skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're suggesting less than 100 for iOS Dev, and above you someone is suggesting 150+ for devops/sysadmin.
That ratio seems quite skewed compared to other sources of data on the web.
Are you very junior, or talking about a non-prime job market/locality?
In the states the franchise laws do not allow Uber to buy directly from the manufacturer. Also, the margin on an S class sold in the US is approximately 15%, not 60%.
>The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Xerox Basic FORTRAN and Basic FORTRAN IV Manual[0], attributed to David H. Owens.

[0] https://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/sds/sigma/lang/90096...
Pretty sure I know who this is and I'm happy to see you back in the role you deserved. Was your short leave to a German startup by any chance?
If Hulk is worth $25m and had his reputation heavily tarnished that effects his future earnings potential.

Was he likely to make $115m over the rest of his life? We'll never know.
The paper is great, but I wanna see some source code!
Respectfully, your inference is entirely off base. Trivial research gives you the wholesale value. A slightly deeper dive gives you the manufacturer margin. Franchise laws prohibit direct sales.
What are good resources/courses for getting into NLP? Where do I start?
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"Written like someone who has never worked support."

From the author's bio:

"I’m part of the awesome @Basecamp support team and host a podcast over @SupportOps."

"Customers are idiots. It's unfortunate that communication from them is necessary."

Since my employer wouldn't be able to pay may salary without the customers who pay for the software I create, I try to view them in a more positive light (and try to help keep them happy).
With that logic the floor gets raised when you work a job too.
AlphaGo and the Limits of Machine Intuition
The OP is being kind of cagey about what their role is. Nearly everyone at Amazon who does what we would generally be considered a primarily dev role is either an SDE (Software Development Engineer) or a WDE (Web Development Engineer). Are you a support engineer, by chance?

As for salary negotiations, the best piece of advice I got was to never say a number. You really don't have to, you can just keep saying some variation of "industry standard", their median salary numbers on Glassdoor, etc.

This is true for Amazon specifically: I never told them a number despite being asked by several different recruiters, and the offer I ended getting was slightly above their average. If you want more than that there may be some other technique involved, but if you're more concerned about being undercompensated, definitely don't get tied to any number.
Feel there is an underlying meaning here.....
By the way, you don't have to sign the PIP. In fact, you shouldn't, because if you do, you're basically admitting that, yes, your performance is indeed low and needs improvement. And that goes in your employee file.

The right thing to do is to take the paperwork and say, "thanks, can you give me a few days to review this?" and stall as much as possible while looking for another job.

If you're feeling especially ballsy (and very confident in your ability to find another job quickly) you can say, "I'm not familiar with these at all, and my grandpa (R.I.P) always told me to get everything reviewed by an attorney before signing it, so that's what want to do. Is that OK?"
> just because something makes you uncomfortable does not mean it shouldn’t be published

Nobody would agree with this as a justification for publishing female celebrities' private pictures and videos. Nobody calls that "telling the truth" or whatever.

I think the point about the public's interest in protecting elites' privacy is interesting, though.
BTW: The application form has a really nasty bug. If you've just spent the last hour in writing some of the greatest prose ever written, hit save, and don't wait for the response in the top right corner and hit logout your work will be lost:( dammit! Sam I hope you fix that.
One thing to remember is that commercial jets have very thin aluminum skin. It's very unlike your car door which is typically thicker steel sheet. When jets crash the wreckage is shredded metal laying flat on the ground. So they're more fragile than they seem.
I'm all for solid negotiating tactics, but if you consider telling an untruth, you are not welcome on my team.

You may still find other teams in the world that you can dupe, but in the end, I expect lies to hurt your overall prospects (in life as well as work.)
Sam altman tweeted this thread to his 149,000 twitter followers some of which would have worked with Jason, and won't have HN accounts.

Before Sam edited his comment, his comment implied that Jason had bullied founders, changed offers and shared founders confidential information.

> We collect feedback from YC founders on investors (we have a giant database of this). If you mistreat founders, we don't invite you to Demo Day. This isn't permanent--if you stop mistreating founders (i.e. bullying them, changing offers, sharing their confidential info, etc etc etc) then we start inviting you again.
Thanks for the interesting discussion. Anyway after further thought I came to agree with you because the person in the second situation also had their privacy violated twice when they had the video/images stolen from their device and when it was spread without their consent.

But I think it's pretty self-evident that doing multiple wrong things to do one final wrong thing is worse than just doing the final wrong thing.
It's with mixed-feelings that I anticipate the day when people "work" by by solving sub-problems for weak AI.

For example, being flashed security-images while wearing a skullcap so that a machine "reads" whether (in your judgement) the picture contained something suspicious.

