skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under Ballmer, you never had a Microsoft press release or any other statement without the word "innovation" sprayed all over it.

It seems that the new Microsoft are now using the word "experience" for the same effect.
That trick doesn't seem to work for me anymore.
...or may contain human inputs :)
Great way to not answer his question.
These are local governments we're talking about. To them, the money supply might as well be fixed. Everyone could be using gold and it wouldn't change the problem of building a street without budgeting for upkeep.

They treat money as limitless because they get tax income every year and they are thinking short-term. Not because of anything the federal government does. Not because of debt.
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There is implicit collusion that is taught in management schools and generally accepted as a norm to value labor against living cost, rather than the value that labor generates in the market. Therefore companies are not willing to pay much more than living cost for workers, other than some superstar sociopath who has been able to get the company by the throat and justify say 1/2 million for his position because he's irreplaceable.
Uhm... what??? The professor had to evaluate somebody's work. He did exactly that, the guy didn't do the work => grade F. THE END.

What fantasies of your own do you bring into this? Get off those drugs!

PS: Each time you downvote - and I know it's you, nobody reads this old thread any more and definitely not to react within minutes - I see that you actually read my reply. Do you use http://www.hnreplies.com/ to get notified about replies? Nice to know I can still reach you.
lets hope he uses stronger passwords than "dadada" by the time he runs for prez

[0]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/06/mark-zucker...
In other news, "half of children are achieving below average at school". Unacceptable.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check-with-poll...

https://leftfootforward.org/2013/10/michael-gove-doesnt-unde...
A nice comment which adds nothing.

On a side note, you always could.
I hope Amazon picks up on this. Alexa and Sci-Fi Games are a match made in heaven!

Great hacking OP! well done!
Some do, some rely on DNS spoofing.
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Do 1/3 of engineers produce more value for their company than than their pay?

That seems high from the minority of engineers that produce the majority of the value at large companies. I'd argue a small minority is vastly underpaid, and most engineers are overpaid.
I wouldn't bother with building one myself, either; it's a huge time investment, not to mention the art of thermal paste application, cuts from sharp motherboard edges, and losing my BIOS settings to static electricity (although I totally appreciated the end-result of being able to upgrade my CPU and Windows accepting the hardware upgrade, bless Microsoft).

My assertion was more about the huge number of other people that seem enthused about it.
This reads like an advertisement for Paysa. They compare resumes and find that 1/3 of tech workers are underpaid. This assumes that:

- All information about an employee is in a resume

- There is no difference between employers besides salary

- Working for less than maximum achievable salary means one is "underpaid"

edit: Big surprise, I went to the Paysa website and their main sales messaging is Get Paid What You Deserve - Paysa market data shows that 36% of professionals are underpaid relative to market. So this article is basically "Paysa publishes report saying that you should use their service to get more money." Flagged for spam.
All you need to pay is the lowest salary that one person currently in the labor market will accept. This is closely related to living expenses for obvious reasons. No collusion required.
> He doesn't have that clout.

Theoretically, couldn't he just have his engineers tweak the Facebook algorithm to make him President? Figure out how many swing state voters you need, set their Facebook feeds to deliver positive news about Zuckerberg and negative news about rivals.

I doubt it would even be ruled illegal in the current landscape. I'm sure the media would raise a stink, but the voters you care about would never see those scathing op-eds.
A fun minimal music toy! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the links, just a minor nitpick:

From the article (first link), he said "condemned the fact that one in five pupils are leaving primary school without reaching the "national average" in English".

You made that into "half", possibly confusing median and average, something that that person did not do, judging by the quote.
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At this point I'm almost certain this is a fake report, which will only strengthen Trumps position.

What is that line from Batman? Some men just want to watch the world burn?

This must all be very amusing to the person sat somewhere on his laptop pulling the media's strings.
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Yeah, I am comparing to the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5X would also be an option. Interesting. I would have assumed maybe the CPU is the main reason to buy a more expensive phone. I never had a problem with built quality. I think I am very careful with phones.
Is it just me, or does the price seem a bit low?
The site itself is an abomination on a low end pc.
That thing lags, drop frames, etc.

And it pretends to have a better score than a static html page without any ressources.
That probably applies to anyone working in Spain.
Do you sit close to Ezekiel as well?

