skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of magazines and some newspapee act like a money pit, basically at the mercy of the rich benefactors paying to run it.

And even if a company folds after (say) 30 years, that still means 30 years of jobs, of people making things. So maybe investors lost money? Name of the game for them. Obviously for the last employees its not too great though (all the more reason for nicer safety nets)
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How do you find a number for emotional distress? I get the feeling numbers in US lawsuits are made up and adjusted for the receiver -- I.e you can sue McDonalds for a larger sum after burning on a cup of coffee than you can the coffee shop on the corner, despite your own costs/damages being the same? Isn't that using a lawsuit as a kind of punishment, something which should be reserved for a criminal case?
Loved the article!
Complexity is a broad concept.
Search for the "2015 Bachelor’s Industry & Employer Data" to see salary range by industry. It seems like it must be from one of the companies in the "Investment Banking" section.
surely Facebook could simply hive off accounts not logged into after say one year.
If there will be 2 such companies, for that 108k I can wrote services backend that will be comptabile with AWS, so after a year you can transparently switch to that system on your bare metal and sell it to have your services for free.

I still didn't make my own "clone", because I can't afford machines to start selling it.
But... the whole point of compensating with stock is that they don't have the funding to pay more....

You can say "well they shouldn't hire people they cant afford" but that's not very realistic. When you start a company in your garage everyone is making sacrifices b/c they think they'll cash out later.
I wouldn’t be here if I was a boy: I would’ve been here years ago
I'll allow it.
As a transgender person, I won't fill it out unless I have the option to opt out of gender identification or select "other" for gender. I'm not alone.

http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx

http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/1...

http://www.autostraddle.com/facebook-wants-you-to-do-you-add...
Cloud, especially AWS is 10+ times more expensive that hosting same stuff on DO, Vultr or Bare metal. And you still need administrators, EC2 are just VPSes like any other service from other companies.
I agree in theory. In practice it came after I had an offer, an impending start date, and had put in notice to my current job. It was an onboarding day where I was filling out tax and HR forms. Hard to suddenly say no out of principle knowing it might make them revoke the offer. I was truthful about current salary so there wasn't anything to hide.
IoT Security Could Crack Quickly in the Quantum Era
Have you seen all the companies that have insane valuations? None are based on really novel ideas.

If you have some truly novel technology you DEFINITELY shouldn't go to YC. They're not in the "technology transfer"-y business like universities.
That wasn't much of a tour. That is a large box in the middle of nowhere with some people walking about, cheesy backing track added. Why do people bother with such piffle!
Not eveyone will earn at the higher end of the market in SV either but £600 to £700 a day isn't terribly difficult to achieve in London.

Basically we're talking about being a semi good and modern Java, Node or Python developer. Alternativly a system administrator who's not afraid of automation.

You'll probably need to work in Government or Finance, but like I said, it's not uncommon.
FYI: golang not the game of Go. Recent news has skewed my expectation of go in article titles.
Quantum computer means dark at the end of the tunnel for RSA encryption
> At every multiplication the previous error gets multiplied

This is a bit of an oversimplification as well, it's not like you keep multiplying pi with itself over and over again and it's not like the error you introduce is random, if you've rounded pi once, you're gonna keep make a slight error in the same direction.

If you were right there'd be no hope of ever getting sane results when multiplying largish matrices of doubles regardless of the presence of pi.

I'm not saying that accumulation of error doesn't exist, I'm just saying that it's not to the extremes you're describing.
It sounds weird but it is a term on common use. I hadn't heard it myself until a visit to Rome last year (where it shows up frequently ). But think of it like "The Holy Grail". Perhaps that should be "The Grail believed by some to be holy", but we don't say that.
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I don't see an issue with requiring folks to ask for it - by participating in society to some small degree, easily measured.
smaller vr rigs should just cover the eyes. or maybe there is a small camera hanging under the vr rig to capture face elements.
For the sake of comparison: the three largest US rental companies: Enterprise, Hertz and Avis together own about 2 million cars, have about 15,000 locations (most of which are competitive with each other), and have about $25 billion in annual revenue.

Why do I bring up rental cars, a market usually considered distinct from taxi and limo services? Because without a driver, there's no difference.

Uber is trying to crush the taxi market, but in an age of self-driving cars it needs to watch out for the rental car giants who will happily extend their daily-weekly rental cycles down to per-trip rentals, with pickup and drop-off anywhere in the country. The giants already have purchasing arrangements with the major auto manufacturers, supply chains, maintenance facilities, and parking lots to use as buffers.
Superhuman?? what a brand!
That's truly awful, but can't people still post to 'memorialized' pages anyway? I have a dear friend who passed several years ago, and I believe her page was memorialized... but people still post "Miss you" messages every year on her birthday.
Looks real cool. Congrats! Wonder if some of the utils like the shell would be a cool Rust project for me :)
Ask HN: What are Data Scientist salaries in EU?
I'm based in NL, and looking for Data Scientist position but not sure what salaries to expect. Please reply if you are in similar position with - salary per yr, city/country, years of exp.Thanks!
This is an unfair comment..

