you to specify the SSN in the request, and verify it against the Social Security Death Index [1]. They just choose not to make it that easy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index

Disclaimer: One of my projects TODO is to crowdsource the funding of obtaining the SSDI quarterly from the SSA (its expensive [2]), and then provide it as an open API.

[2] https://www.ssdmf.com/FolderID/1/SessionID/%7B67E8C06C-025F-...
One can use Custom User Models for things like email logins. I've done this in a few projects and it works great. More info: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/auth/customizin...
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I hope everyone who has heard the cry of a victim claiming to have been framed and ignored it reflects on having done so.
In dynamic ones you end up writing unit tests essentially for typing

That would be news to me.
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I've followed this one with amusement for a while. Basically they tried to be legitimate in a sense, until that turned out to be quite expensive, at some point they tried again to be legitimate but again with the same result. There's lots of history you can read up about in the Bitcointalk thread (1500 pages of it), including details like the CEO causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage to a rental property by amongst other things, running a mining operation in his basement.

At one point they made a large mining facility in the US, with contracts with the power company to use a certain amount of service. They paid in the millions of dollars for mining hardware and power installation for their own small substation, they then ran it for a few months until the power company cut them off for never paying the power bill which amounted to $350,000 USD[1]. This was responded to as "a billing dispute" [2].

From my own calculations this farm was never able to be profitable (it always used more in power than it mined), and never covered even a small portion of the hashrate they were supposed to own. At one point they posted a video from within it, filmed without sound and in such a way as to hide the fact that there was only one rack of miners.[3] Many promotional photos were posted of their "farm", but none of the hardware is actually plugged in for these photos, so it was probably reboxed and shipped to customers afterwards.[4]

The part not mentioned in the SEC complaint is where the CEO flees the US to Dubai, one of the people in Dubai he defrauded of $200,000 from wins a legal battle against him, and the US Government bails him back to the US.

[1]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/261395976/Mississippi-Power-vs-GAW...

[2]: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpZdeJNSV0

[4]: https://i.imgur.com/9YTH5mB.jpg
That's a weird statistical interpretation.
If your parental style happens to include sexual abuse, yes it does. Whether a parental style consisting of a hyperreal social platform and being the child of the man who created it causes a serious rift in your sense of reality remains to be decided.
People seem to be conflating "tracking user behavior" with "tracking user behavior without consent or transparency". Yes, there are plenty of people opposed to the former, but that is a moot point with respect to Google.

The latter, however, is symptomatic of a much bigger issue: there is a pervasive belief amongst many of the silicon elite that users simply aren't capable of making effective decisions regarding tracking, and therefore it is best if they are not allowed to make those decisions. I have heard this directly from many people, and each time it leaves me surprised.

If Google were to provide real transparency into the information they track about me, that would be fantastic. I likely wouldn't even look at it, but I would know that organizations like the EFF and ACLU would serve as ombudspeople for the public. Furthermore, whichever of the big internet players does this first will likely generate a tremendous amount of brand loyalty and free marketing.

I suspect current behavior won't change without legal intervention, which will potentially be adversarial, which is a shame since there are people at these companies who are much more qualified than lawmakers to anticipate and plan for the future.

It's amazing that a company (and industry) that self-identifies so strongly with taking novel approaches to solving hard problems can get mired in such status quo bias.
SwampDragon is a more comprehensive solution. It comes with a JS client and lets you define data models. Pushpin is lower level. It has no client protocol nor client library and handles various push primitives on behalf of the backend.

If you want to add realtime endpoints to an existing Django project, or if you want to build an API, then Pushpin may be preferable. SwampDragan may be preferable for new, non-API projects.

It might be cool to see the two projects integrate somehow, since they actually sit at different levels in the stack. There could be value in SwampDragon being able to delegate push responsibility to Pushpin.
It's really hard to find fault in that.

Not that hard. Social justice advocates increasingly view support of free speech as equivalent to defense of racism/sexism/homophobia/etc.
Nevermind the possibility of intelligence assets/agents working undercover at companies like Google and Facebook.
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Actually, black Americans are primed for entry into "the system" from kindergarten. It's called "the school to prison pipeline" and it has been conclusively shown that blacks get disproportionate punishment at every phase of life.

Similar things have been done to other minority populations, especially indigenous populations, in other countries, with much the same results.
If you know what you're doing(which Apple should since they created the constraint system), then it's not that hard especially with the current constraint structure. There really isn't any technical reason why they shouldn't be able to reimplement iTunes natively and use backend API's to just serve content.
The higher criminality drives the police mistreatment. If you're a police offer and interact with mostly black criminals all day, your priors are set so that you think most blacks are criminals. So when you see an honest black person, you assume he's guilty of _something_, and consider framing him the honest thing, since you believe you're just putting the black man away for crimes he's doubtlessly committed, but for which you have no evidence.

(You should understand that _explaining_ something is different from _endorsing_ it. Of course we should judge people by their actions only. It is _understandable_, however, why the current police culture might have arisen.)
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just curious, what race are you and what country do you live in?
Overwhelming evidence is needed that Gate's philanthropy will be remembered more than his computing career. Carnegie is remembered for steel before philanthropy.

Carnegie's wiki page "Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for the United States and the British Empire."
> Keep the leaks coming world!

