skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole taboo about talking about salary isn't really about salary. It's about the end result of what happens several steps down the line from people talking about salary.

Say, for example, you and Steve have the same job description and Steve tells you that he makes $40k more than you. You naturally feel screwed, so you go talk to the boss about it. Now, one of two things might happen. It might turn out that you're actually as good as Steve, and just weren't as good at negotiating. That's the best case, and maybe you'll get yourself the raise that everybody always talks about when this topic comes up.

But more likely, you're just not as good at your job as Steve. And now your boss has no choice but tell you so directly. So now you feel even worse, your boss is uncomfortable, and Steve is all self-conscious.

Your boss has thought all this through, so he put that silly policy in place. (Notice how he loses in either case.) The fact that such a policy exists is probably an indicator that you're not actually as good as Steve (or possibly that Steve isn't as good as you), and that no real good will come from discussing salaries with each other.

If you want to talk salaries, do it with people working at other companies. Figure out your real market rate and if your current employer won't match it, go find somebody who will.

Incidentally, a corollary to the above is that you should avoid working at a place where all salaries are public and they pay all their developers the same, based on a few "tiers" or whatever. Unless you expect you're either bad enough at what you do or bad enough at negotiating that you'd normally end up with a salary below the "tier" level, you're guaranteed to leave money on the table in this situation. Probably about 50% of your actual value if you're genuinely good at what you do and can negotiate your way out of a paper bag.
While we're all solving puzzles, can anyone help me with this one?

No doubt you've doodled this shape in your graph paper before: http://i.imgur.com/oY29sBc.png

What function does this slope approximate? It almost a circle, but not quite.
Your website is blocked on any major corporate network with a web-filter for using "dating" in your title, just letting you know.
Working hard drive innards recorded at 1000fps, a thing of beauty
> Re 2) "When you take the exact same strain of a plant and grow it in two different ways, its chemical and genetic makeup remain the same.

whoosh

Wow, they skeptoid completely missed the point there.

Ever tasted two "identical" apples? One organic, and one not? They don't taste anything like the same.

> Re 3) "Organic methods require about twice the acreage to produce the same crop, thus directly resulting in the destruction of undeveloped land."

Erm, yeah. Pesticides are way better than non-pesticide alternatives. Riiiight...
That's exactly what I was referring to.

I bet they would put the rate limit in the client, since they did that with the banned word list, but rate limiting would make more sense at the server. Maybe they did both.

Now you could fire up a new VM for each client or use a botnet to do your bidding. Oh, how the Internet has advanced.
Niels Bohr letters reveal trials of his time in England
Dear All, Apologies. I wanted to come by all means but I am taking an early Monday morning flight. It will be a bit of a touch and go.
> Through your wage, the employer is already communicating
> to you the point at which they cut their losses on you
> and let you go.

In general companies don't pay you what they value you at; they pay you what they value you at, or what you choose to accept, whichever is lower.

I mean, getting work done for $x and selling it for $y and pocketing the $y-x economic surplus as profit is what business is all about.
I've switched to this method as well and recently removed django-compressor. Better to have a tool that is used and improved by many, not just django people.

In the top level of my project I have a makefile so make assets runs grunt and collects static.

My grunt also runs jslint so it will halt if there are errors.
Gesture Computing Is Headed To The Enterprise
I think they are saying that many people they knows use Twitter rather than text, which isn't particularly uncoordinated nor is it a non-sequitur.
I keep getting confused between this company & get-bridge (deadpool? the site doesnt load)

My initial impression of both these companies was 'vapourware', but if developers are ready to pay Trigger - good for them.

For someone also working in a crowded market, i can empathise with trigger's challenges to cross the chasm. Good luck!
Guns are just a too powerful political tool to be given up lightly, especially since the whole thing is kind of backed by the US constitution unlike religion, pro-life, anti-marriage equality, immigration, ...

Divide ut regnes.
> And the ultimate solution to those problems is innovation ...

I can't believe I'm reading this. How many times does this same fairy tale get to be repeated before someone states the obvious -- there are too many people, our reproduction rate is much too high, and the only solution is population control?

At present growth rates, the world's population doubles every 60 years. For how many doublings of population will someone be able to write a fairy-tale rationalization like the one linked above, before someone finally says (along with Pogo), "We have met the enemy, and he is us":

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Pogo_-_Earth_D...
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Thing #1 for me, by a long shot:

Deploy to Heroku (or similar). Saves a ton of headaches, saves boatloads of time/money, and for most startups in the early stages, is well worth the tradeoff.
Why does this page break "space" for paging down (in Firefox 20.0.1, Windows 7)?
From Non-Life to Life: The Unity of Evolutionary Processes
>The explosion is probably one of the scariest things you'll ever see

Come on, please could we stop losing perspective here? It is by far from one of the scariest things that have happened in my lifetime, it is a tragedy for those afflicted by it - but accidents like this probably happen every few months somewhere in the world.
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

That system apparently works only 60 percent of the time.

