skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'It breaks down to "the shortest distance between two points depends on the terrain"'

Other than the trifling details that "shortest", "distance", "points", and "terrain" have little relationship to what most people would consider the normal meaning of the term, and that you also left out the fact that the terrain can be "chosen" somehow which is even less connected to what most people expect, yeah, sure.

I understood enough of what the article is trying to get at to be pretty convinced it just can't get there with the level of terminology it wants to use. There's limits on what concepts you can get to with any given degree of sophistication in terminology.
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> Developers get commissions on top of above-market salary.

Aren't these bonuses? Unless the developers are closing the sales.

> We don't directly track nor care about hours, just output and results.

Okay, and are you expecting the kind of results that would take most people 60-80+ hours?
This sounds like some naive advice. Almost always salary range is discussed through a recruiter. This likely will be fruitless and will make you look like an amateur.
I really do, thanks. It's on my todo list now, right after Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy and Mark von Schlegell's Venusia.
The claim that apple avoided FLAC due to parents doesn't hold up. Apples ALAC implements all the same techniques and so is open to all the same patent threats.
Tech, Civil Liberties Advocates Wary of Email Privacy Amendments
https://www.google.com.cu/maps/@19.9393549,-75.151331,15055m...
Different therapies will likely require different numbers of cells, and most clinical trials using MSCs involve preliminary expansion of the cells. We store multiple aliquots of your cells so that only a portion may be thawed at a time.

We don't expand the cells at this time, but will likely offer expansion services in the future.

Yes, by expanding you could create a very large reserve of cells.
String is one that has changed pretty significantly - count and offset have been removed, only fields are hash and value now.

This means String.substring is no longer an O(1) method, but it saves 8 bytes per string which is huge, and also avoids some of the wierd corner case GC/memory issues that substring/StringBuilder caused by hanging on to the reference
You can figure that information out pretty quickly without needing to disclose your current salary. It might take a LITTLE longer, but not THAT much longer. I think an extra few hours is worth multiple thousands of dollars every year.
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Not really. Laws in the US default to women as caregivers.

- Women get maternity, men don't
- Women get default custody of child in divorce, men don't
- Women get to adopt easier than men
- Domestic violence on men is ignored/laughed upon, presumably because men are not caregivers but violators by default
- Women don't have mandatory military conscription, men do (presumably because men have to be fighters and women have to be caregivers by default)
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Yes, and many savvy recruiters would make you make the calculated risk anyway. Note that at that stage, the recruiters are highly incentivized to say or allude to "we can beat everyone/are competitive" without saying a number and make you interview with the company at the beginning of the process (with various excuses, including not having the authority to talk about actual numbers and that decision being prorogued to a distinct person/team, but rest assured that we beat others according to your interview performance) and you later learn their guesstimate was far off.
We have an example sand box you might be interested in at:
https://github.com/react-d3-library/react-d3-library-example...

Just do npm install, npm start, and go to localhost:3000
They were available as the conference was unfolding, usually no later than a couple of hours after each talk. Really awesome work by the conference organisers. I feel so lucky I was able to attend.

The closing keynote had everyone very excited. It's a beautiful talk about music, programming, biking, and life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s
Geez. "Plagiarize" is a pretty strong word for this. The guy related one small part of a book, and anyone interested will likely check out the book for themselves anyway. The article is practically a rave review of the book. Give the guy a break.
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Taught software dev for four years in higher ed. I always had modules on resume/cover letter, behavioral interviews, core value matching, self promotion, salary negotiation, and other job-related things.

Student feedback always suggested these were incredibly valuable lessons.
Just curious, is you current employer aware of your resume and what do they think about it?
For the curious, alternative measures of labor underutilization

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
This adds an important angle to the discussion, and that's that people who want to harass someone don't care if you tell them not to.

I am being downvoted simply because its an unpopular opinion and not because it doesn't add to the discussion.
I have seen quite a few employers and some of them are noticeably much better at converting developer work into revenues than others. Those companies are able to offer higher salaries even to worse developers, simply because they can make more money on every quality-equivalent unit of work.

