skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason we don't use LFP is because it doesn't impact prices that much. The UE rate does as it controls salaries which controls inflation/prices.

LFP and UE are both useful metrics, but they're used for different things. I am a big fan of labor force participation as I find the shift in our culture from a working one to one that doesn't interesting.

However, from the point of view of inflation (a driver of the funds rate and our economy in general), you really need to look at the unemployment rate.

Another way to look at it.. Changes in LFP rarely impact currency values much. Changes in UE rates do. And trust me, currency traders are very very apolitical. They care very little for conspiracy schemes. They just look at the relevant numbers and fight with their wallet.
Algol, * Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Ada, D, Swift, Rust

And I am not listing all of them.
Thanks for the feedback!

1. You mean as you're reviewing videos? Yeah, I need to figure that out
2. I use it for BJJ. What other things besides martial arts could benefit from this? It's hard to imagine tech conference videos being used here :)
3. The UI sucks, but it gets the job done for now. I'm working on making it have a better experience.
I couldn't find anything to confirm this, but as a Lebanese-American myself — I'd say from his name, looks, and speech I heard in a video on YouTube, he's probably Lebanese and possibly Syrian.
It's strange that you find the physicalist account "hand-wavy", but then use a physicalist model to dispute mind uploads. So do you accept physicalism or don't you?
Stop dropping off the network randomly. They blame it on "crappy wifi vendors" not supporting 802.11 power save mode properly but I have it on word from support that Meraki is fully 802.11 compliant.

Would be nice to have optional different displays too. Seems like a silly thing, I know, but it would be nice if I could just setup the 'normal' display to show outside temp without having to go to the menu.
Can I add "hackers" and "hustlers" to the cringe list please?
They actually give you the unit for free, or just the installation labor?
I hope they aren't - I'm american/lebanese as well, hence noticing.
What is the experience on laptops? I tried Vivaldi 1.0 or 1.1 and it drained the battery like nothing I have seen before as far as browsers go. Not sure if that is a Chromium or Vivaldi issue.
The Vikings were around a little under 2000 years after Tutankhamun.

The Viking swords in question were early examples of steel of some surprising quality. Iron technologies had existed for 1000 years at that point around Europe.
Omg, link to Vanity Fair on HN...
I've use both; I have several dedicated servers with OVH in their BHS datacenter and several instances with Vultr in their NJ datacenter. Both are great for the price, although support can sometimes be lacking.

OVH also has two cheaper brands for dedicated servers to checkout - SoYouStart and Kimsufi. The two cheaper brands have much more limited support.
We've had a good number of replies to this! I appreciate everybody who has taken the time to say hello. Seriously appreciated!

To update on this, we're currently looking for candidates located in the US.

Bonus points if you're front-end, as we have a ton of open positions for web on my team! That's the Uber.com team, under Growth.
Odd that you read the article, and came to the conclusion they were against 'ad-supported media', since one of the three possible business models they recommended was ad-supported! The clue was in the first line of the article: "You don’t get it: It’s not about ads, it’s about behavioural targeting and tracking."
Does "people like you" mean individuals who want to be compensated appropriately? How much can the transparency of an organization be valued at?
Back in the 90s, before I fully migrated away from Microsoft operating systems, I remember a few other code names as well.

If memory serves, "Chicago" was the code name for W95 and "Memphis" was the code name for W98. Also, I want to say that WFWG was called "Snowball" but I'm much less sure about that one (it's been a little while!).
Did not you notice that goto bashing is out of fashion again this season? Mind updating your rant repertoire?
Kudos to Larry for recognizing it was time to do the right thing and remove Tony. In this day and age, that sort of courage is pretty rare.

Do no evil indeed.
What's the opposite of a Luddite? What do you call a person who assumes that applied technology will fix everything, and anyone hurt by it is merely a necessary sacrifice to usher the rest of us into the coming technological utopia?
> which makes it the obvious alternative for anyone dissatisfied with the monopolist

All twelve of you?

I mean, I respect the effort, but people by and large aren't dissatisfied, while those who are dissatisfied aren't dissatisfied in such a way that makes them receptive to "nobody else is here, but you should be" services.
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I returned to Fort McMurray yesterday, after being evacuated a month ago. It was raining. Today the fire is a bit better because of the rain.

I'm one of the lucky ones. My house is still standing, and there's no damage.
"most importantly, stop producing unskilled workers. automation isn't going to go away."

Now, we're talking about improving the education system, which has its own fair share of problems.

There are solutions, but none of them are easy to implement.

