skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still find that odd, perhaps I should quit my current job and do exactly what he does? after all automating data entry has to be a lot simpler than most programming jobs.

Lets play with the maths of this, lets say that he is generously making 40 euros, which is a lot for data entry (think like double what specialist data entry people are normally paid)

That leaves us with a bonus pool of 2100000, the claim is that he was taking 90% of the bonus, that would make the bonus pool 233333, lets round up to 250000

Ok so lets split this evenly across several employees

5 clerks = 50,000 bonus each on a base salary of 40,000 = 90,000 each !

10 clerks = 25,000 bonus each on a base salary of 40,000 = 65,000 each !

20 clerks = 12,500 bonus each on a base salary of 40,000 = 52,500 each !

Thats a stunning salary ! really, I would be motivated myself to get my bonus, even if I was only taking my _equal_ share of the magic pot.

Ok lets assume that his department is huge say ....

50 clerks = 5,000 bonus each on a base salary of 40,000 = 45,000 each

Sounds reasonable right? but the 50 clerks would be costing the company
2000000 Euros ! At that cost even the most stupid of organisations would be looking at automation (human via india or say the meat-cloud), or computers)

Now you might say that 40K is generous for the type of work, that he would really be earning something like 25K, still a lot for data entry which is a low skilled job that is typically hourly paid; a fine argument but if that is the case then the bonus pool becomes larger which still makes all the numbers look suspect.

Maybe he got a raise (and didn't really declare it, for some reason), even then that is somewhat higher than a basic internet search gives me for someone in Holland as a programmer (http://www.payscale.com/research/NL/Country=Netherlands/Sala...). Now the company he works for might be clueless, but I would be surprised if they did not do a wage equivalence as most companies are low that way.

So colour me extremely skeptical, the _only_ way it makes sense is if he misplaced a zero
Hey man the argument you seem to be a part of here (both sides) seems really dualistic and considering how poorly concepts and events in real life fit binary interpretations, I think you could reduce your stress by taking a broader approach.

Book I loved on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Language-Thought-Action-Fifth-Edition/...
Merlin Mann and John Gruber had a pretty good discussion of this (and many other things) in "The Banana Window" episode of The Talk Show.

http://5by5.tv/talkshow/57
When Twitter starting "app-ing" their pages, I gave up on them. I now access my account once or twice a year to address something very specific.

Too many hoops, and this old dog gets tired and goes somewhere else.

And sooner or later, "the kids" are going to discover the joy of "retro" and bail on the UI BS, as well -- my personal speculation.
Strange for taking notes, or strange for thinking that a laptop is a suitable tool for that?
Actually temporarily it did. At least for me for about 5 min amazon.com was unreachable yesterday when i first read about this. was around 10pm EST i believe.
This is very true - for example, his VP Propulsion Development, Tom Mueller, spent 14 years as a rocket product manager at TRW, and spent 6 years leading a team of 80 engineers developing a candidate engine for the Delta IV, and winning plaudits like a chairman's award for technical excellence but without anything he worked on actually getting launched. I can't imagine how gratifying it must feel for him now to watch things he made flying into orbit and opening access to space. It's hard to beat that kind of real accomplishment as a job perk.
Iron Man is decades old. If anything, the reverse is true: The popular perception of Musk is based off the Iron Man archetype.
In my experience, there are three kinds of people who get certified:

1) The highly competent who happened to be bored an afternoon and got one as a joke, or just to check how easy it was to get one, or as a result of a stupid bet. These people usually never mention their certifications on their resumes.

2) The competent people who were forced by their company to get certified for whatever reason. If you ask them they'll tell you, and it might be on their resumes, but as a footnote.

