skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
errrm and if a dependency is untrustworthy it can execute code on your system at install time...

the fact that no-one else is checking and you are therefore in the same boat as other compromised people might not be that much of a consolation
Elixir Ecto 2.0.0-rc is out
Online retail is always a race to the bottom, as mostly all anyone cares about is price. When I was in the business, it was a continual hunt for new/unknown products we could sell at a decent profit before other sellers got on them and the margin got trashed.

For a niche product it seems a little odd that Amazon would make their version half the price. Then again, they may argue that theirs is a 'budget' version, and thus it doesn't compete with the original.
It was trained on non-white-people NSFW images to (eg. non-white people, hentai). However, I don't have per genre numbers right now.
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Definitely. We have a few data points on tech roles at non-profits, but not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions yet. Hopefully, we can get some more data around this to be able to post the same type of analysis. We'll also be doing it for smaller companies too, to see how compensation compares across company size.
>. The problem isn't the OS itself, it is the Play Store hegemony and the fact you cannot reasonably ship an Android phone without it - nobody would buy it.

isn't this what amazon does?
Yeah but healthcare education and pensions ;)

That tax is buying us stuff.
I thought your first response was a bit confrontational, but this one was very effective. Point taken. :)
> Since I'm a consumer, and not Yandex or Microsoft, I'm cheering for Google.

Monopolies are only good for the consumer in the short term and good for only the monopolist in the long term.

The same situation played out a 100 years or so back with Standard Oil.
As well as licensing them to competitors I think.

Making them public is part of patenting anythong I think.
Europe’s antitrust chief confirms Android objections
Awesome, fwiw you can hit the demo here without getting an API key http://clarifai.com/?model=nsfw-v1.0&probs=1
Troubleshooting Cassandra column selection to boost database performance
>They wouldn't do this with a new Honda I imagine.

Long waiting lists aren't the norm for most cars. I have very little doubt that Ford routinely does timely teardowns of major vehicles that it competes with.
how to design minimalist logos.
Personally, I just abandon the site. I'll have a quick look to see if the page I'm interested in is in archive.is or can be archived, if it is/can all good, if not then no big deal.
> As an EU consumer I'd be delighted if they did that, even if I was paying for my own DEF and it took a chunk of my cargo space.

That's very personal thing and it's easy for a lawyer to argue that VW has no longer delivered a car conforming to the original specifications for cargo space/capacity, etc and that the consumer is due compensation to compel them to accept the new specifications. I can't imagine that flying without additional compensation in the US (and frankly, don't believe that it should).
What does "statistically and empirically" mean to you, because it seems a lot like you are using it to mean logic is optional.
Pacific Bluefin Tuna Population Has Dropped 97% from Historic Levels
Southampton is one of the wealthiest towns in the world. He probably thinks he is poor because all his neighbors drive new Lexus SUVs and Tesla's.
Look closer at the last figure.
For instance, if I were carrying that particular grindstone, I would feel immediately compelled to downvote any comment that pointed out my emotional shackles in plain language
Exactly. In fact, $200,000 is a rounding error for a company with $150B in revenue.
The numbers don't seem obviously way off when compared to the numbers of folks I know. This is with the caveat that, for example, I don't know the compensation of that many people who are T6 at Google or at Amazon at any level. The only thing that looks off is that the numbers for Microsoft look low.

Why would that be? I suspect that's more because the pool of people I know is biased than because the pool that posted is biased -- some orgs in Microsoft will match offers from other companies even though average compensation is relatively low, so if you're new and you know a lot other people who are new, the sample of people you know is probably biased high.

To be clear, I think that's bad both for Microsoft and for Microsoft employees. I'm just trying to figure why the Microsoft data is anomalous relative to the numbers people have personally told me. The reason it's bad for employees is obvious. The reason it's bad for the company is that it's pretty common for people who have been here a long time to shop around, find out that they can make much more elsewhere, and then get a matching offer from MS. Once word gets around that the best way to get a fair raise is to interview elsewhere, people start interviewing elsewhere, and some of the people who interview are going to leave, even if that wasn't their original intent.
Just tried a few heat maps and that one looked good.
Maybe, but on the flip side, I finished Uni with about £20k debt, in the most benign from that debt can take, and working in software I immediately earned more than that per year. I also never had to care about medical bills (still don't) because of the NHS.

