skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I agree, it's important to be skeptical. But, one wonders why they would choose to kill him in such an open manner, after he sent an email saying that he was being investigated by the FBI to Wikileaks' lawyers among other folks. Surely he could be dealt with in a much quieter fashion that isn't so open to being discovered. We can also confirm that he was indeed traveling very fast, certainly fast enough for things to go as wrong as they did very quickly.
Did you see the part where I wrote that it needs reforming?

That's exactly what I'm referring to.

This sums up my point of view pretty well:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/09/pat...
In some environments that would be a huge warning!
Unfortunately, I still don't understand your argument.

If a company currently pays 100K for a senior software engineer, the median for the position is 100K, and the 90%ile for the industy is 180, is the company obligated to pay 180K to an H1B for this role?

My understanding is that it is not, that 100K would meet the prevailing wage requirements.
Thanks for the clarification, I'm still curious as to what your source is. In light of the current regulatory environment, do you think there is still sizable demand for quantitative professionals on Wall St?
Haha that's fair. Not intentionally misleading though. I had hoped people would interpret that as "97% of people who have taken One Month Rails recommend it" like when mouthwash brands say "4 out of 5 Dentists Recommended" they don't literally mean 4 out of 5 dentists on earth.
Oh sure, i don't believe it was psyops.
As you said, i'm sure SAIC bought the exploit, and then used it in a mildly incompetent way.

I'm sure they even had meetings and documents about it, too!
I'm not sure if this is good news. Doesn't this portend further monopolistic control over publishing and distribution? Amazon isn't known to fairly and openly distribute its content.
There are many problems not solved with new and old nuclear systems too. Case in point is the Southern California Edison plant which failed trying to upgrade an existing, known system on their nuclear plant.

I haven't really heard of solar based "atmospheric disruption" issue. On the other hand, I have wondered what the effect of releasing gigawatts (terawatts?) of heat (and electricity that will become heat) derived from nuclear power plants year after year. Solar is a closed system energy source; we're going to receive that energy one way or another whereas nuclear is adding energy to the system derived by converting matter - energy that isn't a normal input.
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automatically updated copy of the newspaper

I have never really been drawn to the Kindle for books (except the large-but-expensive model) but it would be ideal for daily news - in fact the screen seems to pick up where newsprint left off. I'm old-fashioned enough to even like the idea of having everything in black & white.
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How does this mesh with his investment in Business Insider?

Is Jeff pursuing a content strategy? Washington Post for investigation and Business Insider for Biz news would be great.

Personally I'd rather have Jeff Bezos than Rupert Murdoch, but maybe that's just me...
Jeff Bezos To Acquire The Washington Post For $250M
It's odd that the odd numbers slipped my mind. Thank you for your gracious correction.
LIBOR manipulation,
PRISM,
FBI deliverately poisoning alcohol during Prohibition
Tuskegee Syphilis Study

all believed to be just "crazy conspiracy theories" and now proven to be the case.

In the case of LIBOR, anywhere from a few hundred to a couple thousand people kept the secret of the manipulation for about 10 years - it only came to light due to a slightly-related investigation of one of the banks involved.
Statement: Jeff Bezos to Buy Washington Post - Washington Wire - WSJ
What makes you think it's a best practice? It may be usual, but when it comes to getting people to notice (and therefore, do) things on the web, "usual" isn't usually that good.

The rest of your comment is a straw man fallacy. Of course you can't test everything. But, you know...it might just be reasonable to test the conversion button on your landing page, especially when someone who does a lot of testing tells you that it has a big impact. Because that's a more informative prior than "we should just use the default behavior".
You are the whiner posting on this board.

You need to get a clue and stop blaming people for things that are entirely in your control.

Make your own e-mail system, then add-on to that.
If he did, such a thing would usually need to be approved by a disinterested majority of a disinterested quorum of directors.
You asked me, what conspiracy? And the answer is, the conspiracy theory that this crash was an assassination by the US government.