Not that many people don't work as interchangeable parts in machines today, we just call them companies.
A jet engine that ingests any metal object the size of a drone motor will take serious damage. The engine may continue to run, but there will be blade damage. Vibration sensors indicate how bad the problem is. Most likely, there will be an engine shutdown and a precautionary landing. The plane goes out of service, the engine is replaced, and the damaged engine goes in for a major overhaul.

The aircraft operator will be looking for someone to stick with the repair bill. Each engine on the A-380 today costs about $13 million.

That's the good case. Here's a picture of an A-6E which crashed after an engine ingested a pencil-sized hex wrench.[1]

[1] http://fodnews.com/fod-defined/
I downvoted both of the comments in which you mentioned your downvotes. Talking about downvotes adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.
Your experience with small to mid-sized firms does sound depressingly typical and I've experienced it too, but I think it's worth mentioning that Amazon specifically won't reject you for not saying a number.
Digital Ocean New Privacy Policy
How so? At-will cuts both ways. In countries like Finland as well as France it can be quite time-consuming to switch jobs due to the fact you have to give three months or more notice.

That's leaving aside entirely the issue of how at will employment gives companies confidence to hire since they know they can shed employees if things go south.

If you are looking for an end run try binding arbitration, which allows employers to opt out of the legal system.
I was curious about the 'nsfw' bit at the end of the lecture as well : )

The Xerox Star was truly ahead of its time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
Dubai Airliner Crashes While Trying to Land at Russian Airport
Not quite Pi, but something very closely related to Pi is retained to extremely high precision in computers.

libm frequently contains 2/pi to very high precision. For example, Newlib's math library contains 476 decimal digits of 2/pi as part of its routines for calculating sine and cosine of numbers outside the range [-pi/4..pi/4].

See e_rem_pio2.c for more. Many of the open source math libraries are ultimately descended from the same root: the Sunpro fdlibm, archived at netlib: http://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/
See my response... this isn't the reason we do it. In fact we try to put the position's salary range on the job posting if we can come up with an agreement internally (our hiring is very informal). Or we put "market rate; negotiable" or something along those lines, and put the onus on the applicant to research what their market rate is.

Basically, I have a checklist for the first phone interview, and the relevant item on that checklist is "make sure pay range is agreeable". It doesn't say "get desired pay range from candidate" or "let the candidate know what the pay range is". We have no preference.
Mandamus
A Rising Number of Startups Reckon They'll Never Go Public
The NLTK book serves as a great resource for getting dirty with minimal math and more programming examples:

http://www.nltk.org/book/

There are a couple of courses I've heard are fantastic. The first that I'm going through right now is by Michael Collins:

https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp

The other is by Dan Jurafsky:

https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp
There isn't really any "turbulence" behind any modern wing in typical flight regimes. They're very low drag, so flow off the trailing edge is as smooth as the upstream flow.
Large dealers in california sell around 1200 S classes per year. More common dealers sell between 200 and 300 per year.

Or were you comparing that to total volume? Market leaders sell a bit over a thousand per month.
It isn't a startup. It's a project some people have invested their own time, with very few expectations.
I'm pretty sure we can all agree he was being sarcastic and flippant after hours of being on the stand. I'm not making excuses, but the NY Post loves them a way-skewed sensational headline that isn't so grounded in reality.
30 seconds of Googling turns up numerous examples of bird strikes on the leading edge of wings, some with very substantial damage.

Why would airflow around the wing keep a drone from hitting it but not a bird?
Entrepreneurship is mastering - if anything - "operating" in extremely uncertain and risky conditions. There's no tangible hard skill you're mastering. It's fulfilling - but personally completely void of the feeling I've had truly "mastering" a sport. (I'll use "mastery" loosely here - I wasn't nearly good enough to play pro. It's a completely different feeling than "mastering" a subject such as physics or calculus (again using "mastery" loosely). Perhaps mastery of soft skills leaves me a bit void and its the hard skills that entrepreneurship lacks.
Ti isn't an exceptionally hard metal, it's just very strong for its weight. So the fan (and the rest of the engine) would take significant damage.
I'm also starting a job search soon and also concerned about finding an actual office these days, or even a cubicle. Maybe I'll end up working remotely, but there ought to be a better answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
Hey, that's a good deal! I can hear the clicking sound of all the devs sending their resume to linkedin right now ;)
No, it wasn't directed at you. I should have mentioned that I was talking to others in the thread. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Some people felt entitled to more because they went to school. I actually thought the discussion you instigated was healthy. My bad!
This seems reasonable if (and only if!) people who match you on sex and skin color are unfairly overrepresented, and if the meaning is to fire those who aren't qualified, not to indiscriminately fire to meet a quota. I read both of those things as implied by that tweet and its context, but I can see how they're not obvious. Without that context, I admit the sentence is racist and sexist, but in context, it seems like a reasonable response to existing racism and sexism that has given employment to unqualified white men more than to unqualified people of different race/gender. (It is sort of like "black lives matter": shorn of context it seems to privilege one race, but in a world where black lives seem to matter less than other lives, it is a response to that existing racism.)

