skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see anyone arguing that your past salary should have any effect on your future comp. On the other hand, the position that a candidate seems to be with X, but is actually worth Y << X if they've down themselves to be dishonest in the interview process seems pretty reasonable. In places with good labor protection, lying during the hiring process is a great way to waive all protections from being fired.
I'm constantly surprised by how often I still need to look up file formats, and having a resource like this is a great starting point.
Some examples from my recent experience for which using a library would be overkill / more effort: examining a .bmp file to figure out why the alpha channel got dropped during resizing; extracting meta-data (top-left pixel alpha value) from a .png file; fixing a failed library-call attempt to change the aspect ratio of an image; working out the version of an ancient document file so I could find an application to read it.
We shouldn't become so dependent on libraries that this kind of simple manipulation forces us to install huge libraries and learn complex APIs for simple tasks, or else we collapse hopelessly into despair. Especially when a simple Python script and a one-page file description can allow us to do the job in a few seconds.
One UX design firm I know uses cheap document cameras (I believe IPEVO makes several inexpensive and portable models) so they do pen-and-paper prototyping during videoconferences without any need to scan things in. It's much more interactive to see someone drawing and talk to them as they're doing it, rather than only seeing scans of the finished product afterward.
Some troubling sounding ones;
- All the physical memory used by Windows at the point of the crash
- URL for a specific two second chunk of content if there is an error

- Image & video resolution, video length, file sizes types and encoding

- URLs (which may include search terms)

- Ink strokes written, text before and after the ink insertion point, recognized text entered

- Time and result of each connection attempt (WiFi)

- Mobile Equipment ID (IMEI) and Mobile Country Code (MCCO)

- Whether the user clicked or hovered on UI controls or hotspots
That second link looks like it hasn't changed since 1996. I love it.
>I find it alarming that the judge assumes a "guilty until proven innocent" position.

No, we are in the pre-trial phase. What has been happening is that Judge Alsup ordered Uber several weeks ago to do discovery, and Uber has been resisting doing it as ordered. Alsup has been getting more upset, and is now threatening an injunction if Uber doesn't comply.

At this session Uber argued, in effect, "We don't need to do discovery correctly because we are innocent." It is quite unlikely Alsup will be persuaded by this argument.
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I Bet I Can Make You WANT to Read the Apple EULA (End User License Agreement)
LiveJournal loses DMCA safe harbor protection [pdf]
I think Node community is working on it. In NW the implementation of webworker from browser can be leveraged.
How to GET WINDOWS XP/7/VISTA ON Your ANDroid PHONE
In all reality, it was originally named after Shockwave Flash, but the extension meaning was retcon'd to Small Web Format to avoid confusion with Shockwave.
Ask HN: Would you recommend working for a startup directly out of college?
New grad here, and have been working at a startup since I graduated. Since I've been here, I've seen 4 executives quit, the elimination of product teams, and I've seen other team members assigned to different projects. In your view, should one work at BigCorp to gain higher quality software engineering experience instead of just cowboy coding.
ELI5 what an iso of 5MM means?
It ought to be staggeringly obvious that distribution matters when there is a physical good involved, and especially so in time-sensitive situations where customer pressure is strong.

There are a number good points made here, some with the author's own prose, and some via quotes first said by others; it packages them up fairly neat but sneaks in a wishful fantasy where some food delivery company abstracts away from "real" restaurants and serves first-party food instead.

Perhaps this may happen, given the long history of grocery store private brands, white label goods, or even "commoditized marketplaces" where hordes of customers hit up sellers who are highly rated on some 'authentic-seeming' metric local to that walled garden's universe (Amazon Star Rating, Hotwire "Recommended %", Uber rating, Facebook likes)... but this is due to customers' price sensitivity once differentiating factors have been removed, and leaves room for players who continue to offer a differentiated product or experience.

Fundamentally, this is where aggregators excel after all: you can get both your "one taco, any taco will do", and your fancy offering, and you're their customer regardless; meanwhile those who branch out into distribution or production will be able to preferentially plug their first-party product but at the cost of having to be responsible for an entire product lifecycle in the first place. Unless you have a huge warchest or that's your core competency, this is a risky call.

Perhaps the lesson is, if you already have a huge marketshare of customers, you can probably win additional people over with trying to lower prices on your offerings (perhaps by applying price pressure on your sellers, perhaps by making your own things), and the sellers you aggregate will be loath to leave because you still hold the crowds. That's network effects.
I don't. I didn't read the article, I was bored and I thought parent was being sarcastic saying "building a profitable business on the backs of people willing to be tracked". Missing the key word "willing", I assumed it to be the same business model of just about every internet company and Foursquare was just now figuring this out. So I broke the rules and responded sarcastically thinking this post wasn't going to get much attention anyway (it's about Foursquare).

