skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just thinking, but could you pool the anonymized salaries of all small orgs together? For instance what if all YC start-ups pooled salary info together under normalized job titles? Then they wouldn't be able to pay under market, but the data could be made public without ruining anyone.
I don't remember where I read it but in some earlier versions of AlphaGo they tried a komi of 6.5 and black ended up winning more often. That indicates the correct komi value is 7, but since Go doesn't have ties, you have to pick which side you want to favor to break the tie. (White seems reasonable.)
This Brilliant Hack Gives the iPad a Whole New Button
Tixit: Extendable project management system with plugins and custom interfaces
Since each team or company has its own unique way of working and unique needs, people tend to get frustrated with the over simplistic task management systems out there (like trello/asana/basecamp) and the over-designed systems (like pivotal/wrike/jira).

Tixit is a modular platform that you can customize in various ways. You can build frontend plugins in javascript and upload them into Tixit to use in your own interfaces (aka layouts) or share with the Tixit community. No need to host your own server to create a Tixit plugin!

Rather than the usual embbeded application "plugins" you see in things like Jira or Salesforce, Tixits plugins are designed to follow the single responsibility principle, where each plugin is a small piece of functionality (like a dropdown, velocity chart, or date picker). Users can use an in-app layout editor to build interfaces from plugin components they can find in Tixit's plugin library. This gives users total control over their interface.

In the next major release of Tixit, users will be able to not only share plugins they write, but also full interfaces and packages of interfaces. This way, users will be able to share complete new ways of doing project management without building yet-another-project-management-system.
I dunno, I go to Penn State and I made my choice partly based on the research opportunities here. If these big schools start bleeding research and faculty I could see some dark times ahead.
Yeah, so I'm a Canadian, and Canadian Netflix doesn't have many US shows. I imagine if I had a streaming service like that, this would be far less necessary :)

For myself, I've been using it for over a month now, and it's been a terrific timesaver. My old system would be to try and remember which shows I like, and then google them to see if there's new episodes. It means that once I finish a season of something, I'm counting on my memory to check back in 9 months to see if the new season has started yet.

If you have an easier method to easily figure out when new episodes of your favourite shows come out, then by all means, that makes more sense :)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/deepmind-...

Indeed.
I'm extremely unqualified, but is it possible that the insects just learned to avoid the specific traps used to do the measurements over time?
> but it really makes no sense

If you have jealous and spiteful family you might feel differently. Unless you like hearing sob stories or being blamed for other people's problems.
Can I ask where you're from? I don't personally see a difficulty using "ever pregnant" to mean "has ever been pregnant".
How is it different to apply the loss on each actual move at the end of the game VS on each rollout (which is itself a tiny game)?
Does it help reinforce learning towards the end game as shorter rollouts are needed? Is the more accurate information then propagated to earlier moves as well?
So this has nothing to do with browsers or ISPs; it's a result of apps with GPS permissions transmitting that information to advertisers without the user's consent?
> South Vietnam, a nasty little republic significantly less nasty than the victorious North Vietnam

That's... debatable, to say the least.

> Yes, the anti-Communists have their hundreds of thousands, but the Communists have their hundreds of millions. The death tolls aren't even comparable.

If you were a demonstrator abducted and killed by a CIA-backed & trained task force in Latin America in the 70s, these silly "death toll" comparisons would hardly matter. Evil is not necessarily measured in numbers. Had the Nazis "only" killed "hundreds of thousands" of Jews instead of millions, the crime would have been just as horrible.
* Email defaults and fails open to plaintext. Modern secure messengers only transmit securely. Even modern secure websites take pains, including extensions that had to be made to the HTTP protocol, to prevent traffic from being sent unencrypted. No such mechanism exists in email.

* Email reveals large amounts of metadata, including message content (which is what a Subject: line is), which is a characteristic shared by no secure messaging system. The graph of who talks to who and when is immensely important, and the best secure messengers (Signal, in particular) go through trouble to obscure it.

* Modern secure messengers are forward-secure, so that a compromised key doesn't allow attackers to retroactively decrypt old messages. Since messaging traffic between selected peers is almost always low-volume, any reasonable threat model assumes every piece of ciphertext exchanged between peers has been archived by adversaries. With PGP, a key compromise at any point in time reveals the contents of every one of those messages. The best secure messaging systems are not only forward secure but also have a notion of "future secrecy" allowing them to recover from ephemeral key loss.

* Email clients are inhospitable to cryptography; in particular, many of key features of clients (like search) rely on having a local archive of plaintext. The UX in email clients begs users for catastrophic failure, like accidentally top-posting a reply to an encrypted messages with an unencrypted message.

All four of these problems are, in isolation, total dealbreakers for serious secure messaging.

