skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd rather say that the main discomfort coming from salary discussions is not caused by money, but about having some people acknowledge that they're not as "good" or valuable (in that setting) as they'd like to think.

So true. I actually had to have a very candid conversation with my business partner and explain to him that my time is more valuable than his based on how and where I contribute and market value, I can't put in time in direct proportion to the time he puts in.

It was a tough thing to discuss but he understood and it was a very good conversation to have so we could move forward with a better understanding. This wasn't a salary conversation but a value conversation which forced him to really think of both of us and the company.

There are also intangibles that people overlook. If someone is more pleasant to collaborate with and adds more value culturally, that could be why they are paid more. Most companies aren't running an assembly line where doing the same job may be more likely.

When salary "discrepancies" are found out, employees won't learn a lesson and take ownership for their situation. They'll spend time investing in their skill-set but they won't spend a little time here and there to do market research or go interview a few times each year or every other year. There's also specialists who can tell you what market rate is for your position if you need help. If you don't accept this as part of the workforce, be prepared to be earn less. That's on you.
This letter is designed to kill a company operating with complete disregard for proper operations in a regulated industry.

We are in entire agreement, but people cannot believe in the superposition of this and "Oh that's just some simple questions from the regulator."

Edit to add: Quoted bit appears to have changed after my quote. I think the old version remains accurate.
Without getting into the weeds of OSX license compliance, if you absolutely must have macOS but want to use something else as hardware, you can try Hackintoshing it [1].

You can also consider running an OSX VM, but the same licensing issues apply, plus consider the fact that OSX guests on VMWare don't support graphics acceleration. You also have to patch VMWare to support a non OSX host.

[1] Hardware compatibility list: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Well, sure, but isn't it rather obvious that using resources to engage in distracting non-work activities is detrimental to work efficiency?

I've got 6880x1440 worth of curved display on my desk, and obviously, watching Netflix, browsing Facebook, or otherwise distracting myself with one of them would be a net productivity loss.
I went with the P50, as connectivity options were more important to me than weight or thickness.

Agreed that the Snow Leopard era was a high point.
She hasn't been convicted of a crime. There is nothing to pardon.
>they are on sale on most electronic stores and big supermarkets in Germany.

Yeah and they also sell cassette-to-3.5mm adapters. It doesn't mean they're exactly culturally relevant.
This seems to always happen when people try to make programming "more human". Programming languages succeed by walling off ambiguity. The better and faster they do it, the stronger the language, even if the syntax looks ugly.

Even your example shows it instantly. We know how to read 3x+49 but would have to ask of "thrice the value of x plus 49", "did you mean 3 times what you get from adding 49 and x or 49 more than 3 x's?".

Projects to humanize programming always seem to suffer from "magic genie" syndrome. When you ask a genie for $1mm you don't expect him to go rob a bank or kill your dad for his life insurance to get it. Human language makes tons of implicit assumptions about the recipient. It would take a general (strong) AI to make that work with a computer.

The ultimate expression of success would have your "program" simply read "I'd like a game just like Flappy Bird but with my logo instead of the bird".
I'd note that many people in my social circle and family forget that iron is a basic nutrient. It happens. People forget that sodium is as well, especially with all of the talk about how bad salt is for you.
Kraken added Zcash support today.
This. This is me in a nutshell. In fact, I just ordered the new 13", with touch pad. I never use the F-keys and am genuinely excited by the touch pad - I think it's going to be one of those features that after the fact you just can't believe why no one did it earlier. I love touch id on my iPhone, and can't wait to use it on my Mac – it'll obsolete my Yubikey. This feature alone would be enough to get me to upgrade.

To me, the MBP I just ordered will pay for itself in no time, so it was a no brainer for me.

To me, the MBP just works, often in really subtle ways too that I just don't notice until I'm not on a Mac.