You may not find it surprising if someone attempted to kill him. I may not find it surprising either, I don't know. But what I do know is that nothing revealed about this particular case so far points toward an assassination, and all of the articles about it posted on HN have approached the crash with a conspiracy mindset, where they twist fairly mundane facts to try to support the idea that it was, in fact, an assassination.
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To put things into perspective, the $250M purchase price is lower than the purchase price of The Huffington Post at $315M.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/07/aol-huffington-post...
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I had a breakdown in my late 20's. The only thing
that helped me was Time. Stay away from Anyone
who takes your Money away from you. Yes--many
Psychiatrists, and Psychologists have been conditioned
into believing they are helping you. They will take
your last cent. My condition was extreme daily anxiety,
which morphed into depression; because my life fell apart.
Things will get better with Time. For some reason, the
brain heals slowly. I'm just commenting on Depression
and Anxiety. This is just my experience; you might have
better results.
Hope Bezos revamps the site's design. It's quite ugly.
I accept that you are an expert and that there is value in this expertise, but I remain unconvinced that it's so obvious where to execute A/B tests (in contrast to page load time, where bottlenecks can be measurably identified).
A "nit" ...

the US Government "claims" to have the authority to assassinate US citizens.

My view of the Constitution says the US Gov't does NOT have the authority to execute someone without a trial.
87% of Americans are not descended from a recent Sub-Saharan African population (where recent is defined as within the last 80,000 years). African Americans form a genetically distinct American subpopulation with about 70-80% of genes from Africa. If you sent in spit samples to 23andMe from a white American and an African American, 23andMe would have no problem telling them apart. If race did not exist, this would not be possible.

It is interesting that crime rates and other social pathologies are so segregated by race in America. Different experts have different explanations for this. The point is, comparing America against Europe is hard to do when the racial makeup of the two countries is so different.

The legacy of slavery in America cannot be avoided. 14-24 year old African American males make up 1% of the USA population and commit 27% of the murders. Europe had no large scale agricultural African slavery in the 19th century, and its current society has evolved differently as a result.

I agree that government-defined racial categories are too broad and inexact. The true amount of human genetic diversity is far larger and far messier than five racial categories would suggest. Andrew Sullivan addressed the myth that "race is a social construct" on his blog[1].

[1] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/05/16/is-race-only-a-soc...
They laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Maybe this crash was an assassination. But if you want to not be called a conspiracy nut, you need evidence to back it up. So far there is none.

Without evidence, there's no way to distinguish between something like LIBOR and the idea that Apollo 11 was filmed on a Hollywood sound stage.

So far, every single article on this guy's crash has been of the fake moon landing genre, not the LIBOR genre.

Maybe it happened. But as long as people keep posting conspiracy theories about it, I'm going to keep calling them exactly that.
Jeff Bezos buying Washington Post for $250M
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I live in Italy, and love the food here. I am sure I could not tell Italian olive oil from Spanish, Greek, or Californian olive oil. Perhaps there are people who can, but I doubt most of my friends here could. I happily buy the "Mediterranean" extra vergin olive oil to save a bit.
Alright, but I'd just use some free software alternative on my server.
That's the way I feel every time I step into a HN thread about either a company being bought out or a company making their debut on HN. The almost instant responses of glowing reviews and praise for the service seem suspicious, but I have no way of knowing if the product/service really is that good or if the product/service has some dedicated fans commenting for them. It really is hard to tell the difference. I get accusations that I must work for Microsoft all the time because I'm one of the few people who don't hate everything they do. Since I'm well aware of the false positive rate for calling out paid comments, I tend to just not say anything even when I'm suspicious of another commenter. It is possible to just truly like the product/service being talked about.
;; let's time it
* (time (loop for i from 1 to 1000000000 sum i))

Evaluation took:
2.374 seconds of real time
2.372148 seconds of total run time (2.372148 user, 0.000000 system)
99.92% CPU
8,071,475,337 processor cycles
0 bytes consed

500000000500000000

* (disassemble (lambda () (loop for i from 1 to 1000000000 sum i)))

