skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not many advertised positions here in Leeds pay 50k. Senior roles seem to top out at 45k.
Can we do Lichtenstein next? The Congo?
You didn't have any exceptions in your original post; are you adding some now?

I'm not very impressed with the "yeah, but those countries are different" reasoning, especially when it's not made clear why the difference is in any way relevent. It does, however, seem to be the go-to excuse for not doing things these days.
Bikram Yoga has its roots or inheritance in Yoga with respect to the "asanas" or poses but I would say that's about it.
The questions you pose also apply to centralized services in exactly the same way. There is no reason that personal clouds would be any less secure than centralized services are today. [1]

Even though some people are confused about the difference between browsers and search-engines doesn't mean they don't know how to use either. You'd probably have got the same response if you'd asked about the difference between the Web and Internet. Or any other complex system they don't have deal with day-to-day (internal combustion engine, electricity transmission, etc)

[1] edit: think of things like mass-assignment issue with rails and github or the recent facebook exploit that was posted. Centralized services are just as much of a honey-pot as a personal cloud might be.
Yep, It's called 'static analysis'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis
I love Matt Smith's portrayal of The Doctor, but it feels like good timing for a new Doctor. I'd like them to go older with someone like Hugh Laurie, or the one everyone wants - Benedict Cumberbatch, and see The Doctor get a bit darker perhaps.
Is there stack ranking even at level 62? :)
The trial run is a cool idea, I could see it being hard to replicate for some businesses, either no project in the pipeline/difficult to scale past a certain size. Seems pretty solid though and much better than the academic coding questions.
I watched the interview video with Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the NYT site this morning and then read some of the reviews of their book on Amazon. Apparently the book is heavy on foreign policy with little advice on preparing for the future in a business sense.

As much as I sometimes enjoy free services from Google, FB, Twitter, etc. I also think that people like Julian Assange and Richard Stallman have an important message and warning for maintaining some control over personal data and our computing infrastructure.

In the video interview Eric Schmidt makes a point that they want people to opt-in for 'Google total information awareness' (I am using that term, he didn't). I make an informed decision on what information I will share but most of my non-tech friends (who are representative of the general public) do not.

Part of me likes a smaller world via the Internet, communicating with people with similar technical interests no matter where they live, and G+ and Twitter are great for this. On the other hand, I would also like to see a local network, possible centered around my town's library, that is effectively local to the small town I live in. The technology (encrypted VPN) is straightforward for implementing private group communication.
From a different source:

"In reality, though, and contrary to some big-name publications, this graphene sensor isn’t going to replace the silicon sensor in your camera. Graphene is still incredibly hard to work with on a commercial scale (here the researchers are still mechanically exfoliating graphene and placing it on a silicon substrate with tweezers), and there’s no indication that this method would ever scale up. What is far more likely is that these graphene photodetectors might be used in optoelectronics, where optical and electronic components are squeezed into the same system/chip, or in enabling faster fiber-optic networks."

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/157082-graphene-sensor-is...
It is not very polite to post direct links to the unpublished MP3s.
I interviewed with Booking recently. My takeaway was not particularly negative, but that may be because I'm from the US.

They were fairly up front about their business-first mentality, and otherwise did make a convincing case for having interesting & challenging work available at all ends of the stack.

Downsides obviously being that pay is low relative to SF, and housing in Amsterdam is not particularly cheap. The city is also not for everyone, more so than most places. However, from a tech POV I don't think I would have been bored. Can't speak to the office culture, but I didn't get any scary vibes.
It appears the link is broken.
I tried Elance and it worked surprisingly well for me, maybe I was lucky. Email me if you like and I'll give you details of the artist I'm working with and their pricing.
Google also avoids paying tax on its huge UK earnings by shuffling the money between countries. That's presumably legal but it certainly isn't moral or ethical.

