skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a bit like worrying about establishing your
> religious bona fides if you're a bishop

I have created a whole lot of software for money. None of it gives any insight in to my conscience.

A better example would be trying to establish religious bona fides as a result of being a carpenter who makes church pews.
Yup, and it's even worse than that, because the stock price also depends on things beyond the scope of your company entirely.

Your compensation can fluctuate based on what Janet Yellen says in a speech.
Ah, the outside offer is an absolute game changer, which IMO puts it in the same league as actually changing jobs. Often you have to show that you are willing and able to leave for a much better salary to actually get the much better salary.

If you are just internally lobbying for a salary increase at your existing employer, regardless of how successful you may be, how much revenue you are bringing in, etc. I would say at the vast majority of companies you will not see nearly the same raise as either presenting a compelling outside offer, or actually taking an outside offer.

Another way of thinking of it is that a company cannot pay their employees an arbitrary amount, it has to be justified up the chain, and usually that justification is based on "grades" or "scales" of some kind or another. Most of these scales will include a fixed range for annual raises. By bringing an outside offer, you are providing the necessary documentation that your manager, HR, all the way up the chain is required to actually sign off on the raise. The outside offer means no one is sticking their neck out to justify an out-of-spec raise, or claim someone was being previously underpaid, it's just a simple equation -- the employee has an offer, and the company can make a counter-offer or not.

Of course the trick is if they decline to counter, or counter low, you have to consider if you then leave, or stay? You also probably can't come back year after year with new outside offers, it's a trick you can only turn to so often.
> I have to praise Google for the way the situation was handled

The original creator of the spreadsheet claimed that she was retaliated against in the form of her manager rejecting peer bonuses sent to her.
dang, the variety of behaviors you witness each day would make for a great book in itself. Sign me up, I'll buy the first copy!
Perpetual rides may be their goal, but I don't see how they will not get there. For example, there's no way they are going to find as many people wanting to go to sport stadiums as are wanting to get away from them, just after the end of the game, and stadiums typically are so far out of about every other destination that they cannot make a detour there with a paying passenger on board to pick up a second passenger.

That applies to a lesser extent to such things as theaters and cinemas, and even suburbs (who wants to get picked up there at 1 AM to fill the car that that theater goer took home?)

They will get below 50:50 for "at least one passenger on board", but it would surprise me if they managed to beat a 25:75 ratio.
re Grantland:

I'm not sure if this news has circulated widely beyond people who listen to his podcast[0], but Bill Simmons (founder of Grantland, creator of '30 for 30'; fired by ESPN/Disney last year after criticizing Roger Goodell) has hired the core of Grantland's former writers, editors and staff, to start 'The Ringer':

http://theringer.com

Currently half-launched as an email newsletter, presumably while the infrastructure for a proper website is being developed.

If Deadspin does indeed shut down after this (... though I think the people in this discussion are taking this as far more of a given than it is), then there will be a massive hole in this side of independent sports media, that The Ringer would be a top contender for filling.

--

[0] http://thebillsimmonspodcast.tumblr.com/tagged/Bill-Simmons
Hey, would you be willing to go a little in to your background/qualifications as well as maybe what your daily/weekly workload and goals look like? BI is a field I'm curious about because it sounds very interesting, very important, and as far as I can tell, with tons of surplus demand even for entry level. It makes me wonder if the actual day to day must be horrible for those things to be true.
mhmm, I never considered direct contact, I thought it might be too intrusive. The websites you provided seems nice, I'll definitely check them out
To be honest, I think traditional shells are now only good for environments where you know you aren’t doing anything too weird and all the most likely inputs work as expected without a lot of effort. This is spending time wisely; just because everything except a zero can technically be part of a Unix filename doesn’t mean that I want to invest hours or days making damn sure everything works for pathological cases.

If I actually do want to guard against every case imaginable, I immediately switch to Python or some other language that at least knows how to quote things unambiguously without a lot of effort.
Al Bundy invented a shoe with a built-in sock.
I think the best part of the article, and perhaps the best summary why this is happening is this single line:

"who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think...and 5) who to vote for."