Or maybe this (fact that some humans cannot write code, etc. for a job) is a consequence of the bell curve or the human condition itself?
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Looks cool, but nowhere on your product page does it say it's compatible with Nest.
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Why is "(1) debt repayment from free cash flow" appealing vs VC growth? I'm not familiar with that term. A quick search only gave me pages filled with even more finance jargon.
I found that a cronjob did 80% of the job, actually: the pain point is not in remembering the things about them, it's remembering their existence.
Either you stopped reading or are choosing to ignore what I wrote at the bottom clarifying my point.
Facebook didn't need to do much. Google Plus was frightfully annoying on its own. It made no sense to people the on boarding process, to the point where google plus made it easier to create new google plus accounts, people didn't want, without their knowledge than it was to get help from google on anything.
Glad to see him go based on what I have read here and elsewhere.
That might be what the physics engine does, but the demo is just using a physics engine to build a constrained array of particles with springs.
yes I agree, but I'd bet more on stop producing unskilled laborers - or the problem will never end. it was clear that automation was going to make a big mess of the low end a decade or two ago, but steps weren't made yesterday not today to plan for a solution.

now I know basic income doesn't give the same dignity as a job and not everyone can be an astronaut, but society is just keeping the head into the sand regarding this problem and it's just aggravating

what I think is that the sooner it pops the better, especially if it happens in a significant but not widespread sector, so solution could be made before all the manufacturers and most services are automated away from jobs, because there it will become really nasty.
Check out https://www.tado.com.

Disclaimer: I work there.
Indeed, that's the same way I acquired the beta/pre-release versions of W95/W98, although in my case I believe it was fileservers on Undernet, not EFnet.
Who keeps posting this? This gets debunked every single time.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360761
> Before anyone knew who Taylor Swift was, they connected with her through one or more song.

Only if by 'connected with her' you mean heard her debut hit over and over and over again on radio until it became an earworm.
If they're wrong ( and oh so many are ) , "Adam Smith's sycophants" have a fundamental reading comprehension problem. He's nominally a tepid-right, Virginia school economist, but Russ Roberts frames "Wealth of Nations" as a drill down of "Theory of Moral Sentiments". Smith spends barrels of ink decrying rents.

Many, many people who espouse Smith just cherry-pick reinforcement from him. Now: having said that, I am no progressive. I'd actually be for redistribution if it could be shown to work; we can't even get insurance payments fo people from Hurricane Sandy right. There is just always a paucity of philsopher-kings. We're just not that smart. It takes decades for the permanent bureaucratic class to debug these things - look at the history of the relativelty simple ( and possibly brilliant ) ag. subsidy regime.

I don't think we have a good empirical handle on aggression. I've known too many wealthy people who I would not turn my back on. I've known too many saintly/salt-of-the-earth/shirt-off-their-back poor people. The proportions do not favor material comfort having much of a seat at the table.

The cultural more of "crushing people" kinda looks like a thing now, and it makes me modestly angry.

I view Smith as one element of the (very important) Scots Enlightenment, along with Hume, James Watt and all the others. Where those guys are/were right, they're still right. That's my bias, though.
It's unlikely to be -EV for you to do so.

Technically, the higher the salary they pay you, the less profit there is to share, so absolutely, a higher salary will reduce the profit sharing. (you can immediately see how this is massively beneficial to you, of course).

Also, your future raises might (or might not) be smaller if you come in on the high end of the range. Some companies have a formulaic "X%" type of system, which means you want to start as high as possible. Others target a ratio to some fictitious "market reference" where a higher initial salary will result in lower future raises, which STILL means you want to start as high as possible.

Some company somewhere no doubt has a policy that works as you describe/fear. The overwhelming majority do not.
Meh; for their usual scope of work they don't actually need apps (infrequent desktop use) so it's not a notable decision. Open Society do apps where they are actually needed (e.g. reporting potholes).

Their decision to use Google as a home page and having all websites as plain as possible is horrific; with a lot of departments and agencies having lacklustre homepages that anyway aren't even aimed at the general public (e.g. arms-length-bodies).

They also made a half-assed job of promoting Agile and UCD through the government, where Agile is now misunderstood and despised. Probably because they never really tried to understand civil service politics.

Good ideas; badly executed.
"A broken sewer pipe is disruptive, but that doesn't mean you want it". ~~ Paraphrased slightly. Source: I don't remember exactly
Non-behavioral ads that don't track people are just "worse ads". And sure, they could use worse ads - but they'll need more of them to make up the difference.

And that still doesn't make it a malicious violation of human rights.
Not so sure about that.

James/Aphex said back in 1997 that he was using algocomp for some of his music. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin#Musical_style
>it's already free, you can't go lower than that.