I've read it now and my comment makes little sense in context. I see they stated some users "have agreed to leave location sharing on all the time so Foursquare can track and analyze their movements." I'm not really sure how this is any different than what they were doing 8 years ago so I do, non-sarcastically, "wonder how that can be maintained".
So, publishers can voluntarily add https://schema.org/ClaimReview markup as RDFa, JSON-LD, or Microdata.
Sorry hn downvote police, but it is a true statement, even if you don't approve of the tone.
So, how much credibility does this southfront.org site have? It cites the original article http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/06/swedish-medical-asso... - but how much credibility does veteranstoday.com have? It looked like paranoid drivel to me... do they have any credibility?
Moderation is key.
US Department of Labor accuses Google of underpaying women
Touching and relevant. A nice reminder of "mankind's most noble goal."
It will be a useful thing if it can reduce the reliance on JavaScript in the browser.
Do you depend on the C runtime as well?
Did you mean "Malayalam"?

EDIT: For those who don't understand the reference, "Malayalam" [1] is the official language of the South Indian state of Kerala.

The question was asking if the parent post mistyped "Malayam" instead of "Malayalam".

Looks like some folks have misunderstood my post and reacted negatively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam
Common Algo Problem Solutions
I found Malcolm Gladwell amazing to listen to while running: motivating, exciting and interesting.
Same here, sometimes I even put information un the url parameters or the the anchor as labels/titles for the bookmark
You'd be amazed by how vast the range for developer salaries is.

I've had employers think that $80k was a reasonable offer for me (when I was making $200k).
Hmm no, now that you mention it. The technique probably has a name, but if it does, I don't know it. That's going to bother me now. Basically just describing existing commonplace conditions (the taxi industry) as if it were some crazy new idea, for ironic effect.
Comment from someone pessimistic because of experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764689

Last month on Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762768
Ironically, you wonder had the first mission failed. If the space fever of the 60s would have stayed far longer or not.
In other words, did the public just took it for granted that how difficult of feat it was and lost interest after a few successful (Apollo 13 the exception) moon landings?
Care to add more to this? I've been doing javascript in some form or another for 10 years. We've always been able to do something "class like", but having actual real classes in ES6 is great. What is there not to like?
> They work as middleman that have intimate knowledge of a company's range, as well as their candidates' range, without either party knowing.

That's comically naive. External recruiters routinely share candidate ranges with employers.
"We will prove beyond any doubt that this is a “Deep State” organization, a melding of CIA, al Qaeda and Britain’s intelligence services."

I read the article and have the same amount of doubt I had before reading the article.

The link to the Swedish doctors website is a wiki link [0] which is apparently being considered for deletion.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Doctors_for_Human_Righ...
Will she be happier? I doubt it.
Shroedinger's astronaut
I don't mean to be rude but:

(1) who decided to bring the media in?

(2) who decided that she should have a whole pile of people crowding in on her other than those responsible for her immediate care?

(3) who decided that all this has to be forced on her in record time?

I can see so many things (besides the three listed above) that are wrong from just a common sense point of view that the humans are definitely not acting just in her best interest here. At least the monkeys did not turn her into some kind of media spectacle.

Yes, hygiene, clean water and food are all good as is - probably - medical attention. But none of those trump an immediate barrage like the one described and visualized in the article, that's not for her benefit but for the benefit of the others present.

So, this is not about there being a 'Mowgli fairy tale', this is about how fairly obviously this is not being done in a way that is calculated to be of the biggest benefit to her. Culture shock is real and this girl is currently forced into an extreme version of that.
They become a simple exchange of cash for labor and not someone who grows loyal or feels a sense of fairness, ownership and excitement about the role.

You've hit upon a fundamental tenet of Marxism: alienation [0]. You haven't said whether or not you offer equity as part of your compensation. If not, then it is somewhat unreasonable to expect that sort of loyalty from your employees. If so, then you have a challenging task of convincing people to buy in to your vision at a potentially high personal risk.

Today's economy is rife with alienation. So many people are constantly changing jobs or dropping out of the workforce [1]. Meanwhile, they're struggling inside a system that produces rampant cost disease [2] and staggering inequality, as illustrated by the dreaded "elephant graph" [3]. Overall, I think there's a growing sense of discontent with capitalism and this can manifest in suspicion towards employers.

