skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, it is even worse if you can't, which is why for example I wonder what would have happened if Intel bought Compaq back in 1991.
Thanks. I'll check it out next time I'm at the library.
how can I become as well off as you?

I am young, 20-something developer, but i already conciously slack off and don't give a shit at my job, doing just enough to not get noticed/fired.

How do I take the next step of working less hours? I would like to work at most 10 - 20 hours per week, but still retain my full-time, 40 hr/week payrate. Do you have any advice for me? Thank you.
I don't like bans but whenever people asked me about my current pay I told them it is confidential and I should be judged based on what you are willing to pay rather than what I am making.

My first job change gave me 2X the salary.
It's hard to get because iphone users want it to be an open general-purpose computer that they own, and it masquerades as one most of the time. Remember when the apple-using-world lost it's collective shit over a free U2 album? It's not like they didn't know _intellectually_ that Apple had the ability to do that - they just hated being reminded of it.
It's not huge. That's bills together with all of your everyday spending. It's certainly possible to get that down to less than $1000 a month but you can easily spend $1000 a month without doing anything extravagant.
More details: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@pseudonymwriter/bitfinex-hacked...
Using MySQL in Node.js
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You set things up so you can't disable -Werror on the build server, and all this is moot.

The point about alternative implementations is interesting. Java has a comparable situation with unreachable code; the language specification has a simplistic definition of what unreachable code is, and makes it a compile-time error. A smart compiler can find more cases of unreachable code, but isn't allowed to make them errors. So it makes them warnings. It doesn't seem to be a big impediment to alternative implementations in practice.
> So many support people promised me good service but I never got it.

That was my experience with comcast as well. So many friendly people who promised so much and they all delivered nothing. It was maddening. Months after I cancelled, I got a check that returned all my money. I would have preferred internet service given that they were the only provider around, but that was not something their support people could provide.
This HN thread should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214049
Terraform seems like a great project, and the new import feature could nearly convince me to switch. My biggest barrier to using it is the lack of cross-account role support with AWS[0].

[0] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/issues/472
The Platformer Primer
Yeesh. That's when you go along and let them pay for the audit before bailing.
I posted a link in one of the siblings to your comments, but this data results from employers giving/selling the data to Equifax for their The Work Number service.

I have to say I'm surprised at the number of HN readers who are unaware about the availability of this data.
Are you familiar with the many examples of the privatisation of public utilities and deregulation?
You're saying you're willing to hunt down this company for a random user on the internet? Why are you so eager to get involved?
The Science Behind Being More Productive
As much as the joke about bitcoins "take the money and run" exchange business model is bandied about, how do people actually suggest securing exchange wallets?

I'm sure it's talked about, but I've never really found a straightforward explanation of how it should be done - is there even an agreed upon set of best practices? If so, why are these supposedly sophisticated exchanges not able to successfully apply them?
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Time to buy. :)

Seriously, there is a curious coincidence with the BTC-driven pump and dump currently going on at the Etherium's dead chain.

Another curious coincidence is that the price started falling before the closure, as if someone did some insider trading.
That makes sense given that it's open source.
Yes... but only on paper!
Which are ...?

See the problem is always local code execution. Once you have that, it's over. There are real mitigations (W^X, ASLR, stack cookies) and then there seems to be lore ("multi-process", "sandboxing").
It's already happened: look at Alphabet's LinkNYC fiber-to-wifi advertising-supported IoT kiosks in NYC, where terms of service permit analytics of data and pedestrian traffic.
Software patent at its worst :(
The problem is that they must have too many qualified engineers applying, and they need an arbitrary way to filter people out.

I almost managed to write that with a straight face.
Analyzing the Didi/Uber deal
Tons of Instagram users use it for "serious" photography. Perhaps you don't follow them, but many do, myself included.

https://www.instagram.com/1st/

https://www.instagram.com/dariusaskari/

https://www.instagram.com/msalisbu/

https://www.instagram.com/tiny_teaa/

I would even argue that Instagram has in some ways redefined professional photography (by enforcing different constraints than a professional photographer is used to).

Aggregator accounts are one of the best ways to discover high quality users.

https://www.instagram.com/nycgo/

https://www.instagram.com/cincybaton/
I can certainly intellectually understand why society has banned this.