The thread is extremely useful for people both inside and outside the company.

While it may come across as a bragging, having worked at Amazon in a non tech role I can say that there was extremely little transparency on what someone should be paid at their level. As a result, there was a lot of variability in salaries at any level for a given role. People could be paid as much as 10-20% more purely because they joined a team after some change in salary policy - everyone else in the team would be at a lower salary. MBAs with 2 years work experience would be paid more than people who climbed up the company with 6 years internal experience.

Threads like this level the playing field for employees and would-be employees as they can negotiate with HR and know definitively what they should be paid.
Sure. Where can I find your contact info? What kind of medical devices do you work on?
I would be curious to see the evolution of the revenue of Oracle in Russia for 2016 Q1, including its Y2Y growth and the direct effects of the introduction of this law. The sole existence of this letter is proving that revenue took a serious hit.
Not a fan of the name, sounds too much like Redux :/
the joys of NLP ... this is a search index for Gitlab, that's used primarily to store code, not natural language.

Looking at its competitor, Github's search engine clearly has a base in NLP, and ditches many punctuation characters (https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/) - which are way more important in code than they are in English - for example, I can't search for code containing "$/" when it should have "\Z/" to match the end of a string. So, right now I have ~250 repos checked out from our Github Enterprise so I can search them offline.

The queries I actually want to run are, pretty much, regexes. Those can be accelerated by trigram indexes like the one gitlab are using (see eg https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html), but apparently this isn't implemented by say, Elastisearch (Whereas prefix matching can be made more efficient by preparing your data at index time, wildcard and regular expression matching can be done only at query time. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...)

I'd agree with you if this wasn't code. I've seen terrible text search in the DB, and I've built document management systems where we integrated real search engines. But those horses aren't for this course.
Pay hundreds of thousands in support contracts, get peanuts (and/or worse advice than the documentation).
I've been thinking of this for a while: if you share quite a lot of things about your life, then, a good enough AI a few decades from now can learn - well, you.

'What would you ask from grandma if she were still alive?' becomes 'ask your grandma now'
It seems like it would make more sense for a partner company to be the one that has all of this in the books and Uber just leases from them.
>Why do people bother with such piffle!

The Model 3 is to be unveiled at the end of the month, so Tesla is ramping up the buzz. It's their way of saying, 'See? Everything is on track!" I wouldn't be surprised if the Model 3 unveiling is just an image.

It's funny that people think the company spends no money on marketing. They're just good at modern marketing.
The discussion attached to the BBC's version of the story can be found here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315985 (135 comments)
First commit for Redox was April 20th 2015. First commit for Redux (the JS library, if that's what you're talking about) was May 30th 2015.
Installation-Driven Development
I like this. An alternative would be to have borderlines ranked by those who got into YC in the current round or in past rounds. Top peer ranked would get in just under the cutoff. HN sounds even more exciting (probably couldn't include the whole application, maybe just a company description -- although that might not be something people are comfortable with). Either way, I wonder if there is any peer non-YC consideration.
The original audience might not have been as broad as HN's, but it should've been expanded upon first usage IMO.
He isn't, give him a chance, he's great and absolutely reputable.
Can't help of thinking of the foam strike causing the Columbia space shuttle disaster

"Investigators into the Columbia accident have estimated that the dislodged foam was about 19 by 11.5 by 5.5 inches (48 by 29 by 14 cm), weighed about 26.7 ounces, or 1.7 lb (0.75 kg) and impacted the Shuttle at nearly 530 mph (850 km/h). For the sake of a rough comparison, this block of foam would be about the same size and weight as a large loaf of bread."
>Also the funny thing: the very ethics of capitalism was always "if I mind my own business and/or maybe even benefit for myself at others' expense, things will turn out Good for everyone". Greedy optimization ("greedy" in the CS sense of the word). Now that it turned the world into such a mess, what's the answer? More individualism, more minding your own business, more greedy optimizing? Seriously, how do people arrive at this conclusion?

People arrive at this conclusion because people have seen that despite its many flaws, it's still considerably better than the alternatives. All one needs to do is a comparative study involving countries that adopted "capitalism" and other alternatives. It's a no-brainer.

>The idea that local optimization is better than global baffles me completely. Where do people get it from?

maybe because it's practically impossible to have the information needed to optimize at global level at any point in time (primarily because information becomes redundant faster than it travels to the global hierarchy and gets processed there), and because competency and impartiality to do global optimization is near impossible.

