skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about:

America: one of the highest median household disposable incomes on earth. 25% higher than Norway, 30% higher than Germany and 50% higher than Sweden.

America: owner of 45% of all global private wealth.

America: half the unemployment rate of the EU and Eurozone.

America: a higher median income than Finland, with half the unemployment rate. Finland I'll note has been in a soft-depression for nearly a decade, with net negative growth over that time. Their economy is a disaster.

America: median house two to three times larger than what's typical in Scandinavia, at a much lower median cost as well.

America: drastically lower household debt to income ratio than Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands.

America: where more people have moved up and out of the middle class, than have moved down out of it, for 40 years running. So much so, that it's contracting the middle class, and the majority of those people are moving upwards.

America: nearly twice the GDP per capita of the Eurozone.

America: adding an economy the size of Germany in the time - eight years - that Europe's economy has had zero growth.

America: household poverty line nearly twice as high as the EU and Eurozone. A line so high, that 70% of all UK households would fall short of the US household poverty line (per the guardian).
That's been less effective lately, so I've also added an HTML5 autoplay blocker. It's fairly effective. Not sure how much it prevents from loading to save on data, but at least it prevents being halfway down the page reading and suddenly having noise come from the speakers.
>Regardless, i don't see this google training program improving the ratio.

I don't understand. Training is training. If you don't think training improves the ratio of good to bad developers, then why do we have all these training programs in the US like Coursera or Stanford's Open Computer Science Courses? The reason we have MIT Open Courseware is to train and improve developers...thereby improving the ratio of good to bad developers. That logic holds true for any training program. The Google Training Program should improve the ratio as well.
My impression was that few people use the comma syntax these days, it's old fashioned, harder to read, harder to change, harder for the query plan optimizer, etc.

I know this is an appeal to authority, but the consensus is pretty clear if you search SO and programmer stackexchange:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1018822/inner-join-on-vs-...
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/78225/using-j...

You're also introducing a lot more concepts by adding variables, and that code wouldn't work on SQL Server, for example, as you need to declare the variable first. Then again the `||` doesn't work on SQL Server either.
It is for some services/websites that have policies in place. Google probably doesn't care enough to have a process, not worth it for them.
Anything can be a learning opportunity. Maybe what you learned is that the company isn't as professional as you'd hoped.
This is why currently the UFC is more like WWE in that respect. They care more about the marketing then about the sport. No big league team sport would do this in a championship. The pairing of contestants has to happen in a predictable system that rewards skills within the sport itself.

Unfortunately whenever this is mentioned, fanboys like to argue that it comes down to selling tickets etc., which is true unless you care about the sport and its integrity. As a martial artist I would much rather have an unpopular tournament that stays true to its core values for the sake of promoting the sport as an art form, even if this means that the champion will have the most boring style of fighting (in fact, if there ever is a champion that has a boring style that would indeed be interesting).
In the past I've used TS with AMD/RequireJS. These days I've been using TS with JSPM and SystemJS, with various combinations of Babel in the mix and JSPM/System bundler.

I have projects that configure SystemJS to use TS itself as the only ES2015/TS transpiler (and thus no emit necessary in development, let the browser compile it, which makes for a fairly nice rebuild). You can even use TS directly as your bundler in this case if all you want to bundle are your TS sources as it supports the SystemJS registration format.

I also have some projects that still use Babel as a transpiler and TS emitting ES2015+JSX to it (still in the JSPM/SystemJS stack). I've particularly needed this because TSX is great but it's support for non-React TSX emission is still somewhat lacking in my opinion versus what easily works in Babel.
Yes, I did read the entire article and you could have made your point without having to insult me personally.

The following paragraph of the article hints strongly that the brother was upset by the 70k/year decision, and that it played some role in their conflict.

"When Dan announced his plan to pay everyone at Gravity Payments a minimum salary of $70,000, Lucas objected, saying he was not informed of the decision until shortly before it was made public. A company spokesman said the lawsuit was filed two weeks after Dan announced the salary plan, which brought the company an unexpected crush of attention."
I think a big part of the problem is that people want to be able to break some laws (the ones that "are wrong" or "shouldn't apply to me", or just the ones that they want to), and suffer no consequences for doing so. And then, when the police try to enforce some consequences, the people feel like they (the police) shouldn't do that, are wrong to do that, and therefore they (the people) are right to try to defeat the police, either by running away or by direct attack.
LendingClub’s Newest Problem: Its Borrowers
Lot of companies support H-1B. Moving on is the only thing you can do. You need to pick yourself up as soon as possible and apply for other positions. Keep in mind there are people who can not even land a phone interview at those companies.
"It could be used to destroy a democracy too" -anon

Edit: I'm too afraid of the downvotes to take responsibility for my speech.
Try Microsoft and Facebook.