3) Finally, the incompetent people, who think the certifications are actually worth anything. They'll proudly highlight what they got, thinking other people will be impressed. When hiring, this is obviously a strong negative marker.
Isn't that bastard operator from hell excuse #74?
Obssesive tabbers: Save history from Firefox tabs to file
I asked a tomato farmer about this once, and he said that supermarkets only buy varieties that transport well without bruising; taste is secondary.
Russian Missile Forces Have ‘Safe Busting’ Sledgehammer
Most of the current MongoDB drivers support routing read queries to the lowest latency replica set member - this solves part of the problem.

Choice of database when planning a project is a more fundamental problem, knowing what to use and why - is the trade off for Riak / Cassandra worth it over MongoDB or even MySQL? This people decide on a per-project basis and of course when starting don't always make the right longer term choice.
Opera, of course.
Agreed, this is just a rough guide to it :-)
Just thought you might like to know that there is another project with the same name. (http://ccv.nuigroup.com/). Although they seem to stylize it with all caps.

Cool though, looks good.
If they take Top Gear seriously, the people you know surely are not intelligent enough to amass the resources to by a Tesla roadster.
Thats correct, often times most people don't even set page cache times in their dynamic content.
HackerRank: A Social Site For Hackers
No, but it's a likely requirement of a nontrivial app. You can emulate it on AWS if you're using something like backbone, but only for public content.
I take it you're not an american? Almost all health providers will not give out their rates, it's extremely hard to get prices on prescriptions, and you're rarely billed in full up front. It's damn near impossible to do anything remotely resembling a free market based approach to healthcare. There's this relationship between insurance providers and the health industry today that's impenetrable. It's very hard to explain, because nothing in the world exists like it. It's a horrible mess.

P.S. I never shared my opinion on the matter, but since you brought it up, I'm actually on the fence about the matter. I'm not a fan of the health care bill, but more because it seems to me like it's going to make things even more complicated than before. Also, I'm not a fan of the precedent the supreme court's ruling has set essentially weakening the states' powers. But, that's all fairly irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
Creating something beautiful, fixing something broken, these are improving the world.
If you browse like me, you suddenly have hundreds of tabs open "for later"...

This tool allows you to dump them to a file, and start over at "tab-count: 1" ...
Holy false dichotomy batman. Just because one company is abusive doesn't mean that you need to cheerlead another abusive company. Google is hurting Firefox and Opera by their actions too.
Dial 999: 75 years of emergency phone calls
I think the point you're missing is including a technical one: for a good number of users, getting a tweet history "hits the disk." The limited history is in part due to what's in memory on their servers and easiest to serve.

The historic tweet providers don't have this problem-- they (currently) can monetize to offset the cost of the servers to store the data in a necessary way, or by being for analysis only, the fetch-speed (if from disk) isn't as much of a concern.

Building a business on Twitter doesn't require using one of the other providers, unless that business is analytics.

Rate limits aren't some boogeyman. They're a financial and technological necessity to dissuade abuse and plan for capacity. Serving data isn't free (as in money). Have we had a semi-public API with as much data served in the past? How do you offset that "cost-center" right now?
At $50,000 base price, we're not at 10% yet. But yes, progress.
China has a gigantic arsenal of functioning nuclear warheads sitting atop of maintained and ready ICBMs that are pretargetted at key american targets.

Military action against China by the US is simply not possible.

The US doesn't bully China. It bullies people who don't have working nukes and ICBMs.

One of the main arguments against the US building a network of "star wars" missile defense stations capable of stopping mass ICBM attacks is it would dangerously shift the balance of power with China, requiring them to pursue other means of preventing the US from attacking them. The Chinese are extremely smart so targetted bioweapons that only infect people with smallpox who don't have asian ancestry are not out of the question as a reasonable project to look into next. It would be better for all of us if they do not pursue this line of research. Not having a missile defense system maintains the usefulness of their nuclear arsenal. It is therefore better than having a missile defense system which makes their nuclear arsenal useless.
sigh

Really? This is worth submitting to HN?
It's funny, the more I think about I think this is actually a good reason to host on the cloud. From a technical standpoint it's terrifying to see all these big players down at once. But what the average user likely sees is "something is wrong with the internet". So rather than seeing that your site X is down and users being angry with you, users are probably likely to think "well instagram is also down, oh and so is netflix, something big must be broken, I'll check back later" the same way users don't blame you if the power goes out.
Yea, but it should be done by providers like Heroku who can talk to multiple datacenters :)
And toilet paper have a bigger impact than cars.

