skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be bad if I spent the same amount at the EFF-equivalent of my own country. The problem is that USA might be too powerful and the original EFF would be "taking the fight to their filed."

Just wondering which is more effective.
Sure, go ahead and screw the employees while the economy is bad. They'll stay on and grumble about it, because they can't go anywhere.

People got laid off and were unable to find work, possibly ending their careers, and you're complaining about bagels being cut? Seriously?
Compares and jumps are cheap only if the branch is predicted. If not predicted, they're worse than a division. In data-driven conditionals, a conditional move operations is likely the best.
Sorry, meant to respond to nknight.
I would have probably quit sometime between spending limits and a "town hall meeting" about food being worth everyone's time.
Right, the company I worked for was open about this, they wanted us at our desks.

The problem was they had no way of measuring how much productivity gains there really were but they still had a bill every month for the food. When push comes to shove it was harder to justify any theoretical productivity gains against that bill.
Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art.

Which is a derivative of Double Dragon (and probably something earlier), but it's a fantastic game nevertheless.
Wow, that's 1% growth per year. It should be closer to 2%.
"we own any App you write for a phone"

Does this refer to apps written on company time or using company resources? Or any application written for a phone from anywhere at any time?
Uploaded.to blocked U.S. visitors as a response to the MegaUpload takedown
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It was a funny meeting. The CEO was a hell of a salesman, he came in with a nalgene bottle and made a big show of taking big gulps while touting his new health initiatives that just happened to include cutting a perk. By the time he left people were saying it was a good thing he was so concerned for our health. He did the same speech 5 times in one day to get all the employees, must have been pretty hydrated at the end.
But they talked about a huge number of robots , something that might double or triple current robotics industry out of the blue. Seems too big.

Another explanation is that it's just a scare tactic to subdue workers. looking at their past behavior, this makes more sense.
As a stance for the Overton Window, I wouldn't be opposed to this. In the extreme case (eg this passed), it might not be too bad (I'm not convinced of that, but I can see the arguments). In the sliding window case, we get a reduction in the outrageousness of current IP laws, which I know would be a good thing.
>The far majority of the superrich inherited their wealth.

Not true at all. 69% of US billionaires earned their fortunes.

http://moneytipcentral.com/self-made-vs-inherited-billionair...

The numbers are similar for US millionaires.
The AMD Fusion is not my ideal machine.
Even better: the key word is "give"

All google has to do is 'give' x ad views before some videos on youtube, for each candidate. If someone tries to get Google to do otherwise, they're limiting GOOGLE'S freedom of speech.
I fully agree with you. I moderate a religious subreddit and I am convinced that at least 2/3 of the regular readers are trolls and antagonists. There is a pervasive common culture on reddit.

The site self-selects; you are not going to get many grannies coming on board when the front page is filled with f-bombs, sexual questions or interviews (AskReddit/IAmA), non-sensical pictures and jokes, and news about IPv6 or other techie stuff. That's just the long and short of it.

Even if you give a specific link to an individual subreddit, anyone who participates to a meaningful degree will venture outside into the broader world of reddit and be very sorry they did so, often swearing off the site entirely.

I haven't even mentioned the intentional harassment offered by the kind reddit denziens who find what you are trying to talk about "moronic", "abusive", or "mind-numbing".

This effect was so pervasive that I recognized I could not get meaningful participation from relevant segments of the population if I hosted the community on reddit. I coded a clone and started an independent site. I think this is required for anyone whose primary audience doesn't overlap with the 20-something nerd crowd.
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This is a nice little essay, and I agree with most of it, but this part is rather naive:

> A solution is for the Internet industry to start giving free advertising to political campaigns on our own new media assets...

A comment by daeken on the "Can we kill the music business too?" HN post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493002) has some ideas that apply nicely here, too.

From that comment:

> While I think the author's heart is in the right place, I think he's fallen into the trap that nearly everyone in the music startup industry has fallen into: the content and distribution are the easy parts, getting people to give a damn is the hard part.

> The hard part in all this is getting it in front of users, and getting them to care about the music.

Similarly, the hard part of a political campaign is getting noticed. 100,000 people out there would be happy to run for president I'm sure; the vast majority of them are never noticed. Some few are. Fewer still are noticed a lot.

I would love to see a world in which money-buys-attention is not the primary rule that determines who gets the most powerful job there is. But turning on the firehose and flooding people with free ads from 100,000 presidential hopefuls, does not look to me like the way to make that happen.

How to make it happen, is worthy of some serious discussion.

Again, nice post. I think the first part is right on target.
"you're lucky you even have a job!"
> Yes, I just said economics is harder than physics.

I'm saying that too.

> You could not be more wrong. Economists, at least those from good programs, have great quantitative training.