Now I'll grant you that it's entirely unfair to lay all this at the feet of just a single employer such as yourself. I don't intend for this to come across as some kind of blame game. I merely hope to provide a larger context for ideas that many people may not even be consciously aware of but contribute to their feelings and instincts nonetheless.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienatio...

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2017/02...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...

[3] http://voxeu.org/article/greatest-reshuffle-individual-incom...
you'd have better argument with effective tax rate.
by 26, dumb as a rock?
It happens all the time, but I consider that a good thing. It's a waste of my time to interview with a company when the highest they'd ever pay is well short of my expectations.
in New Horizons Chomsky writes a bit about cases like this. IIRC a person raised like this has never been reintegrated and per Chomsky it's not really possible because the person will have developed a kind of consciousness that is fundamentally different from what we consider a 'normal' consciousness. Here's a video of him talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-30ZCHk1Ydk
If she was very young when she was abandoned, then it's likely her speech center never developed and will never develop.
The Sony A7S Mk II can do an effective ISO close to 4096000.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/sony/a7s-ii.htm

EDIT: fixed the actual ISO.
Mathematical Symbols
I use them in three ways: My most used bookmarks live on my bookmarks bar in Firefox with the text removed, so they are just icons of the favicon.gif from the server, screenshot example here[1]. The lesser used ones live in the "Folders" folder under a tree style arrangement. The third method is via the "ReadLater" folder which contains links I didn't have time to fully read right away, and acts as a sort of manual version of Pocket or similar apps.

[1] http://storage7.static.itmages.com/i/17/0408/h_1491614673_38...
> Finance people regularly get paid $400k+ as new grads.

Have you ever worked in finance? New grads in any position don't make that much.

Don't believe me? There's public data on offers for top schools that corroborates it. At most people make $150-200k.
Android Layout Inspector Tutorial
You can try https://www.neverware.com/freedownload/. It is chromium for x86...
I do still use bookmarks, but only for places I go a lot, and I sync them via Chrome. Pocket is a godsend for the "cool links" that I check out when I have time and then usually archive away, never to look at again.
Agreed! Just like people admire at a beautifully engineered ship, plane or nice building, I think BEAM VM is marvel of software engineering.

It got so many things right, it was ahead of its time. Is already stable and is serving critical pieces of infrastructure around the world for many years.

It is also worth pointing out that the BEAM was designed with one purpose and that is to run Erlang. Other languages can be implemented on it, but they sort of have to adapt to the Erlang way. The downside there is that the BEAM official specification is its ... implementation. And reasons for implementation were written down. You can catch Joe Armstrong or Robert Virding at one of the events like Erlang Factory and they'll happily tell you why things works the way they do.

Things I like about this VM:

* Process isolation : sounds like magic but it's true you can have millions of processes _and_ all having isolated heaps.

* Dynamic tracing : connect to a node and start tracing any function

* Hot code loading : don't feel like stopping a critical production server to add an extra log statement or upgrade it, don't have to. Can just load the code.

* Like you mentioned, GC. It will never "stop the world". When process ran and exited, the whole block can be reclaimed quickly and efficiently.

Anyway using BEAM with Erlang, Elixir, LFE or other languages, feels a bit like using a secret weapon that very few know about.
Definitely! I still keep the bookmarks bar visible on Chrome and Firefox to have quick access to my favorite and most visited pages. All of the links have abbreviated names to fit more on the bar. #1 is Hacker News, of course.

I also still 'star' interesting links and categorize them into folders. Very handy to have Chrome sync the bookmarks across all of my machines.
I just posted about doing this before I read your comment. I wondered if anyone else did the same as me. It started out as a way to fit more than a few bookmarks on the bar, then I realized that I recognized the icon faster than I could read the text, and squeezed all my most used bookmarks on there.

Great minds do think alike! :-)
I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites

With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles.

I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a while I will desire to access an article that I read a few months or years later, and I find Pinboard well worth the value for making it possible for me to actually identify the article and retrieve its content regardless of whether the original link is still around.

I find this especially useful because it is my habit to collect citations for various facts. When I find myself making a claim in conversation, I really want to be able to access the original source where I learned about the fact, and provide the evidence to back it up. Or to review the source to confirm that my memory of it is accurate. Or sometimes I want to share a useful article explaining some topic with a colleague or friend.

I do occasionally use the browser bookmarks a sort of clipboard or working set, for 5-10 links at a time. I use Google Chrome and it syncs bookmarks between my devices.
Or maybe "It's nearly impossible to have both, ie, progress and no negative consequences" is incorrect.
Mental Models
I'll have to look it up, but there are few large groups that basically track and record a number of industries including tech. I'll have to look it up Monday. They use this info to help companies to pay in a range of +- 20% for any position. At least that's what I've learned from the management training part of this gig.
Bookmarks manager from Chrome is quite good, I think: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager/g...
I like coding in Python, so hopefully not any time soon.
I use pinboard.

