skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this approach is that no matter how transparent you are or what numbers/ranges/data you give, the candidates on the other end will always think you're taking them for a trip. It's the same problem that car salespeople at "no-hassle" or "no-haggle" dealerships deal with. Even though they really cannot budge on their out-the-door price, you'll still have tons of people trying to eat at their already minimal profit margin.

I'm not sure that there is an individual solution to this problem. EVERY company (or most companies) would have to be ultra-transparent about their salaries before people can trust something like this, which works against how a lot of high-profile companies currently compensate (i.e. fixed salary ranges, highly variable bonuses)
You have stuff like Integer right? Which doesn't really bring you anything...
This is intentionally misleading (but in a typical, not uncommon way.) If you want to see if employment has expanded, you count hours, not employees. But, again, this is commonly done when a low unemployment/high employment rate is needed for press purposes - it's the reason why U-3 is used in government press releases instead of U-6, which also includes part-time workers who want full time employment. This is not a universal standard - in Germany, for example, the distributed unemployment rates include do that category (and others.) Even worse, US media (NYT, WaPo) frequently compare nominal US and German rates as if they were measured in the same way.
I think you're correct, re: adjusting parameters based upon the driver.

My truck has three "memory settings". I can adjust everything the way I want it -- different seat positions, mirrors, etc. -- and save those in "A". My girlfriend can then get everything the way she wants it (she's much shorter and smaller than me) and save her settings in "B". When I get in to drive after she has been driving, I just hit the "A" button to have everything adjusted back to exactly how I want it.

It's very handy when you have multiple people who drive a single vehicle.
Someone should go tell all those sweatshop workers and coal miners that work is "overrated" and that they should all just retire early!
Ah! Can't believe I missed that..
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11105510

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outside1234 109 days ago

I worked there. It was literally the worst experience of my career - and I have worked at all of the hardest charging blue chips and two successful startups - so it is not about high expectations - but abuse. I still wake up with something like PTSD occasionally from getting yelled at and bullied by Tony Fadell almost literally every day while I was there.

I have a distance from it now -- and a way better job. It made me realize that the culture of a place is really what makes it and that "how" you get results really matter. I bought into the Apple pedigree of the place without understanding that the way Tony got there was through essentially wrecking other people's lives.

I have no idea why Google bought this. Tony literally stood up at an all-hands after the Alphabet thing and said "Fuck being Googley" (direct quote).

Frankly, if I could offer Larry Page once piece of advice it would be to take Tony out front of TGIF and fire him publicly -- all of this comes from Tony. Matt is just his hatchet man and fake cofounder.

There are a lot of great people at Nest and they deserve a better leader.

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During the Longhorn project (before the reset to use Win 2003 code and create Vista from it)... There was plans for a "Castle" feature which would allow you to roam your profile, data across multiple PCs in the home. Parts of castle made it into Win7 homegroups later, but it was very much scoped back.

At the time I was in the WMDRM team which handled content licensing. We had a feature that built on Castle if you purchased audio/video content (purchased music still had DRM then) we'd automatically roam the content licenses among all the PCs in the home. We had the typical challenges from content owners that this could be used to share content in a dorm, over the internet. We had to design in things like proximity detection to ensure you aren't sharing beyond a home network. It was somewhat complicated (DRM couldn't be simple), but it would have provided a far better user experience.

We also planned a centralized DRM licensing backup/restore service so you weren't beholden to the service you bought content from deciding to let you have another license years later.

All of this was cancelled with the reset unfortunately...
Uh, pretty obvious that Google Plus just wasn't a product that could stand on it's own merit.

Just like Microsoft's terrible tablets weren't done in by any other tablet maker, and were cursed with enough problems to get a cold shoulder at the cash register.

I don't even use Facebook, but it's pretty obvious that it's purpose built to do specific things, and does them well, if that's what your Jonesing for.
I guess, hardware is far more complex than writing the next Twitter. Plus, if you are bought by another company, expect product development to stall due to changes and people who don't like changes.
I can imagine a monochromatic microscope, where you can see the shape of tiny things, and you do not care about colors.
I avoid giving a number early on in conversations. Rather than naming a number, I like to 'seed' the conversation with talk about market rate, 'premium' on top of that, and similar phrases to move them in the right direction.

Establishing a position of strength can also mean other things like having the company and hiring manager invest as much time as they can in recruiting you; not hiring would be worse to them than over paying a little.

Also, having other offers on the table always helps negotiating better. Even if its never mentioned to the recruiter I just happen to negotiate better with the mindset that I have other options.
A lot of delivery boys use them here in NYC. I don't like riding among them because they are quiet, and go faster than any man-powered bicycler can conceivably go. They're kind of a hazard.
Not dubious, tor is used by all sorts of abusive spam bots and people who just want to shitpost for the lulz.
I believe that Ubur and similar services are providing a more transparent review and protection process by bringing this in to a peer to peer social review layer.

