skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's something you'd expect Snidely Whiplash the Evil Capitalist to tell labor to make them feel bad about negotiating with him, but I don't think it actually works that way. Costs are costs and money is fungible; a dollar extra negotiated doesn't come out of the pockets of another employee any more than a dollar spent on SaaS comes out of the pocket of an employee. Corporations might create internal fictions like e.g. headcount budgets to make this less obvious, but a) fiction and b) Snidely Whiplash.

Here's the acid test: who gets a bonus if your company happens to hire five doormats in a row? Is it the best negotiator on the engineering team?
That's not an unfair conclusion. However, our retention rate after the first order was spectacular, and we slowly gathered a core group of users who were using our services exclusively. Unfortunately, despite providing a ubiquitous business service, we couldn't gather customers fast enough to float the boat.
Petrol+Price+hike+42+Paise+Diesel+By+Rs+1.03+A+Litre+Breaking+News+Report
To give you an idea of the difference, two 27" Dell U2715Hs[0] would take up 48.24 inches if placed side by side, while a single 34" Dell U3417W[1] would only take up 34.03 inches.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P0EQD1Q

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IOO4TIM
Microsoft Pelican: using archival hard drives for cold storage racks [pdf]
That's the basic principle of XSS. A few years ago an XSS epidemic broke out where dozens of major websites were found to be vulnerable to cookie theft. Attackers could make a single page with dozens of sneaky iframes, one per vulnerability. Usually the contents of the cookie allows you to continue a user's session, though there can be all kinds of stuff idiotically stored directly in the cookie, as can be seen in this prime example.
> Do you think journalists sit on the final results of corporate negligence investigations while giving the guilty parties time to clean up their act?

I've worked at a newspaper. Your framing of the question is deliberately silly - they'd sit on it to prevent innocents from being harmed, not to protect the guilty.

Once it's fixed (or after a reasonable amount of time not getting fixed), then they happily nail the guilty people to the wall.
A ruler works great: https://cyclingtips.com/2016/09/how-to-check-for-chain-wear-...
I think there is some tremendous gap between what a site believes it's value to be and the value to the person behind the keyboard. My opinion is the reverse of yours. Internet users aren't necessarily cheap, the sites overvalue the content they provide. Just because someone provides content doesn't mean it's good enough to make a living. If people leave site A because they charge for site B that's free but of less value, it may mean that site A doesn't provide enough value for the price they want to charge.Personally, I don't care how intrusive you think they are, I'm not going to view them. Why would you want me to, I'm not going to click anyway. I do pay for several sites via subscription (FT, WSJ, NYT, and others) and I pay for my email service(s) and I pay for Amazon and Netflix and Mubi and Hulu. Oh, I also pay for my broadband connection. If you think that anyone who puts content online should be compensated by default, that's the weirdest contention I've ever heard.
It's worth noting that I find "unconventional" control flow like this tends to only puzzle those who started programming at the "structured" level where function calls always nest neatly, and so they have never entertained the possibility of it being any different from that.

However, the machine itself doesn't have any real notion of "call" and "return", and although dedicated instructions may be provided for convenience, all a call amounts to is "remember where in the code you were, and go somewhere else" and return is "use the saved information to go back".

It then follows that, if this saved information be not precisely that of the immediately preceding call, the processor can be caused to "return" somewhere else; and that is the basis of coroutines and process switching. Call and return are simply a convenient abstraction atop the sequential instruction stream the processor executes.
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A manager-level employee.
Sounds like a northern hemisphere mentality. Likely where the team a based, but anyone not up top is doing the best to avoid work at the moment as it's mid summer and fantastic.
For 90% of the usage of SIMD instructions where people just want to parallelize iterating on lists, yes, that's reasonable enough.

Apple Accelerate isn't a SIMD API, it's a higher level API that happens to use SIMD for its utilities. Apple makes great APIs, yes, I can't deny that.

You seem to have forgotten P/Invoke where your performance critical C++ code can actually be called from C#. You get your assembly and everything whenever you want, for a low initial cost of calling your FFI. And you also get a pretty damn good UWP experience, as well as WPF, WinForms and a long list of UI toolkits.

Let's be real for a second though, the Android NDK is an absolute joke , and calling the C++ experience on Android "great" might be pushing it a bit far.
What's a practical way to learn it on a Macintosh? VM?
Dovecot: Secure Coding (2006)
As fuzzy-logic said, just don't reveal your total comp, and be willing to walk away from it for real (walking away from such juicy offers requires the most determination, so it's important you do it from a position of power, for example if you already have a good job, otherwise they have you by the balls).

