skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LinkedIn was never good.

No seriously, I remember reading articles about their shady behaviour from the very beginning. They were never useful for any kind of social interaction and from as far as I remember, their website was terrible.
Exactly. I'll believe in a "skills shortage" when competition for employees drives wages up.
It's good that browsers aren't too quick to add support for new image formats, otherwise we'd have a lot of bloatware for non-optimal image formats that few people use.
My biggest regret about learning programming is that I tend to approach things in the real world from an engineering perspective, which isn't always best for a given situation.

I try to avoid it and over time I've done a better job of approaching things dynamically.
IIRC it wasn't used as a weapon in the books but more as a drug like heroin.
Setting the scene from RSAC 2016
There's no completely secure way, except for getting the public key directly from the developer over a trusted channel (or in person). And even that won't protect you in case the developer's keys gets compromised.

But there are a number of things that can be done:

- always verify the checksum (if available), in case the download mirror (but not the web site itself) got compromised.

- check for strange strings in the binary (use "strings" and "grep"). E.g. URLs

- scan the downloaded file on Jotti or VirusTotal.

- unpack the binary manually with 7-zip or similar if it's a self-extracting file.

- check installation scripts, build files, etc. (if applicable).

- if downloading source code, check a couple of files at random. Will most likely not protect you, but if everyone does it, it helps detecting embedded malware (or bugs) early.

- run "strace" (Linux/Unix) or "FileMon" (Windows) or similar software and log what the software does when you install and run it for the first time.

- and check Hacker New regularly ;)
I love this. A whole serious of awesome prints could be made with this, that would sell high at art auctions with the right context. Think various fluids ( ahem, conceptual art ), and non-paper substrates. What about gallium onto a metal surface for instance?
You cannot even mention an altcoin without being shadowbanned. It happened to me. Mentioning an altcoin isn't the same as promoting it. You might want to point out that some users are flocking to Ethereum because of the fees.
https://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/usetax.htm#Personal

https://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/usetax.htm#Overview

> Generally, if sales tax would apply when you buy physical merchandise in California, use tax applies when you make a similar purchase without tax from a business located outside the state.

----

> Tax too. Sometimes Amazon will have a better price and free shipping (and prime) but due to CA tax it'll be cheaper to order from out-of-state (free shipping is pretty common). Amazon also doesn't really do many coupons, so promo codes are more likely to work at smaller places or the mfg website (usually only worth it for larger purchases).

You may not want to publicly admit to tax evasion.
Looking at the Zappos office all I can think is "pieces of flair" with respect to the cubicle decorations.
Does the low 300s number include the value of offered equity, benefits etc? Or it is just the base salary?
For most people with long term pain an opiate prescription is the wrong choice.

The patient ends up with an addiction of opiates; while taking dangerously large quantities of opiates; while still being in pain.

They've still got the pain; they now have two additional problems.

Most people with long term pain need access to pain management services which include other stuff (exercise, physiotherapy, weight loss, psychological therapies) as well as (if needed) opiates.
Interesting. What does your typical day look like? Does it involve a fair bit of ML/algorithms and making them scale horizontally?
Good old alma mater, some of those guys really like coffee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffenol
But the Commission largely works on behalf of the Council of Ministers where the UK Government (Conservative) have the vote. Also if the UK leaves Europe the UK could sign up all on its own (although possibly on even worse terms).
This is why we need to completely get rid of health insurance in the US. If Hospitals could only charge the actual value for their services, and not the inflated insurance prices, the prices would be much lower.

One of my friends is a Doctor. He told me that they need to over-charge for services because of the insurance companies. If they charge $20 (the actual cost of the service), they might get $4 back from the insurance company. If they charge $100, they might get the $20 from the insurance company for the service. We need to cut out the middle man. It's basic economics.

The drug issue in the US is mostly the fault of the government. It takes hundreds of millions of dollars and 10+ years to get FDA approval. This stifles innovation and creates an environment where there are only a few players (IE: a monopoly). The result is ridiculous prices due to no competition.
Many people aren't trained or interested in self management. Also, most companies who preach self management are in fact not self managed environments.

It is no surprise that this is a difficult and long process. They are breaking some longstanding, fundamental human processes at a large scale. This is a hard thing to do and it might not be possible.

Hat tip to Zappos for trying.
A brief Googling didn't make it clear to me whether Android has the option to set global text size or, if it does, whether it matches Apple's scheme sufficiently well that it'd make sense to have a common specification for this.
That kind of command and control economy was tried in many countries (the whole Soviet block) and pretty much failed spectacularly every single time.
It's definitely possible, but typically that sort of package will be long-term employees at IPO/buy-out with an incentive-to-stay package (You just got 4MM$ from your options, but we'd like you to stick around for a couple of years, so we'll give you another 4MM package that vests over 5 years).