Obviously Google is not the only company that does this. Apple and other capitalist corporations do the same thing. But it's one thing to run a company based on naked greed and quite another to claim that you're somehow superior.
No, it doesn't suggest they are good or bad at all, just that people will find out about them anyway.
So, I need a desktop system to log into my mobile device? How often do you need this in the real world?
With increase resolution, Bayer's side effects become less and less visible. Nikon has started to remove antialiasing from their recent cameras. Color analog film may look better SOOC for soe images, but you can exceed that in post-processing
> Obviously this is cheap because its just augmenting the public system

I.e. it's not comparable at all without knowing how much the "public system" costs. A more comparable data point: my German "free" (public) health care costs almost €6000 per year, of which €3200 is paid by me and the rest by my employer. There are co-payments, but very low (a maximum of €10 for drugs and per day of hospital stays).
That's the best hiring process I have heard of. Good job.
pg has written about some Milgram Experiment[1] on The Perils of Obedience[2] which actually seems to comfirm this idea that people will follow the orders of authority figures even if they conflict with personal beliefs.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/perils.html
You could be right about statins, although I gather for some they appear to be a good idea. My doctors are pushing them on me, I'm firing the doctors sequentially hoping to get one who will listen (e.g. absolutely no cardiovascular disease in a long lived family) ... the major argument for their being first line treatment is that nothing less works in practice (e.g. "get more exercise). However that doesn't change the principle WRT to drug development today.

What "modern new-school psychotropics" are you referring to? That's a field I know a fair amount about, and I don't see the problem you're citing at all (which is not to say some aren't over-prescribed, but I believe that is a different problem). I would probably be very ill or dead without one (low dose, off label Seroquel to treat anxiety which I have a family disposition towards; it's the difference between 4 and 7 hours of sleep a night, bright light treatment gets me the final extra hour I need).

It and the other atypical anti-psychotics seem to be a lot better than the older "typical" ones, and those were miracle drugs, something witnessed by my mother when she was a nurse. Similarly, the current Prozac and beyond anti-depressants are maybe not quite as effective as the previous tricyclics but their side effect profiles are a whole lot better, e.g. making it more likely a patient will wait those out long enough for the therapeutic effect to begin, and I personally benefit from a laser specific SSRI (doesn't touch anything else), since "wrong" anti-depressants can make me manic.
However if they had not been able to contact someone:

> police is forced to tow the car in that case, if they cannot reach someone
As is the case in many fields, designing != building.

For example I ride bikes. A friend of mine designed a bike for me. But since neither of us could (at the time) weld, I had to pay someone else to assemble it.

Just because you can design a bomb that would work doesn't mean you'd have the ability to actually build it. Even if you were given refined uranium (and that's 80% of the job) there's still quite a lot of work to tolerance everything correctly, machine it all without killing yourself, assemble it, procure the primary explosives, put together a precise enough detonation system to allow the chain reaction to happen and then build a system to trigger the detonation. All of that is no joke.
The appendix from the scientists documenting where they learned various things is a thrilling read.

And, TIL that you should not use classified material as a paperweight.

"Marv Williamson (whose office was just down the hall from us) kept an interesting paperweight on his desk.

[REDACTED: several hundred words, presumably describing it.]

We still have no idea what it really is because we don't want to ask! It was probably because we found it here in the Laboratory that we were led to speculate about it in the first place."
Design is still a major obstacle for advanced multi-stage hydrogen bombs. How they work exactly is still a major secret that isn't public knowledge AFAIK.
I should have said 'possible to find the reverse'.

For a given length it is possible to find all the inputs that could generate a possible hash relatively easy (cheap compared to other one-way-hashes).
Yes. This is precisely the problem. The inheritance model used by Backbone will be significantly more performant in terms of method calls, in general, because it doesn't implement a `super` concept. The construction should also favor Backbone's model since it doesn't create the function wrappers (in the non-trivial case, anyway).

Look at what Backbone's `extend` does: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/backbo...

The subclass's constructor calls the parent's constructor function, just as in Resig's, however Resig's `Class` is:

this.Class = function(){};

Whereas `Backbone.Model` looks like this: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/backbo...

It's not hard to predict the outcome of this "benchmark."
One assumption in security / cryptography is that the process is always known, otherwise it is security by obscurity.

This is still better than password reuse as the plaintext doesn't disclose your other identified without further effort, however the users should be under no illusion of bullet-proof security.
i was about to say, wouldn't an uneven mass distribution large enough to throw off probe trajectories also cause the moon to rotate off-axis until it readjusts its shape? then i remembered that the moon doesn't rotate, maybe precisely because of this!
Good quote from one of the comments:

>> “With modern weapons-grade uranium, the background neutron rate is so low that terrorists, if they have such material, would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield explosion simply by dropping one half of the material onto the other half. Most people seem unaware that if separated HEU [Highly Enriched Uranium] is at hand it’s a trivial job to set off a nuclear explosion … even a high school kid could make a bomb in short order.” - Luis Alvarez, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1988
"I understand how the engines work now. It came to me in a dream. The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it." ―Cubert Farnsworth

[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Matter_Engine]
As long as there's no empirical data on recruitment, these "we think our process works well, here's how we do it" blog posts are not of much value.

