skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really a big problem?

Growth slows down as you get older and more experienced, not everyone can grow beyond some level. A company isn't going to keep giving big raises to someone who isn't growing that much anymore. That seems fair.

Worst case for most people is that they hit a reasonably high wage quickly and can stay there for a long time, even if the increases become modest at best. That's a good thing.

If you are willing to develop the skillset you can still move into management and continue to increase your earning power. That's good too.

It does suck to think that as a mid level engineer I'll most likely get to a senior level in a few years and rise no further, but it's just something you have to get over.
You're assuming this is the norm. That's just pretty hilarious.

At one point I was given a Macbook Pro as a perk (iOS dev) which was slower than my personal Air because of the lack of SSD.
Have we arrived at the conclusion that the people who convinced the middle class that unions are evil did not have our best interests in mind yet, or are we gonna keep shooting ourselves in the foot?

Keep shooting ourselves in the foot it is then. K. Carry on.
It looks like OP has that in the roadmap. Unfortunately it also seems that the last work has been done in 2013.
Heroku error on the page - I suppose paying for expensive hosting like Heroku is a bit difficult when everything being sold is $1 :D
It uses the PyCrypto package to generate random numbers. The Random class is a Fortuna generator seeded with 8 bytes from the system RNG, the PID, and time: https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/blob/master/lib/Crypto/Ran...

I doubt eight bytes is enough for cryptography...

If you need random bytes in Python, use os.urandom:

secret = os.urandom(32)

https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.urandom
(Of course this is just semantics, but let's indulge...)

New businesses started up all the time over the past century, and there was never a need for additional terminology. People just said "I joined a new business" or "Bob started a small company". Why, then, did a new word "startup" develop? I'd say it's because people intuitively realized there was something about these businesses, which were largely tech and especially software, that set them apart from the existing idea of a new business. When someone starts a landscaping company today, no one ever calls it "a startup", and there's a reason.
Amazon is frequently in the red.
Don't take this as a direct response to your comment, but it sparked a thought: perhaps we can expect a new dismissive PCism regarding attitudes toward police rather than e.g. gender. Maybe "poliphobe" or "citizen-sympathizer"? I'm sure the police unions and prison corporations can come up with something better, but this seems like a logical next step for them.
> the author wrote their own crypto code

That doesn't immediately mean that the library is useless.

> until that is fixed

I disagree with the word "fixed", as if it's broken. He probably used the highest-level primitives he could to achieve the requirements.

> I've already spotted a few vulnerabilities.

It'd probably be more constructive to open an issue detailing the vulnerabilities rather than saying "I've spotted some, use NaCl" and leaving it at that. What makes you so sure that NaCl is even a suitable replacement without knowing all the considerations that went into the project?
What is etsy spending their money on? What's their main expense? Talent?
The risk of the drop (at the time of lockup expiration) is priced into the stock before the lockup expires. So, if the lockups expire, and there is no big sell-off then, the stock price might go up.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"

I would say based on the declaration of independence, if it comes to that the answer is yes.
One out of every 14 Bitcoins are stolen property.[1] Does anyone know how this compares to US currency?

[1]http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/7360901-robert-wagner/2715...
Haha, paperwork sucks. They have to value their time appropriately!
here's a non-paywalled story:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/011516/walmar...
I think the security aspect is the best option. If a CEO can't access some proprietary web app and is told "You need to use browser X that supports DRM", then they will be "Why isn't that already installed on my system". But if they are told "The web app uses hidden code that may be insecure, and cannot be audited" then you'll have executives, people in actual power positions, say "Get that stuff off our network".
That number is largely derived from the amount that medicare provides. I can't seem to find a source at hand though.
Yep. Nasdaq chat shows a split last August. I've noticed Google finance seems to have trouble with share splits. Other sites like Yahoo finance handle them just fine.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/zg/stock-chart?intraday=off&tim...
And having friends and family that know you are tech savvy so they always come to you with their tech woes.

"But you love doing it! You love this tech stuff!" Sorry. Not if I have a solution of the top of my head. 30$ of help please.
Even if it is done because they think it's moral, it's still a smart thing to do from a PR standpoint. They get credit for fighting win or lose.
I wasn't responding out of national pride.

I just thought you were making a knee jerk, America is worse than Nazi Germany, comment. I didn't realize you were talking about data collection alone. My bad.
Well, I'm a software developer with three years of experience in Puerto Rico. It hasn't been too bad so far. There isn't an expectation that one will regularly work 12 hour days or something, though of course there is crunch time.
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The real problem, is that shepherds (politicians) know how to play the game, while the sheep (citizens) are too stupid to realize that they're being played.

