skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gawker is a terrible site, they deserve it"

They do deserve it. Not because they are a terrible site, but because of their actions that resulted in this case.

This isn't some random act of happenstance that put Gawker in trouble. It was something brought about entirely by their own actions and decisions.

It's not a bad thing to have a legal precedent that says you cannot post private sex tapes online, without permission, and then refuse to take them down when ordered by the court.

Most people would have agreed with that without needing to be told it by the court.

I guess however there was enough financial incentive for Gawker to keep the tape up even after being ordered to take it down, and if that's the bed you're going to make, no-one will feel sorry for you when you have to lie in it.
Tell them your salary is 'confidential information', your current employer often likes to suggest it is...
Microsoft annual bonuses used to be a lot more stock and less cash, but in 2011 they shifted towards the current model of cash++, because the stock was low and nobody wanted it. (At the same time they did an across-the-board 10% raise - from memory, both these moves were made because Amazon Google Facebook were becoming much more serious competitors for Seattle employees. http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2011/04/microsofts-new-review-a...)
I've always asked for what I want to make and only once have I had a company ask for paystubs to back it up.

That one case was Google (about 8 years ago) and like an idiot I gave them the paystubs (which matched what I asked for). Their offer was 25% less.
It's an inaccurate summary because no-one "came" for Gawker. Gawker did this to themselves.
What was your education and experience ?
This is my standard recommended answer:

"I'm not comfortable sharing that information [my current salary]. I'd prefer to focus on the value I can add to your company and learn more about this opportunity.

I want this to be a big step forward for me in terms of both responsibility and compensation."

You can obviously adjust it for your own situation, but the idea is "I'm not comfortable telling you my current or desired salary. Let's keep going, please."

I call this "The Dreaded Salary Question" and you can see a better clip and a lengthy Q&A on this specific question in this salary negotiation workshop I did in Orlando last week: http://bit.ly/21zFG5q
I didn't downvote, but if you want to avoid them you could try using slightly different wording. E.g. sympathizing that a better term isn't readily available, rather than words which some will read as unnecessary criticism and or sounding exasperated.

Like, "I wish there was a better term for this, it makes it sound like a rape video." Actually it's hard to find exactly the right succinct term...
China doesn't try to hide the fact that they censor a huge chunk of the Internet. In fact, they seem rather proud of it.

Perhaps they could even use 451 as an easy way to detect potential "terrorists". Sort citizens by the number of 451s they generate each month, send a cop to the top 1% of them, and publish this fact to scare the other 99%. They're already using TCP resets as a core component of their censorship regime, so I wouldn't be surprised if this Internet standard got co-opted, too.

So instead of:

You are not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

They'll get:

HTTP 451. This incident will be reported.
This is really interesting and I'm glad that you shared.

I don't know if you'll like what I'm about to say, but you sound like a pragmatist so I figure that you will appreciate a no-BS answer.

It's likely that there's something about your manner, presentation, personality - which I can't and won't fathom to guess because I don't know you - that is tipping your hand and sending the message that you're bluffing or easily manipulated. Obviously nothing is going to work every time but the stuff Patrick and others relate is solid advice so it is of concern that you're repeatedly getting iced out.

The other possibility is that you're interviewing with terrible people; however, the common aspect is still you and the only way to grow is to analyze whether there's a problem.

Could you just not be very convincing? Do you have an irritating voice? Do people generally snicker when you make confident assertions? I don't know why it happens in any case, just that in some unlucky cases it does happen.

My advice is that you have to be thoroughly believable in your disappointment in their offer. You have to look unfazed when you refuse to tell them what you made in your last job.

Finally, if none of these things is true and you're basically George Clooney, then I urge you to interview at different companies.
"The median earnings of information technology managers (mostly men) are 27 percent higher than human resources managers (mostly women)."

My company has both an IT Manager and an HR Manager, and I interact with both and they have different roles and duties. This is not a fair comparison.
My cofounders and I believe CRM is broken... With a heavy emphasis on management and not the customer... What other areas of CRM do you see need improving?
When did Nike start hiring competent people?
I've gone from making 65k to 90k at the same company in the past two years. Though someone trying to poach me from another team in the company probably contributed to that.
well, hold on, i don't speak for yc, i was just going off of my own hiring experiences and perhaps extrapolating a bit creatively.

but i can read a lot into sama's "not very good" understatement. for a yc (or vc) partner to say that in an actual post is pretty telling.

and of course, my statement about grammar is grammatically wrong. not much changes on forum banter through the decades, does it?
Maybe it is a coincidence being posted on HN 7 months after the article was written, but the NY Post article is a great commentary on what is in the news these days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
Windows 10 is much more optimised than OSX. In my experience it runs faster and uses less memory in the same hardware.