Drivers are rated by passengers, passengers are rated by drivers. More data is collected and correlated, leading to stronger statistical correlations about bad actors on both sides of the system.
He'll also get nice pay for two years as a "special advisor", where he does nothing and gets paid his old salary. I'd write whatever blog post was fed to me for that gig.
Privacy policies are often legally enforceable, and there may also be government agencies that will directly take and pursue complaints without you needing to bear the expense of legal action yourself.

OTOH, this all varies considerably by jurisdiction. (Both country and, within the US, state.)
The 1 mg bottle may be more effective. Bigger isn't always better.
Yeah I was laughing at the "it's never a perfect time to transition" and was thinking, well, when everyone hates you and wants you to leave is probably pretty close to a perfect time to leave.
This.

For more info on finding and testing exactly these people, read http://a16z.com/2014/07/15/do-you-feel-pressure-or-do-you-ap...

It helped me set my world straight for all the new responsibilities as a tech lead (and I'm not a natural with pressure either, having learned the value of having a slight rough edge the hard way).

For more concentrated pure gold, look here:
http://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html

In the end, your best bet as said is great hiring and pushing work away from you, which is hardest when you feel you're still doing and understanding it best yourself. Stop this anyway.

Great guideline from my co-founder: Try to get people 70% as good as you and stop there. Really try to lose as much day-to-day-stuff as possible and try rather to get the right people together and give them good context.

Get some senior people along to proxy all semi-important stuff through them. It's a quick way to get them onboarded to stuff you usually do.

Otherwise: Good luck, you could need a mentor, but it looks like you're alright for now, don't search too hard. Don't be too scared of doing mistakes either, you'll do them anyway.

But do yourself a favor and go get that title upgrade to whatever you need (Tech Lead / Lead Architect) - you'll have to be sure you've got the upper echelon's support to whatever uncomfortable decisions you need to take on the way.
That actually sounds like a fun Roslyn analyzer project.
Can the Ecobee3 be installed without the dreaded C wire? edit: Nope. You lose fan control.

The Nest cannot, well it CAN, but you lose fan control in the process making it worthless. I never understood why no thermostat supports alternative power, considering tons of property would be an easy installation without the rarely available C wire.

Quick shout out for the Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Touchscreen Thermostat. It too requires the C wire, costs the same as Nest, but has a much better touch interface than the Nest while providing the same-ish automatic functionality.
So many people did this at one company I worked for that it became something of a joke for low-level employees to say they were "staying on as an advisor" when they left.
Agree. I intensely dislike having to install an app for a task that could be done by a simple Web page. I don't know what the app does; the amount of flashlight applications that want to access my files, location and call information is depressing.
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There's plenty in there that's directly applicable other than just generally interesting. History of technology stuff aside, there's a lesson in the bronze/iron age transition in regards to A/B testing driving development and even agile. It's practically impossible to A/B testing evolve your way from bronze working to iron working, and it's difficult to do so even if you're doing directed development using an agile model. You have to try different things and have diverse, competing projects if you want to make that leap, and you have to allow time for new technologies to reach maturity. That has applicability not just in providing enough resources to develop "next gen" platforms or what-have-you but also in avoiding committing too early to something new before it's fully baked. Even if you could see the hypothetical advantages of iron working way back in the mid-bronze age it didn't make sense to switch until much later.

Some technological advancements are easy to access, others require a lot more investment to mature, and often it's the second category which are superior. Given the general lack of investment in serious R&D by most of SV, and how much the tech industry in general has backed away from pure research, I think there are some applicable lessons there.
The weekly newsletters that Cooper Press do are awesome - Ruby, JavaScript weekly etc
Which is why Tor should probably operate like PaX, without real life identities associated. Some open source contributions are not very different from activism in that they can get you into trouble in certain jurisdisctions, and in essence it's not much different from banned writers.
European Union Declares War on Internet Free Speech
I wonder if you could defeat this by using your left foot (assuming the fingerprinting was done when you used your right foot).
You would accept if:

- You're not broke

- You think the work would be more interesting/fulfilling than places that pay more.

Of course, I'm sure there's a tipping point where you don't care how interesting the work is. But in my mind you'd use the above criteria if someone is offering you $95k/yr when you're currently pulling $110k/yr.
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Except the parent was specifically referring to a competing thermostat.

My folks have an Ecobee and if I didn't have a Nest already, I might consider it. The remote sensors are a huge plus.
As far as I know, there is a formal requirement to have, e.g., a BSc to get a PhD or a masters.