Which programs? Is this Ivy League PhD, econometrics stream? Or undergrad? First year physics students learn special relativity. They won't learn the advanced stuff until 3rd year, or maybe 4th, but it's still taught.

But most economics students struggle with "econometrics", which is glorified linear algebra. There's theoreticians who do understand complexity, but none of their work is likely to be widely read. There'll be a few ivory tower academics doing really hard stuff, but it doesn't enter the general body of knowledge.

It's like saying that computer programmers don't understand algorithms. Of course some do, and there's research out there if you want to find it, but generally just they kind of know that O(n) is good, and O(2^n) is bad.

And while economists are pretty good at statistics (at least, the good ones are), very few use differential equations. It's not covered in undergraduate classes, and by postgrad classes it's too late.

And while IS-LM is going out of fashion, it's just being replaced with DSGE. I can't see any appendix on differential equations in the TOC of that textbook you mention, is that because everyone already understands them, or because despite the model being called "Dynamic", it's not? I quote Solow, the guy who kind of invented it:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/07/robert_solow_on_...

> I do not think that the currently popular DSGE models pass the smell test. They take it for granted that the whole economy can be thought about as if it were a single, consistent person or dynasty carrying out a rationally designed, long-term plan, occasionally disturbed by unexpected shocks, but adapting to them in a rational, consistent way. I do not think that this picture passes the smell test. The protagonists of this idea make a claim to respectability by asserting that it is founded on what we know about microeconomic behavior, but I think that this claim is generally phony. The advocates no doubt believe what they say, but they seem to have stopped sniffing or to have lost their sense of smell altogether.

Yes, economics is hard. Yes, there's smart people working on it. But by the time it filters down to teaching undergraduates or setting policy, the general attitude is "we'll assume rational behavior and a market at equilibrium, so nothing we say is going to be too controversial".

(trollish rant ahead)

I wonder what to ration of neo-classicals to quants is on Wall Street (where people actually have to make the right calls) compared to the Federal Reserve and the Treasury?

It's basic agency theory - the economists who can't handle complexity take over dumb institutions (like most universities and governments), then insulate themselves against having to learn anything they aren't comfortable with.
What happens when 51% decides they want a theocracy?

Fortunately our system is set up to dampen the whims of the majority.
FYI: I quoted this comment in a comment on another HN post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3495993
Looks like this is the next target of anti-piracy groups after the shutting down of megaupload.
> So people shouldn't naively think that Google (or, for that matter, any other company) offers these perks out of the goodness of their heart.

It becomes s question of quality. It is one thing to offer free steaks at lunch (a real perk) vs offering beans and rice every day. [just using it to illustrate a point, not saying Google is serving rice and beans only]. The goal of Google is to present how they have very high quality food during interview then start scaling down the quality (and cost) until employees will still feel like driving is a hassle but now a meal is $10 vs $30.

In the end however they lose with this strategy. The people working there can read between the lines. Google might end up with better end-of-quarter bottom line, but in the long long run they will be shooting themselves in the foot.
Spain seems to be a US copyright colony, too, after they pushed copyright laws written by US.
I wasn't disputing that, I was just pointing out that OP was complaining about lack of C++11 support in Visual Studio compared to gcc and clang, but this is even more unfortunate considering the Visual Studio team has indicated that they prioritize C++11 support above other things.
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The whole idea of free food is not good. I'd prefer to have a wide variety of the highest quality food and pay something reasonable for it.

I really don't want an incentive to maximize my consumption of food. What matters is how much you enjoy what you do it and being as healthy as you can be.

Caffe Macs at Apple does it well. The healthiest options are clearly subsidized, and desserts are not.
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> This product is soo revolutionary, it has the ability to put an entire product out of business

Is it accurate enough and sensitive enough to really replace geiger counters (assuming that's what you are talking about)?
At the point where you're making an HTTP request, that's nothing. As nothing as nothing can get.
How about a screenshot for non-U.S. users?
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The church of Copy/Paste
One thing this article doesn't point out: it wasn't Google who argued that the supposedly lower salary was offset by food - it was a person (sure, an employee or contractor of Google). Perhaps this person was reading from a recruiting script sanctioned by management. But it wasn't the big overarching company that made this argument to the author - it was a person.

Recruiters often have the wrong incentive structure. They have numbers to hit - and so they use classic high pressure tactics (exploding offers, "accept the offer now" durring the offer, misinformation, tricks) to convince people to accept. It's unfortunate that the recruiter's goals don't line up with the applicant's, but it's true. How one fixes that isn't obvious to me tonight.

