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Ask HN: What is your compensation like at Google, Facebook and amazon?
In light of reading https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/. Could fellow HN readers who work at these companies share what your compensation is like at these places?
We used big(6gb) git repo on gitlab. I lived to many problems and moved to gogs now we are hapy with gogs. It is much more lightweight. Just try gogs and gitlab.
Novel Hardware Accelerator for Embedded Object Detection Applications
>The death of traditional tex mex is hinted at in the article. I think it's because the vast majority of transplants and modern youth simply do not want cheap mounds of food from dingy establishments.

This is the fate of local business in general when cities gentrify, not just Tex Mex or restaurants. You either make yourself suitability upscale and worthy of the newcomeer's dollars or get priced out because everyone else will. The city trades culture for dollars. Hole in the wall establishments don't survive that.
probably because it has special words for 20 and 30, and switches between "9 on 20" to "30 plus 1"
https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16531246
Most of these features started in 2016 / 2017. So 2018 really is shipping those stable.

But what about Servo? As in the parsing and layering part? Last time the test we had 10x speed difference compared to Gecko.

WebRendr is GPU / Nvidia limited? I though PCwalton said it will also be a Software Render too.
YouTube to Ban Videos Promoting Gun Sales
It's weird how some bits of data can be made illegal. I understand that having child pornography on one's computer should be forbidden because it encourage its distribution, but it's clear that the concept of data is difficult to define.

Intellectual property laws are already difficult to enforce, but the whole concept of forbidden data because it's illegitimate shows that technology is really creating problems for the law.
I'm not sure I see the "revolutionary" aspect of this. With displays, you don't need to make power consumption arbitrarily small. By Amdahl's law, you only need to make it a small percentage of the cpu (and wireless) consumption. In this respect, Sharp's transflective displays (that were found, for example, in the pebble watches,) were already resolving the power issue in the context of smartwatches.
It's not that they don't, it's that they're quite literally less capable of doing so[0]. Bootstraps indeed.

[0] : https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration...
Eh. It works if you're a bear. You get in early, you sell in 2006 while shaking your head. Maybe you leave a bit in with extra exposure to volatility so you win either way, maybe not. Then when 2009 hits you pile in again. It's pretty easy to make way above average returns on the stock market. Just look for the classic signs that it is peaking (low unemployment, high P/E, high leverage, bad demographic trends, etc).
> Why?

Because you don't want anyone to have access to your code and data.

If you found out that Facebook is running on AWS, wouldn't you find that strange?
Script to remove Facebook content
Is this coming anybody as a suprise ? Really people??
Regarding 3), do you know of any work on genetic programming as a method of doing research into evolvability itself? So basically, as a form of simulation?

Tierra obviously counts, but I was thinking of more specific examples. Say, something like this paper, which showed that adding a tiny cost-function to a network spontaneously makes it more modular:

[0] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1755/2012...
chrome://flags also has an autoplay setting that requires user interaction before playing media
I just tried their music maker (https://www.sentient.ai/sentient-labs/ea/lstm-music/).

Was this ONLY trained by Bach Chorales? Everything sounds so fugue.
why don't you use twitch or youtube live streaming, and a streaming tool like this https://obsproject.com

not sure about twitch, I think youtube streaming can be private?
Mass shootings by general population, not terrorists or gangs. I would actually like a stat on that.
It is in the video
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The US Supreme Court has a different opinion.

They have ruled that private areas acting as public forums are still subject to the first amendment. See Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins [1]

> A state can prohibit the private owner of a shopping center from using state trespass law to exclude peaceful expressive activity in the open areas of the shopping center.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v....
If only wishing made it so...

Evolutionary approaches have always had one big feature in their favour: they are far more fun to work with.

They produce all these fascinating oddities, like the one that learnt to outsmart it’s opponents at infinite tic-tac-toe by playing coordinates 102312 and 47875 and watching them run out of memory trying to build a data structure for the board.

They are also far easier to combine with human expertise, i. e. “I can do this! Let’s throw some of my ideas into the gene pool”.

But empirically it’s hard to deny that neural nets have been used for some incredible things over the last years. I think it’s the rare hype that is deserved.
You're thinking of BandPAGE - Bandcamp is still privately owned.
It took me a bit of back and forth to try and exactly match various videos and pinpoint what actually happened. I've take a screenshot of Google Maps [0] and added some annotations [1].

It's confusing because in the Twitter video it all looks like there is two lanes, but at the actual collision there's four lanes.

What is stupid to me is that there is a pedestrian path that leads right up to a 4-lane highway without any kind of barrier with nowhere close to cross over.

edit: I added a screenshot of the victim's view of the on-coming car [2]. You can see how clear the road is leading up to the crash site.