I did not mention "cool", I mentioned lower launch prices. That is more important.

The usual argument, since decades, is that with low launch costs, there will be new use cases and new markets -- the first private projects has been announced for mining and detecting "dinosaur killers", etc.

(I am not certain if I'm trolled here. Or if I was unclear in the GP?)
Yep, there will always be a tipping point when your downtime becomes worth engineering out - this obviously varies per app. Understanding what's available to you is also important - I've met quite a few people who have no idea about some of the features available on AWS. I'm not sure if this is just a problem with AWS's docs / console, or just knowing what to look for in the first place.
The kind of apartments where Tesla owners live (or the Google offices where they work) can easily install power outlets in the garage.
True. Another approach was used by the OLPC project. Their ui had a journal(chronological order) view of user created documents.
There must be other approaches?
Django-medusa: Rendering Django sites as static HTML
Uptime is something users love regardless of the size of the company whose product they're trying to use. Investing in uptime is always worth it.
Won't the applications be files anyway?
A really rough guide. Rough enough that I thought of each of these points last night at 1 am while extremely groggy and trying to bring back the 7 or so instances we lost in the outage.

I guess it is a good play to get traffic to your site.
It seems like you can make a good tradeoff between Chef and AMIs by nightly rebuilding the AMIs off a fully configured system, and then when the machine comes up you run Chef to make up the incremental difference.
My title is better than yours
But what you said was that the constitution was supposed to break monopolies. No it wasn't.
The US has a relatively low corporate tax rate compared to other developed countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world#List

The capacity to bypass taxes or headline rates is not being compared. In addition, if anything, that only further supports my points.
Show HN: Relaxml, XML to Python data structures
I'm pretty sure the advice given was sarcasm.
Julian Assange defyance to London police: seeking asylum to Ecuador
The forum thread where this is discussed:

- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40264.msg1000405#msg1...

The URL that is sent is a bearer code (spendable by anyone with access to the data). I question whether this approach, and consider another problem due to SMS being a channel controlled by the government here:

- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90901.0
E.A. and Google Got Game
We have a lot of that going around now. Nonsense posted because apparently Reddit started spilling over.
AWS has had far more failures than my servers at any data center ever have. Running in 'the cloud', you're taking all the unavoidable points of failure (power, network, hardware) and adding in a bunch of proprietary ones (all the software that manages EC2, EBS, ELBs, internal routing between them, etc) that have all failed spectacularly at least once already with hours- to days-long resolution times.
I think it's because most web developers don't ever have to understand how this stuff works. It's sometimes easier to just throw hardware at a problem than engineer it better. However, understanding what you can do is key imho.
ha - this was published in Science. This is serious business. You could win a McNobel in Tomatorie.
Sure, will do that.
Tonight, the last minute of the day will not be 60 seconds
> "Couldn't you say the same thing for an undergraduate degree?"

Absolutely. That's also why presence of an undergrad degree is, for me, not at all a signal while hiring. The only exception is if the program is particularly well known for being rigorous and having high standards.

> "Why wouldn't you want to work for them?"

Because the vast majority of tech industry certifications is all fluff and marketing, with practically no correlation with competence. I distrust employers who can't even see through that extremely thin veneer of bullshit.

Reliance on unreliable markers like this is a hallmark of heavily bureaucratic organizations, where certifications are used as a cover-your-ass mechanism: "but he was MCSE certified! How was I to know he was a complete idiot?!"

