skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, those limitations aren't strictly enforced (the hospitals seem to care more about their bottom line than about their cheap labor's well-being -- so I don't see this changing soon).

In addition to that, this stuff accumulates over time, especially in a super-high-stress environment that frequently requires life-or-death decisions. Really think about the limitations described in that article -- interns must have one day off every seven, and cannot work 24h more than one night in three. So they work 16 hour shifts for seven straight days -- which means they have to get to and from work, shower, sleep, and eat some meals during that time -- and that's assuming that handoffs are always performed perfectly on time (they're not, the hospital is hectic), and that you can always leave exactly after 16 hours (you often physically can't, given the nature of the work).

And then you get a single day off. Which you use almost entirely for sleep, because not only do you barely have enough time to get a full night's sleep every worknight under "ideal" conditions, but you also have a hard time falling asleep because you're so hyped up/stressed from everything that's happened during the day.

And then, somewhere in that mix, you have to work for 24h. That might be ok if you had some chance to recharge your batteries during the past few months/year, but you're so overworked and over-stressed that even your two two-week vacations aren't enough to erase the bags under your eyes.

So, in short: this decision is really, really irresponsible. It caters to super-alpha types (which are indeed often attracted to medicine, and especially to surgery) who are willing to sacrifice everything in order to accomplish their lofty career goals as quickly as possible, and to hospitals who want more, cheaper, labor. Having been afforded the opportunity to talk with residents at a couple of the best-regarded hospitals in the country (my girlfriend is going through this "experience" at the moment), and seeing first-hand how this affects them, I'm pretty confident in saying that the handoff problem, while real, is not going to get better by making interns stay for four extra hours after their already inhumane 24h shift.
The problem is that poor people need cash for lots of things.
If you're poor enough that you can't go to the dentist, you're poor enough to be hurting in any number of ways. If we give you $500 and say, "now this is for the dentist -- save it in case you need it", they're quite rightly going to tell you to fuck off and go buy food and gas for the car to get to work. And then when they need a dentist six months later, we're right back where we started, except with the added shittiness of a bunch of upper middle class conservatives preaching about how they "wasted" the money.
I'll take chaos over an oppressive order any day.
Posting uncivilly will get you banned regardless of how wrong the other person was, so please don't comment like this.
There is no limit on what you can make, especially in the engineering world. If you hit a limit at a day job, the limit can be removed by working for yourself and running your own business. Then you will be limited only by how much your customers value your work.
Right. As Henry George pointed out over a century ago [0], the increase in property values in urban areas as their populations grow is mostly caused not by investments made by the property owners, but simply by the network effects of having more people living in the area. So the ability of property owners, under the commonly used taxation schemes, to benefit from those network effects presents a golden opportunity for rent-seeking.

Looking for example at Silicon Valley, it's easy to see that rental property owners are sucking large amounts of wealth out of the region. It's not just rental property, though. Anyone who bought a house prior to the recent run-up in prices, and then sold it for a large gain, is effectively also removing wealth from the area, in the form of the mortgage payments the new owner has to pay.

George argues that wealth that is collectively created should be collectively enjoyed, and that the best way to make that happen is through a Land Value Tax (LVT) -- that taxes only the unimproved value of land, not that of any structures that may be built on it.

[0] http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm
FYI: kramdown is popular because it has "out-of-the-box" lots of extras built-in e.g. attribute lists, table of content generation, html blocks with inline markdown, and so on - commonmark.js is "just" plain old vanilla markdown. Cheers.
I've always assumed it was for password recovery. People forget those all the time, email is a quick way to verify identity. Since everyone can have an email address for free. If you have a better way, do tell. Also, when your email is your username, that's one less thing to remember.
Only C++ ones, the main goal of Roslyn was to bootstrap C# and VB.NET compilers and get rid of their former C++ implementation.

Now with Roslyn and .NET Native, they are planning to increasingly move more runtime stuff into C#.

.NET Native backend is of course shared with Visual C++, aka C2, a kind of Microsoft's own LLVM-like approach.
Articles like this are kind of frustrating, for the implication that $250k is standard for a few years experience, and you can easily get it with less.

That's really not been my experience. Not everyone - not most people even - work at Google.

Related question - at a mid-stage startup (say 100 employees), how does option/stock compensation work? Do they regularly give you more (like big companies do) or are the options associated with signing all you get (and their growth is how they're an ongoing part of compensation)?
It's more like the delta function/"function" restricted to the nonnegative reals.
Especially with the internet, the costs are almost nothing, but your time.
Chameleon house appears to disappear into its desert surroundings
>no more overly ambitious build pipe-lines.

What exactly are build pipe-lines ? is it javascript webpack kind of stuff?
I think you're on the right track (i.e. viewing it as a permutation, and looking at the cycle decomposition of that permutation).

