skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a lot of people miss about "upper ranks" compensation is that it's performance based and conditional (lets ignore for the moment CEOs that underperform and still get huge bonuses).

Most people will not accept a performance based salary, in most jurisdictions it's also nearly impossible to do pay cuts properly.

Say that you reduce the compensation of a all C level execs of a company from 10M to 2.
The first thing you notice is that CEOs that say earn 10M tend to work for very large companies, so a 1000 employee company that gets 8M free cash now has 8000$ per employee for raises.
Say that it had 10 C level execs earning 10M per year so now you have 80,000$ per employee for a raise, now that's money.

You give all your employee a raise from 100K to 180K and they are all super happy, but then the quarterly results are not good for a few quarters cutting 80% the salary of C level execs at that point is easy, reducing the salary of every employee by 44% isn't, in many places it might not even be legal.

But even this is usually a very unrealistic situation let's take Microsoft it employs over 60,000 people if you take every employee in MSFT with over 1M$ per year in compensation and you cut it by which every amount you want you won't get an amount that when divided by all employees would result in any significant increase in pay to the levels you expect.
Sure if you liquidate Satya's compensation that is 1500$ increase to everyone, but after Satya the next high salary is probably the COO (and Kevin Turner which was the former COO has a total compensation of about 12M per year) but then again the majority of the compensation tends to be in equity which isn't hard cash, and the jump (or drop) between C level execs is quite big and if you count everyone that makes over 1M in MSFT you will probably will only reach 300M in total and about 100M in cash.
I should have known that it would be more chatter about machines making people obsolete.

It has the potential to be a very vexing problem, actually. That may condemn literally hundreds of millions of people to poverty, feelings of uselessness (if not outright despair and depression). And very likely be contributing to higher suicide rates, among the newly obsolesced.

In that vein, it seems rather callous to describe earnest attempts to get a handle on the problem as "chatter".
You got that wrong. It depends if you need to be a citizen or not.

I've personally known permanent residents to work in government contracting.

For your case, if I had to guess, it's probably the physical building/facility they required you to work at had restrictions on unescorted non-citizens.
What was your experience protecting your work with a software patent?
I've literally spent years (2-3 hours a day, often 7 days a week) developing a program. Much of this time was spent reevaluating my approach and applying new insights as my experience with the concept evolved. It was far more than just coding. I feel I have something creative, unique, useful and unfortunately very easy to copy once someone understands my insights. A software patent appears to be the only way I can benefit from my work. What insights can you offer?
Mince words all you want, they stayed operational when many others did not. That's success in my book.
Yeah, that's a pretty good bet :(
That's not how salaries work at the startups I've been a part of.
Both the AGPL (“anciliary transmission”) and the law have exceptions for ISPs and other such scenarios.
upvoted from a fellow Hoya and esp. grabbing this handle on HN. nicely done!
Yes, it doesn't, because the thing the blog post talks about is a non-issue -- it instead focuses on a much more minor issue (why would it do that if there was a larger issue that was this bad?).

It's also corroborated by other lawyers in the thread saying basically the same thing though. My conclusion that the blog post is FUD doesn't solely derive from the post I linked to.
For love of god, you are wrong.

OP had a link that proved you wrong, if you think you are right, either link somewhere else or just say your gut feeling is the original link is incorrect but can't prove it, stop linking totally off topic stuff it drives people nuts.

OP was incorrect in that the link is websites, not webpages though :)
Because that middle income country is the second biggest economy in the world and could be number one in the next century.
Except that Snapchat had already engaged the client and was working with them in an editorial sense. It's not a 'first-come first-served' free market buffet at that point.

Do you think it would be acceptable for the webmaster of Mercedes to put BMW ads on their site, because BMW was willing to pay them to do so?
All of these are even more scary.
Github doesn’t, it just requires that of its users (that, or to not upload any copylefted works, or works under licences requiring attribution, which contain work from people who have not agreed to waive those requirements for Github).
Exactly. A toy.
I had Fredkin for introductory computer science. He was probably my favorite professor, however I was a physics major and didn't go further in coding. He would rant about the game of life. I was sad about this, even as an 18-year-old.
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I used to live near Fort Meade, and all our math PhD and linguist neighbors said they worked for the "Department of Defense."
BSD/MIT/etc. only require the licence text to be present, usually by retaining it in the source code or accompanying documentation. Yes, it’s close. No, I don’t want to go there and discuss this detail.
> I think it's pretty logical that with lower corporate tax rates, we would see an increase in business activity in the economy

But it is not logical to assume that this would, at all tax levels, be enough to offset the loss of revenue due to the rate cut. Given that the US has a low effective rate of corporate taxation despite high nominal rates, it is very unlikely that a decrease in corporate taxes would fail to decrease revenue in the US.