But don't you see that opiates only make people do these horrible things because they're banned!? Opiates don't turn people into devastatingly manipulative thieves, they turn them into people who will do anything to get opiates. If you changed two things, junkies would be no more likely to engage in destructive behaviors like theft than alcholic or smokers. Those two things are making opiates cheap and easy to get (regulate them like cigarettes, say), and eliminating the employment stigma. Opiates aren't great for productivity, but they are much less of an impairment than alcohol, and alcoholics are almost always functional unless they also suffer mental health issues. Opiates slow down thoughts and movements somewhat, and they make you feel really good, but they don't make you stupid or rash like alcohol.

That's not to say that there wouldn't be problems with opiates. You'd probably have as many people on opiates on the road as we currently have drunk drivers (again, they probably wouldn't be as bad, because while opiates slow reaction times and reduce alertness, they don't make the user think they can do things they can't). And junkies would probably still squander their potential to an extent, and mothers of brilliant children who take up opiates instead of going to college might be devastated. But I think most of the new addicts that would be created by legalization would be people who would otherwise become alcoholics, people just looking for an escape, and society prefering clean opiates over alcohol would do wonders for public health.
That is to catch people accused of hiring someone to impersonate them and take the test for them. Where that is suspected, they can make the real person copy the sentence out again in cursive for comparison, on the theory that it's much harder to accurately copy someone else's cursive than their printing.
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Shameless plug: we use terraform a lot within DigitalOcean and I made a resource provider for our recent release of block storage. It's part of this release[1]! (I'm happy, sorry!)

By the way, contributing to the project was very straightforward and the participants involved are super nice. I recommend you send them a patch if you have an itch!

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/do/r/volume.html
It's cool to see more C# positions in Phoenix!
Sure, confused you with OP
>but why do folks say that?

Because it was at some point IIRC,they didn't have a team for it internaly. This was back in the silverlight shutdown, html5/winrt win8 drama. Silverlight actually died, WPF got revived. This is just going on memory, and I wasn't really paying attention to it anyway.
I'm the most excited about the _List and Map Types_. It was a huge pain to concatenate strings in arrays to move them and then parse them again.
Aggregator accounts have positive effects on the community too, especially when it comes to discovery. They're not all bad.
Why stop at the financial difference between a poor african boy and Elon Musk? Assuming this tech scales at the rate the article is proposing (spinning up N amazon services for N neocortices), why would the top dogs stop their competition for resources at the lower beasts of the earth besides in-group trust or paranoia? I'm sure the meat that makes a million dollars a year is just as prime material if not more interesting for the borg as poor indian children.

Oh right, they need techno-serfs or lab rats to actually implement or test these technologies on, hmmmmmmm.
Really? You think people should risk their money without compensation? Where can I find such people?

And what makes showing up at the office and typing on a keyboard such a holy use of time that it alone deserves compensation?
I wrote an outline and some pseudo-code today (on paper), and I used cursive. However, my handwriting is terrible and has a half-life of 12 hours or so.
He didn't dismiss the mobile revolution, he dismissed consumer Apple products. Not quite the same thing, unless you think the impoverished masses were uplifted by itunes.
Because Salary has nothing to do with value they create but what someone else is willing to accept to create the same value.
Is cursive an American thing? Wikipedia says I learned 'casual cursive'. I join some letters.

I can't really name anyone that writes in full cursive.
I don't disagree with any of this. I'm not saying that if an engineer writes software that increases profits by $1MM then they have realized $1MM in value: it's a team sport. But I don't think that prevents us talking at all about the value of the work that is done in a job.
This is a great release, have been using Terraform for the last year, a life-saver for us.

Kudos to the TF team/community and Mitchell
>Seems like it is good advice not to invest more in Bitcoin than you can comfortably lose...

Not losing bitcoin isn't any harder than not losing cash.

Problem here is people storing their coins with unqualified third parties.
Assuming SHA1 has second pre-image resistance (which it currently still does), the security of git signed commits/tags is the same thing as the security of the private key used to sign the commits/tags.
Sounds really really weird. My previous employer flat out refused to tell my new employer my salary claiming it was confidential. In fact the job agreement always mentions that salary is confidential.
Who would even think to ask this? It feels like a submarine... and there it is: it's an ad for Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.

