skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an executive has a solid plan for long-term benefit that will require three or four excruciatingly bad years to achieve, should the executive be compensated poorly in the lean years for sticking with the company to achieve the long-term goal? Because you're talking about a recipe for optimizing short-term gains at the expense of the company's prospects, and I doubt the work force of most companies would be very happy to have their futures handled that way.
We bought a house last year with a credit union, and everyone during closing was quite surprised that we actually closed within two hours of starting. Apparently it is not unheard of for mortgage lenders to be doing final approval up to the day of closing, and keeping people on hold/not answering phones while you and the seller are sitting there twiddling your thumbs.
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None of these things you've done will remove access for this person.
not necessarily, in the first write we can update receipt status as "queued" so queue system can update to "sent" or retry
> carrying costs of a house

Indeed, taxes and insurance can dominate the mortgage.
Which countries? China is usually the one that gets mentioned the most for really pushing nuclear (which they've been doing for years now), but they're currently at about 3% and are hoping to reach 4% by 2020. And even at this pace, they're facing serious problems[1][2].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-11/china-shou...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/25/wikileak...
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Because that's what required to get the CEO you want.
I'm in the process of building a system to do just that; super easy, small to medium container deployment. It's still a WIP and there's not much (or any) documentation, but if it generates some interest I'll work on it more and maybe post a Show HN.

In short, all you have to do is POST a url to a github repo and the system will pull your code, build a docker image from your Dockerfile, spin up a container, and then reverse proxy to the container's IP.

All you have to do is provide a repo with a Dockerfile and the deployment system does the rest.

Here's the code for it;
https://gitlab.rlyshw.com/rlyshw/tiny-deploy

and here is an outdated blog post that outlines how it works;
https://blog.rlyshw.com/2016/07/13/home-brew-deployment-syst...
Time-value of money. Keep cash in YOUR pocket.
the elephant in the room,yes : with these master-password schemes, why does this get so little comment
Some pain is just pain, it's meaningless and even reflecting on it does you no good.

So it's obviously not "true" but at best "sometimes true."
> How does it make sense to tie up $1M+ at 1%?

Three things likely going on here: loss leading, promotion and a hunt for yield.

Let's start with the hunt for yield. Yesterday's auction priced the 3-year at 0.87% and the 5-year at 1.15% [1]. We don't know the term of Zuckerberg'a mortgage. If it was less than 5 years, the bank might make a spread.

If it's a loan with a longer term the lender could have made more by lending to the U.S. Treasury. In that case, the difference may be booked as a promotional expense. "We're the guys Mark Zuckerberg gets his mortgage from" is succinct and memorable.

Finally, the lender may eat a loss on the loan for the opportunity to do more business with Zuckerberg in the future. One sees this with credit facilities in investment banking: JPMorgan and friends give companies cheap loans in hopes of winning their more-lucrative IPO and debt capital markets business.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
Lenovo is a $56B company, and they are claiming it's infeasible to test a dozen phones against several versions of Android.
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> using regexp to parse the URL

A while back I whipped this up: https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/2956396

which seemed to work well (although it was a bit slower, I probably didn't know about exponential backtracking at the time and that could probably be revisited). It won't gather multiple name/value pairs though, but it will cut out and name basically every other part of the URL.
You've miss the actual story. Activist investors (Starboard) forced her to sell. She had no desire to sell. The payout was set up to make a sale less appealing to the board. They also set up change in control provisions for the entire company, so any employer who gets canned as a result of the deal has immediate vesting of all invested stock. This will be as high as $1B in cost for Verizon if they fire everyone. Again, incentives against a deal.
Probably an autocorrect glitch. What he meant to say is no-recourse state.

In some US states, when a mortgage defaults the borrower is personally responsible for the full repayment of the loan. That is, the asset is first sold and if that fails to cover all expenses, the borrower must fork over the difference.

In no-recourse states, the asset turned over to the lender and even if it fails to cover the debt, the borrower gets to walk away.
Why is it ludicrous? Would someone have managed to better preserve the value of those investments than her? Would someone capable of doing that have been willing to take on the job for lesser compensation?

Yes, the company is down $2.4 billion because the core Yahoo! business was spending $400MM/quarter more than it was taking in -- on the backs of those investments. After 4 years of trying to turn that around, they sold off that money pit for $5B cash, which is more than that $2.4 billion the company is down. Sounds like a pretty good outcome for YHOO's board and owners.