People are seeing right through the political class and media, and it's making them extremely worried. They see an elite that seems to utterly hate them, ignore things they consider issues (while attacking anyone who disagrees as 'bigots') and who who seem more interested in lining their own pockets than actually helping society.
I've only ever done this (caveat: in the US, where they can't legally check by calling the company directly). Increase your previous salary by 20-30%, even more if it's the norm. I've even countered with "my current co just countered to keep me..." Gotta have some chutzpah.
Armenia was an empire at some point, just not at the time of Ani. The title could be referring to Armenia in general, since it's most definitely an empire the world forgot about :)
Any good research Uni's psych department will have some TMS studies going on over the course of a year. You'll probably have to do a repetitive task and they probably won't be doing any diagnostics (for that you're way better off with a FMRI or EEG study, where they're often happy to share the data with you), but if you're just curious about the experience you can probably get paid a pittance to try it out.
After the capture of his palaces/compounds, there was some media coverage of his sci-fi cover art collection.

(Just google "saddam hussein sci-fi cover art")
That's because autism isn't deeply understood yet and so it's diagnosed based on symptoms. But having effective workarounds doesn't mean you don't have the underlying condition - imagine a diagnostic for blindness that said 'cannot safely navigate an unknown area' and then diagnosed a guy with a seeing-eye dog as 'not blind'.
They do. But hoisting projects in the sidebar does much the same thing. It's not that tabs wouldn't add anything, but they would also add more UI and potential confusion.

Tabs were always a little odd in TaskPaper because 99% of tab interfaces use tabs for different documents/website. TaskPaper tabs on the other hand referred to slices of a single document and people were sometimes confuse that they were not separate files.

Anyway, that's why they are not there now. I can't promise I won't change my mind and add them back at some point. But right now I'm pretty happy with the decision.
That not a great example. A better one is to build a v0.00000001 that actually works but is obviously not the final product nor even an MVP. E.g. a technical demonstration of some component.
Are rights that you have to pay a lot of money for really rights? See poll taxes. I'm not arguing either way about the current case in question.
HR and management have the upper hand in the hiring process. If you play these kinds of games when negotiating salary, you deserve to be lied to - whether or not you take it well doesn't matter.
When I took astronomy, anything within an order of magnitude (10) was considered to be the same number. Calculations are very easy when you're only worrying about the number in the exponent.
Plot twist: she's actually discovered a correlation between people who grew up near a church and autism.
How do you get business. Im thinking of consulting but I don't know where to start in selling myself.
This comment does not pass the principle of charity. You can't just take one isolated comment from twitter and use it as evidence against him. Twitter is supposed to be a place where you're able to share anything quickly.

Here's a good aggregate measure of his influence.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=64BtMdsAAAAJ&hl=en

Below is a linked technical book vol1 of Silent Risk. Which definitely demonstrates his abilities.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIR1o1dnk5ZmRaaGs...
No, because it's not an attempt at logical argumentation, it's just me expressing that I'd rather not waste my time expressing my political opinions to someone I perceive as totally unreceptive to them.
In a sense, langsec is complementary to verification, as it pertains more to specification than to implementation. Partly it's about using the least powerful level of the Chomsky hierarchy you can get away with, but, if you need to go higher, to do so unequivocally: if you need a CFG, go for a CFG, don't try to wing it with a regex.
Interesting! I will ask my friend in the neurology department if she knows anything :)
Sam, this conception of an "idea"
is in astoundingly strong
conflict with the conceptions of ideas elsewhere in business and national security that are commonly
strongly and seriously protected as classified national security secrets (e.g., how stealth works, how the engines on the SR-71 worked, the details of the Navy's version of GPS), intellectual property, trade secrets, patents, how academic honors are awarded, e.g., the Abel prize, the Nobel science prizes, the Fields Medal, the Clay Math prizes, and more.

"The very best ideas usually don't seem worth stealing."

is an astounding statement.
There are plenty around - one example where I live is a very persistent chap with some sort of mystical flying machine based on garbage physics and a track record including fraud by scamming investors.
Once the PIP appears, improvement has already failed. If your peers and manager can't fix your performance problem, his could some arbitrary HR paperwork process?
Today's update: Near miss between drone and Lufthansa A380-800 near LAX. [1] Location 5000' over downtown LA, 14 miles east of the airport. The drone was above the aircraft.

Effort is being put into finding this drone operator. Not many drones can make it to 5000 feet. This isn't some small toy.

[1] http://abc7.com/news/lufthansa-flight-has-near-miss-with-dro...
People on the autism spectrum live an average of 18 fewer years, study finds
Something I've long wondered: howwell do they deal with inclement weather?
In astronomy, you only need to get the order of magnitude right to within an order of magnitude.
Doesnt seem like you need that many digits of Pi when working with green screens and premiere.
The issues with WebSockets are more political than technical. WebSockets are the superior technical solution with wide availability. However, at present, HTTP has better tooling (e.g. debug tools, devops tools) and developers are more familiar with it. HTTP is the de-facto standard for APIs as well.

