skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda feel like if we were really going through a second Industrial Revolution, GDP and productivity growth rates would be a lot higher. Maybe we'll manage to unleash an Industrial Revolution if we break up monopolies, fund public infrastructure properly, and do other things to create space for really new enterprises.
Looking at their raw data, it looks like there was a total of 718 respondents (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Km9bsx0SWPDiOPMYvrem...).

Large enough sample to be ultra conclusive? Not really, but I think it gives you a taste for the data and it's unlikely that tech interns /do/ make more than most, but it's not really surprising.
I wonder if this has anything to do with kids learning how to work around their own parents' parenting style. They'll have had years to learn how to disobey their own parents by the time this woman comes into the picture. If her style is different enough, the kids won't know how not to behave.

Then when she has a kid, her kid learns exactly the mental tricks needed to be able to disobey her, by virtue of spending 24×7 with her.

Nature equips kids with instincts, one of which is to be selfish, the others of which can be exploited by parents to override that instinct. But nature also equips kids with a brain, and it is only natural that selfishness uses the brain to learn how not to be manipulated by those other instincts. But that takes time; hence the above results.
A former employer tested out a number of residential Ethernet over power devices.

The results were mixed - they either work really well, or really badly. It seems that the home's wiring and appliances have an overwhelming effect on their efficacy. So, the recommendation is try before you buy if at all possible.
I think these shader efforts are totally worthwhile. You said it yourself - a hundred or more TV technologies. And all those CRTs are leaving us for the landfills. Why not preserve as many of them as possible in a simulated form so that people can continue to experience them?
This article is about in-home mesh Wi-Fi, not long-range outdoor meshes.
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>Although I agree with a lot of their concrete policy proposals, I don't think that those policies would do anything to geographically decentralize economic activity.

There's a difference between urban and megalopolis urban. Lots of jobs used to be in smaller, regional cities that had several employers available.
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It's pretty well known that top tech companies pay more than top banks. SWE interns at top tech companies will make more than trading interns at top banks and entry-level SWEs at top tech companies will make more than entry-level traders at top banks.
Attributing words to someone is something one should be cautious about, regardless of the context. It isn't a peculiarity of journalism.

I was responding to the idea that such a convention about quotation marks doesn't exist. It absolutely does. Journalism is the most familiar example, but academic writing, non-fiction books, and other contexts are held to the same standard.
Depends where in Canada. Many large software companies here will pay ~3k CAD per month or less.
The survey include a 50/50 mix of interns and full-time positions, so some of that data might be for FTE's.
My Mom "fined" me, taking away or reducing my allowance.

If all the punishments I could have endured, this really worked.
What do people do these days for easily handling contact forms with a shared host? They come from my server name which then I change, so sometimes could be marked as spam. Simple php post. To/From
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That's a limited definition of MITM. That would be an active attack, and yes, this does nothing for that for the web app--the native apps are a different story. However, there are plenty of corporate PCs and other machines with root certs installed in a way that a third party could, and often does, passively record traffic without modification for analysis later. SRP prevents those dumps from containing information that can be used to compromise an account.
Yeah. But I don't think your Flex 6500 tunes above 70MHz, which is where the birdies from modern computers, modems, video cards, and high-end displays are worst.

I have a RF Space NetSDR+, and it's wonderful below about 30 Mhz, but there's a horrifying racket on 6m and 2m, and the FM broadcast band is pretty much unusable for weak signal work.

I'm playing with a optical link to the top of the hill behind my place. We shall see.

I'm surprised that the computer interference issue isn't more widely discussed. I suspect that it's because newbies have no idea of how much of the junk they see on their screens doesn't actually exist. Plus living in city environments they are so swamped by RFI that they think it is normal.

Just looking at the screen on the OP's web page makes me shudder. It's a whole mess of computer interference.
Yeah, it's still a pretty high rate for a ~20-year-old, or at least that $2000 per week felt like an enormous amount. But mine was only 8 weeks.
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That was a rather entertaining article, both for the story, but also for the subtext about the dangers of SIGINT-only intelligence gathering. The NSA hoovers up everything it can get automatically, but that data is used without context. In this story, the context of being a diplomat, the context of being in Pakistan, and the context of being conversational partners with a HUMINT source.

I'm sure the NSA is (at this point) aware of this problem, and trying to make the collected data more context-aware. I wonder to what extent the content of just phone calls, texts, emails, and facebook posts can be used to learn small-group dynamics. (Like the fact that the people of E-7 in the story consider talks of a Pakistani coup to be normal idle dinner talk.)
> So why should they care for Git specifically over any other engine that provides the latter out of the box?

