skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe this book wasn't mentioned earlier in the thread! I finished it last month and won't spoil anything, but the author ends up with a pretty good theory. The book goes into great detail about the investigation and examines and discards plenty of possible explanations (including every "Well of course it must have been..." suggested here so far!)

It's also an interesting look at young people in the Soviet Union at that time.
They've developed a nice proof on the "bounds" of how quickly a quantum system can evolve.

I think the quote by the coauthor summarizes it best: "'How fast can a quantum system evolve in time?' Establishing general and tight quantum speed limits is crucial to assess how fast quantum technologies can ultimately be, and can accordingly guide in the design of more efficient protocols operating at or close to the ultimate bounds."

This is a theoretical quantum physics paper... even experimental quantum physicists struggle to understand what they mean most of the time. So don't expect to much clarity from the paper, but if you want to look here it is: http://journals.aps.org/prx/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021031
Asking the salary question of a prospect is un-necessary, and doing it to find opportunities to low ball someone, it's game-playing - it's wrong. The company should know about how much that person is worth. Low balling really isn't necessary to live up to your management responsbilities on the company side of it.

On the employee side, best to get out of the question as quick as possible. One thing to say is, I have offers higher than that already. They can find out your current salary, but the other offers, doesn't have to be disclosed.
It's mainly a legacy association with VB6 as the tool for novice programmers. The name "Visual Basic" simply got tainted a long time ago for the more advanced crowd, and it's very hard to get past deeply ingrained perceptions. Also, if you learned C/C++ or languages with similar syntax such as Java (as many have), C# just looks 'more correct' to you.
The difference is that they were using film which was sensitive over the entire visible spectrum with color filters that allowed a broad range of wavelengths that are all perceived as the same color. If you had a smartphone camera filtered with a 1 nm bandpass filter for a particular wavelength, you're going to get so little light that it will be like taking pictures in the dark.

The filter approach is still used in most cameras (Bayer filters) but a vary narrow wavelength bandpass would not be appropriate for a consumer camera.
(This was meant to be appended as an edit to the above, but between the time I started typing it into the update text area and the time I hit the "update" button the comment aged enough to not allow updates, so I'll add it as a reply)

In general, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for the representation of n/m to be precisely represented in base b is that there exists some integer r in [1, m-1] such that rb = 0 mod m. If you work out the representation of n/m using the classic division algorithm, the algorithm terminates iff you hit such an r after one of the subtraction steps. The step on which you hit that r will have produced the next to less digit of the result, and then the algorithm will product one more digit and terminate.

When m is a prime (such as m = 3), then (r, m) = 1, and so rb = 0 mod m is only possible if b = 0 mod m. If b = 0 mod m then all r are suitable, and n/m has at most one digit after the radix point.
"It" here is Windows. I know you can do that, but will the process that had it open be able to write to it?
One benefit is the extremely large set of 3rd party libraries and tools. It's hard to catch up outside the mainstream bread and butter stuff.

Also, finding experienced developers, devops, etc.

While Kotlin is interesting, and can use java code, maybe it's a little too small and have less battle tested toolchains so java probably feels like a slightly safer bet for large projects and conservative organisations.
this claim of yours is retarted.

they'd respect a females 'claim' as well. its just that they don't accept "no" if the person in question isn't in a relationship. This is not sexist. nonetheless still annoying to the pursued person, but thats a different story
I think you're right. Unless both parties are completely ignorant of the others' goals and only play the game once, there is an incentive to lie.

If I don't know what you'll say (and can't play the chances with multiple candidates/employers), I should say what's true. Otherwise, it seems I could expect to gain in any given "game" by raising/lowering my request until I'm at 50% confidence that our ranges will overlap.
And in fact if you want to write code that goes to space, you have 4 or 5 options top in the US? Vs many other business models (webapps for music) there may be 50 or 100.
"We do not allow individuals to negotiate their salary separately from their position. If you have the same position, you make the same salary."

This is great from a company perspective, but it essentially allows a company to get an employee at a much cheaper rate. Employees with more experience will get the same pay rate for the same job as someone with potentially much less.

Since all companies don't do this, I probably wouldn't ever work for your company knowing this is your policy. I bring much more value to a company with all of the experience and knowledge that I've gained.

At my last 9-5 job, I was able to get paid almost 20% more than many of my co-workers because of my negotiating skills and experience.

I just have to shake my head when I see so many people fighting for less power, rights, and inevitably less money and calling it a 'win'.

But, this doesn't really matter to me anymore. I've owned my own company for the last 5 years and don't need to negotiate my own salary.
Epicycles?
rob pike compared using unix to listening to david cassidy every day for four decades. we don't need another unix. we need a dramatically different world-view.
Notice that the author writes:

> Way to put all of the responsibility back on the people reporting the harassment.