One problem with step 3 is that it filters out engineers who are busy with their jobs and life, and cannot easily afford doing 20h extra work (even if it's paid work). Especially if compensation etc. are not negotiated beforehand.
Thanks for the info. For the robotics use case I mentioned, having a high-performance system is important because the algos are demanding, so a RPI would not be very good.
I could make a case that a good leader is mostly hot air. What distinguishes a great leader is performing the right words and gestures for their zeitgeist, thereby becoming a symbolic figurehead that shapes broad social forces into real progress.

Perhaps, then, our lack of good leaders is not about the leaders themselves, but rather due to the fragmentation of cultures and social institutions.
When I was working at Microsoft, after about 6 years I was well over $200k a year (before cash bonuses).

About 3/4 of that was salary. The rest was primarily rolling stock grants vesting. Most of them were a grant of X shares over 5 years (IIRC). I got one grant every year and two in a couple of them (gold star bonuses). Once you have enough of those grants rolling in and they get larger as you continue to "level up," they account for a larger and larger portion of your compensation.

These types of packages are what are known as golden handcuffs. When I quit, I left over $350k in ungranted stock shares on the table.

I really enjoyed the work. I had to make a location change for family reasons, and though they offered it (and I tried it), remote work is not Microsoft's forte.

As for advice, when young: learn. Avoid jobs at either big non-software companies or startups where you (at 20-something) are the most senior software person. At 30, make sure you have been networking well, as the vast majority of senior hires into good positions are done through networking your way to a hiring manager who then sets up the interview. Especially if you are making a field change, as the filtering process for hiring experienced people can be brutal.
On learning from code examples
Look at large I.T service companies, e.g Accenture. They don't tend to advertise much, and you have to apply directly via their websites.
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 8 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney).

I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 700,000 users and are on a $1.5m+ annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we are looking to pass a million users in 2013. We are expecting even faster growth in the coming months through our mobile efforts.

We need help on 2 areas right now:

1. Android:

- Android is our second highest source of signups for Buffer, only
trailing behind Web which was our original platform.
- our users love the app, which has a 4.3 rating on Google Play.
- the app has 100k+ total downloads and 3k daily active users.
- we work with Google Play, Kindle and Blackberry stores.

2. Full stack:

- we get 1,500-2,000 signups per day on the web
- we have 170,000 weekly active users for our Chrome extension
- 4,500 API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper
- we ship to production multiple times a day
- we have a data-driven process, with Einstein, our custom
built a/b testing framework
- ideally, experience in: PHP (Codeigniter)/Python, MongoDB,
Backbone.js Javascript, CSS, HTML

We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.

If you're interested in coming on board, you will:

- work closely myself on Product and Sunil on technical
architecture
- ship to thousands of users and iterate quickly
- work with our metrics team to make smart changes
- be friendly and comfortable talking directly to customers
on issues and features
- be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great
approach in dealing with others
- be a Buffer user (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)
- be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you have help and
support from us to move to where you want to be
- have experience working with another startup before (would
be awesome, it’s cool if not)

Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different:

- we are totally transparent. We raised $450k, we currently
have 700k users and generate $125k/mo. Ask me anything else!
- within the company, all salaries and equity are open and we
have a formula for the distribution.
- we're all very focused on self improvement - we have daily
standups where we discuss our current improvements. This
could be waking up earlier, starting public speaking, blogging,
exercise, learning a language, etc.
- culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-02

Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience.

Equity: 0.5-1%

If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send a note to Sunil (our CTO) about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, Android Apps, projects and background): thenexthacker@bufferapp.com

- Joel (Founder/CEO)
I've been using Scala to develop for Android for a while. There is this sample project to get you started with nothing Java, Ant and the latest Android SDK required: https://github.com/danielribeiro/HelloScalaOnAndroid
"Neutered SRE", then. ;)

Or, "Reliability Ombudsman".
Yes Meteor is very amazing. Of course they have another HTML5 thing in WebRTC that when it becomes well supported (actually fairly soon in Firefox and Chrome) has peer-to-peer data capabilities that for many applications supersede server-based models. Of course, I know that for some applications, that won't be workable, and there are problems to solve, but I believe that most of the problems with synchronization and data ownership have reasonable solutions in peer environments.

I am still hoping that PhoneGap/Cordova will work out ok for my next 'native' app. Have you found that it isn't adequate?
Of course it varies, but that doesn't change anything about the value.
You really think the moral values of right and wrong are completely consistent across people?

