skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How can companies sell confidential information and scraped data?
There are companies which are built around selling confidential information such as trade secrets, or information they have scraped from other sites. Some examples:

* 80legs.com, which scrapes data from Yelp

* clearbit.com, which has data on employees at companies, and is probably scraping Yelp and LinkedIn

* pitchbook.com, which allegedly has insider information on VC deals and sounds like CrunchBase but with information you'll never find publicly

* esharesinc.com, which seems to provide insider information on capitalization tables and secondary offerings (maybe it's opt-in)

How do these companies manage to succeed despite what I presume must be a giant legal threat?
There are significant societal costs when a group is undervalued. Young members of that group choose not to participate. Members of other groups decide to extend the discrimination in other ways.
Sure. But women are free agents. They don't all need to be teachers, nurses, and secretaries. They can be whatever they want to be.

Now, I fully admit, there is a degree to which women at a young age are socialized into those sorts of professions. And I am absolutely willing to call that sexism, and totally support every effort being made to change that.
Maybe whoever creates a site that requires compensation numbers will also allow applicants to leave feedback on the employers to reduce chances of that happening. (I can only hope!)
>Social construct. Look at Asian countries

> that by all accounts have less gender quality

> than the west but have more women science

> graduates. India is double the U.K. on that metric.

How do you conclude "social construct" from that data? When external pressures are greater, gender differences equalize. When external constraints fall away, gender differences are allowed to express themselves. So it is no surprise that self-segregation is pretty much directly and positively correlated to measures of societal progress and gender equality. Just to repeat that: the more egalitarian and progressive the society, the more the genders self-segregate in the workplace.

Here's a quote from a BBC article asking "Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?" The answer is in the article: necessity.

"Most of the girls we talked to from other countries had a slightly playful approach to Stem, whereas in Russia, even the very youngest were extremely focused on the fact that their future employment opportunities were more likely to be rooted in Stem subjects." -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39579321
It may be, but it's a bad habit to get into imho.
Yes, that is exactly what the many teachers who are teaching coding to young kids in schools are doing. First, you get them to understand the idea of a series of instructions by doing it in real life. You can cover quite a bit of the fundamentals of programming without even talking about computers. Algorithms, logic, sequences, loops... these are all explainable by having kids direct each other around a room.

Once they understand the concepts, THEN show them how to make them happen on a computer.
Parent has timeline that shows domains summary, and points earned. Parent can whitelist, or block internet sites.

If notifications are enabled, they will know when points are earned on education sites. Parents can easily figure out what's going on and react to it.
Yes, these are examples of people maximizing for a variable other than quality. The linked study indicates that the freeze-thaw cycle has significant negative effects on the quality of ground beef. I believe ground meat is probably more damaged by freeze-thaw than whole cuts of meat.

https://www.dti.dk/_/media/66980_Effect%20of%20packaging,%20... (PDF!)
Thanks for citing your sources! Much appreciated
In other news, economists discover that supply and demand balance to create price! When the supply of a thing goes up but the demand doesn't, the price goes down.
They are destroying culture on purpose. It's false idols or something, and he is recreating them. Any action against any Islam idea is dangerous
Where once there was a Symantec CA system, now there is none. It is dead. It wasn't dead before. The thing that made it be dead? Google.

I think you're mostly arguing with claims I didn't make.
Yeah that was the weirdest part of this
Please clarify what the right/wrong post is and why it is right/wrong.
Magnifying this effect, my understanding is that men are much more open to marrying down on the income ladder than women are. So the average gap within marriages/partnerships/whatever is even worse than you'd expect just from the base, general salary difference in the population.
There are many innovative ideas out there that go unfunded. The problem here is that disruptive innovation is risky and VCs are sheep.
Absolutely agree. It is sexist to socialize girls into specific professions. It is sexist to say "x is work befitting a woman". But women-dominated professions being paid less is not sexist.
Their fate being what exactly?
There is a Radiolab episode about this too. They talk about all of the things that we don't know about that happen between days 14 and ~30 (working from memory), and also how the person who came up with the 14 day rule chose that number at least in part because, at the time, it was way out of reach and did not seem like it would ever be achievable.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/primitive-streak/
It would be a "classic reverse buyout" if DigiCert was going to continue to operate the Symantec CA infrastructure. If it is not, then Google and Mozilla will have accomplished their most important objective, which is the elimination of insecure certificate issuers in current operation.

