skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you looking for a sales rep or a cofounder?

If the former, high commissions are motivating. Anything the rep sells at this point is a sale you wouldn't otherwise have. If you're worried about the "wrong" kind of sale, you can put bounds on what you'll pay commission on, like "nothing below $X dollars" or "nothing if the company doesn't fit the definition of 'good fit'".

If you're looking for a cofounder, then give them a meaningful equity chunk of the company, vested over 4 years.

Sales is hard enough -- don't try to come up with a comp plan that adds a bunch of complexity to a rep's decisionmaking. When a customer is ready to buy, you want in clear in the reps head whether they should push for a longer contract, or a higher per-month rate, or a strategic fit for product development.

What does your company need right now?
Yeah, the more I look at their rounding the less sense it makes.

OK, 39°50′N goes to 39.8333333. 50/60 is approximately 0.8333. Fine. But, 98°35′W should be -98.5833333, by the same rule they apparently just used, not 98.585522.

And I certainly don't see how 39.8333333 rounds to 38.0000 instead of 40.0000, or how -98.5833333 rounds to -97.0000 instead of -99.00000. It's like they rounded down and then subtracted 1.
man are you guys in the doghouse
Catching spall on the back side of the barrier is the important bit.
First of all, don't give up too easy. It's a lot easier to say: we are screwed, my contribution will not change anything. This is wrong approach to the problem, changes start from somewhere.

Imagine the startup, who don't have customers yet and just gives up (because what's point, they will not come). The more traction they have, the more snowballish it become.

How regular people can help?

1) Try to use renewable materials around you (bags, not plastic bags, use the fabric)

2) Sort the garbage (don't know about US), but in Europe this is real thing (organic, general, electronics, etc)

3) Try to limit the car or any fossil fuel usage in your household.

3.1) Don't have 1 car per each family member

4) Don't buy and throw away clothes too often, if you do, return to second hand

5) Use energy saver functions at it's max

6) Stop searching for someone to blame and "Just DO IT!" (c) Shia

How IT people can help?

1) Write less energy consumption programs and servers, they eat too much now

2) Move toward real innovations in "green" tech, not the pseudo ones to collect money and bail

Samsung once done the big screen phone, how the iPhone users called them? "Shovel" phones / users. Then came this "innovative" Apple iPhone with the same big screen and it suddenly became "mainstream". Don't be afraid to be first in something good, especially if this is a future of your planet.

Don't expect that someone will make this problems "go away" or people fly away from here. Humans managed to make orbit a trash can too, so we don't go anywhere in far future.
A year after launch, it’s now clear that pretty much no one needs an Apple Watch
How do you feel about sharing it with everyone else at the coffee shop you frequent or the 14 year old "network administrator" at your friend's house? Encryption protects against these threats also.
The raindeers was radioactiv long before Chernobyl. Sovjet did extensive bomb testing during the cold war up north and the northern part of Norway got plenty of radioactive fallout from that. The following as one of the more insane ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
For anyone interested in Sebastião Salgado's work, I can highly recommend the documentary The Salt of the Earth[0] directed by Wim Wenders. He's done much amazing, gripping photography on ecological catastrophes and the people affected by them, and quite a bit of great nature photography as well.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/
No, that's [probably] caused by anticholinergics: http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-dr...
English-speaking countries are not all alike. The level of non-English speaking immigration to a country (which happens in all English-speaking countries, but to a much greater degree in some than others) has a large impact on the ability to maintain high standards for the language.

As I'm sure you know, English spelling is also much less phonetically obvious than Italian (and I would not be surprised to learn that English is slightly grammatically more complicated than Italian, although frankly, as far as I'm concerned, any language with grammatical gender wins for difficulty), so emphasizing correct writing might be slightly harder.
Absolutely, there could be many aspects of planning that could be made easier if they are tracking everything on one system.
Good on the FBI/DHS, I say.

Not everything is a conspiracy.
Is this a joke? This is how the surveillance state starts benefiting the few for very arbitrary, non-national security reasons.

This should be regarded as an absolute disgrace in the UK and the head of GCHQ should be asked to resign. I think the GCHQ has a few other more important (or deadly) things to worry about, no? At least that's what they keep telling people when they ask for bigger budgets.
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Every Chinese buffet I've ever eaten at had a sushi section, as well. I'd say there's a lot of overlap.
Ya I thought almost everyone used the mobile site to the point that the Wiki app is almost unspoken of.
I've been programming for over 2 decades and had 2 bouts of burnout. The first was around the dotcom bust, when I thought my career was over because all the jobs were going to go overseas, and the second after a too-long stint at a shitty well-known enterprise software company where I felt useless and worthless.

