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It depends on what you want to convey. For example, as a layman and someone who likes structured data, I want to find out "what are the top professions for the offspring of profession X"? To me, this screams like a sorted table of some kind with a selection.

The relative sized bars are cool in terms of animation but man, they are a pain to read.
I own a working NeXTSTEP (Color!), if anyone wants one. I'm not using it.
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Seriously this. Salary is NOT everything, and a job that is kicking your butt all day and especially eating into weekends is not worth the tradeoffs. At least, it will catch up with you.

Salary is useful for buying things, up until a point, and at a certain point (assuming you aren't too materialistic) whether you are enjoying the job and other things gets to be way more important, and monetary compensation really doesn't make you that much happier.
And if you're looking for commercial software that produces PDFs right in the browser, see http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/pdf-export/page-layout

Disclaimer: I'm part of the team. Also see http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/framework/drawing/drawing-d...
As a counterpoint, compulsory free education for all children is a public good that couldn't be accomplished or sustained for decades without the state intruding upon the personal autonomy of the child and the parent (and childless taxpayers.)
Oh come on now.

Your car doesn't go from weighing light as a feather to 4000lbs at the speed of light when two pieces of metal that you can't see connect.

There's a reason you should have a healthy respect of high voltage lines, there's no visual indicator that they are energized. At 400V anything that's unshielded will also jump a non-trivial distance.
It would help a lot for typical data warehouse queries that involves aggregating millions to billions of rows. SELECT EXPLAIN ANALYZE will tell if its relevant for you ;-)
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A young marketing executive has made an innocuous comment on this somewhat elaborate joke. Suppose his/her boss thought that video games were a waste of time and saw that comment on his Facebook feed. "What are you doing watching this stupid video game recording?"

What this brings up is that the surveillance inherent in social media is different from traditional surveillance. As more-and-more websites encourage you to log into your social media account to use their website, so the degree to which other people can see what websites you are browsing. Its a gradual increase in sousveillance of one's own browsing habits for your online social network to see.

I am not criticizing anyone, but merely remarking at the growth of, for instance, Facebook beyond Facebook.com.

Edit: I just noticed the check box. It is actually optional, in this case, whether to make your comment appear on Facebook.com. Nevertheless, people's real names are appearing thereon.
This is really no different than OS X, except that it somehow is different.

What I mean by that is that OS X has hundreds of small features, keystrokes and affordances that are probably documented somewhere, but that I and most other people tend to find either by accident or by being told about them.

Apple's products have always been this way, and I rather like it. It is similar to my learning experiences with physical tools - over time, I've found a lot of tricks and 'off-label' uses for various woodworking tools by experience, and the OS sort of mimics that process.

For whatever reason, it doesn't work as well on the phone. I suspect it is partly that I don't spend hours at end doing things with my phone - I look something up, send a text, call someone, whatever and put it back in my pocket. A second factor is I almost never do complicated things on a phone. I have edited code in vi and then pushed/deployed it from my 6s, but not by choice, and that's not even that complicated.

So I do think discoverability is somewhat worse on a phone, at least for the way I use one, and it seems like an indirect form-factor consequence. It isn't that the form factor can't be used for complex tasks, but it is much more comfortable elsewhere, so the phone stays relegated to simpler stuff, which doesn't lead to the same degree of discovery/experimentation/happy accidents.
All of those services have very valid Open Source alternative, why be locked in a closed environment ?
all right (just to be clear I have nothing to do with the spreadsheet.)

I was actually thinking that this could be a sort-of 'standing offer' from people as well. I mean hiring would certainly be a lot easier if everyone on linkedin had their price that you could probably immediately get them for!

This is just particularly true in the tech industry, which is prone to delirious investor-fueled bubbles on the one hand, but in which, on the other hand, employees really can generate a few million dollars worth of value over a weekend. (For example, by refining a checkout recommendation for related items, that one refinement could objectively result in an extra $million in sales through that exact mechanism.)

So I think the ability to actually reach workers at their jump-ship price (as opposed to just anonymously asking them for it, without any possibility for follow-up) could be a net benefit to employees. Good tech workers are extremely scarce.
Or more accurately: How many cargo containers full of money do you have?
I think saving for perpetuity is a good idea. Lots of endowment money lives for centuries in these institutions, spitting off gains- it would be selfish of a particular generation to draw this fund down excessively.

Considering long-term real rates of return on a diversified portfolio, a 4% annual withdrawal rate (the "4% rule") is advocated for most retirees- and they only have to make their nest egg last 30 years.