All the politicians do is stir up emotional issues like "they're trying to take away your guns", or abortion, to distract the sheep. It works all the time.
Banks in 1800's were also prone to robbery too.
Hedge fund algorithm developer here. I've sold a few of these but it's mainly been based on taking 20% of the net profit and largely confined to the financial industry.
Good time to buy.
It looks like the file is replaced every write, too, which removes most of the hard use cases. It really seems to me that he could just use PyNaCl to encrypt the files and not have to bother with all the custom crypto. I don't know what the intentions and tradeoffs are, though, so I can't be sure.
I think the point of the story was that the police suspected him of carrying a lot of cash, and they were fishing for it, but didn't find enough to confiscate. Correct me if I'm wrong OP.
OP here. So one algo I have is fast matrix multiplication algorithm, especially for sparse matrices. Faster asymptotically and in real-time than what's out there, and with better accuracy.
trade wars 2002.. legend of the red dragon.. global wars

tele-arena was me gateway to scripting
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I have no problem calling out America for its faults. I just misinterpreted the comment and thought they were saying America was worse than Nazi Germany. I didn't realize they were talking just about data collection.
Aside from that, its a neat way to consume art or nature/sport/hobby photography without the fluff of facebook
I had package of green tea I ordered show up 7 months after I ordered it.
...citizens keep voting the same...

It's almost as if the voting process itself is part of the system, rather than being separate somehow? If we examined that process as a part of that system, we might conclude that it always produces the same results for durable structural reasons rather than because voters always fuck up in special contingent ways.
Oddly it makes me sad, one because I remember it fondly (the BADGE group some of the early demo contests) and it was fun to code them up, but today its not nearly so fun even though you can make things look so much better. Writing code for the Amiga was so much more fun than writing code for the PC. I'd love to figure out how to create such a fun environment again.
You are describing how political correctness is becoming (or has become) Orwellian NewSpeak; the language has been changed to control public debates and thought in general.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
> The section said Stroustrup deciced not to publish it because it was impractical. One of few times see his name and go "what an idiot..."

He's right though. Such a system would be slower than a good tracing GC, which completely eliminates these problems and is much easier for the programmer to use.
It is so much fun that many years, I schedule summer vacation to coincide with a house crushing from my old boss. I go out and give home 2 free days of labor cleaning up after the crushing in exchange for getting to drive into someones kitchen with a dozer. It's harder than you would think, you kinda try to scrape the inside out through the windows or a hole you made in the walls, then push it in on itself. It's really easy to get a pile of garbage that is too weak to drive on and too tall to pull the top off of. That's when you have to start driving dump truck and realized there are people who do this for a living and you're just playing around.

For the record though, cleaning up involves driving a dump truck, bobcat or excavator. It's not like I have a shovel in hand for more than an hour in the week.
Why don't hackers disrupt labor?

1. Because that's hard

2. Because it would require cooperation and coordination with large groups of people, and the grand mythos of the hacker is one of individualism. This applies to both personalities and projects

3. Disrupting US law isn't like disrupting taxis

4. There are powerful forces preventing labor organisation by hackers

5. Unions are viewed negatively by hackers (you actually covered this one)
"If we were to talk about climate change or ecological damage, our focus should really be on energy and pollution from industrial and transportation output."

I wonder how many of conscience (vegan or otherwise) both to check whether palm oil is used anywhere in their diet, given the massive environmental damage that is done by that industry (e.g. massive deforestation of native forests in places like Borneo).
That is what it sounds like, yes. It also sounds like this is a new and innovative definition of "cold storage," where the wallet lives on a network-connected computer.

The lack of isolation between the various coins reminds me of Allcrypt, the exchange that ran their Bitcoin-trading software on the same database with the same password as their WordPress website. In their explanation they managed to absolve themselves of all responsibility and blame their marketing person whose account was stolen, when in fact the marketing person was the only responsible one in the whole company, alerting the technical folks about the unexpected password reset email: https://archive.is/2UY7e
OMG can we get a moratorium on "tbh"? Just say "Indeed" or some other filler. "To be honest" is bad writing even when it's spelled out.
I had met someone who had a 3 page cover letter containing her life story. That's not going to work. Spend a little time, so it looks like you're not just sending your resume on every remotely relevant job, but not too much time they think you've got no other choice.
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Your game is too hard, please make it slower.
"Nice story": it's not like I'm making up stories to convince people.