I also hate the victim mentality when an employee no longer feels like they're getting what they want from their employer. If you don't like what you're getting, if the economic transaction is no longer acceptable, leave. (I respect employment laws, I think everyone should treat each other, I don't condone abusive behavior or manipulation) Employees aren't victims trapped by evil employers, they're participants in an economic transaction. If the transaction is no longer as profitable as one at another company, then that doesn't make the employer bad or wrong, it's simply time to move on.

(I worked at Google for 5 years, I left in April 2011. And when I went back for lunch one day in November with former coworkers, I had the best meal I'd had since I left.)
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> Usually when I read things that I disagree with it doesn't really prod at me ... I saw nothing in that article as to /why/ google might have done what they did

And then from the article:

"""
but enough people finally cornered them and got them to admit it was about the cost.
"""

From what I see, you really didn't read the article.
There is still a compare/jump with the division method ( != 0) which needs prediction.
It's nothing particularly special

http://cl.ly/2R3G1t3l2Z2O2A0x1u08
I have two of these machines. One is a quad-core laptop, and the other is a dual-core E-350 server.

In both cases, the driver provided by AMD was horrific. The drivers that came with LinuxMint and Ubuntu (not the non-free drivers, the default ones) were fantastic and very fast.

I am very happy and run both machines on dual 24" monitors @ 1920x1200 and they scream.
Yes, it can be slightly naive not to take into account benefits, especially if said benefits are written into your contract. And that's the key - if it's not written into your contract, discard it.
The point is that the expensive/quality meals were presented as part of her compensation in exchange for lower salary, then this was taken away. If instead she had just gotten a higher salary, she'd still be getting that extra value in exchange for her work.
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I've worked at Google for almost four years and found this hilarious. "The Friday morning bagel or donut supplies also were curtailed. Sure, they still existed, but you now had to go hunt for them. They were no longer set up in a microkitchen near your office. They would now appear only in certain cafes." – The same donuts and bagels are still at Google. You have to walk an extra 30 feet to the cafe to get them. Oh, and I'd take the 10% raise – which was more like a 15-20% raise after all was said and done, based on total compensation + bonus factored in – over 30 feet of additional bagel proximity any day.
its not just the pigs in animal farm that turned into the wicked rulers they ousted so justly; on many levels it is every group that ever successfully revolted. one of the earliest steps into the dark is using the tactics of the enemy.

no doubt there are successful lobbies that havent made the deals that render them useless. but playing the game is not the tactic that is working and inspiring people anymore; it is the hope of something more transcending emerging from new networks we build and connect with every day.

i hope this is not the case here but the prospect of getting a few minutes to talk in between a pig's meals isn't so appetizing.
the 10% raise was 5 years after the perks started dissapearing....
Indeed, doesn't look blocked at all.

Is the submission title correct?
I think mappu meant the block message:

http://imgur.com/BJJOs
Possibly true, but general to the point that it's difficult to know how to respond. Are big things happening? Definitely. But this sort of thing isn't driven just by changing minds, like the civil rights movement of the 60's. The future has to be invented as well as protected.

It would probably be easier, saner, and more clear-headed to take things piece by piece. SOPA was wrong, and we're all glad it's dead. It seems the attention of many people is turning towards the political process, whether that's manifested in OWS, Rootstrikers, aggressive pro-Internet legislation efforts like @spolsky suggests, or just electing Ron Paul and seeing what happens. Great! But keep it modular, present, and practical. People's attention and faith are limited resources, and they can be wasted by asking them for too much too soon.
> The author complains that she was dissatisfied

It was an advice article. I think many young graduates (that Google seems to like to recruit) should read it.

> Then it turns into a rant about how she was robbed of her entitlements.

I think you are being too hyperbolic there. It seems pretty clear that Google didn't break any laws and that the author thinks Google didn't break any laws. She made some wrong assumptions during her hiring and she is warning others not to make the same ones.

> Because they don't have bagels in the microkitchen Google is evil?

It is appropriate to use that word because Google set itself up for it by using it in its own mission statement. It is clearly a play on that. Had any other company been involved I bet the word "evil" wouldn't have been used.
Fox's website sucks. Here's a relevant clip from their video: http://youtu.be/4LH3aao799Y
Ramnit Worm Targets Facebook, Over 45,000 Accounts Compromised
This is the second post from this blog I've had the displeasure of reading on HN, and both of them make this person seem to be a congenital malcontent.
Another 7000 Israel Credit Cards Exposed
Carberp Trojan Steals e-Cash Vouchers from Facebook Users
FBI Shuts Down Megaupload, Anonymous Shut Down FBI
At the top you're allowed to select the number of data classes. If you select 5, then you get the 5 colors you see in the palettes.
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Maybe Im just a calculating, cold, emotionless engineer but when it comes to pay packages Ive stopped caring about the fancy 'perks'. I only try to gauge how much Ill get paid, how much Ill enjoy the work and learn, and how many hours Ill be putting in.