If you're the sole developer of a Single Page App with no API, then this difference may not be important. But if you're working with a team, or across teams, then building a WebSocket-only app will bring pain. As another commenter mentioned, as long as equivalent actions are possible via HTTP then some of the issues are alleviated.
Thank you for challenging my thoughts on the subject. I'll consider what you write here as we come up with messaging. I agree with characterizing the situation as pro/anti back door rather than pro/anti encryption.

Note that this is still an analogy. For better or for worse, analogies are used often in education. They're not the whole picture but they are a tool or gateway to other knowledge, if you will.

Anyway thanks again and I look forward to more critical feedback from you should we get a site off the ground. I can't say I'll necessarily agree but I will try to read and consider what you write.
I agree. How about "unauthorized"?
That's a story about Russia
I have overseen 25-30% increases for developers as part of a normal salary review process as recognition that their experience at the current company had grown them in to more senior developers.

No negotiation, no threats to leave, they weren't aware until we gave them the cash.
Did you post the wrong link? There is no mention of a definition of colored, or any mention at all as to what sort of impact Jim Crow laws had on Asian immigrants. The website solely talks about Caucasian and Black. Your angle here is disingenuous: if you actually thought Jim Crow directly impacted Asian communities you wouldn't have left that out of your original argument about the terrible things that Korean immigrants have faced. ("Korea was dirt poor (think worst part of Africa levels) since forever, then a war, then refugees into the racist US.")

Yes, every individual person's experience is unique. However, that was not my point. My point was that the typical Korean immigrant's experience is a different situation than the typical experience of an ancestor of an African-American today. (Call it two brands: the general "Korean-American" paperclip, and a general "African-American" paperclip.)

Korean immigrants and their descendents, simply put, were and are in a different situation than African-Americans or their ancestors. Some parts of either of their situations are outside the control of individuals.

Can you say with a straight face that 200 years of legalized segregation, and concomitant economic starvation, should disappear ("unbend") within 60 years of it being de facto uplifted?
Do you move every 1.5 years? that must be fun ...
I'd say it's not so-much the cost of living which really drives the pay ranges, it's more the level of local competition for talent. The actual cost of living difference between, e.g. metro-west Boston and Bay Area probably can explain less than half of the salary difference.
BTW, the computers in the ship were also made by HP.

There is a great story about an incident where a waste recycling problem caused a mission to be aborted. There was urine all over the inside of the capsule. NASA publicly reported that it was a computer failure.

Unfortunately HP had just done an ad campaign about their computers in space. HP sued and NASA settled for an unknown amount.
"Yes, Minister" was a dramatization of leaks from UK government. They had great sources.
Or bringing back dead actors using past footage!
> This bonanza of profits that automation yields is taxed.

Optimizing companies will do everything possible to avoid the corporate taxes (>60%) required to make universal basic income a reality. If you are assuming that winning companies are the best at implementing automation and reducing cost, it is a fatal mistake to assume that they will suddenly become charitable when it comes to wealth redistribution - no, they will "win" because they optimize every single aspect of their balance sheets. They'll move their capital offshore where it will be taxed at a fraction of the US rate. They'll pay lobbyists to make sure tax loopholes stay open, and that the wealth accretes to the few at the top of the company who run the business. This is simply the nature of capitalism. If you allow a few companies to gain too much power, they will abuse that power. That is why we have a government that does an OK job of breaking up monopolies, creating anti-trust laws, regulating risk-taking, etc.

> taxes from the accumulated wealth of the winners...go toward paying the laid-off laborers a basic income

What about the people who never had a job? Those born into a society where they are not needed for labor? UBI for everyone creates a large misdirection of resources that perpetuates the problem of too many people, too few jobs, social unrest. We have solved this problem in the past through war, which stimulates the economy through government spending, reduces excess labor (especially young, angry, dangerous men), reignites nationalism and social cohesion (against a common and clearly evil enemy such as Hitler), and realigns national incentives towards R&D and infrastructure investment. I am not advocating for war, merely making an observation. Does UBI get distributed to everyone who is unemployed, or only those who are laid off from jobs?

I encourage you to examine the concept of "helicopter money" and study the incentive structures it creates and why we haven't truly implemented it before during tough economic times.
I'm curious, what domain was the email sent from?

In my experience, google recruiters email from "@google.com" addresses, and the emails are both "signed by" and "mailed by" google.com (indicating the DKIM and SPF check out).