Put it this way: can you provide even a single example that proves this to be false?

I know of just one instance actually (guy who is now a professor from Hong Kong, whose incredible experience with farming was counted).

On the other hand, I do know some smart folks without college degrees whose professors fought to get them in and to get them designated in certain higher level positions but they lost that battle.
But realistically only a small percentage of people will ever find a job they can love.

I even know an airline captain who complains endlessly, and that's still a dream job for most kids.

In those circumstances the coping mechanism is to desensitise and decouple so as to treat those 40 hours as simply an enabler for the other 128.
Note that DCGAN (or standard GAN generally) doesn't have an encode path (or any other way to easily condition generation) so it is not well suited to this particular task. The image quality is stellar though, and I linked to several recent papers above which combine a GAN approach with an explicit encode. This should allow them to be used for the kinds of things in this link.
> How would you retitle this article?

I don't think the headline is clickbait: "The Jobs Report Is Not Quite as Terrible as It Looks." It's vague, yes, but it would be hard to cram much more into the headline.

If you read the article, the reasons he gives for "why the jobs report is not quite as terrible as it looks" is a hodgepodge of unrelated things: (a) the report's margin of error is 100,000; (b) a three-month average is better; (c) a wave of people are retiring; and (d) "as the economy approaches full employment, jobs growth must slow."

It's hard to summarize it better than: "The Jobs Report Is Not Quite as Terrible as It Looks Because . . . It's Complicated" (haha) or maybe "The Jobs Report Is Down From Last Time But As Expected for a Mature Economy." More descriptive, but kind of a clunker. I didn't say writing tight headlines was easy.

Either way, I am not irritated at all by the original headline, because it gives me an accurate indication of whether I would read the rest of the article. In my case, I wouldn't. I look at the economy like the weather: complex, hard to predict, and of little effect on me unless it's really bad.

> News stories are different from editorial, opinion,
> informational, entertainment, etc. articles.

I agree. Sometimes you're in the mood for a rambling essay. Some things are complicated or indeterminate and cannot be easily summed up.
Probably depends on what you need the thermostat for. A home has a very different set of requirements than say the Burj Khalifa. And a warehouse or apartment complex might have their own very specialized requirements.

That said Honeywell has products that cover most of those bases at least acceptably. If you just want something for your house though EcoBee seems to be the device to get.
For the first part... .Net Core can be developed without Visual Studio just fine, and to a certain degree so is traditional .Net.

For the latter, that's more runtime than language, for which Mono and .Net Core cover for reliably running on *nix.

Full disclosure: I'm one of those hippies that believes Java's/C#'s model of OOP is the 3rd biggest cancer in this industry, with 1st and 2nd being Oracle and Microsoft. I hope that makes it very clear that I don't exactly like either language, but I do believe C# to be a clear improvement over Java.
You can pick up Go in less than a day. It may take longer to fully grasp Rust. So, start with Go, then begin learning about Rust on day 2. Other languages worth looking into: Kotlin, Swift, Nim, Crystal, Elixir, and Julia.

Also, Haskell is good as far as receiving an "expand your mind" type of educational experience (if you haven't actively used a functional programming language before).

The following is a ranking of programming languages (based on demand, salary, and employer rating): https://www.quora.com/What-will-be-the-top-in-demand-program... . If you ignore demand, you can combine salary and employer rating to get a sense of which languages to learn.

The following is an HN poll that ranked several languages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104
This is actually very cool; nice work. MIT has a long history of identity security work, so it's fun and appropriate to see this published.
As a note: this works for me in Chrome 51, but Pale Moon 26 and Firefox 46 both reported that my GPU seems to be incapable of WebGL, when I first tried it. I had to force it to be enabled in my about:config settings, after which the demo displayed nicely.

I'm not sure if there's something that I've done wrong, or what.
I can't make any sense out of your argument. How on earth does this drive away people with experience?

I know what I can do and I know how much money I want to make. A company advertising a job with a salary attached would get some bonus points in my evaluation just because of their honesty and willingness to step out of the bullshit negotiation game, but I'd also know up front whether their expectations corresponded with mine. I'd only apply if it sounded like a reasonable offer, and if it sounded like a reasonable offer, why should I hesitate to apply?

Your perspective must be very different from mine, because I am totally failing to see this from a point of view where I can make your words make sense.
Insurance against LeftPad level events
He's an "advisor". He has neither moved on to a more prestigious role in Google/Alphabet, nor has he started a new company (that he's announcing publicly), nor has he moved to a prestigious position elsewhere.

It's clear that he's been pushed out.
Yup: https://www.ecobee.com/faq/i-do-not-have-a-c-wire-or-common-...
How did you value the options?
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Yep. I originally included that and erased it for some reason.