The $Y amount may be higher than $X because you are actually worth $Z to a median company, and $Y > $Z because that particular company is in the 90th percentile at turning developer work into revenues, and $Z > $X because that company is in the 20th percentile.

So, generalizing, the company that is capable of offering the most to you is going to be better at managing development teams, which is usually a symptom of being a better employer overall.
I feel like making a video from this response. This is such a good analogy.
You worked at BigMachines too. I know you! That's impressive, the whole git bridge.
Just make sure you aren't waiting for them to relinquish the keys to your car they took to evaluate its value as a trade-in. I once had to threaten to call the police in order to get the keys back so I could leave!
Yes, it appears that women are penalized for assertiveness (more than men).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/men-see-powerful-women-a...

https://hbr.org/2013/04/for-women-leaders-likability-a/
Thanks! That's what I had in mind when I made it. Good for data that almost never changes as I'm still working on a way of cache busting.
And many of them also only cover a certain radius from specific urban centers. For example, I live about an hour outside of Boston and I can get Peapod but not Instacart or Google Express.
> activists

While I'm sure you intended this to be a compliment, you should know that ioerror has strong opinions (which I agree with) about the word "activist". From a recent talk[1][2] he gave about journalism and the media:

"Activism" is used as a pejorative term in order to suggest
that participation in a democratic society is somehow
outside of the normal behavior.

Fuck that. That is wrong.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJValv4YQcY#t=78

[2] I strongly recommend everyone watch [1] - it's shorter than most of his talks (only 20m), and it has surprising revaluations about e.g. The Guardian. Jacob doesn't pull his punches, and he burns a few notable bridges.
It's great for most entities involved. I suppose the open web will not be consumed by FB after all !
> Sure you can read them, but does anybody actually ever hand-edit them?

Let me assure you, that yes people do. Sometimes that's the only option to getting the build working like you want/need to.

Csproj-files are more or less Turing complete, so you can do lots and lots of things that the standard GUI tools will never permit you to.
You would have to waste a lot of time for it not to be worth it. Lets say through your entire interview process at multiple companies, it adds an extra 10 hours. If that gets you $10k a year (or more) over 5 years, I am pretty sure that is worth it.
Tell them you have a boyfriend, unless you find them attractive, then you know, whatever.
We don't do that as moderators, short of banning the account. I'm not banning that account because its other comments are fine, and it's better to assume that people are willing to improve.

HN's mechanism for dealing with individually bad comments is user flags, and the two bad comments in question have indeed been flagkilled.
My dad always told me that even if you were in the right crossing the street at the crosswalk and a car comes along and hits you your still dead. So pay attention. Nothing worse than being in right and dead.
> not everyone's good at playing games like that.

For those that aren't good at faking it until they make it (negotiation): obtain the opportunity to walk away.

Take the position as offered and immediately begin seeking new options.
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Any idea when you will push the new version to the Chrome Web Store?
He may be young, but 7 year olds can show great resourcefulness and mastery of environments they're familiar with. Certainly, this boy did. I'm curious about his general relationship with the forest environment he was left in. Is this a place he already knew much about?
There are lots of services already like that.... first one I found when googling: http://www.supercook.com/
So?

Given both the water and not freezing bit, even seven year olds are surprisingly resilient. Hunger is a big deal, but an otherwise well-fed human can survive (miserably) without food for 30 or more days. Most potentially-threatening wildlife (e.g., bears) will do their best to avoid you.

So what, exactly, would you have expected a seven year-old to have died of over the course of a week, if not dehydration or freezing?

The biggest concern, IMHO, would have been not finding him for several weeks.
Hiring Slows Sharply, Workforce Dropouts Spike
I used to use the hacker news enhancement suite on chrome, it makes it alot more manageable.

I recently switched back to safari so am stuck using the default site, and it is much harder to navigate around.
The way I see it is that it boils down to: how likely will the employer greatly surpass your asking price? If the likelihood is low, you should lead. If the likelihood is high, then you should let them lead.