To me, my current MBP is the best laptop I could possibly have. When I bought it, I even said that I don't even know how Apple could possibly top it. It's the best computer I've ever used, my livelihood depends on it. I probably could do the same things with other hardware, and other software – but man, it just works and that's worth every premium I paid for it.

To each their own but to me, Apple just made this thing that couldn't possibly be better, better.
When you measure the safety of autonomous cars by counting the miles they travel, and not counting the miles that they intentionally avoid or defer to a human, you have succeeded in creating a metric that looks like it's useful for comparison, but is actually completely meaningless. It's like measuring typing speed while ignoring typos.

Until autonomous vehicles are subject to the full spectrum of conditions that human drivers face, incidents/mile is not a meaningful measure of comparative safety. And until then, the burden of proof should be on the creators.
I don't think the haptics are fine enough to allow for feeling the key boundaries with your fingertips.
Would be nice if she were prosecuted so that we can move on with a better candidate.
I'm certainly no expert, but part of the initial appeal of Uber to me was the price simplicity. There was no tipping, I didn't have to hand anybody any money or worry about what credit card they accepted. I just got a cab. Now that they have the thing where it tells you how much your fare WOULD be given an address, it's even better. The surge stuff makes this worse, but at least I understand the idea. Having me bid for a taxi trip ala priceline would pretty much ruin Uber for me.
I see a trend to use arxiv for FLAG publichmonde. Not sure this is another BIG thing.
Yes. There are a number of federal agencies that are a shit-show at best but I can't remember a time in my adult life when I was disappointed in NHTSA.
That isn't my argument. Plan9 is technically fascinating and a few people use it, but it is a far cry from even Linux. It feels like Zcash will be the Plan9 of currencies — at best.

Sending $10,000 to another country should not be anonymous, to combat fraud and illegal activities. Many countries have laws about that kind of thing.
Nice reply, given your username :-)
The article/list you linked was being satirical.
The flip side is that entering a strong password is tedious and incentivizes people to use shorter, easier to type passwords or disable / increase the time delay for things like their screensaver locks.

That means that the question is really whether Touch ID is more secure than the passwords which people will actually use in practice. As criddell noted, how you answer that is going to come down to threat models and resources. Biometrics really put you into some pretty different trade-offs: e.g. a camera can record you typing in your password but not your fingerprint, but someone can force you to touch the sensor or maybe pull it off of a glass, a password can be faked safely while someone watches you but that fake fingerprint is much riskier, etc.
Those million bitcoin were all fairly mined, not premined. There is a difference
Unfortunately, Soylent is a broscience experiment that got out of hand.

sigh. :-/
I saw this a while ago too: http://unisonweb.org/2015-05-07/about.html#post-start
The risk is rarely CAN it be built. I think your point is to demonstrate it SHOULD be built by following de-risk steps.

Lean, right?
Probs to github for the disclosure. And congratulations to gitlab for probably getting a nice boost in on premise support contracts:)
You left out Petraeus who did worse and still only received probation.

The reality is that most cases of mishandling classified information result in little more than a stern talking to from your manager, re-training, and a blemish in your file.
Show HN: A set of tools to distribute, collect and asses programming assignments
Reflection requires pause. It would not be the same if all those people were contemporaries of current modern scientists. In fact I have no clue how much value current scientists are adding or not adding or whether Feynman and friends would still be contributing in any way as you are assuming. The geniuses will appear after some reflection in a hundred years or so. Long after they're all gone.

I'm sorry for your eventual loss but immortality does not appeal to me the way I guess it appeals to others. Cycles in nature don't seem like a disease to me that need curing. Alleviating the pain and suffering of aging is fine and that's what these guys seem to be doing.
You can simply use BDD to keep in sync the requirements with the code.
But BDD is not just prose, it is much much more powerful and useful.
Strange feedback about the trackpad, I actually think this is the best I've ever used on a Windows laptop.