But yeah, it's ugly, and it lacks things like Spotlight or Quick Look which make your life a lot easier.
https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode
I have a general life question for you Sam. What do you think is the main thing or things that holds great people back?
Constitutions are created to kill popular, reasonable laws. There are plenty of disincentives for bad behavior that don't require the force of law.
> Yes. Just as you can quit, walk out, and be done.

What is the flip-side to at-will employment though? Without at-will employment, do employees become slaves that cannot quit their job? Or are there only a small list of "legal" reasons for you to quit your job.

I always see "well the employee can always leave at any time too," but is that really something that disappears in places without at-will employment?
As an iOS developer, is there any way for me to get involved with your Basic Income research and development?
And with each round of financing your equity is likely getting diluted. If you are a good employee and sell some shares on the secondary market and continue to do a good job and remain at the company I don't think anyone can equate that with losing faith or imminent departure.
I've heard similar results before, and as a judge for another incubator which doesn't get near the application numbers as YC, I'll give you my two cents.

I wouldn't be to concerned on timestamps. I'd look more at time on site and time on video.

The video has to get to the point quickly and present your ideas. If I'm 15-20 seconds in and you haven't clearly stated your business, and I didn't get an instant understanding of it from your application, I'll probably stop watching the video, assuming that I'm not going to get anything more out of it.

If I decide to keep watching the video, I actually just listen to it while I'm reviewing the rest of the application.

Then I'll go on to the website if there is one. First off judgement of website will again be - is it clear why this exists, will a new user/customer/target get why they are here. What am I looking to get from the website? Can I find it, can I get more info.

I doubt I spend more than 30 seconds on an applicants website, but that isn't a dig, or even a negative. Go to any site like of a not yet publicly available product, try this test with google brillo https://developers.google.com/brillo/, set a watch and check out how much time you spend on the site. 30 seconds is a long time. 10 seconds is enough to get it and judge favorably or otherwise.

I've applied for the latest round of YC and was very surprised to see my video was watched for the full 2-minutes. I went over time, but explained everything up front (I think). At the same time, it's possible the video just played in the background while the judge moved on to other things and ignored it...
I'm sure the reply-to address forwarded to me while I was testing.
> at an elevation of 5,000 feet

That is not a hobby drone. I could never get mine to that height.
100% with you on this point. I'm pretty extroverted (whatever the hell that even means) and I can't stand open plan offices. When I get home from a workday in an open-plan I'm much more stressed and mentally exhausted. Whereas if I'm working in peace and quiet all day in a mini-partition in the bullpen I come home feeling refreshed and satisfied with my workday.

The extra noise and distractions in an open-plan force me to use more willpower to focus and end up depleting my mental energy. After complaining to my boss many times I eventually started wearing earmuffs and turned my workstation towards the corner so that I couldn't see people. Of course being the control-freak psychopath that he was he mocked me in front of everyone else for wearing earmuffs and when that didn't work he started calling me into his office every 5 minutes and would get angry at me if I didn't hear him calling. Wow what a shitty boss and so glad I got out of there.
So, to put things in perspective, Google TechLevel-5, which is "Senior Software Engineer" which is basically 1 level above Amazon's "SDE III" position.

Competitive pay offer:
$180k /year
$50k signing bonus
15% bonus per year
800 RSUs vested equally over 4 years (200/year)
600 RSUs vested in 100-chunks every quarter for the first 18 months.

Counting up, in the first 12 months, pay is about $670,000.

I gotta get seriously bumped at the end of 18 months to keep it up, otherwise my pay will slip to $350,000.

And that is what a competitive offer from a company that values their employees looks like.

I have friends who have totally gotten the $1m RSUs/year for 4 year offers from both Google, Facebook and others. These positions exist.

It helps to change jobs a bunch :-)
Wow, that city has one of the best visible-from-sky modern artifact collections I've seen:

https://www.google.com/maps/@6.3105913,5.595516,407m/data=!3...
Like rocksdb or lmdb but optimized for reads. Read-only DB.
The opposite of rain samples on your mind.
No, I swear, your baby is adorable!
But what is it that makes law enforcement a more powerful lobby? The average cop with several years of experience makes significantly less than an engineer straight out of college.
Not Sub-Saharan but I had fun with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_(video_game).

Also "Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms" is out.

http://www.forgottenempires.net/aoak
Regular people do not need to learn machine learning. Vocational training sounds great for all the ambiguous and hard to specify tasks required for essentially every industry.

These fruits of all our machine learning labors will take some time to materialize.
Would love this introduced into http://diffoscope.org/...
I agree, that's a poor answer by NASA director and chief engineer. Here is a better answer:

The precision used for calculations is dependent on the number of "steps" required to get to the final result. Roughly, for N repeated calculations you lose somewhere between sqrt(N) * eps to N * eps of precision (eps=2e-16 for IEEE64).