In my opinion, with negotiations, (as much as people hate negotiations in this thread) nothing ever generically applies as not all people are expert negotiators... (including this advice I guess...)
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So the definition of harassment is when you tell someone "no" and they keep bugging you about it. Right?
It's exactly the same thing. Mosely had his privacy violated by News International. Thiel had his violated by Gawker. Mosely set up a war chest to assist those taking legal action against News International. Thiel did so for those taking action against Gawker. Both had an axe to grind with news organisations they felt were behaving badly. Both assisted individuals with legal cases that would have otherwise gone nowhere because of the high cost of the legal system. Both News International and Gawker have relied on this in the past.

Where are the differences?
Yes, the question is the mystery. That's why it's interesting, because it has to be one of a few improbable options.

"Something" convincing 9 experienced outdoorsman to slice open their tent (why not open the door?) and flee is a pretty crazy story. Add the other things that don't easily fit a plausible explanation, and it's really interesting.
That's his opinion, but taking into account the very low % of people who actually engage in the democratic game, I'd say "activist" is a proper term.
Thank you for adding some cultural context!
IBMs Watson has something like you're describing https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/
> That is way too huge and bulky for most embedded system

I heard a good definition: is it used as a computer or as an appliance. If it's the latter, it's at least kind of embedded, even if it's a fairly powerful processor with lots of memory and so on.
I am not dreaming. I live it.
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From Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs:

>He didn't want outsiders to create applications for the iPhone that could mess it up, infect it with viruses, or pollute its integrity

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/10/4507930/the-revolution-wil...
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Agree 100%... Inequality is an issue in this case because it's coming at the expense of the middle class...

As you point out, current increases in inequality are symptoms of a bigger problem. The bigger problem (Govt debt, Fed money printing, and bank bailouts) needs to be addressed.

Trying to address inequality without tackling the root cause will do little - in most cases, since the "solutions" are more harmful govt/fed interventions, it will just make inequality worse.
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We are based in Ann Arbor, MI. We are currently opening operations in the Piedmont of NC, and CA (SF) will follow soon after. More cities after that.

If you are interested, contact us, and let us know where you are at.

The procedure is done with a local anesthetic. The entire procedure takes about 15 minutes from lying down to standing up. It is drawn from the upper part of your pelvis bone on your lower back. The most discomfort is a muscle cramp-like feeling that lasts about 5 seconds upon the draw itself. Personally, I rated it a 3.5 out of 10, as did my wife. Consensus is 3-4. Our CEO is a self-professed wimp, and he said it was a 4. :) I'd much prefer it to a cavity being filled. There is no recovery, just a bruise-like tenderness at that exact spot for a few days. I walked across town for lunch afterwards.
And nothing of value was lost.
Those who know, know he's all talk and no skill.
Threaten to call the police? Call them. Get an incident number. Report them to whatever regulators are around.
Then share what you know.
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I completely agree. However, the reality of things is that some people are more engaged than others when it comes to defending freedoms, advocacy, etc...

Edit : I have found this Tweet [0] I shared with ioerror himself about this same subject exactly a year ago.

[0] https://twitter.com/Raed667/status/608297894651772929
I never talked out how "hot" she looks in the manner you describe. I would use the exact same phrase for a man who suddenly looked very worn-out: "he's not looking so hot now". Here's an Urban Dictionary entry; notice it doesn't reference women or attractiveness at all, but rather illness:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=not%20too%20h...
Um... Paul Ryan != Tea party.
Oh I'm not saying "don't negotiate." Always negotiate.

I'm just saying that OP sounded like he was saying "if they don't meet your demands, walk away." Which is great advice if you can afford to take it.
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Interesting project! It's nice to see some better examples for this sort of thing. At work I've helped build something similar using javascript. We needed something that works in-browser, and have since made sure it also works within web-workers as well as node.

It's not as nice as directly running calculations from a magically scalable and performant spreadsheet black box, but importing data and formulae from various spreadsheets has gotten quite easy.

