skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe wrt to this article, the counter offer they are talking about is a counter offer from your current employer, not a counter offer from an interview.

But from someone who has done his fair share of hiring, I'll tell you that I almost never entertain someone who asks for a lot more than I'm willing to pay. The reason is that you are very likely to be unhappy with your salary. No matter what your performance is like, you are probably going to be asking for a top up soon -- probably with extra to make up for the perceived deficiency when starting. No matter what deal we strike, this is going to be a point of contention going forward.

And while it might be uncouth to talk about it in these circles, if you are unhappy then you're going to complain to everybody around you about how little you get paid. If you are experienced and talented and worth a good salary, then you are likely already going to be paid a fair bit more than the average person on the team. So the result is that I've got an unhappy guy wandering the halls complaining about how ridiculously small his salary is, when it is already one of the highest on the team.

And then, when someone else on the team comes in and says, "alex-yo is getting X more than me and I'm way better than him/her", I have the distinctly difficult conversation where I have to tell them, "No. alex-yo gets paid a lot more than you because he/she is more experienced and has more skills than you. Let me enumerate all of the situations where alex-yo is performing better than you." And then that person, despite potentially being educated about where they can improve, is likely pissed of at me. So then they'll go to you and say, "Geeze, I'm only making Y. I should be getting paid at least as much as you." And you will be going, "....." because you know as well as I do that this person is only doing half of what you do.

At which point I have a bunch of guys pissed off at their salary, pissed off with me and pissed off with each other. Seriously, it's not worth it. So no, I'm not going counter your very high expectations with a low-ball offer. There are other candidates whose expectations are in line with mine. And even if you are worth the money, it won't be worth it for my team.

Which is not to say that we shouldn't always be showcasing top performers like alex-yo and encouraging the team to adopt similarly successful behaviours. And it's not that we should not be rewarding people who succeed in getting to the next level. But I'm not about to start hitting hornet nests with sticks for no good reason.
Advice taken.
Thanks for the straight forward feedback! appreciate it :)

The site was just a weekend experiment and is not even close to complete, so I'm at a stage where I can consider all your advice and implement whatever seems best for this project.
- Clearly nobody thinks the title is professional, so that'll be gone for good
- A lot of people said they had no idea what the site offered on the first look, so a landing page probably needs to be added
Considering Ursa Major is only visible in the North Pole AFAICT, the fact that the myth isn't present in Indonesia, Australia, and New Guinea supports the GP's hypothesis.
no sympathy then. 1. cloud fare is a crappy cdn, and 2. if you have zero caching on a cheap server you can't expect much to begin with.
Reminds me a lot of Peter Molyneux's games.
Q: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking?

A: Ask this question on HN mentioning your product!

Damn... you're good!
How do I disable scripts for just one site? I tried to use uMatrix once as it was suggested as the alternative of noscript for chrome. I just wanted to get rid of those annoying anti-adblock popups on wired.com. However every setting I tried on the drop down menu failed to block javascript, or just blocked all content on the domain wired.com. I tried going deeper into the settings but I found the user interface confusing and nothing was labelled. It's definitely not a convenient alternative for noscript/javascript blocking. Even if it may be possible to achieve that with it.
I had to change the font so I was able to read the article.
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Going back to 1996 shows Intel, IBM, Softy and G.E. among the largest firms...so hello tech, again?

Source: http://etfdb.com/history-of-the-s-and-p-500/#1996

Site appears to have market cap data back to the 1980s. Interesting shifts over the years (Philip Morris even appears "in the pack")

I realize the article might be just a WEF staffer fill piece, but it's unfortunate to see the WEF using market cap as the proxy for valuable companies here.

This might get downvoted as too pedantic: but oil and tech companies valuations use different accounting methods. Similar to stock and flow issues - they are ~incommensurable. e.g. depletion of oil reserves (regardless of measurement and spot prices) is value realization and is not an apples to apples comparison to tech companies future growth/innovation value creation assumptions.
Yes, what is 'healthy' looks different for each individual. That doesn't mean that something is found to be 'healthy' because it is 'self'.

The immune systems primary function is housekeeping: killing cells that are still completely 'self', but are old, worn down or dysfunctional in some other way. Killing 'invaders' and cancers is minor in terms of the numbers of cells destroyed.