You clearly have other objectives you would like Google and Mozilla to accomplish for you, and I probably agree with many of them, but let's try to stay focused here.
After the unfortunate news from NPM today, I'm hoping Diesel doesn't come with a built-in defeat device... /s
Hi, just saw this. I'm loathe to go against the submission guidelines. I didn't expect this to do "well" but thought it was a significant enough move.
what's the percentage overhead based on the initial stream? i.e. 10%, 20%?
Ok, but why does this require an ICO? Do you have to figure out some way to acquire Mobius tokens before you can use their API? Because that would kind of defeat the point, wouldn't it?
Should I sell my BCC so I can collect the cash in case it fails? And then assume I will still have my BTC..
> From your friend's perspective, if they sell $100K worth of bitcoin, then is it possible that they might end getting on the radar of the govt and could be on hook for more than $100K?

You really have to be on the radar if you plan on reasonably enjoying that kind of wealth. There are plenty of legit ways of minimizing the tax burden of that kind of investment.

Calling the top and bottom is a fools game. Diversification simply helps protect an entire asset class/sector from ruining you.
> Do you just get used to this

Short answer: yes, and in far less time than you'd think. The difference between the examples you cite, specifically, is trivial, and if it's a sticking point for you I'd suggest (and I'm not trying to be catty at all) that you broaden your experience with different languages. I mean, languages like J can become readable with enough experience -- stuff like the above is just a blip on the syntactical radar screen.

Optimizing syntax for readability is a worthy goal, but experience (both with the language in question and languages in general) is an almost insurmountable confound here, and ultimately your goal should be to effortlessly "see past" surface differences so you can concentrate on the deeper facilities the language provides for expression.
The point I'm trying to make is that they're not dead if they own 30% of digicert as a result of this instead of being left with nothing.
Ask HN: Mobile UX / Design Conferences?
Anything goes when it comes to location, as long as the conference itself is in English.

Thanks in advance!
So in other words, it's damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Do you have an email address? I have a few questions that I want to ask.
Social ills exist because we live in a real world where things are not perfect. South Korea is far from perfect but I can speak confidently when I say, things are better than ever in thousands of years of Korean history.

Not sure if your background is Korean or not, but Koreans don't need to look very far to see how amazing things have gotten in South Korea. People used to literally starve to death in South Korea in less than a couple of decades ago. There was a time, when North Korea was the wealthier part of Korea and North Korea was always doing terribly. I pray that Koreans never become amnesiac to his history and never give into temptations of UBI.
Too many women are raised to believe not that they have value in and of themselves but that their value is in their reproductive potential.
It's useful because I have something important to listen to like Mumble/Discord playing at my system volume setting, and I want the music quieter than that so I can hear people talking.

iTunes 1 (16 years ago) had a volume slider to facilitate this. It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to include even if some of their users like for music to always be the loudest thing on their computer.
Because being hired is a modern form minionism. You give someone a big chunk of your lifetime at a flat-rate price, while he has to continuously check whether employing you is worth it. Taking that prerequisite as starting point for a journey advertised as "let's work together" by both sides comes at a price: honesty.

An employer will have a compensation range in place before hiring. Before even thinking about it (Projects rather are x-ed or delayed into next year than exceeding that range).

Its tempting to have by chance some applicants demanding even less. Lowered pay expectations out of lack of knowledge are a main driver for non-disclosure.

Therefore it may be helpful to realize a moral compass among developers: not just don't apply there, but make it publicly shameful to even try to lure other developers into it.

But: Hiring is time consuming. And a process which you want to pass smoothly. And even more important: finishing it. Upfront transparency takes away the upper hand you may need when things get out of hand. Like when choice#1 applicant lied about how he'd love to work at your company and walks off in the middle of your process.

If an employer names a range, all applicants would be demoralized if they don't reach its upper end. Probably expecting to reach that pay-grade sooner or later, somewhere else if need be.

Also applicants are different in skill level and almost always applicants will either exceed or undershoot in certain job qualifications. Qualifications that are prioritized. Your applicants are mixed bags, your job offering is. Having the ability to ponder while not aggravating them makes intransparency reasonable.

As a compromise: Why just not make the lower end of that range public?
thats fair but I always found soundcloud's stream compression to be pretty bad. I think maybe it got better recently but there was a long time where it sounded like ~128kbps or less, particularly on stuff with cymbals, etc
Well this business unit might be a toxic asset now.

But I'm sure it'll go right back to printing money once it's no longer directly associated with a vendor of TLS interception middle boxes popular among despots. And the browser relations fiasco will blow over eventually.