Theoretically, a competent global optimization would be better than localized optimizations (just as in greedy algorithms vs globally optimized ones), but practically the closes such entity would be UN - and we have thread running right now about its uselessness.
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They could issue dividends or in theory offer something equivalent like "futures" offering to pay X% of the company revenue or profits in Y years or a legally binding promise to buyback stock on a future date at a valuation based on revenue or profits.
Or even without Facebook. From the linked BBC story:

Consider a robot that was commissioned by the entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, called Bina 48. The robot is almost identical in appearance to Rothblatt’s wife, and contains a database of her speech and memories.

Rothblatt, author of Virtually Human and the CEO of United Therapeutics, is a transhumanist whose motto is "death is optional". Rothblatt foresees a near-future world in which the dead can be reanimated thanks to mind clone software that can allow avatars to think and respond and be in an eerily similar way to those they’re cloning.
Germany, Lead Engineer at a company with a couple of hundred employees, my role involves architecture, full-stack coding, cloud stuff: ~$81k (some part of that variable bonuses, depending on companies targets).

While the job market seems to be in favor of job seekers these days (it seems to be practically impossible to recruit developers for small/medium shops, you get pinged by recruiters all the time) the salary does not really reflect this. it's rising but pretty moderately. you get offered $100k jobs once a while, mostly in finance.

Also the air gets pretty thin in germany when you actually want to do technically interesting and challenging things. Most jobs on the market are quite dull and involve enterprisey and/or legacy things. Most developers I worked with, however, do not seem to mind the backwardsness, are happily married to their languages and tools, and tend not to be overly passionate about their work (which might just be the right attitude).
The code is usually terrible in various ways (mostly due to the culture in game dev studios). Even Quake's code, which is quite good, includes various "what the fuck?"[1] comments

[1]: Literally https://blog.dave.io/2011/10/0x5f3759df-true-magic-number/
The best-case outcome of many efforts of data scientists is an artifact meant for a machine consumer, not a human one.

I posit this outcome is absolutely necessary for any data science project to be worthwhile in any organization.

In the case where the project produces a report and goes no further, you still need the data and code for reproducibility, one of the main principles of the scientific method [1].

In the case where the project gets handed off to engineers to re-implement, reproducibility is even more critical, since the engineers best effort to reproduce the code will almost certainly not be successful the first time, and you will need to validate many versions of the production model. Doing this by hand even once it wasteful, doing so many times is tragically so.

In the case where the data scientists can produce a service worthy of production use, kudos!! But understand the caveat that in truly big data or big compute flows, this outcome remains highly unlikely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility
That's the premise for a great Black Mirror episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)
On the subject as an aside to the point you're making, I'd recommend never using `backticks` $() is posix and far less error prone. It can easily do multiple nested sub shells, escaping is less insane, keeps your teeth whiter and smiler brighter and all that sort of things. `backticks` stomps on your lunch, steals the affection of your (girl/boy) and makes you feel stupid.
Yup, we didn't bother with updating it in a looong while :-/
The worst kept secret is that lots of H1B application data is not private. There are many indexers. Here's one http://h1bdata.info/. And pretty much any tech company has at least a few H1Bs.
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Doom 1 and 2 are "2.5D", not true 3D. Still classics though.

The checkpoint rubbish is thanks to consoles, IMO. >.<
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This is explored in one of the episodes of the anthology Black Mirror. It's pretty interesting. I don't remember exactly which episode but you should check it out.
Really? The guy that spends half the time on tape making racist remarks? I don't know, 'hero' isn't the first word that crosses my mind.
Folks who have taken this course, can you please share your experience
Well it mostly works on 6.9 as well. Linux should work without any restrictions, but on Windows there were some IDA Qt changes that lead to some annoyances:
- Can't reopen BinDiff windows after they were closed
- Shortcuts don't work

Other than that the Windows version is functional.
I know a few directors making $250k base with big bonuses on top. Most of the senior devs I know make around $180k.

$180k a year can not buy you a home in Santa Monica. Mortgage would be > half your take home even in a condo and the alternative is to commute an hour each way.
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Good tips. I'll give it a try!
Indeed. The final straw for me was when they outed a Conde Nast exec, there was no scandal, no real story at all but they(Nick Denton) went ahead and destroyed this guy's life. You can read about it here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/17/gawkers-appar...

I think $115 million is OK.
There's certainly an element of having the right buzzwords for a lot of the most lucrative contract work, at least for the gigs that get advertised on the serious forums or filled through recruiters.