; disassembly for (LAMBDA ())
; 02C21574: BB02000000 MOV EBX, 2 ; no-arg-parsing entry point
; 79: 31C9 XOR ECX, ECX
; 7B: EB27 JMP L1
; 7D: 90 NOP
; 7E: 90 NOP
; 7F: 90 NOP
; 80: L0: 48895DF8 MOV [RBP-8], RBX
; 84: 488BD1 MOV RDX, RCX
; 87: 488BFB MOV RDI, RBX
; 8A: 4C8D1C25E0010020 LEA R11, [#x200001E0] ; GENERIC-+
; 92: 41FFD3 CALL R11
; 95: 480F42E3 CMOVB RSP, RBX
; 99: 488BCA MOV RCX, RDX
; 9C: 488B5DF8 MOV RBX, [RBP-8]
; A0: 4883C302 ADD RBX, 2
; A4: L1: 483B1D25000000 CMP RBX, [RIP+37]
; AB: 7ED3 JLE L0
; AD: 488BD1 MOV RDX, RCX
; B0: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; B3: F8 CLC
; B4: 5D POP RBP
; B5: C3 RET
; B6: CC0A BREAK 10 ; error trap
; B8: 02 BYTE #X02
; B9: 18 BYTE #X18 ; INVALID-ARG-COUNT-ERROR
; BA: 54 BYTE #X54 ; RCX
; BB: 90 NOP
; BC: 90 NOP
; BD: 90 NOP
; BE: 90 NOP
; BF: 90 NOP
; C0: 90 NOP
; C1: 90 NOP
; C2: 90 NOP
; C3: 90 NOP
; C4: 90 NOP
; C5: 90 NOP
; C6: 90 NOP
; C7: 90 NOP
; C8: 90 NOP
; C9: 90 NOP
; CA: 90 NOP
; CB: 0000 ADD [RAX], AL
; CD: 0000 ADD [RAX], AL
; CF: 0000 ADD [RAX], AL
; D1: 94 XCHG EAX, ESP
; D2: 3577000000 XOR EAX, 119
; D7: 0000 ADD [RAX], AL
NIL
It was more informative than being disappointed :). Thanks for the great service.
Many people buy into the supposed health benefits on olive oil, which probably boils down to its phenolic content. However, this depends on many things and drops over time.

The end of this article has some tips to ensure getting the best oil.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/olive-oil-health-bene...
Knowing nothing about the department, maybe just because they don't give statements on things they're investigating unless they're looking for the public's help.

It seems suspicious if you're inclined to find it so.
I don't have the specific links on this computer (sorry) but one of the major oceanographic research institutes published a fairly detailed report of their own measurements last year.

The general flavor of the report is that the pacific as a whole is in no danger. Despite the toxicity of what's been released, the pacific is very, very, big. They expressed concern for local waters near the plant, but weren't able to study that as freely due to Tepco and the Japanese government. Accumulation of isotopes in predator species is still a very real concern.
They might well have been a community before your glorious war dead who "established and preserved a nation" slaughtered them.

How exactly is that justification for continuing to treat people born on one side of a line as valuable human beings and those on the other worthless? Is it a moral sunk cost theory -- as long as we've committed all these atrocities in the name of nationalism might as well keep going?
I'm not sure, that's a good question.
That the rougher taste is the most original reminds me of that old story I found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201540
It's quite sequitur, because the existence of the tsunami means you only have acquired evidence that the reactors are dangerous in massive, already overwhelmingly dangerous situations. If a tornado destroys all the houses on your block, causing your car to roll out of your (destroyed) garage and run over a mailbox, no one goes around talking about how this proves the dangers of cars. (I exaggerate the comparison here, but you get the point.)

Yes, obviously the cost of these ultra-rare events needs to be accounted for in doing a cost-benefit analysis. But the billions of dollars it will cost to clean up Fukishima (which, again, are mostly unnecessary) is tiny compared to the total cost of nuclear power, or any power source, on a global scale. There are ~500 nuclear plants worldwide, each costing ~$5 billion each. This singular event is just plain not important.

