skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know any general answers, but here are some scenarios:

* Your colleague who did not realise that they were being highly underpaid gets a reasonable offer from another company and leaves. They were a lynchpin in the organisation and the whole company goes under. You now earn zero salary. If they were more aware of others salaries within your company they may have renegotiated and stayed.

* After years of hidden salaries within the company, some colleagues salaries are leaked. What was previously imagined to be an equitable workplace is now exposed to be highly inequitable. This is felt to be a betrayal of trust by many and sows discontent within the company. The previously happy workplace is now a minefield of distrust and back-room back-stabbing. Now everyone is stressed. This situation would have never arisen if salaries were disclosed from the start.

* An elite of skilled negotiators emerges within the company that far out-earns the contingent of members whose domain-skills would grant them the greater reward in a meritocracy. This leads to a bozo-effect as they rise in the ranks due to greater financial freedom. Nobody can quite pinpoint where it all started going wrong. This transition would have been transparent in a disclosed-salary scenario, and would have been suppressed.

* Your conscience is plagued by guilt about the possibility that you might be robbing your equally deserving peers of their share of the pie. You don't sleep so well. If you knew that they were earning the same as you you could sleep better.

You get the idea.
Probably a combination of context switching, memory bandwidth, and interrupt handling.

If you're going to use a machine with 208 GB of RAM you may as well buy a better network card. All major vendors of low latency adapters (which in this case means handling lots of small messages) have transparent drivers for Linux kernel bypass now. For example see OpenOnload. Then you avoid the kernel with no code changes.

Once you remove the kernel from the critical path, you should be concerned with I/O resources, which is already illustrated by the article's note about how they get 5x better performance by using four machines with the same total core count. What that does is buy you four times the I/O resources, like memory channels and PCIe lanes.
in fact the tree of life can't be traced back to a single root because us Eukaryote organisms are the result of a train crash between Eubacteria and Archaea maybe 2 billion years ago.
"Far more likely"? That's quite an assertion to make. Do you have a link? I'm genuinely curious. Also, as Apocryphon mentioned, "actual practical value" is a problematic phrase. If you mean "economic value" then just say that. But on the face of it, if you are applying for work for which the minimum qualification is a degree from an accredited college/university, then any course which gets you closer to fulfilling that qualification has some economic value.
"unsafe" is a superset of "safe" Rust. There are exactly 3 things you can do in unsafe code that you can't do in safe code: access/modify a global mutable variable, dereference a raw pointer and call other unsafe functions. That's it.

See: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/unsafe.html#unsafe-superpowers
They did pay.
"The first attack was tied to a ransom of 15 bitcoins (roughly US$6,000) which ProtonMail eventually paid due to pressure from ISPs and other companies affected by the attack."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail#2015_DDoS_attacks
Our credit card driven culture could certainly use his advice on avoiding debt.
Ok thanks. That's actually a really good answer and helps a lot.
Important to point out that the Volvo hitting the men in the video didn't have the optional collision avoidance installed: http://fusion.net/story/139703/self-parking-car-accident-no-...
You're so close to a breakthrough here.

If everything the UN does is self-serving bureaucratic garbage designed to maintain and expand the bureaucracy itself...

And the bureaucrats behind the IPCC gain authority and money when their reports are more alarmist...

And, every year, their reports become more alarmist...

And, every year, the IPCC bureaucrats gain authority and money...

Maybe... maybe the IPCC reports aren't a shining jewel of perfect Science that has somehow arisen from the bureaucratic cesspool of UN corruption?

Personally I find it pretty hard to believe that an organization that is so shot through with politics and corruption could somehow have one perfectly uncorrupted part. And, even more, that this part is one of its highest-status sub-bureaucracies. Something to consider, anyway.

Maybe the invariant in your argument shouldn't be an invariant. That's all I'm really saying. This article could refute your belief, rather than your belief refuting the article.
Why should someone more qualified make less just because they are a bad negotiator or just unaware of what everyone makes?

Employers typically want this information because as a whole it is in their favor, not the employees' favor to keep this information from being disclosed.

I have experience working in both the private and public sector.

Private sector salaries (USA) are typically not publicly disclosed and companies often have policies forbidding disclosure despite laws that say this is not enforceable.

Public sector typically is disclosed so anyone can just look it up.

My experience has been it is more difficult to negotiate salaries when salaries are not disclosed. In the negotiation it is very beneficial to show relative value and say, "I am more productive than 80% of the team, but getting paid at the median, so I deserve a raise." When salaries are unknown the company can more easily make claims that they just can't give you a raise because it wouldn't be fair to everyone else etc... You can always move to a different company, but if you aren't wanting to make a move that is not helpful.
Yes, I used a lot of alien's packages. IIRC, there was no Inkscape so I had to do it manually.
1. Inheritance is about extensibility. You won't encounter suitable applications in self-contained toy universes where you can almost always rewrite something as some form or another of a typecase statement (whether that's Pascal-like variant records with case statements or ML/Haskell-style pattern matching). See also the expression problem [1].

