skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An educated guess (having coded the NES) is that it's simply a bigger ROM, and the cart contained some kind of MMC chip [0] which allows different sections from the ROM to be paged-in - the menu screen contains the code to page-in the applicable bank from the ROM, and then the game runs per normal, not being aware of any of this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_controller
If you are going to boil things down very basically, all jobs are basically indentured servitude. That's why they call it "making a living".
What makes you think IQ or productivity will have anything to do with it?
Yes, that's correct. The point is that your employer gets to be alerted to this -- not that they could block you or something.

If you're happy to sell the shares and work somewhere else, then there's no real problem either way. But if you actually like your job and you just simply prefer to realize a cash distribution from the compensation you earned in the form of equity, and your employer would disapprove of you having this preference, it can be a tricky situation.
There is no such thing as a job hopper stigma, there are many valid reasons to leave a company.

Considering the cost of living in bay area and how in demand good developers are, if a company like Google is underpaying you, it's a perfectly good reason to explore new opportunities.
Had mine removed because they were doing one of these[0] that was also partially erupted. (I consented because I don't think I would have been able to keep it clean)

My airway is no smaller, as best I can tell.

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/276916/804033....
In fact such statements deserve specific details or shutting up. Either way it's potentially slanderous.
I'm not clear on what the scope of selenium is or how it works, but for a general web scraper, I'd identify some targets I want out of skyscanner. Here's a quick googletest butchery for "I want to make sure my function returns flights for a known good flight search."

TEST(SkyScanner, ListFlights)
{
flights = MyFlightScrapingFunction(LAX, AMS, date+1 month, 1 way, 1 adult)
EXPECT_THAT(flights, SizeIs( Gt(0) )

EXPECT_THAT(flights, Each( AllOf(
Field(&Flight::from, Eq(LAX)),
Field(&Flight::to, Eq(AMS)),
Field(&Flight::seats, Eq(1))
)))
}

I feel that anything simpler ("is this possible with selenium?") is a documentation moment.
Has YC ever considered having a control group by randomly pre-accepting certain applicants into the program automatically? I'd be curious to see the stats on how successful that group would be versus the group that's actually picked by the committee.
You can get almost the same effect brushing your teeth a few times per week, if you’re worried about it.

Most of the time if there’s obvious plaque growing on your teeth, it’s because you were eating something sugary immediately beforehand.

In my anecdotal experience, halitosis is also diet related, and brushing teeth has only very short term effect on it. Most of the time, bad breath is neutralized better and for longer by just eating a meal than by brushing teeth.
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> How long did it take for us (the West as a whole) to recognise the situation in Syria, and how many Syrians died in the meantime?

Should probably recognize that civil wars, genocide, and humanitarian disasters are occurring all around the world, right now, and no nation is doing anything about it (nor does the average person even know about these).

Nations of the world have no real obligation to do anything... which is why nothing is done majority of the time. When the interests of "the west" coincide with stopping an atrocity, then "the west" intervenes.

Further, it's fairly naive to believe freighting a few hundred thousand people thousands of miles away from anything even remotely familiar is doing anyone a service. It seems the help Syrian's are getting from "the west" has boiled down into a singular mindset of "just ship them someplace else", never-mind all of the long term issues that arise from this half-hearted solution (housing, income, food, work, cultural assimilation, transportation, etc...).

Bringing these people to the US or Canada doesn't solve any of their problems really - it only trades some problems for others. The real solution is obviously to stop the civil war... and work is being done to accomplish this.
My signing bonus was $10k/$10k, so I can compare that. Stock wise, I think it was like 3000 shares, which at the time were going for $30-ish. Don't fully recall.

Not still at Amazon. When I left, I thought I had it good, with total comp peaking just a hair over $200k. And then I went and got multiple job offers that put my BASE at $250k. So, yeah.
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Correct, the USA is a Republic.
One of my friends is a tenured professor and leading researcher on mental trauma, specializing in PTSD. YC Research piqued his interest when I mentioned it to him. Are you open to receiving research proposals?
This might well be what we're looking for: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/93169/20151008/washing-mac...
indeed but would too greedy in screen real estate
The biggest democratic state in history grabbed Hawai and occupied the Philippines. But now in the 21st century, since the world is "civilized", lets change the rules. Awfully close to patent trolling.

Anyway UN is doing its work fine. Its somewhat useless, but better than nothing.
"Why would removing your wisdom teeth make your airways smaller?"

Because the teeth are anchoring the soft tissue of the palate in place, along with the tongue, preventing them from collapsing at night during REM sleep when one's muscles relax (including in the soft palate and airways).

