skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps infant startups do not deserve "great talent". Engineers shouldn't have to give up cash for lottery tickets, especially when many founders won't even include the number of outstanding shares, preferences, etc. in the options agreement!
Total compensation is base salary plus stock/options. If your stock grant goes down by enough, total compensation may fall even if base salary went up.
And, beware the "2.0 edition" of the original movie that replaces several iconic scenes with crappy CG re-renders. It's inexplicable that someone thought that was a good idea.
> The organization planned right from its launch in 2013 to make data available, and set things up that way - getting the OK from texters to use some of their information while protecting their privacy.

I question how they obtained approval:

* Is it some sort of click-wrap EULA? A person is considering suicide, and they are preseted with a EULA to read, which they must consent to in order to get help?!

* Is it opt-in after the crisis is over? I would be surprised if the response or opt-in rate was very high

* Is it opt-out? Is that appropriate for what are the most private thoughts one can imagine? Wouldn't many people feel violated to know those thoughts are retained and now objects of research?

It would be too bad if their anonymization algorithm failed to catch something; I hope they do more than strip metadata.

Is anything at all sacred and too private for our mass surveillance society?
You probably want to be using phony targets if your Makefile consists of stuff like this. See: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Tar...
Never miss a sale on the Brands you love#NOMOREFOMO
Google's Blogger does the same sort of thing, and it really annoys me. Swerve left or right as you're scrolling through the page and it "helpfully" takes you to a different article.
I also still think GitS is one of the best hard-core sci-fi things ever put to video, but I've generally considered the (first) film to be the weakest bit. I still like it, in much the same way I actually like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but I think people generally cut it a lot of slack if it's one of the only Anime things they've ever seen for being "weird" and "Japanese" and "artistic", when in fact I think it's generally just sort of klunky, slow, and weirdly paced.

This particularly comes out when you compare it to the TV series and the subsequent films, which are none of those things. Even when you might argue the film is trying to make a point, the TV series makes it much better. It also has contemplative moments and character pieces and shots that simply show city life and all of the things the movie has, but they are better integrated and paced much better.

YMMV of course. (There was a time when "the anime canon" was Ghost in the Shell (the movie) and Akira; there is still some residual Thou Shalt Not Criticize attitude about for those two, but not much anymore, I think. GitS does fare rather better 20 years on than Akira, which I believe modern consensus is that it is just one big mess, which I thought even when I saw it in 2001 or so. A landmark, yes, but still a mess.)

Highly, highly recommend the TV series. I'd suggest starting there (they are technically different continuities that just happen to have similar characters, so you will miss no story), and circling back around to the movie if you still want more.
Humans overestimate tech advancement for 3yrs in the future, but underestimate it 10 yrs in the future.

Food for thought.
Overdraft fees are bullshit
Thank you for the interesting and thoughtful post. Any thoughts on how pervasive IPv6 might impact the problem? It seems like NAT and dynamic IPs are a big obstacle for self-hosted cloud services. The other half of the problem seems to be that computer security is difficult and terrible, so we rely on feudal protection from the big providers who can scale that kind of operation. Perhaps that is the more vexing issue.
There is one main counterexample that I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
They both target the same type of games, the few room scale tracking games that are currently in the Steam Work Shop / SteamVR portfolio aren't exactly FPS games.

Oculus is betting that most gamers would still prefer to sit down while playing and that roomscale tracking will be a novelty (which with the current limitations of Vive it is).

This is pretty much the Wii vs Xbox360/PS3 type of control bet. The Wii did well but the best games for it were more or less the ones that used traditional controls, even the best first party games didn't really use the motion aspects of the Wii that much/at all.

The Kinect and what ever the PS Eye camera thing was called also ended up as being niche products that didn't really managed to build a sustainable ecosystem.

Oculus is betting that sitting / standing with limited movement will be the preferred gaming environment and I think they will be correct in that assumption.
Who is doing the study on the impact of the 3800 open office corral of FB by Gehry where they only have ~(5) exec core non-open-space offices??

Surely FB is doing this - but will this data ever be avail to anyone?

Doubtful - and this is what sucks about the FB ethos "open and connect" people - bullshit - they have 3,800 engineers OPENLY connected in a SINGLE room - none of that human "connection" data will ever see the light of day - their morals are fucked.
I'm a technical writer at Fastly and a published author with No Starch Press. I've worked full time as a technical writer since 2006. It's a great career and I highly recommend it.

If you have a technical background and you've coauthored a book, you already have what it takes to find full time work as a technical writer. There are really two ways into this field. You start with a background in English or professional writing and learn the technology, or you can start with a computer science degree or something similar and learn how to write. It sounds like you've done the latter.