2. "Inheritance" itself is a fairly fuzzy concept. Do you mean implementation inheritance (for code reuse), polymorphic subtyping (for polymorphism with late binding), do you account for virtual types, etc.?

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
Online photo editor (including RAW format)
Is audience behavior a problem? In my limited experience, it has never been a problem.

The showings of non-mainstream media interests me, as a MST3K/RiffTrax fan.
Not the OP, but for me, I'll be honest with you: no, I probably couldn't have. I was holding down a full time job, working part time elsewhere, and between two jobs, hitting the gym, and holding down something of a social life, I didn't really have the bandwidth to do anything else. I could have stopped working out and going out, but that would have cratered my mental and physical health. The bootcamp I went to let me put everything else aside and make that jump.
Congrats to the success! May I ask what bootcamp you attended?
I agree then, sorry I failed to see your point in your first comment.
Those seem reasonable. I enjoyed reading your scenarios regardless; they felt like the choose your own adventure books.
I had the opportunity to visit a few Amish farms in central Missouri last fall. We enjoyed being able to buy farm fresh meat (some still twitching!), eggs, and such, and from what I saw and what I've heard from others' experiences, the Amish are honest, hardy, and hardworking. Their buggies shared the road with their neighbors' cars, and I was surprised to see obviously non-Amish homes in the area.

Also, I've seen Amish craftsmanship of barns and lofts and things on occasion, and have been impressed, and clients I've talked to had nothing but good to say about their carpentry work.
Thank you for posting this. It is profoundly helpful.
One thing that has surprised me on HN is that even the wealthy pirate, but perhaps not for financial reasons.
This is a web application for anonymously sharing salary information among a pool of participants. Each pool is identified by a UUID. A user cannot view the results of the pool unless they first share their information; the pool must also meet a minimum number of contributors set at pool creation time.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/894b151cc981f783e3af
Indeed, as far as IP is concerned, the following rule governs.

[...] your deduction for a donation of a patent or other intellectual property is its FMV, minus any gain you would have realized if you had sold the property at its FMV on the date of the gift. Generally, this means your deduction is the lesser of the property's FMV or its basis. For details, see Publication 526. [...]

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p561/ar02.html

However it's not clear to me that the basis is zero for IP. Can you clarify with citations?
Reminds me of one of my favorite Maggie Thatcher quotes: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
The billions for self-driving cars, is not for technology, or to build cars, or to compete with Google / Apple / GM. It's to begin establishing a legal and infrastructure framework around the country that facilitates a shift to self-driving cars from the government's position as regulator, and ideally to do so safely. If they do nothing, given the sizable regulations in the US and from state to state regarding vehicles, then that shift is going to be a rolling disaster. They should probably be spending a lot more money to prep the ground for what's coming.
It seems like most people do not know that grub can actually boot kernels from an encrypted boot partition. It does not protect the MBR or EFI partition, so a manipulated stage1 loader might be able to pull off some attack but i am always surprised how few people really use that...
Start interviewing and don't be afraid to push for double your current salary, or more. Maybe time to think about moving to a coast too.
The scroll of intended uses in the video was heavily military, and some of it combat-focused.
@mchahn, please do share when you find it. I really want to read it too.
Pyship: Static Python for desktop apps
Agreed - getting started was really hard. I think, as my sibling post notes, that's a function of the existing community - unlike many languages where adoption trends heavily towards the wide end of the pyramid and moving upward over time, Rust seems to be starting at the tip and broadening (more slowly than one might like) on its way down.

Or maybe that's the result of a scarcity of those kinds of resources. Hard to say.
And, if one uses Firefox's ability to "scale text only" to zoom fonts to a more readable size for older eyes, the fixed pixel widths and heights on their grid boxes results in a very bad layout of the content.

http://postimg.org/image/zbc6qbrl7/
You said:

"The 1st Amendment protects you from the GOVERNMENT, not from INDIVIDUALS."

I was merely pointing out that this statement is wrong. The 1st amendment does protect defendants in civil trials. In this case it was found (rightly or wrongly) that Hulk's right to privacy outweighed Gawker's freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean the 1st didn't apply at all. It simply means it lost this time.

It doesn't even mean that celebrity's rights to privacy will always outweigh freedom of speech. I'm sure that TMZ prints stuff every single day that celebrities would prefer to remain private and you don't see them losing lawsuits very often.