Though having someone sit near me not knowing what I am/we are working on would surprise me. But it does happen especially if there are hotdesks nearby for people from other offices to work on temporarily. I do swear loudly often so probably not a good choice to have those too near me...
Moreover I can just go on YouTube and listen to meditation for free. How to compete with that?
Yes that's how a market starts but if it continue that's no longer true, and also the cost of living goes up by how much money people are paid via the housing banking mechanism in which the banks capture that extra value that the companies pay out. The board is set up put money in the pockets of those who already have it. Not to make anyone wealthy. The real estate banking system is one such money sink, probably the greatest one.
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Universities are required to abide by title IX only if they accept federal funds, fwiw.
>More generally, philosophers rarely phrase their logic in a formal language (although they do on occasion), while mathematics has been done only in a formal logic since the advent of proper axiomatic foundations in the early 20th century.

I don't see any distinction between the two disciplines here. Philosophers make use of formal logic when it makes sense to do so (lots of discussion of the ontological argument makes uses of formal logic, for example [1]). Mathematicians follow exactly the same strategy. It's quite false to say that mathematics is now done only in a formal logic. The vast majority of mathematical proofs are presented informally (even in textbooks on logic!)

>How so? Even early results like Godel's incompleteness theorems look strikingly like other mathematical proofs.

I guess the best example is Frege, whose work was ignored by mathematicians and logicians alike because it looked completely alien. But I was thinking more of, say, proofs of completeness for systems of propositional logic, which are highly notation-dependent and consist in running through a bunch of cases in a boring mechanical way. Peirce and Gauss seem worlds apart.

> Frege (as well as the others you listed) at the very least thought the right way to study logic was through mathematics.

I'd say he thought that the right way to study mathematics was through logic. In other words, he was trying to put mathematics on proper logical foundations. (This is the project that Russell tried, and essentially failed, to complete.)

>how many are exploring something new? I don't mean "something new" as in standing completely alone and without any references to past works (I've yet to see such a paper in math or science), but simply drawing conclusions that are something other than a response to an age old argument. And as I said before, how many use formal logic as opposed to informal logic?

Most conclusions in philosophy are responses to age old arguments for the very simple and obvious reason that people have been thinking about philosophical problems for a long time. Occasionally people do come up with new problems, of course. The philosophy of language would be one example where lots of genuinely new questions have arisen and been given interesting answers (partly as a result of developments in mathematical logic).

It's quite common for philosophy papers to use formal logic, but only when it is helpful. In exactly the same way, mathematical proofs are presented formally on occasion, when it is helpful, but not as a matter of course.

[1] https://philpapers.org/archive/OPPOTL.pdf
While I agree with your sentiments, something is a bit off here with the reality of the specifics you're stating.

> There is implicit collusion that is taught in management schools and generally accepted as a norm to value labor against living cost, rather than the value that labor generates in the market.

This isn't implicit collusion of a business education. This is a result of the brand of capitalism, and inefficient markets, we have allowing for the manipulation of labor prices.

> Therefore companies are not willing to pay much more than living cost for workers, other than some superstar sociopath who has been able to get the company by the throat and justify say 1/2 million for his position because he's irreplaceable.

They are in fact taught that EVERYONE is replaceable even them.
I use VSCode Dart plugin, although you can also install the Dart plugin for IntelliJ community edition.
You need to think in terms of marginal rather than average effects. Diamonds are more expensive than water because the latter is so abundant (at least for now) that it can profitably be provided for low value use like watering golf courses. It doesn't matter that the first units each household purchases are completely indespensible.

There is no neccisary exploitation story with good being sold/labour being provided at a price below the average value to the purchaser. However, it could be that buyers collude to pay less than their marginal value for the procuct.
This seems to be an advertisement [0] for Paysa. Too bad that it's paywalled.

> More than one-third of tech professionals are earning at least 10% less than they could command if they looked for a new job today

I agree that many technology workers (myself included) are underpaid, but this does not seem to be evidence of that. I think most people could make 11% more money if they went on the job market. That's what the new company has to pay you to overcome inertia.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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That's good, but

>Because of the gag order, I had to sit in silence, implicitly confirming the point in the mind of the staffer.

Please. He could have easily let her know about it without explicitly stating it.
Did you try it in incognito mode?
Edit: actually nevermind, doesn't work for me their either...
Cloudflare redacted the name of the Agent, but left their signature. That's a very literal (and maybe risky?) reading of their obligations.
I'm involved with Bath Hacked (UK) a community interest company set up in partnership with the local council which actively hunts out council data sets that can be published in the data store.

