skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my perspective on some of what you have asked. I heard a great quote the other day, "don't look back, you aren't going there". Generally human beings do the best they can with the info they have available at the time. Respect and accept that. Believe me, I have been in your shoes having lost my partner, soulmate and beloved wife at 37 to rectal cancer. I can only say it gets easier to carry the burden. Although there will be moments when the survivor guilt is overwhelming, try to honor their legacy and the years they were robbed of by living as fully as possible. It will benefit you and the world around you. A good therapist will help too epecially one who has a specialty in cancer related. Be well. --A fellow traveler on the grief journey.
Another alternative (for Mozilla-based browsers): LibreJS

https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/librejs/gnu_librejs-6.0.13-fx.xpi

- Blocks non-free Javascript
Just keep in contact with your network and make sure they're aware that you're freelancing and what sort of projects you do. I know it sounds simplistic, but the hard part is building a network. Once you have it, they do most of the work for you, especially if you keep them abreast and happy (ex. reciprocal referrals).
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Google Cloud Platform and Azure. I have a lot of experience with GCP (mostly Compute Engine) and really really like it.
Five letters: BATNA

What is your best alternative to a negotiated agreement?

In any negotiation, with any party, your strength lies in your ability to walk away. If a vendor isn't offering you the product, or features, or price, you want, then having the alternative to walk elsewhere gives you strength. It's what lies at the foundation of the concept of a competitive market (though there are other elements as well, many involving information access).

Businesses, and recruiters, such as the one offering this exceptionally poor advice, have far more data, and far more experience than any given single worker in engaging in labour negotiations. Hell: It is their core competency.

Accepting the terms of an employer or recruiter in engaging in the battle directly is the worst possible thing you can do. Which includes this still-born advice to never accept a counteroffer.

Are there counteroffers you shouldn't accept? Yes. Are there counteroffers you should accept? Yes. You'll find discussion in this thread on both sets of circumstances.

(A general guideline: if it's the money that's been what's making you unhappy at a given job, go for it. If it's been other matters, that is what you should be negotiating on, though sweetening the pot doesn't hurt either.)

The degree of ignorance exhibited by far too many technologists on the concepts of negotiating, power, leverage, and advantage is vast. I include myself. I can only suggest: go out and start studying the literature, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, J.K. Galbraith's The Anatomy of Power, and books on sales and negotiation. I'm finding older works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries particularly informative -- there's much more openness about direct tactics, and a distinct lack of embarassment in discussing them. More recent material can be useful and will show additional tricks, and advances in psychology, but I find that the traditional insights themselves are quite telling.

Michael O. Church has much to say on the inequalities, including overt blacklists, which exist within Silicon Valley and elsewhere, which may be illuminating:
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/what-i-fough...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negoti...
I'm hoping Victoria turns into an active startup scene soon. I want to move west for proximity to Seattle/SF but Vancouver's cost of living was a big turn off. $2k/m in Toronto goes a very long way compared to most big cities (thank you liberal municipal building policy!) where I'm not sure it's worth the trade off.

Not having to deal with months of winter (I don't mind BC's rain) and a 1-2hr ferry to Seattle/Vancouver does sound alluring though.
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Hyper loop! ;)
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There is great political risk in requesting a raise. Many employers would take offense and consider it an insult, and for some reason, after you've gone to that substantial political risk, a lot of employers seem to think that their employees should be content with raises of 2-5%. If you do get a raise, the counteroffer issue is still valid; your employer is given cause to question your loyalty and may be more suspicious of your contributions moving forward. This sentiment has been expressed by MS CEO Satya Nadella and I'm sure it's popular in other management circles.

Ironically, it's generally less offensive as well as much more effective at getting a real increase in take-home pay to go out and get an offer from an external employer.
I was thinking exactly the same thing: why doesn't git use an all-zero hash as a special NIL. I think SHA-1 cannot output all zeros as a valid hash.
In my experience they're pretty close, assuming you're excelling in both.

Top independent freelance software developers can make $300k if they work hard and have a good network, as can top big corp engineers. Of course, neither is easy to achieve and the metrics are different. (Freelancers are valued on their results, big corps hire on pedigree and games.)
I can't actually tell what MD techniques they are using. Citation 28, which says they're described in supplemental materials, which I cannot find on the arxiv page.

Either way, I think the right way to do this is to run explicit ab initio quantum MD (IE, as rigorous as it gets), then train on those trajectories. They aren't weighted, like classical approximation force fields like AMBER or MP2 are.
But the EU has a population about twice that of the US. So why shouldn't we impose trade barriers within the EU to bring this awful competition down to American levels? Similarly, India should perhaps split herself into US-sized chunks, and Biharis shouldn't be allowed to migrate to Bombay? (Shiv Sena would love this.)