FWIW, I've read a lot about the 'coil whine' too, but neither of my XPS laptops have that problem. Not sure what to make of it.
Respectfully, this is difference between you and me. I prefer 100% reliability when I am buying something for working. I cannot accept jittery trackpoint or wireless driver problem or low battery life.

This is what makes Mac perfect laptop in comparison to what you mentioned.

I do see what you saying , but I don't agree with you.
I couldn't remember the last time a Mac trackpad had erroneously moved my mouse or clicked in response to my palm.

So I just spent a couple minutes attempting to get it to detect my palms as valid touches and couldn't get it to happen. So at least for my hands, yeah, it seems 100% perfect.
Thank you. (audiobook listener also)
Using a private email server was the norm at state department. Collin Powell used a private server and explained the benefits of it to Hillary Clinton. The only reason this bubbled up top was due to the Bengazhi situation. Otherwise, there would not even be an investigation on this.
Usually a light virtual machine and a bunch of browser tabs. Watching videos. Some coding.
Unless you swallow your food whole I imagine that your teeth might break down cell walls too.
I recently tried to switch away from my MBP. I boiled down the options to the xps 15, razer blade, and the surface book. The SB didn't have enough gpu for my needs, and the other two looked good online until I went to use them in person. It was immediately obvious that the xps 15 was the better machine. The razer blade still has two mouse buttons and you can't click on the trackpad, this is a huge deal breaker for me. I'd try to use one in person before settling on them. Also the gigantic bezel on the screen looks super dated. They look better online. I ended up using the XPS15 and it was pretty good for a windows laptop, but ultimately I returned it too. Haven't found a solid windows laptop I liked. If I didn't want to do a touch of gaming on it, I think the next-gen SB will have a ton of potential.
If by 'well-connected', you mean people who have the means and resources to properly test their products, then I agree.
If we let people get away with illegal activity because it is politically convenient we will not have rule of law anymore.
Great post. I think part of de-risking is that sometimes you find out your assumptions don't hold. E.g. you thought there was a $5b opportunity, but after launching you can quickly see that you were wrong. In that respect, it's much better to fundraise before you launch because you wouldn't be able to raise post-launch, but then you still have to figure out what to do after you have money but find out your idea isn't great.
If China's transportation regulations are anything like their import/export regulations..."lax" isn't the right way to describe them, more aptly described as "influenced in your favor by money paid to the right people".

Disclaimer: Worked for a company exporting an "organic" product from China - which meant paying the harbor master a rather large fee per ship to have them labeled as such. When the product arrives in the US and other countries, it's treated as being whatever it is labeled as.
Tristo mietitore is part of a suite of tools I wrote (https://github.com/mapio/see-you, and https://github.com/mapio/see-you-viewer) that can be used to setup and run a programming class in which students get (almost) realtime automatic evaluations of their solutions to exercises.

Give a look at my today's lecture results https://santini.di.unimi.it/tmp/labprog/laboratorio_01/resul...

Using this software the teacher can have a valuable feedback on what exercises the students find easy, or difficult and, on the other hand, students become very competitive and get more productive than usual!

[The exercises texts, unfortunately in Italian only, are available here https://github.com/mapio/labprog-infomus]
Addendum: this isn't to say that I wouldn't welcome more diversity in many places. But it's not like people haven't tried: Microsoft still hasn't quite thrown in the towel with Windows Phone, but it sure never went far. Blackberry used to be a big thing, now it's basically dead. There were some other attempts, like FirefoxOS, Meego/Maemo, etc. which all flopped hard. The problem with a platform is that the things dependent on that platform become powerful, so people choose their platform based on what runs on it. If I want access to all the apps in the Google Play store, I need to run Android, not WinPhone, for instance. The same thing has hampered Linux-on-the-desktop adoption enormously (and not on webservers, since that's all standards-based and frequently uses additional stuff like PHP and MySQL which run great on Linux).
The scary part to me is that he spent time in prison, had to use his savings to pay for a lawyer because he couldn't work, and even though acquitted to anybody who doesn't read all the details it looks the same way as not being acquitted.