Ive seen perks too many times used against employees. (The following rant is nothing towards Google - never worked there.)

- Free food and onsite amenities usually is a sign that they want you there for extra long hours and that you'll probably need to use that stuff.

- Unrestricted vacation days can mean you don't really get any vacation because its always crunch time.

- Fancy employee outings are not so thrilling to me - I like my coworkers but I already spend the majority of my waking hours with them.

I'm not trying to completely debase the value of these things - I'm just saying that in terms of negotiating salary I weight these types of perks at 0 or negative dollars.
Trust me, we aren't very keen on it, either.
Can it compete? Let's find out.
Do you have a US IP? Maybe it's not blocked for everyone.

http://torrentfreak.com/uploaded-to-blocks-us-visitors-12012...
You could reference another paper that discusses it (assuming there is one), perhaps one that references the paper in question, ideally by the original authors. It's common for authors to write a series of papers on some topic.

This doesn't give the ideal credit, but it addresses the concern you raise.
Range checks aren't limited to HTTP requests, they're a highly generic construct. Novices will pick up this bad habit and use it elsewhere, including in tight loops, not understanding that it's a serious mistake.
I found it interesting that their claimed value of 15-20k a year went unquestioned. At ~300 days a year, that's $60 a day. I'd value free food at a quarter of that at most.
I'm in the US and it's blocked for me.

Good for them - this is a rational response and I hope it gets a lot of press.
"One thing this article doesn't point out: it wasn't Google who argued that the supposedly lower salary was offset by food - it was a person (sure, an employee or contractor of Google)."

I'm really intrigued at how often this "excuse" is trotted out, almost word-for-word, whenever "a person who works at Google" gets caught doing something sleazy. It's almost as predictable as the first-line call center staff asking you if you've re-booted Windows. In my more suspicious moments, I wonder what the "Google aren't evil, it's just some people who _work_ for Google that do evil shit" apologists are going to say when "the script" they're all reading out of gets posted to PasteBin - complete with Page or Brin or Schimdt's signature at the bottom?

Surely if "do no evil" were and overriding company policy from the top down, "people who work for Google" would knw not do try and pull shit like this?
You don't disrupt Hollywood, you join it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in...

It has been eliminated after the next election
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Branch predictors have for years been accurate enough that the right thing is to not worry about a pipeline flush until you actually encounter a high miss rate.

By the way, on the latest CPUs, they're not just "cheap" -- cmp is actually as low as 0.5 cycles, and a predicted jcc is effectively 0. The comparison is actually between something that, in the absolute best case, is 5.5 cycles, vs. something that, in the general case, is 0.5 cycles.
I've found that doing some introspection helps me to deal with situations where I'm upset.
For one, that wouldn't interfere in the slightest with Rowling's ability to successfully sell her seventh book. In fact, it might get her to write some more books, since the first wouldn't be sufficient to make her quite as rich as she is.
"... There's no conspiracy, they just don't read or teach anything more mathematically advanced than IS-LM ..."

I aked Steve about this exact problem, [0] the mismatch of decision making using at best questionable economic modelling and the reply was along the lines you suggest. It starts right at University level theory where nobody questions the accepted orthodox theory. What I don't understand is why more mathematicians don't call mainstream economists bluff?

[0] "Why I went" http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/5518902314/in/set-7215...

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/collections/7215762379...
How is it evil for a recruiter to say "Y'know, we offer a lower salary than you're looking for, but we make up for it in perks!"

And then how is it evil for the food team or corporate finance team to say "We're wasting money in food - literally having every cafe open for breakfast and dinner but only running at 1/3 capacity - so let's cut down on the waste and suggest people walk to the adjacent building for the non-lunch meals!"

What I'm saying is that it wasn't Google upper management making the arguments about food and salary to hire. It was a person. A different person in a different department from the one deciding to cut down on food service.
This reminds me a lot of one company I worked for. While I can understand cutting costs when the economy is bad, his last question hits the spot: "But what happens when the economy improves?"
> That may be true in the US to some extent

Considering these are US companies making an agreement about US employees, where else is relevant?

> Corporations are simply property in this case, preventing corporations from making these agreements is violating the rights of owners to manage their property.

By taking advantage of the corporate structure society has over-generously granted them, the investors have agreed to surrender their rights.

They can get most of them back by dispensing with the corporate structure and acting in their own personal capacities, without the market-distorting characteristics granted to corporations.
Do elaborate on astronauts and their retinas. I haven't heard this one before.
Pretty delusional if you ask me. Sadly, this whole script kiddies war is doing more harm than good to each side.