You could give the users ownership of the multibillion dollar platform whose monetary value only exists because of its users.
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I have been incredibly frustrated with how they acquired Dropcam and completely killed not only the soul of the company, but real features the existing devices already had.

The setup process for the Dropcam was absolutely magical. You plug a new one in, open the app and it would configure the camera via Bluetooth 4.0. You could then go back in and change WiFi settings by simply being near enough for the Bluetooth 4.0 connection.

Then Nest bought them, and completely removed that feature. They issued a firmware update that made it so now the camera that used to have this wonderful feature now requires me to plug it into my computer's USB and execute some janky app from a flash drive. Of course, if you buy one of their new devices, you a setup process somewhat similar to the original Dropcam. But existing customers are out of luck. In fact, the Dropcam Pro included a 1080P sensor but they did not enable it for various reasons. When Nest released their flavor of the camera, they enabled 1080P, but not for existing Dropcam Pro customers.

The DVR functionality is inferior too.

I wish I could get a refund. I personally feel like it is a bait and switch scenario. :(
> As soon as self driving cars go mainstream, all those jobs will be gone.

This is the key. I can't imagine that "gig economy" services like Uber see this new job market they've created as anything but a temporary inconvenience to be done away with as soon as autonomous systems can do the job instead.

Like you say, if we haven't started to at least get comfortable with the idea of a basic income by the time autonomous systems start replacing human jobs wholesale, things are going to get scary.
User based voting solves both those problems without having to nuke the ability to post anonymously.
Canada seems to be in so much trouble - I am wondering how things are there.

# Massive flooring of the Canadian dollar.

# Continued job losses months on end - Unemployment rate of 7.1% !

# Most expensive Natural Disaster in Canadian history.

At least they got their Obama.
Its on the FAQ but not the product page. Working through the official works with nest stuff behind the scenes.
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The better argument is marginal value of a dollar. The argument against is that effective investment creates an at least pseudo public good.

It's a nuanced mess and ideology destroys any hope of it being well done.
Too complex for most large networks with many peers and client BGP announcements.
I think you missed the thrust of my argument which is that XMPP sucks from a _user_ perspective. A non-technical user perspective which is 90% of the users in the real world.

> False. XMPP has excellent feature negotiation capabilities.

User don't care what the protocol can do. "How come persistent group chat isn't working? Ah, I'll just use WhatsApp"

> Feature negotiation and graceful fallback, is it really that hard?

This is dependent on the client. Does your client support that? Who knows? Users don't care about any of this.

> Incentives, yes. In the (core) protocol? No.

There's no greater incentive for public server providers than the danger of having their user base get isolated from the rest of the network. That can be done through the protocol and is the only incentive that will actually _accomplish_ anything.
I'm intrigued.

Email address in profile.
How smart is the evaluation?
Ask HN: Who is this programmer making $200M per year?
I recently discovered h1bdata.info. Super cool. I was digging around looking at consulting companies that have a huge number of H1Bs and found an employee at Wipro who apparently makes $200M a year. He's listed as a "programmer analyst". The CEO of Wipro makes about $1.5M a year. What's going on here? You can see Wipro's H1B applications here and sort by salary: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=WIPRO+LIMITED

The other interesting thing I noticed is that small town of Bentonville, AR is apparently a major hub for H1B IT workers. Lots of consulting companies list hundreds of people there.
> At least they got their Obama.

What? Obama wasn't elected on the strength of nice hair and Daddy's legacy.
Some people are grad students with an eye towards finance.
I interviewed at Dropcam right before it was acquired, and it was clear that it was an amazing place. The team there was so solid.

I didn't realize until recently, but am not surprised to learn, that the people at Dropcam went on to found several interesting startups:

- https://eero.com/
- https://www.lily.camera/
- https://claralabs.com/
distributed databases
More than than, say, the average government?
Smaato UI Framework
I forgot HN is SUPER SRS BSNS.
As discussed in the OP, don't assume that everyone else's experiences are the same as yours.
It's just another biometric matching system. So it might be used as a form of sign-in to your car's network or data, better than taking your hands off the wheel to key a password. Or a LoJack complement that identifies your car's thief.
Try Otter too, it's promising as an Opera successor, although it's still lacking some stuff like password manager.
Huh? Vanity Fair is a frequent source of important and interesting journalism...they've been writing a lot recently about the tech scene, but have also had classics such as: http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1996/05/wigand199605
On the bright side, it is opening up some long-overdue political dialogue. For example diversification of the Alberta economy away from natural resources.