I can easily imagine that similar situations happen but for people without enough savings to keep going and even then they may not have as high a profile to have their reputation overshadow the headlines.

I feel like I am just shy of tinfoil hat territory but it's not the craziest thing I have ever though of.
So last year, Furlong, 30, enrolled in a three-month coding boot camp that uses HackerRank, a web platform that trains and grades people on writing computer code. After earning a top ranking for Java developers globally, Furlong was hired by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in December for its two-year technology training program.

So many questions here. If you're doing a bootcamp and scoring among the "top java developers globally" then you're either exceptionally talented, your bootcamp is the most amazing thing in the world, or your sample set of "top java developers" is absolutely terrible.
Unless an indictment comes down before Election Day, I think it's probably too late for this to have any material impact. Most likely Clinton voters aren't actually Clinton voters - they are anti-Trump voters. An indictment prior to the election would change things, but that will not happen. Clinton has almost no chance of losing.

Once she wins, she will then either short circuit the investigation by forcing Comey and anyone else associated with it to resign, or she will actually be indicted and then she will pardon herself. For the record I believe that both of the candidates are despicable human beings and either one will make the worst President I have ever had in my lifetime, but we are almost certainly stuck with Clinton for at least the next four years.
You also they often have very common procedures for these types of letters, right? Usually brought on by court cases, etc.
For example:

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/RegulatoryProcedu...

They also generally warn of fines ahead of time, because otherwise they get people arguing due process.

Seriously, this is not that uncommon. Note the fine warnings in all of these special orders:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1349845-n-h-t-s-a-spe...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

http://www.safercar.gov/staticfiles/safercar/recalls/Special...

http://www.autosafety.org/sites/default/files/imce_staff_upl...

etc
What's the alternative? Don't tell anyone you're digging into the emails some more and then 5 days after the election tell everyone you found something?

This letter is the FBI covering their ass.
Ha! HR Managers don't visit Hacker News. In fact, I don't think they visit any technology sites at all. They have got to be one of the most technologically inept cohort of workers out there. Just look at the tools they prefer: Taleo, Peoplesoft, etc.

Michael Scott was right; I'd shoot Toby twice, too.
Good Lord. Anybody using the word "nevermore" outside of a discussion of Poe is 99% likely to be someone I won't get along with.
They're asking for documentation that any serious vendor would already have. That we believe this would kill comma.ai is really more a testament to our priors that George doesn't keep anything resembling rigorous test documentation.
> It's pretty much a disaster simply to be impeached at all.

We've only got one recent example of a President getting impeached, and it worked out pretty well for him.
It has to be able to handle every situation safely, but doesn't need to be able to continue operating in every situation. If unexpected construction blocks the road, it needs to be able to stop and pull over, it can't go haywire and just accelerate right into a bulldozer. But it doesn't need to be able to navigate every situation. For example, a self-driving car which couldn't self-drive at night would still be hugely useful to me, I'd pay double for that feature.
Someone here (or maybe it was on Reddit) set up his internal network to be pure IPv6, he used DNS64 which translated all DNS websites that had only IPv4 addresses to IPv6 and NAT64 which translated IPv6 address to IPv4.

The thing is that there are still many websites that are only accessible from IPv4, and in order to access it either you or your ISP would have to translate IPv6 address to IPv4 (NAT64) and make connection to it. If you will be the one doing the NAT then you will need to have at least a single IPv4 address.
Agreed, I have one and I love it.