OTOH, if you want to stimulate hiring and economic activity, a really good tax to cut is payroll taxes, but even there you probably still lose revenue, so you probably need to increase some tax that has less direct effect on employment, like top-end income taxes.
After reading, the biggest impression with which I was left was that Tim's comment does a decent job demonstrating the irrelevance of the W3C.
I am sure it's possible to engineer particles as a space pollutant to shield earth from some unwanted wavelength but allow the wanted ones.
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As I said, the benchmark is flawed since it's dependent on the network pipe. It would be a good idea to run tests locally so you get a real maximum.

There are lots of factors involved which can completely skew benchmarks, for example, if you were scraping an average 10kb response instead of 'hello world' you would automatically be limited to 100req/s on a 10mbit pipe.
Yeah, I really think a better way is to imagine generating a uniform real and rounding -- generating [0,1) instead of [0,1] is just sick. If you do rand() * k + n you can get [n, n+k] anyway, so it's not a good primitive to get a half-open interval with. You can generate an integer n in [1, 2^25], then take (n >> 1) * (1 / (float)(1 << 24)) to get a pretty good [0,1].
Bacteria-ulcers weren't proven by people who really really really wanted them to be true, they were proven by a doctor, using (fairly unconventional) scientific methods.

If you've got compelling historical sources for holocaust denial or compelling scientific evidence against climate change, let's see it.
It's because it's one of the few things an enterprise can't cheap out on. They have to have it.
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+1, I was going to suggest the same thing. Or at least the ability to note multiple files which are supposed to be chained together in order. It pisses me off when Shuffle doesn't handle these properly:

- Pink Floyd, Brain Damage followed by Eclipse

- Queen, We Will Rock You followed by We Are the Champions

- Yes, Long Distance Runaround followed by The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)

- the different movements of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Try being a huge platform and performing viewpoint discrimination against popular viewpoints, and see what happens :)
This remember me one of the Go Proverbs, Cgo is not Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=12m37s
I would actually prefer for remote jobs to keep their location data, if provided; I want to be able to view remote jobs in my country, so I don't have to worry about eligibility.
Horses haven't shown the same level of adaptation to different skill sets that humans have.
Can someone help me understand with this is voted down?
But, thanks to the new ToS becoming effective immediately (as of 28½ hours ago), you do have to act.

Basically, starting March 2017, uploading anything (new) like that is not allowed. Removing repositories and/or the entire user account, to make it explicit that such grants are not given for what’s already there, may be prudent (yes, overreacting is not necessary, but acting is, and don’t talk legal requirements down to overreacting, because if you DO upload a GPLv2’d work to Github as things are now, YOU lose the right to use it under the GPLv2 in the first place and CANNOT get it back except from the (all!) authors).
It is telling that they declined both the free editorial and any advertising.
You are probably in for a Nobel Price in economics if you manage to come up with a viable tax system that allows painting a black and white picture. But at least for the moment we are stuck with a gray scale picture where the border between tax avoidance and tax evasion is fuzzy and at least subject to some kind of subjectivity.
Every number system in which all numbers occupy the same amount of space must have this property (namely, that there are roughly as many positive numbers above 1 as below 1, and therefore that there is greater precision near 0) or the accuracy of the function x->1/x will suffer.
I went to Dell.com: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la....
No, they're the ones tossing the standard and then trying to retroactively change it. Cloudflare sucks.
I think this is one good concrete example of why the npm style of private dependencies for each lib is not the greatest thing ever, while the non-recursive style in python (or C) is overall more manageable (if you are actually managing your dependencies instead of ignoring them).
> From drawing to composing music to acting (Grand Moff Tarkin, please stand up),

How many people and how many hours do you think it took to bring that character to life? As compared to the time of a human actor?

(Not claiming in general that it takes as many people to run a machine as it did to do the job manually, but it almost certainly did in that case.)

We're not anywhere near the point where arbitrary creative endeavors can be replaced by AI, rather than supplemented or enhanced by AI.

More generally, I wouldn't describe it as AI "encroaching" on human endeavors; I'd describe it as AI freeing up humans to work on other endeavors. There's an endless supply of interesting challenges, and until AI can both dream up and complete those challenges autonomously the way a human can, that will remain the domain of humans.

I've seen many cases of the analogy to buggy whips, but for AI, I think the appropriate analogy is to the printing press, or the Internet. The printing press put scribes out of business, but I think it's safe to say it wildly transformed society in beneficial ways. The Internet made many businesses obsolete (some of which have already gone away, while others haven't quite realized it yet), but it's a massive net increase in jobs. People have invented whole classes of new jobs that didn't exist a few decades ago.