Indeed. If it's broken 40% of the time, don't fix it, replace it.
> (Seriously: Genders for words, who came up with that? ; )

It's for entertainment purposes. Provides harmless amusement to native speakers of languages that have it, especially when English (or Chinese, or whatever underfeatured language) speakers fumble the genders of tables, forks, cars, etc.

More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Also good for poets, makes their work more difficult, thus rarer and better smelling when burnt.
Why code?
> fundamental makeup and biochemical content is defined by its genes, not by the way it was grown.

So if I grow one apple tree in rich soil in the sun, and another in poor soil in the shade, then the "biochemical content" of the apples is not effected? It's purely a function of the genes?
Here's the thing. It was never better. Never. In the past we had no other conduits of information, no ability to compare. We were fed dreck and we thought it was a deep insight into the world and the way it worked. But in reality it was 95% monopoly access to information streams, prettied up with sexy graphics and beautiful people with good speaking voices. Getting opinions from other talking heads who didn't know what the fuck they were talking about but worked in important places. But all of that was based on the teeny-tiny-est kernel of legitimate journalism. And we ate it up with a spoon. We thought it was absolute truth wrapped up in a blanket of deep, serious gravitas handed to us from on high. It was a stage production, as much then as it is now.
This is a quadratic Bézier curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve
I can understand #1 and #3. (Even is somehow that is strange that organics are not sustainable, but given the population we have to feed this is understandable)

But #2 does not make sense. Sure the chemical composition of the final plant or meat is the same. But the reason why people are consuming organic food is that they only want the final product, and not the additional ration of pesticide residues and antibiotics as well.
Is there any evidence that this has ever been the case? I completely understand that people would be hesitant to embrace GM crops, but I've never really understood the "health" argument. Has anyone actually demonstrated that any GM crops contain chemicals harmful to humans?
> Ever tasted two "identical" apples? One organic, and one not? They don't taste anything like the same.

Yeah, according to a Bullshi*t! (e.g. the Penn & Teller show) science experiment, the conventionally-grown fruit was often declared better-tasting by tasters who didn't know which was which.

Obviously this is wildly unscientific, but the point is still valid.
1) depends where you buy your organic food. I usually try to buy directly from the producers, or when not possible, a small market here that works with a wider range of organic producers (the farmers themselves deliver the loads, had a few nice chats with a few of them)

2) nutrient wise I can't say, but you do get a lot more pesticides and other crap in your food. Heck, try an organically grown apple and a 'normal' apple. Most of the normal apples will taste like wax. It is due to the chemical they use to protect the apple from worms that creates a film like cover that takes like crap. (and no idea how healthy it is)

3) No idea here, and I'm sure you are right about the acreage, but with crop rotation which most organic farmers use, the nutritional profile of that land doesn't get destroyed (opposed to traditional farming that depletes the farm of any nutrient)
no it's not, in general.

But if you want to train a computer vision system on 10M apples and try to look for statistical differences, then I'm sure we'd all be interested in the results.
That's very debatable, and pretty rails-specific, IMHO. Conventional wisdom in other ecosystems is instead to have a business logic layer between your controller and your persistence layer. I've always found this to be good advice, as it makes the code more testable and makes reasoning about manipulating different models in the same operation easier.
> Multiply that current by 10-100 to 'charge it faster' ...

No, that can't be done without damaging the batteries. A fast charge in this context means multiplying the default charging current by roughly three, not 10, and certainly not 100.
Google Bans Users From Reselling and Lending Glass
In Norway, taxable income is public information. It used to be that it was so public that newspapers would put up searchable databases where you could enter name and postcode to get a list of everyones income and fortune. It's been restricted a little bit. The idea is that it acts as a deterrent to tax evasion and money laundering (your neighbour gets suspicious about that new Ferrari you bought) etc..

I don't really have much of an opinion about whether it's good or bad - people mostly don't care other than 5 minutes of excitement when the numbers were out when online news sites still published them.
I did exaggerate , but the fact that parking is so hard.. kills the other side of the equation for the company in why would anyone rent the car.
Londoners in mass test of telly tech savvy as 4G filters mailed out
I totally agree with the title, this was the number one issue I had with bash default behavior
And yet it gets worse: here in South Africa, I'm paying just over 140 USD for a 8mbit ADSL, with a +- 50 GB bandwidth cap.

I suspect the New Zealanders are about to chirp in with their extortion-level rates :)
Also great is QuickMuni, an open source Android app with a really nice UI (including live maps) -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.worldofbil...

