skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately pensions are gone. Defined 401k contributions are the new norm.

The big variable is profit sharing which I know to have been 17% of annual gross in 2016 at one airline.
So you have an argument for porn being useful (not that I disagree), but you can't find a single reason for why cryptocurrencies would be useful? Or even Bitcoin alone?

Bitcoin could adopt a proof of stake system if the core devs and users thought there's no other way for Bitcoin to survive. The Bitcoin ecosystem seems to be very conservative and they only make big changes when they are under high outside pressure.

If Proof of Work was banned, Bitcoin would still be here tomorrow, is what I'm saying. Perhaps it's a good idea to ban PoW, but it will not have any significant (long-term) effect on Bitcoin's adoption.
Pet sets describing EBS requirements. This way if a pet set instance is migrated the volume can be moved and set up with it.
> Unions can only increase wages by reducing the amount of workers. Unions dont get wage increases by reducing the profits of capital in the long term.

Why do you think that it's mathematically impossible for a company to find the money some other way? Any profitable company by definition makes more money than it spends, so it's clearly possible for such a company to pay its workers more without having to reduce costs (i.e. hire fewer workers) or go into debt.
Yes I know that. But why would you enable anything if you don't know the contents in the first place?
A gorgeous budget notebook that hits all the right notes
The people affording those $1.2mil houses are not the people earning any of these levels in terms of takehome pay. Most senior engineers I know are getting 40-60% of their comp in straight up RSUs.
Drone Giant DJI to Trump Administration: Your Allegations Are “Insane”
I'm in the unfortunate position of being curious about the one thing that folks are best advised not to share, your security/compliance stack. Based on what I've seen to date, nothing handles all three equally well, but I'm curious if you've found anything that gets close.
That's the fundamental thing people are missing I think. Menu costs are a thing.
> The only thing he can point to as an achievement to date appears to be the Gorsuch confirmation.

I don't even know if that counts as a goal or achievement. There was a seat to fill so it was filled. I guess depends how you look at it.

Maybe pulling out of TPP? That was a major issue with Bernie supporters and was one the first things he did. Even then I remember being on /r/politics afterward and seeing comments about how "Maybe TPP is good and we should support it now that Trump took action against it".

Externally maybe making progress with ISIS? There was a pretty significant reduction of its territory. I was always baffled how during the last 8 years the rise of ISIS was portrayed as a complete surprise the US government, CIA just "couldn't believe" how fast it spread. Wonder how hard they worked to stop it, if even an amateur TV personality could make relatively quick progress of it in a short time.

Many supporters would say economy. It's hard to deny that the stock market has been doing pretty well. And, yes, the argument is that presidents don't really have that much influence on long term trends, which I agree with. However, in the PR domain, I imagine had the stock market gone down by the same amount, there would be no end to articles claiming "look what Trump" did.

Consumer confidence is allegedly at a 17 year high. At least Bloomberg says so https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/u-s-consu.... Kind of like the stock market thing, who's the president probably doesn't matter, but had it gone the opposite way there would be a lot of talk how the president caused it go down.

As they say, give the devil what belongs to the devil. Trump should be criticized and scrutinized. But it has to be an intelligent and effective criticism. It is rather disappointed to see things like how many scoops of ice-cream he ate, or how long he shook Macron's hand, or that he is stupid and has orange hair. A lot of the media has been reduced to those kind of stories.
~80% of the 21 million already exist, and ~95% will exist by 2025, barring some cataclysmic event. So it's a bit misleading to just say that it "won't run out until 2140".
Google hosts some: https://developers.google.com/time/
Thanks. I'll check those out.
> One way Nasdaq seeks to differentiate itself seems to be in the amount of data it uses for pricing the digital currency contracts. VanEck Associates Corp., which recently withdrew plans for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, will supply the data used to price the contracts, pulling figures from more than 50 sources, according to the person. That appears to exceed CME’s plan to use four sources, and Cboe’s one. Nasdaq’s contracts will be cleared by Options Clearing Corp., the person said.

BitMEX bitcoin futures are already online. IDK how many price sources they pull?

Aren't there a few other companies already selling Bitcoin futures?
I wouldn't consider insects so bare. Maybe a bacterium. These things are minuscule, but they're internals/system is not trivial. They have a potent visual system (http://farm1.staticflickr.com/21/29252954_1aa90a5c3d.jpg), which is already quite high level.

Maybe the signal they get from satisfaction is very low but it's still something.. and probably not a one bit thing.
Did anyone honestly think it was anything other than humans manually entering data from the submitted images?
Got to Berlin. Just about every club bans all forms of photography and many put a sticker on your phone's cameras when entering.
Wat?