Just want to point out that there is a good reason for the higher taxes.
The system you are talking about sounds like a cross between a direct democracy and a post-scarcity communist society, if you've not read the works of Iain M Banks you should check them out, you are pretty much describing The Culture :).
I understand they are trying to make a distinction between "relative to others" vs. "by absolute measures," and how we are prone to thinking only in terms of the former, but I'd still argue they are indeed ignoring quite a bit. Using our exponential increases in GDP as a measure of comparison seems a bit irrelevant.
Why Uber Won – The Use of Capital as a Performance Enhancing Drug
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As rayiner said, people buy expensive things for themselves and pretend it is for the kids' benefit.
And as a result they have terrible sales: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fi...
I've borrowed this met?/meet API for another tool and found it to be a really useful pattern.
I totally agree with that. Though my chosen low expense lifestyle hasn't earned me any respect from consumerist drones friends and colleagues.
I can see arguments around Google Search impacting multiple startups and businesses of all kinds. Startups, carriers or whoever.

However, try making Google Maps your default map provider on Apple - or Chrome...

Very hard to make a case it's practice in apps in general is an issue here.
The only thing I remember about that show was that it used People are People by Depeche Mode as the theme tune! Remind me, what was the show about again?
Title is heavily editorialized beyond the editorialized original.
It's possible, but statistically the likelihood these days is very low.

Typically (not always, but usually), a wolf attack is linked to either human habituation, or disease (rabies), or loss of natural resources (wolves will attack humans if they are "food of last resort"). Humans are, um, kind of dangerous to wolves in general, so typically they do their best to avoid us. There's only two known fatal wolf attacks in North America, and both are linked to habituation. In other areas there was probably more wolf attacks in the past (probably due to encroachment), but at present there's little reason to fear a wolf in North America.

Domestic cattle actually are far more deadly (about 20 fatalities a year in North America). And we haven't even crossed into the territory of the deadliness of, say, automobiles.

Balancing livestock / ranches in areas with wolf populations is definitely a real issue and a far more pressing concern. I think many who engage in both ranching and environmental management do understand the dual need to both balance the environment and make a living off the land. (http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Wolves-...)

My "gut feel observation" is that a lot of the really overtly binary debates in these sort of "environmentalism vs. hunting" debates comes from people who don't live in rural areas at all. Such as sport-only / pure recreational / trophy type hunters (many who are urban and well off... after all, isn't fox hunting traditionally associated with the UK upper class?) versus strict cute-and-fuzzy-animal environmentalists (many who also are urban and well off). So I'm not sure if the local farmers and hunters at the pub really are the ones you should necessarily point the finger at.
What life is like as an ethical hacker at 1 of the world's biggest companies
Good for Ford. They'd be negligent to not try their hardest to get some competitive advantage any above board way possible. I don't see what the fuss is about. OMG AMD buys Intel chips and checks them out!!! Sometimes they pay over market price.
iOS 10 UI concept video
It doesn't surprise me at all they would drop this kinda cash to get an early one off the line.

They do the same with all their competitors. (Yes even hondas)

Get one early, measure tolerances, get one 6 months later, see if their manufacturing practices got better.
Centralized authentication can be a problem when you can't ensure a robust enough protocol for all applications and you often fall to the domain of the lowest common denominator.

Another pitfall is when people centralize both authentication and authorization which leads to allot of issues mostly loss of granular control over permissions and information exposure.

If you are using some sort of SSO/Global Token based authentication you should let your applications handle the authorization, and you should not store information about the user's privileges within the token itself.
Given that when the rich get caught they just pay a fine that was a percentage of what they made by doing whatever they got caught for then I don't see this changing.

You get the very rare notable case of a rich person going to prison for this shit (notable because they actually go to prison) of which they serve a fraction of their sentence in club fed.

Not sure what the the solution is but for some of the tricks they've pulled I'm amazed some fucker hasn't climbed the nearest tall building with a high powered rifle.
One of the tables has this important piece of information at the bottom:

"Amazon's vesting schedule is 5%, 15%, 40%, and 40% over the 4 years"

This is a significant deviation from the industry standard, which is to have a one year cliff, and have stock vest month-to-month afterwards. What happens if you leave in the middle of year 3?
If you're wondering why, the one town that managed to get fiber installed (Leverett) is relatively densely populated with UMass Amherst faculty.
Imagine all of these comments in a flat, linear wall of text. Threads++
It's will be almost impossible to compare at that level since there are so many contributing factors that affects much one gets taxed. How much does the employee contribute to 401K, does he have dependents, medical claims?
> induces the same malformation when it interacts with another protein

Sounds like a kill switch to me.
Most students are able to understand calculus without reproducing the work of Abel, Cauchy or Lagrange..
This may be an unpopular opinion but if internet forums and message boards are any indication I don't want some omnipotent group of software developers making decisions for the industry as a whole. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and all that...