Try indexing from 0 instead of 1 if you're not. Then the cycle containing 1 will start with (1, 2, 4, 8, ...). What happens when it wraps around?
> The question is not whether a company can change, it's whether it will.

I think whether a company can change is the right question, because it stands to reason that if a company can change, then given enough time, it will change. How much time is "enough" for any given company is anybody's guess, and as stated in my original post, I'm certainly not claiming that in this case Microsoft has in fact changed for the better. But to rule out that possibility completely because of what they've done in the past strikes me as irrational.
Honestly any metric by itself is not a good indication of failure/success. Without context a single metric is meaningless? High CTR means good performance.. or click fraud. High pages per sessions means engaged users.. or poor web design.
Using Serverless Azure Functions with Auth0 and Google APIs
Plug: we are in private beta with Feedback[1], the customer support version of BugReplay[2]. We integrate with Zendesk aside from our standard custom JavaScript integration.

In short, it's a product for Web development teams to collect perfect no-hassle bug reports from their users with all the details (video, network traffic, js logs) required to analyze and reproduce a problem.

[1]: https://www.bugreplay.com/feedback-by-bugreplay

[2]: https://www.bugreplay.com
It was fixed in Windows :) Any application can add a manifest entry to enable long paths. The .Net change is because .Net needed to expose / add support for it in addition to the base OS supporting it.
Hah, well, thank you. My academic training is all in Computer Science, but I've enjoyed drawing since I was a kid. Still feel like such a beginner in that whole realm, been teaching myself animation and design and 3D modelling in the last five years, I think it'll take another five years to really get anywhere!
If I'm not mistaken, the benefit of Planet over Google Maps is that all imagery on Planet is less than 24 hours old. So, you can see daily snapshots of different locations.

The time slider is huge (albeit potentially creepy)... you can see before and afters of a disaster, check if someone's car was parked outside on a certain day, watch progress of construction, etc.
i did not say it is the same article. but if you read it, the Atlantic article/interview is more substantial than the Marketwatch article; and the topics are exactly same. also there already is a good discussion going on the other thread.
C, it is the only language you need.
I wrote about pricing tiers many years ago: http://sachinagarwal.com/setting-pricing-for-a-startup-the-r...
> You can sort of imagine that there is a faction that hates the idea of moving to managed code, and that is causing an impasse.

Probably the same one that caused the issues with Longhorn.

Now we have UWP with .NET Native, which is creating an OO ABI similar to Longhorn ideas.
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Forced to pay £100K for tweeting offensive question at the wrong person
>"implies that you might have visited the green south Indian state called Kerala"

Indeed! Kerala is fantastic! From the Western Ghats to the beautiful beaches Kovalam, amazing spicy fish curries, friendly people, I could go on and on ...

There's no shame in that plug at all :)
It's not uncommon for EMS workers to work shifts > 24 hours. That includes companies where you aren't at a specific station, but the crew is "posted" with their vehicle somewhere in the service area (gas station parking lot, etc...).
Massive oil discovery in Alaska is biggest onshore find in 30 years
Don't use your password. Generate random passwords for each security question and record them in your password manager.

So-called "security questions" are the dumbest security measure.
Agreed. And, while I have no evidence of this, my intuition is that the extra GPRs you get in 64-bit more than makes up for any minuscule system-wide performance hit 64-bit long-mode paging imposes.
Apart from the terrible human suffering that drugs (and their criminalization create), there is another factor that is not, in my opinion, discussed enough.

Drugs are and amazing business and making them illegal, make rich to the worst kind of people. It's giving power to the last people you would want in power.

So, in the consumer countries you have addicts suffering. In the producers countries you have wars and societies totally corrupted, and the worst of the worst get rich.

Amazing strategy.

It looks more like a war on humanity that a war on drugs.
Yeah but this is about highest pay, which by definition most people will not make.
Some what analogous: OCaml has Modules and Functors (not the normal FP functors but more like signature mappers).

OCaml I guess isn't that modern but they did just add First Class modules [1].

[1]: https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/first-class-modules.ht...
I don't see the point of this article. The VS team has moved more and more stuff out-of-process. VS 2015 can easily use more than 4 GB (if you're working in medium to large solutions), but it's divided up across 3-4 main processes. MSBuild processes (normally 1 per thread) are also staying around for 15 minutes now, so they can be reused.
I think the word Salary here is a bit of a misnomer. Compensation is probably a better word to use. And the term programmer is probably incorrect in the top tiers here as you probably aren't strictly a programmer at this level.

For instance, it wouldn't be all that unusual for a programmer at a hedge fund to have a salary of $200,000 and a bonus of 1x that.