Try applying for an internship if applicable, the barrier of entry is lower.

Don't get discouraged, I got rejected 4 times at the phone interview level before getting an offer. You should feel proud for going on-site with Google and Amazon already. Try to reflect on your mistakes during those 2 events to make the 3rd on-site interview a success.
From what I understood, once you start needing to collapse threads, you're already at the threshold of "more comments are detracting from the quality," or that was the theory, anyway. I'm almost certainly misremembering.

I feel positive about this change though, I just was curious about the decision making process is all, thanks.
The commenter was implying that what he said about the situation in UK, applies strongly to Delaware as well.

"Delaware's duties are similar, they give the directors huge latitude"
Tesla under investigation for possible breach of securities law, WSJ reports
you can push S3 events to SQS and then consume it anywhere (eg we had file converters running on Heroku, listening to S3 events through SQS)

Likewise, Lambda can execute events from SNS, Cloudwatch Events, Dynamo and a lot more, including the Amazon workflow system.
Probably a dumb question, but are service workers read-only? If a user makes an entry or changes a setting with an application offline, can service workers be used to "sync" the content and make the changes, once reconnected?
Does Sega gain anything from not just releasing all the information?
It can be useful when calling a function and you want to say "I don't care about parameter X" when null can be an otherwise valid value for that parameter.

I've also found it useful when a function needs to indicate it failed but is in a situation where exceptions are not useful. This is code where the consumer of the function can throw its own much more useful exception or can try to recover from the function failing (eg: it can try and fix the fault). This helps people avoid using exceptions for flow control of the application and lets exceptions be truly exceptional.

Examples:

//3rd party code could dictate 'bar' be in the spot that it is
function needsUndef(foo, bar, other){
if(bar === undefined) bar = expensive_query();
//rest of code
}

needsUndef(42, cachedResultExpensiveQuery, something);
needsUndef(42, undefined, something);

and:

foo = getFromDisk(foo_path);
if(foo === undefined)
foo = getFromNetwork(last_resort);

is much nicer than:
try{
foo = getFromDisk(foo_path);
}catch(ex){
//Yes, I know you can filter exceptions, but what if someone forgets or sets too wide
//of a net?
foo = getFromNetwork(last_resort);
}

or:

if(path_isValid(foo_path) && canReadFromPath(foo_path))
foo = getFromDisk(foo_path);
else foo = getFromNetwork(last_resort);
Can I ask what 36K in rent affords and roughly which part of the Bar Area?
I would imagine the best employees quit because they thought it was unfair to be paid the same or almost the same as people who know and contribute a lot less. It would have been better to just pay everyone above the market by some percentage but this would not make for a sexy headline.
Fair enough. Is too much stuff illegal? Yes. (And, are there too many loopholes in existing laws? Also yes, and it gives the law an appearance of unfairness, which lowers respect for the law and increases attempts at escaping from it.)

And in fact, decriminalizing pot nation-wide might be the big step to help with a lot of this. I'm not sure it would be free from other consequences, though...
First, since America is awash with guns I would hope the law enforcement from the top down would be the number one supporters of sensible gun control. I'm sure its hard being a cop on the street not knowing who has a gun and who doesn't.

Second, it also comes down to a training issue. I would say that the response from law enforcement that Eric Garner and Tamir Rice met was no way appropriate to the threat that they posed to law enforcement or society, perceived or otherwise. I would hope we can at least all agree that these two citizens should be alive today.

The two videos linked below are an interesting and disturbing contrast. The top one is UK police responding to a man with a knife at a Tube station. The second one is American police responding to an unarmed bank robber in Miami.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2015/dec/06/police...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1K9yY3w-WY
Was that a good thing?
With Lambda you pay per 100ms / per-1-million-requests. So, yes, it's very proprietary at the moment, but for any service that sits idle most of the time it can be very cheap.

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/

If you were hosting something like a little message board for your friends and family, or something you are demoing to to possible employers, etc, it'd be borderline free, but available all the time.
Yoshi is an actual Japanese name.
I have an extension that (tries to) do the same thing for Chrome [0]. I mostly wrote it when I had a metered connection and wanted faster access.

[0]: https://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts
Except India's CO2 emissions are less than a third of China's, despite having more people.

That's categorically false! India still has less population than China's despite of getting real close in recent years. It's in my previous post's references. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

Per capita is a common sense rather because more people further developed hence more industrialization and more CO2 emission.