I didn't take a break during the first one, which took a toll and probably had a hand in my subsequent divorce. The second time, I stuck around as long as I could until I got health issues, so I quit for a year. That was the best thing I've ever done and I wonder if I'll ever get a chance like that again. I spent probably $50k in cash and lost out on $100k net income after taxes, so delta in money was large, but worth it for my sanity and overall career. It helps having a supportive spouse with a great job/health care and good savings.

During my break, I programmed for 8 hrs a day 5 days a week, except on things that I loved, and it was worth it. I did things like spend 3 solid weeks improving the accuracy of my OCR system using OpenCV/Tesseract from 90% to 98%, something I never could have done without all the freedom or time. I regained my love for programming as well as my self-esteem, and so far so good. Hopefully I can ride this current wave out until I retire, but if it happens again, I have enough fuck you money saved to take more than a few months off.
You say "No" whenever you're offered that role.

Been working for me for years...
Map shows right over my house, the conspiracy theorist in me says 'they're watching me!'
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What I've heard is that when someone is worked overtime they always end up working under time too, whether they are sitting at work or not.
Mostly the latter. If I read one chapter of a book I'll leave a TODO in every other chapter to show that the whole book isn't complete, though most of the time I'll never read the entire book anyway...

That approach worked better in the early days. Now it's a bit demoralizing to have hundreds of TODOs. I'm open to better ideas for handling that case.
I have to admit, https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-04-federal-surveillance-... is not something I would expect from Buzzfeed.

Huge surprise.
I might. If it had delivered what was promised on the other hand...

Three years ago I tried very hard to go wireless+online for music. I diligently uploaded thousands of .flacs to Google Play when I bought my new Nexus. Yet when I was around the house, or taking the dog for a walk, or going to and from work about half of the time there was silence as it was buffering or whatever. This was in Newcastle, not the third world or rural Scotland. I'd have expected much better, like connectivity and enough buffering to play nearly all the time. I'd have expected good enough even somewhere with spotty data coverage.

Around the same time I bought a nice Denon Network Music player for the home system. Paid a good few pounds in the hope of decent midrange quality. Since when, BBC have reduced stream quality, and Last FM radio (the main reason I bought it) was discontinued.

Internet of S* seems fairly accurate then.

Now all my music is back as lossless on FreeNAS, and I have a LAN only app on the phone as remote control. When out with dog, the old ipod nano is good enough and lasts much longer than the Nexus did. The Denon now ranks as pointless waste of money. It plays my freenas archive, but I could do that already.

So for me, my online music experiment is over, and I'm >£500 lighter.
Journey into a CPU
the map clearly shows super high density of DHS operations around the midtown Manhattan at the end of Sep 2015, when UN GA took place and the Pope gave a speech.
I believe said poster is thinking of Toyota, where it is a lot less then 10,000 people. As a top Japanese corporation, this is expected of them - as an employee, you give your life to the company, in exchange for the company taking care of you, through thick or through thin.
That type of stuff just drives me nuts...I do understand it but just the shear dormitory like treatment from (mostly US) carriers on international flights is beyond frustrating to me.
I removed the mic and speaker from my phone and now make calls using a bluetooth enabled headset that is usually turned off. This "hack" took about 15 minutes and is not too inconvenient for my lifestyle.
I was thinking of taking "Principles of Reactive Programming" by Martin Ordesky after taking his other class "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" on Coursera. After looking at CS 61A, I am thinking of taking it instead. How long did it take you to complete the course? Also, as far as I understood you can use the grader with "--local" flag to check the correctness of your program, is that the case?
The app actually has a bunch of neat features: really nice typography, material design, offline articles, article preview cards. Just try it out, I found it to be a good experience.

Also, the Android version has half a million ratings so you can't really say it's unheard of.

See also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Why_apps
Yeah, one of the example traces was around Farook's home and workplace. If you see a map like this and your home and workplace. There are several repeated circle patterns which probably represent specific investigations. If both your home and work are offset in the center of these circles you have to be wondering what you did.

Edit: and mosque home, workplace and mosque.
What were they doing over Canandaigua?!
I'm not saying this to try and discredit this post. However, there's a very interesting trilogy here:

Oct 2012: Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This At 56 http://thecodist.com/article/yes_i_still_want_to_be_doing_th...

Jul 2015: How I've Avoided Burnout During More Than Three Decades As A Programmer [this article]

April 2016: My Biggest Regret As A Programmer [is not going into management] http://thecodist.com/article/my-biggest-regret-as-a-programm...
10% commission for the first sale he gets you. SEE what happens after that.
The 50' (read as 50 minutes) means 50 60ths of a degree, so that part makes sense.

And not sure about the rounding, but 38N, 97W just "looks" more central looking at the map, so I'm guessing they just played around with the numbers for a few minutes to get it to look nice.