The only case where it can be beneficial to disclose something about your compensation is if you have deferred compensation (e.g. stock options) that you want your potential new employer to somehow consider in the offer. In that case, sharing a copy of the grant is the easiest thing to do, and doesn't hurt much
Do Nature and Science really have these cross-pollinated articles?
CLAIM+MY+SPOT+NOW
cool, more downvotes.

so if someone at facebook said "how can we keep our servers cool?" and someone else replied "move them to the subarctic", you would shower him with proverbial downvotes too?
Don't tie bonuses to individual contributions. Individuals will work to meet their individual KPIs/metrics often to the detriment of the organisation.

If every employee gets a bonus based on the organisational performance then there is a greater incentive for team work and cooperation within the organisation.

I previously worked in a company with this policy. It meant the receptionist got the same bonus as the Principal Engineers. That policy might make some people unhappy if they think they deserve more compensation because they are more educated / smarter / experienced in a specialty. The thing is, the admin ans support staff worked hard to make the place run smoothly. The engineers were almost completely unburdened with flight, accommodation or training bookings. IT equipment was procured and commissioned in days, not weeks/months. If someone was roadblocked, the organisation worked to remove the roadblock.

It was the best company I have ever worked for. Sadly, the company was acquired and the cooperative culture died after a few years.

Other places I have worked are in contrast much more mercenary. Individual performance is measured and used to determine compensation and promotion. Individuals and internal teams actively compete with each other resulting in significant inefficiency. Internal politics dominate business making decisions.

You can still measure performance against KPIs but not tie it to individual compensation. Instead use the metrics to analyse where there might be opportunities for improving efficiency through restructuring / training.
Wasn't my job to manage ad spends, but I believe that somebody got in a great deal of trouble over the majority of that.

On the whole, IMHO, the business people weren't being entirely foolish, or foolhardy with our money - ultimately advertising costs a lot, and some adwords are expensive, and there aren't that many choices if you trying to get leads from a specific type of user.
Well, you could look at a dynamic type system as just a static type system with 1 type—a sum type of everything. Looking at it that way, a dynamic type system is much less powerful.
> - Do not compromise with others in coorporation. Ask for script for everything. If sysadmin tells you that server is low on disk you ask for proof in the form of the command you can execute. Ask for invoke-sql when using databases. If you give admin a job to create a IIS site for your web app ask for a script. If you are a project manager, do not close tickets without a script.

If you take that "do not compromise, demand a script that proves" attitude this this sysadmin, then this sysadmin will "not compromise" in return, and your code will never be deployed - clearly you're not going to be working on bugfixes, so why should it be deployed?

I'm generally very helpful and my devs generally like me. I take the time to teach when I can and try to learn and understand when I can't. But when someone demands that I write scripts to prove all bugs I find, they can fuck off. I don't have unlimited time - and my duties extend beyond babysitting code. I don't have the close knowledge of the codebase that the developer has. I'm not in the architectural meetings where decisions are made on the internals. I take the code I'm given, and make it live and breathe in the world. I work with the devs in doing this - and if a dev decides that they're too important to be bothered doing legwork in the code that they're the most familiar with, well, fuck 'em. They can sit with their ticket left open.

We're all in this shit together; don't make me do your job with less domain knowledge than you.
"There is reason companies spend ~$70 billion on Adwords annually. "

You'd be surprised how a lot of marketing budget is wasted.

Especially in brand advertising, where there is no directly measurable ROI.

Toothpaste, paper towels, cars, cereal - they spend gazillions on those brands.

But think of this: most 'ad spend' is spent on completely commoditized products - I'll guarantee you the 'no name' toothpaste is as good as 'Crest' or whatever.

Our economy is made up of huge 'soft monopolies'.

The grocery stores, pharmacy chains, 'big brands' like P&G - they are all systematically slow, barriers to entry are surprisingly high (you can make toothpaste easily, but you cannot build a brand easily). Car companies, entertainment channels. Banks.

Talk to some of the front line marketing people buying ads. They are often clueless. They have no idea often if the money is well spent or not. But the have a 'budget' and 'have to spend' it across various channels. They know they need to 'go social' so they buy ads from 'known brands' like Facebook and Google.

Now - the other source of more profitable ads are simply things where you can reasonably get conversions online. Anything for your household that you can buy at Ebay, Amazon etc., i.e. consumer goods.

And then the scammy stuff.

Some of the above complaints about the value of ads have merit - that said - they may not be making products that are amenable to online ads.
I'd say the most appropriate term here is intuition (which I'd say is definitely regular ol' learning, but that's a matter of definitions and semantics).
I'm guessing that it's more like people are getting them stolen regularly. What I don't get is why the bottom of the pyramid (cf other branch of this thread) doesn't fill up.
This sounds like a joke but when an obtrusive ad comes up I literally only see Close, X, etc now. Totally tune out the whole thing except the parts that look like they might make it go away.
> Yes! I love being able to click on links from the keyboard!