SMTP email is janky and outmoded and it's a little amazing that we all use it as much as we do; it's long overdue for a replacement. If you need to communicate securely with someone else, you should do so with a secure messenger like Signal, not with PGP and email.
Oh no! Thanks for letting me know. I saw that as well once, but wasn't able to reproduce it. Will try again!
I don't know why everyone thinks Google pays well... It was only a few years ago that they gave everyone a 10% raise across the board to address issues of underpayment. That was probably due to the Facebook threat. In addition, lest we forget, all of the big tech companies colluded to depress wages as well.
I can't parse this:

"They're finally gone until skiing starts up, except for a few hunters."

I gather it has something to do with number of customers but I'm not sure how it benefits someone that a store gets FEWER shoppers.
formerly of Lisbon Falls (for HS ~15-20 years ago)!
>Ask yourself what is the point of any society?

Protection of the lives, liberties and properties of its citizenry. What does wealth inequality have to do with it?
Why isn't there a browser that provides a sandbox or container for every website I visit? I want cookies to persist between visits for obvious reasons, but I think its absurd that breadcrumbs are so easily reachable and used for building an advertising profile on me.

I want every website I visit to act as if I have a dedicated computer just for browsing that one site, and have zero knowledge of anything else I do on the Internet or on my computer.
I use VoiceOver sometimes which will switch to an appropriate voice for the language.
Anti-fraud.

Criminals create fake accounts and use stolen credentials to defraud banks. The problem of stolen credentials is partly solved by 2FA, but banks have measured that 2FA annoys users and makes them less likely to complete transactions. As a middle ground between imposing 2FA on users and being defrauded frequently, banks buy browser fingerprinting services (e.g., ThreatMetrix, Trusteer, Kount, Iovation, Easy Solutions, ...). If the user's fingerprint matches their database and looks normal, they pass the login through (takes ~100ms, mostly invisible to user). If the user looks suspicious, they escalate to 2FA or some other login verification that criminals cannot pass.

Apps do the same thing. It's all to help gauge whether you're a legit human or a criminal bot.
There are also dollar generals in the area -- maybe not in the bay area proper, but in the same kinds of areas I see Grocery Outlet -- Eg, central valley and foothills of the Sierra.
This law requires them to provide salary ranges on demand to applicants, which addresses that without you giving them any info.
But that's how it has been for years, at least on third world countries. I live in Mexico and we know that the big companies here have been betting on that end-game since last century =P. The two biggest and most influential companies in Mexico: Telmex (from Carlos Slim) and Televisa are known to cater to the low income audience. Televisa's owner, in 1993 said that they made TV programs for "jodidos" (slur for poor people)[1].

[1] http://www.proceso.com.mx/336733/television-para-jodidos
Lindt is entry-level because it is cheap. I actually prefer Lindt to many higher-end brands. There are certainly better chocolate bars, but the price difference is often hard to justify.
You also strike me as the person who'd write an article about how printing money makes everyone richer, because it's like "lengthening a rope". Economics is far from intuitive, and using a metaphor to hide all the complexity doesn't change that. This is typical HN arrogance at its finest.

https://xkcd.com/1831/

also: https://xkcd.com/793/
FB can definitely have an effect on your life, but it is not essential to your life. Not an essential utility. You can be turned down for a job due to an infinite number of reasons not directly related to the work itself. I do not see how this means it should or should not be governed or self-regulated though?
My feeling: brace for systemic collapse.
I came here to say this too. I think it's the most shocking film I've ever seen, and it achieves it without showing a drop of blood. In fact, it's almost impossible to explain how it does achieve it - you just have to watch it. It's truly surreal in places.
I co-authored a blog post with my lab that has practical advice for debugging DNNs - some of these tips might be helpful to you? https://pcc.cs.byu.edu/2017/10/02/practical-advice-for-build...
Never Let Me Go and the Human Condition
As a counterpoint, if it wasn't for all the friendly people on HackerNews and similar places talking about how big their salaries are, I would still be stuck in Eastern Europe happy to write code for $7/hour.

The biggest capitalist victory has been convincing people that sharing salary information is impolite.

It benefits "the ruling class" in several ways. First it prevents people from realizing they're underpaid and encouraging each other to get better rates. Second it encourages people to spend money on luxury and luxury-ish goods as a way to signal their welloffness to each other.

Because at the end of the day, everyone is still curious about this info and almost everyone likes to feel like they're even just a little better off than those around them. It soothes the ego.
Wow, I just realized I had a similar observation. I used to do multiple 8-10 hours (one way) drives every year (2001-2014) in the north east; and bugs would pile up in the early years - not so much anymore.
It is only stealing, when the premise is that there is no society, democracy or state, and everything you ever earned was earned completely independent of everything else.

At least that is what the neo-liberal fantasy world seems to be. They treat capitalism as if it some natural law of nature.