The site:
https://www.bathhacked.org/
The data store:
https://data.bathhacked.org/

We run hackathons and also reach out to various organisations for data sets that although we may not be able to publish in the datastore, can result in very interesting tools.

The most recent data we got our hands on was the bike share hire programme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AfocuESnSg
Yeah, I can second that recommendation on reading the paper [0]. It's one of the nicest I've read. There is also a Rust crate for it[1] - though it's not as... 'pretty'... as the Haskell EDSL, obviously.

[0]: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettie...

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/pretty
Sure, original quotes:

> one in five children in primary schools at the age of 11 are leaving primary school without the national average

> "good" requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and all schools must be good

I'm sure there was a certain minister who stood up in parliament declaring it to be an outrage that 50% of our children scored below average but I'm struggling to find a reference, partly because politicians keep making this same gaffe.

My point with the original "quote" ('"quote"' is not a quote either) was to illustrate the absurdity of these types of headlines. They're made all the time and they're always ridiculous.
Not in my experience. The disk drive power connectors have changed, the fan connections multiply, and the mobo/graphics cards sprout extra needed connections.
so 1 in 3 is overpaid, 1 in 3 paid adequately, and the last one overpaid, logic 101
Diamonds are extremely abundant. So I don't think your example is good, there is collusion to keep their prices sky high. There is artificial control on the quantity of diamonds to create scarcity to drive up costs.
To take an example that's already happened...

How? By being the user's ISP.

Why? To inject adverts.

What are the chances it affected nytimes.com? Almost certain.

Behold: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-java... - and that's not the only case of it.
Is this something you need a source for?

People have been "producing" music using computer assited software for decades. I know people who have produced whole albums without ever touching an instrument and who know nothing about musical theory, the product? Pretty good.

Music production software can correct melodies, autotune voices,setup chord progressions, lay down rhythms etc. You could probably argue that knowing advanced musical theory hasn't really been important for a long time because so many people love "simple" music. Pop, dance etc.

This combined with the already practically endless amount of good already available practically makes the need for machine generated music redundant, the automation of musicians, photographers and painters happened a long time ago.

I think music is largely about "discovery" now, there is just such an abundance of great stuff already available, you could never hear it all in a lifetime.

But hey, people still manage to make great stuff and live music is still the life blood of it all ;)
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Why would you post or upvote an article behind a paywall?
Add Instagram-style fancy audio filters and it might take off. But beware, the new ICQ is already doing this and much more.
Is someone working on getting .bit officially recognized by the IETF?
Argh who's in charge of Xcode and Swift at Apple now????
In case anyone is interested in the fine talk mentioned, there's video version on this link:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/198377/Video_Valves_syste...
Ask HN: How often is hardware at the big tech companies refreshed?
Does anyone have data that would suggest how long it takes an org at the scale of an Amazon, Google, or Facebook to entirely replace their HW?

I know that current practice at that scale is to not replace an individual chassis, only whole racks when a certain % of servers have failed, but that can't be the whole story, since presumably servers/racks are replaced if they are old enough even if they happen to still be running OK.

Google for example almost certainly has no servers (or switches, etc.) running that date back to Y2k even though statistically, some 16-year-old HW would still be working if it hadn't been yanked.

So, assuming the HW hasn't actually failed, how old is too old for a "web-scale" company to keep around? And is the answer different for these companies' own services vs. externally facing IaaS/PaaS?
Explicit/implicit doesn't matter, the gag order is still in force and is not affected by how you pass on information that should be gagged according to the order.
That seems to be this bug

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/6586
I have seen that quote attributed to Bush, but it sounds like it could've been a made-up anecdote to make him look bad.
There are some JS to Lua transpilers around, but I'm not sure how robust they are. I want to try some of them later to try to convert some handy JS libraries and feed them into LuaRocks.
That one actually crashes in my atom installation. I get a warning that it cannot show me where the multiple empty lines are.
I think mentioning "half" here was just an exaggeration to make a point.

On a related note, I think it is perfectly possible that 70 % of all drivers are "better than average". It's a mathematical tautology that only 50 % are better than median, but the distribution of driver skill does not need to be a symmetric distribution, so median and average can be significantly different.