You don't need an extension to do that in Firefox. Press the <'> key and start typing, you'll get an incremental search like </> gives you, but limited to hyperlink text. Once it's highlighted any bit of the link you want, press <CR> to follow it. Works in Seamonkey, too.
The median household income for white families in the US is $60k. What parts of the article do you think describes activities not possible for the millions of families above that threshold?

The type of success that the author celebrated was things like raising healthy children, having them earn good degrees and start a good career, be financially independent, finding a spouse they deserve etc. Things which millions of parents surely feel is within reach, or even expected (but not guaranteed). It's not about raising an Olympic medalist. Trying to draw that equivalence is just an excuse to dismiss good advice/ideas.

I agree that the Olympics is an elitist sham.
First thing I thought of. The hosted pic [1] does not seem to be the original, though.

1. https://i.stack.imgur.com/IWD2X.jpg

Edit: the person asking the question rejected a request for the EXIF data in a comment. Seems to want to limit the puzzle to direct analysis of the plane.
you might be interested in https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
> Also let alone so many other problem which come under umbrella of deep learning such as recognition / detection/ Seq to Sequence prediction where there is no "Game theory" component.

Ah, but there is! GANS can be applied to all those problems.
IF that's true, what does the executive branch have do with this? That's the intelligence community's mission, they should just be doing it already.
The fixed and variable costs are much higher for the airlines than for cereal makers. There's probably less than ten cents worth of corn in a box of cereal that Kellogg sells for three dollars.
>The seller is responsible for reporting the change of ownership to DMV within 5 days from the date of sale

And if you sell your car to a dealership (i.e., give it away for pennies because you don't want it anymore) and they say they will do this step for you, assume they are full of shit.

I sold my old Toyota to DGDG in San Jose. I specifically asked them about this step (having experience with the equally kafkaesque Texas Toll Systems) and they told me they'd take care of it for me. Sweet.

Six months later I'm getting letters about toll violations. I dispute them with proof, dismissed. I did this five times for various toll violations until finally I bugged the dealership enough for them to get around to fixing it. But their first response was: "Don't worry about it, if they come in the mail, just ignore them." Uh..
The crystal routing is pretty critical (and personally, I think the layout detailed here is not optimal either) --- it's a low-amplitude, high frequency signal, and getting it marginal means the oscillator might not always start up reliably..

http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-8128-Best-Practices-for-th...
Why the past tense? I thought he was still around? Or do you just mean he's less egotistical these days?
Okay, I've definitely been "guilty" of reading deeply into things that have simple explanations. That's cause I'm curious and I love trying to understand things! Whether or not I've dug "too deep" is feeling pretty close to a value judgement of something that's totally relative to one's point of view. So I'll leave that alone.

> However, I might not be getting your point.

If you weren't, it wasn't your fault, it's more because I was being a little too tacit.

The reason for my comment was to point out a remarkable similarity between two spiritual/philosophical frameworks that have been painted as diametrically opposed, and whose adherents are often cast as irreconcilable enemies. I grew up with both of these influences each in their own strong ways, and struggled to integrate them within myself. I'm grateful that I've been able to at all. Some people end up feeling spit out and bitter.

My point is that the Hebrew word for god is essentially "I am cause I can be". Which is pretty close to "it is what it is". It's a very existential kind of character, but pretty simple. It's kinda like that question recently posted on hacker news, why does anything exist? The answer here being "because it can, that's why".

I'm not advocating that you or anyone adopt my spiritual worldview, just sharing my perspective. Actually, my journey has been to let go of the baggage of institutionalized Christianity. But I've chosen not to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'. I still believe that traditional myths and stories, including my own, are beautiful and interesting.

As far as the article goes, I actually take issue with the presented dichotomy between "function" and "no function", because to me, every DNA sequence/expression, or lack-thereof, has some implication, however nuanced. Whether or not that implication counts as "functional" or not is often beyond the capabilities of our time machines and is philosophically up for discussion. As far as evolution is concerned, and here's where I agree with the article, whether or not something counts as "functional" is beside the point. The point is that if something survived, it did so because nothing was stopping it. Or as you say because "it just happened that way", kinda like those "extra" notes in a jazz solo.
Interesting. I really like some of these (mainly the big focus on self-reliance) and strongly disapprove of some others (5.15AM breakfast? No snacks? No thanks. More seriously, I'm really opposed to the mandatory 2 hours of daily study. I know I would suffer under that, as someone who can only study effectively in 15 minute intervals spread throughout the day)
So poor people don't/won't read the Economist? They "don't care to". wow. BTW, these click-bait sites are rewarded by your employer who then is able to pay you. As an aside: Doesn't google still provide a text only web cache that strips ads? What if I use wget or curl? What about reader view in safari or firefox, absent from chrome of course. Rss? Blocking ads is only one way to go.
In Vimperator, :set toolbars=none will hide the tabs. If you mean the extra blank space at the top left by hidden tabs, then go to customize menu (:dialog customizetoolbar or burger menu next to address bar → customize) and enable Title Bar[1]. It will hide the extra space when use with toolbars=none.

