skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few engineers (as a percentage of all engineers) even in the Bay Area earn that much (base, all-in, or otherwise). Typical non-management compensation (all-in) is going to cap out ~15% or more below $300k.

I've taken several salary surveys and done plenty of research through publicly available sites (e.g. glassdoor, linked in, payscale, etc.). For what it's worth, my all-in compensation is well below $300k/year as a senior engineer and is typically reported as being on or above the very high end of average. Given the propensity to exaggerate in these surveys I expect my salary to be even farther from the average than reported.
Chinese scientists create biggest virtual universe with world’s fastest computer
What's a midrange developer
Did Uber fail in China? Perspectives on the merger from a former employee
the game is pretty dang fun http://bist.io
Only in the beginning though. Later on they changed how X3s were produced and unlocking the 4th core became regularly impossible, either because there was no 4th core or because it really was broken. I had one of those later models...

Buy early if you want to profit from this, if that turns out to be possible.
> what happens to the core bitcoin business case once all known operators, exchanges and dealers have to abide by exactly the same regulations that govern conventional currency.

See... this is the sort of question that I love to hear. It's a shining example of the weakness and bias of the current system: it's only a problem to transact bitcoin if you're trying to exchange it to a gov't issued currency.

there's a chain of reasoning that starts at "if my grocer could just sell me groceries for bitcoin" and ends at "yeah, I guess property taxes will continue to need to be paid in gov't issued currency"

at the end of that chain is the catastrophic tipping point where hyperinflation happens. maybe we'll neuter the war machine when we get there... who knows.
Despise is a strong word; but in most projects we rarely allow a merge commit in master.

(Context: Git. Small to medium team. Only team members with Git expertise can push to master.)

https://blog.oasisdigital.com/2017/how-we-use-git-and-why/
Illegal and undocumented instructions found in every major vendor CPU
Hi, OP here. Happy to answer any specific question...
You do not need to set up DNSSEC+DANE, and, in fact, doing so is very likely to make your system less reliable; the primary function DNSSEC has in practice is to cause outages.

Observe how few of the major sites are DNSSEC-signed. In reality the only purpose signing has is allowing your site to vanish from view of the few DNS resolvers dumb enough to do DNSSEC validation.
So... they want to figure out how to cheat at smart contracts like they do with paper ones?
Why doesn't GraphQL just define semantics over what is JSON syntactically so existing tools and parsers are sufficient? It's already so close to JSON, why use parens and strings containing emedded JSON? E.g., instead of:

{
"query": "repository(owner:\"zapier\", name:\"transformer\") {
id
description
}"
}

use something like:

{
"query": {target: "repository", owner:"zapier", name:"transformer", [
"id",
"description"
]}}
}
Good point, I don't know anything about law so I wasn't aware of this.

Maybe I can restate my comment as "This promise is meaningless, but there are meaningful promises they can make that they chose not to, and that is meaningful."
Learning Machine Learning from 187 Quora Questions
Preparation for me:

- note all the key points you want to make, collate into groups, these become slides

- generate slides, focus on diagram not text, you are going to speak the text. Ensure a key is present if necessary

- if the diagrams are complex, do a flick book : generate the final picture and duplicate the slide subtracting content working backwards, you will end up with lots of slides but they print cleanly stand alone and are clear

- print the slides . Write notes along side them, repeat repeat repeat, distill into the following per slide:

3 intro points

3 content points

3 summary points

And most importantly .. a lead into the next slide; these become your notes

-give the talk, the notes slides are your anchors, you can easily glance down to remember where you are if you are lost, giving the 3 summary points builds your confidence along the way, and the link to the next slide keeps everything flowing nicely

- if you are nervous. Get a plant in the audience to ask you an easy question on the 2nd or 3rd content slide, I calm down immediately if I get a question I can answer early on

Good luck !
It's worth mentioning a couple of Laz's other races:

- The Last Annual Vol State 500K. A race across the full width of Tennessee in the middle of the summer. You can compete either "crewed" or "screwed". This year's edition just ended a few days ago. http://volstate314.com/

Here's Laz writing about this year's race the night before - http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8311134