With things like IQ, the distribution is symmetrical by definition.
Risky or not, I make a very "in-your-face" reading of Cloudflare's attitude. This little detail speaks loudest in the whole story, I think.
lol you think pages in the 90s loaded instantly? No, poor design doesn't have to do with loading time. CSS load time is minimal.
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It is no longer in the french store either, it seems that it has been discontinued.
Another problem might be that you can't use this at work without disturbing coworkers, or wearing a headphone.
In a democracy, a stupid self-interested politician is often a better choice than an intelligent ideologue. To the extent that I've been able to discern any personality at all from Zuckerberg, his positions appear to be negative verging on malevolent (e.g. privacy).
This is how mad cow disease spreads.
If you share profits, be ready to share risks. Buy a share, who forbids?
I feel underpaid too.
This is not how average works, sorry :/
I was taught at school that "mean", "median" & "mode" were different averages.

Oh how we all love ambiguity in language!
Yes, this is a huge issue. I'm from India, specifically from one of the places ranked top in 'Cities with least cost of living'. Some of my friends with two year experience are paid less than 200$. Yes, the cost of living is low, but still the amount they receive is peanuts. And they work usually 12 hrs a day. It's really bad!!!
This is exactly how average works.
The letter states explicitly that it is requested, but not required, that they redact the name and phone number of the agent.
That's a reasonable tradeoff for Python, but it's worth noting that there is a way to deal with this.

Quoting from http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/IntegerAndNum...

Bitwise operations are used in various combinatorial
algorithms. They are also commonly used in manipulating
bitfields in low‐level computer languages. In such
languages, however, integers normally have a limited
number of digits, typically a multiple of 8. Bitwise
operations in the Wolfram Language in effect allow
integers to have an unlimited number of digits. When an
integer is negative, it is taken to be represented in
two's complement form, with an infinite sequence of ones
on the left. This allows BitNot[n] to be equivalent
simply to (-1 - n).
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Interesting fact: every integer can be written with three 2's.
That can be said of a lot of things. Convenience of aggregation? Lots of podcast material is on YouTube or can be downloaded from a website, and people still buy podcast apps. Execution? I personally don't care for YouTube's interface on either the web or their iOS apps. People have shown time and again they're willing to pay for convenience and execution even when free or cheaper alternatives are available.
For data that's mostly to do with the the API provided by the particular mongodb driver, than mongodb itself. Mongo stores and transmits BSON, not JSON. Most mongo drivers expose an API that serialises your data to BSON for writes and wraps the BSON data with a JSON-like interface for reads.
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> We'll see in 10 years after Musk is fired from Tesla by John Sculley.

I know you are being facetious, but similar to Jobs, Musk got ousted as CEO from his first and second companies: Zip2 [1] and PayPal [2].

[1] Vance, Ashley (2015). Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, p72.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal
The salary seems to be the most important thing for many people, i.e. this post got upvoted to place number one within minutes.

I think the salary is just one tiny part of the entire equation. As long as you can pay your rent, eat and save a bit you are fine.

Much more important than money is how you will increase your personal market value in the current job as fast as possible. That's the most important part. Then, stuff like your coworkers' smartness and likeliness, your boss (is he a psycho?), location and the actual industry and business model your company is in matters much more than money.

An extreme and unrealistic example, just to illustrate the point: Imagine you make $250K/yr working as a <to not offend anybody, put here some easy job profession which doesn't require too many skills> . You can surf the entire day, be on HN and Reddit. But after three years you are degenerated, you have no story to tell. No achievements at all. Your market value went to zero. And imagine the company is in a small village, there aren't any people who might push your limits and make you smarter. The company's industry is declining. I know, as said, this example is extreme but everyone who is making tons of money now faces some drawbacks, so stop thinking you are underpaid.

A job is a package, the salary is just one part of this package. It's in balance with the other parts and a high salary might compensate for a general weaker package.
The scenario is: You want to connect to a public wifi hotspot and use their internet connection. In order to do so you need to trigger the login page in your browser after you connect to the hotspot.

However if you open common urls like google.com or facebook.com you'll automatically get redirected to secure connections (https) and they can't intercept this to present the login page. This is because TLS (the protocol behind HTTPS connections) uses end-to-end encryption.

Thus the author proposes to open this simple unprotected website. However most hotspots manage to automatically trigger the vendor specific mechanism as soon as you connect to their Wifi.

Don't use public wifi unless you really need to!