skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only reply to that would be that I imagine a significant amount of couples met originally at work in what was likely supposed to be a professional environment.
The problem with more salary is more responsibility. More likely to be cut if you don't perform at the level commensurate with the salary.
> I find its the person who is applying that has the power not the company

I think you are assuming the person applying has some sort of safety net (a current job, savings, alternate income.) That is where the BATNA comes into play. Sure, if you are already making an acceptable amount of money to meet your needs, aren't overworked/over-stressed, and relatively satisfied then you are indeed in a position of power. If you need to get hired some place within 2 months and have been having trouble getting a job then you very well might not be in a position of power. Not all people have the ability to walk away.
I agree, This is more of corporate America passing along externalities they don't like.
Damn, that's a really short statement and notice. I was hoping for more details.
Arbitrageurs bother me a lot. You're certainly about that.

Unfortunately, a lot of bad behavior in ads is desired by every piece of the chain: adtech companies, exchanges, publishers, advertisers, and consumers who do not want to pay for entertainment.

App install ads are one example of this. Relatively bad for consumers but good for every other link in the chain. Some of the largest blue-chip companies you've heard of buy these things.
Never going to happen. If a guy is attracted to a girl, and the only chance is to engage with her right then and there, if that guy wants a shot at getting what he wants in his life, he's going to go for it. Then it's up to the girl to make her disinterest clear. If the guy can see she's disinterested then he backs off. If he's the kind of guy who respects women then he'll back off. If he's the kind of guy who harasses women, he'll harass. Teaching me that it was wrong to steal candy from the candy store when I was a kid didn't stop me, getting caught stopped me. I just happen to have respect for women and great social intuition, so one of two things happens in my personal experience. The girl is into me, and it ends up being a really cool start of a lot of fun for both of us. Or she shows me she's not interested and I tell her it was nice meeting and I move on. There's never going to be a world where all men behave as well as I do. Tell victims how to prevent it, maybe some will be prevented. Tell offenders not to offend, then maybe some of them will change their mind about what they think they can get away with...?
Once you accept they were attacked by a Yeti it is a minor jump to conclude this Yeti, or perhaps all Yetis, are radioactive, don't you think?
Additionally, if they're giving the resources for a large team, you may be in a position to hire someone who some of these duties can be delegated to.
You're absolutely right. Firmly agree you are worth what you can get in the market. This is why there's so much job hopping. Salaries don't tend to rise with market value--they tend to rise (or not) based on some company-derived formula that's based on some largely irrelevant measurement of the employee's performance.

What's my house worth? Who knows until I go try to sell it?
It's all harassment until it's from someone she's attracted to.
"... but Android Java is not 100%" => Android N will use OpenJDK.
Its only a problem when that comment ends the discussion. Its important to go further (than we ever have before) and discuss how to bring the fight to the enemy, so to speak.
I wonder if this file with the tumblr passwords was placed in an unprotected shared dropbox folder. Thus, although the actual passwords were from tumblr, the passwords were downloaded by "worm" via a dropbox "breach".
So a 10-15% fall in revenue due to fraud leads to a 70% reduction in price?
So what's the best way to browse anonymously these days? Is it running a hypervised OS (some hardened GNU Linux/BSD Unix variant?) with a randomly changed LAN MAC upon every boot, connected to a VPN operating outside US with OpenVPN & 4k PK (e.g. in Romania), browsing using TorBrowser with NoScript and WebGL turned off? Or even two VPNs at the same time, one in the base OS, the other in the hypervised one?
Another way to approach this problem is to not anchor salaries based on previous salary. I've worked at a company where we hired obviously talented people with little experience. We hired them on as jr devs, with commensurate salaries, but within a year their salaries had increased to their productivity levels (30-40%).

I've seen too many people with low salaries get "exceptional" raises of 5% when everyone in the company gets 3%. So you have an employee who works his way out of tech support into dev admin but he's the bottom of a very large band. There is no hope for that person to get to salary parity when mountains have to be moved to go from 3% to 5%.
I wonder what the backstory is on this.
Because it adds complexity, but doesn't deliver the gains in productivity or encapsulations that you hope for.

C++ is a big language, and most people agree that "some parts" of it are useful, but they just can't agree on which parts are the good ones. You have to decide that for yourself.