The fact that it's "avoidable" is only useful on the scale of improving particular reactors or particular regulatory agencies. With regard to choosing sources of power, it really doesn't matter except to make nuclear more attractive. (If some nuclear power risks are avoidable, and therefore improvable, in a way that the costs of renewables cannot be improved, this is a point in nuclear's favor.)

The question of which types of power society should invest in is a complex one, requiring the careful weighing of various risks, technological uncertainties, and ethical questions. I certainly don't know the answer. But what I do know is that the pittance of money lost in this disaster does not play an appreciable role in that calculation, except insofar as it gives ammunition for some people to fearmonger.
Well I'm not European, but I'd be willing to pay the same amount as I'm willing to pay for the children of rural Arkansas farmers. Which is to say nothing at all. But I'd gladly hire either one if they could do the job.
Yeah, complain about clueless recruiters calling you with an offer. There's people who would do anything for a job.
In practice, is that likely to be a serious impediment?
Looks like Bezos has a propaganda arm now.

I mean, sorry for the cynicism, but this is an obvious conflict of interest. Retail, distribution, infrastructure, and now politics & media.

The man can do what he wants but the public probably shouldn't applaud this.
I'm more and more disappointed in Startups that comes out of YC these days.

What's the different with peepcode, net tuts+, codeschool and co?
What is the bigger picture here?
Is this just a guy who was running a successful Skillshare course and decided to spin a company out of it and through his personality got into YC?
Why even go through YC if he already had 5000+ student on skillshare?

Something I'm not seeing here?
How long has Huffington Post been around?

The Washington Post seems to have an incredible reputation (especially if they really did break the Pentagon Papers and others) and be a fun purchase if you have f-you money.
> I was once asked if I had ".NET and API experience" (verbatim) :/

This is one of the things that irks me most about recruiters. They talk about these skills like they are trading cards or XBL achievements. "Oh good I see that you have Python. Do you also have Javascript?"

Recruiting has become such an awful race to the bottom I don't understand how these companies stay in business. Wait yes I do, naive 23 year old me who almost got his second job through a recruiter because he didn't realize how many opportunities he was qualified for.
Jeff Bezos on The Washington Post purchase
Product Configurator (eCommerce Web Stores)

Basically, the visual deal where you select a t-shirt, change colors, change patterns, etc.. Toys, computer parts, boat parts, shoes, cheerleading outfits, you name it...

I was asked to build a product configurator a year or so back for a a store that sold customizable backpacks. I looked into building one and thought "hell no". I turned the job down.

During my research I found some Enterprise level solutions, I saw 1 service (a manual thing with a couple guys), a TON of posts on outsourcing websites asking for the same, and I believe a complicated piece of software (it's hard to remember).

I offered to build the thing for much more then they wanted to spend thinking I could turn it into a product, but obviously they passed.

I think there might be a market out there for small and medium sized eCommerce store developers/designers/owners for a plug-and-play product configurator. It would have to tie in with some popular carts; X-cart, Magento, (a few others), but at least for me I thought there might be a business there.

Or there could be a reason why it was never done.
No matter what structure the payment is made under, its still coming out of the actual employers bank account. Money which could be used to actually pay employees rather than keyword matching recruiters.
I have family/friends who are in the industry. Re: demand, it's size-able, and quantitative skills are becoming more, not less, important. To paint with very broad brushes, the recruiting emphasis on Wall Street has shifted towards math/science majors at the top of their class at top schools. There are less opportunities out there to make money, so the value of precise analysis has really gone up. Also, given the current regulatory environment, the value of risk management, which is intensely quantitative, has gone up.
I prefer your interpretation. Better: they have the extraconstitutional ability to execute someone without trial.
In the middle of nowhere, web developers make $30-70k in my experience. You need to work in a "city" (even if its small), or work remotely for a company that pays well to do any better.
I'm curious, what qualifications are required to become a listener? Do you have to be a mental health professional? Do you have to live in the United States?
I just wish you could take the classes at your own pace. I'm getting very little out of the "certifications" or whatever. And the TA's/Discussion forums tend towards pretty useless because of how disorganized they are.
Time? Is this some service I am unaware of, or are you simply saying "take some time to heal"
I'm kind of surprised, but this seems like the best possible direction for them. Sort of like Chris Hughes buying The New Republic, Bezos has the cash to give the Post breathing room to find a direction that will be profitable. And, ostensibly, he won't want to turn it into Buzzfeed.
I think C++ would have done fine with a suitable toolkit, which presumably they would have built based on the stuff from Be, in my alternate history where Apple bought Be instead of NeXT but somehow still got Steve Jobs. Given the choice, I'd rather do a GUI framework in C++ than Objective-C, but I don't think it's that big of an advantage, at least if you can restrict yourself to a sane subset of C++.

