skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More exactly, "carry" is the negotiated profit from a deal above a certain "hurdle." For instance, in the traditional 2 and 20
Model in Private equity, general partners get an annual fee of 2% of assets under management. But the 20 is the real moneymaker...they get 20 percent of any profits from the overall gain in the fund. If the fund makes, say, an annualized 15 percent, and the min return to investors I. 8%, the investor gets 20% of the 7% (15-8) profit. And over a 5-7 year fund life, that's a compound number. It leads to immense upside.
Hmm, does this mean the raspberry Pi licences should be free soon?

http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-keys/
Yeah that'll be a great resume padder "Ignored and pretended not to know about one of the largest breaches in history, but it's ok because the FBI said I was a real trooper"
The author of the above has another article
"Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Consumer-end Technology and Science"

at

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/natural-language-processing-m...

My favorite excerpt from that article:

"... just one final thought: when computers came in our lives, there was a lot of unstructured data, and then we taught people to use business applications. We did not cater to them, we educated them. Today's emphasizing unstructured data as a possibility is a slap in the face to the generation (Gene Rodenberry pops to my mind right away) who thought humans could see how technology helps them, and that educated us to be machine friendly and understending (e.g. by using only alpha numeric ASCII (it includes the underscore) in filenames). The "rise" of unstructured data is first and forememost a failure in education. It is not an open future opportunity, but a missed past opportunity.

There is a story in financial markets: when there was the great gold rush only a few became rich from digging up gold, but many fortunes were made from selling shovels."[ a few misspellings corrected]
Curious, but what else would you have it be? A detailed, scientific comparison of jobs, club memberships, languages spoken, schools attended...Academic to the point of tedious?

I thought the whole point of a blog was personal experience? This is what the author saw and therefore, this is what he can express with honesty.
Ask HN: Background Check – Job title mismatch
I got an job offer and final stage is background check via third party.

In my second job, my official job title is C# Developer while in my resume I wrote C# Tech Lead.

I wrote C# Tech Lead because during last year in my second job, I was mentoring 3 juniors and responsible for tech stack architecture.

However, I am afraid that my potential employee will rescind job offer because of job title mismatch.

What I think is explain to potential employee when they decided rescind job offer.

Any better advice?
My most recent effort was a new algorithm for caching which improve validation times up to 40% (measured) for new blocks, and also reduce the amount of memory required to speedily validate blocks. It also is more friendly to re-orged blocks which can help improve mining decentralization.
That sounds pretty reasonable, but what's a specific example of this happening? One that comes to mind is CRISPR, and the patent dispute over that has literally held the field back. CRISPR is the thing that's going to cure cancer, and it's being held back because of patent nonsense. I can't prove it, but if patents didn't exist, I'm pretty sure CRISPR (and the specific nuances at the heart of the actual patent dispute) would nonetheless have been discovered.

Meanwhile compare to something like deep learning, which is uniquely unencumbered by patents for several reasons. Yet somehow corporations seem to be interested and the pace of progress is rapid.
Agreed; the conventional wisdom around filing patents at the startups I've worked for has been to increase the value of the company (a patent can be valued as an asset). No one ever expected us to file suit against another company that might infringe on our patents (which would take years to get issued, anyway). Doing so would be such a time suck that it would distract us too much from building an actual product.
Principles of Good Programming (2011)
Sure, Secretary is very old school. I also think the C titles are relatively new compared to President and Secretary.
Some of it is so obsolete and unique it would probably identify the company :) . The rest is slightly less old, MS webforms.

The webforms stuff isn't much better because the code quality is the worst I've ever seen. Adding features and fixing bugs is a stochastic process because you never know what will break.

Usually fixing a bug will expose an old fix that was done improperly for the original even older bug, forcing you to undo multiple levels of hacks to implement your own. It's nightmarish
> "Core" is embracing censorship as method to push their client

> where /r/bitcoin is moderated, heavily, by core

This is entirely false. No one in the Bitcoin Core development community has anything to do with how subreddits are being moderated. Dismissing their technical contributions due to how unrelated persons are moderating online communities is nonsensical.

> /r/btc has a no-censorship policy.

https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/c9f4b90bec1b2fbf8caaab...

> This makes the technical differences between the two almost irrelevant, most are picking a side because they don't (or do) believe in censorship.

The censorship claims are artificially manufactured and blown out of proportion. The /r/bitcoin moderators engage in standard moderation and enforcing the community's rules, a job that became even harder due to all the manipulation, shilling, sockpuppet accounts and voting robots that infiltrated the communication channels of the bitcoin community.

https://medium.com/@shesek/observing-forced-narratives-and-m... (an article I recently wrote. see the "Related" part at the end for more details.)

