skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another factor of asymmetrical info, though: asymmetrical info on your own value vs others. You can't assume that you are better positioned to judge your own value to the company than other people are. You're the most biased possible party!

This is the crucial bit: "In a study of engineers at two major Silicon Valley companies conducted some years ago, I found that nearly 40% perceived themselves as performing within the top 5% of their peers. Ninety-two percent felt they were in the top quartile, and only one engineer felt his or her performance was below average."

Say you're the manager. Let's start off with the optimistic case: you have a good relationship with your team, are using objective but not necessarily easy to measure (to prevent gaming) criteria to evaluate your employees, and you are pretty accurate in your assessment of how valuable each person is. They aren't going to believe you. Almost everyone thinks they should be near the top. You have no way to win this unless you judge purely based on lines of code or other such measures, in which case you've actually already lost for other reasons.

And then consider how hard this is for a less experienced manager new to the team, who might not have a full picture of everything but is going to get hammered by people complaining about not being at the top of their peer pay grade.

You can go away from pay for performance, which the article notes, but do you really want to? Is that the situation you'd prefer to work in, where you know what someone makes purely because you know how much anybody with that many years tenure would make?
It's not private from payroll, but everybody knows that, and payroll is expected to exercise discretion.

Precisely the people with hard-to-guess salaries may value that privacy.
As the old line goes, money doesn't make you happy, but it sure does allow you to be miserable in comfort.
I don't buy this. "It's like drug manufacturers could attach a EULA to their pills that makes reverse-engineering a competing product a legally enforceable contract violation _even after_ the relevant patents expire."

You've gone from "Drug manufacturers get patents and a period of exclusivity" to "Patent and exclusivity, and also protection from generics for the brand's life", but patents can be applied for at any time during a drugs development, including before it's ever been synthesized (e.g., theoretical manufacture via computer models) but the exclusivity is only a U.S. FDA marketing feature. Patents on a drug could expire before the exclusivity, so a competing manufacturer could create a secondary brandname drug and sell it overseas during that period. I'm really confused as to where this EULA would even fit in, since you've just moved the goalposts with your "even after" clause.

If the FDA had some kind of deterministic human trial of a drug, like some dystopian lab-grown identical human clones, of which drugs were trialled on and some company B was able to obtain a set of these clones from company A that had some kind of defect of which the drug was targeting as a cure or remedy for, and then used those proprietary clone models in order to test their clone drug against, we might have some kind of metaphor worth arguing against, but we don't.
1. Good and great companies actively seek out funding, especially at early stages. Lots of good and great ones slowly build and get contacted, too.

2. There certainly are good metrics, otherwise the basic tenets of business that have evolved over the past 5,000 years would exist. There may not be metrics that say if a certain product/service will be a smash hit or not, but it did not take a crystal ball to see that Pets.com was incredibly unsustainable, or that Groupon (and Blue Apron was too easy to replicate and thus overvalued, or that Juicero was an absolutely asinine idea destined for failure (massively overengineered squeezer that wasn't even necessary for their overpriced juice bags).

3. People game every VC system. Remember Pixelon? Theranos was WIDELY derided in medical and medical research circles from the get go. No way a 19 year old drop out came up with such a massive breakthrough in blood tests, she didn't even have the time to learn the medical basics. Faraday has looked sketchy from the outset as well.

4. This statement I wholly agree with, and it happens to back up my disagreement with #2.
I cannot think of a country which values cheating.
Likewise I've deleted resumes because they claimed to have coded a website when it's clear they simply installed out of the box software. They didn't explicitly lie and say they coded it from scratch, but I felt like they were implying that

Another time I rejected due to side work was a candidate claimed to have written the "worlds fastest framework". Even if it was fast it's possible there's something out there faster, so it showed lack of touch with reality, ego, and lack of self awareness. Note I gave the candidate the chance to substantiate their claims and was met with profanity
> I think robotics research is probably a reason why they're discontinuing it. Why support something that only exists outside the walled garden?

This is pretty unfair. Microsoft released Kinect 2.0 for Windows[1], with a developer SDK, specifically for the community to hack on. It even supports Windows Embedded.

I can't in my wildest dreams imagine that they thought that product would be a money maker.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=445...
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The "side project" culture is a by-product of not having a standardized approach to professional development in software engineering. Doctors, teachers, and pilots are all expected to refresh their skills, and their time to do this is baked into their salary. Software engineers need to do the same, but it's not baked into their salary, so they have to do it independently. You wouldn't pay a tax preparer for his time spent learning this year's tax laws, but you also wouldn't hire him if he didn't. So his hourly rate has to include the time that he will spend off-the-clock learning about the new laws that year. Software engineers should do the same, and treat their on-the-clock time as only one of the components of maintaining their professional readiness.
It's shrewd. Can't always rope-in top talent by force, so commercial and residential centers must be organized/redeveloped to be more attractive than competing global options.