(No connection to the developer, though he spoke at Noisebridge's Five Minutes of Fame recently)
Trolling? Here's a fairly extreme example of looting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/hurri...

Try googling <event name> and "looting" and look for verified or police
reports rather than Nth hand rumor and "looting has been reported".

You will find it is unfortunately less rare than one might hope.
Well they certainly do happen:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

Ammonium nitrate is nothing to trifle with: "As all involved died in the explosion, the causes are not clear",
Should be noted that threads are ephemeral... so this might disappear after a while. Not sure what the turnover's like on /gd/ though, so it might be around for a long while.
Share Your Road to Ruby
Banned words like sffcei? (Which was a real banned word on MSN)
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuts its doors, promises to return everyone's money
Wow! I thought there's lot more HN-ers in Moscow. I'm one of them, anyway. variomap@gmail.com, Alexander.
There are opensource dictionaries, timezone DBs, geo databases, etc. I wonder if there are also opensource multilingual swear word lists.
If you use Twitter Bootstrap you should see this collection
Ever tasted two "identical" apples? One organic, and one not? They don't taste anything like the same.

That has more to do with the exact sub-strain used, when they where picked and how they where grown rather than simply organic vs non-organic. If organic tastes better it because the organic farmers is catering to a market that is willing to pay a higher price for a better product and thus willing to use more costly methods for growing his apples. It certainly possible to grow shit organic apples and amazing non-organic apples, the fact the few people do have more to do with surrounding market forces.
There is maybe some good corelation between what we wear and what we eat.
She was working carefully with a fruit-fly lab, and it's been published by a real journal. I imagine that there would be a preparation step (the same for the organic fruit of course) to wash the fruit and so on to remove this kind of systematic error.
Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.4 Server
It tells me if the company pays fair market value for everyone, or if I'm just a bad negotiator. :-)
Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 and went native for its mobile apps
> Anyone know if it has the same single point of failure issues as HDFS (NameNode)?

I think the NameNode SPOF issue in HDFS is also being dealt with:

"Prior to Hadoop 2.0.0, the NameNode was a single point of failure (SPOF) in an HDFS cluster.
[...] The HDFS High Availability feature addresses the above problems by providing the option of running two redundant NameNodes [...]"

http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.0.3-alpha/hadoop-yarn/hadoo...
I dont really care about the anti-corporation aspect of it. In the past, I preferred to buy organic foods in the hope that my overall intake of pesticides would decrease. I was recently dismayed to find that organic foods have known to be contaminated with synthetic pesticides - i assume due to proximity to conventional crops. Also, it seems that plenty of pesticides are used in growing organic foods so my original reason for preferring them is gone.
I believe the "why people are consuming organic foood" is farious and a little bit of these 3 arguments (plus social status and good qualities)
No, you didn't seem to read my suggestions at all.

>>What, only python? Oh, I need to copy the programs from the "bench" dir. Where in the readme does it say that? Nowhere.<<

> You don't seem to have read sections #3 through #11.

If you grep the file, there is no mention of the bench dir anywhere in sections 3-11. Please do tell where you found it. The readme does say how to add new programs, but it doesn't say where the original programs of the shootout are in the distribution.

>> of course, I had to remove everything in tmp/* before re-running the test, otherwise it thinks there is "nothing to be done".<<

> No you didn't. You don't seem to have read sections #3 through #11.

No, you didn't read what I was doing. I had to remove everything in tmp/* because I was trying to enable gtop by editing the source code of the program. The old results were made without gtop and only contained cpu and elapsed time.

Finally the "actual comments" on what variables are available for the commandline strings aren't written anywhere. Only "%A" is explained in 9.3 and "%I" isn't even mentioned.

So it looks like all my suggestions remain valid:

From the first suggetion, removing the "tmp" dir assuming that the summary dir bug is fixed in the future:

1) improve readme by mentioning the location of my.linux.ini and my.win32.ini and adding the complete syntax for the commandlines section etc. (important)

2) invert entries in the [alias] section, because the way its set up now it makes no sense. (not important)

3) separate test and environment configuration in different files and share the test configuration files used on the website to help people reproduce the same results. (very important)

4) fix the script to use the introspection bindings for gtop

Note that you failed to comment on (3) which will by far improve the bencher the most. Infact, that is exactly where I stopped trying to reproduce your results - I stopped at the point where I had to extract all the values for the testrange from your CSV files, as the ones used on the website aren't distributed anywhere.