What sort of signal would that give to charitable givers to the university when it decides to start taking 8% per year, and seeing the money exponentially decay? I'm in no position to donate a large amount to a university, but if I were I would imagine that I would like to see it live on, not wither on the vine.
I wonder if Google Play allows pricing segmentation per area. I'm seeing a $6.55AUD game, which is higher than most, although if it frees me from any kind of IAP I'd consider it.
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It's intriguing to see such a wide variety when it comes to salary, bonus, stock, etc. I think there are a lot of mitigating circumstances when it comes to how employers think about salaries and it's not a "one size fits all" model. Seeing this makes it easy for someone on the surface to think they're getting a raw deal if they see their job title along with a higher salary than they're getting paid. Hopefully more information will be transparent and people will get numbers like these in better context. It's not to justify the level of salary, but to provide more background since everyone's background is different.
There's Aerion.[1] They were going to build an 8-passenger supersonic bizjet. Top speed Mach 1.5, cruise Mach 1.4, price $120 million, first flight planned for 2021. They're still talking about where to build the factory, but they're already taking pre-orders.

[1] http://www.aerionsupersonic.com/
This is incredibly shortsighted. The point of an endowment is not to pay it off, the point is that the endowment persists indefinitely, and the interest / returns fund operations.

If people wanted to contribute directly to a university, they can. Instead they're contributing to the endowment. Respect that choice.

It's pathetic that universities have actually set up a sustainable source for funding scholarships etc indefinitely -- where spending caps are actually restricted -- and the vultures immediately descend to suck it dry and spend it off. And then in a few decades when it's gone: ???
Thanks Dang :).
Animation software (toonz) used by Futurama is now free & opensource
I'd put my salary on there, but it's a specific number in the $400k-$800k range (yes, base), which is basically identifiable. I may be the only person at my company on this specific number. (And I'm nervous about tightening that range up any more!) How many other highly paid professionals have the same hesitation? The really high salaries may never be part of an anonymous survey like this, where you are required to be that specific.
I want to be a Donut. Can't be mad at a donut.
Whose idea was it to have the 2 initial pie graphs switch colors? It makes it look like there's some sort of inverse relationship between pirating and purchasing on a given platform, when in fact it's roughly the same proportion of pirates and purchasers on mobile and PC.

http://i0.wp.com/tinybuild.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/re...

http://i0.wp.com/tinybuild.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pi...
> "the endowment managers are just trying to maximize returns"

respectfully, the article paints a much darker and more insidious picture than that.
Yes you can.

You were paid for those things. You can't hold them ransom.
I'm surprised they didn't have it until now...
Although "gcloud preview app modules stop <module> --version=<version> is documented, and does the same thing.
If you remove htmlview from the end of the URL, you'll get the regular view with the option to download from the File menu.
Background:

http://www.ipjustice.org/internet-governance/ip-justice-jour...
That's something I never understood (and admittedly never researched either). Isn't there something in the constitution about freedom of association?
I carried the banner for reStructuredText for a while in the "text markup wars", but at this point have mostly given in and switched to Markdown for ubiquity's sake. There are still things that reStructuredText has done for a long time that Markdown could learn from (standardized extensions, for instance).

Hopefully, maybe one of these days CommonMark will finally get everybody on the same page, in the future.

Kramdown, at least, from what I've seen seems to be the most useful superset of CommonMark. I'd love to see CommonMark updated to reflect more of the Kramdown default extensions.

As for some of the specific formatting issues the author found in Kramdown: backtick code fences are supported with the Github-Flavored Markdown option turned on, which now should be the default on GitHub Pages. Smart quotes are also an option you can turn on in Kramdown, although I ended up using typogr.js [1] for this personally.

Also, I shuddered at the idea of XML being a "better" alternative to Markdown, but to each their own (blunt force hammer).

[1] https://github.com/ekalinin/typogr.js
If you believe that abortion is immoral, then it cannot be the subject of legitimate markets. We don't allow private businesses to discriminate against black people, use child labor, or buy and sell babies or organs, etc. Nobody sees those restrictions as being intrusion into private markets, because they don't consider those markets legitimate in the first place.

Which goes back to the original point: Republicans don't profess that personal freedom and free markets should apply in all circumstances. There are some things that are the proper subject of markets, and some things that are the proper domain of government. Things that are the proper domain of the government's right to regulate morality (e.g. pornography, abortion, drugs), are not within the proper domain of markets.
What if university endowments were used to fund research and implementation into ways to drive down the cost of education to zero?
The point is to have a single binary for every single endpoint you need.

Now you can deploy those binaries in whatever platform makes sense for you and scale those endpoint independently.