This is worth reading for a good suggestion of how to use C++ features sparingly:

"Orthodox C++"
https://gist.github.com/bkaradzic/2e39896bc7d8c34e042b

Everyone has their own opinions, from dogmatically never use anything c++ to only stopping short of using boost. I will vary by project, using STL sometimes and not others, sometimes using classes lightly, other times sticking to POD, etc. I think you have the right idea when you say "Use it to get what you need done".
It's funny, because I'd say his reputation and recognition is primarily as a novelist... but I think he's absolutely a better short story writer than a novelist! Don't get me wrong... I love almost everything King has ever written (well, fiction anyway... I can do without his ridiculous politics), including both novels and short stories. But every time I sit down and start reading one of his short story anthologies, I'm reminded of just how amazing his is in that form. I just read Bazaar of Bad Dreams earlier this year, and, once again, I was blown away.
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It doesn't look like that on the Fortune 500 offices I tend to sit on.
Visual Basic (the latest version of which is VB6) and Visual Basic .NET are not the same language.

VB.NET is a C# skin. VB6 was an excellent productive environment, whose problems were the Basic language and its warts, and the community of which a significant percentage were clueless.

People who hate VB.NET hate it because it's basically a needlessly verbose skin of C#. People who hate VB6 hate it because they hated it 10 years ago when it was still dying (and they don't even remember why). The bottom line is that today no one actually likes either VB environment.
And that's where compassion comes in - we need to recognize that women are conditioned to expect men to be hitting on them (and oblivious to resistance), and why they're conditioned (because men actually do hit on them all the time and are oblivious to resistance), and respect that.

Whining about how unfair it is that "Nice guys like myself get lumped in with all those jerks" is disrespectful and uncompassionate. It's not about you! You know that thing where other not-nice guys have conditioned women to be cautious? The next moves in that game are insults, name-calling, public humiliation, physical assault/rape, stalking, doxing, etc. Every woman - every woman - has experienced these behaviors themselves, or knows women who have experienced them. Every man knows women who've experienced them too, although many men don't realize it.

That stranger asking a woman for her name, where she's from, trying to make social links online, etc... how is she to know that stranger won't be cyberstalking her and showing up at her home later? Because women have good reason to fear that.
Not to that company. I may be worth 150 in the marketplace, but that company pays everyone 120. The company is finding people at 120 and balks at the 150. The employee probably goes somewhere else and that's it.
So far the most interesting articles I've found in the Unusual Articles list you shared is the Dancing Plaque:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
Government officials are people too :)

A lot of these things are military aircraft. In my region, there were a lot of UFO sightings that were Tomahawk missile terrain navigation system testing.
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Elaborate on this, what are you saying? Having a brother makes a women better able to show disinterest clearly? Being a brother makes a man better at not harassing women when making advances?
This is selfish, but I don't mind what's happening with online advertisement industry. During the 2000s it went overboard and finally triggered the market response I'm thankful for.

We have wonderful things like uBlock and yesScript that allow you to fine-tune your exposure to ads and Javascript with ease. My online experience is wonderful: clutter-free sites, fast loading times and my battery lasts forever due to minimal Javascript exposure.

The web audience has self-selected into two groups now: the ad-consuming and ad-blocking ones. You don't even need to be particularly tech savvy to opt to never see ads again. Nothing to be outraged about.

Even those parallax scrolling sites aren't a problem anymore: the second you see something fly to the left or zoom on you when you try to simply scroll down, reach out to that sweet yesScript button, and bam! - the insanity stops.

The only thing I found no easy answer for is those sticky CSS "navigation toolbars" that so many of sites started to roll out. These ridiculous contraptions sometimes occupy up to 30% of vertical real estate and I haven't found a blocker for those yet. 90% of the time they go away if you turn off Javascript for the offending site using yesScript, and in the remaining 10% a custom uBlock rule will do the job, which is a bit annoying.
> I like ideally to pay for work not for hours etc, if you give me what I want I don't care if I am paying you $3000 dollars and you worked a half hour and slept for a week out of town

I would say it almost never works out this way, more likely you end up doing a lot more work than you originally imagined and thus bringing your hourly way down. There's also a strong incentive for the buyer to manipulate this to their advantage.

The exception would be very small and predictable jobs (tasks?) but for everything else my advice would be to always get paid based on hours actually worked.
Ask HN: Are Android apps a security threat?
Next week I'm moving from Cyanogenmod 13 to stock Android M. I no longer have PrivacyGuard and I'm not going to root my phones anymore.

With that in mind, how can I protect my contact list and personal files when I install new apps?

Let's say I want to install a double tap to unlock app but I'm worried they might be malware. It's impossible to just use apps from certain developers so, HN, can I just install anything I want or do I need some kind of evaluation method? If I never click on "Allow this app to read my contacts" it won't do any harm? If an app shows some ads on my lockscreen I could just remove it, that's ok. But can it make more damage than that?
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This is incorrect.