(http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html for submarine articles, for those not already familiar with the concept.)
Looks like it's bitcoin only. Other tokens unaffected.
Flaws in the article aside, we use STM and TChans with Haskell threads, and it's awesome!
The speed advantage of cursive is mostly wasted if you write by moving your fingers. You constantly have to lift your pen from the paper when you reach the end of your range of motion, so you might as well use a more legible style like italic. To get the most from cursive you need to write using your shoulder muscles, and AFAIK this is never taught in schools. I suspect most people never realize it's possible. I certainly didn't as a child, and therefore cursive seemed like a waste of time.
"Write about Dragons" is a video recording of one of the writing classes titled "Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy" that Brandon Sanderson teaches at BYU. He teaches the class every year, and frequently updates it with new material, and most of the lectures are online (spread across myriad Youtube channels). Here are several of the others:

* 2014 class lectures (via BYU English dept): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRO9W1Nmh6clZP-IAhMeM...

* 2016 class lectures (via Camera Panda): http://brandonsanderson.com/2016-sanderson-lectures/

He also delivered lectures at JordanCon in 2010 and 2011. I frequently recommend his "description and viewpoint" lecture as the best tool for competent non-fiction writers to understand what separates the skill of fiction writing from non-fiction writing.

* JordanCon 2010: description and viewpoint https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A1F631BCD668EDF

* JordanCon 2010: plotting https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2AB4CCF96ECB552

* JordanCon 2011: sanderson's second law of magic systems https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9F2E7291F6FBFEB

Brandon Sanderson is also one of the hosts on the weekly Writing Excuses podcast: http://writingexcuses.com/
Yes! Excellent point. Let's prohibit people from buying alcohol.
You may not be aware of this, but although I also installed the extension and I am trying it out, Firefox has a way to manage the tab hoarder use case, built into the default install.

Using the Awesomebar and typing "%" and a tab name will find the tab. Navigating to it and clicking (or pressing enter) will open the tab in its existing window.

Docs here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...
Is there also a way to make sure one guy isn't responsible? You know the way they credited Petrov with saving us from nuclear war?
More likely a private equity firm.
Food, insurance, gas, water, electricity, student debt, etc. At least by half? Come on. Let's be real.
I find in these conversations that some people are talking about salary and others are talking about salary + bonus + stock options. In particular, the stock option portion to me (but YMMV) seems disingenuous.

As an example, I'm in the Boston area and ~2 rungs away from a "director" type title, working at a company known to not pay top dollar and without things like stock. It wouldn't take much stock for me to enter into the range that's being discussed here, albeit likely the lower side of it. OTOH none of the people I talk about this stuff with are remotely near the top end of that range when you take stock options out of the picture.
Operations and Networking
I've been following this thing for a while now I'm glad to see they're moving forward. It's hard to dispute the logic of it, the ability to go over a traffic jam is huge.
Not sure why these comment is being down-voted. It is not even rude. The law does seem stupid and an empty gesture. (Like NY state banning Sex offenders from playing Pokemon Go) but such laws benefit no one, add an extra layer of complexity in hiring process. Are not there any other proxies for determining a person salary ? For example you can always ask a person his/her house rent or ask for tax returns.
In the case of TrueType hinting with the interpreter, it can. The SCANTYPE instruction [1] allows the hint program to request different scan conversion settings. It's mainly used to change the dropout control mode. Without dropout control, the rule is strictly that pixels whose centers are inside of the glyph are drawn. At small scales, this can lead to features smaller than a pixel disappearing, so dropout control adds additional rasterization rules to draw some pixels even if they're slightly outside of the glyph. I've seen that FreeType supports them, and I'm sure it must have a complexity and performance impact on them. Granted, it's less useful with antialiasing, but is still a case where hinting affects the rasterizer's operation.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/...
Percona are flogging a dead horse called "Oracle" while at the same time basically being an Oracle subsidiary without being Oracle, but it's basically Oracle wrapped in scary perl scripts with backported features from better forks.

If you were to meet me in person I would just say "Fuck Percona/Oracle and their shitty shit".
If they were doing similar things you probably wouldn't be writing this reply.
I have met some members of Instagram's engineering team at Python conferences. They also run a dedicated engineering blog (https://engineering.instagram.com).

Despite the fact that they use an old version of Django, and the product has not exactly changed drastically since it became popular, they don't seem jaded.

Sometimes it's fun to build your own version of something regardless of what exists in the rest of the world. I'm sure nuances will become more prominent in time.
This release is the first one with built-in support for Scaleway as a provider: https://terraform.io/docs/providers/scaleway/
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> > your own prejudice..

> Which is?

A desire to feel offended and outraged?
Sports is another industry where the employees are paid quite fairly relative to the owners. This is often missed when people complain about someone getting paid millions to throw a ball. The alternative is that the owners of the teams make even more.