PS: If it were SimCity, tear up roads, bulldoze industrial areas and build some parks. Sadly, PRC often does exactly that. :'( It was insane to see this empty new highway in Shanghai c. 2002 that had hedges, trees and flowers all the way down its length to the horizon. Oh, and a shiny, brand-new airport.
Hopefully they weren’t trying to hire you for a QA position...
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Georgism is a very interesting idea -- however, in its purest form, what is the incentive to invest in land? E.g. to build tall buildings, factories, invest in better farming practices/technology, etc.

Would it not be better to have full property rights, except with externalities captured?
If the information is available to all the function of the labour market will force the value to the correct figure.

It's not a matter of individual firms. It is a matter of individual firms interacting with a functional market.
Many people on HN do not speak English natively. Consider being a bit gentler when you correct someone :)
It seems like commenters here on HN are caught on the point that GDB does provide a reasonable machine interface. That's not the author's point; responding specifically to that fact is missing the forest for one mis-labeled non-tree.

Here's two paragraphs from later on that sum much better:

> We've seen it hundreds of times in all kinds of software. Functions that return bool instead of an error code. Where did the precise error vanish to? Poof, it's gone! What used to be a useful error message became false, and if you're lucky you'll get a generic "Unexpected error" appearing on screen. And that's if your program is using a library. If it's calling out to a command-line worker, the most likely case is it won't get checked at all and will just get printed out into a log file you'll never find, and then never seen again.

> (image) Homer's typing bird: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/something-rotten-in-the-cor...

> We're making systems that are fragile, because they're just glued on rather than bolted together. We're wrapping complex things up a wrappers that don't take the same responsibilities as the things they rely on. Like Homer's pecking bird in the Simpsons, they work just fine when everything is as expected, but when the slightest change in situation happens then everything breaks.

I think the article is worth reading in full.
It's really improper for some license to forbid reverse engineering to begin with. They already are protected by copyright. Re-implementing something with reverse engineering should be perfectly legal.
You might like this, then: a word2vec tool which suggests words of the same rough meaning starting with a particular letter or spelling, allowing you to write Genesis solely in words starting with 'a' https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... or generate large numbers of rhyming definitions (see comments), some examples of which:

Cat: purr fur
Dolphin: bark shark
Puppy: yelp welp
Shetland pony: shag nag
Mosquito: mighty bitey
Shrimp: chill krill
This is known as a clean room process. In this case, you would not be at fault as you aren't held to the terms of the license. However the company doing the documentation may be in trouble, if the license forbids them to document the program functionality.
ZFS would be terrible for most of Apple's use cases. It is definitely designed around the assumption of fairly active sysadmins a la Solaris in 2005.

It's very good at what it does within that assumption, of course. But do you think behaviours like "you filled up too much of your disk, performance is crippled unless you wipe and rebuild" is "Just Works"?
And old people .... Vote.
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Yes ... and this is a major drain on EU companies that make them less competitive than companies with "at will" employment. They can't fire low-performers easily, and they can't afford to take a gamble on people since firing them is so difficult if they don't work out.
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Yes. The victim had epilepsy, and the tweet was something like "You deserve a seizure!" accompanied by a rapidly flashing animated GIF.
Oddly enough, both Wii and Kinect were very successful outside their official gaming applications, because people were able to hack their protocols and use them in ways the manufacturers never intended.

I remember buying a Wii just for the gesture control capabilities. I wrote a whole VJ performance app based on Wii gestures, so you could crossfade video and scrub through animations (the video equivalent of a DJ scratching records), just by waving your hands around. I toured with that thing for years... it was so essential to my performance that I stashed a few candles in my bag, so I could use them for IR tracking in case the sensor bar stopped working.

I then bought a Kinect and used it in a couple performances, projecting 3d mapped effects on to the band onstage. Even with VR/AR tech now: it starts with games but then gets co-opted into art and music. Open, hackable hardware is so important for society.
"I was afraid that people would make false claims against me, so I recorded my presence at some events. Check it out and you be the judge if accuser us telling the truth or not"
Sorry. I just got very frustrated since the man had an excellent, solidly argumented point and the response seemed unfair to me.
> That "the best" is happy to drink into the Earth every Friday and has absolutely no evening or weekend plans.