I am a man but not white, so perhaps this does not sting as much as it stings you, in which case I apologize for not being able to fully empathize. Anecdotally, the vast majority of the underqualified and incompetent people I've worked with in tech have been men, even taking into account the general proportion of men and women in tech. Without thinking hard, I can name underqualified men, qualified men, and qualified women that I have worked with, but would have to think hard to remember underqualified women. So I'm okay with focusing any attempts to fire unqualified people on men, or, at least, making sure that any efforts to fire unqualified people end up firing at least some men.
Clinton emails show Saudi Arabia has nukes
My comment was bitter, but it wasn't so much about blame or hate as it was about deep frustration.

While I acknowledge that this is a systemic issue, it's an individual ethical issue too. There are individuals lobbying for the power to own entire species. That powerful people seriously think this way, let alone act on these beliefs, leaves me bewildered and upset.

Beyond that, the player and the game are inseparable. The player you talk about, playing "the" game... they are playing a game. There is not one game. In the game I aspire to play, his rules are cheating. Now, I can't blame him on a human level for doing what his life has led him to do, for believing what his experiences have led him to believe. But I have extremely serious doubts about the consequences of this sort of belief system. In my worldview, this is a kind of fascism extended into the microbiological scale. That might seem far away, be we are entirely composed of microscopic ecosystems such as the ones that this "player" wants to insert his or her manipulative, magical control mechanisms into.
Totally agree on both points - but those kind of comments aren't going to score points with the jurors and influence the case.
In past I have asked "What's your budget for the position?". In companies usually everything is budgeted during planning phase from new hires to promotions, bonuses etc.
Here's how to get $20k in 5 minutes tip for you:

Step 1: wake up and walk to your manager's office on monday.

Step 2: Announce that you're "considering" leaving for personal reasons to "explore what's around"

Step 3: Invite your wife [girlfiend or whoever] to celebrate $20k boost in your salary by the end of the day.
Nothing. Upstream flow stagnates at the leading edge, excess bug splatter there attests to that.
Only $55m of the amount decided thus far was due to perceived economic damage. Also, punitive damages will be decided next week, and I fully expect they will be quite high given the way Gawker has presented themselves and the internal workings that have been shown in court.

The economic damages are perhaps on the high side, but considering all of the ways Hogan has been able to license his brand up to this point -- and that those avenues are likely no longer open to him or at least greatly reduced -- it isn't out of the question that he could have earned that amount over the next 20 years.
The Role of Highways in American Poverty
I'm personally not worried about the 1st. I'm personally not a lawyer either, so there's that...

Ya know how if you buy a car second hand, and it turns out the car is stolen, you have to give it back, even if you bought it honestly?

This feels similar to me. He never gave consent and had a reasonable expectation of privacy. While you can't give him back his privacy here, the video never existed in a public domain sans-crime, so it's publishing (much like your ownership and monetary outlay) is secondary. Except that here, Gawker was a party to the crime.

For me, the 1st doesn't trump privacy. I have no doubt others feel differently.
That should be 0.04% not 0.0004%, no? You need to multiply by 100 for percent?
> Pi = 3, coincidentally, is the Hebrew Bible's approximation too.

Certainly it's not explicitly spelled out. The example I've heard was the outer diameter and inner circumference of a vessel's circular rim were given. Pi comes out to 3 only if the thickness of the rim of the vessel is zero.
Probably because they feel like they have to close ranks and defend a profession they see as being maligned. For them there is no grey, only black and white. All or nothing. For many other people there are degrees of freedom and rights.

Their fear is that if they concede on this point, what else will they have to concede and will their profession back them when they are in the same position, but for more noble reasons. Self preservation and principle.

They'd also get some peer pressure in the form of ostracism for breaking with the standard professional stance on the question.
UBI has to pay enough for health and dental insurance so in case something happens they can pay the bills.

If you pay a small amount of money to live on and they can't afford insurance and they get sick they can't afford the bills.

I myself am on disability and filed chapter 13 bankruptcy due to medical bills. It ruined my credit and now I have dental that doesn't cover my root and gum scalings and I have a cadaract forming in my left eye and can't afford surgery. I might even end up homeless as a result. I used to be a programmer until I got too sick and had to quit.