This was a very particular case right on the edge of the line. And, by the way, it will certainly be appealed and Gawker could very well win in a higher court.
As the article points out, a user doesn't yet know what to expect when it comes to the interface of an autonomous car. I doubt I could tell if a car I was driving had this feature because I wouldn't expect to 'see' anything - the definitely doesn't need to be an "on" button for it. If there's a logo somewhere (like an airbag) I wouldn't know to look for it. When you drive an unfamiliar car you need an UX that makes sure this sort of thing is effectively impossible. At the moment I imagine that means that the car needs to tell you what possible features it doesn't have as much as what it does have.
Obviously you need to spend more time playing Kerbal Space Program. Rockets are their own justification.

On a more serious note, I think that's just human nature - if you're invested in something - a technology, a stack, a business model, a car - you value that investment more than its worth, because it is yours. I think there's also an element of "I put in the effort to learn this, so damnit I'm going to use it".

Or just people like challenges.
I don't know why so many people think Socialism is about welfare. Socialism is about who owns and controls the means of production.

Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
How do Cobb's Normal Forms fit in here? They are all about relations. I suppose a single inheritance pattern cannot get more complex than first normal form, but I don't really remember this from a long time ago.
Ya, that unsolicited yearly reminder is cruel.

In the USA at least, death records are public information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index

It'd be such an easy lift for Facebook to aggregate, correlate this information (just like ChoicePoint, Seisent, many others).
This is an amazing source of salary information. This must be a great when job hunting (especially as H1B) to see what ranges companies you apply to hire at.
I use asmallorange shared hosting when I need cheap easy email for custom domains. Standard management through cpanel, multiple webmail options, IMAP over SSL, great customer service and security track record. It's kind of an old school choice these days but it's quick and it always works.
Universal constants [1] have about 6-9 significant digits today. I wouldn't use more than 10 digits of pi, if I am working on some physical calculations.

[1] http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
Three claims, let's evaluate:

"inbred" seems to have a factual basis, that's fair.

"luddite" in this context is an unnecessarily loaded term that suggests an ignorance of history. (I.E., the luddites [1] were not simplistically anti-technology, they were anti-"the crown suddenly taking away the common land and giving it to rich capitalists to enrich themselves with industry while displacing us as laborers, and then blaming us for being against progress", ie, "Enclosure.') [2]

"abuse their children" requires proof. Is there evidence the amish abuse their children at a rate higher than the rest of society, and/or other cultural enclaves such as tight-nit immigrant groups?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Against-The-Future-Industrial/d...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
The problem is that I do think cows feel pain (I thought most people did? I'm not a meat eater though), and I don't care how smart it is (unless intelligence is somehow required to appreciate pain). A cow-level AI may not be able to communicate it.
Socialism in the traditional sense of the word refers to what people today would more likely call communism. Socialism these days refers to social-democratic movements that want redistribution within an at least somewhat capitalist system. She was taking a swipe at the British Labour Party and their counterparts on the continent, all of whom used the label 'socialist' but were really social democrats. Words mean whatever people think they mean.

There's a similar phenomenon with the word liberal. Liberal once referred to, and in some contexts still does, politics that advocates for human freedom from all kinds of government coercion. At least in the US, it has taken on a different meaning over the last hundred years. Now it refers to social-democracy.
The notion of performing such a test with a real human target is about as idiotic as testing the safety mechanism on a loaded gun by pointing it at someone and pulling the trigger.
Not trying to be pithy. I'm saying that in a country where 80% of the population are net-debtors[1], inflation constitutes downward wealth redistribution, whereas it would constitute upward wealth redistribution in a country (conceivable, but seemingly unlikely) in which the wealthy borrow while the poor lend.

[1] -- http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/29/eight-in-10-americans-are-in-...
It's time to think about how we might grant legal rights to computers. (2005)
I took a credit once, for buying a car, and will never do it again.

Although I never had problems with paying the money back, I was paying a lot more money back to the bank, so when I finished paying the credit off, the car was worth half of the price I bought it, almost having paid double the price because of the credit interests.

But the worst part was that it didn't feel right.

So now my policy is to never buy anything with money that I don't have (yet). It makes you feel so much better, you feel a truly free person. I don't own my apartment, true, and the money I spend each month on rent could bring me closer to owning one, but I just don't see the point of it. But buying stuff for money you actually have makes your decisions so much better and closer to what you can really afford.

Also, there is another component to buying stuff with money you actually have. Recently, I decided to buy a scooter. Not a big "deal", but I didn't want to just spend any savings on it that I have so far, so I put aside money from some freelancing outside my daily job, sold some unused furniture and electronics, and only had to pay around 25% of the price of the scooter from my account. It felt so good, it felt like I deserved it, because I planned for it in advance and didn't have to "compromise" my savings. On the other hand, when I took the loan for the car, I felt bad, I almost felt miserable, as if I was doing something wrong. I can't imagine buying a house for someone else's money. You must feel like a slave.
This isn't to take away from your success at all, and it's great that you're happy with the outcome. But I think there are some self-selection biases involved in success stories that go unmentioned, likely due to a lack of people asking the right questions.