This looks very much like deflecting the disappointment experienced at the boutique app firm to all people like us who do love to code in spare time. I believe it is unfair to paint all of us with the same brush. I know plenty of people (myself included) who love to code in their spare time and still have weekend plans that have nothing to do with computers.
That shared control and having both mouse pointers visible was really the key value of Screenhero for me. I would love to see something that does this on Linux.
Again, not sure what your point is
Trump != GOP. He is a game show host and parasite.

The base voters who show up are people who value specific issues like abortion, taxes, guns, etc and a red line that cannot be crossed.

Compare that message to the gotv efforts for democratic candidates. They’ll target ethnic voters, women, unions, lgbt, etc with messages specific to them. Depending on where they are, Democrats will stay silent on abortion or guns.

It’s a big reason why voter suppression is such a priority for the GOP. When there aren’t enough old white people, it’s expensive and difficult to convince gays or African Americans to flip.

I live in a very democratic state, and my little city probably has 30 polling places open from 6am to 9pm on Election Day with hardly any wait time.
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Let me reverse this: What do you think was better about life for the median working-age US household in 1973? Their house was smaller. Their car was less safe, less reliable and guzzled gas. They had no internet, no mobile phones and only 3 television networks. Eating at a restaurant was a monthly indulgence at best. Air travel was a luxury. Their children could expect to have seven fewer years of life, and were markedly less likely to go to college.

Think about how much someone would have to pay you to live a 1973 lifestyle, and it should be obvious why claiming there have been 40 years of “stagnation” is nonsense.
My favorite BF ancillary axiom is "Advice to a friend on choosing a mistress." There are zillions of horny, middle-upper-class women whom do pilates, yoga, etc. and are HAF. So much nicer to see someone whom has fewer hangups, expectations, drama and behaves more like an adult. Chastity (12.) implies neither celibacy nor promiscuity, but Moderation (9.).
> There is literally no way to build a CUDA clone without testing output against both your clone and CUDA itself.

Not necessarily. You might be able to get by only testing against third-party products that use CUDA.

We did something like that at Interactive Systems Corporation in the '80s when we wrote a 286 Xenix emulator to run on 386 System V. If I am remembering correctly, we never actually had a 286 Xenix system to compare to. We just had a bunch of system call level test programs, and a few big applications like word processors.
Not great but not surprising. This is just what late-stage capitalism looks like.
I think this goes back to the risk vs. reward the employer takes when owning and running a business. The owners took the risk of starting a business and is taking on additional risk of employing people.

I'd argue that it is a sign of a healthy company when each employee is producing more value than they are taking home in their paycheck.

I am instinctively for transparent salary information, but I'm not sure if I can intellectually back it up.
I am not sure if at this time the (south) East Asian buyers of ivory care about its provenance (i.e. if it is morally sourced). Do tusks have DNA anyway? Maybe in the future they will (care about sustainable sourcing). Why not farm elephants? People have farmed Rhinos and stockpiled the horns but cannot legally sell them due to prohibition. So wild Rhinos are still poached. Correction I guess it is now legal to sell farmed Rhino horns in SA.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/wildlife-watch-r...
"nearly 40% perceived themselves as performing within the top 5% of their peers.". That's exactly the problem. I've been well paid my whole life, but in comparison with other peoples' productivity, I should have been paid thrice as much. I don't complain; everybody has to eat, everybody has to take care of their families, etc. But I am damn sure all these people would not tolerate knowing even that I got as little as 30% more.

This is one reason why I don't have a typical job for almost a decade now. I get interview invitations from big SV companies, but I hardly ever get invitations from local software houses, and when it happened, it went nowhere because they wanted to pay the average ERP programmer salary, citing "internal politics".

It also happens when I do per-hour consulting work - my rate is considered high compared to what Dummy Database Consulting charges, so I have to settle for lower values, but at least the values are higher in absolute terms.
> No market can function properly without all parties having the same information

What markets function like this? I have no idea what the cost of growing, harvesting, shipping, and selling a banana is. At every step of this process there are capital investments, labor costs, and profit margins that are totally opaque to me. And yet I can look at the price of a banana and decide if I want to spend the money or not. One beautiful aspect of markets is that not everyone has to spend years researching every purchasing decision. The makert sets a price for you. If one company has margins that are too high, another steps in to take some of that profit, by offering at a lower price until it reaches equilibrium.

The job market seems similar. I don’t know how companies set their offer price but I am capable of evaluating offers all the same.
Not sure it's really all that original, except for possibly the "scale" part. A lot of VCs (Correlation must notably jump to mind) have a multi-variate model which they run, and then ultimately decide with standard terms within about 24 hours.
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Kinect is the same thing today that touch screens were in the 80s; touted as a revolution that will take over everywhere, then people realize sitting there waving your arms for yours is not enjoyable, and then it finds a niche and stabilizes at a much smaller size than everyone expected.
Have you actually played VR games recently?