Is that question actually meant for me? I made no suggestion that git should be used to replace any existing software in the screenwriting profession. I merely used it as a canonical example of a software development version control system, to refute the statement that "It's not versioning like you would find in software development." There's nothing fundamentally different about the revision tracking done for screenplays than for software; git's inadequacies for the task aren't in the core functionality but in the window dressings, which most software developers also complain about.
What model number switch did you buy?
As above, I have a RF Space NetSDR+ which is connected to the computer via ethernet. So you can remote it via WiFi or any similar networking technique.
But interns do get things like free housing and free cars which full times do not.
I think you mean "espoused" not "eschewed".
I mean to choose a queue by producer, not consumer.
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Yes, salaries in SV are high. But, you can bet your ass that that sample set is made of students who for the most part come from a handful top-notch schools.
We have a multi-story townhome and tried powerline. When it worked it was very good; "when", unfortunately, was not nearly as often as we needed it to be.

We recently just got a Netgear Orbi and are pretty well satisfied. Turns out the base router/AP is better overall than the other single unit devices we've been using until now and the satellite does seem to make a significant difference in the far top floor room which had problems with both WiFi & Powerline. Lucky for that, too.... our next step was to run cable in the walls.
I'm a big fan of https://www.imgix.com which has been around for some time now.
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Oooh. Very good point.
> harmful or irrelevant

Or politically inconvenient?

If you want to say that the research is no good, that it misrepresents the facts, or that journalists handled the material fairly, that would be material.

However, if you say that we should dismiss it because it is being used by people we don't like in ways we don't like, you may as well admit the denialists are right, there is a conspiracy to suppress (oh sorry, just exclude, dismiss, and ignore!) any science that doesn't fit the narrative, and that you don't trust the public to evaluate anything for themselves.

This is the attitude and the behavior that makes people distrust climate science.

If you put a veneer of falsehood and spin on a mountain of truth, don't be surprised when people assume the falsehood goes all the way through.
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Always send those mails from a specifically configured real email address at your application's domain, not involving the name of your server. For instance, send the mail "From: contact-form@example.com", and "To: wherever-that-mail-goes@example.com". And send the mail using the actual mail server that handles @example.com mail (ideally not one you administrate). Don't include any user-supplied email address in either From or To; that'll get your mails either marked as spam or used as a vehicle for actual spam.
Seen by whom? I see it as a beautiful check and balance.
I'm sorry, but here's a case for how a good life != happy life:

Consider a millionaire. He has all the luxuries and material comforts at his disposal. I'd say it's a pretty good life. But he's stressed out by constant work and the burnout thereof, that he doesn't get to enjoy the goodness of his life. He's not happy.

From outside we all may see it as having the good life - great house, cars, villas, all the money to go anywhere in the world, eat expensive food, etc, but not being able to enjoy it - no happiness in it.
Never heard of free cars - who does that?
Oh jeez, Facebook?
Wait, really? I've never heard of Canadians from UW making $8K like they do in SV/SEA/NYC
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The Apple Store (as in, the actual brick and mortar establishment) started using the 3-digit code on the back of my American Express card at some point instead of the 4-digit one at the front (but they are so far the only company I have personally run into which does that).
By 'make' I'd like to point out that on average, workers in tech literally 'make more' (i.e produce more) value for their employers. Which is precisely why compensation is better.
Great writeup. I interned for Medtronic and got to work on a web interface for the clinician side of a CareLink like project. It's encouraging that some energy was put into securing the monitor. Medical device companies get a bad rap when it comes to security.
Productivity is up, massively, for those who are able to participate in the "new" economy. You can reach millions of users several magnitudes cheaper than ever before. Even small companies owned and operated by a single person can have customers spread over the entire world.

Needless to say, most people are not able to participate.
IDA has a free version:

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...
Offers are pretty standard at companies, they're only differentiated by year (if that). Two of the companies I got offers from are on there and they are accurate outside of housing for one.
I firmly believe in nuture over nature, but...