All being open source.
Motivational posters have become such an annoying cliché that you can make a successful business out of parodying them:

http://despair.com
> The most interesting conclusion though is Localization and its impact. Punch Club clearly shows that localizing games to Western European languages pays off, and has a very low piracy rate.
The only iPhone (actualy iOS device of any kind) I've ever bought that's not still in active use is my first, a 3G. My daughter still uses my 3GS to this day. The screen is cracked, but it's fully functional and she can even still download compatible apps from the App Store. Even ones that are no longer available for sale, but which I bought back in the day (I'm thinking of Lemonade Stand).

I've got excellent value for money from every iOS device I've ever had, with regular software updates years after they were bought.
A right-click equivalent already existed: a long press.

3D Touch is the long press controlled by finger pressure instead of time pressed. It took an already hard-to-discover feature and made it more nuanced (that is, more complicated).
Honest / naive question. How do you even start an aerospace company "in your basement"?
Could the hotmail address have been allowed because it's listed on his domain name's WHOIS?
SpaceX has also had a lot of [issues commensurate with the nature of their industry]. That's fine with a rocket, [and also fine with a new airplane, as long as the issues are proportionate with what is common in their industry].
Seattle. But I am open to moving.
Will Hulk Hogan's sex tape award kill Gawker?
Hey Blake, I'm Salim. I like what you guys are doing :)

Interested in understanding more about how you plan to tackle cooling and heating when gaining altitude and hitting supersonic speeds respectively through materials different to the Aluminium used on the Concorde (you mentioned carbon fiber), which considering you're planning on reaching M3 will be important

Also interested in understanding more about what you're base case assumption for affordability is / what mitigants you've put in place for any change in these assumptions (rise in oil prices, airlines being able to charge crazy amounts due to product exclusivity (clearly will be just a handful of player who have access to this engineering in our life time I imagine) etc...). Would be nice to hear a bit about what engineering thinking has gone into the cost saving..are we still looking at the same delta wing we saw previously?

From what I've seen so far very cool and exciting - look forward to following your story!
To be fair to our electric friends, electric motors are >90% efficient while turbofans top out at somewhere near 35% efficiency (as far as I can find).. So what appears to be a 40:1 advantage to kerosene is more like a 15:1 advantage -- substantial but much more accessible with ongoing battery improvements. Though as another commenter mentioned, fuel planes do definitely benefit from shedding weight the entire time they're moving.
> Real calculation takes time and energy and might make us less able to survive.

Sometimes that grass moving strangely is just the wind..sometimes it's the tiger, the ancestors who sat down to have a good think about it got eaten.

When I was younger and played chess my teacher drilled into me that when you find a good move that's the time to look for a better one, we instinctively play the first 'good' move we see, in fact manoeuvring your opponent into a trap by giving them an obvious 'good' move is effective against people who don't play a lot and very ineffective against people who do (and even then vastly stronger players than I ever was still fall for it occasionally).
So from the charts it seems like mobile gamers are actually (slightly) more likely to pirate than PC gamers. Also I would be interested how the Windows:Mac:Linux split actually looks.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322070
Having done the same (Seattle then Chicago) trading is big here, and pays well, but can be less than rewarding if you like building products.

That being said, I think there are plenty of interesting tech companies here if you dig a bit. For example, CleverSafe (https://www.cleversafe.com/), Signal (http://www.signal.co/), and BrainTree (https://www.braintreepayments.com/) are larger ones with real engineering challenges.

And, if you are interested in a smaller Chicago company doing interesting things, feel free to check out Earshot (http://earshotinc.com/careers) - we are hiring. </plug>

Even if Earshot isn't right for you feel free to connect with me if you are interested in the Chicago startup scene.
The blog post (which includes link to the paper) has been submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332377
Note how they say, "A beloved design," not, "The S5 design." Whenever a company is not detailing what their customers already know in order to emphasize that their devices are SO good that they're revisiting the old design, it's to avoid saying, "We fucked up."
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It seems to paint the picture that they're trying maximize the money they (the managers) make, not necessarily the returns.
The first rule of pirating Punch Club is: you do not talk about pirating Punch Club!
Why do you think that people want to use it to build BREs?

Not everything in enterprises in a giant monolith. People make "apps" for various reasons.
> Average = Average you have 100 developers 49 and below are bellow average

Not exactly. Average is defined as the 50th percentile, which if you have 100 developers, and can (objectively) rank them in order from 1 to 100, then there is a chance that 49 and below are not "average" or "worse than average." Consider a sample distribution where all 100 employees rank exactly the same. Now all 100 are average. Consider a sample distribution that takes on a bi or tri-modal form, where employee groups cluster at certain knowledge or experience levels. Here you might find that "average" is hard to quantify, as it is not well defined when your distribution does not follow "normal" rules.
I don't understand this. I have such an easy time with Force Touch but yet you're definitely not the first person I've heard say this. I can hit the Force Touch menus everywhere with 99% accuracy. Most people that I've seen do this seem to press really hard to try and activate it but it's much more subtle than that. It's even hard to describe but the activation isn't because of a harder touch, it's because of a "deeper" touch. At least that's how I was introduced to it and now I absolutely love it.
In my experience, trying to get people to use NuGet is like pulling teeth. When OSS dependencies are considered cromulent, vendoring, sometimes just straight-up binary vendoring, has been my experience with .NET shops. Those are the above-average places, though--I've seen a ton of reticence around using anything with an OSS license.

