skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UN has a lot of problems beyond just its bureaucracy. I'm suspicious of it's ability to solve the problems it claims it exists to solve even if its bureaucracy was extremely efficient. It seems I read UN scandals on a monthly basis, to recall a few from the past few months:

Sexual abuse by it's peacekeepers (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2016/02/27/peacekeepe...). "Child sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers" even has its own wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peace...)

Bribes are abound, even a story earlier today (http://www.seattletimes.com/business/humanitarian-worker-cha..., http://nypost.com/2015/10/06/former-general-assembly-preside...).

Saudi Arabia is on the human rights council (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/22/why-is-saud...). Not exactly a "scandal" but in the same vein.

It's ever-increasingly hard to take the organization seriously.
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I got my education in audio engineering at a leading music conservatory, so moving into audiobook editing was a pretty easy sell for me.

An audiobook is made in four basic steps:

1. A voice actor records the narration for the book.

2. The editor takes the raw audio recordings and edits these files for pacing, flow, and aesthetic flavor. The editor also makes note of any errors in the narration which require a re-record.

3. After making all re-records and inserting the new audio, the audio is listened through one more time. They call this a "QC pass."

4. Finally, the QC'd audio is mastered and encoded for delivery.

I was the owner of step two for all Audible Studios productions.
It seems to be simple economics and negotiation tactics to me. Backed up by the fact that it's such a taboo subject among coworkers, almost always for reasons of 'don't want to rock the boat' and 'don't want to get fired'.

From a negotiation standpoint, the employer (generally) wants to hire, or give raises to, the employee at the lowest possible total cost. Whereas the employee (generally) want to be hired, or get a raise, at the highest possible total cost. Where the cost analysis may not be the same for each side.

Now assume that that all other things being equal, and no information about salary rates are known, the employer's range for salary is $80-$100k, and the employee's range for salary is $70k-$90k. In this situation, the employer would love to hire at $70k, which they may be able to do if the employee doesn't know any better. Now, imagine that the employee had information about the employer's salary range, then the employee would smartly shift their salary range knowing that the employee was 'low'.

The same applies to raises. If an employee has no information about other coworker's salaries, then the 'standard' raise of 3-4% might be acceptable. However, if another coworker has a significantly higher salary, with similar responsibilities, then the employee may ask for a higher raise. They may or may not get that raise, but it's at least a possibility. One which the employer is likely to not want to have the employee know about.

The worst case scenario for the employee is to find out they are making significantly more money than their coworkers, in which case they have no further bargaining power.

So really, the question of whether or not it's a good idea to share salary information to other current or future coworkers comes down to whether or not you're on the 'employer' side (where additional salary information can only move your costs upwards), or on the 'employee' side where having no transparency about salary can prevent you from getting the best salary possible.

Since the difference between having salary transparency or not is so high, it behooves most employers to subtly discourage salary talks. So you end in a place where it is a possibly a violation of federal law (for the federal government), or possibly state law[0], to prevent people from talking about salaries, but at the same time people will almost always only post their salary information anonymously.

[0] - http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/pay_secrecy.pdf
Try a good joke?
I don't know, here I am on HN admitting that (many years ago) I did janitorial work third shift. Am I still arrogant?
Would've been better to use 418 if he was just being petty.
I didnt know this could be done either - heres a HTG link on how to do it.

http://www.howtogeek.com/223024/how-to-add-your-own-music-to...
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Tenure: 6 years
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2016 Stock Vest: 162 shares
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While it doesn't help for all of that, looking at H1B data on a site like http://visadoor.com/ helps fill out some of the picture. You can see specific numbers instead of just ranges while also adding some context about national origin.
> I am no longer ashamed to write these figures out to the public because I now make more than twice the salary that I was making before I left the company.

You should be ashamed for thinking that money is this fucking important.
Mincraft is not open source. There's way too much entitlement in this post. "How dare you make it hard for me to not profit off of your success."

It's very clear in the terms of service that you cannot make money from Minecraft mods and that only Mojang is allowed to make money from the game. It has always been this way. It's been in the press many times and anyone wanting to make money from Minecraft should know this. Making money from the success of someone else's project should always involve a bit of research.

The ways that people have made money from Minecraft is by providing hosting and by streaming themselves playing Minecraft and making let's play videos. Another way is to host your Minecraft mod on adfly and make ad money from the downloads page. That's pretty much it.

They should have known this beforehand. I knew it and I don't make mods for Minecraft.
This might be Cringley's first time on the other side of a product launch, which makes it interesting to watch him eat his share of humble pie after countless articles opining on someone else's delay in shipping a product.
In my experience, for any non-trivial application with a non-trivial number of tests, some percentage of those tests, particular the unit tests, will have by accident or carelessness come to rely on internal implementation details that aren't reflected in the result.