Here are some actual examples:

IEEE64 (~16 decimal digits) is OK for interplanetary navigation for few months, where relatively low accuracy is required.

With the same precision, you start to lose phase accuracy above 24 hours if you're simulating GPS constellations. You need quad precision or above for simulations > 24 hours.

For simulating planet trajectories and solar system stability (Lyapunov time of planets), IEEE64 is good for ~10 mya in the future (Neptune-Pluto Lyapunov time), IEEE128 for ~200-1000mya, above that it is recommended to use 256bit floats and above. This is assuming typically ~1000 steps per simulated orbit.

Fun fact: we know from simulations that Pluto trajectory is stable for >10G years, but unpredictable above >10M years because of chaotic (but stable) interaction with Neptune.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_System
What are the legitimate First Amendment ramifications here? Gawker published a sex tape of Hogan. And this wasn't a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian "maybe they leaked it themselves" style sex tape. This was a "security camera footage, he might not have even known he was being recorded" sex tape. That isn't an issue of freedom, it is an issue about sexually victimizing someone.
And not all Googlers make this little. I have the same position, in the bay area, and my pay structure is roughly:

$180k/year
15% bonus ~ $30k/year
600 RSUs in the first year = $440,000
400 RSUs in the second year = $280,000
200 RSUs in 3rd and 4th year (assuming no refreshers, and oh boy there will be refreshers!)

Male, native english speaker.

It helps that my prior job had a comp level around $480k/year and also I got hired when GOOG was $550/share.

BTW, the T-5 salary band ends at $180k. So you're pretty close. Its the RSUs that make all the difference.
Conan could use this for his fake celebrity interviews instead of just cutting the mouth out of an image. :)
Yep and ditto for that shit pile known as Gawkwer Media. Techcrunch is another one to be avoided. As far as I can tell the only tech bubble that exists is the one these media companies keep trying to drag into existence.
A far more costly (and frightening) example is the Eastern Span of the SF Bay Bridge, e.g.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bay-bridge-repor...

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Caltrans-Allowed-Bad-We...

And things are known to be even worse than these older stories imply. I couldn't find a good, concise summary of the problems, costs, and long-term effects.
What serious First Amendment ramifications are these?

The First Amendment doesn't give you free reign to say whatever you like whenever you like, and there are already limitations on the First Amendment with regards to things like obscenity and speech that appeals to prurient interests:

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

Posting a private sex tape without permission is not likely to pass the Miller test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
According to Google NGrams, World Wars I and II both primarily used 3.1416 to represent pi.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=3.1416&year_st...
Unauthorized is certainly better than non-consensual, particularly in a sex-related context, but I would also even question the word porn.

I know it's commonly used as in 'revenge porn' but is it 'porn' when people record themselves having sex for private use? Seems to me it trivializes takes away from the issue, which is an invasion of privacy.

In fact don't know exactly what Gawker showed, but if the content was pornographic they would presumably be responsible, as all porn publishers are, for complying with record keeping under 18 USC 2257. An impossibility in this case.
Just watch for a youtube upload with a "fuckin sick flyover footage of a jet, brah"
According to Forbes: "less than 1 percent of the 27 million businesses in the U.S. are publicly traded on the major exchanges." [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2013/05/26/4-things-yo...
A TEDTalk on the Future of AR
The sad thing about Atlas is... why should it be so complicated anyway? If you can prove your identity, and can pay the franchise fees, it should be completely trivial to setup a legal entity and start paying taxes in any country. You just file the paperwork.

Is it the bank account that's the hard thing to get? If you have a Deleware C corp with a statement of good standing and an annual report identifying the corporate officers, and you're the President setting up a bank/merchant account, is this not just a routine affair?
I think that a quarterly "Ask HN: How much do you make?" Would be a great addition to the "Who's Hiring?" threads.

I posted one for Google here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449

This Amazon thread has been very enlightening.
Ex-Amazonian here. Started as an SE1 in 2012 @ $98k, $20k signing bonus ($18k second year), 160 RSUs, and relocation expenses.
How to receive data from the Querystring in Nodejs
"Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women."

This statement requires historical perspective:[0]

"Coding implied manual labor, and mechanical translation or rote transcription ... [women] would code into machine language the higher-level mathematics developed by male scientists and engineers."

In other words, women did not do the type of "computer programming" done today. The job changed significantly as technology became easier and more accessible, and these type of "coders" became obsolete.

[0] http://womensenews.org/2012/03/women-were-first-computer-pro...
> But even if they were working on Pinboard, it's still a free service

https://pinboard.in/faq/

What does it cost?

Pinboard costs $11/year.

Archiving accounts cost $25/year.

Happy paying user.
Good attitude, and though I agree with some of the points brought up, I will ask you make a small adjustment to your final statement re:'the right solution'.