Coming from a Mono background, this was very weird to me.
Yeah, there's several on here already that are almost certainly identifiable, if the employer intended to figure it out.
The Nexus 5X is not limited to 16 GB, they also sell a 32GB version. Thats not to say that that will service everyone's space needs, however.
The blog post and paper has been submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332377
Is it just me or does the article fail to mention/estimate/discuss how much money the universities received _from_ hedge funds? It repeats over and over again how much the schools _paid_ in managers' fees, but if the return was several times that amount, then I guess I don't see the problem.
You shouldn't assume that they don't also engage in a truly staggering amount of covert violence.
I've seen crazier. :)
"For startups"

Well they say right there in the article: "App Engine provides developers with a great platform for building web applications and services that need to operate at Google scale."
I'd like to take the opportunity to point out that when people talk about how mobile touch interfaces have "low discoverability", comments like this are exactly what they're talking about.
And Google Nexus...
Doveryai no proveryai -- trust but verify. Wasn't sourceforge bundling an adware installer for a while?
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USD 399 for an unlocked new iPhone (with latest hardware!) in an of itself is a great, almost revolutionary price regardless of storage capacity. To the degree where I actually wonder whether it's going to have negative effects on their iPhone 6(s) sales.

I'm sure Apple has been running very sophisticated simulations on different model pricing, but 399 has so far been really the ballpark of Android phones.

Therefore I think what we're observing here is nothing less than the beginning of a new phase of iPhone strategy: They are starting to reach down from the top into the middle class segment whereas everybody else in the smartphone industry is trying to move up segments (so far with very limited success). Now Apple's brand is playing for them as they move down whereas everybody else's brand is playing against them as they want to move up.
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Do you? Really? In all cases? Where radio works now?

Rather than argue the point further, as you seem bent on denying the point, I'll suggest you list out as many counterexamples of your claims as you can.

I'm up to 20. Care to beat that?
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Calling it a large open-source community is perhaps stretching the definition. When I look at the Java open-source universe, or the Ruby one, or even the Node one, I see a lot more activity and a lot more generally applicable, useful stuff coming out of any of those compared to .NET.

Which is not to say .NET isn't fine--I use it for many things because I enjoy the language and what it lets me effectively target (you're not targeting the PlayStation 4 with MRI or Node). But the community still, despite very strong and laudable efforts from Microsoft, strikes me as anemic.
I don't know about downtown, since I'm a suburbanite, but I've found in the Chicago area, it's generally cheaper to buy than rent. My first place was a condo, because renting was pretty much throwing money away.

And if you can suffer the commute, in the suburbs, you get a condo AND a parking spot for $800 a month. o_o
> and you have a lot of responsibility when it comes to securing it to make sure it doesn't become a source of unauthorized spam.

Hu? How is that more difficult than making sure that your $mailservice account doesn't become a source of spam?
The problem is that a lot of companies put out the take home test and then expect a long on-site as well. One or the other would be fine but take home tests are easy for the company to send out a lot don't take them that seriously.
Gotta say UK salaries compared to cost of living are pretty bad.
But then he asked "Why not" and jotux answered that question.
I like user andlarry's characterization: "very hill-climby optimization". The other technical CS term is "greedy".

This is related to a much less bad (but still kinda bad) thing that companies often do, namely sending smarmbot emails: http://blog.beeminder.com/smarmbot

You could call what Angel List sent "nonconsensual smarmbot emails".
How do I apply for the "Validate much?" employer in the "rm -rf *" location?

On another note, searching for the keyword "fuck" yields some interesting entries...
A 70% battery mass fraction seems like a huge engineering challenge for an aircraft. I did a quick calculation of fuel mass fraction for the various Boeing 777 models [0] which ranged from ~13% to ~36%.

Not saying it's impossible. Just hard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Specifications
There is going to come a point where Postgres passes Oracle in terms of features and performance.

There is also a point that Postgres will perform with enough features needed by most businesses that they'll choose it even though it doesn't match Oracle on a feature by feature basis.

We have hit peak Oracle. From this point forward it's going to be hard for Oracle to regain momentum. Expect a lot of FUD against Postgres - the more you see, the more worried you know Oracke execs are becoming.
That's what I like about Sharia Law, the consistency.