Moderation is an essential part of healthy online communities. It is not censorship.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/

https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/09/free-speech-in-onl...
Ida Tin's Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App
Not a server language (no NodeJS at google). The other is C.
Did you bring up Samsung's past implication in infringing upon the patents of other companies?
> appliance shopping, the ability to get information about what is actually quality is near zero

Do you know about Consumer Reports?[1]

It's a non-profit organization which puts out a magazine (and website) which does unbiased product testing, has zero advertising, pays for all the products they test, never takes sample products, buys all their products anonymously (so they can't be given better samples for testing purposes), and has extensive laboratories, procedures, scientist/technicians for testing (a private track for testing cars, for example).

I never heard of anyone saying that Consumer Reports was fraudulent or paid-reviewed. Appliances are things that they definitely review all the time.

The downsides of Consumer Reports are as follows:

- it's U.S. based, so it's focused on products available in the U.S.

- for appliances, say a washing machine, they are going to pick only 10-20 models to review, even though there may be hundreds of models on the market

- there are a million things they'll never review because they are not an ordinary, common, consumer purchases; you'll never see reviews of oscilloscopes :-)

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm
You're essentially arguing for an ontological approach to learning and knowledge in general and in that I 100% agree with you. It would make most people much more efficient (and feel safer intellectually) in this ever more complex world.

However insofar as there's a limit to every principle, I would caution against a too-generic approach 100% of the time: it's often after a second step in which you learn, often by heart (think hobby, think things you love), a bunch of very detailed information about a topic, that you truly feel confident about your knowledge. And this is what we generally define as expertise (albeit 2nd degree until you make things, apply this knowledge). In most cases, it comes with time and exposure (experience, repetition) but is much accelerated by a conscious will to learn (and good methods).

In short, a high-level ontological approach combined with a sizeable degree of freedom to explore this or that topic in ample detail (quite lacking in studies where you have to rush everything).
Good point, although in this instance of "argumentum ad verecundiam" Snowden has the credibility and has stated a common objection in such a succinct way that I think it bears repeating provided it is stated accurately.

Appealing to authority can be a fallacious way to reason, however it can also be done correctly, and is a powerful way to influence people. I love your visual of phone/quote/mic drop - that'd definitely be the wrong way to do it :)
I've had to replace the motor/regulator for my driver's side power window twice now ('05 Mitsu Galant). Fortunately it's just a $75-100 part and less than an hour of work.
> but what does your quote add to the discussion?

Not much, thanks for the gentle reminder :)
It's too small a company to maintain my anonymity. Small enough that it's unlikely to burn any fellow HN readers if that makes it any better
Obviously you/we don't represent the majority. GP is a valid point, in that without polling the people who are choosing to drive [0], we don't know their actual motivation.

[0] Don't give the thugs any ideas
The hacker news community, and more generally the computer technogolgy, often have this point of view. There's no doubt that patents for our industry could use some work.

However, go to many other idustries and you'll find that people have a much more positive view of patents. We hear about it when patents don't work. You don't often hear about patent success stories.
I was your age when I got hired at my current job and I didn't even have the masters. You'll be fine.

If you're in the Seattle area (or wouldn't mind) moving here we are still hiring. Send me a message at my username at gee mail.
They are.

The git tag and signing verify logic assume the sha-1 hashes for integrity.
Tough place to be in, and it sounds like you need to extract yourself as quickly as you can mindfully do so.

Get yourself into the right mindset for interviewing and demoing your side projects, line up some interviews, and go. When you've got an offer on the table, make the jump.

Alternatively, if you have several months of living expenses as a cushion in the bank, you could find some freelance clients and then quit.

Focus on the future, stay hopeful, and get out of there. If it's only been a few months, consider not even listing this job on your resume.
So dismissive and ignorant of systemic causes, reduces problems to an individual's "choices". Diagnosis: conservatism.
IBM Launches New Developer Tools for Financial Services
Exactly, you owe them your labor while they're still paying you. If they gave you a signing bonus or something under the assumption that you'll stay for a certain amount of time, then they will probably (justifiably) crawl it back.

Like another person said, there are people who enjoy modernizing codebases (I sometimes do myself), but if you are hating your job, do everyone a favor and make a change.

You should probably start with your manager, and explain why you are considering leaving.
You invoked authority, and attacked the post via name calling, without adding anything to the discussion. Either elaborate or don't bother to comment.
Newer front-loaders seem to come with a self-clean cycle that does the trick (especially when you add some vinegar or bleach to the four hour process).
Coming from LA and Boston, plenty of people think Uber is a bad company but still use them for lack of better prices. Most people check Lyft and will go with it if cheaper/the same cost.
Patches all the way down, it seems. I've had to deal with similar codebases. I try to fix what I can, but it always seems to be a neverending process.

