skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly about GitLab, but concerning their calculator

Comparing Toronto (and much of Canada) in that tool to elsewhere was kind of depressing. Especially as the average salaries I've been shown ritually start higher than most places are willing to offer. I find companies who build out those calculators usually work with the most conservative data.

A big marker in their calculation was a rent price index given as a comparison to New York average prices as a benchmark.

Some external data points to Toronto rents sitting around $1300 for a 900 sqft unit[0]. Local city data puts an average 1 bed unit at ~ $1800 - $1920 (~ 700 - 900 sqft) — this spans to areas outside of the downtown region.[1a,b] You can also easily pay much higher than average in Toronto, depending on which part of the city you're living in.[1c]

Gitlab's NYC has a baseline index of 1 and Toronto with a rent index of 0.426. Brooklynn apartments come in around the same[2a,b] as /just slightly higher than Toronto.

Am I missing something? The interpretation seems grossly flawed, and it's used as justification all over the map for lowering salaries, or keeping them low. Has anybody worked on the provability of this kind of data being used, and how? Taking an average rent across a metropolis seems to make all kinds of assumptions that aren't even close to real-world.

Maybe it would be more honest to perform regular price-scrapes of apartment listing websites, putting together a custom index. Couple that with a model that looks at keywords, locations, and even photos for applying quality of life metric that could influence the outcome of the learning. I wouldn't expect every company running this program to put together something like that, but employing such a service would likely yield very different results, no?

Can somebody with more experience in this area weigh in?

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[0] https://www.torontorentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/block...

[1a] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rent-toronto-canada-1....
[1b] https://blog.padmapper.com/canadian-rent-trends
[1c] https://condos.ca/toronto/yorkville

[2a] https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/map-of-average-rent-by-...
[2b] http://blog.nakedapartments.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-con...
That's weird, I will look into the logs and see what can be done. Thanks Raphmedia for reporting.
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Ah, but knife-wielding maniacs are a real problem in the UK. Knives should be banned in the UK.
IOTA seems filled to brim with red flags to me, but where does the expectation come from that you can use electronic money offline?

You can't do it with credit cards, people will generate fake numbers.

You can't do it with bitcoin, someone can double spend with a higher fee.
This is an upcoming series of interviews of thought-leaders and community builders in the AI space. Until now: Brain, Allen institute, xnor.ai and many more to come weekly.
Only oddity in BBC's phenomenon is they forced TV license, that they forcing people to pay who do not tv ??
- Can anybody explain that ??
> The author is apparently unaware that this tautological response eliminates the distinction between general and specialized intelligence, as one could just as validly (or vacuously) say that a superhuman intelligence is specialized in being what it is and doing what it does.

It's not a tautology. "Generality" and "specificity" are artifacts of the human experience. What is tautological is to say, "it's general to me, therefore it is general."

You think that more and more progress comes by way of more and more optimization. This is not the whole story. Accidentation is the missing ingredient. Humans - as well as all life on earth - have a knack for creating more and more problems. It is this never-ending fountain of new, accidental problems that allows for what appears to us to be a chain of "progress" stretching into the past.

Our "generality" is in fact a hairball collection of specific functions that have accreted into the human animal over millions and millions of years. Some abstract Java class called `Agent` with an `.optimize()` method hanging off of it simply does not have that context.

If you want a really high quality, generally intelligent function in silicon though, it's hard to beat the XOR function ;)
I don't know why this being open is a laudable thing. I just honestly don't see any value at all for the wider world looking in. I'm sure at some point there was an ideal or a vision here but it seems misplaced to me.
This already happens without IoT.
Not to mention all the public companies that don't Grant stock or significant bonuses.
Are we planning to use manual labor to dig up the streets? Otherwise that sounds like a significant emissions problem in itself.
ive got the same one. works great.
Previous discussion on paper itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15858197
Some Politico statistics about Conyers and Moore cannot be used to make the conclusion that “Republicans are also less likely to believe allegations.”
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We are targeting career rookies ages 21-35. With that, social media media will be a big part of our marketing strategy. Another aspect is gorilla marketing on college campuses. Really, it is all about getting people to realize that applying for jobs on job boards is really not helping anyone. Once that happens, then we can propose Jobiki as the solution.
I wonder if the injuries are consistent with the "microwave transmitter" theory that's been floated.
Ask yourself - is git decentralized? No. Therefore it’s not a blockchain. Its bytes live in one single location.
Dv does nothing to tell you who operates the site.

What if someone else had managed to register Apple.co and started using it nefarioualy? Having an ev cert we can see if a site is actually an Apple Inc site or not.