Might cost them a bunch of rebates and refunds to keep clients, but I see why this could be a viable customer acquisition move for DigiCert.
A great soft target is electricity grid. The timelines for manufacturing large transformers for example can be many months and they usually don't have as much redundancy as you would expect. A semi coordinated attack against the grid, using dynamite to take out a number of pylons along main HV lines, easily accessible because they're out in rural areas. Combine with a number of sticks thrown over fences at transformers. And you could massively impact the US economy for months.
They got kind of lucky too. Their main competition abandoned development of their browser for about 4 years. Now, there are four browsers in active development each regularly communicating with web developers.

Given their pick it's obvious web developers would rather focus on the browsers with the most share of users.
What exactly does Google accomplish by somehow trying to prevent Symantec from having a beneficial interest in its customer base? The alternative to this deal is that Symantec continues limping forward with a broken CA customer base that browsers have to accommodate for years to come. The economics of this deal are what enabled it to happen at all.
This is even better than in-fix notation.
It's not just our industry, ever hear the horror stories of women breaking into other male dominated fields like policing?

The idea that there aren't multiple forces, often brutal ones, nudging men and women into particular fields is just preposterous.
That's a preposterous and intellectually dishonest position to hold. If there's so much money on the table go raise your own fund and get wildly rich on all these ideas the sheep won't touch. Or admit that deeds are harder than words.
It's worth learning about the roots of OO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8X-yvDWClc

The ideas were great, but it all went horribly wrong with C++ and never fully recovered. Modern OOP has few benefits of the original vision, while introducing a lot of pitfalls that need to be constantly avoided.
> I find it useful to adapt to other people, and I believe my cultural background is not as important in my work

> I find it useful to be different than other people, I believe I can make use of my unique cultural background in my work

So the recruiters in that study decided candidates that make an explicit issue of their ethnicity in their CL would not be the perfect fit for a team (they were asked to select for coherence). What a bunch of racists!
All of those actions are contractually specified. If Coca-Cola decided to go off-script and send a rubber ducky to each shareholder, ETrade would not be responsible for receiving 3 million rubber duckies and sending one to each shareholder that they hold stock for.
The checkboxes you're implicating here are the ceremonial kind. (I do security in the financial infrastructure space, for whatever that's worth).
From 20 years of recruiting, two reasons.

1 - The high number is the only thing many candidates hear, which can lead to lost deals even when the offer is fair. Tell a candidate the range is 110 - 130K. Even if the candidate is "worth" 110K, an offer at 110 feels like a slight to him/her, as if he's left money on the table.

If there had been no range given in this case, the candidate might not have had the negative emotional response to the offer.

2 - There isn't a range because the company would be willing to accept a range of candidates, and a range of salary would not be useful. If you're willing to consider 2-7 years of experience, it's not all that useful to list 60-120K as a salary range.

Most of my clients never gave me a range.
Does rust have __FILE__ etc.? Special constants?
> I'd be more inclined to [s]ay that let mostly encourages you to write zillion-line functions (instead of lots of small ones), simply because with it you "mentally can" since you can see the scope of variables better.

That’s true. I revise my comment as "Any piece of code that uses a variable[ to hold something you use multiple times and don’t want to recompute]."; for example creating an API client then using it twice.
I don't care at all about the online music player having its own volume control. I can just turn down the volume for Firefox or Chrome. What's the big deal?
In clojure you write it like this, so the parens indicate scope. No need to mutate an environment here. dunno about hy

(let [result (- (/ (+ 1 3 88) 2) 8)]
; result defined inside the expression only
)
They just laid off half the staff and are going through life-threatening rough times.
JavaScript is a fun language because it does not require a build step. Developing JavaScript is easy and you want to make it harder just to shave off a few milliseconds !?

Show me some stats and graphs on how long it actually takes to parse JS to AST.

I care a lot for performance, if you want to make me happy, make text rendering in the canvas faster. And if you could also make eval faster I would be very happy.
Speculation is that it developed on an island where a specific insect evolved in coordination with the flower: symbiotic. After the flower got "delicious" enough, other insects joined in.
I think your outrage is properly directed, and I agree with you that this is way too nice an ending for Symantec.

However, I don't think that anyone is actually going to make Symantec as contaminated as you or I want. If the people at DigiCert who were competent yesterday are operating Symantec's infrastructure today, that infrastructure is now trustworthy. And in buying and salvaging it, DigiCert did the community a service: instead of leaving us in this ambiguous position where a too-big-to-fail CA was calling up Google executives to potentially overrule engineering decisions, that CA is now no longer a threat.
Given my experience in both worlds, I fail to see in what aspect web can beat those native layout engines.

Because until recently even basic stuff like centering text or grid layouts were an exercise in frustration.