Have you just proven that computers don't exist? I'm suffering a bit of cognitive dissonance here...
it was a joke.
Whenever one of these salary posts/articles/studies crops up, there's inevitably some caveat: data bias, small sample size, etc. In this case, although the article is using a (hopefully) representative sample based on offers, it's still based on base salary only, which makes it very difficult to make comparisons.

I think the most accurate salary data that can be considered for comparison would be taxable wages reported on a W-2, for software engineers with different titles at different companies. The wages would be much more representative of the total compensation package an engineer gets, as it includes salary, taxable equity, bonuses, and other benefits such as health care reimbursement, relocation, etc. Since the amount is for taxable wages, I think it would also more realistically account for vesting and other special situations such as deferred compensation. Provided that the data had a large enough sample, it would include a nice cross-section of employees at different parts of their vesting lifecycle with different types of equity compensation, and thus the numbers in aggregate would be useful for comparison.

Practically, the only entity I can see doing that type of study would be the IRS, or perhaps Turbo Tax or some other tax software vendor that adds some sort of anonymous wage collection option for users when filing. That actually sounds pretty creepy and intrusive though, so hopefully nobody at Intuit or the IRS is reading this and gets any ideas!
Yeah but the important question is what about the future investment into these projects? Is there any, or is it just a throwaway thing that Amazon does?
The rule seems to be "If tied to the banking industry in any way then cryptocurrency ignorance."
Proof of stake will fix that though.
Can we apply this policy for every "C is unsafe and should never be used" post? Seems like it's selectively applied by the languages with the best brigading teams.
Yup, they all smell money.
My comment was in regards to actually shorting. Anything that is regulated like Nasdaq or CME I would trust. They will settle the shorting. Any other exchange could just disappear if there was major movement.
I think they just grew more tulips to meet demand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I disagree on two points.

First, people shouldn't love you for who you are. That assumption is in popular culture but it's really pernicious if you examine it. I don't love my mother because she's my mother. I love my mother because she's nice to me, she cares about me, she sacrificed for me, she wants me to do well, etc. If my mother acted like a robot, or worse, was abusive or exploitative, I wouldn't love her. That's true for everyone I do love, and I think it should be true of all love (possible exception for one's own children). If you expect people to love you regardless of what you do or how you act, that's demanding a lot from people for no reason.

Second, consider the group of people at the concert. Going to a concert is fun, even if you're just kind of standing around watching. The problem is, when taking a photo, you can't convey visually the fun of being there - so you exaggerate the visual aspect, you look happy, so you can take a picture that represents what you're actually experiencing. I grant that it could be the case that people are cynically trying to create a fantasy life for Snapchat to seem popular or whatever, but my experience with such things is just that you're trying to convey your experience with images. Going to this concert is fun, so look fun so we can snap shot it!

Over Thanksgiving I took pictures of my mother, my sister, and my sister's daughter doing the same thing. On the one hand, two of the pictures were staged (I asked two of them to come here and do this so I could take their picture). On the other hand, it captured the similarity that I could see between the three of them. The picture is authentic in the same way that the Snapchat picture is - it had to be created artificially to capture something authentic.
Right. You would had to have bought and held until today for my claim to be true (and it is only true at the time I write this). But it's still the case that you could have bought in any peak or trough in the periods you're referring to and still have significant realized/unrealized gains right now.
When I think of IoT I think of devices gathering data, and the data has to go somewhere to be useful. What's the alternative to putting it in the cloud, self-hosting the storage? That's what I would do, but I think it is a pretty niche market who wants to deal with the storage, backing it up, etc.
> They remain in power in those markets precisely due to their continuing ability to achieve better-than-free-market rates for their members, as evidenced by the death/diminishment of unions in many fields where they are not able to maintain above-market compensation for their members.

They remain in power in those markets due to their legally-granted right to remain in power in perpetuity without periodic recertification or reauthorization elections.

That's not an opinion; that's legal fact, just like saying that the President of the United States is in power because the law grants him that right until January 2021. Unlike government, where politicans have to run for re-election every N years, once a union forms, there is no legal obligation to hold an election to keep them in power. (The process for petitioning for a decertification election is incredibly difficult, and unions are actually granted a great deal of leeway by the law in taking action to prevent these elections from happening. Furthermore, even in cases where they do happen, and the majority votes to decertify the union, the election results may be overturned by the NLRB.)

All in all, if you want to argue the case that unions successfully bargain for better results on behalf of workers, you can't really rely on the fact that they remain in power, because that's already the default - it takes an extraordinary degree of opposition to remove them.
He specifically says that Bitcoins value derives from perception.

He further says that it’s value is largely derived from its “potential for circumvention”.

The idea that random dude on the internet can call a Nobel Laureate & one of the most cited economists in history “ignorant” about these issues is hilarious.
>But at least you're disagreeing with their real position, not a strawman.

