skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a prescient article given the state of computing at the time it was written. In reading it I also wondered if this explains Steve Jobs insistence of using the name iPad (he was pressured to change the name because the default reference of "pad" was to something rather different). But, the author really blows it at the end (the last two paragraphs) when he claims that ubiquitous computing will mean the decline of the computer addict and of information overload.
> Why would a SF company pay the employee in Kenya more than they need to?

Let's say an SF company limits max pay for Kenya remote employs to 10% of the maximum that Texas remote employees would get paid for the same duties, which is in turn 80% of the max that Bay Area remote employees would get.

The the actual applicants, of equal ability, are a Kenya applicant who will accept a minimum of 10% of Bay Area pay, a Texas applicant who will accept 85% of Bay Area pay, and an Oakland applicant who will accept 100% of Bay Area pay.

The first two don't get hired because a mutually acceptable salary can't be agreed, the last one is and the company pays 10× what it needed to.

It makes some sense to scale offers based on factors that you think will shape what people will accept, except where this is prohibited by law (e.g., protected class), and location may fit within that [0]. But it doesn't make sense to adjust the limit of what you accept that way.

Of course, if you try to have a consistent transparent salary methodology, you either have to give up location-based offers or accept the inefficiency of location-based pay limits. But the whole point of salary transparency is to avoid the perception that people are being paid differently for the same work based on non-germane factors as a way of exploiting people from disadvantaged backgrounds, so why you'd keep location-based limits with transparency is beyond me.

[0] Or may not: location clearly correlates with various protected attributes, which may get you bit by disparate impact if location isn't measurably linked to value.
From this same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17034959

> God I would love it Manhattan banned Uber and all non-commercial traffic (exile all civilian traffic to the highways and parking garages alongside them) and upped the number of buses. Clean new yellow cabs too and tougher requirements to drive them (raise the fares, I don't care).
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I feel like you're just saying the same thing a different way.

Most development doesn't happen in a "we know exactly where we're going" way.

This all sounds like some perfect, waterfall development cycle, everything's designed on paper in UML and the code is then written to spec without any changes, no requirements change, no interfaces change.

That model of development simply doesn't exist in the real world.

Your profile and blog say you're a sysadmin, do micro-services keep you in a job ;) It's one thing to make a bunch of micro-services as a sysadmin. It's quite another to base an ever growing and mutating production code base around them that actually has no clear path to success and an only vague understanding of future requirements.
Also worth noting that China prints money to keep the Yuan low and then charges high interest rates to keep the cash from the markets and keep salaries low.
It wasn't built for API-first use. Their API is a bolt-on to the web interface, whereas HelloSign was built with the API as a first class user. In comparison, DocuSign is much more of a pain to configure.
“All you need are good roads.” That’s a Big expensive undertaking. In Canada (which is ever so slightly bigger than Finland) the roads range from excellent to abysmal. In the US the roads often have potholes and little accommodation for cycles, and the U.K. has some of the worst roads I’ve seen outside of a developing nation. Finland is also a small country with a population which all lives in the same climate. Countries like the US and Canada are huge, and far more populous, with population densities varying wildly. In addition, the climate ranges from lovely to arctic.

Needless to say, this creates a host of issues you won’t find in Helsinki, where 1.2m of Finland’s 5m inhabitants live. A bunch of very similar people living in the equivalent of one American state or small Canadian province, speaking the same language and sharing the same culture and weather can make roads and cycling a priority. Good luck scaling that.
This is going to be big. I hope that one day HN will look back at the lack of upvotes on this post in the same way they look at the Dropbox announcement on HN.
It's a habit I picked up very early on when I was doing IT internships in college and it's so effective I can't see myself ever making checklists any other way.
That’s not actually how banks work at all. The amount a bank can lend isn’t at all linked to the amount of deposits it has - banks lever capital, not deposits. And they can lend more than 10x that - I think with the recent Basel III rules it’s 12.5x tier 1 capital, but back around the GFC when there was less regulation some banks were 30x. (The US does have a reserve requirement too but most countries don’t. There’s no real need when you have a central bank as a lender of last resort).

To satisfy double-entry accounting rules, banks actually create deposits from loans, not the other way around. Deposits do help with liquidity for fulfilling interbank transfers (and rules now have liquidity requirements that deposits count towards), but as long as they are not insolvent the bank can also just borrow the reserves it needs from other banks or the central bank.