There is more to tls/https than encrypting the tunnel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

This is the best bet I've seen since this story broke.
Analogies aren't "pointless".
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Which may not be large enough: http://www.todayonline.com/world/tokyo-preparing-floods-beyo...
This is really bad. It's a set of loose analogies that tries to borrow from the language of physics in order to justify some intuitions about software in general.

On a quick skim there was no solid empirical principle, only a couple of wishy washy equations thrown in to support some wishy washy principles.
Great result, but without access to source code this is not a scientific paper.
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I think his election would be a bad thing but I don't think it would foretell much or have much impact elsewhere, it'd just be bad because of the credible allegations against him and his otherwise being a miserable candidate.
> Your counter examples are trite and pointless because silver cars, food, and water are all completely essential to daily life.

They are not. If people who like silver cars had to drive white cars instead, life would go on and there would still be less accidents involving silver cars. That there would then be more accidents involving white cars might be a relevant factor the talking point glosses over, however.

Even food could in theory be replaced with IV nutrition. But there are countervailing advantages to actual food that aren't taken into consideration by the simplistic logic of food poisoning is bad, therefore ban food.

And we can't do without water, but we can, for example, require swimming pools to have fences, which would reduce the amount of drowning without prohibiting water at all.

But the point is that they aren't even examples. You can use that "logic" against literally anything, which makes it obviously flawed. If there were less puppies then less puppies would bite people. That doesn't mean we should ban puppies.

> Also, there isn't a National Silver Car Association that is influencing Congress to block research into silver car related deaths.

There also isn't a Campaign to End Silver Car Accidents trying to get Congress to fund research into silver car accidents that only produces the raw numbers without accounting for things like the independent trend for reduction in accident fatality rates over time when measuring the effects of a silver car ban, substitution effects, the fact that there are more silver cars than red cars when comparing the accident numbers, etc.
I studied applied mathematics, but it took me ages to shake away (false) intuition engendered in me about “Calculus” and “infinitesimals” at high school. Sure, it worked, but learning “differentiation from first principles” with the limit taken when δ︎x→︎0 just by cancelling out did an unmeasurable amount of damage to my ability to absorb the formal Weierstrss formulation in terms of limits.
" criminalizing bad parenting "

We have an equivalent of Child Protection Services here in my country, and what they do is take away the children from bad parents.

It's not a great solution, there's a massive overpopulation of children in foster homes if lucky, group homes if unlucky.

I wish they did something to the parents (my radical solution would be some kind of reversible sterilization until they prove themselves able to raise a kid)

BTW there was a thread where people complained that Child Protection Services threatened some HackerNewser parents to take their children away because they left them to play in a park alone, yet they don't do anything in Baltimore?
Well there I was, assuming it wouldn't provide your file but just prove that it could.
thermostats are trivial to change if you have any electronics or handy skills, just don't put new holes in the wall that aren't hidden by the mount plate if you're renting. It's basically like replacing the shower head while renting.
They can't query it, they have to be listening when it broadcasts.
What are your favorite YouTube live channels?
If I forget that I don't have _any_ soap, what would make me remember that I'm out of my backup soap?

Also, why not just have this automated instead?
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True, and a useful clarification
But I also can't receive modern transmissions on that TV set, nor can I hook it up to a modern device (e.g., a Blu-Ray player that only has HDMI or RCA outputs)
> because all the prior versions required you to buy an expensive piece of electronics

$4.99 is an 'expensive piece of electronics'?
This is my biggest real concern with EV, we depend 100% on the user for it to have any value.

I think we learnt that lesson with 'check for https in the address bar' and now we have HSTS instead.
It's explained in the article, although the title is inaccurate. The 3D printed devices do not, themselves, connect to WiFi. The backscatter is picked up by a WiFi receiver which is connected to the WiFi. But if you're going to comment, why not take the time to understand the article instead?
Cayla doll too eavesdroppy to put under the Christmas tree
I agree that these topics are dominated by irrationality. I think you are pretty much spot on, specially on the second point, but you are also missing an important aspect.

The problem with politics is that you have a status quo from where you operate and you are massively constraint in the possible directions you can go. For example, you simply can not go against social security and things like that because the way these programs have been designed ensures that they are almost immortal.

I disagree with you that these easy technocratic solutions exists. There are fundamentally different positions that people can have and actually do have, I just think that whatever these positions are, they matter little because they are not reachable anyway.
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I know this is cynical, but this really just reinforces my suspicion: the open salary thing is actually an attempt to underpay through a formula that's presented as objectively fair. Over time, it ends up gravitating your workforce towards average or below-average performers. There's no room for top talent here, because there's no subjectivity in this formula.