Those kinds of "atrophied" tests can make a refactor considerably more painful than it should be.
One mechanism by which it's good for the employer is information asymmetry. The employer knows all of the employees' salaries, but the employee does not have this information.
> And I too had to learn how to read people. I could always read them innately,

Then you didn't "have" to learn, you learned to be better than typical, completely different thing.
The "sic" is fine if it really is just being used as a marketing term.
Well, if you want to go for maximum minimalism, you don't even need rice per se. Just eat raw vegetables and meat. Nearly 0 prep time!
The silly part of that analysis is that they think someone who gets a UN intern job has any interest in ever applying for a job they can't get through powerful friends and family.
Does this mean that there are no autistic people in fields of study that require heavy use of analogy and isomorphism, like topology?
I just wasted 10 minutes of my life to get to this which should be upvoted.
If all the member states would live up to the charter, would you even need a charter?
Pardon for plug in another product...

SAP Cloud for Analytics [0] (tutorials/how the software works is available for free @ YouTube[1]).

What sets SAP C4A apart from the competitor is a product/vertical app built on-top of SAP C4A platform: Digital Boardroom [2] (pics behind the guy is from production software) where the execs can see the company performance (Financials, Perf, or other metrics) Actual and Forecast in real-time. Better predictive capabilities are in development (Predictive Analytics).

Have to agree with parent, BI is beginning to heat up (again). I'm noticing a sense of new excitement from the customers or potential customers that we approached...

[0] http://discover.sap.com/cloudforanalytics/en-us/index.html

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RoDMhydu4U&list=PLs5htBIwER...

[2] http://technology.inquirer.net/46423/sap-to-release-the-sap-...
Easy, but absolutely horrid on a large scale. (I mean, just try to enumerate the amount of redundancy you have in that short snippet you posted!)
Some ambient noises to intensify your “gaming” atmosphere
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Position: SDE 2

Joined: Last year

Base Pay: 145,000

Native English Speaker: Yes
It's not very common thing in Asia to hide your salary afaik.

E: Why the downvotes?
Broadcom reportedly to phase out Wi-Fi chip business
The Cuba Embargo was started in 1960.

Barack Obama was born in 1961.

So there are some different sets of 'they' around.
Read the article??

I'm still pretty new to HN, but on other forums like this, that suggestion is outright heresy.
The art of the Apple event
The Rust language knows nothing about the heap.

The standard library does assume this, but it's not an inherent language issue. Most people who are in resource constrained environments won't be using the standard library anyway.
>Every single programmer answered with a real steeple

But of course. If HN has taught me anything, it's that everyone here is autistic. But never in a particularly negative way, always in a way that makes the people slightly awkward socially, but highly-intelligent. Like a movie.
We could colonize the moon for just $10B – and make it happen by 2022
Yes that's all true. But I wasn't suggesting that it would work, just that:

1) I think the parent missed the point that the author was suggesting potential alternatives to UBI, and

2) It's an interesting idea that some of one's income could come from products like Instagram.

Of course the companies are the ones creating the value in the first place, which is why they make the $2 x 1B. But even when Uber rolls out its driverless cars, the Uber drivers who were automated out of their jobs are still going to want to work at something. Hell, they might even want to try to make money from their new endeavor rather than live off of some basic income. And the "arrogance" I think the author is referring to is Sam's notion [0] that the people working all these soon-to-be-obsolete jobs across the country are going to suddenly need UBI so they don't end up living out on the street, which just doesn't seem true.

[0] "However, if we cannot find a new kind of work for billions of people, we’ll be faced with a new idle class. The obvious conclusion is that the government will just have to give these people money, and there’s been increasing talk about a “basic income”—i.e, any adult who wanted it could have, say, $15,000 a year." http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-and-wealth-inequality
Cheap rice cookers are useful, but expensive ones:
a) have more settings for things other than rice b) have options for delayed start, etc c) come with better materials (ie, teflon-free nonstick pan) d) it's a device that will last years - spending $200 vs $30 is often easily justifiable.

I'm surprised you couldn't afford a microwave - they're like $50-100 these days for something that has crazy high utility.
"SVB will share more details about your account’s complete fee schedule and functionality once your bank account is open."

???

- I'd like to open an account. What are the fees?

-> well umm I don't want to tell you until you open the account

- good luck with your chickens
Do you have any reading recommendations for your practice?
Right. It's run by the PSF.
This is not true.

For many startups, even if they audit everything they won't have petabytes of data.
Hey, that's a great article Garland. And OneNote is a good tool.

Our service, Manifest.ly, helps teams with checklists. Would be interested in your opinion.

https://www.manifest.ly/
Fuzzy logic is back again? It used to make the headlines in the 90s for being the next revolution in industrial control (of furnaces).