Think of a house: would you buy one if you knew that just by waiting a year its price would be 80% of what it is now? And the year after 65%? You'd probably just wait. If you waited long enough, you could buy one for, literally, today's peanuts.

Electronics sounds like a good counterexample, but electronics are also developing at extremely high speed. The price of a given device decreases very rapidly in time, but new more powerful devices come on the market every day. Sure, you could have waited five years to buy an iPhone 1, but that piece of electronics is now almost worthless compared to the other options you have on the market.
Why would I decrease my odds of winning by telling my friends?
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Just wait till China, Russia and India get the itch for this. Just one of them have enough market and potential markets no vendors will leave money on the table and give up market share.

It has a good chance of happening in one of those markets if not here and then, it's just a matter of time till many nations demand the same.
I'd like to see at least some info about what this does before signing in with GitHub. Could you share at least a screenshot?
Arch or FreeBSD
Which has a better networking stack. For large files freebsd does (Netflix uses them). What about a web crawler? Still Freebsd or doesn't matter? Can't find anything online comparing network stacks nd performance.

Thanks
Then goes on to talk about how it would use machine learning to develop heuristic methods that could perform shallow design evaluations with much less computation.
We are making very similar points I think. My main point is that it is not a given that we must simulate a human brain to get super human AI. We may, we may not, we dont know, neural networks or otherwise.
There is probably a place where you can pay for doing it, like the excavator parks where you can shovel gravel from one corner to the next.
Citi bank will give a throwaway credit card number if you have one of their credit cards. I use it all the time, you can even set a date/limit on it if you want
Or they did, but there was pressure to keep growing because investors need to cash out of their over valuation. There's nothing wrong with having a company that serves a market and pays all its people a good wage. Unless of course you over valued a company and invested to much money to get paid out in your 5 year time frame then that's a really shitty thing.
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I work in tech in the silicon valley. That's just untrue.

There is a sense of alienation in being a small cog in a huge company shipping millions of devices, churning through code to get data from one point to another hoping that it'll make a difference to customers and that that feature isn't just another PR gizmo.
What are you trying to imply?
I was initially turned off by the title of this thread because 'one-way encryption' generally refers to hashing and not asymmetric encryption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
don't normally do this, but, given the seriousness with which i take this topic, just wanted to say, that was an exceedingly ignorant statement.
That, or residents who want secure devices will just buy them elsewhere. It's very common now for people to have cellphone accounts from other states.
The system we've got now isn't even working quarter-ass. Finding a "replacement" is a pretty low bar.
It's much easier to control people if they are fighting amongst themselves, this works out well for the political class since they can distract folks from figuring out how bad they are getting fucked.

This is part of the more general war on freedom of speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM
What has that got to do with the stock price?
I don't think attributing the sinister motive is necessary, but I do agree that's the ultimate outcome if a national law were passed. A purpose-built device integrated by a centralized company and locked down to end-users is not a defensible place to fight a battle for digital freedom!

It would be interesting seeing how this would play out with an individual state though. Would Apple make a special NY version and advertise loudly that it's defective by design, or would they kowtow to a backwards state government to avoid a legal showdown?
When are we finally going to get fed up with the government's terrorism crap?
Amazingly enough this article misses the primary reason that ship landings are still useful even with land landings are possible - you can use way less fuel, since you can position the ship near where the first stage was going to fall anyway, rather than having the rocket fly back to to pad. Using less fuel for the landing means that you can use that fuel to lift a heavier payload.

Of course with the trickier landings, smaller landing targets, saltwater, and additional transportation risks, I'd expect landings on droneships to be only used when land is not an option.
Isn't this what support case systems and bug tracking software was meant to do - to track non-closed issues?
I make that too as a contractor. This is a standard rate for doing contracting in Australia and UK. Now that the economy is crumbling I don't see why anyone would want to work for a startup.
Quick demo of what's possible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYatUMbG5mg

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I went to those picnic bbq parties when I was in elementary school and the older folks were always cool about it. :)

I just had a flashback of my discovery of the band Rush from a bbs party.
Slightly off topic but it seems Ford never said if he'd asked customers what they wanted, they'd have said faster horses.

In fact when he started experimenting trying to building cars in 1893 it was eight years after Benz had started producing his Motorwagens in Germany. If he'd asked his customers what they wanted they probably would have said a cheaper and better Benz which is kind of what he produced with the Model T fifteen years later.