If you're a fantastic dev (or whatever), why would you work here when other companies will pay you a lot more?
Macros in Rust are global, insta-stable, and have no namespacing. This means any macro we put in std means you cannot define a macro in any Rust program with that same name. This is one of the reasons we've been working on a new macro system, to fix these kinds of issues.

"Just leave it in" isn't a good justification for a feature. We'd then require that every implementation of Rust ever, forever, implements this too. Being in std is a high bar.

Beyond that, there are a host of other reasons: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/454882dcb7fdb03867d...
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Or buy double the amount you bought last. You'll eventually stop running out of detergent.
Go is sooo nice.
Best thing ever, that google done..
Otherwise Google is not my best books at all..
That's a good alternative, I agree - but still, I need to click things manually. Solution in OP is fully automated.
Why did Cloudflare choose BoringSSL over LibreSSL?

https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/

> BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

> Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.
Not everyone wants their family and friends to be able to look up their salary. Or to know that they're the lowest (or highest) paid person in their department, etc.
I think a multiplier is fine as long as it's for where the person actually lives, and is based on the actual overall COL as opposed to "well this isn't SF or NYC we we're automatically chopping 15-25% off your salary lolol"
Compensating and equivalent variation.

A Taco Bell beefy frito burrito costs the same in Mobile, AL and San Fran, CA.

A 2 bedroom apartments costs more in San Fran, CA than Mobile, AL.

But more people try to get into the bay area than cheap cities in the South and Midwest so perhaps people in the desirable areas really are better off?
Whenever I see those pointless uses of IoT, I pretty much just think of the SkyMall catalog. Lots of neat things that nobody will ever really use.
Fundamentally, it's because it scares people too much.

America isn't desperate enough, or brave enough, to try.
I'm not sure I see value here. All it's doing is providing a UI for switching between keyframes. The UI doesn't strike me as particularly intuitive. The resulting animations aren't particularly good.

It looks like a fun demo, but what's the point?
Erm, doesn't mean "not a horrible practice".
Anything over a few pennies is too much to put on a bottle of detergent in the factory.

And putting it on at home is foolish - more work than just reordering detergent myself when it runs out.
Russia definitely comes to mind as a country who'd benefit from this.
A few people and I are just looking for the piece because we like the excerpt and want to listen to the full piece.
You should submit this as a HN link, really interesting story. Thanks.
So your options are to watch with ads or not watch. Why is this so hard?

If Walmart only let you "buy" DVDs at the checkout by watching ads that the cashier shows you, how is it okay to just steal the DVDs because you don't want to watch the ads?
Legal vs illegal dealers are two different things.

A legal dealer/grower is expected to follow certain laws and provide a safe product. In return for a high demand product they have to follow licensing rules and have a safe product.

An illegal dealer has the incentive to make as much money as fast as possible because of the risk of future prosecution. It is more beneficial for the illegal dealer to switch you from $100 of weed per month to $2000 worth of heroin per month. It has a much worse health outcome for you, but a better financial outcome for them.
Only me who thinks this is pretty lame? The whole point of having "Person of the year" is for it to be a person.

This is just stupid.
What's interesting is that we don't even know if this is a screw-up or intentional (and it could be both since multiple parties are involved). It really doesn't seem like an acoustic effect (as raised in the article) and may well be a modulated microwave since that would correspond both to the locality of the "noise" and brain effects. Or it could simply be very high powered.

http://www.newsweek.com/russia-us-attack-cuba-officials-6495...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/13/politics/cuba-us-diplomats-aco...

I fully expect a barrage, but based on your question, cui bono... Russia needs to keep the US separate from Cuba. They want the client state that provides a physical base and influence in the US backyard. Why now is another question, but perhaps because they thought they could get away with it now.
There are plenty of skilled software developers in rural and suburban parts of nearly every country. I find it hard to believe the folks in San Francisco are that much better than the folks in Atlanta that it warrants ~2-3x the salary (using the Gitlab calculator as I can't see the Buffers apps since Drive is blocked at work) for an identical role.
someone defaming some other person before court case is heard is doing a public service of indicating their guilt...and its also a crime in fact...this is what Trump is being charged with in NY court...defaming an accuser
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"nothing could touch Irix for ease of use"

Love my Fuel. Wish I could still use it as a dialy driver (too expensive to run electrically). Management really destroyed you guys, eh?
Only if you're buying hardware based on the algorithm used. Useful chess programs need to actually run on people's phones where performance on a cluster of ASIC's is mostly meaningless.
Uh, the TV licence covers people who watch live TV broadcasts in the UK (including watching the internet simulcast of said broadcasts and using the BBC's iPlayer catchup service).