If that's all true of this sender, it might be worth taking seriously.
Try metaphorically beating your head against the literal keyboard.
That works well when your API is small and understood. But when you're exporting someone else's results (e.g., returning the result of a floating point operation,) your tests could start to become so exacting that they are more difficult to write and less reliable than the code you're testing itself. In that case, writing tests is basically writing an ad-hoc waterfall-style software specification.

I tend to write tests when I'm not confident in the implementation or when the tests are trivial to write. At least, that's how I do it for new developments. If you're releasing code that people are relying on, you should have a whole suite of user tests and regression tests.
Hi Sam,

What do you think is the best way for someone to express the challenges and circumstances in life they deal with and work to overcome. These typically aren't things one would list on a resume.

Thanks
Ha. I don't know if I'd go quite that far, and I believe it has a bit more innocence behind it.

Interpersonal, HR related issues are usually very low on the list of things your manager enjoys. Assuming you're well known for publicly discussing salary, giving you an average raise and keeping you at the same salary might make you a little upset when you feel you deserve more (to which you might get a "my hands are tied" or "there wasn't room in the budget, this time"), but giving you a salary that eclipses your colleagues will make the rest of the team angry -- and probably a lot more angry than you'll get by just receiving the average. Unfortunately, the math ends up being not to your benefit.
Never "decline". I say I consider the entire compensation package because I realize they are a startup and need to sweeten their offer with stock because they don't have the revenue to pay a market rate.

It's important to neg them a little when you guess what they will offer. Male them self consious about lowballing you without insulting them.

I actually am beginning to think that its weak to ask them to throw out a number. Why not state a deal that's 10% better than what you want? Are you really going to be heartbroken if you get more than you want?
It is when your signing bonus/cash advances expire and raises are never higher than 2%. Also had 100 or so RSU's.
You can't get promoted by claiming that your senior peers' work was flawed and you fixed it. The optics fail.
What it means to be an Open Source leader
And now you know everything you'll ever need to about the "shortage" of tech talent.
That is none of their business and you should not feel bad about saying no.
Handheld calculators typically get between 8 and 12 digits of precision. A four-function calculator will top out at 8; a scientific calculator will offer more (plus scientific notation support).

15 digits is about what's offered in double precision floating point calculations.
A previous employer of mine actually had a policy of never matching offers from other employers. I'm no longer there.
Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption
Under these new FCC terms the violation is giving you the ability to change your radios power. That would apply to imported hardware from China - notice how all that stuff has FCC approved labeling on it.

Of course this ruling makes no sense.
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with a single resource for this, which probably contributes to developers being unfamiliar. There is a lot of domain specific knowledge depending upon if you're working with graphics, distributed computing, memory allocators, operating system kernels, network device drivers, etc.

The universal knowledge is learning to run well designed experiments, and this comes from practice. It's like how you would debug code without a debugger. There are profiling tools in some contexts that help you run these experiments, but at the highest level simply calculating the number of bytes that move through components divided by the amount of time it took is very enlightening.

It's valuable to have some rough familiarity of the limits of computer architecture. You can also do this experimentally; for example, you could test disk performance by timing how long it takes to copy a file much larger than RAM. You could try copying from /dev/zero to /dev/null to get a lower bound on RAM bandwidth. You can use netcat to see network throughput.

Bandwidth is only part of the picture; in some cases latency is important (such as servicing many tiny requests). Rough latency numbers are in [0, 1], but can also be learned experimentally.

Many popular primitives actually dont perform that great per node. For example something like a single MySQL or Spark node might not move than ~10MB/s per node; significantly lower than network bandwidth. You can actually use S3 to move data faster if it has a sequential access pattern :)

[0] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[1] https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
Does YC take Jason and other early-stage investors as direct competitors?
It's a fair point. Never lie. Say I need $x to move.
A college friend and I both got hired to Amazon in the same round of campus hires. We both accepted Seattle positions, but then between accepting the position and graduating, his team moved to SF, and his offer got increased to compensate for the higher COL there.

Two other situations involved coworkers transferring teams from Seattle, one to Toronto and one to India, both had COL adjustments to their salary.

(Admittedly the evidence is less strong in the latter two cases because they involved simultaneous country changes)
Shellinabox: export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal
"Everything is linear if plotted on a log-log plot and with a fat enough magic marker."

- Mar's Law
Give it time...
That's why I have autosale set up for my stock.
On the topic of tort reform, I'd suggest the documentary Hot Coffee. It obviously has a bias but it really made an impact on how I view these large settlements.

These huge sums are required to set an example and not just be a fine. If he only won $500,000, then then next time a similar situation arises it just becomes a math question. Can they can earn more than $500,000 by releasing and paying the "fine".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(film)