As your transplant example shows: something foreign can be found to be entirely 'healthy' by your immune system. So self vs. foreign is too narrow.
> two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation

I'm very curious who these two billionaires are and what exactly are they planning to do regarding this likely hopeless project.
Hi, see your company also tracks SDKs. Wonder how many/which top apps use Crashlytics?
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I would say it's true if a little reductive. Democracy has to give the best outcome overall and economic growth is a major factor in that.
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What? Replacing one dictatorship with another doesn't solve any problems at all - it's literally not a fight worth supporting. How could anyone rationalise otherwise?
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Agreed. In case the OP is reading, I'm left with the feeling of having been duped into reading an advertisement where I had intended to lend a helping hand. I invite the OP to consider just how bad this is: I feel like my benevolence has been punished.

Tricking people is not a good marketing strategy. Part of the reason I visit HN is to see what others are doing. "Hey, look at this business I'm lauching" would have been an infinitely better headline.

Don't deceive. People will resent you for even the smallest, most insignificant deceit. Exhibit A: me, right now. Objectively, you haven't really hurt me, but I'm still ticked off. ;)
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> In fact, people who live together before marriage are more likely to divorce, not less.

In addition to what others have said, using divorce rate as a metric of relationship success is itself a flawed method of looking at the problem.

As an example, many folks consider divorce to be an immoral act. They would rather sit in an unhappy marriage for decades than get divorced. Thus, it could easily be that those willing to cohabit prior to marriage also tend to be those who do not think divorce is an immoral act, so that the statistical observation you're making here (assuming it's even true) is really just a reflection of the underlying beliefs of two different groups of people regarding the act of divorce.
It's the outdated notion that "the web is still a collection of hypertext documents". Yet the reality is that JS webapps have been the standard for some time now, and won't be going away any time soon.
UML is pretty straight forward, and I rarely saw it being used in companies because of many reasons (spaghetti monster being the one :D), but I mentioned it because I'd expect that one showed now how to read them, since you will find them in literature (if you read any book on design patterns they are there).
This is where using Debian Stable will bite you. The issue has been fixed 2 PulseAudio releases back.
Sure, but RAII alone doesn't make resource management safe. It's the combination of RAII and lifetime checking that achieves it.
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Benjamin Friedman

Lecture on said book
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bfriedman/files/moral_conse...

Foreign Affairs review
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bfriedman/files/the_ethical...
I agree, and it's very frustrating that most articles are unreadable unless I change their font or colour choices. I should have to have an extension installed that makes text readable. And, unless people speak up the people who create these broken designs will never know that they are choosing to say "fuck you" to a sizeable proportion of their audience.

But: it's about the least interesting thing that can be said about this article. And whoever is responsible at the New Yorker will never see these comments.

I think dang has said these kind of comments are off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236332#9238739

I personally don't think "The choices you've made exclude part of your audience, and may not be compatible with laws around accessibility" is bike-shedding, but I have stopped commenting on design choices.
In what way is this not just a giant null-op?

They're changing the law permission from read-only to read/write.
>I'd be great if you guys could point me in the right direction but within the context of this project .

To a large extent, networking involves a lot of doing. You can read all the theory (and you should!), but you can only become comfortable networking by spending a lot of time meeting people. To this effect, one of the best decisions I've ever made was to work in public spaces.

Networking is like sport. It takes practice, in the sense of practicum.
> In my experience, most people who used MySQL simply hadn't heard of PostgreSQL

That just means the next question is, "why hadn't they heard of PostgreSQL"? It's not as if MySQL AB was taking out ads in the newspaper to create mindshare.
Other than being very interesting, this article provides one of the funniest instances of the crazy humor generated by the Cloud To Butt Plus extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...):

> “The merge has begun—and a merge is our best scenario. Any version without a merge will have conflict: we enslave the A.I. or it enslaves us. The full-on-crazy version of the merge is we get our brains uploaded into my butt. I’d love that,” he said.

I had to disable the extension to verify that it was its work and not the actual quote.
I think it is your company who published good results of using compression with PostgreSQL on ZFS.
Also column stores contain not just actual column values, e.g. if you look at cassandra, each SSTable value has key, timestamp, column name, and actual cell value, or the same data layout as 4 columns in row store. Still they strongly recommend to use compression.
I have the opposite problem. I can totally switch off the part dealing with someone speaking to me, but then have to make them repeat when they do speak to me, because I didn't listen to it. (Interestingly, in many cases, my mind catches up and decodes what was said the first time before they finish saying it again)
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Dunno. I guess you could look through the project site and see if they have more details.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
Thanks! It also has some pictures, which more commenters expected to see.
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Sooo… why move away from AVX? What CPUs support AESNI, but not AVX, and actually matter?
That they do that to the home version I can understand. But they treat the pro version as a consumer version, ie with telemetry, adware & co. It has become only a "pro" version in name.