Similarly, as the US grows, shouldn't we start imposing internal trade barriers to keep our size down to the optimum?

This idea that there is some optimal size that just magically happens to correspond to national boundaries is belied by the fact that countries have hugely different sizes.
I do a similar thing: Caps Lock mapped to Control on hold and also Escape on tap.
> Publish your texts as text. Let the images be images. Put them behind URLs and then commit to keeping them there.

I sounds like he's saying ephemeral content is worthless and should be shunned.

I, and hundreds of millions of others, disagree. You want a bland, awful, boring society? Easy: make everything you do stick around forever—like a promise. And then watch the world self-police as the lifeblood drains out of it.

You'll get…Facebook. No thanks.
I guess those with bad driving records and sky high insurance would benefit quite a bit financially if they purchase an autonomous vehicle.
Wow. The source the author cites for his counteroffer statistic (http://thevetrecruiter.com/news/a-perfect-case-study-for-not...) includes this passage:

> Back to my candidate. Two days after he took the counter-offer, I received a call from one of his colleagues. She said word on the street was that one of her co-workers had recently accepted a counter-offer with her employer, and she wanted me to know she would never do that. If I represented her, once she gave a commitment, she would stick to it. Not only that, but she also said only a weak-minded person would do something like that (accept a counter-offer) and she had lost all respect for this person.

Can you imagine an actual human being calling up a recruiter completely unprompted to inform them that counteroffer-accepters are weak-minded jerks and no one likes them? It's like one of those ads where a bunch of guys suddenly interrupt their game of ultimate frisbee or whatever to discuss how great their car insurance company is.
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From a blog with two entries, with an attached twitter that looks more like bot spam than someone actually using it, and a github account that is all about messing with adblockers(?). Why do this feel like a schoolyard pissing match between "1337 haxors"?
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Yep, I'm sure. It seems to be working now for me as well.
If that many people are making the point, maybe they have a point.
Same way you handle redundancy in general. You'll need multiple clients listening, and some sort of consensus algorithm to get them back into sync when one restarts.

One simple way (which involves doing double work) would be to have 2 clients, both of which listen to postgres and push to elastic search. Each sync will happen twice, but the sync will only fail to occur if both go down.
Not wanting "ludicrously expensive" housing does not mean expecting "cheap" housing...

Pretty much everyone agrees Vancouver is needlessly expensive. I mean it's not Tokyo, Hong Kong, NYC, SF, etc where there's an inherent justification for paying lots of money to live there. I've heard the nightlife is nothing to look forward to nor is it known for it's culture.

The problem could easily be solved by simply building more. Unlike SF or Manhattan, Vancouver doesn't even have artificial land growth limitations for being on an inlet/island to rationalize the lack of growth.
Honestly the day trip people would annoy me if I were a border patrol officer. Commuting in and potentially exploiting economic loopholes or something. That or smugling drugs across the border.

Especially given the strength of the USD over CAD these days
Yeah that's in the Op's linked article, but would be unaddressed by the sub thread linked article's technique.
Victoria has come a long way in the last couple years. We do have a small startup scene that's grown over the last few years.

You should check it out :D
I can tell you what I know to be true.

Given time, you change and adapt. A great majority of dysfunctions put themselves right if you wait.

If you are patient with yourself you shall be fine. I repeat: be patient with yourself.

Here is my hypothesis or idea of why this sort of thing happens to us.

The brain is this complex organ and when it undergoes stress such as bereavement it shall put you in a certain state, such as low mood, because some part of it not under your conscious control has decided to do this. Seeing this as an error, could be an error. To put it another way, when you injure your leg, you cannot walk on it because of pain. Pain tells you not to hurt yourself more so. The same is true of mental troubles, only instead of pain, it is a lowering of mood. Perhaps this should be understood as a safety mechanism.

In most cases if you run on autopliot for a period of time, perhaps some months or years, you shall recover. In some cases you need to change your environment in some way, but your intuition should be the judge of that.
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Can someone give a bit of the why on this one? Is there something wrong with AVX or is this a run on other chips thing? I'm at a bit of a loss on the history.
AVX is normally 256-bit, but it also allows 128-bit instructions with a VEX prefix. Benefits of that include three operands and unaligned access, as well as higher performance when mixed with 256-bit instructions. Of course, you need a AVX-capable CPU and an OS that support AVX XSAVE to be able to use them.
I agree that saying counter-offers are universally bad is too simplistic.