A troll would understand your position, prefixed with "So, you believe..." Throw it out once you acknowledged they understood it, and replace it with their straw-man. Then they'll tell you that you're too stupid to understand their position so you don't get to refute it.
It's called a perceptual hash, and there is a lot of research in this area.
Not a single one of them has the ability to scale. At least nothing close to production ready.

You have the PoS folks, IOTA's got an interesting strategy and some other paradigms but for now its still conjecture. Decentralized distributed technologies will likely always be slower than centralized monoliths.
Traditionally, this type of work is outsourced to the Philippines sometimes India and China (depending on language skills).
Ask HN: To what degree is online discourse manipulated by astroturfing/botnets?
I agree, blockchain is revolutionary because of what you said. But if we only use it for transactions, not as a store, then we have to switch it in/out of traditional fiat currencies at each end, which seems inefficient, rather than both storing it in blockchain and transacting in it.

I hope we eventually have a blockchain that could serve both purposes.
If it's not a currency it's simply a pump and dump scheme looking for a greater fool. The problem is when it's peak value is reached there is only risk without upside. So, eventually this creates a death spiral as nobody wants to buy in and everyone wants to get out.

Sure, I will buy a novilty bitcoin when it's once again worth a penny. But, novelty does not create enduring value.
India does have a lot of pharmaceutical companies and a very established pharmaceutical industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry_in_Ind...
People don't collectively object to dash cams, and they let non-robot cars do something very similar.

And there's no need for it to be constantly uploading video to report a lane blockage. Heck, it doesn't need to upload any video to report a lane blockage.

As far as you being in the way: roads are not specifically for humans. A robo car has plenty of right to be there. If you wouldn't stand in the way of a taxi, you shouldn't stand in the way of a robo car.
> "The problem with Airbnb reviews is that you are being reviewed too"

I think this is a huge part of the problem. When both sides of the transaction need to be reviewed positively by the other, you get into a situation where every review is either:

A - glowing and overflowing with superlative praise

B - raining nuclear hellfire down on the other party

It's an even more extreme version of star rating inflation I feel like, since nobody is going to speak their mind unless things have gotten really bad.
Every time I've heard it on the radio, it was as an extended intro to "Jump" (which admittedly is a small percentage of the times that I've heard "Jump" on the radio). It also flows quite naturally into "Jump" due to the shared synthesizer effects, whereas a lot of the other stuff on the album has little to no keyboards.
May be to separate from Amazon devices itself (see Amazon {Kindle, Echo}) and cloud services
If you're going to sell a consumer an internet connected device, they're probably going to assume that it'll work on its own and they can review and adjust things on a website (that isn't a 192.0.0.*)
It would be better to just kick back to the user to resolve it. I used expensify and it took like 20 mins to process a few receipt images.. I ended up doing it myself anyway.
A counter argument https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_dollar
I'm skeptical. I suspect a very different outcome it it were a different, non union area of workers at AA.
Finding my first Python reference cycle
The garbage companies are burning that stuff because nobody wants to buy it from them. Because often making something by way of recycling uses more resources than the alternative.
Azure is about the same, better in some areas and with the new CLI but plenty of confusing and badly named services.

GCP is the best at standardization, but also the slowest at releasing updates and with the fewest services.
Not just India, but Spain and Estonia, too:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/id-card-security-spain-is-facin...

http://estonianworld.com/technology/possible-security-risk-a...

All tied to the Infineon TPM being broken and apparently nobody bothering to audit it before -- I don't know -- buying cards with it for your whole country?

And to think that people still believe in the secure online voting utopia. As long we will rely on humans to write the code, verify, and patch the online/electronic voting systems, they'll never be secure. So you might as well get them off your mind.
I'm frequently annoyed by people who think the unsustainability of exponential growth is somehow specific to Bitcoin, and not the entire global financial system.

Global finance consumes a lot of energy and resources, and encourages businesses to harvest natural resources and find externalities to continue a compounding growth rate. It is mathematically impossible for this to continue unabated on a planet with a fixed amount of resources. Eventually, something will have to give. Hopefully markets will find a graceful solution, but the transition will probably be ugly.
The contracts would still involve real Bitcoin, the exchange would handle the Bitcoin side for the trader.
Bitcoin is a scam
Can you share some details about the companies that these offers came from? For salary data like this, I feel that if a handful of specific companies are not included in the data then it can easily give off a skewed perspective since many companies have different compensation structures.
Is that the point of what I said?
Is this surprising to anyone? This is the very sort of problem which Bitcoin was designed to avoid -decentralized no single point of failure. This is why you should be using your own wallet where you control the money.
When money was made from gold you got deflation every time the economy expanded. Deflation only recently became a sign of economic contraction.
Before the EU sues there will be warnings and talks, plenty of time to collect a lot of faces.
Oh, right yes I forgot that. I was going to sign up for Coinbase to demonstrate some stuff as a live demo - buy a few $ worth of BTC and transfer it between wallets/show it in the public blockchain/etc.