But its also very common for people at funds to keep the majority of their bonus in the fund such that if you have say $1,000,000 in the fund and it does 20% that year you can conceivably claim a compensation on the year of $200,000 (salary) + $200,000 (bonus) + $200,000 ( cap gains).

You can argue something similar if you work for a public company where your salary, bonus and capital gains on stock grants can be factored similarly.

Now there is probably some salary inflation going on here where people are counting compensation that is restricted over a few years as though they earned it all in the current year.

> I see about an offer per quarter of $500-900k base with $1-2M bonus (usually guaranteed for the first year) for pure technology role. Add more front office work and the bonus potential shoots up (but it's a tough gig at the moment at least).

This seems high and I don't know of any funds that actually guarantee tech hires a million dollar bonus regardless of what the fund does, I mean that's kind of the point of going to work for a hedge fund, you eat what you kill. If you and the fund do well you get paid, if the fund doesn't make money, you're not going to get a huge bonus.

But Niall Dalton, if you are listening and not lying about this comp, ummm, I'm available:)
This is what I have experienced the last few months. The interviewer checks off boxes in their notes as you successfully utter the current "buzzwords" they are looking for. I didn:t notice the connection until I had 2 interviewers & the guy pulling for me gave me a wink or thumbs up when his associate paused to make a mark on his notepad. Afterward, my guy affirmed I hit the right topics. Sadly, I didn`t make the cut as I was asking for a "livable" wage which exceeded their professed "competitive" offering.
it seems that just like with any other market, scarcity dictates the price. however, aiming at being the ultimate specialist of a little known piece of technology is a very risky bet.
I'm going next week to have one removed, and it's about $500, plus some extra costs that are covered by my medical insurance rather than the dental insurance whose deductible I haven't hit yet.
I have [first-initial][last-name]@gmail.con.

My last name is pretty uncommon, but there are at least a thousand of us or so in the US.

I probably get a dozen emails a month to people who are not me (not counting all the ones that end up in the spam folder after I'm on a damn list).

Susan. Stephen. Another Sam. So many damn S. Lastnames around.

On occasion I've tracked the people down. I've forwarded their emails if they seem important. And whenever I ask that they be more careful and memorize their own email address, they get defensive and tell me someone else made a mistake.

Buddy, this email was was an automated response from a computer
after you signed up for something. No, it did not just randomly decide to send to my @gmail instead of your actual @yahoo address. YOU just don't know your own email.
I mean, I get what the guy is saying, but look at the text vs subtext here:

text is "here is advice to take a burgeoning company to the stratosphere" But honestly, how many people in that position are going to read this blog post? 3? 10? If this was his true intention, he would have packaged this as some kind of super premium offering that only well-connected VCs could read or something.

subtext: "I'm really smart about what takes a company from success to HUUGE SUCCESS." Is this guy trying to gain a rep in VC circles as a CEO of late stage startups or something? What's his angle?
Yep. As was in the news a couple of days ago, sickle cell disease can be effectively 'cured' by installing an updated Hemoglobin protein [1]. (Some) Breast cancer associated genes have pretty well understood issues that can be effectively remedied with gene therapies [2]. And mutations in and around the oncogene P53 have pretty well understood effects - all the way through public policy with regards to HPV vaccination [3].

Adding single proteins and flipping single genetic bits in single cell types in single organs is not the kind of thing that generally causes cascade failures. There are always exceptions, but in general biology is pretty robust to such changes. In fact, those are exactly the kinds of changes that occur from generation to generation. And these are precisely the kinds of systems that have been under deep study for the past four or five decades.

[1] https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/hbb/
[2] https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/brca1/
[3] https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/p53/
I'm guessing these are done with wet sand paper for the coarser grits (< ~3000), or polished with a soft cloth and paste/polish for the extremely fine grits. At least that's common for related techniques such as lapping, car paint detailing etc. So the fine powder should be carried away in a slurry.

Edit: from TFA:

"Always work wet! Sprinkle some water on the grit before you start grinding! Glass dust is very dangerous and can cause silicosis, a serious lung disease if inhaled!"
Wow! Glad that I am not the only one that constantly thinks about this when I am on an airplane.
Gonna need more paint for this white-wash, Travis.
Clever use of timestamp inference with thresholding. Making use of domain specific knowledge to erase data is always an efficient form of compression!
There's also the Three-body problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem) answer: anyone who knows what's good for them is hiding. Any interstellar-civilization which reveals its presence is destroyed in a first strike by another civilization in hiding. Any self-replicating probes are also hiding (because there's no meaningful distinction between a self-replicating probe and an interstellar civilization anyway).
Top two programmers: $87 billion (bill gates), $56 billion (mark zuckerberg)
In Theoryland, which resembles the real world but entirely resides in theory, you could adjust your prices periodically until you slowly integrate to the point where your profits (or revenues, if you wish) are maximised.