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4363673,-111.9425082,3a,75y,...

[1]: https://imgur.com/ujik94t

[2]: https://imgur.com/Z6QteJC
> It reliably fascinates me that in spite of more than a century of history, management culture lacks both words and concepts for many common and predictable organisational failure modes.

Does it? The manager in GP, for instance, seems to be a textbook example of a thermocline of truth.
Reformulating Chemistry for More Efficient Quantum Computation
Here is an article about collecting rare species:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/1...

People forget all those beautiful paintings from the Audoban Society were made by killing the bird, stuffing it, and then painting the stuffed bird.

The example I'd like to share is more from naturalists that would explore tropical islands in the Pacific, but that's not right at hand at the moment, as the examples were in one of those dusty books a friend had one time. But bird populations in decline in tropical islands is a big problem, especially because of the evolutionary niche they have:

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-hawaii-n...
With the new tax plan in place, we really don't have much of a progressive tax for the wealthiest in the nation.
I agree, the examples aren’t the best chosen. But there are cases which are pretty well established in biology as being maladaptations. — The laryngeal nerve is the most famous of those [1] because there’s really no advantage to the way it develops, and its characteristics poses significant health problems that do affect evolutionary fitness negatively. Yet there’s no easy fix to solve its positioning through gradual mutations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evid...
The efficient market hypothesis relies on the assumption that investors are doing research and that the ones who do the best research set the prices.
So instead of getting those things which you are saying we need, you're proposing we artificially impede progress? I'm sure that cancer patient is ecstatic that we're focusing on keeping people doing unnecessary jobs rather than progressing with technology...

If you can argue that a robot that makes a certain manual human work obsolete is not good for society, then you may as well argue against all technology that reduces unnecessary manual work in order to create more jobs for the less capable.

The whole point of technology is to reduce the amount of work we need to do so that we can do more complicated things. If you're artificially impeding such progress in order to create useless busy work for people, then you're avoiding the main issue: we have too many useless people. However in my opinion people aren't useless and can always be repurposed for higher order tasks that robots or AI cannot master yet.
So last time I checked (and I sent an email to sales to confirm) CircleCI doesn't have support for a configuration where you want to use both public and private runners.

I want to use my own machines to build certain jobs (perhaps because those jobs require heavy computation), but I want to use the free, shared, cloud-based runners for the rest (to increase overall throughput). And I want to do this while keeping the master CI instance (the node which keeps track of which jobs are running and serves the webpage which shows the job status) on hosted infrastructure so that I don't have to manage it myself.

Nearly everything that exists today, except Gitlab, forces you to choose between shared runners in the cloud and doing it completely yourself (including hosting the master CI instance). Gitlab allows you to connect both shared and private runners to a hosted CI instance, so we get the benefit of private machines, the throughput of shared machines, and ease-of-use of not having to host the CI ourselves.

Edit: And note, to use private runners with basically any of the commercial CI's, you have to pay big money for a enterprise instance (even if you're open source). Whereas the ability to connect private runners to Gitlab comes for free (I think on all accounts? but definitely open source ones).
All energy savings have value. You may argue relative significance, but a joule saved is a joule saved.
Military GPSs use multiple frequencies which helps them mitigate errors from the ionosphere. NOAA publishes enough space weather data to let commercial receivers make their own corrections, but I don't know if any actually do.

In the relatively near future, GPS satellites will broadcast multiple frequencies for civilian use, once commercial receivers catch up everyone should be able to reduce the error due to atmospheric conditions
It's open source. I'm sure they wouldn't turn down a PR if you submitted one. I've poked around the codebase a few times; it's not too hard to contribute, despite my lack of experience with ruby.
>WebSphere was a platform as a service in 2004.

WebSphere is also a bloated piece of crap so maybe not the best example..
Sometimes I just pull up the youtube app on my iPad no ad blockers work on there. And if I'm making food, I honestly don't worry as much about the ad.

But a 10 minute ad for a 2 minute video? Even then i'll download the video just to spite the entire ad platform, thats insane.
> The primary issue is: if you directly give the homeless people $40,000, the people in the lower and lower middle 1/3 economic tier are going to ask why they're not getting that kind of help - cash thrown at them - despite the fact that they're working two jobs and at least paying some taxes.