Along the same lines, smogs and air pollution are also part of the emission that had happened badly for the major industrial hubs in the western world like London[1] and Los Angeles[2] in the early 20th century. Although most developed countries has realized the environmental impact of industrialization and the cost of repairing it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_the_United_St...
Actually, it was his wife who asked him (as a joke).
There's zero benefit in doing anything like this.

Not to mention that all the relevant information may not exist anymore, or is in a storage facility somewhere growing mold.
Actual front running requires your broker to violate the fiduciary responsibility they have to you, and violating fiduciary responsibilities is both immoral and illegal.

The behaviour your discussing does not involve any fiduciary responsibilities.

> This behavior, however, is identical to it in spirit and moral character.

That seems self-evidently false, but okay, I'll bite: What moral precept is being violated here, and why is it "identical" to the fairly serious sin of someone with a fiduciary responsibility to you violating your trust?

Let's play fill in the blanks: "Goldman Sachs wants to buy $400m stock in Apple, but after they buy $20m, a member of the public sees the strange pattern of executed orders, guesses that someone is buying a lot of Apple stock, and starts buying up stock too. This is highly immoral, because members of the public have a ______ duty to ______, and not allowing Goldman Sachs to manipulate the market in peace violates it."

What phrases can we put in the blanks that makes that not nonsense? I'm pretty sure it's not a fiduciary duty, and it seems quite clear it's not to Goldman. What duty is it, and to whom is it owed?
Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination
Which major equities exchanges don't do price/time priority?
But how? How could anyone's enthusiasm not be diminished by failure? Not even a little bit? If there are really people like that, that sounds like a genetic advantage.
Am I unusual in being constantly surprised when people assume time's arrow in everyday conversation? I can never quite accept the sheer oddness and asymmetry of it.
Ok, now I'm wondering how many flag reports HNs is getting now that I accidentally hit it twice. :)
we use it now as the main backend for Mindmup 2, migrated from Heroku.

I recently published the scripts evolved from our usage to simplify deployments as https://Github.com/claudiajs - the tool is mature, and allows teams to use API GW almost as easy as if it were a lightweight web server
Ask HN: Is there online mobile development sites, for actual developers?
Is there any online development sites that are intended for real developers ?, everything I have found is either "no-programming required"/template based, or generates some js/html.. So would love to know, if any such site exists, that allows native mobile development which makes use of programming ...
That's not what they were doing, though. It absolutely is petty and jealous to quit because someone else got a raise, and now you're not making more than them.
I guess I'm just lucky, I've never gotten a Zipcar that was close to the minimum fuel level.

For some reason I thought at least Zipcar augmented customer refueling with trucks that refueled the fleet.
Typings is still useful for .d.ts files on package repositories other than NPM (such as directly from GitHub, Bitbucket, etc). Even then, for the moment it has more flexibility for NPM typings than Typescript on its own. Plus, it's still somewhat nice to keep your type definition dependencies in a separate typings.json rather than mixed in with package.json dependencies.
> There's zero benefit in doing anything like this.

I don't know. Winning people's hearts? For the fun of it?
> Yes, I did read the entire article and you could have made your point without having to insult me personally.

You asserted with great confidence that the lawsuit was about the $70K salary, when it wasn't at all, as even a cursory glance at the article would've told you. wutbrodo did not insult you personally; he called your comment uninformed, which is pretty indisputably true. You don't really have any grounds to be angry here.
In Europe anyone can go to a top school? Oh really.

And what results has that supposed premise produced? It's obviously not accurate to begin with: Romanians aren't all going to the best European schools and they do not have access to such.

Let's see the results: half of Europe is so impoverished, the median incomes in those nations wouldn't come close to reaching the poverty level in the US in terms of standard of living. The poverty levels in countries like Moldova, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary etc. are nearly third world they're so bad.

Spain is still struggling to pull itself out of a nearly decade long depression. What results has the supposed free amazing education produced? None that can't be easily bested or matched by the worst economic zones in the US.

Italy has had three (or four depending on how you count it) recessions in the last ten years. Now their entire nation is about to go bust and threatens to take down half the banks in Europe. What results are we seeing from the supposed amazing free education there?

When you actually calculate the end results of what you're proclaiming, the net outcome is horrendous. So what benefit has any of it produced? Absolutely nothing worthwhile.
Since this question is specifically about in-person interviews, I wonder if you could work on your attention to detail regarding language skills. For example, in this very question you wrote "After going to on campus interviews with both companies but only to here the word you are not qualified", which contains multiple mistakes (the punctuation is incorrect and "here" should be "hear").
What's a password sheme?
Additionally, what about liability? Even though the chances of a static electricity induced explosion from metal to metal contact during refueling is infinitesimal, it exposes all the other cars in the area to that risk unwittingly.
Google and YC Co:Patient Interest Is Up in Texts from Dr's
The measure of an engineer is what he builds. There is plenty of top notch engineering going on outside Google. Think WhatsApp, CoreOS, Rust at Mozilla, Azul JVM, etc.
Great essay. The article touches on one interesting rub about 'post-scarcity': despite the name, even in post-scarcity economies some elements remain absolutely scarce (barring sci-fi tech outside of an obvious short term horizon, like a star-trek replicator).