Sometimes your compensation simply has fallen behind market without you or your employer realizing it. Especially at a smaller company, your manager might very well not have firm sense of what your market compensation would be. A competing offer is a great way for both you and them to get your compensation up to market.

Just because you interviewed for another job does not imply you're unhappy with your current one. I try to occasionally interview just to keep a tab on the market, even when I'm entirely happy with my current job (including its compensation). In fact, the results of such interviews are often that my current job is better than anything else out there.
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It seems weird that mozilla doesn't have something like phabricator so I can view a pretty diff of this easily.
Nobody thinks that using initials is a way to "fix" sexism -- it's at best a way to avoid it. Sometimes that's all someone is looking for -- not everybody wants to personally absorb the cost of fighting the system.
Not necessarily. In my case, I was one level too low in a strong organization. I had just done a geographic transfer and they hadn't quite slotted me into the kind of job that would have delivered all the good stuff (projects, recognition, pay, etc.) that I wanted. Plus I'd been assigned to a timid boss who wasn't going to make things change.

It was amazing how much everything improved once I had a higher-paying offer from a leading competitor. Boom! Better title. Boom, more money. Boom, a lot more face time with VP level folks who became my de facto bosses and boosters. I ended up staying at that place for another 13 years and had a great ride. My timid "boss" was gone from the organization within two years. The guy never caused me a bit of pain after that.

I'm glad other posters are saying that in the end, it's the agency recruiters who really hate counteroffers. The economics for them are so disastrous that they can't help but try to tug talented employees over to their point of view. From my experience, it all comes down to whether you can get your current employer to make your working situation a lot better, as well as bump up the money. If they are capable of delivering a whole new situation, then you're in a good place.
If they don't, there are skilled hackers elsewhere who would sell their services.
My friend worked for several years in undergrad on whether or not bees had individual personalities (this was her simplified description to me). So I asked her whether bees did have individual personalities, and her response was a flat "Nope".

The "emotions" that they're describing here are really more like states in a finite state machine. Calling them emotions obfuscates the science.

However, there might be a fun angle to building a brain out of increasingly complex emotional FSMs.
That's a very interesting blog post. It contradicts itself multiple times. For example, in one paragraph it says that the fact that the GAO hasn't produced the congressionally mandated report for over a year must mean that there's nothing to report on. In the very next paragraph it says that the reason the GAO hasn't produced the report is probably because of "partisan gridlock."

So which is it? Have they produced no report because there is nothing to report on (which is obviously silly; there's something to report, regardless of your opinion), or have they produced no report because of partisan gridlock? If the latter, as they suggest, how does that imply that there's nothing to report on?

It would actually imply the opposite, that there is much to report on, but that political pressure is preventing them from reporting on it due to how an unbiased report would inconvenience certain political agendas.

Just imagine, a CEO sees some troubling reports about his company's stock, hearing rumors of fraud and audits and lawsuits. He orders an accountant to produce a financial report for the last 6 months by Friday. Friday comes and goes, and so does another, until several months have gone by. Finally the CEO concludes that, since his accountant hasn't produced the ordered report, there must be nothing to report, and everything is fine. ??? That's the same logic they use in this article.

This is just one example of the double-minded perspective presented in that article. The IGP is obviously strongly biased toward one political party, and they write deceptive articles to confuse the public and handwave away legitimate concerns.
Available service, SLA, and region comparison for AWS, Google, Azure and Softlayer at a fairly high level:

http://cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
I love heliostats. Like pneumatic tubes, there is something old and new about them at the same time and they hint of mystery. We are fools for not using the free daylight indoors when it rains down on us from the heavens. It is better for your health too.

If anybody has a good book recommendation on heliostats I would be delighted to have it.
> But being paid below market rate also sucks.

Where is this mythical "market rate" that I as an employee or employer can constantly get access to?

Every employee has their own market rate and that rate is determined by BATNA negotiations. If I'm hiring someone, I don't have market rate for them in mind which I try to pay under.

As a manager at a small company, you barely have more info on market rates than employees do. Sometimes savvy employees even have more info than I do (they can go out an interview to assess the market, while I can't interview people just to see what offer they'd accept).

Of course, there are also cases of flagrant underpayment (ex. paying <$100k for an engineer in SV) which should drive you away automatically.
Last I rode it, wifi wasn't enabled on the Canadian side, apparently due to Washington and Oregon budget cuts. Which is a real bummer, the route follows the coast and high-speed data is spotty or unavailable in several areas.