Legacy codebases suck, but it doesn't stop newer codebases from sucking just as much. I've learnt that the hard way.
Japanese GDP is declining and hasn't grown much at all in real terms since the 1990's[1], so... maybe producing less and not replacing with more capable robots?

[1] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp
Ask HN: Maintaining Privacy While Job Hunting
Sometimes admitting that you're looking for a job sounds embarrassing in public (at least online it doesn't feel so lonely), but being poor at networking means the alternative is looking online for work. I used to let headhunters bug me, but I keep getting emails from strange foreign headhunters (Akhmed wants my private details) who I've never sent my info to (and don't want to). The alternative is either searching company sites one-by-one (the hard way) or going to sites like Monster and posting a resume hoping to be detected by someone actually looking to hire and not merely harvest (which is what happened). At what point do you say "no" to info grabbing? When do you stop filling out a form and ask yourself what's too much? And finally, if you have a private website, how do you make yourself look interesting (esp. to those HR types who are looking for a "culture fit" when their job ad calls for a techie) without giving away intimate details? Or am I really just asking for an oxy-moron... (probably) (And please, no-one suggest LinkedIn. I deleted my account as it was being used as a spy tool for unwanted parties.)
Why does it need to be a mobile app? Why isn't it a website?
What is the source of your view, that supports your pro inflation statements?

I have heard this argument before, but only get arguments from authority when I ask for actual data that shows this.
> I don't like Facebook at all, but they are here to stay for a while, until something else replaces it.

Just like MySpace. At the time, MySpace was the defacto standard of communication for most young people of a minimum socioeconomit status. You're missing the point by ignoring the history/reality.

Telephones still exist because the infrastructure is difficult (expensive, time consuming, hard to maintain) to replicate in a robust fashion. Wireless has come a long way, but it's still using the hardline protocols because we still have hardlines. Usually where financial incentives to switch are different.
Relo isn't a problem and I definitely want to stay in this town. I can't really mark it as time off because I already did that a while back, I don't want to end up with a lot of gaps :)

I was thinking I could just apply to other places and be honest with them... But some may also frown upon me saying bad things about my current employer
in my opinion,just absorb the knowledge or the information is not enough, we should practice them.
And yet, your post added even less. He clearly mentions that Europeans he knows are more cultured than the typical American he deals with (caveat: I lived in DC and now live in Geneva, and this is my experience as well).

Obviously, we're dealing with stereotypes. If you're this repulsed by it, I'm very interested in knowing how you'd dissect "culture" without resorting to generalizations?
Below link helped me to carry on while I was still there:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-don...
All code is legacy code. Use it as a proving ground for learning how to deal with legacy code. Otherwise you will always be bitter and upset no matter where you go. The only way to work on greenfield projects is to start something from scratch on your own.
Both have possible upsides. And both have negative expected value.
Unfortunately for them, their reputation in the Bay Area will make it harder for them to attract and retain talent and stay competitive in the long run.
> You don't often hear about patent success stories.

True enough, can you share some? (preferably post 80s, ie not Robert Kearns?)
IMHO the dining car skews towards older people, as they're more likely to have booked rooms. My sample size is 2 (trips and meals).
Right, major national-level news. Or possibly a newspaper who has identified an enemy it wishes to paint in a bad light wherever possible.
Well when his language generates revenue we can discuss usefulness in objective terms, until then it lacks any real bite.
Yay capitalism
On the story about Jeff Jones, someone commented that Kalanick has a stock arrangement that gives him control of the board. Does anyone know if this is true? I can't see how they can let this hemorrhaging continue when the problem is obviously Kalanick's leadership. But it shows no signs of stopping.

The only other thing I could think of is that the board is complicit in something worse than what's been exposed, and is afraid Kalanick will blow things up if they move on him.

EDIT:
BBC is now reporting that two separate internal sources at Uber say Kalanick will step down when a new COO is in place.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39323828
Adjust CAD Drawing Size and Determine External References for AutoCAD DWG in Java
I'm not invoking authority, I'm invoking independence. Core isn't owned or run by Blockstream.
I also have that book by Lang. But I've yet to tackle it. I hope to do so while my fingers and eyesight are still good enough to fold origami figures.
You're right, the execution context is non local. I'm actually not a big fan of laziness as the default myself. I love the option of lazy evaluation, because sometimes, it makes things really easy, like for infinite sequences, but most of the time, it does add complexity in reasoning about the code.

There's functional alternatives to Haskell which adopt the non-lazy as default, such as Elm, Rust, SML, Lisps, Fantom, Elixir, Scala, etc.

