skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm mostly an internal recruiting manager, I've signed a lot of these deals and have a lot of recruiter friends and know their general contract structure. I do not know of anyone and have never seen a recruiter compensation package where they were paid on spread. That just seems like an incentive to hire someone other than the best person for the job. Seems really strange to me.
>Please don’t hit me, Haskell does a great job of that already.

Good starting, indeed.
are you suggesting it is Verizon's responsibility to ensure 300Mbps to every destination on the internet? if not, then why some over others?
TL;DR: This is about "Amazon Underground", which sounds like an attempt to undercut Google Play, and shift transactions to Amazon. Looks like it's been around since August 2015.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/11/10/amazon-underground-tri...
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Especially on country roads in those cases, sometimes the lines are the only way I know where the road is. Removing them could be very dangerous.
QQ.G.10 has the following footnote:

US/AU: For purposes of greater certainty, no Party is required to impose liability under Articles 9 and 10 for actions taken by that Party or a third party acting with the authorization or consent of that Party. Negotiator's Note: CA seeks clarification of this footnote.
So you still don't understand Hindley-Milner? (2013)
Presumably it gives you notifications from private repos.
Correct: that's the primary "source" in Tesla's Auto Steering feature.
Didn't know that, thanks for the information. I was rejected in the H1B random lottery step (sigh) after getting an offer from a grown startup in SF, and did not investigate the green card process deep enough.
I recently wrote a blog post related to Facebook's content discovery: "Scrolling through my Facebook feed feels like watching TV"[1].

I didn't expect that Twitter would follow the path of the almighty blackbox algorithm.

[1] https://medium.com/@bendersej/scrolling-through-my-facebook-...
Good article, and apparently not one that has been discussed on HN before.
I'm glad it's not just me. I think it's been about an hour now.
Bummer. First issue I've seen since I switched over to them.
This article is about Paypal banning VPN providers who are using Paypal to accept payment for providing VPN service. It has nothing to do with people trying to buy things with Paypal over a VPN where Paypal can't log a reasonably trustworthy IP address; in that situation, there's increased likelihood that the paypal account is compromised, but preventing a VPN provider from taking payment using Paypal has no effect on fraud committed via people using their VPN service. They are separate issues.

Maybe a few VPN providers are fraudulent, but the major ones aren't. You pay them, you get a VPN. You pay for SmartDNS, you get that service. It's what people do once they have those services that's considered bad by copyright holders, and so they're applying pressure to payment services like Paypal, to get them to stop processing payments for those services.

If you look into the campaigns copyright holders are waging, the major one is an attack at funding sources for all kinds of services: file hosting, VPNs, etc. They are attacking those services and their funding, because trying to go after people who use those services—for things copyright holders don't like—has proven largely futile.

Again, what this article is NOT about: If you try to pay for things offered on a completely legitimate website and you pay with a completely legitimate credit card, but you're browsing using a VPN, it's likely to get declined. Risk of payment fraud or goods purchased using compromised accounts—via VPN which makes fraud harder to trace—is an issue but it's separate from what the article is talking about, and it's distinct from what people in this thread are complaining about regarding the article. While some people might legitimately complain about bans on payment for services over a VPN (it makes it difficult, if you don't trust your ISP or wifi service, to go VPN-only if you can't buy most things), it's fairly clear that such payment-provider or retailer behavior is motivated at combating fraud.

The issue here is entirely about copyright holders being mad and threatening the payment processors of service providers, because service providers are doing things copyright holders don't like, not because the service providers have unacceptable payment-collection risk profiles.
>Age adjusted mortality rates have declined 60% over the past 75 years courtesy of those "assholes" in health care, pharmaceuticals and Wall Street who financed them.

Without regulations on insurance and socialized health care almost no one would receive the supposed benevolence of those assholes in health care.

>College enrollment has increased by more than 1000% and graduation rates have increased by 10% thanks to those "assholes" who run colleges and those "jerks" who underwrite college loans.

Colleges stand to profit from enrollment rates, college loans are a debt factory, college costs have skyrocketed while relative incomes have shrunk dramatically. Those assholes and jerks have laughed their way to the bank with winfall profits from this "everyone needs to go to college" propaganda.

>Those "assholes" in the environmental industry and their "criminal" counterparts in government have cut by about 2/3 air pollution in the US since 1900, while the population has exploded.

Not sure what your point about this is considering that the EPA is a liberal construct in the first place. In libertarian society there would be no EPA.

>Progressives have an important role to play in demonizing business, finance and government. It gets the ball rolling for reform that sometimes creates new businesses. Thank you progressives.