Dealing with that board and owners, attempting to maximize the shareholder return on those investments you mentioned, was as large a part of her job as trying to maximize the return from the bleeding tech business. She spent much of late 2014 and early 2015 trying to spin off the investments into a separate company to minimize tax liability, ensuring Yahoo!'s shareholders get as much value as possible if Yahoo! eventually sells some of those shares for cash. You can't write off her stewardship of the value of the BABA and YJP holdings, and their contribution to YHOO, just because they were initially purchased before she took the job.
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I use a method like that, but the result of that step then goes through PwdHash (whose code is small enough to inspect for naughtiness) so that multiple web sites wouldn't expose the scheme.
Do you know if the talks will be made available?

I haven't found anything on the conference site.
I stopped reading 14 words in because gobbling != globbing.

For that matter, manifest != manifesto.

Probably English isn't the author's first language. I should forgive him and carry on, but a quick scroll reveals the words idiot and whiskey. TL;DR
I have been in a similar place lately. We have a primary rails application with 1 other web service and a DB. We looked at docker machine, docker swarm, and tutum (now a docker hub feature). None were very clear to use. Right now we've settled on Kubernetes and couldn't be happier. It was quite daunting at first as their docs aren't very newcomer friendly, but after a few youtube videos to get the ideas straight, it feels like the perfect way to deploy and orchestrate dockerized applications. You mention using Digital Ocean - you should reach out to Bryan Liles there, who is a super sharp and friendly guy and can help you with Kubernetes on DI. We'll probably be using Google's stuff for our deployments, but with Kubernetes it really doesn't matter anymore. Hope that helps!
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This is not something to be upset about.

Shareholders want near zero executive risk, and so they are willing to pay top dollar for proven executives...

That way, if things do fail, they can be confident that scrimping to save a few million in comp wasn't the reason they lost billions.

We overpay for quality in many areas of the economy. Neurosurgeons are one example. Roughly 0.5 people from each of the the graduating classes of the top 10 medical schools becomes a neurosurgeon. Supply is very, very small because the bar is so so high. Why? Because when someone is doing surgery on our brains we are completely fine with having a 10x overqualified doc doing the surgery.

This is similar to how the price of achieving each additional "9" of reliability is exponentially greater than the last one.

Yet systems with 99.99999% reliability still fail, some neurological procedures fail, and some highly paid CEOs do not lead their companies to glory.

Yahoo's shareholders decided to hire Marissa instead of many other, cheaper options. Nobody was duped, fooled, or scammed. Kobe misses the winning three pointer to lose a game now and then. Mayer is the closest thing the valley had to a sure bet for a company in need of product execution, so it's hard to fault Yahoo for wanting to recruit her.

It's too bad it didn't turn out, but let's hope she does something risky with all the money :)
How do you know it hasn't already been found and actively exploited?

Regardless, if a company isn't willing to demonstrate they value security to my satisfaction I won't be a customer.
Thanks! It should be doing that, if it’s not, it’s a bug. Drop me a note at matt at stackoverflow dot com, with a repro?
Very few poor people work two jobs or even one. That's a marked contrast to high income individuals who work very hard.

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...

Similarly, poor people are more likely to have substance abuse problems.

http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/2013MHDetTabs...

Now, as you note, rich people get away with things more - so wouldn't responsible poor people be less likely to do drugs? As a responsible adult, I do far more drugs in India (a cop might want 500rs ~ $7) than Malaysia (off with their heads!).

You seem to believe the just world hypothesis is false, yet you clearly haven't even googled data which suggests it's a pretty solid statistical hypothesis in this case.

It's truly a flaw in our society that such rhetoric - describing people who hold true beliefs as "callous" and "immoral" - is causing people to hold utterly incorrect beliefs. It's kind of like the modern version of "only satan worshippers believe in evolution".
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Simple:
Verizon earned last quarter $32 billion with profits of $4.31 billion. Even if the Yahoo aquisition turns out to be total worthless it doesn't threaten the company.

In comparison the Gigafactory is a big bet for Musk.
LabSharegroup – exclusive deals – free capacity deals
standard argument for extremely high ceo pay (and extreme perks) seems to be 'we have to offer this to attract the best people' and 'only a handful of people can do XYZ like this person can'. i think when these deals are made people are rarely thinking that someone will actually leave, triggering some of these more... outlandish aspects of the deal.

perhaps the value is she could have possibly got $5 million per year for 2-3 years after leaving, so this is a net return of $8-$10 million to the company after she's gone?
Ah... that's really the problem... I've worked on a lot of stuff in a lot of different fields. I could be entry level in writing, editing, research, IT. I could also be junior management at a large nonprofit. Hell, I could be senior management at a small nonprofit. The problem is I have 1 good CV and I highlight my relevance in the cover letter according to the job. I just can't seem to get past the automatic keyword screening, even using jobscan.co
Take that manager salary and switch to 'Developer' and the salary drops by a few grand, at most. Maybe in some companies - but I'm the lead of a project, responsible for multiple devs, projects, etc, and I'm only getting a few grand more than a dev who's only responsible for their own work...?
The decaying of the audio is beautiful. I hadn't heard of this project before, and now I have 5 hours of ambient music to code to today, thanks so much for sharing!
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So... a minority of people aren't capable of causing trouble? I don't see your point.
What drought? it rained in my town today.
I've heard of much worse hiring practices than to base on a single display of competence.
> Clearly the criticism is that it was very much harder than it had to be, due to the opinionated nature of Ember, even though it's possible.