[1]: https://files.grid.in.th/UHj8F1.png
Agreed. It can take months to connect with some big companies. Reported via Twitter? Come on.

Tip: InMail on LinkedIn can be quite effective if you're having trouble. Start at the ceo and work your way down.
Sage advice. I'm bookmarking that for the next time I need to talk about marketing strategies with people.
Yes, but it is a nuance in a specialized field, so it might seem "obvious" to outsiders.

The article does give the background here - there are multiple positions within evolutionary biology. All accept natural selection, of course, but the fine details matter too. In particular here the question is a decades long debate that Gould&Lewontin headed, saying that not all apparently-useful adaptations evolved, some are "spandrels" that arose for other reasons.

The article mentions other reasons to suspect that things that seem useful did not evolve, such as the surprising effect of drift in multicellular organisms (us) vs single-celled organisms. In the latter, selection affects each nucleotide of DNA. In the former, selection must be powerful enough to overcome noise, otherwise it is ineffective - which seems surprising, as this is averaged over many individuals over much time. The surprising thing is that this effect is, it turns out, non-linear.
> Is that correct?

Yes, that's the classic XSS attack pattern. It's like phishing, but better since you're sending the person a link to the actual website. And once they've clicked on it, they're already screwed; they don't even need to manually enter any information.

> how?

Once you have the cookie, its as simple as something like making an XMLHttpRequest to your own server that includes the decrypted email and password from the cookies.
The bottom of the pyramid should fill up with stolen bikes faster than the bikes rust out. Although I guess with 13M more births than deaths each year, there's 13M more potential outlets for stolen bikes. My guess is that most of those buy new or unstolen used, but with only 1.5M bike thefts a year, I may have just data'ed myself out of my OP! (All data for US 2015)
Yeah, we figured this out (at least for Google) years ago. I ran a SAAS company that advertised heavily on Google for years. As time went on, the ROI dropped to almost zero. We really couldn't figure it out until we started to analyze what publishers were doing.

Publishers buy fake traffic from bot networks in order to generate more ad revenue. Almost all ad networks make an effort more or less to filter this traffic, but don't really do a great job. I'd say almost every ad network besides Google and Facebook are worse. There are ad networks that do not care at all what kind of traffic they host. I could name names but I don't want to get sued.

The counter-intuitive part of this is that no one in the ecosystem wants it stopped. What you say? Not even the advertisers? Yes, even the advertisers themselves rely on legacy incentives. For example, if your a buyer of digital advertising and your bonus is based on generating one million clicks to your site, guess what you're going to do to get that bonus - that's right - your going to buy shitty traffic on the cheap.

The bottom line is that digital advertising is horribly broken. Companies are getting totally ripped off and most of them aren't savvy enough to know it.

Think about how bad this is for the economy. Startups can't get off the ground via digital advertising anymore.

Anyway, last point - after getting robbed of a few hundred grand, we developed a product to detect fraudulent traffic integrated into ecommerce analytics:

https://truestats.com

Before I get accused of advertising - anyone that wants a free account from seeing this here contact support@truestats.com and we'll set you up. I really care more about fixing this nightmare than making money.
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The spammy links thing fascinates me. I don't know much about search algos or SEO but on our small, industrial business site we couldn't understand why, after many hours and thousands of dollars spent on the procedures that Google recommends, our organic ranking in SERPs for a very niche product (of which we are one of only three providers in our region) was appalling - often page three.

It wasn't till we realised we had 10,000+ spammy links pointed at our site that we wondered whether we had been the victim of some malicious attack. We couldn't recover the penalty to the site no matter how hard we worked and have had to rebuild at a new domain as a result.

For small businesses like us, is it really possible for a competitor to just destroy our online credibility like that or am I just paranoid?
LogRocket looks interesting and may be very helpful for debugging problems in production or optimizing performance. But FullStory or something like it fits my current needs better. I just want a video of real users interacting with the site to see where they get confused. And I don't want to spend a lot of time integrating code to get it to work. That is what FullStory is promising but I haven't tried it yet.
> The intellectual contrast between the UNIX way of thinking and the Windows way of "thinking" continues to amaze.

Um, what? I mean, you're contrasting a dry comment left by one the programmers responsible for creating an OS with the silly antics of the user of another OS; of course there's a difference, it's apples and oranges. I'm certain people have done stupid shit like this on UNIX too. (like, say "time yourself walking to the edge of a flat Minecraft world from the center")