skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that people in the territories now controlled by the U.S. and Mexico were willing to murder thousands of Europeans in bloody gun battles, in order to escape their governance.

And then, when building their own confederation and federation governments, they debated at length on how to avoid the sort of legal foundations that inevitably lead to laws that are draconian, incomprehensible, and/or ridiculous.

Unfortunately, history suggests that such laws arise not because the legal foundations are flawed, but because humans are sometimes authoritarian, illogical, or insane, and the laws are little more than the trails left as such people pass through the circles of power.

In my opinion, New World laws are only more sensible than Old World laws (on average) because they have spent less time accumulating cruft. But look at how hard the U.S. federal and state legislators work to catch up!
When you fuck over your employees to do so, yes, yes you should be slammed.
Companies that filter out candidates that prioritize money as a high criteria are potentially doing themselves a disservice by not hiring on ability. An excellent coder who wants to maximize their compensation shouldn't be penalized for that.

If "fit" for an organization means not caring (as much) about money, that almost always indicates the organization is paying below market rate. I have clients that pay below market rate, and candidates who value money above other things will filter themselves out when they discover the ranges being paid.

Not sure I follow the second point. My example would be if Jane sees herself as a top contributor and earns 100K and she learns that Joe (who she feels is not a top contributor) earns 120K, Jane won't be happy. I don't think Jane will think "what can I do to earn what Joe does?", because she already feels she's doing more than Joe.

I might have misunderstood your point, but wanted to clarify my post.
> The investment of as much as $250 million will go to a hedge fund launched by Boston investment firm Quantopian. That fund provides money to do-it-yourself traders who come up with the best computerized investing methods, giving a share of any profits to the creators.

This seems like a pretty good idea. A billionaire who runs his own money and just spent a pile to build out his own quantitative team invests a "small amount" to see if there is something to the wisdom of the crowds there.

The only point to note is that quantopian has 85,000 people trying 400,000 algos, something about monkeys and Shakespeare seems applicable.

If my experience is any indications the funnel of ideas to profitable strategies gets very narrow very quickly. Something like for every 100 ideas, 40 get tested, 10 look profitable 5 make it into production and 2 actually work out. And then you have to factor in that the average life span for each algo can be measured in months.

Actually that sounds some what depressing:( If you are an algo trader, then you are always running.

Congratulations to the Quantopian team!! This is a big milestone and something you should be proud of!
Manned flight doesn't seem to be a good application for solar aircraft given the weight and speed limitations. Solar drones seem a much better fit. Airbus seems furthest along with their Zephyr [0], it has stayed aloft for 14 days (!). They are targeting the military as a customer and are marketing it as an alternative to a satellite, that is, an indefinite surveillance capability.

Facebook has a similar program, Aquila, which is aimed at providing internet access. They just recently had first flight of a full scale version [1].

[0] https://airbusdefenceandspace.com/our-portfolio/military-air...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/facebo...
Then I looked, and I saw there was nothing new under the sun.
If you read the complete article, it is explained why that is the case and why Meyer presumably is not the one who should get the credit.
you also shouldn't be credited for the investment decisions of a predecessor
Yes.

Base load power is a misnomer based on coal/nuclear plants having poor responses to changing demand. Without fuel use over production is completely viable. Some net storage for 99.9% reliability for a combo of wind / solar / hydro in the US adds ~10-20% which is still vastly lower than nuclear which is expensive even after massive subsides.

Yes, the grid will look rather different, but backbone power transmission is going to stay a tiny percentage of GDP.

(The gap between max wind output and median output is huge, but the gap between median output and minimum output over a day for a large area is much smaller.)

PS: You see a lot of overly simplistic analysis that fails to account for the hydro power as energy storage and shifting demand east west to shift solar production vs. demand. A massive dam stores a lot of power which can be released on demand at any point in the year. Add some pumped hydro storage for fitting the day to day demand curve which can be thousands of miles from both production and use and storage is already both cheap and a solved problem.
Well, if you're a Yahoo shareholder, you could have voted against the deal.

If you're not, it's not your money, so why would you accept it or not?
Haha that was it! Many thanks for the correction :-)
I was merely asking the question if that would/could be the next goal for them. Not so much wondering about a why. Or if it would even be something we should want.
And a Product Designer is $5k less still.

It's not a question of "valuing" employees, it's about what salary you need to offer to be able to hire and retain people at the required skill level. And good SREs are apparently willing to (or plentiful enough to need to) accept slightly less money than equally good developers.

That said, the phenomenon extends well beyond our industry. It's common in all industries that the people who design (as in architecture, not graphic design) and build the product make better salaries than the people who operate the infrastructure, however critically important their role is.