Closed source, but imagine using the core and expressions support from mathjs [0] and crossfilter [1] together to display both raw and calculated data in various contexts, and you wouldn't be too far off the mark.

[0] http://mathjs.org/

[1] http://square.github.io/crossfilter/

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Two ways to answer the "current salary" question

- say that your salary expectations depend on the work, the people, the work hours, vacation policy, etc, so it's too early to discuss salary, or

- ask what the company pays people in the same position. They won't tell you, but that establishes concretely that it's private information.

If they do share the information with you, you can respond with "my expectations are higher", or "that's within my expectations". And then if they persist in asking yours, you can choose to answer or to stonewall. You got the data, so now the mystery is over and you have control of the conversation.

This comes across weak, phony, and panderish:

> I think the best way to answer the current salary part is to say something, like that you’re not comfortable sharing that information, and you prefer to focus on the value that you can add to the company, and not what you’re paid at your current job

This sounds clownish, like playing a game:

> “Well, if you’re trying to qualify me for a range, why don’t you tell me the range, and I’ll tell you if I’m in the ballpark?”

This sounds wonky and comes across as an insincere:

> “I’ve been entrusted with a variety of information by my current firm. I intend to keep their confidences on that sort of thing. They consider their salary compensation private.
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>All of these choices have deep, fundamental and serious problems -- both technical and environmental -- that are unlikely to ever be solved, but are all solved on the JVM.

The problems that the JVM solves are solved by other platforms as well, and they were in fact already "solved" by the time Java was invented. Java was the prototypical flavor of the month language at one point in time.

Programming language history sometimes seems pretty random. If Java hadn't hinted at the fantastic possibilities of the now completely defunct Applet technology, Smalltalk VMs might have captured the server-side with technologies very similar to what the JVM became many years later. They were arguably on the verge of doing that.

It's ironic that Applets failed because of unsolved problems with the JVM that remain largely unsolved to this day (such as insane memory usage and laggy startup).

And Java failing on the client side has created another problem unsolved by the JVM, which is code and skills sharing between client and server. That's one of the main reasons why node.js exists.

And the one problem with the JVM that is probably unsolvable forever is the influence of its authority-seeking users on software design. That's what makes the JVM environment so utterly broken. Its culture of excessive complexity.

I wouldn't dare to predict which flavor-of-the-month will fade and which one will dominate. It seems to be random and largely dependent on fantasies about future platforms unrelated to technological merit.

We could have stuck with Lisp and Fortran and we wouldn't be any worse off than we are today. There is very little progress in our industry when it comes to programming environments.
You need to multiply that with the probability of the companies not beating your current salary. The higher your current salary, this probability will go higher, and your interview cost will too. In effect, interviewing not being worth your time is proportional to your salary squared--not a linear relation.
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> In some ways its much like dating, does anyone really want the desperate type ?

I think this question has been answered and studied quite well. If you have a significant lapse in employment (with or without explanation) or are obviously needy, prospective employers will have negative biases that directly translate into less compensation.
It's a neat idea, and yea, support for adding a photo would be nice.

Is there a way to do self hosting? There's no indication whatsoever about what happens to the data that users might enter, and many would see this as a privacy concern.

Is the source code available somewhere?
It's Microsoft, their things always start with fantastic idea/concept but the implementation and delivery never gets it nowhere near as hoped. Oh well...
No one was ever performing abortions to obtain stem cells.
Your post confuses me, no offense intended. Friedman and Hayek called themselves liberals, not conservatives. The American progressive movement co-opted the word "liberalism". Before that, they called themselves "progressives". Is that what you're looking for?

Todd8's comment below confuses me for the same reason. Rawls could be considered to be on the US-left. The other people he mentioned, except Gross and Levitt, all opposed Rawls, and called themselves "liberals".
Apps tend to ask for far too many permissions beyond those available to the browser, including your contacts list, SMS history, etc.

(Of course, the government already has all of this stuff)
I deeply believe this is the right way.

The Web is THE open platform of the Internet and if you don't need special native functionality , always go for web.
It's also the ending of Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) :P