- The Big Backyard Ultra. A race of attrition. A 4'ish mile loop every hour on the hour until there is only one runner left (who must complete the course solo, otherwise no winners). In 2014, two runners got to 204 miles at which point they both agreed to quit as one of them had to catch a plane. No winner that year. https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=44026
I don't give a damn how much they would pay, no way I'm working for Bank of America. They can suck it.
Happy Birthday, dear Lambda: 17 is good edition
That's the idea of a hybrid, no? For a lot of the places I'd want to go camping in a truck like this, I'd be likely to want a generator anyway, so I might as well trickle-charge the vehicle back up whenever the power is on.
I'm aware. Being deaf is the condition of not perceiving those signals, wherever that fault lies.
It's a comment that implies the post is uninteresting and asks for justification of people caring. That by itself makes for a terrible and noncontributing comment.
If it's coupled with some Wi-Fi physical layer data (signal strength, etc.), a big dataset might be useful in making a better model for in-door signal propagation. Roombas are already quite popular in the research community as a cheap platform for automatically moving around equipment.
It is psychological. It's a lot easier to tackle the problems you know about, and know how to handle (even if it's just knowing the meta-process of how to figure out how to handle it), than it is to take on completely new, alien types of work. Every project has too many tasks. It's the things we don't know that we don't know that hurt us the most.
Brenden Eich felt compelled to step down as Mozilla CEO because he supported a ban on Gay marriage and parts of the tech community criticized him for it (including OkCupid which ran a special banner for Firefox users).

If that means Tech is not inclusive--then you're right.
was expecting a semi truck
Which they retracted again. I don't think we know anything before either AMD says something officially or someone decaps the chips.
Not sure where I see you mention anything at all about stats? It's hard to make statistical arguments for things that are difficult to quantify because they are so underreported.
I would add that another practical aspect about Naive Bayes classifiers is that you can make use of the conditional probabilities for each feature that contributes to the predictions. That gives you some introspection on how the model is working and it's useful when "debugging" classifiers by finding features that should/shouldn't be used.

https://monkeylearn.com/blog/how-to-create-text-classifiers-...
It looks like few people are familiar with CMake, others are just copy-pasting snippets of configuration code from googled results. And noone knows how to do it right. The same is with Autotools.
>> 1. It's harder to bribe all Joes.

>It's easy to influence all Joes on the social media platforms virtually all of them use.

And that is a good thing. If they can be influenced in a bad way quickly, then they can be influenced in a good way, or away from bad way, quickly as well.

Representative democracy was a compromise of the days where direct democracy was not possible due to limits of communication. Not so in this day and age, you can have answer from people over the internet in few hours. Thought leaders would still continue to exist and influence people. But, representatives with limited attention span, limited brain power, limited time of the day, demands from multiple concerns, personal influences of experience and needs, won't wield so much power.

>I completely agree with you here, but like others you only talk about the big issues. Not the small day-to-day operation that must also be handled as well as all the small "boring" issues that face any real government.

Bureaucracy exists in representatives democracy as well. It will continue to exist in direct democracy. Hire the best that people want, not political appointments.

>Representatives are not rulers.

I don't know. We, in USA, has developed a class of people, who "represent" people for ages and generations. They do polling of people to find issues that would result into they winning the race to be representative and then do what they want to do once they win. Electing a representative has a huge disconnect with what people want done.

>I guarantee that if direct democracy was implemented you would have charismatic personalities telling people how to vote on day one. And they would be much better than influencers trying to use reason too.

Absolutely. No different than a representative trying to secure vote. But, with representative democracy people cede control for two years, four years, six years at a time. With direct democracy you get a chance every day to influence decision making.

>More information overload. More false information supporting your preexisting views.

really? Who is this external arbitrator of what is false and what is true? Can that arbitrator make mistakes? I believe there are more good people than bad, and many eyes examining what is true vs few arbitrators of truth, is better.

>At least their aides and bureaucrats can be ugly and socially inept as long as they are good at what they do.

A case for entertaining plumber or soldier, ha? I wouldn't mind knowing if the plumber can sing. lol. People would vote on a policy, a plan and a cost and an executive (Roman Consul) to carry it out. Hiring decisions would be left to the Consul. There would be a sense of Civic Duty and people would pay more attention, in a generation or two, education in schools would emphasize Civic Duties. Representative democracy, almost half the people don't even vote, knowing it doesn't matter much what the representative claimed in the election and what transpired.
↑↑ Check the reply above by spalladino2.
I wasn't excluding the left-- hence my comment about Soviet ideology. I was making a general point about the affinity that exists between totalitarianism and irrationalist ideas in other areas and how totalitarianism often adopts these ideas for propaganda and signaling purposes.

That being said I do find the alt-right more alarming than typical run of the mill left-leaning woo woo. The latter isn't advocating abolition of the constitution and violence against (((minorities))) (Jews, blacks, etc.).
The author is the one who moved the goalposts. Here's the opening question:

> Are you an honest person?

Now, here's the follow-up, emphasis mine:

> ... who else do you know that’s completely honest?

Those are not the same question, at all. biztos was correct to call it out.
Probiotic Beer Coming Your Way
I wonder if they are targeting this for developing markets where safety is not a major concern.
I would imagine that it's a bit of both, but 1 point of comparison in OpenBSD's favor would be libressl vs openssl, the number & severity of issues in the OpenBSD maintained project has been significantly lower.
Project Orion would like to have a word with you...
-2 for stating facts backed up by a fairly concise source. Bravo.

