skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Nobody said transparent salaries mean set salaries. Transparent salaries mean MORE room for negotiation.

For example:

"You are our top performer."
"Then why am I in the 10th percentile for people I work with? Can I have a bigger raise to fix that?"

"Nobody got a raise this year." (Which you can see is a lie, upper management gave themselves a raise while telling the peons they didn't have money for a raise)

Everyone understands that salaries are going to be different for different people who perform at different rates.
Hft market makers, the ones that thrive on collecting fees for for trading, are required to send orders in even lots. They can only send odd lots to hedge, and even that is a recent development.
I like the concept but the word choice doesn't seem too "regular", it is more about catching all the particulars rather than finding a pattern as far as I can tell.
Government takedown requests to Google hits new record, company says
I have the most trouble with regex, and something about seeing my matches as I type made this incredibly useful for me!
years of psy-op torture have made me a psychopath. I'm proud of it. I don't give a shit at the store, I just want my fucken soda. I don't stress over why someone acted angry at the store -- fuck-em, I got my soda.

psychopath is just a personality trait and lots of CEOs are psycopaths.

God is perfectly just, how stray can you get?

God says...
after_a_break homo test_pilot cracks_me_up soap_opera never_happy
Hasta obviously crazy do_you_want_another hooah rose_colored_glasses
cursing na_na cosmetics I'm_beginning_to_wonder can_you_hear_me_now
so_let_it_be_written Dudly_Doright ahh you're_out_of_your_mind
you're_in_big_trouble little_fish not_a_chance_in_hell
conservative little_buddy naughty persistence envy how_goes_it
Varoom on_occassion dude_such_a_scoffer well_I_never dance
whale California uh_huh charged not_in_kansas_anymore
choose_one now_you_tell_me relax you're_out_of_your_mind
That's_my_favorite how_bout_it I_can't_believe_it how_goes_it
home oh_no atrocious dignity angel I'll_ask_nicely my_precious
thats_right it's_hopeless gross duck_the_shoe gosh arent_you_clever
I'll_think_about_it are_you_feeling_lucky I_can't_believe_it
guppy why_didn'_you_tell_me car take_your_pick you_shouldn't_have
grumble where's_the_love funny youre_welcome cowardice
rich mine when_hell_freezes_over imports angel hello class__class__shutup
Church in_other_words joy I'm_good_you_good just_lovely
I_made_it_that_way lift
You forgot setting

d) blacking out communication during civil unrest

e) political blackmail of opposition
Fun learning tool for regex.
News Corp. Buys Storyful, a Social Video Sorting Startup
I am still thinking through the idea, but in newer comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934281 I've suggested firms run a blockchain hidden from staff for departments to purchase factors-of-production, and then the underlying coins can be sold to the public as a way to raise capital. So I am thinking that a firm could run an intranet where departments and people get coins from management and also earn intracoins, but management can then come in and sell the underlying coins on some special exchange. There's also an intracoin/fiat/btc/ltc exchange tied into this intranet site.

I think there's a startup in this:

"reorganize your firm around your own virtual currency which you can then sell on our specialized exchange to raise further capital."

I should really clarify all this in a "tech vision" blog post. It could really be the next big thing, especially if a single (or hub) of firms, its customers and investors can come together around a single virtual currency.
Why do you have a problem with me espousing my political views?
Oh, wow, and people complain about Telegram team's attitude. Don't be so vulnerable, please. Take the critics easy.

As for the article, it's well written, but most of the points had been answered in Telegram FAQ or comments on HN. And yet they come up again and again. Not all, most.
I like the idea, but words there seems to be pretty random. I can't figure out the pattern, not even talking about writing regex... :(
http://pastebin.com/TTjWwuBZ
Context plays a part. The last company I worked at was so arcanist that the majority of new developers were relative agitators or futurists. They wouldn't have been elsewhere. They never stuck around beyond a year, and as the second longest serving, 2.5 years was all I could stand. Interviewing after working in an arcanist environment is depressing.
Comeon, seriously? Do we need to talk about exploitation in the porn industry all over again?
It makes more sense for the person you are asking to lie in order to receive a higher offer.