The reason it's a corporate value is because it's part of the culture.
There is an actual conscience at the company, and you try to hear, understand, and deal with concerns people have, internally and externally. You try to do the right thing, for the right reasons.
The fact that you may not always achieve this, or that people may disagree on what the right thing is, changes nothing.

The outside problem is that most people think "Don't be evil" means "don't do anything I <the user> morally disagree with".

This would be a pointless value, as it would be both impossible and meaningless to achieve at any scale. There are plenty of moral values on which large populations of people have diametrically opposed views. For example, from the perspective of a large population of people, Google's stance on gay marriage is evil.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753775
http://www.liberenlosya.com/foros/
If you buy expensive taxable objects like houses/cars you can't afford to keep them and you must get rid of them quickly, probably at less then they're worth
If the start of this post put you off because it sounds arrogant, please keep reading. It is an intentional setup to highlight the core point, which I think is in this paragraph:

But the environment matters a lot less than the fact that when I get home from work—which is a two hour commute each way (sorry, I can’t afford to live in downtown San Francisco)—I just feel like being mentally incapacitated. Occasionally I have a little spark of brilliance (relative, not absolute) that motivates me to write a short bit of code, but the code is never more than one or two hundred lines. It usually consists of some little trick.

That is: you cannot fight your day-to-day work — long-term — by working on your own stuff, when you get home after already spending 6-7 hours working and thinking in a particular way. The author tagged it "sad" for a reason.
What a horrible page design. The content takes up less than 30% of the page. And devotes the rest of the real-estate to a picture that has nothing really to do with the article.

Yes big pictures make your page more attractive. But this is going way too far.
Julian Assange is an idiot. He blames the victim. Google is a problem for privacy!? The US government is! Nobody forces you to use Google, and Google isn't the organization secretly gathering information with secret warrants. That's the US government, who is forcing Google (and any company in their way) to do their bidding.

Why not focus attention on the actual bad guys: The NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and the entire fucking national security committee.
I guess the problem I still see is like in this image (film left, digital right):
http://annawu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/81420015b_...
The shadows just fall differently, the skin has a nicer tone (my opinion)... less harsh. I'm sure you could Photoshop/grade it to match more, but only to a certain extent.

I'm all for the convenience of digital, just wish they'd improve sensor technology rather than megapixels. But anyway, I'm getting a bit off topic...
"Yoga is fucking judgmental"

Sorry it really isn't. Yoga is its true sense is an individual practice for improving one's mental, physical, spiritual state of being. Perhaps if you are a practitioner of Yoga, you might be interested in learning more about its origins and history [1].

Bikram Yoga which the author took classes for is a commercial take on yoga, much like Dance Yoga, Jillian Michaels Meltdown Yoga; or something I could copyright tomorrow called "Dance Dance Yoga Revolution". From my understanding Bikram Yoga is a fitness product to make money for its founder, which he has ensured by "copyrighting" his system of poses and by suing numerous studios and former students, etc. Maybe this is why the author's experience with yoga was of being judged and why he calls anyone with an opposing view a "hippie". The practice of saying "namaste" at the end of the session sounds like something you'd do to add a flavor of east meets west to make this practice cool/hip because in the context described in the article, it doesn't add much to the state of the individual aside from this cool "namaste moment."

"Choudhury holds a copyright for the 26 poses which constitute Bikram yoga under the same theory which allows choreographic sequences to be copyrighted. In September, 2011, Choudhury filed an infringement suit against his former student, Greg Gumucio, founder of a competing chain of hot yoga studios."

Disclaimer: I haven't ever taken a Bikram Yoga class, but I've been practicing Yoga on and off since high school.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikram_Yoga#Legal_issues
That sounds quite a bit like a "Good Intention"

There's a saying about a road covered in those...
>I won't argue that Clinton was great like JFK, or even Reagan, but when fishing for great Western leaders of the past thirty years is there anyone else who comes out better?

Better by comparison is not the same as great. It is quite possible that there be no great leaders. I do not know of anything Clinton did that would be great.

>Blair on the other hand led the reformation of the Labour party and made them electable again, whilst mainaining Britain's standing on the world stage, far from a puppet actually.

Making a party electable again may be a sign of a savvy leader, but it is not greatness. Britian's standing on the world stage under Blair was one of a lapdog in many circles. Again, a leader that garners the reputation as a puppet is not a great leader.