> This is especially vexing in light of the fact I've never met a highly qualified Ops person who wasn't also a skilled developer

Be careful to compare like for like. A highly qualified ops person compares to a highly qualified developer, not merely a "skilled" one. For all the difficulty of objectively measuring skill, I would assume that a highly qualified ops person would make substantially more than a merely skilled developer.
apparently, such noise also affect the biosphere. Birds and animals change behavior based on this noise. Its one reason why traveling in developing/under-developed countries feels so different. The noise levels are very different.
repeating my other comment:
'I meant the software as a whole and the fact that there can be vulnerabilities in the browser extension right now.'
I've heard OEMs make more money from pre-installing adware/spyware/trialware than what they pay for the Windows license.

You can always decline the EULA and try to get a refund for the bundled Windows license. In Europe it is supposedly easy to get a refund due to a European Union directive on unfair commercial practices: http://no.more.racketware.info/en/europe
CS is essentially an engineering degree. You can retrain into practically any technical field with that foundation of math and science. Bootcamp grads wont be so lucky.
It is just Apple's general problem isn't it?

The cheaper phones are really good now. And if you are asking a premium you need to be significant better.

As I see it iPhone 4 was a lot better than the competition where as the current lineup is not.

Simply relying on expanding the market (selling more in China + other emerging markets) won't do the trick as they are not going to sell with their old big margins unless they are a lot better than the competition.
I agree.

On top of that I really like that WinRT is basically COM+ Runtime reborn and that Visual C++ finally feels like C++ Builder for GUI RAD tooling.

And that .NET Native also got developed in the process.
why are you littering every comment with the same comment response. Also, the stock has nothing to do with Mayer's performance.
Clearly not - merely that this bug could just as easily have been discovered by someone 'a little sketchy' and $1000 wouldn't be a big enough reward to skip setting up a watering hole or two for lulz.
Ad hominem attacks have no place in a civilised discussion forum.
I was one of the people offering advice on hardening SSH. I mentioned firewalling sshd to a subset of trusted IPs - which would still secure you against the above attack. I also suggested SSH keys should have passphrases, which would also mitigate against this attack (providing the passphrases are complex enough). And if anyone has root permissions to disable the firewall or change user login credentials, then they don't need to enable SSH (much easier ways to gain interactive shells).

I also love how you can take genuinely helpful posts - after all, it's better to harden SSH regardless of whether this specific attack initially came directly from SSH - and somehow turn those contributions into something negative. God bless internet messageboards.
Regulations on larger trucks still aren't nearly as strict as they are for smaller (pickup) trucks. I'd be surprised if many of the big trucks are running DPF or urea injection. Although maybe that's just because I see more of the older ones around.
Autotype is a bit risky because it assumes you've got the correct window/element focused. All it takes to expose your passwords is for a pop-up (e.g. instant message) to appear at the right moment.

Even if you don't hit the enter key/submit the form it is still possible for that incorrect window/app to grab your keystrokes.
Bad in what way(s) in particular?
I'm familiar and reasonably comfortable with the "image" concept from Lisp, but frankly I think outside of prototyping it's an inferior way to program.

When you're doing some sort of exploratory/experimental programming or trying to incrementally prototype some program, the ability to modify a live environment is fine, but it's only just barely better than coding in a file, and only because it saves you a small amount of time.

But once you're ready for distribution, images have a ton of drawbacks. For example:

* The running image is either particular to some physical machine, or it's constrained to a virtual machine, leaving you to pick one of portability or efficiency.

* I have to believe that there's some way to remove the development environment from the final image, but I didn't find a way to do that with Squeak when I tried it -- if there's really no way to do that, then suddenly your production image includes a full development environment in addition to your application, costing you and your customers unnecessary storage space, memory, and bandwidth.

* There's also a question of how well the environment within the image can communicate and interact with the host environment -- from the end user's point of view, it looks and behaves differently from everything else they use; how is it for the programmer?

The biggest problem with the image-based development style is reproducible builds. If your application has been created by incrementally tweaking a live environment here and there, how do you make that reproducible? How can you then save all the necessary code and data to recreate that state from a fresh image? Lisp solves the issue by supporting the file-based paradigm in addition to the image one, with constructs like LOAD, COMPILE, and COMPILE-FILE. At a higher level, Lisp also has a notion of "systems", which can be defined in a file and describe how to map a set of files to a final product (c.f. ASDF). Even in Lisp, however, you run the danger of forgetting about some change you made to the image and forgetting to include it in your source files. How would you do any of this in Squeak?

Along the same lines, how would you work with source control? Checking an image into git doesn't seem like an ideal solution.

In regard to code organization: files let developers organize the code however they feel is best, not the way some browser author decided is best. The idea of cohesion isn't just a sound engineering principle -- it's also a sound stylistic principle that can aid understanding of a system. Furthermore, a good text editor can help with navigating, exploring, querying, and processing text as well. Text editors aren't somehow limited to only enabling writing -- they have features to assist in reading and comprehending text, too.