To which the obvious solution is a UBI. Which would then solve the equivalent problem with all the programs aimed at the working poor.
I'm not ignoring the size of the state. That doesn't change its fundamental deficiencies. If anything, its size gives it the advantage of scales of efficiencies it doesn't take advantage because of politics.
Well if robots don't take those jobs, then the future generation may think it's OK to take such a menial job instead of studying hard and becoming a cancer researcher. At least Uber drivers are aware of the fact that they may lose their jobs to automation, doesn't mean we should artificially impede automation to keep Uber drivers driving.
But Quantum still hasn't come to Android?
I, for one, would love to see a "TeX Mex" cookbook.
Can we stop calling this a data leak? This was business as usual. What Cambridge Analytica did is SOP for almost every organization that's large enough to do their own ad targeting. I know personally of several information brokers that are actively buying and selling these kind of data sets on exponentially larger scales, not to mention hundreds of middlemen in the advertising industry that each have their own databases. I'd be willing to bet at least half the users of HN work at companies with splunk databases that could be used to infer a lot of the same data CA used. I made a Facebook app in college that was used by under a thousand people and I remember being able to scrape email addresses from friends of friends. Am I crazy or does everyone just have their heads in the sand?

Framing this as a "Facebook data leak" makes it seem like the problem was people we don't like got a hold of our precious data, not that our entire industry is funded by the mass harvesting and reselling of personal information.
This release is mainly for improved CI/CD and Kubernetes support. How is that related to project management?
> I'm using all day Firefox for front develop

I want to do that but can't replace chrome's debugging features, specifically websocket network call analysis and hover variable to get its value. How have you replaced these feature in your workflow?
I see your point, but the purpose of the awkward "(re-)" bit is to indicate the opposite.
Good point. I guess it boils down to team size. If the team size is large then the code is more likely to be refactored in stages than rewritten. And more people on a team usually means more code reading than writing. Also, you have a higher turnover of people so onboarding cost is important.

Small team size means you don't have a lot of these problems.
> Is that all it takes to resubmitted the same story?

They are different URLs, so a simple "same URL is a re-submission" check is going to let them both pass.

No automated system is going to be able to reliably tell the difference between two similar URLs that point to different articles on the same source or similar URLs that reference the same content, without pulling the content for both and analysing the differences (and even if they are the same resource, the requests might be slightly different if they include things like timestamps, per-request varying advert include markup, and so on).
The bill seems at once too specific and too broad. Too specific in that it targets sex trafficking and prostitution narrowly, but too broad in that if you run the site and someone uses it for that, it doesn't seem to matter whether you had any idea it was happening or not.

In other words, it looks like some politicians saw a topic they could exploit for political points and we're yet again stuck with crappy legislation because they couldn't be bothered to do the real part of their job, which is examine the topic in depth and make considered, useful legislation.
The Internet can be colloquially interpreted to mean the community of Internet users. The isn't necessarily the same as society in general, and for the purpose of argument, it is useful to distinguish community that is specifically enabled by the Internet.

To extend your road analogy, lawmakers can regulate roads in ways that uniquely harm the motoring community, in the name of protecting society at large.
I have anecdotal evidence of this as well. A local company that formerly employed thousands of cobol devs has had aggressive layoffs and offshoring over the past 10 years. Lots and lots of unemployed cobol devs here.
How Theranos hid its sketchiness
AWS, Google, Microsoft, all have lots of customers. Why are those customers not strange but FB would be?
> maybe with the exception of freeways where you are not expected to encounter pedestrians.

Freeways require you to reduce speed in those cases as well, possibly even more so. This is pretty well demonstrated by the pileups that occur every winter, and similar (if rarer) incidents caused by dense fog or similar. Pileups at freeway speeds are much worse than the 2, maybe 3 car crashes that occur on city streets.

Yes, there's no pedestrians, but one person hitting a pothole or large puddle and spinning out is all it takes to get a pileup if you're not careful.
Don't forget to do the same for Hogan's Heroes.
Cancer is an extreme example. Most people are capable of doing more complex tasks that robots can't do. And frankly, if someone exists who is no better than a robot, should they even be existing (and if they should, should they be forced to do such menial labor when we have the technology and ability to free them from such non-essential work)?
Well I hope they'll add a way to whitelist for that. It's unfortunate that we need whitelists and blacklists for everything. As an irrelevant rant, I can say that I miss xombrero so much. It was so nice being able to have all your browser config in a couple files, in plain text. These days I'm waiting to see if the Next browser will become a viable option.
Thousands of etcd servers left exposed online
Not really. A million casual retail investors download 4/month, and ten-thousand pros download all available data.
I'm assuming "End Of Day."

As in, after a full day, my brain is fatigued from overly-complex discussions and just needs the most direct, un-fussy information possible.

That sound right, mk3w9?
It’s difficult to call cambridge an exploit when Obama for America campaign was givin cart blanch access to the same data in 2012 presidential campaign knowingly by Facebook.

One political party using social data is called an exploit and another party doing the same thing is called innovation.

One man’s revolutionary is another man’s terrorist.