But of course, you're free to continue ignoring useful comments from other people. Which brings me to the original point, we're in dire need of a new benchmarks game.
Foxconn Will Now Pay Microsoft for Every Android Device It Makes
Would washing them get rid of all the pesticides ? I doubt it. Wouldn't there be some absorption of pesticides into the fruit ?
In other news, someone proves that earworms, ladybirds and mites fare better on a diet of organic non-GM corn than on conventionally grown and sprayed pest resistant corn.
As much as I love both Penn & Teller and Bullshit I don't think any of the so called 'experiments' they do deserve the prefix 'science' or have any validity. Their goal is to provide entertaining polemics, not to do any sort of hypothesis testing or to put forward anything that might challenge their preconceived notion.
The third one is the reason this bill exists. I'll bet you a bitcoin that there is a huge contract waiting for SAIC or similar, and they can't greenlight without pushing this through.

Edit: I guess 'independent' contractors means individuals, I just meant independent of the government. Anyway, that's still my bet. It doesn't have anything to do with small companies needing to share netflows without asking their lawyers every time.
Agreed - I recently devoted an entire blog post to making the most of !$, it's that useful to me:

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2013/04/03/protip...
I think it’s a shame that the organic farming is being reduced to the quality of the results. For me, a big part of the deal is producing stuff in a sensible way, preferably without loads of chemicals and without torture. Not everything that’s labeled as organic was produced in a sensible way, not everything organic has to be better than the “conventional” stuff and yes, organic is a huge marketing force right now, which is a pity. But I take the organic approach as a great way to think and talk about the way we produce our food, and that’s the main advantage of organic food for me.
Did she match the fruit for price? Organic food tends to be high end and I can well believe it would be grown more carefully than the mass-market product independently of the organic aspect.
How do you persist these scripts across sessions?
The nymic proximity may be intentional. Haswell will be the first generation to support transactional memory [1].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/transactional-memory...
Talk to your bank? I'm sure they'll know how to get your money back?
If we do, its nice to know we've got a modern day Rosetta Stone just waiting for those alien anthropologists.
Assuming there is absorption, would you really want to eat the non-organic fruit?
How their employer values them should be reflected only in the title - be it Sr. Whatever, Whatever or Jr. Whatever.

EDIT (meta):
How many times it should be stated on HN that downvoting is not for expressing disagreement...

Just reply your opinion and move on.
Indeed. Organic foods are also treated by pesticides. From the skeptoid article:

"Some supporters of organic growing claim that the danger of non-organic food lies in the residues of chemical pesticides. This claim is even more ridiculous: Since the organic pesticides and fungicides are less efficient than their modern synthetic counterparts, up to seven times as much of it must be used. Organic pesticides include rotenone, which has been shown to cause the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease and is a natural poison used in hunting by some native tribes; pyrethrum, which is carcinogenic; sabadilla, which is highly toxic to honeybees; and fermented urine, which I don't want on my food whether it causes any diseases or not. Supporters of organics claim that the much larger amounts of chemicals they use is OK because those chemicals are all-natural. But just because something is natural doesn't mean that it's safe or healthy — consider the examples of hemlock, mercury, lead, toadstools, box jellyfish neurotoxin, asbestos — not to mention a nearly infinite number of toxic bacteria and viruses (E. coli, salmonella, bubonic plague, smallpox). When you hear any product claim to be healthy because its ingredients are all natural, be skeptical. By no definition can "all natural" mean that a product is healthful."
Brain.js demo - train a neural network to recognize color contrast
The problem is that I've seen far too many examples of people fixing a "clearly a bug" that either turns out to be entirely correct for a reason the developer wasn't aware of, or even when it is a bug it breaks something down the line that depended on the bug being there (e.g. for a spelling mistake, it turns out some other application was screen-scraping it and depended on that spelling mistake to identify a given page).

> In larger teams you probably want to indicate that you fixed something so that the testing team can have something to verify against. In a small team you just fix it and go on without the overhead of making a ticket for every one of those you discover.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there. "to start writing code, you need a Jira ticket" isn't a bad process per se. It's a bad process if you're working on certain types of project e..g. in a small team where everyone intimately knows the codebase and all of its uses.

And I think that's what the article was about - blindly applying a process designed for one type of development to an entirely different type.
I always wondered the same thing. I grew up in that area code, and it seemed as if there was hardly any local talent. Fortunately, within the past few years, my eyes have been opened to the different bands lurking in the local venues around the universities.
Here's the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zqe4ZV9LDs

They upped the ante a bit later on. The talk above proves the most valid points, though. There is way more to farming good produce than plastering simple labels on something.
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Billboard does not allow people to download music directly. You can download Billboard music from YouTube with free WinX

YouTube Downloader.
"Use named URLs, reverse, and the url template tag": For Javascript URL handling use sth. like that https://github.com/version2/django-js-reverse
Just because the New World is already a year old, doesn't mean we can't welcome new people to it.
Mark Twain did say “I never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.”

I’ve also always been fond of Winston Churchill’s version: “I’m going to give a long speech today. I haven’t had time to prepare a short one.”