Other than that I love taking the Cascade train, customs is much easier and faster than traveling by road and I get way more work done.
> I know many who try to "get in the market" every year or so just for "curiosity"

There is absolutely no reason not to. One might argue this is essential -- how can you know "market" if you don't study the market?
Not presented as an option: ordering only one main/entrée to share. Hopefully just because it was a humorous article, but with portion sizes in the US, there's no need to each order an entrée.
Just signed up to Scalaway. Being in France is pretty neat as it's close to the UK so I understand their law. Currently running an AWS nano instance but I think I'm paying too much for it. Unfortunately it seems as though they are out of the C1 instances.

Thanks for the heads up!
Omg! Completely inspiring. His dream and versatility roles in his lives will be motivating everyone around him.

The values he had created in his time is unparalleled. May God bless all
> Many employers would take offense and consider it an insult,

If they do, flee. Business is business and if people are getting offended about business, something is wrong.
Next in the 'Write Great Code' series?
According to Hyde's 'Understanding the Machine', there would be three subsequent volumes, but so far only looks that 'Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level' has been released. Any word if further publication in the works?
At my company (MixRank), we do static analysis on apps for business intelligence. We've collected lots of data on permissions, SDKs, integrations, frameworks, etc. If anyone has any interesting queries they'd like me to run, I can give it a shot.

Here's the most popular permissions we've identified:

permission | apps | pct_apps
------------------------------------------------------------+---------+----------
android.permission.INTERNET | 2607544 | 92.90
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | 2332429 | 83.10
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE | 1707550 | 60.83
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE | 1696178 | 60.43
android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE | 1154963 | 41.15
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK | 989176 | 35.24
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE | 944675 | 33.65
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION | 798122 | 28.43
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION | 770878 | 27.46
android.permission.VIBRATE | 734366 | 26.16
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE | 687083 | 24.48
android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS | 676143 | 24.09
android.permission.CAMERA | 436581 | 15.55
android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED | 429658 | 15.30
android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO | 243793 | 8.68
android.permission.GET_TASKS | 235717 | 8.39
android.permission.CALL_PHONE | 218079 | 7.76
com.android.vending.BILLING | 200927 | 7.15
android.permission.READ_CONTACTS | 190848 | 6.79
com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES | 188162 | 6.70
android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW | 176363 | 6.28
com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT | 164649 | 5.86
android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER | 156845 | 5.58
android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS | 131898 | 4.69
android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS | 122783 | 4.37
android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS | 110675 | 3.94
android.permission.BLUETOOTH | 106272 | 3.78
android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS | 102882 | 3.66
android.permission.SEND_SMS | 97892 | 3.48
android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS | 97585 | 3.47
com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS | 97147 | 3.46
android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE | 97074 | 3.45
android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG | 90001 | 3.20
com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE | 79279 | 2.82
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN | 78199 | 2.78
android.permission.FLASHLIGHT | 74952 | 2.67
android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS | 73898 | 2.63
android.permission.BROADCAST_STICKY | 67092 | 2.39
android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD | 66887 | 2.38
com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS | 65765 | 2.34
android.permission.READ_CALENDAR | 61989 | 2.20
android.permission.WRITE_CALENDAR | 61327 | 2.18
android.permission.READ_LOGS | 60059 | 2.13
Also of interest is one of regehr's commentators posting a link to Kahan's rebuttal to those "unum" numbers.
"Just the PR value from Alphago is probably worth more than $400mm. "

No - it's definitely not.

Go and walk down the street in any part of the world and ask how many people know about this acquisition? Nobody will.

Even the vast majority of technical people will have never heard of this acquisition.

There is no 'PR' at all, really, from this acquisition.

I don't think any acquisition in history was worth it's 'PR' value.

Unless there is mass market news on it, in which households are getting to know about it, then possibly, but even then, I can't think of a single acquisition that was worth it.

Zuckerberg bought some tech that enables you to wear 'masks' on your face while on video - when he made the announcement, it was fun (he was wearing and Iron Man mask) - and it got picked up globally. If they paid less than $2M for that company, maybe it was worth it for the 'PR value'. But even then it's shaky.
I also spent a long time as a developer and successfully took counter offers a few times. Sometimes it really is just about the money, and your line manager needed the impetus to justify the cost to their manager
Car2go works in both cities which is a huge help. Especially since Vancouver has no uber/lyft etc.
Kind of, until you consider common law marriage, which in this country at least(canada) can be just as messy. WHere I live, if you live with someone for 6 months, you're considered common law. I've had friends lose half their apartment over a break up.
Depends on the restaurant, but I'd agree - portion sizes in the US are huge and usually enough for two meals.

The problem is that people tend to just eat it all because, well, it's there (and I'll include myself in this bucket most of the time).