Cloud plus Agile still seems to be the flavour of the month. There are always opportunities in serious back office/infrastructure programming (Java, C#, C++) in fields like banking, too, but those positions often require relevant experience of their field as well as the programming skills, or at least say they do in the ads.

Whether a 15-year vet would do a better job picking up this week's buzzwords on the go than a 3-year newbie who has never known anything else is a different question, of course.
Non-nullable types – Microsoft/TypeScript
30 potential trackers on a single page and even the video player is a tracker.
That report bothers me. How did the foam achieve such a relative velocity? It was part of the Shuttle; it dislodged; it hit the shuttle further along. Does the report mean "impacted the Shuttle while both were travelling at nearly 530"?
This reminds me of Spolsky's story about MS trying to create a Master Slave paradigm in coding. The Master would define functions and the slave would write the actual code in the functions. But of course no one wants to be the slave. Everyone needs to feel they are a thinker. Naturally.
Nobody has implemented Communism or Capitalism exactly as they are defined in their textbooks. The difference between the two systems is that one of them, even when implemented incorrectly, still works in practice.

The other one is an intellectual's dream that caused pain and suffering for millions of people.

We should drop the "no true Scotsman" for Communism, at this point.
It looks like a typical factory.
Is anyone else surprised that the government wanted information about Ed_Snowden@lavabit.com rather than cincinnatus@lavabit.com? Maybe they wanted both and just redacted cincinnatus@lavabit.com properly. I thought that was the account he was using for distributing information about the NSA documents he took.
If no one knows about your project it's name doesn't matter.

Bring to mind the old MikeRoweSoft vs. Microsoft thing.
Oh! Sorry, I didn't mean to misunderstand. The reason I found it funny was because it reminded me of something a close friend would say, because that's exactly the sort of thing that I'm into.

I'm totally with you on the whole "wasted a lot of time in my youth pursuing unsuccessful paths" thing. And looking back, yeah, it's the stuff that the adults/authority figures in your youth don't tell you that really throws you off. So many times in the ten years that I've left school I've had those "aha" moments, and then I thought "well, that would've been pretty useful to know a decade ago". And the annoying thing is, is realizing that there were people my age who already knew that thing back then, due to a slightly different upbringing. It would be nice to minimize that sort of unpredictable randomness from the process.

Do you want to chat more about this off-site? I think we could come up with some interesting ideas between the two of us!
The major value photographers add to what the machine can do is social status. People like an identical photograph more if they know it was taken by a famous photographer. Social status is a positional good. It's not possible to have high social status unless others have low social status, and those with low social status are in the majority. They cannot be successful photographers, no matter how good their skills, because technical advances have made skills much less important than status. This kind of change limits social mobility and is bad for society.
You only need the IDA Pro Starter Edition (589 USD, 32-bit files only) or the regular IDA Pro version for a single architecture (1129 USD).
Even so, IDA comes with decades of RE experience baked into its heuristics and analysis features. It's quirky, yes, but as a professional tool it's also worth the money.
VC investors know what they're getting into. Every investment is a gamble and that's OK.

As for why these companies deign to exist at all, they're just like most actual business: they make enough to keep going, perhaps some growth on the horizon, people put food on the table, and build careers.

Not every venture has to end in an IPO and unending explosive growth, nor are those that don't "failures".

If every funded company had to pay back every dime of VC investment upon "failure", no one would take risks. That's the game and VC's are OK with it.
You are going well past your trademark contrarianism and into something creepier here.
Black box challenge – an AI contest with unknown rules
Bird strikes are bad enough. And lots of efforts made to lure birds away from airports.

Consider if you loaded the drone into a cannon and fired it at a stationary airplane, hitting at 250MPH. That's 366 feet per second. Like a low-velocity bullet. Into an aluminum airframe. A BB going that speed will puncture a pop can. A 5lb drone going that speed may puncture the skin of an airplane?
Yeah that's a sore point :-/
The downloads are served via HTTPS, though. Also, publishing the SHA1 hashes over HTTP kind of defeats the purpose, so here they are again (HackerNews is HTTPS :)):

bindiff420-debian8-amd64.deb 38fbea8070495fc8730d7c86eae03bc68fde291f
bindiff420-debian8-i386.deb 49cdd6ae7ebe5b1813a5fcafaae9fde19005c824
bindiff420-win-pluginsonly.zip e2b786d405aac23aced989e02080dd69c18ab75e
bindiff420-win-x86.msi 89f2eadc6582d4acca1e78db3617b5fba3eced0f
bindiff-license-key.zip	95715a8bd7469106fc60b03f94f3cc87604e354c
When choosing a name you can't exactly predict future people using your name.
I’m not into OSes but I have to say it looks incredibly interesting and makes me want to dig the codebase. Awesome brand also!