You won't get that sort of offer at an illiquid startup (except as un-valuable options) - but it's certainly within the ballpark of reason for people hiring experienced engineers at highly profitable companies.
The USA has referendums at the local level. I think it's certainly easier to do that when you have a smaller population, but power in Switzerland is extremely localised even within its relatively small area. Localism and democracy go hand in hand - for the USA to become more democratic in the style of Switzerland I think you'd need to see a re-assertion of states rights.
Is group chat making you sweat?
Still my regret because I keep doing it: losing focus and switching context too much (languages, frameworks, etc). Getting better at it though.
How I could have hacked any Facebook account
I have a friend who is a cloud architect at a big-4, he is making a little more than $300k in total comp in NY (base is lower, a lot of RSUs etc), but he is more than just an engineer.

He has a friend at another big-4 in NY, also a cloud architect, he is making $400k

I think that the $1 million package is incorrectly calculated. This is perhaps the total package for 2-3 years, including signing bonus (vested over a couple of years) and RSUs (vested over a couple of years)

Annual total compensation for any big-4 Sr software engineer with a lot of experience in SF I assume is around $300k and can get up to $500k if you are really good.

I don't know of anyone who is making $1 million a year, even senior directors at big-4s. Perhaps if you are a Phd who worked at Google cloud / AWS / Azure for 5 years, wrote their software, talk at cloud conferences, wrote "Cloud computing for experts" type of books and published a seminal paper on distributed computing, then perhaps you will get a total compensation nearing that.

If you are just a cloud architect at a big-4 I think the lower part makes sense in total comp, the upper bound sounds completely ridiculous. I have friends who got offers from Amazon and Google for very, very senior cloud positions, way more than "just a cloud engineer", and the total comp is around $300-$400. If the stock goes up though, then the RSUs might be worth much more.

If LinkedIn / Facebook are offering engineers an annual $1 million I'll be very surprised.
What universities are you considering?

Visit. Talk to faculty. Talk to students. Consider the community in which the university is located. Decide if it is some place worth living for four years or so. As much as possible, don't make your decision based on what you imagine the university experience to be, e.g. without a deep experience in computing theory at the university level, choosing a programming focus over it is mostly a guess...or at least hopefully it is since university should broaden a person's perspective rather than confirm it.

Good luck.
A few people that get interviewed by a reporter do not make a trend.

I've heard of SALES ENGINEERS making that kind of money, but not technicians.

The moment a programmer is working at home remote making $300K per year, the employer will find some offshore person to do it at 10% of that price.

Reference Disney and the H1B debacle etc.

The only way somebody as a technician is making that much money is the company they work for hasn;t found a way to get rid of them yet and replace them with cheaper options.

They can find themselves out of a job very fast at that price range.

Once you do the initial setup and things are stable(documented), they will kick you to the curb and replace with $50K worker.
> What do you think? Will we ever know?

Of course we will know. If the data is from a scan the museum made, there exists a way to compare the two data sets and give a certainty one came from the other.

That is the nature of entanglement, after all.
I have a cousin who has been HIV positive for at least 25 years. He's not sure exactly when he contracted the disease but he has a good idea of the time-frame based upon the activities in which he was engaging at the time.

When he was diagnosed, he and virtually everyone else assumed it to be a death sentence. He may well die early because of it but he's in middle-age and still going strong.
The Terminator and the Washing Machine
Who is building an alternative to LinkedIn?
What Deep Blue Beating Garry Kasparov Reveals About Today's AI Panic
Yes it is.

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

Interesting detail about Yahoo:

"In December 2014, Mozilla entered into a contract with another search engine provider for royalties which expires December 2019."
Search "hack car freeway wifi" in the search engine of your choice. Granted, not a Tesla, but is that only a matter of time and willpower or actually supporting your argument?
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The issue with Shkreli is that he broke the gentlemen's agreement arount low-volume drugs. Derek Lowe talks about it from time to time.

The FDA insisting that drugs conform to standards of purity and activity isn't the problem here. When you talk to someone who is working in pill manufacturing you'll learn that it is a complex process. The thing must reliably disintegrate in the digestive tract, the active substance must be distributed evenly, excipients do influence bioavailability - just as with Theranos the standards exist for a reason.

The ecosystem around low-volume drugs is strange. Perhaps it would be best for the NIH to open up their own facility, just because of the bad press that Pharma Bro caused for the whole industry.
So, honest question: How does all this Holacracy stuff square with the many and several seemingly-likely-to-be top-down initiatives mentioned in this article, including the switch to "Teal", the refocusing of the sales priorities, the apparently high-touch structures implementing the holacracy, the badges payment system, and the software migration?