Cone cells have fairly peaked frequency responses, and due to random projections caused by the cascading, this is sufficient to fully reconstruct the signal, i.e. the converse of the statement is true, you can retain 99.9% of the perceptual information using 3 sensors, all you need is to perceive in time and some randomness in the sensor placement.
> Also known as "the every other platform except Windows" crowd

I am yet to see iDevices and Android developers being PDP-11 devs or guys doing development on our Fortune 500 customers, regardless of the customer OS.
It's not even about that, it's about authors importing drama into the tech community with self-indulgent rants about problems that didn't even happen or were intentionally misconstrued.
Thank you for bringing some sanity to this discussion. The article should probably be flagged and pulled. Just read their About page--no details whatsoever and their methodology appears to be looking at Google Trends and the news.

As a senior buy-side ad guy who has been in the space for a long time, here's my $.02 for what it is worth:

- Click/impression/view fraud are big problems. Viewability solutions are still nascent, but improving. Google and Facebook are both fairly uniquely positioned (due to their data advantages) to continue getting better at cleaning things up.

- People who think Google in particular is interested in perpetuating ad fraud aren't thinking things through to conclusion. The reason advertisers like myself spend as much as we do is because from what we can see in the data, it is profitable. Display is arguably less measurable (yada yada attribution yada), but Google is fiercely protective of their ad quality. Being recognized as a source of quality traffic that drives profit is Google's moat. If they could instantly kill all fraudulent traffic they would do it in a heartbeat because they know it would mean even more spend from advertisers who find them to be even more profitable. This is of greater importance now moreso than ever before with the rise of FB and FB's gains on the mobile advertising front.

- There is a lot of thrashing and consolidation occurring in the display ecosystem. There is a major shift that has been in the making for years where advertisers are focusing more and more on "audiences" vs. "placements." Thus, whomever has the better audience data will be better positioned. Google has significantly better audience data than most ad networks and exchanges out there. A lot of the highest quality data is 1st party data living in someone's DMP or CRM, and Google has opened up tools for onboarding those audiences much like FB has (yay lookalike targeting!). Not that they didn't know who people were already.

- The sell-side has significant pressure from the buy-side to clean up their act. Unless they are doing some sketchy arbitrage, 99% of ad buyers want to stamp out fraudulent traffic. Publishers who can't survive without it are not long for this world. Ultimately there are significant interests and dollars behind killing fraud.

- Ad fraud will always exist in some form. That's why it is a number's game as well as a game of whack-a-mole.

But yes, back to the original point--let's please not read too much into this...ahem..."well-sourced research."
> - You may hate it but... you clicked on it. We're giving you what you want. If you like looking at stupid cat pictures (or worse), someone will give you stupid cat pictures. We're not paid to provide moral or intellectual censorship...

Clickbait articles have low quality content. It's usually hard to judge article quality by the link's title. Most people are tired of being misled into trashy websites.
Bookmarks 2016? How is that a clickbait title?
I started skimming, then gave up. Anybody got a TL;DR on this?
Huh? What are you doing three times? Installing the SDK is incredibly easy. Using it in docker is literally as easy as `docker run -it microsoft/dotnet`.

>the thing for me with linux, you do it three times to get anything running

Meanwhile, I just spent a few hours editing reg keys and firewall rules to enable a Windows Jenkins worker when it takes about 30 seconds to add a Linux worker via SSH.
That's exactly why everybody should start using services like http://html5maker.com to create their ads
Isn't this title itself clickbait?
Clickbait is like heroin.

Just because people use it so much it kills them doesn't mean it provides value to them.

Just because clickbait preys on our nature doesn't make it valuable.

Easy to argue that by choosing manipulation over substance for the sole reason of generating revenue that you are not providing value, you are more of a rent seeker, not providing anything new of value but rather seeking rents on existing content. Seeing as most clickbait is "Top 10 Things Our Underpaid Interns Stole From Other Sites: You won't believe #7!", the rent seeking analogy is kinda decent.
Or you could install our Ad Limiter[1], and block most Google ads in Google search results. Google is getting in your face with their entire screens of Google ads for some searches.

[1] http://www.adlimiter.com
> This actually goes back to Steve Job's original vision for the iPhone. He didn't intend there to ever be 3rd party apps for the phone, because he saw the internet as being the perfect platform for them.

Do you have a link that lays this out in more detail?
I'm sure you're right, and I'm not saying it should never happen, but that it's a different environment that you should be aware of.