Did you have a college degree before the bootcamp? People frequently mention you don't need a computer science degree, but plenty of places require a bachelors for standard office work. And having gone through a bachelors program might prepare someone for the "learning how to learn" aspect that's required for survival after the bootcamp.

Did you possess any prior technological aptitude(s)?

How much prior experience with mathematics did you have? Are you good at math, or able to understand it with enough work?

How strong are your logical skills, and how were they maintained prior to the bootcamp?

Anything else relevant? Autodidact? Connections to other people? Occupations of parents?

Also, having the financial resources to pursue a bootcamp as an option might also be indicative of something.

I think my point is that the promise of a bootcamp as guaranteed success no matter what your background seems uncertain without more data.
Linux Kernel Module Example: Rickroll
Could you comment on my idea of slight extension of chkboot-style verification:

a) Use signatures instead of hashes and keep the "correct" signature secret. This would prevent attacker from hard-coding correct looking output into the tampered system.

b) Do not store the correct signature anywhere where the potentially tampered system could read it. I'm thinking using smartphone or possibly some usb module for verification, or maybe just rely on users memory (assisted with something akin to SSH randomart fingerprints)

c) Fill free space on /boot with random data and calculate the signature for the whole partition. This is to detect if attacker attempts to store backup copies of untampered files.

To me it's not immediately obvious how attacker could tamper with boot files without detection, presuming that their ability to tamper is restricted to the hard drive (i.e. no firmware attacks etc).

edit: for clarification, I'm talking only hypothetically here, I'm not considering this sort of system for personal use nor would I be recommending it to anyone else.
The Amish population is increasing rapidly: https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/amish-popul...

Kevin Kelly has written about the Amish: http://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
By all means switch to drupal, if you think that will better reimburse you for attending the tech camp.
Know your brand's worth on social media
You really don't want to negotiate against the other open salaries.

Know your worth; if the product you work on brings millions to the table for the company and you are the lead dev, who gives a rap if your introverted programming partner is making 100k?

Know your value. Quantify yourself. Negotiate from the value you bring. Otherwise you're leaving that analysis up to someone else and their offer certainly isn't going to favor you.
Given the focus on security, don't expect to see SMP anytime soon if ever. It's a huge source of potential security bugs and attacks on the kernel.
South Korea has less than 5% of the global electronics industry. Feel free to elaborate on how you think they took anything over.

Are you talking about Samsung? Because that's all the dominance South Korea has in the industry. Everything else is quite generic. Apple by itself is worth more than the entire South Korean electronics industry combined.

If nation state money were a primary determining factor, the USSR would have been a juggernaut, and Russia would be producing the best technology today. Instead, the USSR lost in nearly every possible regard to the private US technology industry. Nations keeps trying and trying to keep up with Silicon Valley by throwing money at the problem, and for half a century they have failed.
Respectively: Go (which is criticized by some for its prioritization of language simplicity over features), more complex languages, and the task that the program needs to perform.
> One company proclaims it has found the “minimum effective dose” of meditation that will change your life.

In the movie Something About Mary a moron,
Chris Elliott, was talking about his new product idea to compete with 7-Minute Abs. He wanted to sell 6-Minute Abs. His traveling companion, Ben Stiller, said "what about 5-minute abs?" The moron said (paraphrasing) "No one could get abs in 5 minutes!"
They added a TON of "inertia." Flick the trackpad a tiny little bit and it keeps moving long after I take my fingers off, giving an entirely different screenful.

Your users know better than you how fast they intend to scroll. Always.
Suspect Memories (2005)
Here's the source for a small webapp to anonymously share your salary with a pool of others: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/894b151cc981f783e3af I did try to make most of the selections ambiguous in order to better preserve anonymity. The way it works is that the pool creator sets a minimum number of responses before anyone can see the salary info. You also can't see any salary info unless you yourself have submitted.

I made it a while back for people trying to understand tech salaries in a particular area. It's not geared towards startups but maybe someone can modify it.
From Publication 551, "Basis of Assets"

"The basis of an intangible asset is usually the cost to buy or create it."

They don't mention software specifically, but they say that for patents and copyrights you can only include costs you actually paid for, and you specifically may not include the value of your own time spent inventing or authoring.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p551/ar02.html#en_US_201412...
But that's TV, not Netflix/Amazon - not on demand. Entirely different thing.
yeah, try Lou Reed's Street Hassle ... ;-)