If your household isn't doing any of that, you don't need a TV license. The license is basically a tax on watching TV that funds the BBC. What more explanation do you need?
Zero security though.
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It was Marston Smith: http://lordofthecello.com/

It's definitely not by Ry Cooder, we contacted him and he said he hadn't composed it. It sounds a lot like Glazunov, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_05mIC3BIBc#t=2m10s
It's more of a tree than a DAG : you'll never have merging in a blockchain.

A tree where the longest path is considered the real branch.
Ah yes, I'm concerned as well that "innocent until proven guilty" will get in the way of our witch hunts!
Not just women. The statistics vastly understate the problem for all genders, for the same reason. The fact that people still argue that men can't be sexually assaulted (and omit them from discussions) after Terry Crews came out about his experience and was even featured in this Time article is evidence. Plus, nonbinary and agender people are pretty much ignored in mainstream discussions.

It's a bad situation all around.
What in the world? xenoncross?
I can't find very much information on Everledger's features process, just on the blockchain aspect, which doesn't inspire confidence. It's not enough for them to create 40 features you can fingerprint a diamond by, they have to be 40 features that are independently and consistently verifiable.

If I have to send my diamond to Everledger to verify it, I'm effectively just trusting them. Representing a physical object as a cryptographic hash for security doesn't work if the consumer can't independently verify the hash.
What does POW have to do with Hashgraph? It doesn't use POW.
@imsofuture said they'd halve their salary, which is likely true. Every remote salary calculator I've ever used, even being generous with my qualifications and the vague dropdowns like "below average or above average experience" gives me a rate 15-40% below what I'm making now, even for the next level up.
Maybe next year will be the 'dying influence of print media'
If a candidate is more likely than their opponent to vote for policies you favor, then supporting them despite their personal failings is rational.

Moore is an extreme example, but all humans are fallible. People's expectations are too high -- our representatives are nowhere near as consistently virtuous as the facades they present.
It is if you take into account the fact that the people buying one for a product are most likely going to buy more for other products too.

The very few people I know with them have 5 or more. That adds up. Especially considering you could just modify one to handle any number of products.
Agreed, that's exactly the purpose of EV. The problem is that the user has to know to look for EV, check it's present and check that it says "Apple Inc." which is a lot of things to expect of the user! There are also lots of scenarios that I outlined in my article where you would never see an EV indicator because of your browser, platform or TLS interception taking place. Not only do we burden the user but the indicator is also unreliable.

If apple.co was doing nasty things it'd also be blocked pretty quickly with things like Safe Browsing which is great.
Really...? If someone sexually assaults you you aren't developed enough to realize a crime was committed and you need to go to the police? Also, this problem doesn't only just affect women.
If all you needed was a way to order transactions you would not need proof of work at all. Here for example is the PTN:

https://intercoin.org/technical.pdf
You make a good point, but smart contracts are not just "write-only databases" as they have built-in logic that can bypass some of the need for "verifying peers' inputs" style consensus. For example, attaching a photo of authentic product and being able to check that it on the receiving end could serve as proof that the consumer gets the real deal.
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Curious to see the impact this would have on wifi performance. Wouldn't this cause all of the really fun stuff making WiFi fast (beamforming, channel hopping, etc.) a lot less effective? Would be curious to see more information.

I imagine this would be really good for things like weather sensors or even security systems... but I have serious doubts of the efficacy of what they are doing.
As I understand it, the central point is that the audit log is tamper proof. E.g. consider what happens in the event that Chinese government officials followed a trail, found the culprits, and discovered a scam orchestrated by a high ranking government official. There is the possibility of conveniently destroying the audit and/or modifying it to implicate some innocent party.

If the audit is hashed and the hashes placed on the/a blockchain, then the audit cannot be modified without it becoming obvious.
The information asymmetry puts you at a competitive disadvantage as a candidate when you start looking for your next gig. California law prohibits employers from asking, but Buffer is nevertheless releasing the data publicly. It's terrible corporate behavior.

On the other hand, this is great material for both internal and external recruiters to start poaching away Buffer employees to orgs that have the budget to pay them market rate.

"I see you're making ~20-30% below market rate. Would you be interested in talking about a new role?"
Thermostats with scheduling capabilities have existed for a long time and they don't need the internet to do it. Unless you're referring to when you're out of the house when you would normally be home?