As far as native bookmarks, I don't like that browsers have kind of black boxed their bookmarks and require individual proprietary cloud sync for these things (I realize Firefox has a self hosted option, but it's kind of outdated and last I checked the documentation was spotty. Even then it's only FF).

I know there's also the Netscape Bookmark Format which is kind of sketch, but at least it's something. I tried writing something that exported on close, I'd sync them myself, then imported on open, but it was pretty hacky (edit: also browsers exports are often very different so there was some normalization there that was fragile). There should be a way to setup an endpoint to natively sync this stuff with an open protocol and then all your bookmarks on all clients look the same. If you don't like that service, export someplace else and change your endpoint. Browsers should just be boxes for structured content.
Dinning out is about the experience.

Food Delivery is about crushing hunger, -fast-.

So, no. They are two different companies in two different markets.
Thanks for the book suggestion. They weren't wrong; Challenger was an absolute disaster for NASA, especially considering the teacher on board.
It would be interesting to see how this compares to theoretical limits. At a given brightness and collecting area, you get (with lossless optics) a certain number of photons per pixel per unit time. Unless your sensor does extraordinarily unlikely quantum stuff, at best it counts photons with some noise. The unavoidable limit is "shot noise": the number of photons in a given time is Poisson distributed, giving you noise according to the Poisson distribution.

At nonzero temperature, you have the further problem that your sensor has thermally excited electrons, which aren't necessarily a problem AFAIK. More importantly, the sensor glows. If the sensor registers many of its own emitted photons, you get lots of thermal noise.

Good low noise amplifiers for RF that are well matched to their antennas can avoid amplifying their own thermal emissions. I don't know how well CCDs can do at this.

Given that this is a military device, I'd assume the sensor is chilled.
Apple also planning pro upgrades for MacBook Pro, iPad Pro
I have thousands, maybe tens of thousands. The library window never closes. I really don't organize them.
Early plumbing was often made of lead pipes which caused some pretty serious negative externalities such as brain damage.
I always hated the prevalence of so many tools -- I get sick of having to learn 30 variants of the same stupid thing because none of them seem to excel in every area. One server from recent memory had crap running in sysv, inittab, and with deamontools because not everybody liked the same system and kinda just did what they knew. I'm rather happy that systemd throws all that out.
Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions?
My favorites are Wappalyzer (https://wappalyzer.com/) for peaking under the hood of my favorite sites, and vimium (https://vimium.github.io/) for faster browsing. What are yours?
The story if true is discomforting, the mind ponders, and it does not completely add up.

We know the 'facts' but we also don't. This is exactly the kind of story that needs fact checking, but to get that you need people on the ground, who are experienced and confirmation will take time which the attention span of the news cycle will not allow.

The worst is turning it into some kind of circus. Hope that now with the global attention the Indian authorities will immediately retrieve her from the current facilities with people clearly not trained for this, and get her the kind of specialized care and sensitivity she needs.
> That is a given for nearly any job. If it's your only reason you want to take this particular job, it tells me you have zero passion for your work.

Your reasoning seems flimsy. I'm extremely passionate about programming and technology. You definitely wouldn't describe me as a "9-5" employee (I'm constantly working on new projects and learning new things), but I'm also very broad in my programming interests. It's extremely rare for me to find a development project which doesn't interest me.

Hence, the reason I'm in technology (in general) is about passion but the reason I'll work for you specifically is because of how much you'll pay me. I take pride in my work, which means I also expect to be paid well for it.
> Compared to 'real' problems that the world faces

What problems are more 'real' than 1 million people dying each year from car related injuries?
Many things, although introspection works glove in hand with generics.
Below os a non-exhaustive list.

You can 'Write once - automate everywhere' all the boilerplate. See https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d/ , for an example of automating the interaction between D and Excel. I am in the process of doing something similar for OpenCL and CUDA and will be presenting it at Dconf.

You can make at compile time (additional) fast paths by checking to see if a type (or symbol or whatever else) provides a fast primitive to accelerate your algorithm. e.g. if Foo implements fastfoo use that otherwise fallback to a general algorithm.

See also Andrei Alexandrescu's 2016(15?) talk (IIRC the relevant section is about half way through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDK91E3VKs).
All an intermediate language does is slow the compile speed down.
I use them in Chrome all the time, I have thousands — I basically search them as kind of a personal google... for those "Oh I remember reading an article about that once, let me find it"