This is the key point. Notice that the six bullets above are all demanding preventative measures from the victim. We do not need to provide victims with

> advice that targets the world as it actually is

but instead we need to provide all members of the community advice that targets how they can (and should) be preventing transgressions against others.
Seconding this; this story is a watered-down version of the real story. If you don't want to dedicate the time to reading On Writing, King also references this story nicely in the introduction to most recent versions of Carrie.
Well, if you just want to be anonymous, no. That ip/machine is associated to your person through whatever method you used to pay Digital Ocean.
Thanks! Would love to get notified when it is ready. Cheers!
I don't know why anyone posts anything MS related to HN.

First post: rant about some perceived slight by MS.
Response to first post: yeah, that's what they do. They killed this thing I loved after I used it for a while.

Some other post: Embrace Extend Extinguish.

One small post: I think its ok! <- down vote down vote down vote...no such thing as group think here!

You guys are so negative.
I have encountered a few people who do argue that government regulation caused the economic crisis. It seems to be the dominant understanding in the conservative media in the United States, possibly elsewhere. The reasoning goes something like this: people in government wanted to redistribute wealth by building up impoverished minority communities, so they incentivized otherwise responsible banks to lend money to people who would not have qualified for loans and punished banks that did not meet certain minority quotas.

Banks responded to this pressure in the only way they could by giving out loans to minorities who then defaulted. Banks couldn't change the government initiatives, so they bundled bad loans with good to try to control the damage and save the economy, but too many minorities were irresponsible. The government then made the problem worse by adding even more regulation on banks, slowing the economic recovery and extending the recession.

I don't personally subscribe to this, but it does seem to have a lot of weight with a certain crowd. It's also used as an example of how minorities and government are the source of other problems in the country, so the only way we can solve the problem is through deregulation, giving more freedom to the financial industry, and ending any sort of affirmative action.
i had a very similar experience so i set up a git bridge for my part of engineering to use. it was not well-received by management, but it might be still running
Whats truly ironic about this, is that this is the exact type of site that the site is railing against. They probably buy native ads on sites like Forbes, just trying to sell you an expensive infoproduct. (No wonder the author knows so much about this rampant problem :)

I did notice that the writing came off as rather amateurish. It was a little too aggressive and salesy to feel legit.

Edit: to & too
> Why do you want people to see what you ate?

Oh man. So at the after party of a recent wedding, the Bride had to post a picture of her nachos.
1) Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN.

2) I love it when people call others "retarted". If you're going to attack someone's intelligence, you should at least spell the word correctly.
> the thing about capitalism is that capitalism has no ideology

I beg to differ.

What is capitalism?
http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Ideal-Ayn-Rand/dp/045114795...

What is its ethical base?
http://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Selfishness-Centennial-Ayn-Rand...

You may disagree but no one can say it has not been said.
“Some people say I am a terrible person. I'm not, I have the heart of a young boy... in a jar, on my desk.”
I've similar plugin for gulp https://github.com/ro31337/gulp-react-easy
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You are right and, much like in the case of the War on Drugs, the solution to the perceived problem (people's desire for something addictive and "suboptimal") cannot be only at the supply side. Whenever there is an unsatisfied demand there is a potential for profit and the niche gets promptly occupied by entrepreneurs.

However we could strive to do something much better.

The Internet as a whole and the www in particular were born with the goal of being a redundant, indestructible media for communication between distant parts of the globe and to guarantee the exchange of information and knowledge even in the event of a big part of mankind getting obliterated by a nuclear war.

It is a miracle that these characters, being typed on a smartphone, are traveling the whole globe wirelessly, via copper cables, optical fibers and reaching all these good people reading it right now.

We (mankind as a whole, technicians and builders in particular) should not rationalize our behaviour as something unavoidable.

There is profit to be made helping people get their fix (of cheap information, misleading bits and other inanities), I'm a 100% ok with that but keeping in our thoughts that we could also be doing something much better and greater with this miracle we created and received from our elders.
Yeah, this is an odd article. I read the post in question as soon as I saw the link before continuing with the rest of this one, and I came away with a totally different impression. It seemed like a thoughtful recounting of one woman's experiences and her sharing some strategies that have worked for her. Then I jumped back and read the rest of the original article and was immediately put off by how glib and confrontational it seemed in comparison.
There's some questions I don't think this addresses, though.

Right now, I have the ability to produce covers of lots of songs. That's addressed in law: if I make a recording, I need to get a mechanical license, if I'm performing at a certain scale I or the venue need to have an agreement with the right publisher for performance rights.