Every capitalist has to make their money within a society. That society is what enables them to become rich. Put Bill Gates in Somalia as a child, and there never would have been a Microsoft and he never would have been a billionaire.

Bill Gates and his fortune is a product of the society he grew up in which is shaped by democratic participation, deciding on what should and should not be taxed.

If a democracy says we can increase taxes on the wealthy, then that is just a choice, not stealing.
I was thinking the same, but its unlikely to lead to a 75% decline. The ratio of trapped insects (or insects that even get within a few meters of the traps) to total insects must be incredibly incredibly small.
This is good, but I want to sandbox every site from each other, and I don't want to run a dedicated Docker/Chrome container for every site.
As my siblings have said, arbitrary people knowing how much money someone has makes higher income and net worth people targets, not to mention unfairly weakens their ability to negotiate practically anything of substantial value.

There are practical considerations beyond weird cultural mores.
I'm also in the Portland area (first time I'm able to say that without having to include the state) and grew up here. Also haven't come across another HNer.

I know it's the second most rural state, but the Portland area seems urban enough to offer a variety of places to purchase food, so I don't completely understand how so many Dollar stores seem to thrive here especially with a Walmart nearby.

I've only been going up to Rangely for the past few years, and I've always wondered what type of store there was before IGA, because it doesn't seem to cater to a low income crowd like dollar stores in general.

I've never had an encounter with dang but hopefully dang won't be too harsh, this is just too special of an occasion.
Would you be OK with anonymized salaries, published only by companies above a certain size?
AWS internet connectivity issues in us-west-2
Fraud - wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
NY has this in effect, but quite a few companies whose headquarters are based in NYC still ask applicants for their prior salary range on their applications. I hope this is just a lag, not ignoring the law deliberately.

Also, we should outlaw employers from asking applications their desired salary range; the negotiation should happen after interviews. Employers should either specify a range or give a figure in the job description to save time.
Looks like there's some twitter chatter:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=aws&s...
'Dr. Doom' commentator Marc Faber faces backlash over race comments
For JS developers, there is already a short-hand URL, mdn.io.

It's quite neat in its functionality, allowing for searches via url params, like so: mdn.io/promise
It's common for Walmart to convince brand name manufacturers to make "special" (aka cheaper) versions of their normal SKUs for sale at Walmart. Usually this means the product's packaging, contents, and specs stay more-or-less the same, but the general quality of the item is lower in various hard to discern dimensions (cheaper plastics, less metal parts, etc). The idea, I imagine, is to trick comparison shoppers into thinking they got a deal, when really they got exactly what they paid for.

I imagine DG and other stores are doing the same thing, or at least taking advantage of the alternative SKUs.

Side note: Contrast this with Costco, which does the opposite. They get manufacturers to release better versions of their normal SKUs, either higher quality, extra features, extra doodads. My last company sold an electronic product and for a brief time struck a deal with Costco to sell in a few of their stores. Normally our package just includes the product and power supply, but they asked us to also include an HDMI cable for the Costco version of the packaging, just to make things easier for customers (most customers needed an extra HDMI cable to use our product any way, but we never included one usually because our margins tended to be quite thin).

So I've experienced Costco's reverse-Walmart tactic both as a customer and a supplier. It was a neat thing to learn!
I thought the flattening of spacetime has more to do with the negative pressure exerted by dark energy?
I've slept in vans and cars and tents and a big class A motorhome with a slide out living room and now sleep in a travel trailer towed by a big diesel pickup. But, this is bonkers.

While I'd love to improve my fuel efficiency, this takes it a little too far in the direction from "most of the comforts of home" to "no comforts of home". There has been a real move toward fuel efficiency in some categories of motorhome in recent years. Several really nice models are available that are built on the Sprinter chassis, which gets 14-22 MPG if you're not in a hurry. There's class B (van-like), class C (cutaway van chassis with a boxy house and cabover), and even a few class A (has a bus-like body that covers the whole chassis and usually provides the most living space) models. And, I've started looking at replacing my big diesel V8 F250 with a newish Ford EcoBoost 3.5 liter V6 F150; similar towing capacity, much better fuel efficiency (though towing a whole house will drop the efficiency by a lot).

What I'm trying to say is, while I love Tesla cars and a mobile lifestyle, this is goofy. A tent on the ground would be more comfortable, assuming you're camping in decent weather. A hybrid minivan or pickup with a topper would be smarter if you wanted to do minor conversions on a fuel-efficient vehicle to make it camp-friendly. I mean, I guess if you already have the Tesla and want to sleep in it every now and then, that's not so crazy (though I couldn't, as I'm 6' and can't sleep comfortably on my side).
Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_market_hypothesis
Exactly this—we've essentially already done parent's suggestion for public employees, and nothing negative has come of it.