The pay is good if you work for a company full time. Many technical writing jobs these days are remote. (All of the tech writers that work for Fastly and GitHub are remote, for example.) You could probably do freelance work, but I've never been able to make that work. Most companies don't outsource their documentation and I'm not entirely sure why, although I suspect it has something to do with them wanting to build long term relationships with the individual(s) documenting their products.

You will need to do some networking. You may want to consider attending Write the Docs (http://www.writethedocs.org/), a conference for technical writers. Depending on where you live, you might also be able to find an active STC group.

Or just start applying for jobs. :) Really good technical writers are hard to come by, so if you know technology and you can write, you'll probably have the job offers flooding your inbox. This recent posting at DataDog is a good example of something you will want to keep a lookout for:

https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=169167

Hit me up if you have questions.
While true, I don't attribute any of that to malice. If the founders' backs are against the wall, there may no longer be the resources left to plan for a graceful migration.

I applaud Dustin's consideration of the "What If," but this would have been a much stronger announcement with a concrete plan, e.g.:

- what tools will be provided to backup a user's data (e.g. Google Takeout),

- how do you guarantee access in perpetuity in a scenario where you and/or the company are no longer around

I presume most people have good intentions in this area. The difference between a noteworthy step forward and the status quo is having a concrete plan in case Bad Things happen.
I'm a little confused about the guy who has a startup selling glow-in-the-dark decorations and party accessories.

Is he living in the Bay Area because of his startup? Or was it job first, glow-in-the-dark startup later?

Pretty sure moving to the Bay Area for the sake of a startup that sells party accessories is overkill. Unless, God forbid, they connect to the internet.

Please don't tell me someone is making glow-in-the-dark party accessories combined with some IoT kool-aid.
Maybe I've missed the sarcasm?

GSOC is for FOSS projects only.
It's going to be a case by case scenario. Not everyone is at the same level of writing or able to arrange their thoughts coherently in a timely matter at all, especially given that most people's experience with writing tends to be in incredibly short concise bursts. (e.g., twitter, Facebook, reddit, with the latter having an unofficial max length before you get a tl;dr from most readers).

Some writers are like you; they take their time, think about what they want to say, then they say it. Others tend to be burst writers, where a few thousand words appear in the editor under an hour.

My experience as a TA in university is that a lot people who are otherwise perfectly competent communicators are poor writers simply because they're afraid to commit words to paper. They overthink how they want to convey their ideas or aren't sure how to logically arrange it and spend more time mentally planning and never committing something. It's probably why there's so much dread with paper writing even at the University level, especially given that many courses even within the sciences put a lot of weight on the reports as opposed to the work done. (This, admittedly, comes second hand from observing my roommates and g/f deal with Biology, Chemistry, and Physics papers and getting frustrated because of how heavily weighted the papers were on the class rubric)

The advantage to something like this, if you can muster up the courage to just write, is that it gets you used to just being fine with whatever you put out. It's not necessarily about quality as much as it is quantity and getting you used to putting out bad work and not letting that fear be crippling. I had exercises like this in High School where we were given journals and 50 minutes to respond to a long prompt on the given book we had read. They were difficult exercises, but well worth the effort.
Implementing moggio: a cross-platform, multi-source music player in Go
A little off-topic, but I've come across 3 of your tl;dr summaries on front page stories in the past half hour. Thanks EwanGbot!
If the difficulty is trivial, there's no point in a blockchain since you can double spend cheaply
The class-name obfuscation on Google+, GMail, etc. is for latency reasons, not security. When Google wants security they serve content out of a seamless iframe on https, because obfuscation doesn't give it to you.
It depends what exactly the point of this token. To be honest, it seems like just having a spreadsheet makes more sense than a blockchain
More specifically, one wonders whether a "study" commissioned by a company about its own working environment can ever hope to be objective.
I tend to agree, but with the following qualification: I don't really read any particular person's blog regularly, but I do end up reading a range of blog entries when they are linked from some sort of aggregator (HN, Twitter etc).

Additionally, as a software developer I often find myself on the blog entry of another developer who has blogged a solution to just the exact problem I am facing, which is extraordinarily helpful.

For those reasons I feel that these blogging sites should and will continue to exist in some shape or form.
I know it's easier to write it like this, but isn't it really FBI vs Apple?
One particular approach to Climate Studies - "Coexistance Approach" - is being criticized by folks following the other approaches. And it appears that the controversy is heating up (sorry...).
My uninformed takeaway is HOLY SHIT the 2008 crash was super-extra-really bad. We were shielded to a degree.

Any study on the global deaths associated with this act?

Maybe this is how Alimentarius23 is supposed to happen?
I think it'll be great when road ragers can't count on anonymity to protect their reckless, unsafe and illegal habits. Think how pleasant it will be to drive when everyone actually drives safely.