I can just feel the aggression oozing off of your comment here. Progressives also have an important role to play in civil rights, social systems that everyone relies on, and supporting and funding an infrastructure that allows equal footing for the poor and the rich. But I see you're sticking to the "big gubment stay out of my life" narrative and I can tell that you would probably benefit from that being the case.

>They don't know when to stop and the hysteria/drama engine chugs along causing government to over-reach with feel good legislation and regulation & boondoggles that rob the treasury and business of funds needed to train, hire and maintain a vibrant work force... of good paying jobs... not retail and fast food gigs.

You know who robs the treasury of more funds than social programs? Businesses that don't pay taxes. Do you know who robs businesses of money? No one because when you go into business and fail that's no one's fault but your own.

What's a good paying job without socialism anyway?
Re-Creating WarGames with Tableau and Mapbox
Non-linear timelines ruin one of the unique things about twitter: livetweeting along with TV events. Massive, sometimes international, kibitzing.

Generally it destroys the idea of twitter as a "conversation" and entrenches it as a pile of unrelated attention-seeking statements.
what about the brilliant self taught programmers? Not all PHD's have skills/talent that employers are looking for. There are already enough unemployed theoretical math/astronomy pdhs.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer working on website to understand government
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> How do you establish at- fault behavior on unmarked roads?

I was not advocating unmarked roads. The article does, but I don't. Being able to establish fault is another aspect of the road markings being Schelling points--everybody knows that if they jump the line they're at fault.

> If there are no markings, and I'm supposed to just "do the right thing", then by definition I can not be at fault

The above notwithstanding, I don't think this is correct. It's not impossible to assign fault without road markings; it's just a lot more difficult, and the assignment is a lot more likely to cause conflict between the parties.

> there is a solution to this: universal, publicly funded ( via use taxes ) auto insurance.

I don't understand how this solves the problem. If anything, it seems to me it would reduce drivers' incentives to correctly judge risk.

> I suppose another alternative would be to re-establish private toll roads.

This would help with the incentives of the traffic engineer, yes. I'm not sure how it would help with the incentives of the driver.

Also, the problem with any privatized road system is that competition in roads is difficult; roads are not commodities. Good road rights of way are determined by geography, not the market. This is one of those cases where even if an optimal solution exists, it's not one that can be reached in the absence of an omnipotent divine being.
I don't think so, see my other comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048311
Whatever happens, I hope they improve their Android app. It is one of the most pathetic things I've ever had the mispleasure of using.

Is it really that difficult to get push notifications for pull requests, issues, and my homepage news feed?

I don't know what it's built with but it's not native in the least, it looks like some awful PhoneGap monstrosity.
Except none of the doomsday predictions have come true. There are still of services like food service, child care, etc.
For many years there was an option to swap the mouse buttons. And it seems you can copy and paste now with ctrl C and V. What are other difficulties?

I tried to use both 3DS max and Blender (the old one which had mouse gestures and a few menus) without reading a manual when I was young. Guess what? I found out how to transform things, select vertices/edges/faces, move them around...

Yes, I had to read the manual to do more serious things, but that's no different than 3DS Max.

Also, part of the reason other apps seem easier is that they add unnecessary features in menus and buttons. For example I saw a release of 3DS max where one of the new things were extending the selection in some way. You could always do that with Blender by combining two more basic features (hide what you don't want to select, then select and extend). I think 3DS is the cluttered one.

Blender has many problems, but the UI itself is not one. Default controls are bad, I admit.

edit: I also admit it's not intuitive to open/save files of other types (having to select the appropriate option in import/export).
Yes, the core thing that I have a problem with is funding services on promises that are expected to be met at the local level. How to manage future compensation otherwise is a serious problem, but it's a better problem than funding services with promises.

I agree that a national benefit program is not as fraught as a local one.
An unborn, non-life form still has utilitarian value: there is an expected value that it would perform throughout its otherwise natural life.

Actually, a strict utilitarian model would probably conclude that it's not worth aborting to save the mother's life if the baby is viable, since the baby would ultimately produce more value for society than the mother would were she to live out her life.

And that's the sort of reasoning that makes everyone hate utilitarian ethics.
Archive.is helped: http://archive.is/Gx23X

I wonder whether this is potentially dangerous for them to do.
Where are the notes actually saved, and are they text files? (Downloaded on my Mac, built a note and can't find it in the Finder)
Google shuts down Amazon unionization website
And with an absolutely useless website. They have two UIs, like windows 10, an old one and a new one with the website randomly switching between the two and many options or data that are only visible in one but not the other.
They do block sales of firearms and some knives.
No one else would value Periscope at $100M other than Twitter, it's just was the perfect fit for Twitter. The same for Facebook valuing Whatsapp at $20B after agreeing to not sell ads on it, it was a perfect fit for them for shadow profiles...