I know I've done that before, even at the negotiating table. "I'm sorry, I can't accept this offer. I'm making more than this currently."
Yeah, that's not actually what he says.

The exact quote is You can't beat politics with new technology all the time.

He goes on to argue that involvement in politics is important as well as technology.
The title confused me a bit there - I thought the author was recommending against going to SV
I'm curious how this internally transparent policy works when hiring new people? Do they tell you what everyone else is making before you negotiate, or only after you've been hired? Either way, that feels potentially awkward.
Since this author is reasoning through proposed purity in Rust by comparing it with purity in Haskell...

- I personally have never felt constrained by Haskell's purity. During development I use `Debug.Trace` to do any debug printing I need to do in pure functions, and I design a program so that in production code I can do appropriate logging before and/or after any calls to pure functions.

- Managing monad stacks in Haskell isn't that tricky. This is the kind of thing that people get scared away from not because they actually tried to learn it and couldn't, but because people make it out to be so hard.

- The Haskell STM example the author links to is actually really simple, especially in terms of monad stacks. It seems dense at first glance only because of the `forkIO`, `timesDo`, and `milliSleep` calls, but you would need these functions' logical equivalents no matter what language you wanted to implement this example in.
I could see this as being bad from both sides. Even as a relatively unskilled negotiator, I know that you can leave a lot on the table by simply not asking for it. I can see a conversation going along these lines:

Me: I'm really excited about the company, but we need to talk about the salary.
H.M.: Sorry, that's set by a formula. We can't change it.
Me: Yes, but I've demonstrated that I can bring in value in excess of $1m per year, and have higher offers from 2 other companies.
H.M.: We can't do that, or everyone will see that yours is higher.

Now I'm out of a potential job and they're out of a top performing developer, or we're left with trickery like giving the "expert" modifier for 1.3x or maybe give the title "VP" to keep me without messing up the formula. Or, you would have to give backdoor bonuses that aren't reported officially.
How is asking someone to paste it any less of a solution than any of those?
I would like to meet this person.

No, no no no no. No you would not. Not unless you mean it like "I'd like to meet a serial killer, just for the experience." Maybe it'd be interesting to get their point of view, sure, but you are far better off without them in your life. And certainly without having any form of relationship with them.

One of the main reasons this guy wrote this letter was probably self-aggrandization. The very fact that you find him more interesting is exactly what he wanted. That's not inherently a bad thing.

What's inherently a bad thing is that when human remorse and guilt have been genetically disabled, those people will do things to you which are fucked up. I have experienced the blunt, raw force of their emotional carpet bombing firsthand from a certain family member.

Everyone needs to remember that these people are hardwired to be deliberately manipulative, because they feel good only when you're giving them attention. Then they feel good only when you're doing things they've conned you into believing you want to do; sometimes things you'll feel shitty about for the rest of your life, once you snap out of it and realize you've been a puppet.
I was a consultant at eBay for a few years, and one thing I learned was that it's big, hairy, complex problem to run a marketplace. Every policy change is fraught with vitriol because there are always two sides -- the buyers and the sellers. One group will always think you're screwing them over while the other side thinks you made their day. It's worse because the sellers are a small, extremely vocal group and the buyers are the quiet millions that simply react through purchasing decisions (or lack thereof). Buyers tend not to run anti-eBay blogs, forums, etc.