You are probably right about 2 as well, the reasons I like to think they might have been aware: 1.) there were Amphora made of both silver and gold; and 2.) they recognized the antimicrobial properties of other things (example: honey on wounds to avoid infection).

Obviously the Amphora could simply be chalked up to displays of wealth, but I would think they observed the delay in food/beverage degradation in those Amphora compared to standard clay. I guess the funny thing with gold is even today we don't have broad industrial usage (probably good because of the limited supply), though I I suppose trace amounts are used in some modern electronics.
Could've used a warning, my shitty i3 laptop went to 80°c
A vision of future computer games in 1992 that was unbelievable fantasy
should check us out - got your remote sensors covered :) https://flair.co/products/puck
There's no issue whatsoever, just there's no point in saying "Lyft and Uber are creating jobs".
Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited about self-driving cars, but the loss of jobs is a REAL issue here, and unlike the factories of yestercentury that created replacement jobs, it's not really clear to me (or even the @LoSboccaccs of HN) what the "replacement job" for a driver will look like.

That is a pretty scary situation, don't you think?
I think the difference is that a modern camera filters in wide ranges.

So blue is maybe 400-500nm, green 500-600nm and red 550-650mn.

But these new lenses only give sharp images in much narrower bands. If it has blue at 448-449nm, green 540-541nm and red 580-581nm, most of the spectrum will be lost.
"Surfers patting each other on the back for pushing the waves closer to shore."
Not everyone uses C willingly.
Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control
Probably some form of verlet integration: http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/simulate-teara....

Author's github page also has links to a list of cloth simulation resources.
Self directed IRA startup investing
Anybody have any experience investing in a startup through a self directed IRA? A friend is doing a startup and I'll have some involvement and it was recommended that I should buy founder shares through a self directed IRA for tax purposes. Any advice much appreciated!
BCP-38 solves some people's problems, but it also causes a lot of problems.

Triangular routing is a use case which becomes lost. As does the the ability to easily set up certain kinds of peering/multihoming connectivity.

The larger and more complex a network gets, the harder it can become to determine if a source IP is "correct".
Two wrongs don't make a right.
All throughout history rich men AND WOMEN of all races, colors and creed tortured the poor.

The real issue isn't color, or gender. Its Class.
I already knew that Fadell was a jerk, but apparently he's delusional as well. Via http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-03/flying-goo...:

"I don’t know why I feel this way, but between working closely with Bill Campbell, working closely with Steve Jobs and watching a lot of my mentors pass on, unfortunately, I feel like I bear this responsibility now. There’s a few of us who are keepers of that knowledge. It’s almost our responsibility to be able to continue that way of thinking, that way of working. Expect excellence, respect excellence, drive hard, change things, don’t accept the status quo, push yourself, push the people on your team harder than they could ever imagine, and they will do more than they could have ever imagined."

You gotta love these incompetent execs, who have taken nothing away from Steve Jobs' legacy except "be an asshole". Tony, listen: Steve Jobs succeeded in spite of being a massive douche, because he was a genius who essentially invented new product categories, and made them work really really well. You, on the other hand, stuck networking interfaces in common household appliances, usually making them worse. Your psychopathic treatment of your employees gains you nothing in that case.
Ask HN: Which technologies and skills are needed for block chain economy?
Assuming widespread adoption of crypto currency and block chain as an ecosystem...

...which technologies and skill sets will be in demand?
Uber hasn't created "thousands of small entrepreneurs." They've created a special class of labor that has all the burdens of both employee and contractor status, with none of the privileges of either.
Before Uber in SF, there were 2,000 taxis.

There are now 20,000 Ubers in SF.

Bad for the environment, good for jobs.
I didn't have any offers involving options. The ~316k offer involved public stock, and the 290k~350k offer involved private RSUs. 290k is using the company's 409a price and 350k is using their preferred share price.
Is that a sidewalk or a multi-use path?

Is there a pedestrian present? If so, that's a sidewalk.
yeah but equity * likely outcome is going to be comparable to a lottery ticket, not hard cash, unless you are 100% sure you can pick startup winners, and if you can why aren't you just into the funding market making 1000x than a developer per year?
I don't think anyone really gets that poem, possibly not even Shelley himself. The words remain. And maybe that's all ol' Ozy wanted to leave behind.
Has not been an issue for me (I do have a second generation). I believe there was a firmware fix sometime down the line. Actually that is another plus, they have been better about updates than Nest. My Nest actually stopped working on more than one occasion after a software update.

My thermostats are in areas that are not indicative of the actual room temperature at all so the sensors are useful for me. I don't have a more complicated setup with dampers to divert air to a specific room, but that could be a cool addon if they made it compatible.