See this explainer from the Bank of England (PDF warning) - https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Right, but if they cost the same as local, I'm hiring locally.
Is there an equivalent for vim?
Of all the document-signing firms I get forced into using, I like them the best because they let me use my touch-enabled laptop to generate my real signature.
Tidal was one of the sites I submitted music to last time I tried DistroKid. They took 6 months to get it up (vs the 1-7 days for every other store), and it had worse results than even the already weak results of the others.
In my experience, panel-based traffic measurement services (SimilarWeb, Alexa, Hitwise, Quantcast, ComScore, Nielsen) are useless when it comes to reality and their primary role serves to make misleading news articles or convince advertisers to waste a lot of money on overpriced media buys.

I'm not the only one with this opinion: https://moz.com/blog/testing-accuracy-visitor-data-alexa-com...
Nice article.

I've been looking into inbound content marketing lately, and this really is a prefect example of that!
I qualified that statement by saying "If you're saying that your attractiveness is the reason you've been told you're creepy...", because if that's what he's saying, he's admitting his intentions and I don't have to assume. If he's not saying that, then my statement doesn't apply.
I use FaceSlim myself, which seems to do much better, mostly a web view with a useragent that gets the older less-gimped mobile facebook website, and can send/view messages still.

I'm keeping messenger for now, only because my GF is in another state, and it's the most consistent way to video chat (which is a shame).
I think it is reasonable to point this out. When I lived in Seattle, I took the express buses between Seattle and Redmond on a daily basis. They sound like the ones that you describe. However, the buses within the city of the Seattle were a completely different situation. Messy, smelly, and often carrying people who could be upsetting or at least make you feel uncomfortable. Taking a bus originating from the second-wealthiest county in the United States should not be regarded as a typical experience.
DocuSign's API is very frustrating to work with, as you can't go into production without getting their "approval" first.

Amongst other things, the approval process requires you (or did require you when I last tried) to run a specific number of test transactions on a specific API endpoint.

Whilst reasonable for a complex integration, if someone just wants a simple "send this PDF for signature" script, this complex and slow process simply isn't worth it.
But there are lots of types of US bonds and you can literally buy as much as you want (~$500b worth of them trade every day), it's the most liquid market in the world.
In the near- to even medium-term future, adding another $10K to the cost of a new home in much of California is going to have a pretty negligible effect on demand. If you're expecting to pay over half a million for a home -- the median listing price for homes in CA right now is %515K, according to Zillow -- it's not much of an exaggeration to say that another $10K would be a rounding error.
And those people who decided not to visit facebook over Cambridge analytica scandal made 1.5 billion visits on Instagram.
> I know I'm just one person

Also one person not representative of the population, arguably, as you're commenting on HN which may make you more aware of the recent news on Facebook and potentially more security-conscious.
Electric buses and CNG buses are already here, and they are quieter. It might take some time for Sydney to retire old diesel buses, but they won't be that loud & fumey forever.
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In many places it is, but downtown it is right there on the street sharing lanes with cars. I've been on the light rail when it was hit by a car, and when it hit a car (both low-speed, but still delayed things by quite a long time)
Headline is almost as meaningless as COMPANY IPOS AT $20/SHARE
If employers valued the labor of remote workers as much as local workers, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Tech isn't a monopsony.

They'd all be competing for the same national pool of workers, and anyone that wanted to use cost of living as an adjustment for their offer would find that another company would beat them by offering the market rate for the fungible labor.

There isn't a great answer for this. Building housing in the places where tech companies have big offices helps, but a lot of folks don't want to live in cities or move halfway across the country.
Commenters here are literally talking about avoiding interaction with half of the people in the world because they don’t know how to do it without getting into trouble.
Only from the sample... and April has fewer days than March. So it's not that big a difference. Day of the week composition in a month combined with a day shorter month could account for that alone.
Nominally, the trains are long, and sometimes the stations are curved. A person in the middle of the train can see more of the doors to make sure they're clear.
It seems like this approach is a slow re-invention of the car.
I've setup a second monitor on my desk. I rarely use it, because I'm away so much, so it just shows art or whatever I'm into at the moment.