On top of that, there's fraud. Both eBay and PayPal have inserted themselves as an intermediary in the long history of humans trying to screw each other over, where one or both parties is going to walk away very unhappy, and the company gets the blame. It's a tiny fraction of the activity, but the outcome is that everyone pays the price through draconian policies, high fees, bad customer service, locked accounts, etc.
what's the pattern on "Abba"? I thought it was just to exclude doubled letters but I have doubles on two words on the left hand side as well (noisefully and effusive, in case the word lists are the same)
As an American, I haven't paid much attention to this until now. Can you please enlighten us?
That would be nice. But, for what it's worth: don't use Telegram. It's a mess. TextSecure was built much, much more carefully.
At one point in our evolution was there some advantage that being a psychopath conferred?
They fucken extort me every couple weeks. I used to care but now I just worry about God. in 1985 I tried to get a dog to lick my dick. I masterbaited once fantasizing about my niece. The only policy for extortion is shoot the hostages and laugh at them being punished by God.

BBC calls me nigger, now I call people nigger.

CIA tortured me with Job. Never gonna hava an employeer or employee.

Fucken made me impotant, never gonna have a lover.

I just care about God. I am invincable and they're fucked.

God says...
hard_working don't_worry Bam let's_see news_to_me smart
vermin nevada sky atheist Ramsay wazz_up_with_that gross
WooHoo Burp recipe you're_out_of_your_mind God do_not_disturb
vengeful on_the_otherhand conservative spunky astronomical
poor pardon_the_french experts small_talk Bam good off_the_record
where's_the_love prosperity I_see_nothing take_the_day_off
phasors_on_stun nasty birds joke I_am_not_amused horrendous

I'm fuckin invincible -- a psychopath. A psy-ops worst nightmare.
The Jesuits are pretty great. But my Catholic elementary school wasn't Jesuit, and it taught evolution and a non-literal interpretation of the Old Testament.
Great title. Great Interview.
You would only use D if you considered it great.
You don't loose an employee because of money. You said it yourself that it's not their top concern.

After you have alienated an employee to the point they no longer want to be part of their company, why would they say anything other than it was just money? The money is the "it's not you, it's me" excuse. :)
for a guy who has lived in India the use of word "Clan" to describe South Bay residing Indians is ..mm.. weird..

Do Indians like to be around other Indians? Yes.
Do Indians like be be around people from their state/linguistic background? YES! But that doesn't make them "clans".

A South Bay residing Indian is more likely to be a college-educated, white collar worker. There is no need for them to "ghetto" themselves.
The CROWD in Crowdfunding
It's not illegal in the US to ask what a candidate is getting paid, but you also (typically) have no good way to verify their answer.
Just seeing the screenshot put me right into nostalgia mode, looks like they really nailed the interface.

Such a shame this isn't available for OS X, as I'm already a Spotify premium subscriber, and I loved Winamp.

Can anyone confirm if the EQ on this actually works? As I've never noticed an EQ in the standard Spotify app.
Why assume that somebody asking for their market rate wouldn't be a good fit for your company?

Framing salary discussions in the context of how the company is doing is one way that employers try to manipulate naive young engineers. Same with all "8 Pieces of Flair is the minimum, but if you want to wear more, we encourage that" tactics, it tries to compare something relevant to the employee with a second, completely irrelevant thing. It's easy enough to spin those discussions in a way that make it look like we're all pitching together to build something great, but at the end of the day, it's still a negotiating tactic.

Personally, I prefer to separate salary negotiation from the rest of the decision about whether somebody would be a good fit. After all, that's a one-time negotiation that probably won't ever be revisited. A guy's skills, sense of humor, leadership ability and overall fun-to-be-around-ishness are the things that matter every day for the rest of his tenure, and are therefore a lot more important when deciding whether you want him on your team.
I work in an industry where salaries are transparent. In my experience, when everyone in the industry adopts salary transparency, it just tends to cause salaries to converge to market rates. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your point of view. I tend to think this is a good thing for employees, because it causes companies to respond more quickly to market signals that cause increases in salaries. On the other hand, this allows the most profitable companies to essentially set the market rate, which can be uncomfortable for less profitable ones.
I think what bothered me most about Stross' rant was his general thought of, "this crypto libertarian currency is purely politically motivated — we shouldn't use it because it's evil!"