The most popular games are flight simulators and first person shooters where people walk around (Elite Dangerous, Eve: Valkyrie, FSX, Onward, Pavlov, From Other Suns). The best games released, Lone Echo and Echo Arena, take place in zero-gravity environments with highly non-constant speed and no teleportation.

Any game that gets released without joystick/trackpad locomotion will get a flood of angry message board postings.

Nausea is certainly a concern, but huge strides have been made in addressing it for the vast majority of players.
have you ever worked in a government setting? I would hardly call them the epitome of a highly functioning workforce. Laziness and waste is rampant.
Non-partisan read is that in a world where radio stations and newspapers are irrelevant, it’s a waste of everyone’s time to have these regulations.

Also, consolidation is a cross-cutting economic problem the DOJ’s antitrust division should be handling. It’s outside the FCC’s expertise.
This is about a book I just saw at a bookstore called Spy Schools, detailing how American Universities are spy recruiting hot spots, being exploited by the agencies/circus.
They are so effective it staggers me.

I previously had a side project ecommerce biz doing mid 4 figures a month.

My cofounder installed a shopify plugin that pops up an email form. That made me sick.

It converts at 10%. That makes me sicker.

The tools for harvesting sheep work damn well on sheep, it turns out.
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The other difference is Surgeons, Plummers, Dentists and even Gardeners get payed for services rendered not time.

This is a huge problem in the industry and is the source of massive waste.
I get why you say this, but it matters for business. Good luck when the local network provider/media cartel decides they don’t like you.
It's happening in Colorado. Every Fourteener (14,000+
foot mountains) used to be publicly accessible
but we got some greedy folks who moved in and shut
down that traditional access to at least five of them so
far.

Which ones? I just did all the 14ers this year, and didn't have problems with access to any.
(Culebra was one I paid for a reservation)
I have a decent amount of side-projects and I build projects for fun (I even blog about them), but that doesn't land me any offers or opportunities. My Github has a decent number of samples that I've built. However, I get rejected more often than not because of my online coding interviews. Being a new grad, I don't have many other options but to oblige. We live in a world where nobody will talk to you unless you pass their coding challenge first. So I'm not fully in agreement with this article. If there are companies out there who truly want passionate developers, I'd love to know! Clearly, the big 4 aren't the right places to apply to.
Like to know too - considering I visited them all just this past summer.
But why is it important to you? Do you think the other candidates are couldn't, or didn't, produce similarly impressive code?
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Jews-constitute-20-of-all-Nobel...
Whether or not it's wrong, I'd say that it's entirely expected unfortunately.

It's not particularly surprising if a religious extremist blows himself up in a country with very little capacity to stop him doing so, rampant conflict, and a high rate of such attacks. But when the same thing happens in Germany, a country that has a lot of capacity to stop such attacks, no internal conflict, and very low occurrence of such attacks - that's pretty surprising.

News needs to be new and interesting, otherwise people just won't watch it. It's horrible really when you think about it, because it leans towards placing more value on European lives than African lives, but it just seems to be the result of what the public wants to see.
You work at a major company, you have some different quality signals available to you that can obviate all of this.
Are there any statements anywhere suggesting he thinks this, or are we save to assume you are projecting your own opinions onto him?
Some people from PR who argue against the Jones Act claim that ships in the trans-Atlantic trade used to call on PR on their way to Florida. But that was back in the age of sail and coal-fired steam when ships sailed south to catch the trades across the Atlantic. Foreign ships can easily call at PR now, they just have to call at BVI, Cuba or the Bahamas between PR and Florida. But they don't because ships now follow great circles and PR is too far south.

Shipping to islands is expensive. I have a friend who comes from Bermuda. FedEx flies a 727 to that island and the locals say that they buy that airplane every time it lands. Shipping to Bermuda very expensive and the Jones Act is hardly to blame. Shipping from China to the USA is cheaper than to Australia even though Australia is closer. Again, Jones Act can not be to blame, being off the main routes is.

PR's horrible economic troubles are caused by loss of industry and loss of jobs, not by expensive shipping. In fact, PR has a maritime industry that would be ruined without the Jones Act. PR has been hit hardest by the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, which left PR when it found even cheaper labor abroad.
Great work - that's a very impressive UI! To say it's a web app, it felt totally native on my Samsung phone! Do you mind sharing which libraries you used to achieve this?