Java... harder to say. I would say that no, Apple could not have done as good a job using Java as the basis of iOS, because Apple doesn't seem to be very good at the things needed to make a language like Java run fast. Perhaps if they had contracted out the right bits to Sun rather than pulling a Google and building their own VM, it could have worked OK.

I think that Objective-C is a pretty good language when you take into account the context of running on a UNIX system with lots of pre-built C libraries around, because of the ease of talking to C. Perhaps even the best choice, in that limited context. But I don't think much of Apple's rise can be attributed to that choice of language, even if it did end up being a decent one.
I'm sorry, I guess I misunderstood your point. No, 100k would work. But if the industry median were 100k and but the company in question paid US workers in that title 150k, they'd have to pay 150k.
Great advice by the look of it.
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>> WTF!? This is like asking "Do you use a gear-stick?" followed by "Have you ever been in a car?"

> I was once asked if I had ".NET and API experience" (verbatim) :/

You have not lived, until a recruiter asks about your proficiency in "Ruby Red"[1], not to be confused with "Ruby on Rails"[2]

1. http://static.caloriecount.about.com/images/medium/squirt-so...

2. http://www.firstlinesoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/...

But seriously, in today's job-market I feel for the difficulty these recruiters must have trying to find people, who probably don't always treat them well, that match up with skills they might never have heard of. I try my best to be polite to every LinkedIn recruiter, explaining clearly and non-condescending why I'm not a good fit for the job they're asking me about.
The problem seems to me rather to be the clients of those companies. I don't envy those people in their call centers. Although I don't know how their job is set up, perhaps they just get x$ per successfully referred employee, and calling as many people as possible works.
Announced after market close. Expecting NYT stock to rise quite a bit.

I was surprised when Jack Welsh (x GE) wanted to buy the Boston Globe (he backed out). He realized the the shine was one of the past. It's interesting that Bezos sees value here but I think the value is in the same sense taking a small part of his billions and buying something that is a legend. (After all rich people buy art and other trinkets because they can so why not a newspaper?).
I feel sorry for the honest and good american people that have to suffer from this power abuse, which seems to be a very real and common threat. It must be horrible to live in constant fear from your own government. :(
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Suppose we take it to the logical extreme:

1. Monitor absolutely everything
2. Place yourself in the right place
3. Book people for what you're able to stop them for

Isn't there some law or legal doctrine that prevents this sort of police omniscience? Everyone is guilty of some infraction.

In other word, doesn't the law require that police show what led them to stop a person, not that the stop was legal according to one condition.

It seems like the real probable cause is being hidden.

I don't actually know the answer to this, it's a serious question.
I don't see anyone majorly naysaying this move, but in case anyone does, remember that Jeff is smart. Very, very smart. I've heard him referenced to as "a hyper-intelligent alien who has only a tangential in human affairs" before. AMZN represents a bit of this.

My money's on Jeff - he's got something up his sleeve here.
point well taken, timr
San Diego 6 news report that Hastings was cremated even though his family did not request it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21WnsubYFps

Given it's a high profile case, surely something like this shouldn't happen?

Or is it quite common that the coroner or whoever with authority can dispose of the body however they wish?