Seriously. I can't imagine how something like this, or Snowden's docs, could have leaked in the pre-internet days. It's so easy to replicate & distribute information now, and the process by which stories make the "front page" is so democratic.
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it seems to be going viral...I hope it is
What is "the key question"?
As far as population goes, you got me beat. But seriously we're talking about money, i.e. income and assets.
Have you read it? If you have you clearly haven't understood a word of it, he's not giving dollars but stock. And he's not so much giving it but says he will over the course of his lifetime.

The PR stunt is making this public under the guise of a supposed letter to his child, he could have done all this without the media fuss.
26% of Cyber Monday sales came from mobile devices
Sandy. $75 billion in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy

Are you an American? I've gotta know how you could possibly be that wrong. I guess by the time it hit the north east it was only a big storm? $75 billion is the second costliest "hurricane".
I can relate to all of these because I've lived through all of these, fortunately not as much in the public eye as Justin and his team (the web was much smaller back then) but this brought back a whole bunch of memories.

Thanks Justin (assuming you read HN) for writing these up.
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this is fine until you're expected to do both types of roles simultaneously.
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Since I can't edit anymore:

Your comment actually deserves a better response than I gave it. Spam is the open protocol killer. It's a totally serious issue. If our goal was to replicate HN or Reddit via only personal servers, I would be pretty dang paranoid about getting our anti-spam solution perfect:/

Happy in the case of Facebook-on-personal-servers, we have all the advantages and the spammers have all the disadvantages. Social network's main purpose is communication between people who know each other. Ignoring the Pages part of FB (which is really more Reddit-like than it is essential to a social network) communication happens between friends, or friends of friends commenting on photos or whatever. Spammy friend requests will be a problem, but that's not too big of a deal.

And then, once that's done . . . ahhhh. Your own filtering software, blocking game notifications to your heart's content (since it's your own server you can install whatever filter you want, though of course there will be good defaults). Guess where most of the unwanted posts on Twitter or Snapchat come from for me . . . Twitter and Snapchat. No more!
> These scumbags were not scared of the consequences of what they were doing.

That's because they knew there would be no consequences to be scared of.
Comparing tracking with climate change is a new one as far as nightmare analogies go.

This comment is a good example of how fear, uncertainty, and doubt works. Your entire argument premised on "externalities" could also apply to vaccines causing autism, or a GMO-driven dystopia.
> Downvote me all you want: it won't change the facts.

I downvoted you because you are simply incorrect about the facts. Black people make up 12% of the US population, and use illicit drugs at approximately a proportionate rate. Yet, black people make up more than half of the prison population of drug offenders, and nearly two thirds of those under any form of criminal supervision for drug offenses.

Why are you saying otherwise?
If you want to deal with corporate America in any way shape or form then any income from porn is right off the table.

And if you're getting 40% of your revenue from porn then you are an extension of the porn industry.
It could be both. It could also be that the two phenomena are related in more ways than one. I'm not a sociologist and this isn't my wheelhouse, but I can both imagine a world in which exposure to crime can jade law enforcement against a community - and one in which a community can become jaded by corrupt law enforcement.
Also for software more expensive than about $10, a trial is a must, and the Mac App Store doesn't allow for trials. So the user will seek out the trial version on their website, and then why even bother with the App Store?
It's sad that you actually think this is true.
Functional languages can't help you when architectures, standard libraries and compilers implement floating point slightly differently. Cross-system determinism is a totally different property than referential transparency.
Regarding #2, "trust, but verify".

I think we need a (i) strong and (ii) independent audit system. We have the technology to make it strong, just borrow it from other federal agencies who specialize in intelligence. And with enforcement relying more and more on data gathering and extraction, audits would help ensure these are not misused, and help validate how well due process is followed.

The independent part would have to mean it is run by an agency that it not part of enforcement and in a way that is hard to influence. Who exactly it would report to, I'm not sure. Maybe a peer agency of the FBI & CIA?

That audit system would data-mine all enforcement activities and keep the data locked up in a vault. That data could then be requested via subpoena (for investigations like these) or FOIA requests (after a "reasonable" time to prevent interference with actual investigations).
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> I wouldn't point at Dennis and say, "They is the one to speak to".

The correct conjugation is "They are the one to talk to" which to me is a perfectly sensible to way to refer to DennisP.
Agreed. The iTunes Store has always felt extremely slow to me, even back in the day when it was implemented as native views.
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Even assuming that the people at the FBI are altruistic and don't care about whether FOIA requests will be used to smear them, I don't see what incentive they have to make the process easier for people making requests. Once they've complied with what they're legally required to do, other things will get attention in the budget.
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Disappointed once again in the immediate cynicism here but by now I should know not to be surprised by it in any community where nothing is sacred.
You did see that I said it was critical that the idea must be able to be executed by you to be a good idea. Any idea you can't do is by definition a bad idea.
I just started watching videos from this year's PyCon Australia [0]. Russell Keith-Magee, a core Django developer, gave an interesting talk called "Money, Money, Money - Writing software in a rich (wo)man's world" [1].

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Yep racism is only a problem in the South
This is great to hear. I learn a lot from watching how the Django team brings critical third-party projects into the core of Django.
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