It's amazing how many of the comments here are making hyperbolic suggestions about all the terrible things that would happen if salary data were public -- considering the data, these comments are not only misguided, but experimentally proven to be incorrect.
Some people like myself work in places where there are still some clients that ask for IE6 compatibility and have to comply with WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards.
Don't be ashamed - you're one of the few people who have put in the effort, and _then_ taken the bold step of challenging popular opinions as a result.

Instead, be proud about keeping American ideals alive :)
> It’s still not totally clear what Magic Leap is doing, but it sure has raised a ton of money (more than $1.9 billion) in order to do whatever it is that it’s doing. To date, we’ve been able to gather that the company may be launching a device called “Magic Leap One.” And last month, Bloomberg suggested Magic Leap may be gearing up to ship that device to a “small group of users” in the next six months or so.

That might be the most I've heard about what they're doing and when it might be available. I've read some "leaks" in the past, but nothing that has stuck with me. Anyone got any info?
Well... at this point if Magic Leap doesn't release a portable device that can EXACTLY reproduce that elephant sitting in your hand as in their first concept video, I'm going to be pretty miffed at the press release noise they've polluted the internet with for the last 5 years.
When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy
Ask HN: How did you transition from an engineer to team lead/engineering manager
Some background on me: I used to be in management in my old career (hospitality). I burned out and taught myself software engineering. I've been an engineer for a few years now.

In that time I've realized that I definitely miss leading teams. To position myself for roles in the future I've started leading several initiatives at work as the engineering resource, am working more closely with different departments, and am continuing to build up my technical skills. I'm also hoping to brush up on my leadership skills along the way doing this. I'm curious what other people did to transition into leadership, but also want to hear what unique problems an engineering manager will have. Any good blogs, resources, etc are also appreciated!
That is actually a smaller amount than their series C. They have raise more than a $1b, which is scary for a company without a product for sale.
Related, there was an amazing article, from Buzzfeed, of all places that did a deep dive into one of these supplements. https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/apricot-seeds-cancer?...
Congrats on the $1.9B preseed raise! Looking forward to the MVP.
That's alarming, but it needs followup. There have been rather obvious changes in Europe since the end of Iron Curtain. Would be nice to see similar data for other continents.
I ended up writing a long reply to mercer, so let's incorporate that by reference.

Yes, Mirimir is rather unique. There's that South American woman, and a travel agency in Iran. But still, yes. I picked it because "мир и мир". And name recognition is intentional.

Indeed, Mirimir is a big part of my online presence. I've worked hard on that persona, for some years. And it occasionally gets me into interesting stuff, even some consulting work.

My meatspace identity is distinguished from Mirimir in three important ways. First, I rarely use English. Second, I don't work on OPSEC, or display any interest in anything related to that. Third, I don't have much of a public online presence. All of my professional work is private, as required by clients. And my social life stays just about totally in meatspace.
The Chess Engine That Died So AlphaGo Could Live
I've decided that any study presented by the media is the result of hype/marketing by a company with a bias. Year after year I've seen a constant flow of "health news" that eventually turns out to be marginally true or outright false. Here's another one. No, chocolate is not health food. I suspect coffee is the next one to fall.

Most reporters aren't knowledgeable enough to distinguish between hype and true breakthroughs. Because of this, they have to go to experts to determine whether the news is valid or not- if they do it at all. Unfortunately, they then get pointed to experts by the same companies that have a vested interest. Additionally, given the news cycle deadlines, its impossible to do the story justice.

On a related idea, 10-15 years ago, the news media was full of stories reporting on how doctors were underprescribing pain medicines. The big point was that when people needed them narcotics were safe and not addictive. Now, 15 years later see the results. We now have thousands of people addicted and many of the dying. The tragedy is that the narcotic manufacturers were behind those stories. They did it to sell more pills.

The reality is that we need to understand that we can't take these stories as advice but as, what they are, entertainment and as something to research if we have a real interest.
If you, personally, are freely willing to pay for it, wouldn't it be better if you could be able to do it of your own free will and not forced to do it?
Yeah I don't know much about helmets/motrcycles in general.

If they had such a thing as a thin flexible display, that you could just wrap over or in your visor and it was able to receive video. Where does the camera go? Not sure.

Holograms, just have a dashboard thing show a floating display, but why your physical speedometer is right there already.
AWS West Outage (US-WEST-2 region)
> This makes the law seem even more ridiculous to me.

Why is it more ridiculous? We already have laws against discrimination based on gender. If the issue isn't being solved, while being hands off, it seems natural to try something different.

> It feels like they treating us like children incapable of tying our own shoes or something

Well it does seem employers are incapable of eliminating the gender wage gap so perhaps the treatment is appropriate. Not that I blame them.. being unbiased is extremely difficult and requires a conscious effort.