Note that one standard surgical procedure -- maxillomandibular advancement -- for treating sleep apnea involves breaking the jaw and moving it forward ~10mm, which increases the size of the airways. This procedure has a 90% success rate.

Wisdom teeth extraction is essentially the "opposite" of this procedure -- fewer teeth means the jaw recesses farther back, making the airways smaller.

I wear a dental appliance right now to treat my apnea that is custom-molded to the shape of my teeth and moves my lower jaw forward. It's an Elastic Mandibular Advancement Appliance (EMA). I'm worried the dental appliance won't be as effective after I remove some of my teeth (each tooth helps anchor and support the appliance).

Considering how debilitating sleep apnea is, I just can't take any chances with it.
I'm guessing you don't have a wife and children. It isn't about the money, it's about not seeing them.

You are also forgetting that it isn't just your sacrifice in terms of the time you are giving up with your wife and children for three months, but also that you are forcibly restricting them from being able to see you too. They didn't choose that.

Once you have a family you have a bunch of responsibilities and you've signed up for life. You can't just pick and choose when it suits you.

I realise that there are a lot of young folks on HN and probably not so many parents, so I'm expecting a barrage of down votes, but maybe in ten years time when you've reached my perspective you'll come back and upvote me!
Does this statement risk a tortious interference with business relationship suit?

You have published a statement that could reasonably interpreted as Jason Calacanis mistreats founders by bullying them, changing offers, sharing their confidential info and other things.

That intentionally obstructs Mr. Calcanis from entering into valuable business relationships with startup company founders.

It seems very risky unless you have at hand specific evidence that Mr. Calacanis had done each of "bullying them", "changing offers," and "sharing their confidential info."

Of course I totally believe you and wouldn't be keen to do business with him. But, that's exactly the point.
Dude, that site is very difficult to understand. Just saying.
> Why? Because China has a veto ... Similar dynamics play out interests concerning other veto wielding countries such as the US or Russia.

Think of the UN as a mechnism for de facto powers to resolve conflicts and come to agreements peacefully; that's the UN's purpose, to prevent another major war.

Justice would be great, but at least the catastrophe of war is prevented. Remember of the incredible destruction of WWII and now imagine what modern technology would do - even without nuclear weapons.

Also, Taiwan's official policy is that they are not a separate country but a part of China, with a separate government. That is the agreement worked out between the US, China and Taiwan.
thats great info, lets make more of these topics!
When was the last time you built a billion dollar company? Conrad's resignation doesn't change the fact that he has accomplished a hell of a lot more in his professional life than 99.9% of people ever have or will.
The embargo was never about communism itself, it was a response to the seizure of assets owned by Americans without compensation. I think these other countries either didn't do this, or at least didn't do it as much.
Sounds like my kind of guy, thanks for sharing!
I have always found the 'safety net' analogy uninspiring, and people who think they're tough and manly don't need safety nets, thankyouverymuch.

Now, safety equipment in a race car is something else entirely. Half of it keeps you from dying immediately on impact, sure, but the other half actually lets you go faster. The 5 point harness, for example, helps keep you from losing control of the vehicle during high G maneuvers, by keeping your torso in the seat and therefore your legs and arms in (roughly) the correct orientation to the steering wheel and the pedals.
Where is the logic in most business logic? \s

Seemingly random answers, which are not functionally pure (aka ask the same question, get the same answer) are par for the course
Dig a little deeper - a steeple is different to a spire (and often has a spire on top).

In everyday conversation you can get away with using them largely interchangeably though, so don't worry too much about it.
You suggested that those in 'dire straits' are treated differently, and I responded that, yes, they are, however it takes a significant amount of time and lives lost for us to recognise this.
Punitive action for what? Revealing information that is already on sites like http://h1bdata.info/
Just for what it's worth, as I know it isn't the same as working for someone - I interviewed for a position working directly for Jason and he was all class. I'm a designer and part of the interview process, as is often the case, was to complete a small design project. He flat out insisted on paying me for my time (nobody else in my career has ever even offered) and wouldn't take no for an answer, and was professional and courteous during both the interview and his eventual decline to hire me.
Seattle summer intern -> SDE1 Full Time offer

$95k/yr

$27k signing immediate

$20k signing 2 year vesting

$53k stock 2 year vesting

Ended up turning it down because I didn't want to work at Amazon, so no negotiation.
I'm a poor college student on the other side of the country, no dice for now.
Taking that to the next step, any payment towards college tuition should be made tax deductible, regardless of whether the payment was made in the form of a loan or if it was paid directly. Otherwise you're incentivising people to take out student loans for their entire tuition amount and then pay them back afterwards, even if they had enough money to pay at least part of the costs while they were in college
I'm working on a piece about universal basic income, and I have the following summary of the how I think that many tech people like yourself believe UBI is going to work:

1. Companies innovate by doing things more cheaply with automation than human workers can do them.

2. As a result of automation, the more efficient companies reap all the profits in a market as they drive the less efficient companies out of business (and the humans out of jobs).