At a personal scale, though, I can perform covers in somebody's living room all day and nobody will care (or would be capable of doing much about it if they did). In fact, once I went looking for an agreement with a publisher for covers a small scale venue and they told me not to bother, because either the venue itself already had the agreement in place or it didn't matter.

But what happens if/when we everyone can have software that is capable of performing a cover of any work it's familiar with? Even if it doesn't have any particular digital copy directly encoded in any way we might now recognize?

If the law expands its definition of copyright to cover that situation, we're getting into territory in which it may be a copyright violation for me to remember a song. Or if enforcement of performance licensing laws starts to extend down to living-room scale performances, we're getting into really invasive surveillance.

But if that doesn't happen, those personal-performance-scale one-off covers (not stored, just part of the capabilities of the particular learning-machine) are probably going to be legal in the same way that my living room performances are right now.
They did it to themselves. I was actually addicted to it back when it first came out (2006ish). I was young and some of my answers were probably more inflammatory than they should have been, but for the most part they were good. I had thousands of answers and was the top rank on a few sub-categories.

They banned my account. Not my Yahoo Answers account... My entire Yahoo account... email and main choice of Chat/IM since the 90's. I even called their customer service, who told me it was basically just gone. I lost a lot of lifelong contacts I'll probably never get back.

Their rules were made in a way that if you made enough posts, then the odds were against you. I saw several other top posters get banned for similar reasons, but I'm not sure if they had their entire accounts banned like I did. But, they did vanish.
Yes, if you rephrase what you said in a way that takes out the nasty bits, it becomes less objectionable. When commenting on HN, though, that's what you should do in the first place.
Instagram starts rolling out its algorithmic feed for all
Apparently the parents are getting some support in Japan.

"Raising kids is hard" seemed to be the collective sigh heard around social media, TV talk shows, andproverbial water coolers.

One famous morning talk show host, Tomoaki Ogura, sympathised with the parents on Monday, onhis Fuji TV show "Tokudane!". Mr Ogura said: "To say 'If you're so bad, we can't take you along, just stay here' is a valid way of scolding a child."

Many recalled how they too were shut out of their homes as children, left throwing a tantrum on the toy shop floor, or shut in a dark closet.

A well-known literary critic, Yumi Toyozaki, tweeted on Tuesday: "I was a restless, rambunctious, cantankerous child, so I feel very much for the father who left his child in the woods for a bit in order to discipline him. I hope people stop condemning him."

The incident has had many sharing childhood memories of how parents pretended to leave them or their siblings for refusing to listen.

The lost boy and Japan’s parenting debate - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36441875
> The company should know about how much that person is worth.

If anything, a person would know even better how much they are "worth". E.g. they know the necessarily short interview wasn't accurate.
Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals
This doesn't directly address your question I suppose, but one thing that I have found to de-stress myself in times like this is to take a moment to consider the achievements you've made (with no formal training, etc). You're clearly super competent, can solve all sorts of problems, and a natural leader. This is great for you long-term. You will most likely have tons of great job opportunities in the future, which will most likely allow you to have the lifestyle you wish in the future. To me anyway, that can be a de-stressing line of thought, because while your current situation may be stressful, you can genuinely look at it and say that it is temporary (how temporary, I don't know). Even if the stress may be somewhat baked into your job now, you'll be able to address it in the future by getting yourself an awesome position. Easier to shake the present off if you realize you're in for a great future.
Good point. An experimental algorithmic band called Autechre just released their 12th album this week, comprising over 4 hrs of music produced entirely by Max/MSP algorithms they've spent their entire careers learning to build and tweak. I think it's outstanding, many others will find it utterly unlistenable; but what's interesting is that they've dedicated their lives to making music that carries the flavor of malfunctioning machinery, while in the mean time, computers have been learning to make Muzak indistinguishable from pop nominally made by humans.
Don't companies that try that sort of thing usually have well defined bands? Software Engineer I, II, III, etc?
Even if we assume the extreme, almost cartoonish version of free market, in which every possible transaction is legal, that still doesn't mean the action itself has to be. So you could have a market for contract killings - but you'd still be imprisoned for actually killing.
So here's the deal: I'm gainfully and happily employed in public education. Math and computer science. If you're really changing the world, let me know.

I know my stuff to the point that I've been called as an expert witness in math education. Studied computer engineering, pivoted to math ed when I realized I wanted something more. Almost done with my MS in math. I can code, I can do advanced math, and I can manage most anyone - I run honors and AP classes, and I can get our school's dropout prevention math class to beat the gen ed class's score on their final exams.

So yeah, if you're doing something amazing, pitch me.