Tech conferences are a little different than the average workplace, too - it's not as if you have the time to get to know a person, or usually live anywhere near each other to be able to form a relationship.
As someone who once took a 50% pay cut to do do something I wanted to do (work in Japan) and another 25% pay cut many years later to work on a project I really wanted to work on I don't know if I can agree that money is the primary motivation to work. Maybe for you? Maybe even for most people? Although I don't think I know a single person who is working for money. If that's all they wanted they'd be doing jobs that pay more.
I think for sure that company success requires engaged, future-seeing leaders with vision, taking an active role. My argument is that "founders" are not the sole possessors of such leadership qualities. The "founder" title has much more to do with one's access to capital and connections than one's intrinsic personal qualities or product judgment.
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Western, English-language pop-music at that.
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> I've never met a hiring manager/HR recruiter that's ok with this

There's a very simple position to take here: "My compensation is a function of the value I will be providing to your company, not the value I provide to my current employer."

Be assertive. At least in the United States, short of a backchannel reference check, a prospective employer has absolutely no way of confirming anything you say - a fact that can be brought to light if this kind of question ever comes up.

At the moment, for good talent, it's a seller's market.

> evidence of a disturbing bias against the unemployed/underemployed

There is a definite bias against un(der)employed. This has been well studied. Furthermore: your BATNA while employed is infinitely better (for most people).
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I agree - a likely explanation.

A halfway decent examination should show if it was torn on bitten through... Writing this I realise it must have been bitten through by either external means (animal) or localized (bit off own tongue) or it would have been mentioned as another mystery.

But for me, one thing that is harder to explain is the skull fragment. For that, there would have definitely been tooth or tool marks. Unless of course, she fell....
Any demos or examples?
Android N will use selected parts of the OpenJDK, it isn't 100% Java 8 compliant.

And with Marshmallow having 7.5% market share[1] how long do you think will take for developers even to start caring about Java 8 support on Android N?

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
If you built the front end for it then sure. In its current state this tool just deals with reading and writing cell values.
I hope The Tor Project and Appelbaum will make statements. Their reticence and the suddenness of the resignation raises concerns that there are problems at that very important project.
If you read about him some more you'd see that meeting you is probably the last thing he wants to do though.
I don't quite get it. Music is an amalgam of features, not in boxes. The real solution is tags, not genres even really. Any given piece could get a whole bunch of tags. Why attempts to put everything in one place on a map?
Did you know that before reading the article?
A real person, a lot like you (2010)
How about if the title is trying to deceive me about the contents? Is lying a moral issue?

How about if the title is manipulating me to try to get me to click on it in order to make money from me doing so, even though it's going to waste my time? Is that a moral issue?
Walmart are in profit aren't they? They don't need to lobby for a wage increase they can just give their employees one (as you intimated).

If they're lobbying for higher minimum wage when they don't already pay a higher wage themselves then it seems their motives are malicious. It's not something that reflects well on them anyhow.
It did not offer more than a request for nickname to me. I am using Firefox.
Coowner of a sell-side firm. I agree with everything shostack has said.
And where have you factored in the attempts Google makes to stamp out fraud, such as by refunding clicks they identify as fraudulent? [1]

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/42995?hl=en
No, it's not a mistake. Each process has it's own virtual address space, but part of that space is typically used to map operating system code and data. The reserved part is anywhere from a quarter to a half on a 4GB 32-bit system (I have no idea on a 64bit). Those pages are marked kernel-only. The upper half to three-quarters will be different for each process.

One reason for this is so that you can easily trap to the kernel (for an interrupt, a system call, an exception, etc.) without changing the page tables at all -- you just change the cpu mode bit.
What about, instead of "I have a boyfriend", tell them you are uncomfortable and would rather them stop talking/harassing/being around you?

Of course, I might be minimizing and, in fact, the molester might not be a rapist but still a fully fledged harasser.

Isn't there any security service around at these conferences? Is it absurd to hope they are trained to deal with such situations if need be?
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Yes, and they have refrigeration.

Safeway has a nice approach to scheduling. You can request a 1-hour, 2-hour, or 4-hour delivery window. Shorter windows cost more.
Shh Don’t empower the harassers
Strange, it sure looks like that at Amazon, at Netflix, at McKesson, at Facebook, at....you get the idea

But enough empty hot-air "name-dropping"; just cool your bluster, dude. You don't have to get all "look at me I'm better than you, I have all the best words, great words like 'Fortune 500'" just because you don't like CLIs.
And then when she's rude, she's a cold, nasty bitch, and fully deserving of the stream of insults and epithets she gets for it. And anything short of being rude is perceived as interest and encouragement. Sigh.
Thanks for the feedback. It's working now. Including favourites questions links seems a good idea.
It was some time before they were found, and the snow might have hindered identification of that.