What I referenced actually happened. Mayer gathered most of Yahoo in a confidential meeting and read them a cryptic excerpt from a children's book that nobody understood. If wasting everyone's time in that manner isn't condescending, then I don't know what is.

Here's an excerpt:

Mayer held the book up to show its last illustration. It was a drawing of a little red-haired boy riding a merry-go-round pony.

Hardly anyone could see the page.

No one understood what Mayer was trying to say.

Later on in the excerpt and in "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" readers learn that Mayer was trying to say that, like Bobbie who finds joy riding a merry-go-round, Mayer values experiences over possessions — and that for her, Yahoo had been a great experience so far.
Submit ideas to conferences. Get accepted. Panic. Make slides. Practice. Give talk. Learn from your mistakes and repeat.
I completely agree with recording yourself. By recording a trial run you'll also get good practice being nervous. Just turning the camera on you helps to simulate the stress of talking in front of a crowd.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-express-Unlocked-Android-Came...

+

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDXC-Standard-Packaging-...
I'd be curious to see some month to month (or year to year) financial charts.
Tail-call optimization proposal for WASM
Or meson, which gnome and systemd now support, among other big projects.
At one level, I agree that there isn't much difference betwee Amazon and Ebay in regard to knockoffs. On a different level, I find it easier to evaluate offers on Ebay because of the information it provides regarding sellers. Knowing that the item ships from China is a datapoint. Knowing that the particular seller has sold 247 from the listing is a data point that relates to the seller's rating.

The experience you describe regarding Amazon Basics pretty much sums it up. Amazon puts its name on products that are crap because it is in their interest and despite their interest clearly not aligning with mine. Ebay avoids the temptation by not putting their name on products. If it's crap, it's because of the seller not Ebay.
Just to be pedantic ;)

var creates variables that are function scoped. my creates variables that are block scoped.

let in JavaScript would be pretty much the same as my.

Both are good things as they prevent typos from being new variables.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-sca...

I really must be a wild paranoid if I would ever think that a big corp or gov would read the private data that I throw into their cloud.

You think it's paranoid to expect it, I think it's naive to not expect it.
Exactly, unless there is some 'suicide' clause in the company bylaws that says all data will be destroyed on change of ownership (which would be fiduciarily [1] irresponsible anyway) then the statement of the CEO is constrained to 'during my tenure' at best. And 'during my tenure, while we are meeting our numbers goals' at worst.

[1] I don't think that is a word but hopefully what I hope it would mean if it were a word is clear :-)
England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy
So here we are again, using yet another obscure technology for a very simple problem solved years ago: a key value store.

Will I have to pay with ETH to have an username linked to my ID?
I feel like starting a business with a massive theft of other people's intellectual property isn't a great model to follow.
Ask HN: Distributed tracing service with critical path analysis?
The Dapper paper mentions "An engineer working on long tail latency debugging built a small library which infers hierarchical critical paths from DAPI Trace objects. These critical path structures were then used to diagnose problems and prioritize prospective performance improvements for universal
search."

Do any of the distributed tracing services (e.g. Datadog APM, AWS X-Ray) offer this? I don't see any services which tout this functionality.
Captain401 (YC S15) Is Hiring a Technical Recruiter, Product Manager, and More
Me too. It's not just fact that TSA has the job to make travel more inconvenient and annoying and expensive, but that there seems to be no limit to how much extra expense and annoyance we're willing to let them inflict on us. And the fact that all this security theater clearly makes us less safe - killing extra people in car crashes and destroying economic productivity that could have saved far more lives.

There seems to be nobody willing to push back against the idiocy that is the TSA. In paying their salaries we are almost literally paying for rope to hang ourselves. If we can't eliminate or cut back programs this dumb and this destructive, is there any hope for technological progress at all? Or are all efforts to improve the human condition similarly doomed to be hamstrung by rent-seekers and grandstanders and paranoid muckrakers?

Every time I have to stand in that line I get a little bit more furious that we can't get rid of these idiots and their counterproductive procedures and just walk over to the gate and get on a plane like a civilized person.
What I don't understand how anyone would profit from this data.

What are the top 3 ways a business could make money off it?
Rather overly-familiar comment to end on.
An alternative approach to creating a game is to ask yourself a series of questions (paraphrased from [1]):
* Who are the likely players?
* What are their motivations for playing?
* What are their objectives in the game?
* What does the game world look like?
* What are the mechanics by which the player interacts with the world to achieve those objectives?
* What makes the objectives, world and mechanics compelling to the player?

Not to start with the development stack…

[1] The Art of Game Design, by Jesse Schell
Have you ever studied what your competition is doing wrong and why you've managed to stay ahead of them for so long?
As long as it doesn't ruin taste, sure, having an excuse to drink beer sounds awesome.