It's the same for individuals, some rich guy would pay millions of dollars for a piece of art while it's just a piece of crap for another rich guy.
There's no pending investigation and no appeals process at all. This is the part that annoys me so.
While Watson might not be making the decisions, a very difficult problem since even the objectives the decision would be optimizing for are unclear, this is not to say the brief prepared by the aide was created without the help of Watson[1].

[1] http://www.ibm.com/connect/federal/us/en/technology_solution...
> Maybe it's because the decentralized system is less efficient in combat with a more centralized one, which ends in arms race to total centralization?

The problem is, centralization is short-term thinking. With centralization you can set out to do one specific thing and it will happen (e.g. Manhattan project, Apollo project). But centralization in the long-term turns into 20th century USA vs. Soviet Union, because the central planning committee gets every specific thing they want but what they want is not the same as what is good for the country.

Centralization is, essentially, monoculture. If the monoculture is perfectly adapted for existing circumstances then it will be more efficient than a more diverse system but then as soon as circumstances sufficiently change there is a catastrophic systemic failure.
Will this also hold for driverless cars?
Kudos to AU gov!

PayPal dropped support for a Canadian VPN provider. Will PayPal continue to support Australian VPN providers, since AU gov permits geoblocking, even against Netflix ToS and the wishes of content rightsholders?
The gitskarios app is a good alternative.
That's what I tell my friends and family, but I don't think it's all that commonly known among the people I know :/
The Internet Archive Opened an Online Malware Museum
I actually wasn't aware of it being either street slang or associated with The Wire. It seemed a pretty familiar term to me. A few different online sources suggest it started out as military slang to mean "re-enlist."
> With plenty of competitors, including Atlassian, GitLab, and even Google, one thing is certain: If GitHub does stumble, there are plenty of companies that want to pick up its slack.

Atlassian? Oh god. Their software might be ideal for corporate beancounters and expensive consultants, but for everyone else it's a nightmare.

GitLab? A pile of memory leaks and other weirdness.

Google? Not so much, I highly doubt they'll ever re-open Google Code.

edit: and another thing, Github enjoys a massive, massive network effect, next to impossible to recreate by anyone else. Except Sourceforge, but they burned so many bridges that no one sane in his mind will ever trust them again.
Nonetheless, it is sometimes blatantly obvious to the person who is assigned the task of training the person or persons in the duties they perform, immediately before they find themselves without a job.

And when you repeatedly get feedback from several/many people in your organization, asking why this or that isn't done yet or continues to be wrong.

If Management really believes that "this is the right decision for us", with full -- or at least competent -- knowledge of what is going on and how it is working out, then they also are deliberately planning to irritate and inconvenience at lot of their other employees and extant work flows.

I've seen it. Repeatedly.

And, like the grand parent, I've worked with some outsourced/overseas people who were good. In my experience, over a number of years, they tended to be the exception rather than the rule.

This speaks to corporate outsourcing, from a U.S. perspective, rather than in general. Plenty of people elsewhere are very good at what they do. A lot of U.S. corporate outsourcing, in my experience, has drawn from a different and significantly less capable labor pool.

Meanwhile, the people structuring and running these transitions tended to collect their short-term consulting fees and bonuses and move on.
My process: Right-click + "Open Link in Incognito Window". I see ads, but at least I don't get "behavior farmed".

(Hrmmm, your note prompted me to find a Chrome plug-in that can do this for me automagically: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/incognito-filter/c...)
https://freebsd.org/handbook

It's a comprehensive, yet not too dense, set of documentation for getting people up to speed on how to do things with FreeBSD. You may not find a better one even today.
Fuck them.

And fuck Netflix.

And fuck Craigslist.

Anyone who is against privacy needs to just crawl back to the 90s and die.
It appears to be a network issue between NYI and Level3.

I'm a happy FM customer for many years now and I can state this kind of event is very rare.
This could be reflected in insurance rates. Mandatory insurance in most states is liability insurance. If safety features increase risk-taking, then safer cars should be more expensive to insure. The insurance companies employ legions of statisticians.
No, it means exactly this. You know absolutely nothing about engineering, and you keep proving it. As well as millions of other similarly under-educated semi-programmers.

Know why? Because there is no place for democracy in science. It does not matter how many people believe in some crap. As long as objective criteria exist, as long as a formal proof is possible, any number of millions can believe in whatever they fancy, and nobody should care about their idiotic fantasies.

And it is dead easy to prove that something is overengineered. You may not know it, with such a background, but complexity is a well defined, objective, measurable thing. If you're curious, look up what an "Algorithmic information theory" is.

An existence of a formally simpler model with a more flexible functionality is a very clear evidence that the other, more complex system is overengineered. Just compare something like Tcl/Tk with your awful web stack.