And perhaps more relevant to the thread, I know two types of people who talk about their salary, people who make a lot and people who make a little. Their is just so much bias present to me to give any credibility to these lists. Take the google spreadsheet where the employee was fired, do you think the engineers who thought they did better then their peers in negotiations listed their wages?
Plenty of folks making $100k a year waste it all on consumable goods. :-(
Unsealed concrete does. The problem is that the surface of concrete is still fairly porous without sealing, so it readily stains.
Holy crap, I didn't realize that starting salary at Google was $175K. That seems a bit high for new college hires, but I suppose I'm comparing that to my salary as a freshie sdet.
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In fairness, that's kind of Stephen Fry's thing. He does have a certain way with words, but I can only tolerate it in small doses.
Eating freshly cooked meat from a domesticated or game animal is miles better than a rotting piece of garbage in a dumpster sitting in the hot sun.

I don't think we're understanding how filthy dumpsters are and how our bodies are not engineered to handle the types of bacteria that grow in those circumstances or just how dangerous and unhealthy urban areas are for the homeless. Even days old dried meat is going to be healthier, tastier, and safer to eat that whatever you find in a dumpster. Opening a dumpster and seeing a freshly cooked steak that has only one bite out of it is pure Hollywood bullshit. Its a major health risk to eat what you find in garbage cans. Hunting and gathering is infinitely better and safer.
I'm not sure if I am understanding it well. Does the EU have an issue with Google Chrome coming pre-installed with Android? In that case, shouldn't Microsoft face the same penalties since IE/Edge comes pre-installed on the Windows OS? I believe that these pre-installed apps can't be uninstalled (because it might happen that you end up with no browsers on your phone), but would making the app uninstallable solve this issue? I know that on Windows I only use IE to install Chrome, then I ignore it for ever.

I think that it is only fair that Android are allowed to bundle soft of their software with each Android release. Then again, I hate bloat ware so I kind of understand that point of view too. Maybe Android versions can ship a blank OS (no pre-bundled apps) and you have the option to opt-in to a 'suggested' package which would include apps such as Chrome, search function etc.

I'm not 100% sure I understood the EU commission's problem here (or rather why they targeted specifically Android/Google). Feel free to correct me where I am wrong.
Good, let HR get a hold of it, figure out who all the people sharing numbers are and fire them.

Surely scalping a ton of mid level engineers at major tech firms for sharing their salaries online will fix that pesky problem of soaring profits and thick margins...
Ineffectively and for core vote base, not you. This is an old debate.
If they were in that much of a hurry they wouldn't have waited until March to buy the thing.
My friend built Anchor before Anchor
People had jobs before the internet came along.
No public schools "feed into a top college." I went to a public HS regularly ranked #1 in the country, and students went to exactly the colleges you'd expect based on their SAT/GPA.
Sure, as long as they aren't the same name, and you have a way to ship those orders separately from Amazon ones.

But then don't complain if Amazon finds out and bans you.
Sorry, to answer your question, capitalism breeds inequality because private ownership is a hierarchy.

There are those who own, and there are those are required to pay the owner for use of their property. People who own amass capital at an ever increasing rate thanks to exponential growth. People who pay the capitalists for things like food and housing never amass much money at all, certainly nowhere near the order of magnitude that the capitalists do.

Private property allows people to profit from the surplus of workers labor without having to work themselves. It's Marxism 101.
I love knocking out stupid things no one would ever need:

http://StanderOrSitter.com -- do you stand or sit when you wipe?

http://SwapAVote.com -- why vote when you can simply match with an opposing supporter?

Look forward to the next hackathon in NYC.
If Android is the dominant OS (80%? of smartphones) do iOS apps have a significant impact on what Google's Apps are doing in general?

*Though I guess the fact that the Google apps are not on 100% of Android installs affects that number again.
As an African, this article leaves me exasperated for so many reasons. Broad generalizations and conspicuously missing airline names for the most incredible accusations (meaning the stories can't be independently verified).

Africa is not a country, it has 1 billion people and 54 nations; that is more than the number of states in the US, generalizations this broad are a disservice. This article is the equivalent of "'Did you marry your cousin?' and other basic question about American marriages" with examples from Mississippi and Alabama. No offence.
But the author is full of crap because the 47% includes actual working class poor people, not rich NY writers.
Is that really because of the amazon store?

>There were many interesting anomalies in the launch of the Fire Phone. The $200 price tag for a 32GB version on an AT&T contract – the same price range as the iPhone 5S or Samsung GS5

Their tables are doing much better.

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/50-fire-tablet-vaults-amazon-in...
Are you trying to say that there is no human endeavor which cannot fit within a single person's mind, or is there some relationship between calculus and a car here?
Remember that a huge amount of Google tax evasion is due to EU loophole :)
>if he sacrificed so much for his kids, they went to private schools and elite universities, why would he have trouble asking them for $400 for an emergency?