Not to mention the magical incantation dance with CSS transforms to try to force a browser to use hardware acceleration.

Or nonsense like Shadom DOM to be able to define some sort of components, which are only properly supported on Chrome.
On dairy and estrogen:

http://www.birdflubook.org/resources/Maruyama_2010_PI_52_33....

>Those vegans are the very few you read about in newspapers every 3 years. They became began for health reasons and take it to the extreme, and somehow manage to convince themselves that even breast milk is bad.

I had a friend who went vegan and whose BMI soon became noticeably underweight (6'2"/150#;198cm/68kg); his girlfriend was concerned and started making lots of desserts. Some cajoling from me and others convinced him to give it up. But vegan self-injury is not actually that rare in my experience.
>'calculus at age 8 is unusual.'

It is, but it shouldn't be. I taught my niece calculus, programming, foreign languages (mostly swear words, her mom got mad!) She was like a sponge and just soaked it all up, I made it fun and she loved it.

I think all kids have that potential but the education system lets them down, class sizes are too big and can only go as far as the curriculum or slowest kid there.
I don't see the point of including my previous salaries in my resume.
What I earned 5 years ago, does not represent my value in sector today, even if it's for the same skillset.

It's the companies job to post how much are they willing to pay in today's values.

Developers are not commodities, being a good developer requires study and hard work to keep up to date. Good developers should be rewarded for that.

I can't even remember the wasted time me and companies did only to halt all negotiations because of the salary range or other details that could've been disclosed right form the start.
Convenience of functionality? Proper UI? A dozen reasons for why any player should have its own volume control when the application its hosted in can have dozens of other different players at the same time.
This isn't the 'first flower'. This is the first flower that is the most recent common ancestor of all flowering plants. There are a lot of more primitive flowers that lead up to this which are also common ancestors, but not the most recent, as well as a lot of dead ends that didn't leave any ancestors.
Do you think it's possible and worthwhile to change attitudes? If we once believed (and no doubt some still do) that black people are worth less than white people, and so black people were effectively forced to accept less (though nobody was holding a gun to their heads), was that an acceptable state of affairs? What was in it for any of the (non-black) people to change anything about it?

Given the stories we regularly hear from female employees in the tech industry (of being harassed and/or left out of the "inner circle"), it seems unreasonable to conclude that the effects we see might be "completely arbitrary" as opposed to caused by those attitudes (in addition to other causes that have been pointed out, such as difference in priorities, of course).
Found http://www.oblicard.com/ after searching...
I think you mean "moo".

It's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter. It's "moo".
I suppose we'll agree to disagree (RegSCI in this case). Happy to grab a beer if you want to lecture me on how I'm wrong, I try to be open minded.

Whether it's ceremony or not, I have to check the box or face harsh regulatory penalties.
Is it something though where you would have to do a normal 40 hours/week on 9 to 5 hours and so couldn't hold down your day job or are there people working a day job and then doing 20 hours of Toptal work nights and weekends?
It's at $352 now, so the market seems to really like their report.
> Yup, that's absolutely it. I'm not sure of a good, succinct way to imply the former rather than the later...

Personally, a sentence saying something to that effect (i.e. showing that it's understood that it doesn't immediately hello just yet) would be sufficient. It would probably get tiring every time nightlies are mentioned, though, but it means people (like me) who randomly land on a thread would know that the problems are acknowledged.

> We do releases every six weeks, so while it is in some sense, it's also just going to be higher than other languages.

Right, but the problem is that the rest of the world has expectations on those numbers (e.g. x.0 is probably buggy, >0.x is a thing external people are expected to be able to use). The particular minor version number doesn't matter as much. That ship has sailed (and probably circumnavigated the world a few times) though.

The biggest problem is probably that I'm comparing it to golang, which was the last 1.x language I learned, and that had a more complete standard library by 1.0. Again, likely the effect of the much more open development model (no baking behind closed doors).
One cautionary note with this study is that the methods employed (ancestral character evolution) do not permit the inference of trait values that fall outside of the observed range of extant variation. Adding fossils can significantly improve our estimates of the root state but unfortunately in this case there don't seem to be many fossil flowers to parameterize the model.

There's been instances where using only data from extant species can mislead with respect to the hypothesized ancestral state. For one example, see figure 5 in http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012....
Lol, this was so so SO annoying when Soundcloud first started gaining traction. It was an insane pain in the ass to go to Volume Mixer -> Firefox -> Drag down the volume. And then drag it back up when I switched over to Youtube.

It seems like such a common-sense obvious simple-to-implement feature, it blows my mind it took years until we got a volume slider.