Is holacracy's scope confined, where there are still execs above it that can make those decisions? Were these decisions actually decided "holacratically", meaning my expectations of making it difficult to do such sweeping changes in such a system are wrong? etc.

Again, let me emphasize, honest questions. I clearly have preconceptions in those questions but I'm trying to avoid opinions, as I don't have enough data. (And I am suspicious of the tone of the article, admittedly. But still, honest questions.)
Show HN: Go, Docker, and AWS ECS hosted publisher tool
Could it be a scan of a $39[1] or a $2,990[2] replica?

1: https://www.ancientsculpturegallery.com/nefertiti-small-scul...

2: https://www.ancientsculpturegallery.com/egyptian-queen-nefer...
... but still too restrictive for many (most?) commercial applications.

However (link got changed?) I now see that the decoder is also available under the Apache 2.0 license, so that is useful.
No you're not. The tech companies in Austin are divided in two groups: Bay Area/Boston companies that pay Bay Area/Boston salaries, and Bay Area/Boston companies that pay Texas salaries. One attracts talent that sticks around, the other attracts fresh grads who leave once they realize how much more they're worth.
Monstrously capital intensive industries are conservative for obvious reasons. Computers were never as capital intensive as a large power plant, and transistors and ICs made them exponentially less. When a project that costs twenty billion dollars fails companies go bankrupt and politicians lose their careers. Lots of pressure to stick with what you know will work.

Also everyone blames the hippies for nuclear stagnation but nobody looks at the fossil fuel industry. The latter has far more money and political influence and is more than happy for nukes to get stuck in the 50s.
Well, it is the way Audacity gets around patent issues. The official builds (at least on Windows) come with support for FFmpeg, but not the DLL. If you want FFmpeg, you either need to build it yourself or download a pre-built version. Once added to your %PATH%, Audacity will dynamically load the libraries at runtime.
I'd like to see some comparisons with palettized PNGs. All the demo images for poly-flif use more than 256 colors, but diagrams and line art sometimes use 256 colors or less, which means they can be stored in an 8-bit palettized PNG losslessly. People often forget about this when optimizing PNG sizes, and most graphics software saves as RGB by default even when the image will fit in 8-bit palettized.
If you're in the US, go shopping for a pickup truck. Ford, RAM, and Chevy will all come off the list price (shown on the Monroney Sticker) by $8000 or more with practically no arm twisting.

Sure, it's the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. But the signal I get from this is that the vehicle was never worth that much.
Is Snapchat Discover the future of media?
I've heard enough men vocalize such thoughts to think that a fair number of them do.

The reason I get the idea that you're advocating sexual harassment is that you keep casting this in sexual terms -- why would you want to be surrounded by men, unless you're gay? Work is not a sexual environment (let's ignore the exceptions for this conversation); why is sexual orientation relevant? Saying "hey, aren't you heterosexual? Then why don't you hire women?" manages to promote a progressive cause with regressive reasoning.

I will concede that men, too, are judged by appearance, but I think that the standard is far more lenient and, as you said, tolerant of age.

In any event, the auditions are meant to judge skill. The conclusion I reach from the success of blind auditions is that evaluators perceive playing as less skillful when they know it is done by a woman.
One of the authors here. We did an extensive write up on the technology behind the product and lessons learned here https://medium.com/@BlockBust. Let us know if you have any questions we would love to answer them.
The business benefits of the modern platform
I have to agree on the point that productivity hasn't advanced much. Mostly because there's not much pressure to improve as people want to believe since it's easier to make productivity gains from non-technical approaches (off-shoring, downsizing, and the like). Technical improvements to production only happen IFF there's a real need for it like how kerosene lamps improved since their smokiness (and the kerosene itself) were still much cheaper than whale oil lamps for the same use cases and their associated improvements.

But a car company doesn't need to reinvent production to save money per car. They can do that many ways without a single new robot to replace a person on the factory line. The fact of the matter is that if you look at the last three decades of growth it was all on the backs of cheap Chinese and Asian labor pools. Now those pools are demanding higher wages so we're pushing into ever smaller, cheaper labor pools. Eventually, the whole thing will come to a halt once African nations are at Brazil's level of development since they too will start demanding safer work, better wages, and a welfare state.