The Model T was a great hit, costing about $22k in modern money, much less than his competition. He continued driving the price down and by 1916 it was about $7k in modern money and took 2/3 of the market. However in the 20s General Motors started offering more luxurious cars with deluxe features like a roof and it turned out customers were happy to pay a bit more for that. It wrong footed Ford and their share dropped to 15% by the time they reacted.

So he took the market by building what customers wanted at the time - a reasonably priced car and lost a lot by ignoring what they wanted later - a reasonably priced and comfortable car.

https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast
And Walmart plans to open 405 stores globally in the coming year. 95 percent of the closed U.S. stores are within 10 miles of another Walmart store. They're just consolidating smaller stores into bigger ones. They experimented with express stores 5 years ago, found it didn't work as well as hoped, so they canned them. These decisions make strong business sense.

The article makes it seem like it is doom and gloom for the company but they are doing just fine.
Ya but science backs up the ketogenic diet pretty well.
Many companies give an extra x00/week that you're on call. I won't say most, though.

I can't contain my ire at being woken up for phantom emergencies, though. That would be a cause for a new job, personally.
Alternatively: rudo?
> There were multiple weeks of uncompensated 24/7 on-call rotations throughout the year

Call me crazy, but when I see there's an on call rotation, I figure that's part of the work I have to do as a salaried and not hourly employee, and I calculate the extra work into my total compensations vs. time worked estimate.

I totally agree with everything else you're saying, though.
Ok, how about we set up a fund to give an AK47 and 1000 rounds of ammo to every homeless person in the country.

That people seriously consider more guns to be a solution to anything let alone this problem shows the profound level of insane indoctrination and delusion in the country more than anything else.
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Rendering CSS on the Server Using React.JS, Webpack
I am building a ReactJS App and on reload on localhost:8080/extension, the styling on the page flickers. From what I understand this is being caused by the CSS being rendered on the Client side.

So what I am trying to do is in the entry.js file(I am using webpack), remove the require('./css/base.scss') from the if(document === 'undefined') block into the ReactDOMServer.render callback in order to compile the CSS on the server side.

Any tips or suggestions of how to render the css on the server side of the react application?

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> Too much of a risk they would beat you, kill you, or rob you.

Yap pretty much.

I came from a country where cops would torture people to get confessions out of them. Basically chances were, if they caught you, and they were bored / were bribed by someone, or just had a bad day, they could make you "confess" to crimes easily.

One time my friend and I caught a pickpocketer. Pickpocketer's associate swiped my friend's wallet. There was a group of them, all scattered except one. We caught him and eventaully ended up with him at a police station. It was a quiet evening there. One cop even had his 1st or 2nd grader son there playing around in the hallway. So being bored, the cops decided to get this pickpocketer to tell them where his buddies are hanging out. They needed the wallet to officially to charge him so they could arrest him. So to get him to talk, they asked us to leave the room. Then proceeded to torture him. Holy crap! I can still hear his pleas for help. What started with us being happy we caught him and him getting some justice, turned into us feeling pretty sorry for him... at some point we signed some papers and just left.

Long story short, there is a good reason there to be afraid of cops. They are just like an organized criminal gang are are sanctioned to operate by the law. You never know what they'll do, they have guns, friends with guns, and could beat or torture you to death on a whim.

Now it is night and day to what is in this country, and I felt pretty safe in general around cops here. But in later years, the stories I hear, camera recordings of cops shooting people, the whole forfeture thing, I see things slowly start to nudge into a bad direction. I start feeling a little bit more like I felt there, in the old country.

Also, I can't decide if cops have started to do this more, or that they've always done but there weren't as many cameras around to record it, and only the poor people got to experience that side of the "law".
That's a clever use of leaflet. Cool.
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I would be interested to see the cost of losing The Apple Stores in NYC.
Some of the highest valued retail that there is from what I remember reading, but I guess real estate in NYC is super valuable in any case.
This is clever. It's not running code as a random user on your system, but rather as a random non existent user id.

This has the effect of denying lots of privileges to whatever is being software is being run.
They are breaking to constitution not the law. There is a huge difference.

Sadly, the supreme court is stacked with nutjobs from both sides so issues like this are ignored.
Your Android phone is too damn nosy
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That is their assumption, but I'm not sure they really can say that. I notice that they didn't measure cortisol, which seems odd.

When you exercise, the increase in cortisol results in a 50% increase in endurance compared to if there was no cortisol increase, at least in rat experiments [1].

Given that cortisol is involved in both mental alertness and physical endurance, it seems like it could be a plausible reason for this finding.

1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mehis_Viru/publication/...