Why this is in Theoryland is because you cannot adjust prices and get feedback so easily in real life. But hey, the logic checks out!
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Wonder how long they'll get away with using a variation on the lonely planet logo?

https://www.google.com/search?q=lonely+planet&tbm=isch
Learn not to stare at your shoes.
Is the implication that is because the software is free, the admins may be unworkably slow in releasing critical patches?

Plenty free software is patched on time. Is this going to become a philosophical debate about freemium software?
Military-Grade Robot to Monitor Eggplants Rather Than Explosives
This is relevant to my interests.

Building an enterprise-oriented product, pricing is really a baffling mystery. Especially since I can't find a good single-factor usage control.
Hiring manager "Can you pass a background check?" Me "Yep" hiring manager "Can you pass a piss test?" Me "Yep". Was really the only questions I been asked during interviews before becoming a programmer.
That just means you have bigger problems than a few genetically enhanced humans running around.

Which is, in fact, already happening without genetic enhancement: the Olympics are a pretty much a display of peak human genetic fitness, and no one loses their mind about it.

What would be a problem: genetically enhanced humans reach some critical mass and decide to purge the non-enhanced ones à la Eugenics wars in Star Trek (purely hypothetical)
> Sometimes they tumble.

As someone who has actually done that, tumbling is really bad. The titanium artifacts in my foot and leg are a permanent reminder of it.

Stick to plain sliding and trust your leathers.
And at the end of the article:

> On Wednesday, the House Education and the Workforce Committee approved HR 1313 along party lines, with 22 Republicans supporting and 17 Democrats opposing the bill.
Because Intel is totally on our side.
Ask HN: What will be the short/long term fallout of the recent CIA leaks?
The recent CIA leaks are said to be the biggest leak ever of secret CIA documents.

Some say these leaks are extremely detrimental to US national security.

At the same time, the vulnerabilities exposed in the documents will now (hopefully) be patched leading to increased security for the average user.

Others have noted[1] that many of the detailed application level exploits are rudimentary compared to other OS/kernel rootkits.

With all this in mind, what will be the short and long term fallout of these leaks in regards to the average user, the United States/CIA, other countries around the world, and IT security in general?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824309
Nobody mentioned elves. You're trying to make his argument absurd. We explain most phenomena scientifically and this is no exception. It most likely isn't an artificial signal, but who knows.
Right. https://github.com/ondras/sleeping-beauty/issues/1
>if you took a typical 1 meter mirror and scaled it up to the size of the United States, the biggest deformity from a perfect curve would be less than you are tall

My father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope and its servicing missions, used virtually that exact wording when describing the precision of its mirror to me as a child. So that's evidently a popular metaphor for optically oriented parents :)
The better answer to those problems is to lower their page rank, not to mirror their content and steal their traffic and then lower their rank if they don't agree to having their content mirrored and traffic stolen.
Since we're quoting Doug Adams: “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
The same is true of Pair Programming. It's a lot of fun and very productive when you know what you're doing.

Ideally, you need several weeks of pairing with experienced pairers to have learned the skill. Even then, you usually need 1-3 days pairing with a new person to get to know each other's styles.

Having two programmers who have never done pairing try it is a bit like having people who never danced try to Tango based on youtube videos. I suspect many people who hate pairing encountered it that way.
This article is confusing. You're talking about $250k being the lowest-highest salary.

I'm having troubles following you :)
Sound like some version of Eye In The Sky[0], scary and unsettling.

[0]: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
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In theory, sure.
Is it sufficiently simple that people will do it in practice? (I don't know, I expect you would know)

Wouldn't the malicious alterations introduced in a scenario like that most likely be exploitable defects that could be explained away as mistakes? If they accumulate too much around certain people that's suspicious of course, but it seems like it would often be difficult to downright prove that someone intentionally broke the security of a rather complex system.
It was inevitable that the tech would progress to this, and continue getting higher resolution and more frequent.

Account may be required, but here's an excellent example of the use: The Oroville Dam.

https://www.planet.com/explorer/#/geometry/POLYGON((-121.518...
Looks like Web Mercator. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator)

It's the same projection most online maps use, which is a bummer. Equirectangular (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection) is much easier to grok (IMHO) and is supported out of the box by D3.
Another endorsement for HelpScout. Web app is great. iOS lacks features in a way that drives me crazy every day (team is well aware of them) but I still think it's the best available with fair pricing.
Except that if you can't afford 3k, you also can't afford $600 a year for dental insurance.
"friends" were indeed huge for such young people...however Seinfeld in-show was supposedly successful enough to buy his father a cadillac as a birthday present, so I can more readily accept that he could afford a relatively spacious 1 bedroom apartment in 80's/90's NYC (remember that the city used to be a lot more affordable back then).