You may not and most likely are not near to the right solution, and your goal maybe shouldn't be to find the right solution to the stated problem, but can you keep rephrasing the problem to show you a better solution to a better problem?

It is very difficult not to get attached to a solution to a problem, but if you're solving for the wrong problem, you've already lost.
Anyone care to share details on compensation and career progression (bumps in salary / stock) in London?

Also the bonuses quoted here sound a lot higher than the standard 15%.
correct headline should be Shapley, not Shapely
Serious question -- can you point to a better (or at least more free) recursive, graphical debugger for Windows than IDA?
Which while cool, is not the norm. Anecdotes don't counter that.
I'm SDE II an earn just a little more base than you ($117K). Judging by conversations with team members about which tax brackets we fall in and how much we save/invest per year, I'm fairly sure I'm underpaid for my level.

There's a college hire PM in my team (not PM II, so he's either 59 or 60) who's single and in the 33% bracket. That means he's making at least $189K a year.

Edit: I should add, my PM coworker could be wrong about his tax bracket. I can't fathom how they would offer him that much in base salary + stock. But he did mention being in the 33% bracket.
I think this is a typo. Right?
I see it mainly ending up in parsers, transforms, protocols, and function composition. That by itself would be fine given all the problems in those. Then, other stuff handles all the wild code that most certainly won't be LANGSEC compatible but will run the world's software. ;)

It's another tool in the toolbox. My hope is they'll find new wisdom on just how expressive one needs to be for optimal productivity, readability, and verification tradeoff. Meanwhile, there's work in DSL-based, verified kernels and software that's already gotten closer to that. A race between all of them to figure out similar things. I wonder who will win.

Example of project using DSL's for high-assurance security/correctness
http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1436.pdf
Hey Sam:

So I've been working diligently for the last few weeks putting the final edits on my application to YC. I'm 68 years old an the only founder. On the positive side I've got almost 50 years of work in the project that defines the state of the art.

Am I wasting my time in applying considering my age and singleness?
I find this interesting as I thought one of the benefits of YC was the community, and it seems there has been a lot of talk about the community tools available to alumni. Have you not had any benefit from these at all? Or do you mean specifically you don't interact with YC partners?
Gawker wasn't whining about the First Amendment when it was female celebrities whose tapes were leaked.

This is a good outcome in every possible respect.
The name is interesting but pretty bad.

Startup names should be easy to spell, pronounce, and remember.

Three strikes against this one.
Holy wow! I'm not Sam but kudos, keep at it no matter what. Inspired right now.
MSFT hired me at the lowest level (SDE I level 59) when I already had about 6 years experience.

I know someone who was a had a senior role at one company and was a lead at another and was also hired as SDE I.

I think it's a bad case of "doesn't matter what they did before, we're freaking MSFT, no one's good enough for us to be hired into a higher position."
Any time. It's one of the things I'm good at. :)
I get what you are saying but remember founders and execs need quality people to build and maintain a successful company. Its unlikely that you will be fired for this. I think if you went and told everyone within earshot that you did this it might problematic but if you kept it to yourself and did it discretely I think its unlikely to cause problems. Also like I mentioned ask these companies(and theres on a couple) if they sold options for your company before.

As far as psychos and/or the cult mentality, my view is that I wouldn't want to work there anyway but thats me.
Yeah, but the claim was:

> Companies never give substantial raises to current employees.

and a single counterexample is enough to counter it.
Yes. Wait for them to make you an offer. It can be difficult, but the reward for your persistence will be more money in the form of a higher base salary (the gift that keeps on giving).

You have very little unique information when you enter the negotiation (you know your current salary, your desired salary, and how badly you need the job—that's about it). They have tons of information that you don't have (what they're willing to pay, what they're already paying others to do the job, how badly they need to fill the position, how badly they want you in particular).

By waiting for them to make an offer, you retain the unique information you have AND you wait for them to reveal some of the information you didn't have. When they make you an offer, you now know approximately what they're willing to pay you to do the job. This is a very big gain for you and allows you to negotiate much more effectively and increase your salary.
Miles and inches? Please learn and use standard international (SI) units. It's important.
How to raise a queen not a B*tch
It's weird and possibly generational in America; my mom specifically warned me that people would be "highly jealous" of my salary and that I should keep it a secret when I first entered the workforce.
The way I interpreted it was that their isn't a free speech angle to either.

>That doesn't remotely describe what happened to the women whose pictures were published a few years back.

According to Tampa police they think the tape was stolen by an employee of Bubba the Lovesponge[0]. The only essential difference I can see is that the photos of the female celebrities were created with their knowledge, which I don't think is much of a difference at all.

[0] http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/50653538-story
Probably and hexa or octocopter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxdeRx2fLA