I've definitely done this, picking arbitrary points to place a marker on a map for, say, a big city, county or national park.
Ok if we're talking about net flow, lets talk about calories of plant required to get 1 calorie of food for us. Vegetarian, 1000 calories of plants make 1000 calories of food. 4000-6000 calories of plants make 1000 calories of chicken. ~9000 calories of plants make 1000 calories of pork. and ~12000 calories of plants make 1000 calories of beef. So eating 1000 calories of plants instead of 1000 calories of beef requires 1/12 the amount of farmland/deforestation/transportation/harvesting fuel etc.
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy to dislike it. Also, they tend to keep these actions secret, which doesn't bode well for government transparency and government trust.
Exactly. Their explanation for requesting the permission looks reasonable, and the source code confirms that they aren't using it for anything else. Wikimedia did nothing wrong here, and OP is getting worked up over nothing. If he wants better assurances, he should use a better phone.
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I guess beause of the UN GA they had to do both massive security ops and massive targeted surveillance at the same time :).
I think this title can be misleading, be sure to read the article closely. From the article, what when they say "error correction," all they mean learning a new task while under the influence of aspirin is lower.

Which to me seems obvious given that it's a social-pain reliever. Frankly, a psychology experimentee has no motivation to "score well" other than pride, so any drug that reduces the sensation of shame would make an experimentee try less hard.
if i had that proof an email would be unnecessary, you'd already know :p

to address your question i'll say this, crypto is only interesting to me in securing my own work and because my interests are in number theory that, due to rsa popularity, would incidentally affect crypto

i lack an intimate familiarity with the optimisation requirements of rolling production crypto, meaning i can comfortably ignore any message size restraints for my personal uses

instead of implying i know how crypto should be enacted.. with my current knowledge and interest i would be wholly unable to deduce as you did in your article.. i was simply stating that i am interested in factoring large integers and i wonder why anyone thinks open problems in number theory are a sound means of crypto

superb write up by the way
But less predictable in terms of overall performance due to all the shared components.

It's also harder to separate two or more processes that 'grew up' together in the same container/machine/vm.
Introducing BDD
Whether you want it or not your home might have a smart meter for electricity,gas or water.

Your Energy/Water supplier knows a lot about you already, they use this information to give you better experience or offer services.
Sure there isn't the risk that this will brick or stop working but you don't have that privacy in some parts of the world, and in the end it's about making money.

If you buy an IoT product that can't function without the internet, or can't have that smart turned off you you bought a bad product and you should feel bad.
Finally a goal app that screams in my general direction
Urgh, I am so over permissions.

I don't mind if my app accesses geo as long as it doesn't exfiltrate. In a perfect world, only a small subset of an app's data should leave the device.

This ends up being pretty hard to do generically. If a geofence event triggers a network call, has geo information been exfiltrated?

As things are, I don't feel like I'm past having to trust the app author.
Drugs or terrorism seems like the most likely candidates.
If a circle is dead center around your house then you are probably not the focus. Check out the gifs lower down after the San Bernardino attacks. The locations they were investigating -- mosque, workplace, home of Farook -- are all offset from the center for the best combination of angle / proximity.

Edit: Also, check out Los Angeles (if that's not where you are from). They are swarming LA! I'd be weirded out if I was in LA and NOT near activity.
In order for this to be even vaguely secure, every single device that declares support for WebUSB has to refrain from allowing firmware updates over WebUSB despite how incredibly convenient this is, and despite how much of a support nightmare it would be to roll out bugfixes to users without it, and despite them being developed by hardware manufacturers who generally don't give a fuck about security. I can't see this happening. (Allowing remote firmware updates effectively gives full remote code execution on the host PC to the website behind the device, since it can then emulate USB input devices.)
Thanks everyone for the kind comments, and for taking the time to read this stuff :)
Explosives have been one of the traditional ways to extinguish oilfield fires (in addition to techniques like directional drilling to relieve the pressure feeding the fire). My understanding is that in Kuwait there was actually a good supply of water from the Persian Gulf so most of the fires were extinguished with very large quantities of water, sometimes sprayed by gas turbines.
> And I can't think of any convenient way to do it other than WebUSB.

Simple. Deliver a native application with your device sensor that the user has to install (maybe it could even be automatically installed through PnP). This application would provide a webserver on localhost which exposes the lighting information to interested websites. And in contrast to the WebUSB thing it would mediate the access to the USB device (lots of browser windows and processes can get the information instead of only a single one) and it would guarantee that only the relevant information is forwarded and not arbitrary data on an USB channel.
Maybe it is a failure of imagination, but I don't get how nest can be more efficient than manual control. Cold? Switch the heating on. Hot? Switching the heating off. Why'd you need a learning algorithm for that?

The website says stuff like

> The babysitter calls to say she picked up the kids from soccer and they’re heading home. You adjust the temperature from your phone so they’ll be cozy.