Surveillance state seems like a real stretch in this case. There is no right to privacy when you're driving on public roads, you can now and will continue to be photographed while driving. It's already happening anyway, highways have road cams, people have dash cams. If there's a problem, it's already here.
I'm not sure if you think it's a misprint because it's too small, or two big.
Well that's just like, your opinion, man.
Agreed. I tend to scroll in small increments (maybe every other line of text) in an attempt to keep the content I am looking in the same position relative to my eye. This site's scrolling kept behaving in a way that was inconsistent with my expectations, and forced me to actively pay attention to what should have been an intuitive interaction. Irritating and distracting.
I read ghost in the shell and was in the same moment reminded to Wamdue Project - King of my castle. The music video was done with Ghost in the Shell scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwdlqquJDK4
The community is already split, if you look at this from another perspective it allows developers to focus on the visual game play related aspects of VR and perfecting them while deferring tackling with motion controls.

This reduces the gap that game developers have to breach, and also allows you to add easy VR support for games which will not be dedicated to VR platforms.

So far motion controls were nothing more than a niche, Wii included.
Said engineers do not have to take startup jobs. Unless they do due to lack of options elsewhere.
> Many early stage startups will use early exercise options with a clawback mechanism.

Can you elaborate?
I personally believe Transcendence has the most realistic future (if you exclude humanity at the very end of it).
If you've read some of the rationale and things Dustin is trying to put in place "when you go out of business with zero warning" can mean get hit by a car. Being all hand-wavy as though not fucking people over in that instance isn't particularly helpful or realistic. Especially when such a high percentage of people expect to the services they use to be completely free in perpetuity.

Business continuity and succession plans aren't free.
Small niches are almost the rule. With apologies to Emo Phillips, you may find that if you're preaching Northern Conservative Baptist, Great Lakes Region (Council of 1912) and your audience is Northern Conservative Baptist, Great Lakes Region (Council of 1879), you'll be metaphorically pushed off the bridge (you heretic).
You would rather what a bus?
Could Hall Effect sensors also be used for precision position control in addition to the sensors mentioned here? (see: https://goo.gl/9nSbua)
unfortunately the whole idea of unvested options actually gives companies incentives to fire engineers. If a big chunk comes around late in the 4 yrs, then "opps we outsourced your job 1 week before vesting 90% of your options." . I would love to think no one would do this, but its happened to me (and the rest of the team) 9 months into our vesting. As well people get funny when a lot of money is involved, nice people do abnormal things when millions/billions are on the line.
Thank you for the feedback. We have looked at Rainforest QA and could definitely see how our tool would work for them. I only know of a few crowdsourced testing companies but we should focus on researching that more. Your other idea of becoming a crowdsourced testing company is definitely interesting and one we never thought of. Our immediate goal is to get people using it regularly and we’ll take it from there. Thanks again!
The point it that by monitoring your location I can derive what is your schedule, where you work, where you do your shopping, the pharmacie you are going to, I can know what kind of food you like by looking what kind of restaurant you go, I can know that after work you are regularly going to an hotel for 2 hours, I know where you live, where you kids are going to school, when and where you take your vacation. By looking who's around you I can know who are your friends and how close you are.
With all that information, I don't care about your name, I can put you in a category, classify you better that anyone else.
If every billboard is equipped with such thing that can be a problem for privacy.
Looks to me like trains are slightly safer than that 0.43 to 7.3 for cars: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436-manuscrip...
Agree. It's the "movie" thats closest to a phi-sci-fi movie.

It's philosophical without being lecture. Beautifully weaves thoughts about networked society into an action packed and aesthetically pleasing bombardment of the senses.
pretty much all virii are "D20"s.
The viewing order makes no sense.

Arise, the movies, the manga, and GITS:SAC are all different universes (Shirow himself has said this).

I'd watch it the two movies (avoid the CGI-ed remake of the first one), then all of three seasons of SAC[1], and then Arise: AA.

And for those who don't know, AA is the series based off the four episode OVA. The OVA... sucks, the pacing is really bad, and they basically quit making more of it so they could make a proper series out of it. It isn't bad, but it's no SAC; it's more like an animated version of the manga, but not as Shirowy.

Just realize you're watching three different almost unrelated works.

[1]: Did you know SSS was meant to be an entire third season? They couldn't secure the budget for it, so they made a compressed movie like they did for SAC and 2nd Gig (The Laughing Man, and The Individual Eleven, respectively).
I liked the GITS SAC series a lot because of how well they balanced the action plot points with discussion about technology, security, politics and philosophy. Overall I'd struggle to think of another series which strikes that balance so well.
If you know where to get them, you know as much as I do!

The only "official" way seem to be the BDs.
> That’s partly because restrictive zoning and overzealous building codes drive up the price.