That's the antithesis of where I want to work.
(its a bit late, but as blog author, I can confirm your interpretation of what I meant)
There's definitely several grades of taste. In the U.S. I've had massive, red strawberries. They look gorgeous. But they taste like water compared to the comparatively "ugly" ones back home in Sweden.

But then I pick an orange off a tree here in Greece, and it's unlike any orange I've ever eaten. Eating an orange is like drinking a glass of freshly-squeezed juice, only there's no need to add sugar or anything. Of course, to get Oranges up to Sweden, they need to be picked early, and they get to ripen in the back of a truck...

And then we have the modern expectation of being able to get anything out-of-season, I'm sure that also causes farmers to pick breeds that grow well, but taste less.
The failure of a single AZ in a single region does not trigger AWS' SLA.
Neither is power infrastructure, really. Even oil is fungible with alternatives, just not at scale. At scale, if a significant percentage of the world's energy supply comes out of North Africa and there are political difficulties there, then there's a large cost of switching to an alternative power source, large enough to lead to severe diplomatic or military action. And it would affect the whole world, since losing North Africa, or even a huge chunk of it, would spike demand for, say, thorium in continental Europe, which would raise energy costs worldwide.
That's a commonly prosecuted source of tax fraud. If someone works like an employee (how and when they do their work is dictated by a manager, etc), the IRS says they are an employee. Microsoft was famously dinged for this a few years back.
"American" can be a resident, not necessarily a citizen.
I remember an old story about NASA giving a detailed map of the underground parts of some river system via ground penetrating radar to a country thus telling the USSR that building large underground facilities was not really going to hide them.

I thought it was the Nile and Egypt, but I am probably wrong on that. It was in one of the history books I was reading in the 90's and they are in a storage garage about 400miles away.
I once watched all these lectures, took notes and published summaries of the lectures on my blog:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/summary-of-mit-introduction-to-...
If you need metrics on who to "blame", your hiring and management practices are faulty. These numbers will do nothing to increase "responsibility and accountability", but are more likely to add friction, perhaps where there was none previously.

You may end up losing the strong members of your team who have no desire to be subject to such shenanigans.
Thats kinda neat, I suspect this will be used a lot.
I did something similar to this 5-6 years ago with wget but this is a lot more elegant IMHO.
It could be an opportunity to explain what reliability actually is (it's not "pack one availability zone with all your stuff") and how AWS helps you achieve that.
There's a lot more detail than that. The way the lower-class people were paid (prepaid cards!) and how they budgeted were interesting to me; the details and evolution of the healthcare costs in particular were eye-opening. I'd have appreciated similar detail for the richer ones, but it would take a lot more virtual ink I suppose.
And? What’s the use case? Cars have certainly done more to lift humanity up than spaceflight has (unlike toilet paper, which is neither cool nor has it done much to lift humanity up). I don’t see how that can change within the next few decades, even if everything Musk plans works out.

If everything he plans works out (and I hope it does) it will be very important and very cool – but cars are the much more pressing issue. Put another way: there is much more potential for doing good there.
"It’s better for journalists to write about the story than to somehow become part of the story."

And yet, this is at the top of Hacker News.
Pictures from the first ever women hackathon in India hosted by Slideshare
Dated Dec 2011. From the bullet-point list, they're only talking about Bootstrap 1.x, which was deskop-only, not mobile. 2.0 didn't launch till this year.
What would you describe as intermediate relational database concepts?
Build Reddit Using Sinatra 2.0
> If Samsung gobbles up market share, a big check won't bring that back...

This is just the point I'm trying to make. Apple doesn't want market share, so they don't care if it goes away for its own, sake, they care if it goes away if they lose money. That market share has a cash value to Apple that the jury could award them if they win their case.

> my family already starved.

Yes, exactly, that is irreperable harm. Whereas in this case, nobody is starving. Apple is losing some finite amount of money, and some finite potential for future earnings, which they are suing Samsung for and could be awarded in damages if the jury sides with them.