By the way, the XPS 13 has been upgraded to intel's latest (Kaby Lake?), but the XPS 15 hasn't yet. It's probably coming any day, so if you're thinking about purchasing you might want to wait a couple weeks.
A week before the election? No. Taking Clinton down, as much as she may deserve it, means the country takes a huge leap toward fascism. It's simple as that.
The comments don't define the syntax, so your example doesn't provide much oomph. I don't consider it a strawman, I consider your argument to be based on a misapprehension.
Looking Back on the Largest DDoS in History
Also, the entire deep learning academia is already extremely open and transparent with publishing.
What?! Tell me more...
Did you even compare the nutrition facts before writing this hilariously condescending post?
No, I'm definitely thinking of the several Fortune 100 companies I worked for in the past. They did indeed include TCO in their checklists. They did not actually understand or care about the daily experience of the people using the computers. The decision matrix abstraction really missed a lot! Yes, the CEO had MacBook Pro. The rank and file got a "refresh" HP or Dell once every 5 years. Niceties such color gamut, gpu performance, or keyboard travel never showed up on the feature checklist.
The NTSB also does amazing work, though it's the smallest Federal agency (~400 people), which I think probably helps greatly.
If the old users leave, then yes, there are continually new users to regrab.
I commented on that before, but should I feel bad because I don't touch type the function keys ? I just can't believe that everybody here just touch type the screen brightness increase. Especially considering that those keys don't even map to the same function keys on all MacBook or external keyboards.

Also, do people really use the regular function keys in anger ? In my java IDE the only more or less common shortcuts on the function keys are the debugger run and step over/through. Those are used in "read mode" rather than "type mode" and I would think that a proper row of debug related custom button on the keyboard would rather be an improvement compared to remembering which of F7 or F8 step into the next line. And that's it, I don't use them at all in any other application, especially not in the terminal, text editor, browser, mail applications, ...

Is the HN demographic really that much more sophisticated than me, or is it simply overblowing the issue in a similar fashion that allegedly no "real power user" would get over the loss of Blackberry physical buttons.

Ironically, a few years back, as a proper power user touch typing function keys on a mechanical keyboard (windows use and abuse function keys for about everything), my choice of mechanical keyboard included those function keys and that was seen as a weakness by the "real pro user" of the time that never left the home row and were very proud showing off their happy hacking keyboard professional.

edit: Just to avoid confusion, I touch type. Just not the function keys.
Dart team member here - Also, have you checked out http://flutter.io ? I'm personally pretty compelled (and have been for a long time) by being able to share code/tools/etc between web and native mobile. The quality of the dev experience in flutter is pretty amazing (check out Eric Seidel's video from day 2 of the Dart Dev Summit [just concluded], and the web experience with the Dart dev compiler is pretty neat, too.
I think the more likely situation is that Obama pardons her some time after election day.
The trackpad is pretty good for a windows laptop, maybe the best aside from the Surface Book, but still not as good as a MBP. It also has problems registering two finger right click. I had some driver issues on my XPS15 that led to dispay flicker, and also Windows is braindead when it comes to external display management, even though OSX isn't perfect either. I had no coil whine. It's not bad, but when you're coming from a MBP, the XPS15 still needs refinement. I will admit that I might just be used to all of OSX's little quirks and issues, and that the new ones seem more painful on the XPS15 just because they're new. But I don't know, I have Win10 on my desktop and it's fast and I love it, but on a laptop it's pretty annoying. I just feel more expressive on a OSX laptop. I can't get over switching from cmd-stuff with my thumb to ctrl-stuff with my pinky.
I assume they designed the board to accommodate 32GB but couldn't get adequate supplies at the low volumes expected. 16GB is still more than most people need (me included).

Also, adding more memory will shorten battery life.
it can sloughed off as partisan BS

Maybe.... but do the Democrats really want a President that is constantly questioned in terms of her ethics?
It will help keep your head from bobbing outside the vehicle as it rolls, preventing your death from a crushed skull.

Edited to add:

"partial ejection" are the magic google words. Here's an example:

"It was found that, in standard impact tests on high containment barriers, partial ejection of the head through the side windows occurs systematically"

from: https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=750825
What about Codility?