3. This bonanza of profits that automation yields is taxed.

4. The taxes from the accumulated wealth of the winners -- wealth that, again, exists because the winning companies' machines were able to do things more efficiently than the losing companies' human laborers -- go toward paying the laid-off laborers a basic income.

Any I missing anything?
> the philosophy as being "as unix like as possible" prevented it evolving and adding nice things like package managers

Others have pointed out that the existence of Slackware package management gives the lie to that assertion. It remains to point out that Unices had package managers, so being "Unix like" does not involve eschewing package management at all. XENIX had a package management system, for example. It originated in AT&T System V Release 4, was also present in Solaris, and has been picked up by the Heirloom Project.

* http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1M/pkgadd.1M.html

* http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1/pkginfo.1.html

* http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1M/pkgrm.1M.html

* http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1/pkgtrans.1.html

* http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1M/pkgchk.1M.html

* http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1M/pkgask.1M.html

* http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/pkgtools.html
don't forget bdb!
I had a build that took 25 hours to run once. Never again. The only reason we got any work done is that we ran a 1, 3 and 19 hour part of it in parallel. But I really just wanted to throw out the long part (bad E2E tests) and start over.
Yes, there are other things that can cause plaque and bad breath as well.

However, other people notice even subtle differences/inadequacies in one's hygiene.

As professional advice, I strongly caution against not brushing your teeth, or at least, telling others that you do not brush your teeth in public.
You don't even need the sonar, because the buttons are clicky and you should be able to triangulate the origin of the sound quite easily. Also, I guess this would work with just one microphone with simple pattern matching (I assume every click + echo patterns from the structure makes every button sound quite different). The microphone should listen vibrations in the structure (not air waves). The device could be quite far away from the keyboard if it's connected in the same structure and can hear the clicks.
Above someone mentioned being SDEIII, what's the meaning of these levels ?
At the same time, firing right after talking about salary is extremely suspicious.
I've moved around the block a little bit.

Taken LPI a decade ago. Fairly easy multiple-choice exam - if you've prepared yourself properly. Did not find that it impressed or assured anybody.

Was involved with PMP. Surprisingly grueling - multiple choice, but while many questions are based on rote learning of material, a large proportion is experience/decision based, making it difficult to easily see what's the "best answer". Not a technical test, but found it shockingly valuable in enterprise environments. I think it tells people that though you are a technical resource, you strive to understand and better their business.

Went through ITIL foundation. Struggled to keep myself awake. Found that only government/public sector organizations cared, and they paid it huge amounts of lip service while being utterly disorganized in the background.

Currently loosely prepping for RedHat certs, which seem to be much more hands-on. Don't anticipate it actually helping me with job or job search, but it helps me set a goal/motivation for myself :)

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No, he is correct. It was a setup that provided huge incentives to artificially limit/withdraw supply, reaping huge profits in the process. The biggest price effects were on natural gas, which affected both gas consumers and electric consumers (since much of electric supply is from gas-burning plants... including within Silicon Valley proper). There's one by my gym near San Tomas and 101, for example.

I had a gas bill of well over $350 one month for just water heating and furnace... and my thermostat was never over 62F, and on only 10 hours a day. (For local climate perspective, this is with an average overnight temperature never below freezing... it's not like the furnace was fighting blizzards.)
I wonder if China would respond favorably to the code 451 (which would be ironic) or if they would take offense at it. If something is to be censored, wouldn't the censor want to deny its existence?

Imagine trying to watch a movie critical of China in China--status code 451.
The DKIM-Signature isn't correct. They do not use sha1. This a fishing attack vector in my opinion.

DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1;
A 15" maxed out Macbook Pro from 2011.

The day there is a Laptop with specs comparable to the Apple MBP (in terms of battery life, build quality, screen resolution etc.) that runs a major Linux distro out of the box with full hardware support and no pain in the ass, i am switching.
Salaries for Germany anyone?
>and work is being done to accomplish this.

That's the best euphemism for bombs and sponsoring what we would otherwise consider terrorist organisations I've ever heard.
Here's my only question with the negotiation technique of not disclosing a desired salary. So is it expected that the other side should state the salary offer? That was my only problem with all these negotiation techniques saying "never mention your salary." Eventually, one side or the other needs to mention and at the end of it all, most articles online never closed it off with saying either side would state the expected salary.
See, that's why at-will is a terrible end run around worker's rights.
Sure, full description at the Institute for the Study of the Neuro-Typical : http://isnt.autistics.org/
I got caught up in that C64 madness. I walked away from that game thinking that the quickest way to victory includes robbing the natives. Never again.
Someone needs to pillage Jules Verne's books for movies, so that news writers know about them ...