The opinion is just wrong, then. It wasn't harder because Ember is opinionated. It wouldn't have been any easier with React, which has no model layer at all.
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Having daily driven a dual-motor electric car, two turbodiesel cars (both modern and classic), and a modern Honda V6, I can tell you that the electric car is significantly quieter, especially at lower speeds and when accelerating, both inside and outside the car.

You're right that tire noise is significant, though, and that electric cars (and trucks and buses!) are not completely silent. They are definitely MUCH quieter than the drum-drum-drum of an accelerating diesel truck engine, though!

Now, if only they could get rid of that annoying beep-beep-beep a reversing truck makes...
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Similarly, I'm curious that no-one has mentioned the dominance that Steam itself has over the PC gaming market. From Wikipedia:

"The Steam platform is considered to be the largest digital distribution platform for PC gaming; in November 2009, Stardock estimated it at 70% and then later, in October 2013, it was estimated by Screen Digest that 75% of games bought online were downloaded through Steam."

Puts Valve's complaints in a different perspective.
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That's quite an assumption you're making on the interest rate tradeoff. No guarantee of 5% annual on RE, even if you're in an area controlled by bunch of NIMBY's.

The best model for that is to be a bank with the 3/6/3 model.

Borrow at 3%, lend at 6%, on the golf course by 3 PM.

Now doing something similar with stocks.... that's kind of Warren Buffett's model. He uses insurance companies like Berkshire and Aflac to create cash flows to buy stocks.

I guess you could use options to do something similar.
Not to mention a new roof.
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Noise is the main reason I'd like to leave the city to live in the country. To me it just feels insane how little of a concern this is to most people. Cities could be really nice places to live if they didn't allow cars in them, but instead they're ruined by pollution (noise and emissions).
These types of calculators were incredibly helpful while looking for developer / quantitative positions out of grad school, especially since I'm wrapping up a phd in psychology. I was so clueless in terms of what kind of salary I should expect when I started looking--like, at 65% of what ended up seeming reasonable.

The calculator is basically a window into the prospective-employee calculus a company is doing. You can also invert things, and use whatever someone offers you to think about what level of skill they may think you have (from SO's perspective).
Is $2k that excessive? I pay the equivalent of about $800/m for 'normal' health insurance in Germany.

Surely you can get much higher than $2k/m in silicon valley.
I seem to recall Angelo Mozilo doing some similar "deal making" type things for US Government Employees during the time he was turing Country Wide into a cesspool of bad loans. And, for some reason, he's never had to atone for his role in the 2008 crash. Not like he's the only one though.
Apps can be sideloaded by default since last November. It takes a one-line PowerShell command and that's it (no Settings changes, nothing). They do need to be signed, but the signatures aren't much different than any prior "Authenticode" signing options: find a CA that sells code signing certificates and buy a certificate. (Certificates can be revoked by your CA, yes, but your CA doesn't have to be Microsoft.) If you are selling games on PC outside of Steam (MSI/NSIS/et al installers), you should already have code signing certificates and there's nothing really new there on that front.

At some point (I don't recall if it will make it into the Anniversary Update or not), the install process for a UWP app won't even need the one line of PowerShell and will support just double-clicking the .appx package, and will have suitable UAC-like install prompts.

Microsoft has already told Steam they should encourage UWP app installs, and supposedly the Play Anywhere stream of games from Microsoft in the next few months will also be sold via Steam as UWP installs under the hood as an option to game buyers that prefer Steam (but the expectation is that buying from Steam will not count for multi-platform cross-buy, as opposed to buying from the Windows Store).

(Microsoft does provide to verified developer Microsoft accounts short term keys for developer testing, but you wouldn't want to use those for sideloading simply because they are so short term. The Windows Store also handles long term code signing for you at no additional cost ["in the cloud"], and yes that can be revoked if they kick your app out of the Store, but that shouldn't be surprising.)