Some kids have physical issues like bags of energy or stomach/sleep issues and some parents equally have physical or mental problems dealing with that. And everything goes out the window when you've had a month or four with no sleep. I think a lot of people discount that side of things - it's like in the fight world: everyone has a game plan until they get punched in the face.
I mean free car rental. I got one at Oracle. I presume it's common as it's very hard to get around in the US without a car - often not much public transport.
I got a free rental car from Amazon in summer 2013. I don't think they do that anymore tho.
I just started working on a project where I have to take scanned images, auto crop to remove the scanner grey area, polish and resize, then upload to web.

This service would be ideal if it had auto crop feature. Hopefully soon :)

In the meantime I have to find a solution. Any advice on libraries to look at?
They're skewed by the fact that the top companies are in higher CoL areas. Then again there are lower paying companies in these locations too.
The other side of this coin is the reason that high-end Receivers don't use SDR techniques in their front end is because the intermodulation characteristics of current A/D converters fall a long way short of conventional Superhet technology.

It will be a long time before an A/D converter chip can equal the performance of a high-level mixer. In fact it will probably never happen, as any advances will apply equally to both technologies.

But yes, I agree with you that few hams are building SDRs. This was my biggest disappointment with SDR. Five years ago I thought that SDRs would usher in a new area of home-brew, but it's evolved into yet another bunch of appliance operators who have little interest in writing the software. So sad, because it's such a fascinating field..
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I wouldn't call it automation, but program extraction. You are absolutely correct about program extraction, but those benefits are currently theoretical, yet they come at a very real, very high cost. Lamport says that if those approaches would one day be affordable -- use them, by all means -- but that day is far in the future. It is not 100% related to dependent types (I think), as tools like Isabelle also support program extraction, but they don't have dependent types (instead, they express properties directly in logic).

> In other words, the "hard stuff" is typically exogenous to the specification system/language.

1. I don't think that's the hard stuff. It's some other hard stuff.

2. Even in the PL approach, that hard stuff is mostly theoretical today.

> the Milner tradition has produced a lot of insights that are often baked into model checkers and invariant generators

I don't know about that. You may be right, but I don't think that's the case. AFAIK, most of that work -- and its inspiration -- is done by people who work with programs and logic, and not PLT.

> But also because this approach has fundamental scaling issues and designing around those constraints requires much more skill than advertised.

That's true, but the deductive approaches currently suffer from much greater scaling issues. Even Xavier Leroy, who, AFAIK, is the only person who ever managed to do an end-to-end verification of a non-trivial real-world program in Coq, says that model checkers work on larger problems than manual deduction (not that it matters; both model checking and manual deduction can be done in either approach, using very similar algorithms).

> if you get something "right" in that tradition, it's far more powerful than getting something "right" in the TLA+ tradition.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Proving correctness is the same in both approaches. It's all just logic. The benefit of program extraction is currently theoretical. The benefit of end-to-end verification is real, but end-to-end verification is so costly, and can work on such small programs, that it's a very specialized activity, and one that is explicitly outside the scope of TLA+ (although end-to-end has been done in TLA+, too).

I don't think that anyone would disagree that if one day a programming language that can both be used to affordably reason about programs -- as affordably as TLA+ -- and could at the same time be compiled to efficient machine code, and perhaps also significantly assist with the programming process itself, that would be a great thing. But there's no such language on the horizon.

Don't get me wrong: the work done in PLT is ambitious and extremely important. But TLA+ is an affordable way to "just" reason about programs today. It works because it's undertaken a far simpler task. But a simple, useful solution to a hard problem that works is more important for practitioners, today, than a much bigger problem, with an unclear solution, that may work one day in the far future.
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Which one was that? IIRC Goldman pays the same or more for Tech than for others, but I'm not sure.
This sounds better than OSX text-to-speech for audiobook purposes, but the 1500 character limit per API call is annoying. Instead of sending the ebook text in full, I have to split by paragraph and (occasionally) sentence and then stitch everything back together with manually inserted pauses, making the audio a bit uneven.
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Funny anecdote is that when I used to be intern from Poland on J1 (~5500 USD per month), savings from 3 months of internship in USA divided by 9 months were higher than average salary in Poland. We got most of taxes back. We also had free tuition and great scholarships from EU.

It was quite easy to get the internship. Back in my time, ~2011, ~1/3 of students from my alma mater, Warsaw University, did J1 internship in USA.
From the article, 50% of homes sold in Seattle and its suburbs are foreign investments. That's absolutely insane - totally disincentivising people from actually living there from trying to buy a home. Guess it's time to find another city.
Well done, Vancouver city council! The housing market in Vancouver is totally bananas
The attitude of the FBI towards diplomacy portrayed in the story is pretty alarming. I generally have a positive view on the Obama administration, but their pursuit of "leaks" post Wikileaks & Snowden is deeply upsetting to me.
Edit: Apparently I'm wrong, and the DVB-T decoding is actually done in hardware.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/368s1n/how_does_a_d...?