I have to admit though, this is a bit of a trade off situation. Working with pure functions is very simple, but to map those to unpure behavior, like IO, you need something that isolate that, and without laziness, I'm not sure how you can get that to be practical.
Look for a new job while pulling in your current paycheck. You were lied to from the start and you owe them nothing. Most of the new places will no have a problem with "job hopping" if you are honest and say you aren't working on what you were hired for. Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1768/
“Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may also step down once the firms new COO is in place”
Thanks, my response was written with severe annoyance. I felt I did respond to the argument, as it was (to me) that A) dev is run by blockstream and B) there are no performance improvements. I was trying to evidence that by invoking my independence from Blockstream and the scalability improvements I personally work on (which yes, help enable capacity increases).

edit: I forgot to say I edited my post with more background.
My expenses are too high to walk away and there's nothing I can do about it for a couple years. Otherwise I would have walked out several times over.
HDMI won't be going away any time soon. You can replace the receiver, and keep the good display.

Yes, TV broadcast standards will change. Over here, we lost analog TV a few years ago, and in about three years we'll lose DVB-T on only have DVB-T2.
>more education, investment in technology, encouraging startups

This is very, very obviously not what rural Americans want to hear.
Seeing as how sam altman has invested in an AI startup (vicarious.com), which is pursuing robotics applications, why would he/YC want to fund competitors for RFS ?
The problem is that even if you fireproof your house, your house can still burn down. It makes more sense to fireproof your house AND have homeowner's insurance. You can't lower your risk of negative events to zero, but even so, that's not the point of insurance. The point is to have a safety net should some improbable event happen. I don't care how fireproof you make your house, it could still burn down, and you don't want to be without insurance when it does.
Blind says Kalanick is stepping down.
My favorite teacher in grade school, and echoed by my favorite teachers later in life, told me that the most important thing they are trying to teach us is how to learn because we'd all be learning for the rest of our lives.

I still strongly agree with that sentiment, but the difference/problem with learning as an adult is two-fold: why I am learning, and how much time I have to learn/apply that knowledge.

There is a difference in learning material to 'ace' a midterm/final exam, versus learning something to figure out a novel way, or picking up a new technology, to accomplish some task (e.g., at work). Part of the difference is who decides what can be "pruned", and especially when. I think back on all the 'stuff' I knew I would never need again once the final was over. Admittedly, I wasn't always correct, but age and experience increased my hit rate, and what subjects I under or over estimated could be whole other threads.

I am retired now, but have gotten into learning, mostly just for fun, some of the most complex (nasty) subject matter that I never had time for before. If I want to go off on some tangent, or deep dive, I can. The amount of free (or inexpensive) courses out there is wonderful and exciting.
Damn that's relevant
Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building ‘robot factory’
The patent system no longer rewards innovation. At best, it's a non-participant and at worst it quashes innovation.

I'm not trying to agree or disagree with anything else you wrote, just clarifying what I think is a point you left ambiguous.
Some webforms but the majority is in a much more ancient and niche language I won't name because it's too specific to this company.
Using memtest86 on dual core Opterons got a measurement of about 2200 Mbytes/second, I think, with DDR1 PC3200 ECC RAM.

I think you could get a lot of work done with a 750GB RAM (2 of these, or one coming later) and dualcore Opteron setup.
Who is Blind?
Like unemployment, inflation measures seem to be significantly under-represented in the government's working data. Of course, inflation can never be perfectly measured, even against the cost of commodities, since that assumes commodities are of constant value. This is simply not true -- although values may not change as quickly as new products, almost every commodity is slightly less valuable than it was ten years ago due to marginal improvements in operations, supply-chain, and production technology.

And then you have the impact of oil, whose volatility is derived from difficult-to-predict geopolitics and abundance, making it useless as a short-term inflation indicator and even more useless as a very long term indicator, and yet we heavily rely on it regardless. Might as well include Bitcoin while we're at it. Not to mention the absence of real estate / college tuition / credit card debt in these measurements. Here's an interesting look at some cost comparisons, showing just how difficult it is to capture inflation using a CPI or even PCE approach.

http://www.mybudget360.com/cost-of-living-compare-1975-2015-...

While the author is concerned with meeting his distorted inflation metric on paper before raising rates, there's another reason to keep rates low: the cost of debt is about to rise for the world's largest debtor, and the payment is going to further add to its deficit. If the Fed is only concerned with the short-term problems of the US economy, like it usually is, then it should probably never raise rates.
Doesn't seem like much of a real story:

> Mr. McClendon is departing amicably from Uber and will be an adviser to the company. ... His exit has been in the works for some time
Martin Fowler – Software Design in the 21st Century