(Developer Mode doesn't really have "side effects" and I don't think you need a Microsoft Account to switch to Developer Mode, but I still wouldn't recommend it to non-technical friends.)
It feels weird how word embedding models have come to refer to both the underlying model, as well as the implementation. word2vec is the implementation of two models: the continuous bag-of-word and the skipgram models by Mikolov, while LexVec implements a version of the PPMI weighted count matrix as referenced in the README file. But the papers also discuss implementation details of LexVec that has no bearing on the final accuracy. I feel like we should make more effort to keep the models and reference implementations separate.
Sorry I meant in terms of requiring only eTrucks in business districts of major cities, not congestion pricing.

Just saying that NYC tried to have congestion pricing only to be overruled. And I'm sure they'll aim for eTrucks only requirement but will be overruled by Albany because that's what Albany does.

And that other cities (Stockholm I'm sure) will be at the forefront of the new eTruck revolution as soon as it's commercially viable.
There are some interesting tidbits here, and I really like the table of consistency versus consonance!

But overall, isn't this saying that removing the randomness and applying known music theory is what makes music sound musical? Is there any insight that using the computer is uncovering?

Randomness produces too much motion, and also fails to establish pattern or theme. A set of random major chords still sounds very random, it doesn't progress and leaves the listener unsatisfied. So many attempts at computer music start from randomness and the proceed to remove it little by little with structured rules -- maybe starting from randomness isn't the right place to start?

Had a tiny epiphany about randomness recently when I edited a video with still photos in it and applied my computer's "Ken Burns" effect, where it zooms & pans slowly. The automatic version picks random start and end points, fairly close together, and the movement is slow and gentle. But I watched it and noticed it was very unfocused and adding unharmonious motion. Ken Burns is telling stories with his pans & zooms - zooming in to highlight a specific face he's talking about, or panning over to reveal a place. It was a pain to re-edit the video manually, and hand-animate every pan & zoom, but when I was done, I was completely shocked how much less motion there was, like an order of magnitude less movement. The randomness had just scattered everything and didn't go anywhere. That's what I'm hearing in these musical examples - Brownian motion - too much movement that doesn't go anywhere.
Steam and games are the only reason I'm going to build a brand new VR capable Windows rig. Without that I don't really need Windows in my life.
Under some predictions, parts of the Middle East and North Africa might become, if not uninhabitable, very uncomfortable (50C+ summer averages) by the end of the century, with all the consequences that arise from this.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1665-6

Present experience proves that people, especially the impoverished, can't just easily uproot and leave one country for another, with no political or sociological consequences whatsoever.
Your criteria appear to be "I want the best possible for every component."

That and that it's compact (13") and lightweight and that it makes coffee! I know, but that's what I want. As for high-powered CPU, I would be OK with some super-duper i5 mobile or something. i7 is not a must. Also, I was under the impression that CPUs, these days, do not drain battery more than low-powered one if you're not hitting the gas pedal?
Reminds me of the banks here in Spain in the early 2000s: "Why do you want the loan to only cover your house? Add a car and some vacations in there as well!".... Ummm sure, Ill add a car and vacations... to my house loan? Yea, then people wondered why the country crashed (apart from other issues such as corruption).
Use history.replaceState instead of pushState: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

That will still change the address in the location bar without filling up the history so it takes many back button clicks to leave.
The autofill feature starts sounding like the benefit isn't worth the risk. It's kind of odd when thinking about it, that my passwords can be decrypted without me explicitly asking for them. I hope there aren't other mechanisms aside from autofill that allow that. While we're here - is there a way to disable autofill in LastPass entirely?
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I like password-store.org for its unixness.
Yep, it's a similar problem in a lot of fronts- most of the time $200+ isn't worth a 5% increase in quality.
There's also a deduction phase-out at high incomes. (450K iirc)
All fields have big yearly meetings as you describe. And people interviewing at them.

Including, as I mentioned, ones organized by the ACM and IEEE. Here's the ACM's stepping-off point for graduating students: https://www.acm.org/education/resources-for-grads . They have a twice monthly publication called CareerNews. The ACM links to the many resources available for getting an idea of pay scales in different parts of the country.

At this point, I don't know what to say. Yes, a few fields have credentialed requirements, ranging from haircutter to certified public accountant to lawyer to surgeon to engineer.

Most do not.

For example, if you plan working in predictive modeling at drug discovery company, no such credentials exist. Moreover, a credential from an actuarial society will almost worthless, and surely less important than a MS in biostatistics.

You keep coming back to: "why are economists and actuaries and statisticians able to judge a persons competence in some sort of standardized way".

Shrug I know nothing about those fields. For all I know, it's because there is a well-known set of laws and regulations they have to follow, and generally accepted practices, so most of the need for competence is to ensure that people know those laws and practices.

That's not the case for most fields. Including computer science, in all of its forms and incarnations.