..which is a first-world problem if I've ever heard one. Just wear an extra layer for 10 minutes while the heating warms up. Jeez.
Why is preventing you from putting CO2 into other people's air "out of hand," and not common sense property rights?
WW3 DANGER RUSSIAN TROOPS DEPLOYED TO TURDS BORDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmtE5ylifU
Great comment. You need only Google "vinyl only 2016" or any other year to see how relatively common this is.
>Throw in an air management system that renews the air every two minutes while helping regulate cabin temperature, and sitting onboard an A350 may be less harsh on your body than hanging out at home.

Even taking into account the extra radiation exposure?
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For anyone who wants to see the live data for themselves, go to http://www.adsbexchange.com/, click 'Global Radar View'. Then click 'Menu', 'Options', 'Filters', then enable the 'Interesting' filter.

It's a Sunday, so there's not too much activity. However there's currently an FBI Cessna circling west of Washington D.C. [0] There's also a plane gridding east of LA. [1] It's registered to Dynamic Aviation Group out of Virginia, a company that provides aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), among other things. [2]

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/8c0RQ9H.png

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/Yki2UTs.png

[2]: http://www.dynamicaviation.com/flight-solutions-and-services...
Agreed. Circling surveillance planes are unsettling no matter if it is routine or not. I believe they should have warrants for these and maybe they do, maybe they don't. There is not enough transparency to know (even just a report of the number of investigations and outstanding warrants in cities or districts would be enough).
The huge circle in Northern Virginia West of DC: is that George Mason University?
this is better. My suggestion is that the metadata is not linked to a complete profile.
Big data predicts who will be invited for a job interview
Well, the internet critics like to bring up how bad Batman and Robin was as a movie. There's a reason 'Bat Credit Card' became a meme back in the day.

But yeah, it's an easy target.
And out here in the bay area, basically none of them have.

In parts of the country where Asian restaurants are relatively scarce, I believe combination restaurants are a lot more common. There is much less room for market specialization, and there likely aren't enough consumers with specific tastes either.
First: Seizure warning for anyone walking all the way to the right

Second: Be sure to walk all the way left as well as right
The best thing I've ever read on coming up with a sales commission structure is this article by Lars Dalgaard > http://a16z.com/2015/07/23/sales-compensation-beware-you-get...
I'm not sure if my thoughts on this subject can ever be articulated correctly, but I'm going to try anyway at the risk of being misunderstood.

Due to my lifelong struggles with addiction, I have often contemplated suicide. Actually, one of my closest ex-girlfriends off-handily remarked 20 years ago that she thought suicide might be the only answer for me, after doing everything in her power to help me over a 3 year period.

You see, she intimately saw the pain that my self-inflicted junkie lifestyle dispensed to others and, on a much deeper level, myself.

Today, I continue to live in the wreckage that I so carelessly created, with a brother whom will not talk to me no matter what I do and old friends whom don't return calls, and I'll be honest...life is pretty bleak when family and friends no longer exist.

Why is it that some, often ancient, cultures not-only-tolerate but almost-glorify suicide when an individual has lost their self respect or has been publicly shamed?

Maybe suicide isn't the worst possible option there is.
Does ad-blocking mean that in the future what we read will be the ad?
If someone was truly that concerned, they'd make the choice to buy a Nexus device for that protection rather than embrace a 3rd party device with manufacturer and carrier crud.
I do have fewer headaches now (once a month is absolutely tolerable in my opinion), and it might be due to less stress. I've also been trying to improve my lifestyle (excercising regularly, standing desk, cycling to work, eating healthy), so that might also be a factor.

I've also discovered some things that seem to trigger headaches (drinking beer, not drinking coffee), and avoid them. I can't avoid some triggers like sudden weather changes, though. But mostly, I just don't know what triggered it.

Anyway, I appreciate your suggestions.
Apple thought they can sell anything with an Apple logo. Market mechanics proved how horribly wrong they are.
You can play it online now. It's a faithful rendition. http://impossible-mission.krissz.hu/
Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
FUD Is for Fear, Uncertainty and Drupal
+1 for Tyler and his courses. There's something great about the way he presents the knowledge I can't quite put words to. He manages to "pull back the curtain" just enough to satisfy my curiosity without allowing me to go down a tangent path of little details that contextually don't matter until later. His frank demeanor instilled a lot of trust in me from the get-go, as well, which in turn left me satisfied when he says things like, "that doesn't matter right now -- we'll get back to that when it's important." Usually in tutorials or classes it's either high or low of that mark -- either I don't believe I will end up learning about some hidden principle that ends up being important, or I'll have way too much depth dumped on me and I'll be lost.
There's some docs about this in the docs. c.f. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/interactive/storage.htm...
Just a note, acetaminophen isn't aspirin. Acetaminophen is known as Paracetamol in some places, and is sold as Tylenol brand.
Well, they are... the question is: are they "collecting" you?