Calgary's downtown office towers have reached record high vacancy rates, with so many engineers laid off. I'm hoping this is an opportunity for tech companies to take notice and move in.
Technophile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technophilia
Yes, they are (the website, that is)! Here is the NHS.UK beta blog

http://digital.nhs.uk/

The current www.nhs.uk website may not look pretty and is a bit messy in the way it's organised, but it's a real goldmine of health information.
Plus, you can trust that it's written by qualified medical practitioners.

I really hope the GDS team can make the new NHS site as simple, clear and easy to use as gov.uk.

Slight digression: I'm always a little annoyed when Google gives livestrong.com top billing in their search results when you search for a medical condition. I can understand that people outside the UK might prefer livestrong.com, but I think most UK web users (using Google UK) would consider the NHS website as more reliable and appropriate than livestrong.
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Really like to hear the rationale for downvotes, just because it's surprising to me.
They should, but they aren't. The challenge is bigger than you think. Core banking technology is so fragmented and outdated.
Universal Basic Income Is the Best Tool to Fight Poverty
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I have a BsCS; if I got an MsCS you could not much consider me any more educated than I already am. Examples abound of medical doctors who hold flatly a-scientific views.

Marxism is completely dependent on using narrative as a primary tool. It is also therefore a-scientific.

Narrow is the way...
What exactly do you mean by "regular physics"?

Do you mean classical physics, optionally including classical field theory (ie, General Relativity)?
Under False Imprisonment FB could lock the employees in, just as long as the employees didn't know they were locked in at the time of being locked in (i.e. they only found out later after FB unlocked them) ;)
> monetary incentives don't work the way Adam Smith' sycophants pretend they do

Well, they certainly work the Adam Smith said they do, to wit: "The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers."
I don't realize that because it's not.
Interesting to know.

I have been thinking of moving to Canada due to all the good things I hear from my Canadian friends.

But I get conflicting view from the news and statistics.
Very nice. Turn on "No self intersect", or the cloth keeps going through itself. Turn off "Wind" to see it come to rest.
Thanks for the open follow-up response. Re-reading, I realise my previous response was a bit unnecessarily snarky. Sorry for that.

> I find it difficult to work with people who are compensated less than me. I want my coworkers to be better than me.

I much prefer that attitude to the opposite :-) Though surely even better is to work with great people whom you're learning from in a variety of ways, whether or not they are paid more or less or the same. A lot of the value that someone can bring to your life is not correlated with their value to the market.

> The lack of negotiation ability makes what might otherwise be a fruitful business relationship impossible. I do not believe that transparency and negotiations are mutually exclusive.

I can't speak for Buffer, but in GrantTree it is not that you cannot negotiate, but that you cannot negotiate in secret - so it's more a discussion than a negotiation (I hope... sample size is limited at the moment!). As I mentioned in my original post, we start the ball rolling by saying where we think you fit on the pay scale and why, and if that's not where you think you should fit you are welcome to engage in a discussion to help us get it right!

> Sincere counter-question: how can you retain talent with fixed salary ceilings? Why would someone stick around when they're leaving a ton of money on the table?

> If someone is developing their skills, is extremely productive, is increasing their worth, at one of these companies they can choose to leave money on the table (altruistically donating their higher value to a for-profit company) or leave. Are they a "bad culture fit" because they wanted to make what they are worth?

There's a really good question here and I don't have a great answer to it. If you or anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. To an extent, part of my answer would be: surely that's true of any small company. People might grow faster than the company. When that happens, I guess they leave and move on to something else. I guess that's ok. It's not like everyone has to keep working for GrantTree for the rest of their life! People might leave for this reason or for another reason. I hope they then look back at GrantTree as a place where they grew and learned a lot, had a great time, made some great friends and did some worthwhile work. In that time, they contributed to GrantTree's growth as well as their own, so it's not like the company is left high and dry here.

And no, I don't think that makes them a "bad culture fit" in that sort of insulting way. It might mean they are no longer a good fit for working here. That's ok. People change. Companies change. Someone that was a good fit to work in a small 3-people startup is not necessarily a good fit to work in that company 20 years later, obviously. That doesn't have to be an insult or a put-down.
You need to think about this from a non-technical user perspective. They'll be using the Conversations server, guaranteed. Because

1) They're not going to run their own server.

2) They're not going to bother researching which servers support Conversations entire featureset.

That's why XMPP is garbage for the majority users and why XMPP weenies will stay baffled as to why there aren't a flood of users using it.
Only gag-inducing? You didn't actually puke? Disappoint.
So in other words my comment should have said that: in C++ it is easy to create something that is either a null-reference or some other, much more unpredictable, undefined thing.

Well then! That just goes to show how much safer C++ references are than I had previously supposed.
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