I, for one, never felt more productive in any Smalltalk-type environment I've ever used, and such a development model seems to have quite a few drawbacks in exchange for only very few, very minor advantages.
When looking at laptop specs, the first thing I look at (almost the only thing) is the screen resolution. This is yet another 1920x1080 laptop, which puts it somewhere between "undifferentiated and uninteresting" and "outright disqualified".
It is great to see that Mercedes is working at electrical trucks. Electrical cars are just the start, the real emission saving will be electrical trucks. Though one has to note that as stated in the article: 'a “conceivable” launch window of “the beginning of the next decade” for wide-scale production and real-world use.'

So it is an early prototype - it will be interesting to see which timeline Tesla has for their offering.
I would say password reuse can be pretty good! Simply have your own rule such as "letters 2 and 5 of the domain name" and combine those with your reusable password.

In fact, I'd go further and say that you can do this with your login name. So for example:

myemail+by@gmail.com for eBaY

This also helps mitigate those attacks where the attacker actually contacts support and socially engineers them into giving all your info and even stealing your account:

https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backd...

If you are hosting with AWS you should really consider doing that

http://www.techinsider.io/hacker-social-engineer-2016-2
I see articles like this that are pure fear mongering and weep. It didn't mention El Nino even once.

Yet a massive El Nino event caused the increase in world temperature and higher rainfall around the world in 2016. This isn't even a debatable fact, yet apparently not worth mentioning in an article about weather and temperature events in 2016.
The problem is that is all due to the Alibaba stake.
I rather like GNUstep, or at least its window manager, but it's been kind of neglected.
The reactions in this thread are bizarre to me. Is it a new revelation that CEOs are compensated to deliver the best return for shareholders, and not the employees? Why is Mayer being singled out when this is what pretty much every CEO in the history of capitalism has been hired to do?
> Unfortunately the range is becoming a problem on big electric trucks.

This specific effort is urban deliveries, 120 miles should be way more than enough.

> This can be circumvented by using electric wiring overhead.

You'd need much denser pantograph networks than any I know of for debatable benefits since the vehicles would still need the ability to go "off-network" (to enter private premises for instance). And for longer ranges, you might as well just use trains.
Same here. I researched quite a bit before settling on 1Password. I bought separate licenses for all my devices across Mac and Windows, Android and iOS.

Beware though..their Android app does not support multiple vaults. And their Windows client is really ugly. Their iOS and Mac apps are very refined though..and I know the founder is trying to close this feature gap across platforms.

They seem to be moving towards subscription licenses with Teams and Family though...which do not require separate licenses for different platforms.
Yes. And add a tiny violin to make it sound even more dramatic and sad.
Right, because of Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. The company is down 2.4 billion without those two.
One reason: Almost half of their compensation packages are in Apple shares. So their lender, Opes Advisors, assigned the couple a financial adviser who used a software program to factor in debts and future income, including the stock, and the costs of education over the years for two young children.

They don't go into much detail, but this part scares me.

I'm assuming the "model" estimates some sort of future value for the stock. "You only make $150K, but don't worry, our model says that once your stock starts to vest, you'll be making $250K per year thereafter".

Of course that assumes their "model" of the stock price is correct.

However, California is a no-resource [edit:non-recourse] state, so if the owners get to the point where they can't afford payments, then it's the lender that is on the hook for the loss.
I hoped the meaning would be clear from context, but i see i should have been more careful in writing the comment.

Things that a human (who is living now) misses by not learning to read, far outnumber things a programmer misses by not learning emacs. There are very few jobs someone illiterate can perform. But non emacs user can do almost anything that emacs user does, almost as good.

So my argument that benefits from learning reading and learning emacs are not comparable, is not far from the truth.
I've been looking for a new laptop recently, but I can't seem to find a good.

My primary concerns are:

- not to have open it up and clean from dust. That's what all of my laptops, except Air, suffered from. They get dust inside and then get hot and loud. I move around a lot and it's inevitable. I don't want noise and I want as little heat as possible.

- Multitouch Trackpad like on Macbook Air. It's wonderful!

- Long battery life with moderate to high power cpu.

- Great 13" monitor that you can see what's going on in direct sunlight.

- As much as possible of internal fast storage.

- Lots of RAM.

- Great typing experience. I'm fine with chiklet on Air. It's just fine. I write a lot, more than typical programmers - treatments, instructions, screenplays on a daily basis.

Currently, only Air fits the bill, but it's getting old.

So, a high(er)-powered Air 13" with longer battery life and more RAM and disk space and better screen with updated CPU and graphics would be great. I haven't found one. I don't care which OS it runs. They're all the same these days.
Probably Germany.
Hi Kafaesq, thank you for the tips. I agree 100% with you.