The other thing to note is that most athletes in America's sports industry are unionised.
That was a pretty big issue for us as well. We've gone through some acquisitions and we left with a bundle of different accounts.

Wound up taking a day and writing a ruby script that checked out an STS token, and exec'ed a new bash shell with the correct environment variables. the $PS1 has the account name in there so it's not too hard to know what shell points where. Also helpful that we set up a "control account" that handles consolidated billing and user login.

We've had some pretty good success so far, however I can definitely see how that feature would be good baked-in somehow.
> This is the implicit agreement of the internet.

Says who. The Internet was here before the corporations got ahold of it. And as a matter of fact, so was I.

If someone puts up something in a public space I have every right to view it in the way I please. That includes not looking at parts of it.
Thanks for the mention - glad you like it! (I'm one of the founders).

Given that you've been helping to spread the word, would you like to join our advisors programme? Details at https://wwww.overleaf.com/advisors
This can be easier to say than to do, depending on the person.

I am now at a stage in my career/life where if anyone tried to force me to give me a number, I'd say no. If they pushed the issue, yes I'd walk away.

That wasn't always the case, there were times where I needed to be the one to fall into line. In those cases I universally got screwed as the company would always quite obviously base my offer on my current salary, even when they claimed otherwise.
Excellent measure only if the world worked by laws passed. Clearly the job market in Mass is very competitive and current salary is something that is helping employers make a better decision. Outlawing it only means top employers will have to rely on proxies where as low-end employers will violate the law nevertheless.

On the ground it only makes things worse for both employees and employers.
I miss the old Medium, straight from the soul Medium
I've been working on something pretty akin to what you describe, hosted verifiable data structures (logs and maps). Rather than Blockchain it uses the same data structures as Certificate Transparency to provide equivalent functionality. Would love to get some feedback if you had the time to look: https://www.continusec.com/
It probably means that they have salary bands and you're starting at the bottom
I love Seamonkey (I have to reinstall it on this machine as I haven't used it in a while), but it's also behind the Firefox dev cycle and doesn't offer the same level of extension coverage that Firefox does.

It'd certainly be very interesting if the could maintain the latest browser fixes (even with less extension compatibility), but I doubt the team has the bandwidth to keep that up.

Just installed it. It doesn't support High DPI displays on Mac OS X. Unfortunately, that's a bit of a blocker for modern Mac laptops (everything looks fuzzy).
EFF at the Eleventh Hope
I agree. Ironically (since he is associated with the 'gardeners' type in the piece), his writing feels too methodical and lineal to me. Also very repetitive. Of his books I haven't liked the first one. The same happens to me with Neil Gaiman, who seems very heavily influenced by King. To me their style of writing is almost interchangeable.
True, but there are plenty of high-skilled, high-paid workers who are unionized, although they typically would dispute the "union" tag.

The American Medical Association is a great example.
If you don't mind my asking, if you "loved" two of the places you have worked why have you been through four employers in 4-1/2 years?

I love my current employer, which is why I have stayed there 19 years.
Yep, Apple giveth and Apple taketh away - broad categories of things that are considered user-hostile are banned, and if you try to do it Apple swings the banhammer liberally.

Also Apple's guidelines re: permissions is that the app must degrade in the absence of permissions gracefully, and any kind of "punishing the user" for denying perms is absolutely prohibited.

For all the bad things about the walled garden, this is one perk that is real.

As for Apple walking back on these things - anything is possible, but considering how hard they've been beating on the user privacy drum I doubt this will change in the foreseeable future

IMO the "zero" ID is preferable to a random ID. This way if anyone has legitimate reason to detect for this condition they can, but Apple has enough control over the platform to ban anyone doing so abusively. It's also more in line with Apple's permission systems (e.g., you can detect if you have Contacts permissions, rather than it returning, say, fake/empty contacts).
You mean these kiosks?

10K Google Wi-Fi kiosks are collecting millions of faces and MAC addresses
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2016/07/10k-google-wi-fi-ki...
> So what you're saying is, Windows should not strive to meet any sort of basic security capability? Because that's all UWP is: A more secure design.

Its development is rather weird though. If I understood correctly, part of the build process is out of developers' hands, and is supposed to be performed by distributor which supports UWP (especially for different architectures). Is UWP backend toolchain and implementation even available for other distributors besides Windows Store? If yes, then it's not a distributor lock-in. But if no, then Tim Sweeney was perfectly right criticizing it.