Nonetheless, you can receive TV with a higher-end SDR, ala https://medium.com/@rxseger/receiving-atsc-digital-televisio...
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Do most students from your university stay in Poland, or do they move elsewhere after graduating?
> "No I don't want to make more money"

This is one of the "tips" that is usually in "increase conversion rate" lists. Are you sure it is not actually worth writing it like that? Just because you can see through it doesn't mean the general public will.

Just take the top post as an example, me personally a popup is an instant close - but obviously it isn't looking at his chart.
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>"descendants of immigrants have momentum, and when they found their startups at home it doesn't mean much beyond there not being some horribly compelling reason to leave."

Can you elaborate?

Because that sentence kind of reads like you are saying that entrepreneurship and all of the crazy risk taking involved in it are less meaningful if those entrepreneurs didn't fly across an ocean in order to get to Northern California.
Supply/demand is why compensation is better. Value created has very low correlation. The only rule for value is workers will always be paid less than the value they bring in.
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Sounds like Seattle (and many other cities) should consider doing the same thing that Vancouver did since it appeared to be effective.
I can't speak for llimllib, but I didn't read their comment as being a reward for having a bath. The key bit of the suggestion is that having a bath is implicit in the whole situation.

Similarly, me (+spouse) have never offered any reward for completing any task - and see many other parents having to enter into a what-if kind of negotiation. I like your Mercury example, but would consider taking it further: "I can't tell you about Mercury until you're dressed". It sounds logical enough to a 5-6 year old (even though these things are not logically connected).

I guessing these tactics will have to change at some point - but we've successfully navigated around most of the tantrum stage so far.
> giving their location to Uber all the time

I thought I read in a previous discussion that it was in the 5 minutes after being dropped off, not "all the time." which is incorrect?
The original article headline was "Armed man arrested after travelling to D.C. pizzeria cited in fake news story", but I found this both lengthy and grammatically confusing (an armed man was cited in a fake news story?) so I rewrote it; mods, please feel free to change it back if you prefer the original.
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We were just pointing out that changing "startGAP" to "GAPstart" is doing extra work; it's just as good to end up with "stastart"; we don't care what's in the bytes that you're writing as "GAP". The location of the gap is typically represented with a couple of pointers or ints.
Bay Area is definitely the most popular destination. Then Zurich (Big Google office), London and finally staying in Warsaw.
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Any idea how these applications are built and trained?

My assumptions are that the process is scraping social networks for tagged pictures; identifying and standardizing faces and then training a CNN network to identify individuals.

The trouble is wrapping my head around how to do that at the scale needed to uniquely identify 20M+ individuals. Do they train the CNNs in smaller batches and run the models in parallel? How do they normalize the results? How do the add incremental data?
> You can, if you have "fuck you money", which Musk has 10000 times over.

You can have "fuck you money", but you can't have "fuck you time". Sure, the capitalist HN crowd will argue that money can buy you time (e.g. by having people do your chores for you, etc) but ultimately there is a finite amount of bedtime moments, meals, Sunday mornings, etc in your kid's lives. Try as you might, fuck you money won't change that.
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> I wonder how many machete wielding 8 year olds grow up to be competitive in university.

I'm guessing more than you would think, because this isn't that dissimilar to rural kids in the US.
Plausibly. An aged Dell Latitude or Thinkpad today still works great, and has as much power as the sort of cheap hardware they bought.
The tax in question was enacted by the government of British Columbia. You may be confusing this with the "vacant homes tax" which the City of Vancouver enacted recently?
1:
replicates from mydb1 into the pouchdb object represented by 'db'

2 & 3:
I'm pretty sure chaining replications doesn't work in that way, although thats a pretty interesting thought.

If you have to chain replications and achieve the structure in 2, you'd have to define the pouch objects as:

db = new PouchDB('localDB');

mydb1 = new PouchDB('http://example.com/mydb1');

etc ..

and then do:

mydb2.replicate.to('mydb3',{live:true});

mydb2.replicate.to('mydb1',{live:true});

mydb1.replicate.to('db',{live:true});

the 'live' flag, as you'd imagine, makes the replication live/continuous, as opposed to one-time.