1. Unfortunately I'm slightly past the point where I can get a rock-solid foundation in something, I just need a job. The classes I'm taking I've been focusing on for a while now.

2. My actual CV and cover letters don't read like this, and I had to abbreviate plenty to fit in the 2k character limit here on HN. Opinion on https://www.overleaf.com/read/jccfwqtdsfbd and how I can get my tech skills in there?

3. I agree, and it sucks because it's what my life is like right now. Having to hide it in interviews is ok I guess, but I did want to open up about it here so I could get some advice.
How does it make sense to tie up $1M+ at 1%? Are they turning around and selling the note to Fannie or Ginnie Mae? Unless we are Japan (and that's a slight possibility, but not likely IMO) this will be a total loser - not as bad as buying Spanish/French/Italian debt at negative rates, but pretty bad.

Who else has friends going through all sorts of ridiculous acrobatics to buy houses in the bay right now? Where they are "lucky" to get their 10-20% over the list price offer accepted? Yeah, this will end well.
I'm surprised you find Rust and Haskell bearable. Because for both languages slow compilation is a pretty well known problem[1][2]. On my old laptop (2011 MBP) compiling and interpreting (ghci/ghcid) took so long that it was distracting. This isn't even a big project; just a medium-sized one with a little over a hundred Haskell modules.

[1]: https://m.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/45q90s/is_anything_b...
[2]: https://m.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2uxt46/rust_vs_c_inc_co...
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Please consider changing the name of PetSet before General Availability
and having no money is expensive..

see Louis CK :)
https://youtu.be/rMG1MOn49Ts
> And?

And that means much larger upfront costs for debatable benefits.
For work and home I have nearly 500. The GP recommendation is absolutely terrible advice.
I didn't say it was "wrong" - it could be a good thing for the labor market, as you say. I said it may cause some issues for the employer.

Some of those issues will be related to things like confidence, willingness to speak out, and the ability to honestly recognize your ability.

When asked in this context (as it relates to pay), most people may think they are at least above average. Obviously that can't be true. It's not easy to determine contributions in most cases, so value (and relative worth) can be ambiguous.
Hence why they started pushing the Apple Watch, but I don't see that really taking off.
Not sure what you are scared about. The stock market only goes up.
By my experience, IC engines are only quiet when the car is coasting, but not when it is accelerating or has to go uphill. Having compared the driving noises of electrical and ICE cars driving past me, the noise reduction is quite significant. Even more, when accelerating at traffic lights, or when cranking the car.
The most recent examples on that page are nearly ten years old. I was a "Micro$oft" hater in school, too, but I don't see any other indication that they're relapsing apart from the accusations made in this news article -- certainly not any more than Google or Apple.
Continuous Deployment with Jenkins: 10 Quick Facts
Call an Incident Response company like Mandiant.
Yes, but the comment he was replying to said it should be _directly_ tied to company performance. Normally that means stock price, which the compensation was tied to.
Ask HN: Has anyone setup successful algo trading (retail)?
There was a recent thread on Zipline that had some interest. Would be interesting to have a survey to know if any retail trader has been successful setting up an automating trading system at all ?
Selecting the Right Database for Your App
I recently wrote a blog post coincidentally using Stack Overflow's own data to find correlations between the self-reported skill level of developers vs. other metrics such as salary: http://minimaxir.com/2016/07/stack-overflow/

The tl;dr is that yes, there is a positive correlation between developer skill and salary (http://minimaxir.com/img/stack-overflow/so-programming-6.png) for example, but it's hard to say which-causes-which.
Reading this genuinely made me tear-up! It also gives me hope though. We seem to be slowly, sloooowly growing our way off Terra.
I can't stand not getting 8+ hours of sleep. So I usually do, save for when I get a new game, go out to see a movie (rarely), or some other special event.

I don't understand people who constantly deprive themselves of sleep, willingly.
£65 would be a good wage for an experienced developer in the UK (London)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure
To be fair, Stack Exchange hires remotely. The "software majors" do not. (That said, if I wanted to work in Oklahoma and get a remote software engineering job, this lets me know I could probably get more at a place like GitHub)
A Steam Machine is just Linux and Steam, with some UI differences.

Games aren't being developed to run on Steam Machines. They're being made Linux compatible, and incidentally that makes them run on Steam Machines.
Your criteria appear to be "I want the best possible for every component." The issue here is that there are trade-offs involved: e.g. a high-powered CPU will drain your battery life.

With your criteria, only the Lenovo X Carbon series comes to mind. (Maybe the Dell XPS series?)
There's another, bigger, discussion going on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12172372
That's a dangerous oversimplification. By that logic "LastPass is as safe as AES as that's what it uses" which is obviously not the case.

A system is as secure as its weakest component.