Location: NYC/NJ
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: See commentary above. This isn't really why you want me. Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Matlab/Wolfram/Maple
Résumé/CV: on request
Email: username at the google one
We're detailing the -70% in our first piece, it's based on the assumption of a 30% reduction in profits (so a 10%-15% fall in revenue, especially now that Alphabet's moonshots are eating up more & more of ad revenue from Google), which would lead to a repricing of the stock from "growth" to "value", and thus a P/E of 15 instead of 30.
Fraud is part of Google. Spider.io discovered bot clicks on Youtube ads, which we mention. Not long ago, news came out that a botnet had infected AdSense for Search (http://marketingland.com/botnet-hijacks-search-results-sipho...), so the actual google.com ad real estate that's considered the best in the world. No one is safe.
We are new and we do exist. You can check our profiles on LinkedIn, the names are real & all. If you drop us a line by email, we'll gladly answer. You must also aknowledge that every piece needs substantial amounts of work, so someone real has to actually put in all the manhours. Notwithstanding the technology that's behind the charts.
The posts on ad tech are free because we need to make a name for ourselves.
The thumbnails suck because we overlooked it, focusing on everything else, thanks for pointing that out :) Cheers
Delegate. There is a distinct disconnect between you saying "allocated headcount for a large team" yet you also saying "I'm still personally tasked with building out the architecture, writing code...".

e.g. Sick leave - grab a warm body & tell them they're in charge of sick leave now.

If you're reporting to the VP then you are reasonably high up the foodchain and thus you are (or should be) entitled to make calls like that.
No, it's not relevant.

The article is about reporting sexual harassment at work and being told to deflect it by pretending to have a boyfriend.

Sexual harassment is very obviously not asking about someone's netbook. If a woman reported that as sexual harassment, I doubt her boss would tell her to pretend to have a boyfriend. S/he'd probably say that it seemed like an innocent conversation.

Unwanted attention is not sexual harassment. My female friends and coworkers have complained about both: unwanted friendliness (s/he always wants to talk to me about stupid stuff) and sexual advances (repeated requests to get a drink, comments about body/attractiveness, etc.)

The original article is assuming that it's truly sexual harassment and asking for a reasonable response.
I like the functionality but that big red 'add to playlist' button is really ugly.
Practical example: my current employer pays me the same in base salary as my previous employer paid me in base salary + duty + overtime. Oh, and they do it without ever telling me I ough to work more.

For me this translates to happily walking the extra mile. It also means my wife is ok with me working a bit extra here and there because I love my job. And it means a whole less paperwork and talk about overtime or not.
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You could make the same argument against the "scholar" who spends their life in university and research. They are highly educated and practically useless as they accomplish little of substance towards "enlightenment." A socialist utopia sounds great when confined to the walls of the Ivy League but the individual who actually works for a living is far too wise for such nonsense.
Simulation of ancestors.

1) This idea makes me think that the simulation hypothesis is wrong. If some advanced civilization has the power to create simulations, why would they create us, specifically? Why would they bother recreating a primitive world of the past? Wouldn't it be way more interesting to create cooler, crazier worlds? Do you really believe a post-human ultra-intelligent civilization would create something as present-day ISIS? Is someone having fun watching how we experience this world's horrors and pains?

2) Then I think the following: yes, the above scenario is possible, given that organized intelligence is able to realize more possibilities of the universal computational space. With enough computing power, organized intelligence would be able to spawn near-infinite world simulations, and ours is just one of those.
One big advantage of using a popular VPN is shared endpoints. Your traffic is mixed in with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of other users.

Using your own VPS means you are easier targeted, tracked (on layer 3) and located -- since your VPS likely has a dedicated IP and you probably have a non-anonymized account with the provider. You're still relying on your VPS provider to not monitor outbound connections as you are on the VPN provider.
This is a mirror view of another phenomenon - Google and Facebook are sucking up more of the ad revenue. They're over half of all online ad revenue now, and climbing.

Google's solution to web spam has been to go into the web spam business and monetize it. Search Google for "credit card". The entire first screen is Google ads for marginal credit card providers. Five years ago, the top results were for many of the same marginal credit card providers, but they were organic results not monetized by Google.

So with Google having taken over the most profitable parts of web spam, the remaining players are fighting over the scraps. That's what this article is about.
Lie to avoid harassment? Sounds like not enough women have brothers, and not enough men are brothers.
> The driver said he'd done it about 25 times in his car.

Correction: The guy told the driver he'd been successful with this method 25 times. The woman's encounter was the driver's first as well (or first where he'd had an ongoing conversation with the guy). Your version makes the driver complicit much more than he actually was.