I don't think AI will be any different (at least not before it becomes fully general and human-equivalent).
As much as I hate responding to rhetoric with rhetoric, the simple fact of the matter is that there are guns, and if we're being honest with ourselves, there always will be. The number of them might wax or wane, but the very idea of a gun will not be extinguished until and unless something more powerful, and that is also dirt simple to manufacture in a garage, replaces it.

NRA's Eddie Eagle program doesn't teach kids how to become expert marksmen behind their parents' backs. It teaches kids that guns are dangerous, and if one is found, it teaches them to treat it as dangerous, to notify their parents or another adult, etc...

Pretending that guns don't exist, or that a child will never encounter one is, in my view, more akin to practicing abstinence to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Sure, it's a means to an end, and in a vacuum, abstinence is very, very effective... but when we realize that we're not living in a vacuum, and that the world we live in has guns in it, as well as people with which you might be sexually attracted, in both cases, education is a much more effective tool than unrealistic optimism.
It's 500$ plus the cost of a computer capable of driving it.
Someone intelligently (hah) decided to link to the (1 MiB) page with the entire wlog posts of the last decade (plus CSS, webfonts, …) instead of to the permalink of the one article (15K), and then over https.

The webserver is a first-generation Celeron 2.4 GHz (Dell PowerEdge 750, AIUI) with 1 GiB of RAM, running MirBSD (not the fastest OS out there) with Apache. So, no surprise.

Yes, one of _those_ Celeron CPUs with so few L2 cache it can be discounted as having none.

For that, it does remarkably well (though 「ls -l /var/www/logs/」 surely shows the traffic ).
And every person that tells you that there won't be any jobs after AI passes a threshold has already considered your railroad question, and decided that for various reasons the AI shift is different.

There's a big difference between crossing a threshold where machines do one or two specific things better than we do and crossing one where they do everything better. There's certainly an argument about whether or not that's likely or imminent, but it's impossible to deny that strong, singularity-style AI, if discovered, would be a lot more of a disruption to our usefulness than railroads were.
I grew up in Dulles (aka Sterling/Ashburn). Another way to go on a tour of data centers is to ride on your bike all along the W&OD trail [0] between Arlington and Leesburg.

Lots memories skateboarding around those places, then getting chased out.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington+and+Old+Dominio...
You can relatively easy draw a schematic and decide exactly how you want a piece of steel to be made. Have you ever seen a successful software project development and maintained based on a spec and not based on constant interaction between the customer and some tech lead?
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"Are the jobs that are created, in aggregate, as good as the jobs that are replaced?"

Are you living at a higher material standard than people at the dawn of the industrial revolution?

Are you living at a higher material standard than the people in the 1980's?

If 'yes' - then wages (as defined by their purchasing power) have increased.
It would be helpful if you could give some detail regarding what your company does and the skills for which you're looking.
This rule was published just a week before the election and is yet even to go into effect. If this rule, as written, was important to install, why did the Obama administration wait 7+ years to implement it?
There's little difference between those, but usually what VCs are comparing are things that are more like 2% chance at $1b vs 2% chance at $200m -- and then there's a big difference.

Also, if one company is a 5% chance chance at $200m but 0% chance of being worth more than that, while another company is a 1% chance of $1b, the second company might still be a better investment because it's probably 1% chance of $1b AND a 5% chance of $200m if it doesn't go all the way to $1b.
This is what made me hold off on preordering.

It seems so ill-conceived, and I can't imagine how it will work. Does in-game audio get piped to your phone? If not, what are you supposed to do? Have two sets of earbuds, one from your phone and one from the device?

Also, what's with the console's lack of an ethernet port? Everything I've seen suggests that Nintendo did not prioritize online play when designing the Switch.
Lowering the tax wedge (reducing payroll and income taxes) and making labor laws more flexible does exactly that.

Lowering minimum wage and increasing earned-income tax credit (aka negative tax rate) also has a similar effect.

Personally, I'm in favor of a strong earned-income program.

On your second point, why should it be stopped? Actual question, interested in hearing opinions about it.

Income tax by itself is highly deceptive, as it doesn't include payroll tax. Companies don't look at salaries, they look at the total cost, which includes salary, benefits, bonuses and payroll taxes/fees. The payroll taxes often aren't seen by the employees, so they feel they are being taxed less than they actually are.

The impact of that can be huge. Let's compare France and Switzerland:

Average yearly total cost worker:

* Switzerland: 74k USD PPP

* France: 63k USD PPP

Average yearly gross income per worker:

* Switzerland: 70k USD PPP

* France: 46k USD PPP

Average net income after taxes per worker:

* Switzerland: 58k USD PPP

* France: 33k USD PPP

So out of every dollar the company spends on a worker, in France the worker gets 52% of that. In Switzerland the worker gets 78% of that. In PPP-adjusted numbers, the average worker in Switzerland makes 75% more than the average worker in France, despite costing less than 20% more.