Disability is like basic income but it only pays what your FICA contrubuted to it. The more you pay into it the more you get if you become disabled.

Also working on challenges and projects mean nothing if you have no money to market them and get investors. Esp if you can't afford a good computer or a web server. Get stuck with cheap ones that are limited.
Very well done. The best part is how they re-enact the mouth/teeth to look so real by capturing it by sampling earlier parts in the video to then use that on the non expression still or loop. I was blown away when Trump's teeth looked so real then they explained this process and why.

This could be huge (yuuuge) in games and virtual spaces. At GDC Unreal 4 has a demo recently and seems we are approaching that era[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/JbQSpfWUs4I?t=6m
To be quite honest I didn't have much faith in Devuan as lasting beyond the "publicity stunt" phase, so it's remarkable to me that it's still around.
It was 42, but in the time it came to get that answer, it kept expanding. So we need a new computer.
Thanks, this is valid feedback. You're right, account takeover is not the best description unless you're a big financial institution. When working with startups they use us for the (risk-based) authentication, and we're working in that direction, offering 2FA flows, security emails among other things.
Yes, I have some colleagues who went to Alberta - but they're now out of a job. They are chemists, not Chem.E's though. And I'm in eastern Canada, where the taxes are much higher. You'd pay 50% out of a 120K salary. See my reply to OP - I think I wasn't very clear.
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India's $4 smartphone controversy
Makes you wonder what concepts we have yet to invent.
The healthcare isn't free. You pay for it every year and if you're so unlucky to need it, you have 100% access to top notch treatment. But you definitely pay for it.
Vectored Signatures
If you would block the analytics script for a user that normally have it enabled, that looks fishy to our detection. We don't (only) compare the collected data with known fraud profiles, but also with how the current user normally accesses the service.
Domino’s has built a self-driving robot for pizza delivery
70k salary is junior money in St.Louis. Absolutely average senior devs make 100-120. Good ones do long term consulting, and get closer to the 200k range. The best I have seen for a local company is about 250k a year, for truly shiny people.
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I'm on that coursera course too! The course is pretty basic though. It'll help you get the concepts but there's too much spoon feeding in there to make you good enough to compete with people with MS and PhDs. Also that course doesn't cover deep learning and you should definitely study that.
Personally, I think that while Gawker wasn't right to release the tape, fining them $115 million isn't right either. $115 million could easily sink Gawker entirely. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of the place but it's a dangerous precedent to set for press freedom if a single editor's single bad decision can take down an entire site.

Of course, the amount is likely to be revised down in appeals.
Oh, thanks for clarifying. I thought we could get the visa while looking for work if you were qualified.
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The daughter of the violin's owner is NPR host Nina Totenberg. She wrote about the recovery between the time of its discovery and before its sale.
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-s...
Hopefully the HN voting links never contain relation types which would imply prefetching! I recall that Firefox did some aggressive prefetching in the past, and some websites (maybe Wolfram?) temporarily blocked IPs which did the prefetching due to the extra load they were putting on the servers. It's very dicey, requesting URLs for a user which would have a low probability of being followed. Certainly, requesting tens or hundreds of URLs from a single HN page would be a reportable bug for either the browser (for wasting resources) or the site (for misrepresenting hyperlink attributes).

Regardless of all of this, if the HN server filters out duplicate votes, then the idempotence (is that a word?) of the request is satisfied, and it is OK to be a GET. [EDIT: after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308231 my point here is probably invalid, because voting is not a "safe" method. Voting alters the order of posts that future readers see, which is a material change for a discussion site. In contrast, something like a YT view-count tally doesn't effect a material change in the core material.]

Regardless of that, IMHO a GET request that changes the "fundamental" state of the world (not just UI state e.g. pagination/settings) is somewhat "rude" to begin with, because of the common expectation that GET requests are "harmless" and POST requests can change things. But like, that's just my opinion, man.
A lot of the not very good companies don't have a business plan, aren't organized very well, have issues, are in it for the money but lack experience and skills. They need a lot of help just to get better and I guess they don't have what it takes to get funded.

You don't want to fund a company that doesn't know what they are doing and needs a lot of help to get to that level where they do get funded.

But that is a startup opportunity to help these awful companies get better so they can get funded and then pay the mentors money for the training.

I'm sure they get coffee shops and pizza places apply as well that don't qualify but want to do some sort of cybercafe in their store.
I honestly have no idea what this website does or what its purpose is. Is it for commenting? I couldn't figure that out. It seems like you've glued together various websites and search engines into a single page. Why would I use this?
Fwiw, I was out and the edit window is closed.

Just a suggestion for the future, if you want someone to change the words you may want to mention the change you'd prefer at the time so its an option given HN's edit window.