I use rice cookers since 35 years (I am 43) I don't care about brown rice or whatever the fuzzy logic. I just adapt according to my own experience.

But I guess people don't want to have experience any more and prefer to be assisted as a hero of Wall-e?
I'm disappointed that a respected technology journalist can misapply the term open source so completely. If he actually meant that java can be decompiled and therefor is 'open source' then why the hell did he capitalize the phrase?
It's $9.99 for Kindle excellent.
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Why would Uber want to buy non-self-driving cars? Right now, they have their drivers buying the cars for them. Their current business model shoves all the capital costs down onto the driver. If Uber owns a lot of cars, their business model looks far different, more like Hertz. This will reduce their valuation substantially.
Between the port forwarding and security and other kinds of hassles of running a server in your own house, I just used digitalocean hosting for a minecraft server for my kid a few years ago, $5 a month. Here's a script to install the Cuberite version mentioned in the article: https://github.com/cuberite/cuberite-ocean

Now there are free services like Gamocosm which shut down your digitalocean server when not using it, so that it might only cost $1 or so a month: https://gamocosm.com/
Meaning it would take 8 years before it cost as much as a Mineserver box.
That's really interesting! And it also sounds really exhausting given the amount of material in a typical book. Thanks for sharing.
Risk = Reward. If UBER doesn't invest in transportation powered by automated cars they risk being replaced by companies that do. General Motors and Lyft are already ready to do it if UBER doesn't. http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-and-lyft-are-building-a-netw...

Unlike the days of dial up where bandwidth improvements made it obsolete it's hard to see a day where we don't need reliable transportation on roads. Cars play an integral part of modern life.
I personally think you should weigh the magnitude and the determinism of the benefit against its cost. Meeting a new person is nice, but it is a tiny benefit compared to the holocaust. And there is virtually no way anyone could predict you'd make a serendipitous connection as a result of the holocaust. The connection is trifling. At a certain threshold, you stop giving a shit about those kinds of connections.

None of that is true of well-off white people taking advantage of a market inefficiency caused by decades of segregation. In fact: providing opportunities for well-off white people to profit in the real estate market is an incentive for segregation, and an incentive along the same vector as one of the most important incentive systems supporting 19th and 20th century segregation: internal economic protectionism for favored ethnicities.

At this point in the discussion I think reasonable people can start disagreeing. That wasn't true given your earlier examples, which simply didn't connect logically to the conundrum Rayiner proposed.
"What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People", written by a former FBI counterintelligence officer, is pretty interesting, though not scientific:

https://amzn.com/0061438294
I think you're not doing the math on the stock (which is currently over $550). e.g. $73k base + $21k bonus + $57k stock = $151k for an engineer in their second year (no info about previous experience). Absent a lot of other context it does sound fair to me, or at least not "shockingly low".
New BruteForcing Software Can Guess 8M Passwords a Second
I think all individuals have to build social skills to bring to towards 'socially normal', and it varies from where on the spectrum they started. Very outgoing and empathetic people have to learn to tone it down and vice versa.

It seems to me like the author became very self-conscious to the point of anxiety, which is not a healthy opposite of autistic.

Possibly because he simply hadn't needed them yet, he hadn't learned to build the emotional defenses that most folks use to navigate the complex social web that is life.

Scott Adams explains this better than I can, but the most balanced people are selfish enough to guard their own emotional well-being while still being available enough to positively influence others.
Minecraft codebase is rewritten in C++. New additions of minecraft will be C++
On the other hand, the employee might feel like others are being paid more than them even when it is not the case. The employee may also resent the management's lack of transparency.

I could see it going both ways, and I'm not sure how to figure out what the impact of wage secrecy is.
Probably looking into the future which will likely be all taxing services will be self driving.
Read your lawyer's billing terms and understand them clearly. My information may differ from others, and it's not a field in which I'm an expert, though I've paid for a certain level of education, and not through an academic institution.

There may well be forums for discussing particulars of these terms and there may be value in negotiating those as well.

The larger point is that lawer time is expensive.
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> The maintenance cost of these cars in the US is high.

You are correct, of course, but I think the majority of that would go away if you hired the mechanic yourself and bought parts direct. My theory is that most of the German luxury vehicle surcharge is the "hey, it looks like you've got money, how about you give me some of that" surcharge.

I mean, I've owned a BMW 325is and a Toyota Sienna. Similar vehicles in that the vehicles had similarly sized engines/transmissions and brakes to match.

Sure, my experience agrees with your assertion in that rolling into the mechanic in the 325is is going to cost me north of twice what rolling into the mechanic in my Toyota Sienna will cost me.