The low alcohol content makes it seem like a good session beer too, although I don't know if you can, or would want to, "sesh" probiotics...
Ah, discontinuing the Nano because it competes with the watch does seem likely.
You could have Supreme Courts without representative Democracy.

You could have direct democracy on issues (Brexit e.g.) within representative democracy.

Majority agrees with this form of government including Supreme Court and Constitutional Rights. If 99% of USA agreed to not follow constitution, would Supreme Courts be able to enforce their opinions? Majority agrees to give that power to Supreme Court and is upholding it everyday.

If you think we gave our constitution to ISIS today, they would function the same way, without buying into it?
I try to get into LibreOffice, but I just can't: on windows the ui is quite laggy, and the fonts just look... strange. It's like both the kerning and AA are off.
Where did the initial seeding of all the lyrics & bands come from? Also, are most of the new lyrics contributed by users and if so how do you handle authenticating that the lyrics provided are accurate?
I would have assumed the same even a couple months ago. The idea of buying an electric car never even crossed my mind. Now, at least in my case, after running the numbers its a no-brainer.

A car like the Fiat 500e, Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf etc. can be leased for $100-$200/mo. These cars all effectively get 100+ mpg. So, any difference in the lease cost is made up for in 1 or 2 tanks of gas.

There are still tons of incentives as well. In a couple years, there will be little functional difference between electric and gas cars for 99.9% of use cases. I think in 10 years, new sales of electric cars will exceed gas cars.
The company I work for is aggressively hiring blue teamers. The core of our product is essentially a security product, so we need someone who has at least some professional engineering experience as you would be responsible for helping to lead teams building certain parts of our infrastructure and product. Someone who can hop onto code reviews that deal with sensitive areas would be fantastic.

We're located in Boulder but for the right candidate we'd consider remote, although that might involve relatively frequent travel.

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Just a few gig in a directory at work. Gave up syncing it after spending several days alternating between crashing, eating 100% CPU, and popping up error messages. Yes 1 TB is nice but you can't get to it!
Amusingly, the cover of The Quantum Thief (at least on iBooks) has the following quote:

> "The best first SF novel I've read in years. Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am." -Charles Stross
Do you have any examples? I used Redfin years ago and was very satisfied with it. I am curious what changed.
It makes as much sense as most words. Usage defines meaning -
not logic.
This seems like a case study in premature optimization
You might appreciate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835977#14839943
If you are a C# developer you may appreciate these translations I've put together:

https://github.com/rspeele/CSharpFSharpPhrasebook

This does not sell the language -- it doesn't show off anything interesting you can do in F# that you can't in C#. There are other resources for "why F#". This is for C# developers who are convinced that they want to learn, but are annoyed by not being able to quickly look up how to do the things that they're familiar with from C#.
I can't in any way see how this ad means they are looking for 'Ethereum developers' other than it being a desired skill. Please refrain from posting misleading titles to articles.
The transition from unlicensed to licensed seems like a big step. Did the publishers just reach out and ask you to pay a fee?
Instagram pushing restaurants to be colorful and irresistible to photographers
How a hydroponic tomato garden inspired cops to raid a family’s home
It's obviously fake right now, but I could see in the near future it becoming very realistic. This will definitely be a problem.
Without gcc (also GNU) you wouldn't hear much at all (about open source software) ...
Personally, I'd much rather see Meson than either one. But CMake is still a solid, mature choice here.
Atlanta, Baltimore ... my perception of these is that they are unsafe.
I have no idea where you live now, but the weather can be vastly different in those states than what you're used to. Atlanta weather, on top of lots of other factors did not bode well for me and I left after less than 2 years.
My mind immediately went to the privacy implications of that. But then, you are in public on a public road so maybe tracking cars isn't such a big deal.
The options available when standing on a train (podcasts) are about the same as driving (radio). If you're talking about a train with 1:1 or better seats per passenger, though, sure.

I've had an hour-long walking and train commute for the last year, and by the end was extremely burnt out. Moved to a smaller and more expensive place in the city with a 15 minute bike ride and couldn't be happier.
Same here though I'm leaning towards backblaze since there's no minimum.
> How does code beat guns?

How does anything beat guns? In theory, the U.S. armed forces could depose the government, but culture and tradition ensure that it defers to democratic institutions. In a country with a history of coups, especially coups that have deposed harmful regimes, coups are regarded in a more positive light. They are thinkable and therefore possible. In the United States, given our history, things would have to change a lot (even much more than electing an incompetent, incontinent buffoon as president) before a coup would become possible. Direct democracy would be tenuous at first, perhaps assuming more and more responsibility over time under the watch of a representative government that gradually became a caretaker bureaucracy, with the trust and respect held by representative democracy institutions gradually transferring to the direct democracy institutions.