I also threw a folder onto Google photos and then linked that up with a Chromecast on one of the office TVs. Perfect for art. I think the original tool could work great in both cases.
Are you referring to the Cueva paper? I also spent a considerable amount of time trying to replicate it without success. Do you know if the author has released any code yet?
State puts voluntary ‘no-go’ zone along western San Juan Island to protect orcas
There ought to be a site to show whether a company does time tracking or other excessive surveillance techniques. Would be helpful to filter out employers before hand. It'd also be helpful when making purchases. I'd prefer to buy from alternative suppliers when available (e.g. buying from Costco vs. Walmart)
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Well if these others are exclusive Tidal releases then those numbers might be a little loose but are relatively within the ballpark because they've narrowed access down to a single source. The bigger question is whether artists benefit from being on every single service or are better served by narrowing releases to a single distributor whether its tidal or something else or their own website.
Hey folks,

We are a team of phDs and ex HFT engineers who love to apply NLP/ML into daily life.

One thing I do a lot before buying anything expensive is reading a ton of reviews, forums, blogs, reddit and checking social media for actual images from buyers. This often takes a lot of time and we think NLP can help categorize and summarize crowd's insights of the products better.

This idea is inspired by the dude who made laptophits.com (for some reason it is now defunct so I couldn't actually use it couple weeks ago when looking for a new laptop :-/).

We are open for criticism & ideas. Please let us know if our landing page makes any sense and you'd like to try. Thanks!
I've been finding research topics for a while, but I don't really know how. I read some research and sometimes work on high-level things, and sometimes I fiddle with low-level toy problems (one of my hobbies lately has been writing SIMD algorithms for some reason). Some side projects have gotten fairly far along where I've alternated between setting a goal and researching the means to achieve it.
> it doesn't necessarily follow that failing to read a girl's boundaries correctly means I have anything other than platonic intent

Failing to read a _woman's_ boundaries correctly may not say anything about your intentions, but intentions don't matter if you're violating someone's boundaries. People shouldn't make excuses for not reading other's boundaries, they should learn to read other's boundaries and if they're repeatedly incapable or unwilling to do so, they should be treated as either children, adults with social disorders, or violators. There is NO acceptable excuse for violating another person's boundaries.
Heck, I miss Obama, Bush (both of them), Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and Nixon (I was too young to really remember anyone earlier), because no matter how much I might have disagreed with any of them on any particular thing, they were at least reasonably coherent.

Compare to this 2016-07-19 campaign speech Trump gave on the Iran deal:

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/
What I'd like to tell the author.

Don't like null? Don't use it.. and you find null propagation ruining your abstraction then treat it as an error and fix your program.
a meta-comment:

it's weird - i submitted this a couple of days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17018883), but it still doesn't show up in the default HN search view. (we even edited the blog headline the same way!) but it does show up in the "by date" view.
I think that part of the problem for me was that most jobs took something that could be an art and a craft (computer programming and system-building) and turned it into a grueling, feature-deadline driven assembly line for uninspiring, unpolished, and unremarkable products.

This was a complete productivity killer for me. For a long time, I blamed myself. I tried different techniques, motivations, even prescribed substances. Eventually, I realized that the problem was with what I was doing with my time.

Now that I am programming for myself, I have all the motivation that I need. I am not beholden to deadlines or commitments, I am free to Do It Right, refactor as I see fit, and finish whatever I'm working on with the level of Quality that I am happy with.

I get more done in a two-hour session than I used to in a day and sometimes a week.
This is great advice for you younger people to pay attention to. I wish I would have done this when I could.
You can also zoom out and see that Facebook's web traffic has been steadily declining and the April drop has nothing to do with the CA scandal. https://i.imgur.com/e9Mgjby.png
Have you decided that your looks are the reason, or been told? You may be assuming that it’s your looks, when it frankly isn’t. In my experience creepy usually means creepy, and creepy poeple lack insight... which is part of what makes them creepy. It might not be looks, but behavior, a sense of anger or discomfort, etc.

Women often have to go by their gut instinct with guys, because if they don’t it can end in them being very badly hurt. Any heuristic is likely to generate false positives. Someone who is very anxious or socially awkward may come across as dangerous simply because of the heightened emotional state and failure to respond to social cues. It may also be that there is a strong correlation between “socially awkward” and “unattractive” for obvious reasons.

So again, I wouldn’t assume that looks represent cause rather than correlation. For an analogy, it could be like someone who is afraid of dogs being disproportionately bitten by dogs who react to the fear that person has of being bitten.
It's definitely something that plays into how I ride the bus. My route has an express line that runs during peak hours and the same normal route, both get me to my destination within a few minutes of each other. The express route is people going downtown for work. The normal route goes through the rough areas and gets filled up with people hassling the driver for a free ride and people walking on with open beers at 8am and people openly drug dealing. It makes it pretty easy to decide which one to ride.
When will Russia become the world's fifth biggest economy?
Sure, it makes sense if value differs between local and remote to have pay differential there.