In the limit, imagine Samsung stole the whole market from Apple. The jury could award Apple the total market value of Samsung. That would literally be the value of whatever market share Samsung had "stolen" from them.

Unlike life, market share has a finite cash value.
Interesting, I've been living in Vienna for more than 7 years now and didn't notice the fruits and vegetables tasting any worse when I visited Atlanta, Georgia.

They did cost more than here in Austria tho, which surprised me (I assumed everything consumable would be cheaper in the US).
HA isn't actually hard, but it does require some forethought and chosing some technologies which aren't neccesarily cool.
However, I would submit that building HA capabilities into a cat photo sharing or microblogging site is sortof overkill, most people don't need it. Just take the hit and move on, people are getting more and more used to sites being down/failing and just retry later. As much as I hate to say it, I do think its fairly accurate.
How Delaware Thrives as a Corporate Tax Haven
Generally, the first test flights won't have an aircraft raise its gear.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2011/02/0...
Yes. IE9 was an optional update.
Oh wow, interesting! Although of course if this really has such a definable cash value, why can't that just be part of the award if Samsung loses?
Well, the sign-up doesn't work on my Windows Phone.
I'm not really interested in a "social network", but some kind of hacker score sounds fun. And I'm always up for a puzzle.
(For simplicity, let's assume a household with a single earner of $47k / £30k.)

Sort of, but not exactly. I was implying that a household with that income would be making close to a median contribution to the tax base so, purely in my own opinion, would be paying a "fair share" in absolute terms. That is, they should not be either highly subsidized or a major contributor. But.. let's run the numbers to see if my hunch is wrong! :-)

Said household would have a gross income of £30000, pay £4505 in income taxes, pay £2732 in "national insurance" (ostensibly to fund social security, sick pay, and various benefits), and be left with £22,762, or 75.9% of pre-tax income.

(A "hidden" part to this is that (most) employers also make employer "national insurance" contributions, in this case of £3164 so it could be argued this is a hidden salary cost for employees.)

The total NHS budget in 2008/2009 was £94bn and there are around 25 million households in the UK. This gives an expense of £3760 per household or 36% of the total earned in direct taxation on our imagined household. This is double the percentage of the national budget dedicated to health, so my initial assumption may have been wrong.

However, with indirect taxation, especially VAT at 20% and high fuel duties, and subtracting the contribution of things like corporation taxes to the tax base, the total tax paid vs the absolute "fair share" is likely to come pretty close for this family.

Sorry if this is boring but I was intrigued and thought I'd look into it! :-)
Technology wise I think it's great. However, from a clarity point of view and ease of interpretation I think it needs more work as it takes a fair amount of brainpower to try and digest. It's no easy task though picturing the evolution of the web so hats off to them!
The picture shown on the homepage is kinda scrunched, http://i.imgur.com/oHK40.png.
Really nice explanation on a subject way too many JavaScript developers are ignorant about. Definitely worth a read if you've any interest in the language.

I agree with the comments that there's nothing inherently wrong with prototypes (they can be tremendously useful and powerful, and make for a refreshing change from the rigidity of classical inheritance in languages like Java), but JavaScript's particular implementation, unfortunately, does a very good job of disguising their utility.
New toilet turns human waste into electricity and fertilizer
The UK funds the health care system with what is know as National Insurance contributions that comes out of your pay packet

Technically NICs are for the social security system generally, including most major benefits, state pension, unemployment, and sick pay. On their own they couldn't be able to fund all of this plus the health service (I don't have the numbers but I'd be surprised if they could even fund just the health service).

I get the distinct impression that taxes in the UK are just thrown into one big pot anyway so NI contributions are just another general tax.

Essentially, yes. The government has been considering merging the two into a new, higher income tax in recent years.
You pose an interesting question that I want to see answered: do users of B2C sites actually care when the site is down? Does it decrease MAU? Your intuition is that it does not, but I'd love to see some data.