But if you are doing the work yourself? the German car isn't any harder to work on. If anything, I think the german mechanical aesthetics agree with me in ways that make working on it easier than working on a Japanese car. Sure, they need a little bit more love in that they're just not as advanced as a Japanese car, or at least not as much effort is put into maintenance free operation, so you need to do more to keep them running, but that difference isn't huge. Parts are also not hugely more expensive than similarly specc'd parts on the toyota (e.g. brake rotors cost about the same on my 325is as they did on my toyota sienna; they were similarly sized, too; it's just the 325is was a much smaller car, so stopped dramatically better.)

I mean, I'm generalizing about German luxury vehicles from my experience with another brand, but yeah, if you hire your own mechanic, I bet most of the maintenance cost differences become much smaller.
That picture of Chicago is pretty cool, but it's really annoying to have to load a 5.3 MB picture when opening a site.
Yeah. Both your comment and this article ring a lot of bells for me. I'm also surely somewhere on the spectrum. Some years back I started anti-anxiety medication, and I have gradually grown in my emotional perception, both internal and external. The last couple of years its has been especially intense after the sudden death of a parent: I had all the feels, and that greatly deepened my empathy for others. As with Robison, the NYT author, it changed everything for me. My old life just doesn't fit, and I have been slowly remaking it.

Mostly what I do with all this is just accept it. My feelings are not their problem. Their feelings are not my problem. If I choose otherwise, that's my choice, and so are the consequences. Mostly, I try to take feelings like I take the weather.

That doesn't come easily, though. I feel like I'm learning things that most people learn at 15. Right now I'm working my way through a workbook on DBT, which teaches people emotional regulation skills. It seems crazy to have to sit down and learn things that come so naturally for other people. But then, I'm not other people, so I try to keep pressing ahead.
This would be my expectation as well. If we likened this emotional sensitivity to one of the senses, almost every sense has a diminished response, over time, to persistent levels of the stimuli. Our eyes adjust to bright or dim light, our sense of smell can quickly adapt to filter out smells that first seem quite awful, we quickly climate to a range of hot or cold water, etc. etc.

So, it seems plausible that neurologically the same sort of sensitivity and then regulation could be at work for someone who had been essentially blind to emotions and then had their visibility switched on suddenly.
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So, have you had a positive experience with any alternatives in the same use case?
What jobs are there where I can program but not to be the programmer?
Those who wrote that not all people should be programmers were right. In my case sitting in front of the computer for so many years is what burnt me, although I have a Mathematics mindset and my high level programming skills are not bad. But as I looked at freelancer jobs posting I just don't have any interest to work for those ideas. I don't know what it is like to be employed as a programmer and to be given deadlines.

So right now I'm building a project for myself using one of the available frameworks because its the best I can do and I almost finished it. But if it wont be what I wanted, I may need to find a job and I'd like to ask for ideas. I have lots of creative ideas and at my age not much time to master the low level languages.
Well, I drive a used Ford Escort without a working air conditioner that cost much, much less than $20,000, so... indeed?
UB = undefined behaviour for anyone else who didn't get the unspecified acronym at first glance.
"[A] new fact has now become painfully clear to me: you don't say you have a working product unless you really have a working product"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely#Controversy
If static typing is the selling point of Scala.js you might as well use TypeScript, which would be familiar to JavaScript developers.
AIUI, the UN's mission is twofold:

* Stand up for the sovereignty of the world's nations.

* Defend human rights throughout the world.

These missions are in direct conflict. It's impossible to force states to play nice with human rights, while at the same time respect the sovereignty of these states.

What we're left with is just like the conflict in 2001's HAL-9000. Given two conflicting goals, bad things happen. Neither objective is fulfilled, and the system fails in all kinds of other ways too.
Indeed, there is no culture of replicability at CHI (and even less so at UIST). Reviewers usually reward novelty and cool PoC videos, not thoroughness. It is quite rare (especially for U.S. labs) to also publish source code, schematics, or raw data. There have been some initiatives advocating for replicability, and some researchers indeed publish everything, but in the whole, a quick, shiny video of a PoC implementation is often sufficient for a paper to be accepted.
I'd expect states to be strict in this area for now, especially states that legalized recreational use, because the weed business is not legal under Federal law. The Federal government is currently taking a hands off approach to see how this works out. The cleaner the states can keep their weed business, the more likely the Feds are to leave them alone.
Throwaway account.

I don't work for Amazon but here is my salary information, for anyone who is interested

Current position: 50-100 employee startup in Palo Alto, $170k and .1% equity vested over 4 years

Previous position: Google, $130k base, 15-20% annual bonus, around 64 shares vested per year (so around $170k annual net comp)
Previous position: Small startup, $90k base

I live in the SF Bay Area. When I interviewed, most offers from startups were in the range of $140k-$170k.