Liberal technocrats wrote books and gave ted talks about the use of real-time Facebook data to win the 2012 presidential election.
What do you mean by "find" and how do you define "global optima"?

For "find" you could discuss convergence rates vs. the points that are being converged to. If you add randomness at every iteration you're not even converging, at which point annealing rate becomes a related issue.

For "global optima" are we talking about training error, or test error, or some other kind of function value?
Seems to coincide with when 28 year-olds with beards took over every tech company, haha. Cheaper no doubt, and that is more important to most companies, more than quality.

They first tried outsourcing to the other side of the world, but found too many timezones grinds productivity to a halt and so plan B, younger and cheaper became an explicit goal.

Not just a tech thing either, focus on appearance is bordering on the extreme nowadays. Watched the "Willy Wonka…" movie from the early 70's with my daughter last night and was struck that most of the newscasters were silver haired and in their 60s, reminding me of Jerry Dunphy. Several of the stars had messy hair that needed combing, not necessarily in character.

Many things were higher quality back when they let experienced folks work, and "allowed ugly people to make music," as it were.
BMW says electric car mass production not viable until 2020
That is not the meaning of the Allegory of the Cave at all! The metaphor is that human experience is limited by our senses (like living in the cave) and so to understand eternal, absolute truths you need to use pure reason (leaving the cave), not experience.
I can't be alone in thinking that the woman walking the bicycle didn't seem to be in a crosswalk...

Like, ok so autonomous driving isn't perfect, and yeah the backup driver maybe should've been paying attention to the road instead of whatever she was doing. Fine. But I can't be alone in thinking it looks at least partly the woman's own fault. Right? Walking your bike, in the dark, across a road without looking when you don't seem to have right of way is just not a great idea. Plenty of human drivers would've probably hit her too, albeit possibly slower while slamming on the brakes.

I don't mean to blame the victim here entirely, obviously I don't think she deserved to die, I just can't help but think that Uber isn't entirely at fault here. Maybe Uber can make a car that's statistically a safer driver than human drivers, but you can't out-engineer the human ability to invent ways to get around rules other humans put in place.
What percentage of IBM employees were age 40 and over? It's not really age discrimination if these cuts are applying equally to everyone.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Ask HN: Who here feels their work is relevant and what do you do?
What would those metrics be?
Or to be less dependent on a specific OS, use a hash of the file's name/path/content?
We dislike those as much as anybody but the [video] tag on HN tends to mean "only a video", rather than "text plus auto-playing video".
i really hope that this is considered significantly less important than the Equifax incident.

I couldn't care less what the hell Facebook does with the data I have given them. I gave it to them willingly.
Are you suggesting we create a set of menial jobs for the sole purpose of keeping the less capable busy because we're too lazy to put people to good use? Having useless people around doing useless jobs doesn't get rid of the primary issue that there are useless people that exist.

People are creative. They can always fill jobs that can't be automated yet since humans are extremely pliable and trainable.

Artificially impeding progress to engineer a class of people doing jobs that are completely unnecessary is the type of social engineering only the rich and privileged could possibly dream up.
It's not that. I wasn't trying to list every pocket of the city that does have good tex mex. The problem is, it doesn't permeate through the city or into the burbs which is my criticism. The fact you counter my isolated example, with another isolated example, proves this point. Most people of middle-upper+ class in Dallas do not seek out this tex mex in those neighborhoods, which means their view of tex mex is shaped mostly by a few large chains.
Instead of deleting Facebook, we should be wishing for their success
You get extremely lucky then. Violet Evergarden has a hilariously badly subtitled sequence in S1E2 at 7:25. The whole thing is wrong, but in short, she says "you wanted a girl" when she said "your parents wanted a girl" and talks about him saying a girl's name in bed when she was talking about herself.

I reported this back in jan 19, and it's still fucked.
I'd actually rather not have this addition. Despite your marketing this as a desktop > mobile transfer right now there's no reason your app can't be used for desktop > desktop sharing unless you add that random string.

I can see myself using this to move files quickly between a desktop and a laptop or vice versa by ignoring the QR code and just putting in the port.

Alternatively you could try the gfycat method by appending a few adjectives and a noun to create a readable but nonsensical phrase: https://gfycat.com/enlightenedpositiveasianporcupine

But IMHO If security on your own network is so intense that a random app opening temporarily on a random local port is a security concern then this app isn't for you.
I don't have firsthand knowledge, but I'd be surprised if mission critical military gear uses GPS for more than a secondary / corrective role.

I can't imagine the signals play that well in a heavily-jammed environment.

High probability rough GPS fix + radar / optical terrain comparison & dead reckoning for terminal guidance seems more likely.