Uhm, it's right in the article that he had to ask them to pay for heating...
Read EC's own press release instead:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm
Math makes all jokes funnier. Right?
IMO, you're the one who has lost perspective. Have you heard the expression "Can't see the forest for the trees?" You're climbing along one branch and can't see the rest.

Capitalism is failing the vast majority of the species.

Capitalism is ruining the only ecosystem human's are capable of thriving in.

"Capitalism 4eva!" is used as a bludgeon to keep the masses in line while the powerful steal by expropriating the output of the masses.

And all those things you mention about better emissions were supposedly happening back in 1999. How do you know if they're still not just cheating anyway? And things like Tesla were coming along before this. They're completely unrelated. Electric cars were feasible years ago, except the rich didn't care for them.

Take your words about how yes cheating happens in a system and apply it to the economy as a whole. It's THAT level of cheating and fraud the OP was talking about. You're drilling down too deep.
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure lunar orbits would be stable, and we're all sitting at the bottom of the next closest (and much bigger) gravity well.

Also See: Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", which features space colonists seeking to break away from Earth dropping rocks on us to persuade us to let them go.
So they'd be dumb to say it just for PR reasons - A bunch of people will test it, if their statements turn out to be false, they'll be a massive class action suit that will be pretty easily won.

It's entirely possible, of course, that they are counting on this, and decided by then things will have died down enough PR wise that making the PR statement makes sense.
Suicide and suicidal ideation seem to act as a transmittable disease. At least that's what indigenous populations in the US are facing, an epidemic of suicides brought on by the loss of loved ones to earlier suicides.

The flippant comment about a cartoon show is unwelcome from my perspective.
Oh ok, I get the point... But for a lot of articles it seems that 90% of the value can be conveyed with 10% of the length, so I usually just quickly skim it - unless it's the type of text where the value is in the experience of reading and not information (stories, poems, ...).
Very true. But the cost of living is much cheaper (comparative to where Google/FB are HQ'd).
Note that criteria for anti trust action differ between EU and US. In EU market share isn't the only defining factor.
All? At first, lower quality?

I think you massively underestimate how much investment is required to produce even a basic search engine, let alone one that eventually catches up to what Google has produced. And that's just search. Now throw in Gmail, Maps, Android, Chrome, etc ... these are international collaborations for a reason.
"not financial back-breakers for middle class families in the past."

I doubt that middle class families in the past routinely had weddings that required the rental of dedicated space and staffing by a dozen or more paid individuals. Maybe you had it in the church and had a potluck afterwards in the basement, or maybe you had it in a large rural backyard.

Of course, before, middle-class people also did not retire for decades and expect to spend that time traveling and not working. They did not expect to drive cars with air conditioning, carry supercomputers in their pocket, watch 200 channels on TV, or live in large air-conditioned suburban homes.

So what has happened is that the perception of "middle class" lifestyle has grown to include considerably more consumption. That's ok. It's just sort of puzzling to read this piece--he seems to say "I've had a good life, I've gotten good things for my kids, I don't have money in the bank, but it's my own fault, so I'm not complaining." Which is nice, but why is that worth reading?
> But they're perfectly happy to confuse and harm others with their disingenuous rhetoric.

Well, we don't want to moralize or anything. (Because somehow drawing shaky conclusions from perfectly good data is worlds better than moralizing...)

Like one of those corny people who tells you to keep a gratitude journal. Let's not be that guy.

But you should _really_ keep a gratitude journal.
When I have a 200k income, I don't really care about getting welfare, and I can probably pay healthcare myself. But I don't have that kind of income, and then healthcare, pension and social benefits really count.

We may pay more tax, but I'm glad we have the backup system that keeps you going when you're sick or unemployed.
Do you deliberately ignore the first half of the sentence?

It’s a great shame and we’re all very sorry that your uncle touched you in that nasty place – you get some of my sympathy

His criticism is of "self-pity". I can agree.
Studies have cast doubt on whether Subjective Well-Being (SWB) levels actually return to normal after significant life events. [1] [2]

So a core element of this post may not even be an actual phenomenon.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17469954
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3289759/
The iPhone itself may be a small part (depending on your budget) but wireless plan costs also vary widely. I know that UK/EU plans are substantially cheaper than the US where many pay $150+ per month for a couple lines.
X is inflated over prevousr generation

* an expensive private college
* fancy catered wedding
* owning a larger home
* doing a white collar flex hours fun career
* having lots of telecom options that didn't even exist before.
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> Farmers are experts in breeding cattle. Point. Not more, not less.

I hope you're going for hyperbole here. If not, you may be surprised at the proportion of farmers who do understand how biology works; who do work with vets and other professionals and follow research into animal health and disease.

Your statement does a large number of people a disservice.