In particular, what he describes as 'people money' are artificially scarce goods due to the lack of automation implicit to them. As an example, consider cars (which would fall under machine money), which at least in the USA are not prohibitively expensive and largely obtainable to all functioning adult citizens. Contrast this with a Ferrari, which is artificially scarce. Interesting enough, the performance of any given Ferrari, while admittedly substantial, is by no means justifiable for its price. One could buy a Corvette, for instance, for a fraction of the price with very similar performance. Rather, the Ferrari has an artificial scarcity due to limited production values and strong branding.

This largely falls in line with his reasoning in the essay. Human perception being what it is (often based on relative appraisals of one's well being) you can have a situation where everyone needs for nothing (in a traditional hierarchy of needs) but nevertheless feels as if they are 'behind'. I know I feel societal pressures (mostly self-inflicted) from my peer group to make more money, brag about expensive vacations, etc.

My question is: how much of this is productive? Previously, these activities were necessary to ensure a functioning society, but increasingly they are turning a sort of consumption perpetual motion machine. While quality of life increases are still occurring (in the first world, the third world growth out of poverty are wonderful), they are likely diminishing seldom truly correlated with societal value. Hence why one sees sports stars and financial types making absurd returns, despite not obviously resulting in economic (or even cultural) growth.

I would love to see a post-scarcity society where high functioning individuals could dedicate themselves to science, research, art, etc. I'm not convinced that these positions are increasingly per capita, nor that they will be even in a 'machine money' free society, as we appear to be headed. That is a pity, if true.
In this case, its the FaaS version, which is really just a slight twist on traditional PaaS.

Really, the "serverless" term does more to obscure than to illuminate.
CopperheadOS (hardened Android) Nexus 6P's available preloaded
If only the Dreamcast protection had been that good. Was really disappointed when it died :(
It helps to realize the Amazon interview is a free trip to Seattle. You can exploit that the same way you can exploit time share companies.
I upvoted you. With great power comes yadda yadda yadda.

Edited to add: PSYCH!! Now it's going to take 4 upvotes to get super powers. BWAHAHAHA!!

Edited to add #2: Just kidding! You're 2 upvotes away again!

P.S. Dear friends, I'm sorry. I won't abuse my vast and terrible ability to grant or deny imaginary Internet points ever again. -xf
There was a whole conference dealing with the same topic at about the same time, organized by the military (http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/NATOReports...) and attended by dozens of people from many institutions. Clearly, it had already been considered a problem by then. Also remember that the mid-1960s were when the OS/360 effort took place, inspiring Fred Brooks' famous book.
> Furthermore, Uber solved a problem in a market with inefficiencies and use regulation arbitrage to do it.

What is "regulation arbitrage?"
Partial list:

-Budgeting
-Travel planning
-Shipment tracking
-Google maps
-Time zones
-Min-by-min scheduling
-Calendar integration
-Loose-knit in/external teams
-Vendor collaboration, invoices
-Event templates
-Event-based pricing
-ROI analytics

Basically traditional project management tools are set up for knowledge projects. Events have lots of contingencies, like physical space and scheduling, that make them difficult to manage with generic pm tools.
Not fully, but they're still very much involved. Money talks, and they're invested.
More developers leads to more malware developers. Combine this with a government with a proven track record of not responding to cyber crime reports, and you get a recipe for pain and suffering.

If you want cold hard evidence with this look no further then with the proliferation of fake Microsoft Service Providers, which was a direct result of continued efforts by North American companies to outsource IT support to India.

I don't give a flying fuck what the color of a person's skin is. And it is indeed a terrible tragedy to the endless number of talented Indian developers that their nationality is associated with malware and online scams. I suspect this is ultimately a result of being a nationality of 1.252 BILLION people, but having spent countless hours recovering users devices who were unfortunate enough to fall to such criminal activity, I can't help but notice a recurrent theme and have an incessant need to call out the butterfly effect of such initiatives in naive hope that something will be done about it.

Furthermore the Apple Appstore Approval criteria is absolutely relevant at reducing malware on Apple's platform, as well as the countless other barriers to entry of developing for Apple such as having a god damn expensive Apple computer, and the fact that Android devices are infinitely more popular in third world countries due to the cost of the equivalent Android phones and phone plans.

But no I'm probably just racist right.