I am an individual, I don't have access to Windows Enterprise. It is very weird that Microsoft won't even take my money. If they make pro a spyware/adware filled locked down OS, at least they should make enterprise available, for a small premium, to the customers who wish to opt out.
If his success was dependent upon the goodwill of some mysterious organisation, why not give them a share of the credit too, even if just anonymously?

I think maybe the HN community is so heavily open source/software oriented that it's hard to realise that most complex, long term efforts in the world do need funding, even if they aren't full time. Even most artists need some sort of funding, hence why his photography was commercial. Passports, even quite old passports, have all sorts of anti-forging techniques that take time to overcome. I think the book mentions the invention of watermarking ... and that's really just the start. Here's an article on US Passports:

http://gizmodo.com/your-passports-complex-security-tech-expl...

Kaminsky also forged French currency, which is also rather non-trivial and has been so for a long time. This isn't open source where you can buy a thousand dollars worth of equipment and the rest is just your free time, donated to the world. Obtaining the specialised equipment, building up a network capable of securely and anonymously routing forged documents across the world, training new generations of forgers - all this takes a lot of time and effort.
> 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?

Yes, it is called 'jealousy'.
Um...Bay Area?
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I don't know.

Stories like this sound pretty close to me -

http://members.optusnet.com.au/virgothomas/space/abobeliefs2... (Two Brothers & The Pointer Stars)

All primitive societies obviously have stories of the stars being people and animals.

Men were hunters, the animals will be game.

Finding a exact narrative the fits your model from thousands of data points feels possible to me.

[edit] From the authors paper read "What about the Saharan versions of Cosmic Hunt" and tell me they are not just making stuff up
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I meant, "what are you setting out to do?" as in "I'm trying to reorder commits" not "I'm trying to `git rebase -i commit`" (the ultimate aim, rather than the path you choose). My instinct is that you can get where you want to go fairly easily with the `git rebase -i --root` I mentioned earlier.
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They already had merge veto rights.
There are some interesting patterns in there, and I think that presenting that kind of information visually can be useful in a teaching environment; there are a few subjects which seem to turn people off, but a lot of it is that it's presented in a particular way, and a visual representation of some patterns in maths can be useful in terms of understanding.

I teach Music Tech, but as part of the course I have to look at how computers store audio, which leads us to binary. Every time I present this, I'm expecting glazed expressions and people switching off, but I try to present it in an interesting way, solving the "problem" of why computers have to count in binary. And it seems to work; most years when I do that class, I get people switching "on" and saying something like "Oh, THAT's why we see those same numbers over and again" (i.e. powers of 2). I'll definitely be using the binary representation in the article when I teach it next year... (If I'd seen it this time last week, I'd have been able to use it!)
If you take the counter-offer you'll be dumped after the job is done :)
That do not seem to offer the detailed control that noscript does.
I had to teach git to 10 non-developer (for small configuration code, and configuration files) used to SVN. The stagging area wasn't really a problem to learn.

Most of the problem they had came from stashing: "I want to pull but git doesn't want to !"

Or changes following you when switching branches: "I worked in developed, now I'm back to master and I have all this files modified!"
Which could lead to a "reset --hard" for getting rid of those changes, which was generally regretted after that!

Also I had a few detached head states due to simple double-click on a commit name in the UI that resulted in a checkout, when they just wanted to see the commit log.

Finally a lot of confusion arised from using SourceTree that shows you a window with ten options every time you try to pull. (SourceTree wasn't my choice)

So I think gitless does provide an improvement by getting rid of the stash, but I don't really see the point of removing the staging area.
We impart our bias on ML algorithms by choosing what data to use to train the AI on.

The problem, I think is one of self-selection.

Consider two hypothetical social networking websites - Friendface and FaceSpace. Friendface's userbase are mostly white users, while FaceSpace catered mostly to urban, black populations. And it would make sense too - you would only join a social network if your friends are on it. If you're white, chances are the majority of your friends are also white. And vice versa.

So Friendface is a lot more active on their ML front. The problem is when Friendface releases their data - because they're more active on the ML front, and ML scientists love to not have to collect their data, what happens is more and more models are trained on the Friendface data and more and more models are being optimized based on Friendface data. Apparent "structural" racism happens. Tumblrinas all pounce on it as if it were the biggest oppressive struggles of their lives.