The problem is self-inflicted. As ever, it is the government that causes this problem. They do not want third-world shanty towns popping up, but on the other hand the demographic with incomes below $15 000/year will not magically disappear either.

I live in Southeast Asia. American zoning -and building codes would mean that 95% of the population in this country would be homeless, destitute, and begging in the streets. They are not and at the moment they are still doing fine, but only for now. Someone could copy bad ideas, imported from elsewhere, and start kicking out people into the streets.
It is? I had to install Visual Studio manually the other day in order to compile C#. Or are you talking about `csc.exe'?
Git-feeling (Time to let your emotions dictate your commit messages)
pay is shit in Vancouver especially now due to USDCAD rates.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18UwaThgGikSXzinnLNHx...
How to Lego-fy your plots and 3D models
I don't see how disabling close to all the functionality of your phone is a solution. Sure, they can't track me, but nobody can call me either.
> Of course, everyone thinks THEY are the exception.

This gets brought up every so often, much to my chagrin. If you asked 10 people what qualifies a good driver, you will get 10 different answers.

Does it mean they have a good safety record?

Does it mean they are skilled at controlling the car?

Does it mean they can navigate traffic efficiently?

Does it mean they communicate with other drivers well enough to not negatively affect traffic?

Does it mean they have good reactions times?

What combination and weighting to you provide the above questions and what questions haven't even been asked?

Of course people respond that they are above average or good drivers since everyone is using a separate metric to define a good driver.
To fix this, the Federal government (most likely the FCC) needs to publish rules and regulations regarding the "telemetry" that software and hardware is allowed to collect and to issue recommendations / requirements that the consumer have full control and be able to disable all features of that "telemetry" and that the consumer's right to do so cannot be waived or abridged via a terms of service agreement or some other such (ie, the behavior cannot be automatically enabled after a systems update, nor can additional or new "telemetry" that didn't exist in the original product be added via a systems update and be enabled by default). Additionally, it should be a requirement that all hardware / software vendors be required to disclose all host(s) and points of origin that telemetry is collected and these hosts should be registered with the FCC. The points of location where that data is collected needs to be regulated under similar security information rules/laws that surround HIPAA. Any device/software not complying should not be allowed for sale within US borders. Additionally, any vendor who accidentally breaks that (ie, Microsoft "accidentally" pushing auto-updates that automatically reenable "telemetry") need to be punished with large and punitive fines (ie, $1,000 per violation/instance). Additionally, it should be mandated that any "telemetry" system cannot impair, disable, or otherwise render the device inoperable should the telemetry 1) be shut down, 2) fail. There should also be punitive fines for this.

Barring this, this is only going to get worse and worse as time goes on.

A bigger concern for me, is that since all this software / hardware is being built in the purview of repressive regimes (the US government not withstanding), that government actors will employ or dictate methods by which they can tap that "telemetry" without a court order.

It is important that the US pass these laws, as the majority of software that goes into these devices is built in the US (and, also, since the US is still the single largest market for them). If laws are passed in other countries, because of the cowboy mentality in the US (see: Uber, Facebook, Google, Microsoft in Europe, et al), I highly doubt there is any hope for self-regulation within the software industry itself, and that government intervention is necessary in this case.
The internet has made it more clear that being an early startup employee will be worse in almost all possible cases compared to working at google even when you get to the $1 billion 'unicorn' status.

For example, I was a jr. engineer at a stage A $5 million startup with ~%0.4 of the company in stock options. When it reached its $1 billion valuation 4 years later, my options with dilution were worth x25. But $500k/4 years is $125k/yr, which is pretty close to the stock compensation working at google. But these options were not cash equivalent like google's stock, and I had to drop it all on the floor because of the 90 day window. I lost $500k in compensation because I decided to work at the startup vs. google.

Imagine if your employees had a good amount of savings and could easily afford the $10-20k it costs to pre-exercise their options in your infant stage startup. Then these rules are pretty moot. It takes advantage of people who don't have the money to pre-exercise options, who tend to be younger people.

Also it's unfair, investors can diversify their income sources, while employees cannot.
Note that Shodan grabs a snapshot/ image for many different services, there isn't a focus on webcams and the way Ars characterized it was slightly misleading. And Shodan doesn't show you a feed: it provides a snapshot/ image of the moment that the crawler saw the device - there are no live streams or any special support for webcams.
Vinge's _Rainbows End_ (note that's the correct punctuation) is excellent and much more relevant to near-future than his Deepness series.
>Nobody starts a company going "and if we fail, fuck the users."*

with one notable exception...
I see how this can be useful for ad-hoc replacements.

To clarify, I'm not asking about the usefulness of the feature in general but why it makes sense to add this to JS.