In which country do you think a company would want to hire employees? Switzerland or France?

Source: OECD.
>>why would a phone and script operator need a degree?

Your resume won't even go past the screening phase if you don't have a degree for a call center job in India.

I had a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
I wish you could do the same thing with mental illness.. massively send pull request to correct everyone's bad brain code.. <sorry>
I was born and brought up in a Hindi speaking state so my learning of Bengali, apart from being mother tongue, is based on reading copious amount of books/magazines/comics etc. I speak mostly the "Calcutta" dialect + the "kehlum/gelum" sustituted with "khelaam/gelaam" etc (though I can break out in broken "bangaal" should the need arise). I've also noticed that though I immensely enjoy Bengali literature, I have an inherent tendency to shun overly emotional/flowery words typically used in West Bengal - not sure if it is a personality trait or due to upbringing in a less "soft" Hindi-centric environment or due to being part of a family with East Bengal origins.

Regarding sarcasm: I think it is pretty stinging in Bengali if you are using the power of old/rural idioms/phrases (you can find numerous examples in works of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay or contemporary 1900-1930s literature where the characters are in a confrontational setting). I also grow up in company of my grandparents so I learned a bunch from them. They are concise, entertaining and leave the target squirming if well used. However I think that in today's urban Bengali society, you are considered unsophisticated if you use them so we are losing such an interesting aspect of Bengali.
Um, I can perhaps understand how this is the ethical path, but is it really all that common? Google AdSense is explicitly designed to run ads based on the content, and Facebook ad campaigns are precisely targeted to the subject matter. Furthermore, I would honestly prefer to see ads that are relevant to things I would be interested in, if only to have ads served in English, much less coordinated with my hobbies!

Were I the NRA, I would definitely pay a lot more, have better conversion rates, and have happier ad viewers if I could target ads at Snapchat users who talk about guns.
Is https://libraries.io not a more comprehensive and community-focused response to the same problem?

libraries.io did make it to the front page a few months ago, but I think its underlying vision might not have been driven home from just glancing at its home page. It supports 33 package managers (not just Java, though I'm sure Rosehub doesn't just do that either) and Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, not just Github. And it provides both email notifications and auto PRs.

But that's just the overlap with Rosehub. On top of that it offers the means to discover libraries based on a Dependency Rank (think Page Rank but using dependencies instead of hyperlinks). Which in turn allows it to surface projects with a high "Bus Factor" -- projects maintained by few committers, but depended on by many (so they'd be more affected by said committers getting run over by a bus). AND it mines the licenses for a project, notifying if any of the dependent licenses are incompatible with the parent license. What's more it's a non-profit organisation receiving enough funding to employ 2 full time devs.

I think libraries.io is Rosehub and more, to quote the about page;

Our goal is to raise the quality of all software,
by raising the quality and frequency of contributions
to free and open source software; the services,
frameworks, plugins and tools we collectively refer
to as libraries.

To take the liberty of extrapolating from the libraries.io vision: open source security isn't just about fixing patches, but about supporting the environment, people, conditions and tools that contribute to open source software.
The long history of scarcity amid plenty does deserve examination. Critical examination.

How messed up is it that people not only have to beg for the privilege of work, but that they are seen as selfish, thankless, and incompetent for doing so?

Once humanity gets this sorted out -- and it will, eventually -- the present state of affairs will be looked at with the same contempt that people in today's world have for feudalism. It will deserve every bit of it.
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I don't agree with him.

Everyone knows when you are forced to write tests you code differently because you have to make the lines tested visible to the testing code. In legacy code without tests no one bothered to do this, which is why adding tests to legacy code is near impossible.

If 100% test coverage isn't forced you end up with lines that aren't visible to unit tests without re-factoring. If a bug is found in those lines and you want to add a test to demonstrate the bug has been fixed, you can't just make a minimal change - you have to re-factor the bloody thing, increasing the odds you will introduce another bug.

The bottom line is ensuring you have 100% test coverage (or even better 100% branch coverage) brings it's own rewards because of the discipline it enforces in code structure, and that is true even if those test lines don't do much in the way of useful testing.

So for me his argument only works you have 100% coverage. Thereafter, yeah, each test has to earn it keep.
Oceans? We can't even keep our own drinking water safe.
Have Nintendo ever prioritised online play?
2 hours is small. How to open developer tools in Chrome. Change colors on an existing web page. A 'for' loop with document.write some numbers or something.

Maybe get them to sign up on codepen.io