They wanted me to scan and upload a government issued ID in order to give them money. Nooope, not a chance in hell.
Not having to worry about a more complex OS burping, leaking, or otherwise failing on you. As one poster on the Arduino forums explained it to me once, "you never know when Linux is going to nip off for a cup of tea and interrupt your program with some system overhead tasks." You are going to get your n cycles per second, every second.
Price wouldn’t drop unless you actually sold.
It's not even necessarily up to the founders. In a VC-backed startup, the VCs make the call when it comes to compensation ranges. There is little diversity between companies on how that actually happens. We can pretend that it is a market equilibrium, but the analogy I would rather use is that of the medieval professional guilds, where prices were often rigged for the benefit of those at the top.

I am not claiming that the VCs are evil, or even a necessary evil. I don't think they are evil nor necessary. I think that they may be very inefficient when it comes to providing for a healthy economy that benefits everyone and not just themselves. Hate the game, not the player.
Easy...legally change the spelling of your name...build a new online profile. And move on...old guy is dead...start a new one...
> you can get better performance with threading

Indeed. I think mrighele is talking about server side web app performance, which is a much higher level game and because a lot is stateless allows scale-out + loadbalancing to achieve resource utilization maximization.

When writing hi-perf systems (like a browser), this is a very different game. In this game threading is a tool you need to make sure all cores utilized.
QuantStack/xeus-cling
https://github.com/QuantStack/xeus-cling

QuantStack/xwidgets
https://github.com/QuantStack/xwidgets

QuantStack/xplot (bqplot)
https://github.com/QuantStack/xplot
There is no such thing as an extreme discount for Bitcoin. I have yet to see anybody try to do a proper valuation for a Bitcoin to set a price target. If there were, institutional investors would buy in and its price in USD would stabilize nearly instantly.

No Bitcoin pumpers can give a proper value analysis because its actual value is something approaching 0. It has no use for which it is better than alternatives, even among cryptocurrencies. It is a classic bubble where people buy assuming that a greater fool will come along and buy at a higher price.
Better company reviews and fun facts
Hi there,

I have been looking for jobs so I read company reviews on Glassdoor. I hope it could be better.

FAKE REVIEWS & RANKING ISSUES

Did you notice fake reviews on Glassdoor? Are you good at spotting them? Also, sometimes review ranking doesn't make much sense. I am not sure if a company can pay the website to adjust review ranking and if the website detect and delete fake reviews or not.

I'd like to fix these problems and make it better.

How about a service which allows us to view the reviews of the company culture, salaries, products and maybe the funny facts. It may also tell if the company is a good fit.

REVIEWS WE CAN TRUST

It is gonna be a service putting US (users/customers) rather than the companies at the first place. A service which verifies company facts for us. We can learn as much as we like about the companies, just like how we learn about our friends on Facebook/Instagram.

FUN FACTS ABOUT COMPANIES

What is a typical day at work?
How is a company hackthon like?
How much fun during company events?
What products do their demo at conferences?
How much do the users/customers love the products?

Let's open up the corporate offices. But we don't need the propaganda from marketing depts (right?). FUN FACTS are posted by US (employees, users, customers).

I'd love to get some feedbacks here. Thanks! :)

Disclaimer: I like Glassdoor and I don't blame it for the issues metioned.
> Did anyone honestly think it was anything other than humans manually entering data from the submitted images?

They can have humans entering data manually but have safeguards in place to protect data - usually done by either hiring people in-house or having a contract with a firm that employs a regular set of people to do this work.

Sending the data to Mechanical Turk implies basically none of that safeguarding. Yeah, it's possible to do it, but from the sounds of it - especially given Expensify's appalling response - it's pretty apparent that they didn't.
For about 3 weeks of crunch time before shipping our Sony PlayStation title, I brought a cot and sleeping bag to my cube and basically lived in the office, going home about once a week for laundry reload. I'm proud that we shipped on time, but working like that is completely in the past for me, now with kids, a wife, and a non-gamedev job.
The reason things take days to clear is not because the underlying money moving rails are slow.

If/when your stock exchange starts accepting bitcoins, they may still continue to take days to clear things.
There are EU Air passenger rights. Check out the FAQ at http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights...
“On November 25, Expensify's founder and CEO, David Barrett, announced a new "feature" the company was working on, called Private SmartScan, in which customers would be offered the option of recruiting their own backup transcription workforce through Mechanical Turk.”

That is a pretty sorry attempt at deflection.