A very cute thing to imagine in this scenario would be to imagine FaceSpace suddenly got good at NLP, and open sources their statistical language model. Recall that FaceSpace users are more likely to use AAVE in their communication, so what do you think the statistical language model would be?

In the original article, Maciej mentions "going to the community" - using crowd wisdom to handle these sorts of thing, and preferring to use open standards as opposed to silo'd standards (like writing your blog post on facebook... why??!!). While that sounds like a good idea, like I've mentioned in my other comment, it also sounds tiring as hell.

Firms act rationally (more or less)... ML is driven by huge companies with huge datasets. Why would they need to prune external datasets when they could just do their ML research with a few SQL queries?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796557 (4 months ago, 123 comments)
Yeah we should not forget that Firefox extensions became popular because most of the UI was made out of XML and JS.
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Peter Thiel doesn't think so. See "competition is for losers" et. al. http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...
I got the same a number of years ago when I went through a difficult recruitment process to get a job, and got the offer and in the end turned it down because after extended consideration that it just wasn't the right job for me even though it was a good job with a significant pay increase. It was using technologies I didn't specially want to work on, for a company that didn't really interest me, and who hadn't persuaded me that they were doing anything I'd be interested in. Nothing wrong with the job, or the offer, it just wasn't the right place for me.

I recruiter was not happy and basically told me that I wouldn't get anything else, and if I got a reputation for turning down jobs I couldn't expect agencies to ever put me forward for anything else. They just screamed at me on the phone.

I did get another job and it was far better (for me) than the one I turned down.
If you would like to write complex, big application, or you would like to join projects, where more developer are working on the same application, than there is no better option than an opinionated framework. Faster onboarding, you can implement complex features very quickly. Ember.js is the best in this league. It is true, if your plan is not so serious, other frameworks are good options as well.
For those who listens to music from YouTube while programming, I recently made a Chrome extension to generate a track list in navigation bar using the timelinks in the video description.

It's a clickable tracklist, so you can play the track you want to listen to just clicking it, no matter if YouTube is your current tab or not.

Also, the extension shows a notification when a track starts to play.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timelink-tracker/a...
This quote from a YC Partner:

> It’s all about founders. Facebook had Mark Zuckerberg, and MySpace had a bunch of monkeys.

The kind of ubermensch/Ayn Rand rhetoric that makes me cringe.
The existing patent agreements are a contributor agreement, not part of the license. So, they restrict people from contributing, but don't actually provide any guaranteed protection for downstream users, as far as I can tell.

However, I'm not a lawyer and not involved, was just trying to summarize as well as I could, so I could be wrong.
I get the impression that while noscript operates around a default-deny/whitelist scheme, umatrix is more default-allow/blacklist.
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Nice timings :).

For a project a while back I once wrote something similar in OpenCL. Back then, I wasn't calm enough to realize there is probably research in this area I could use, so I wrote it all in isolation :(. It was much slower but had the aim of being able to reduce an arbitrary (but preferrably closed) highly detailed polygonal mesh to a limited set of convex polyhedra[1]. This would happen automatically (no user interaction or setup required) and reliably. The resulting convex polyhedra sets were being used to perform occlusion culling before rendering. Fond memories :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedron
Bay Area? San Francisco you mean? That's fine :) but a new tech corridor all the way in the north...
Karabiner (and its predecessor) is invaluable for me every day use of my macbook. In general using a touchpad feels like trying to type with only one finger, but with the "multi-touch exension" (I think it's based on touchsense), allows me to redefine my keyboard depending on what's happening on my touchpad.

So, now my left hand is always on the home keys, and if I'm touching the touchpad with one finger, the home keys are my left, right, and middle mouse buttons. If I'm touching it with two fingers, the home keys and nearby keys remap to save, refresh, find, select all, copy, paste, cut, close, and others. If three fingers are touching, then my keys remap to my windows layout and other utility programs which I often call (such as the terminal).

There are many other general remappings which have made my life at a keyboard much faster and easier to use, but the multi-touch extensions are the ones that I would struggle to live without.

As a side note, if you use the product and find it helpful, you should really consider donating to it. It will make you feel like a better human, and encourage continued support.
It's funny that you mention axes to grind (hidden motives). It's exactly what I think when I read the apologist threads/posts like yours. To look at obviously shady behavior and start giving excuses for it just reeks of misguided fanboyism. If this were a bigger entity I'd assume you were all corporate astroturfers.
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haha! no way.. The site is literally 2 hours of work and no way can be called a 'product'.
This question popped into my head while working on the prototype.. I'm sorry if you feel misled but that wasn't my intention at all