There's at least two super-guns in them, both launching to space as described (one of them "and beyond", it's a Moon shot).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Begum%27s_Fortune

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon
No college degree? That's a growing hurdle to getting hired
What are you using to get the summaries? Just spot checked a couple and they didn't seems like a hit or a miss:

The results for Houston were pretty good:
http://eurekaai.com/recommend/app/getWikipediaSummary?query=...

While the results for Microsoft were pretty bad:
http://eurekaai.com/recommend/app/getWikipediaSummary?query=...
Truth is an absolute defence for libel.
Interestingly, I just got a Hakko FX-888D last year, so I did a little googling to see what you were talking about, and sure enough, there's apparently a bunch of fakes being sold.

However, the people who posted about fakes all seemed to be saying the same thing: they bought it (usually on Ebay) from a seller in China.

Well, what do you expect?

Yes, if you buy something name-brand from a seller in China, who sends it directly to you from China, you can expect it to be a counterfeit.
That's actually much less than I would've expected.
> I've always heard that a candidate should never share salary information and require the company to provide the first concrete number in the form of their initial offer

Its true that it is irrelevant what you made at your last job, but its kind of silly to play coy when they want you to give a number. When you're trying to get hired you are selling yourself... and the first step in selling is to qualify the customer. Just tell them a number that you would actually be acceptable to you, and if they balk then you don't have to waste your time. If you find out more about the job or company and decide you actually want more money, once you get an offer you can try renegotiating that number and give them your rationale.
Are you deducting the taxes from that stock compensation?
Wow, what a noxious combination.

- A subsidy for a positional / signaling good that will only drive up prices

- That is only available if you're renting your labor, rather than starting your own business, investing, pursuing further studies, etc.

- And renting it to an employer in a stable / large enough business that they can engage in yet more special purpose regulatory paperwork, rather than a startup or small business

- Only applies if you were imprudent enough to take on large amounts of non-dischargable debt to begin with

- And targets the disproportionately well-off (simply by having a college degree & job, especially at an employer who can afford to offer the benefit, you're doing better than ~50% of the population).
Position: SDE II
Organization: Kindle (Seattle based)
Base pay: $101.500
Bonuses: $28.000

I've been at Amazon for about a year and a half. I always suspected I was quite overpaid. And I'm a non-US citizen on top of it.
Hacking clinical trials for genetics; clinical trials without the clinic
Will there be another YC Hacks this year?

Did any teams/projects from YC Hacks wind up going through YC?
I wouldn't bet on a founder who is not willing to take on risks. I am not being judgmental, I'm just saying whoever complains about this should face the reality--The reality is that there are tons of other people who are as qualified as this person who ARE willing to take that kind of risks. All things equal, there's no reason why VCs should fund people who don't want to take risks.
Or your own government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
My dentist was just discussing this with me two weeks ago, as she's a strong believer in evidence-based medicine. Except she disagreed completely with this publication, citing numerous recent studies published in Great Britain.

Apparently, around the year 2000, the UK's health care system introduced some new rules about managing third molars called NICE (probably to try to save some money country-wide not extracting so many wisdom teeth), and now they're learning that NICE was maybe not the greatest policy. NICE recommended that dentists do not extract wisdom teeth until their is evidence of disease, and so for the most part the dentists followed suit and stopped extracting them. Now, fifteen years later, they have found the policy has had no cost-cutting effect - extractions are at the same level as before, only now people's mouths are much less healthy.

Diseased wisdom teeth often spread their bacteria on to teeth around them, in the "one bad apple spoils the bunch" way, and people often are unable to actually brush their wisdom teeth properly, especially if they're impacted. Furthermore, given that people are in general reluctant to see the dentist unless they have oral pain, they're often not discovered until the situation's already critical. When discovered, people will often have gum diseases or cavities in second molars caused by the diseased wisdom tooth nearby.

See articles from the British Dental Journal such as "NICE or not so NICE?", and "The effects of NICE guidelines on the management of third molar teeth".

Either way, I'm very sad I wasn't able to have my wisdom teeth removed as a child, and the anguish of spending ten years with these things wrecking my mouth was not worth it.
There's a really nice visualization of the system's orbits about halfway down the page.
Check out Comparably.com they launched recently, it gives great data on salary compensation. I'm going to negotiate my salary now :)
It is AMA. Not "ask me what I'm comfortable answering". In such a forum there is always some controversial discussions. Being trapped might not be the right perspective. And at this time Sam has answered.