Then the real demand for technological productivity gains will be in full swing. Until then, we'll just exploit our fellow human being as best we can to get those sweet sweet metrics for Wall Street!
I'd be interested in hearing which "newer designs" exactly you think got postponed for stupid political reasons.
As far as I know, nuclear power did evolve over the last decades as far as it could and if it's "still basically the same", then just nobody came up with something really new in the field. Basically, uranium alloy fueled, pressurized light water reactor is what you can get. Fusion? Was said to be ready in 20 years - 40 years ago, and today? Still 20 years to go...
This sounds similar to the Valve model and they've been an incredible success. Maybe it only works in certain industries, with certain personality types, or certain types of work. Game dev and shoe sales are two very different beasts.
there is not a single source given, just wiki links
Compressed Air Energy Storage – A Moonshot Project
Many other countries did not see the same explosion in the cost of nuclear as the US did, which is evidence that it's because of cultural/institutional problems rather than fundamental technical ones.

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-us...
If you work on small teams and/or for a small studio, then you will have quite a few opportunities to influence the design or decision making. I worked for three small studios and influenced the design of every game I worked on.

Getting paid 60% of what I could get outside the industry and the crunch time lowering that wage further, and screwing up my health, and leaving me with zero time for a social life eventually got to me, though, so I got out of the industry, despite my passion.

I now design board games in my spare time while working on enterprise software at a Microsoft shop, and get paid a lot more, and if I ever have to stay late (which happens every once in awhile) they credit me the time to take off in the future so I'm only working 40 hour weeks.
As others have noted: it seems slow.

A good "trick" to dealing with this is to self-impose a hard run time of 1 minute. Having that will force you to make choices about what to include, what not to and really pick up the pace.
When was it added to Platform SDK? I am using VS 2015 Update 1.
Holy shit. I'm reading through the paper and citations right now. This is making me giddy. Last time I heard the furthest we got was with materials under unreasonable amounts of pressure. If this pans out things are going to change big time.
It makes it easies to use MinGW in Linux and OS X, I guess. I wasn't aware that MinGW worked anywhere other than Windows before I heard of MXE.
Didn't the US refuse to sign the UN declaration of Child Rights?
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I don't know what a particular recruiter told a particular reporter, but in general, benefits (including benefits with fairly calculable cash value) are generally not included in numbers in the US but base salary, anticipated bonus, and present value of restricted stock grants in public companies are generally fair things to quote at people.

Does $300k sound reasonably achievable for an infrastructure engineer with a few years experience? Well... yeah, yeah, it does. Literally tens of thousands of engineers at AppAmaGooFaceSoft have that package.
I agree that Lisp is not always terse, which surprised me at first too. You can abstract many constructs and eradicate redundancy, but at some point, your only chance of being terser is to use reader macros. However, doing so might not be a good idea either.

There are libraries out there that provide syntactic sugar for Common Lisp, which is often discarded because (i) they define their own "ghetto" dialect of Lisp (ii) it is in fact not very important to waste a character or two. Aesthetics alone is not a goal.

For multiple values, you might still use a list instead, in which case you are back to the usual way of accessing data:

(let ((list (multiple-value-list (get-decoded-time))))
(format t "Year: ~A~%Seconds: ~A" (sixth list) (first list)))

If you only want to access a particular value, use "nth-value" (not possible in your example, of course).
It's so cluttered, it's giving me anxiety just looking at those photos. I keep a fairly clean desk, I don't think I could function well in that environment...
There isn't much else that is more capital intensive than a modern chip factory, the costs are - roughly - comparable to a nuclear power plant.
> Copyright would apply to the scan

Not if it's a slavish reproduction.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/361747/urandom.mp3
Thanks for the feedback. These are issues we've thought about, and we came to different conclusions:

re 2, you'll see at http://proselint.com/approach/ that one of the guiding principles of Proselint is that we defer to experts. In practice, that's meant almost all the advice comes from Bryan Garner's usage guide, Garner's Modern American Usage. He is a careful compiler of advice and you'll find that he is almost never "totally wrong", and when his advice is debated, he knows it, notes it, and provides a thoughtful discussion.

re 1, we think of Proselint as eventually being useful as a training tool, a way to learn the conventions. Note that natural languages are large, with so many low-frequency terms that nobody can learn the whole language. Why err if an automated tool can help? Consider for example demonyms, what you call people from a certain place. How many people know, for example, that people from Manchester are Mancunians, not Manchesterians? Rather than call someone by the wrong name, with Proselint the voice of an expert gently corrects you, and you learn a cool new word.

We aren't a mob of programmers, we are three people who love language, respect it, and think we're 2% of the way to making a great tool, one that The New Yorker could run over its stories to flag issues that its own editors would flag anyways. (In fact, we've done this, running Proselint over a corpus of highly vetted text, and have found numerous issues.)
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If you think that's all there is to it, you probably can't be convinced of anything.
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Ego depletion theory may have been debunked
In many jurisdictions, faithful reproductions are not copyrightable: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art...
Or a PDF based terminal emulator?
If they charge $100, they might get the $20 from the insurance company - the remaining 80 goes to the insurance company?
And open-source Docker build workflow tool