That's different from location based differential in the remote pool.
That seems insane. They won’t let you use their API unless you test it? Don’t they have QA teams?
...based on this comment on the bug:

> But people expect that it's the specific bookmarks that have keywords, not the urls+postdata, because it always worked like this.

> The UI also shows this. There's a keyword field for a bookmark. And it's not labeled keyword for url/post data. This is a discrepancy, and results in unexpectedly overwritten keywords.

I'm guessing the title is supposed to be read "(multiple bookmark) keywords", not "multiple (bookmark keywords)", and the release note restated it wrongly.

Like, if you have two separate bookmarks with different names, but they go to the same URL, they share whatever's in the keywords field.
Rants that start off without defining what or with whom they're arguing really come across as "Old man yells at cloud".

Of the limited samples I've seen "cost of living" is a fraction of base salary. They're not paying so that on-site staff live a champagne lifestyle. It's "how much does x need to live, eat and get to work". Cheaper housing, zero commute, etc all mean remotes "need" less to achieve this level.

Labour is also a marketplace. A big city, for all its sins, attracts more companies. And there are usually many times more on-site positions than remote (role dependant). So the best employees from a distinct location are scarce, and competed for.

People who work remote can be adult about this. They get other non-monetary benefits from not having to commute, seeing their family, having a bigger house (hey, even just owning their house), lower rates of crime, etc, etc, etc. Living in a city can be hard work in itself.

More than anything, they can argue their worth, they could move, or they could find another job.
"on a public webpage" = "as difficult as possible"?

Also, author addresses these objections:

https://beautifulracket.com/why-you-should-pay.html
It's not about "cost of living". It's about "You're willing to work for less money" and "you have fewer alternative options than this offer". If you're willing to agree to work for less than your teammates who live elsewhere, that's up to you.

That's just how free markets work.

(I say this as someone who worked for a US-based company out of the Toronto office for a long time, getting less pay than my equivalents elsewhere)
So the company adjusts the price it is willing to pay to the Kenyan and Texan employee and then they get hired. This happens all the time, paying the market price.
Pure censorship and problems, I will never join medium
But the government funding these systems is the same -- the state of California.

Also, the Marin system still deserves commendation. First of all, while it is a rich county, there is still a large wealth gap. There is a substantial number of obviously poorer people on the buses as well. Some routes mainly serve disadvantaged areas. Yet, the buses serve everyone, and people still want to ride them. And they're still pretty nice. Why punish people who may already be struggling with an awful bus ride?

Secondly, the counties to the south of San Francisco are pretty darn rich (probably richer than Marin, TBH), and their public transit options suck. I spent many years in south bay, and despite all the money people throw around there, the bus system was awful.

There are certainly poorer areas in the United States where the main factor limiting adoption and tech improvements is a lack of funding. However, there are also plenty of really rich counties (in California at least) where the lack of a good bus system is simply due to a complete unwillingness to invest in good public infrastructure.
> But it's still, likely, over a billion dollars of lost revenue.

I doubt Facebook earns anywhere near $1 per visit.
Every time Docusign is mentioned I can't help think of how they ripped off HelloSign https://www.hellosign.com/blog/docusign-copies-hellosign-use...
As it is dead reckoning, I assume it is relational/velocity.
It was released three years ago, which is the date you should use for figuring out the life span of a device. You should expect to get less time out of a phone that's already been out for a year and a half when you buy it.

In my country a used 1st generation Pixel can be had for less than the 5x was when it came out (~$300 vs $379). It's not ideal to have to buy used instead of new but it is doable. The Nokia appears to cost about the same price that the 5x did but im not sure it's easily available everywhere.

Anyways, your situation is unfortunate but I don't consider Google's actions to be egregious in this instance.
Next time a telemarketer calls, I'd like this to answer the phone
Muslim youth see the U.S. as an enemy
And that difference can be called whatever you want, e.g. 'Cost of Living Stipend".
Can you please give an example? I only see comments from people avoiding interaction with women at work. And they are doing this because of the potential trouble such an interaction might bring not because they are getting into trouble by doing so.