And should I go into Javascript, the heart of your entire stack? This is pretty much my speciality, I am a PL specialist, so you cannot accuse me of an ignorance here. It is very easy to prove how bad Javascipt is, how horribly it is designed from all the PL-theoretic points of view.
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100% agree with just about everything you said except if I may expand a bit.

"If someone comes in and their range doesn't overlap with mine"

Right there is where I think both sides need to do their homework. I have interviewed many candidates over the years that had no clue what the going rate was for a given market and given area.

Example: Oracle DBAs in New York and SanFran command more than the same Oracle DBA working in Detroit at one of the big 3 automotive companies. If you don't understand these dynamics, you're pretty much at a disadvantage and that goes for both sides.
They source their hardware from Samsung or lg etc. Feel if no differentiation in software anyone could copy them.
Samsung have enough hardware chops to make a pure Android phone that others won't be able to copy. But apple envy has caused them to lose the plot.
Atlassian bitbucket is fine for me, and it gives free private repos. If you just want something for side projects without all of the bells and whistles, bitbucket is fine
install Kodi for iPad or iPhone iOS 9.2.1
Is this actually true if, instead of saying the context is an artist in a room, the context is an artist on planet earth? A man has to eat, where did that energy come from? It definitely wasn't free, popped out of thin air. I'd say until we have a much more advanced handle on the application of physics, wealth is taken from others (and I'm not saying that's wrong persay, it's impossible currently to have it any other way).

Having said that, it's all too easy to find instances of wealth 'created' on the backs of other people, or on the back of natural resources that will run out. I've seen way too many people with college educations get taken advantage of, fresh out of school, just because the employer could. Why not?
blogspam, original discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040362
No, I'm referring to the service the original post is about.

But if you're concerned about my actions, I don't yell or say mean things to telemarketers either. Depending on how much free time I have, I either keep them on the line, or I try to find out who's calling me so I can complain about them and hear the sound of them hanging up instantly
As simple as it seems, sending legitimate money from point A to point B could not possibly be any easier than with this service.

You obviously have never used Bitcoin.
I Hope to see GitLab, and other Truly Open Systems, replace GitHub as the go to place for source control
J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]
It is on Play but it's $5 vs free on Underground -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.puzzleboss...
"bubbles can burst?"
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=golden+age+&e=S13E18&t=107....
While I agree with you in theory, in practice it's perfectly legitimate for politicians to be able to "try" something like that, even if it's an attempt to distort or deny scientific truth. Even in Texas, those efforts are controversial, and not guaranteed to succeed without opposition. But it wouldn't be just to simply forbid religious people from the opportunity to influence political debate when their point of view represents that of the majority, or at least a significant minority.
I love both BitBucket and GitLab, have no issues with either.
Capital gains is a yield.
I think that's spot on.

Real Estate:
The core Bay Area cities, the pinnacle of which is San Francisco, have not seen substantial real estate slumps in either recession in recent memory (the dot com bust and the mortgage bubble). For outlying areas, like Antioch, the picture was pretty ugly, however. Location matters.

Tech jobs:
As someone who joined the Bay Area tech workforce in February 2000, just a few months before the market peaked, my observation has been exactly what you describe:
* employed people won't see their salaries drop much, they might even see slight increases
* some perks will be cut
* income from equity packages will be much lower
* there will be some layoffs at established companies
* some startups will go bust, others will see their valuation drop and fundraising will be a lot harder
* there will be fewer tech people employed overall
* new arrivals in the job market (eg new grads) will have a harder time and see substantially lower starting salaries compared to their peers just a year prior. Timing matters.
That, or the VPN customers themselves are in a high risk category for fraud.

I imagine it's a bit like hosting, where an astounding number of signups are fraudulent.

It's not great that PayPal don't say that directly. Either explanation definitely adds up though.
Thank you for writing that. It is very well stated.
Reality is by definition unbiased.
Assembla offers free private repos (no bells, no whistles). I've been using them for over 4 years now.
Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are both at 90 hz.
Plot your GitHub cumulative progress in 5 lines of python
#RIPTwitter > https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPTwitter
Cool, added a link to it in twtxt’s README.
> if a US citizen working at Facebook makes 180k, and the foreign worker makes 150k, that H-1B should cost 30k

There are already prevailing wage restrictions, you can't pay h1b less than native employee .
Report on desired compensation? Are you serious? What if 2 folks come in and say they want $300k based on their current salaries? What will you do then? You may argue that it is the market salary then but if I were an employer, I wouldn't even invite Google/FB folks for the interview but only inexperienced folks - to game the desired salary requirement.

This is why this requires a more thoughtful approach..