As if our current monetary system isn't politically motivated. And arguably evil in many ways.
As a follow-up to myself, it now appears to be IWF policy that members must implement the blocklist

https://www.iwf.org.uk/members/member-policies/url-list/test...

which presumably explains why some previous 'observer' members are no longer members.

Again, though, IWF membership is not mandatory for any organisation.
TROOPER was finally shown trying to climb the ladder. It looked like it was going to make it, but then there was a slip and a fall.
I have to admit that the title is provocative. I do think that going to SV can be a waste of time/money in certain situations, but hopefully those tips can help :)
By the comments it seems that most of the active haters of Telegram are TextSecure team. Yes, they want publicity and funding - and who doesn't?
You probably don't use any product that uses BSAFE.

For whatever it's worth, for people who think this point is all part of some elaborate edifice of sticking up for NSA: I am now 99.9% convinced that Dual EC is in fact a backdoor, and while it's clumsy in a tradecraft sense (you can just look at it and see the problem), I've heard compelling scenarios in which it would have been effective.

I just don't think it's a backdoor that's relevant to modern software, or, even for its time (the early 00's), software that was in popular use.
wine may work - I see the application starting up, but I don't have a premium account to confirm full functionality.
Individual investors tend to outperform the market with a 20 day holding period, with "stocks experience statistically significant excess returns of 0.80% in the 20 days following a week of intense buying by individuals, and −0.33% following a week of intense individual selling" [1]. The individual excess returns are attributable to the "contrarian tendency of individuals leads them to act as liquidity providers to institutions that require immediacy," as evidenced by "the magnitude of the excess returns" being "greater in less liquid stocks."

Shorter than 20 days and individuals compete unfavourably with professional traders' infrastructure. Longer and they compete unfavourably with the skill of professional asset managers.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008....
"the director of the agency finally took me on herself, and to our mutual surprise we got along extremely well."

Birds of a feather?
>It is also the case that, being 'normal' takes a degree of energy and conscious thought that is instinctive for most, but to me is a significant expenditure of energy. I think it analogous to speaking a second language.

Sounds about right. I thought it was pretty 'normal' to feel this way sometimes...
Of course the irony is, when Spoify goes under you will be loosing more than just future updates to a piece of software that will continue to function forever ;)
Pierre Omidyar plunges first $50m into media venture with Glenn Greenwald
I see another premise. Which is, without knowledge, one has fewer options to resist violence. Now as to the utility of the knowledge provided, who can say?
There are good patterns, the first regex for me was /foo/, the second /ick$/, for example. They're there.
I don't think you need to think about the question just in terms of your home's physical location. You can ask it about all sorts of things: your job, your general position in life, a meeting you're attending, even the place you're going for lunch.
If you're interested in what life for such a person is like (or if you might be one!), check out M. E. Thomas's Confessions of a Sociopath. I wrote about it here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/summary-judgment-co... and Tyler Cowen wrote about it here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/con... and elsewhere.

FWIW, from what I've read (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_...) there were (at least) no therapies or treatments that reproducibly help psychopaths:

The psychiatric profession wanted little to do with psychopathy, for several reasons. For one thing, it was thought to be incurable. Not only did the talking cure fail with psychopaths but several studies suggested that talk therapy made the condition worse, by enabling psychopaths to practice the art of manipulation. There were no valid instruments to measure the personality traits that were commonly associated with the condition; researchers could study only the psychopaths’ behavior, in most cases through their criminal records.

And now there are, at least in the sense of reducing criminal behavior:

In a landmark 2006 study of a specialized talk-therapy treatment program, conducted at a juvenile detention center in Wisconsin, involving a hundred and forty-one young offenders who scored high on the youth version of the checklist, Michael Caldwell, a psychologist at the treatment center and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, reported that the youths that were treated were much more likely to stay out of trouble, once they were paroled, than the ones in the control group.

But note that the linked article is from 2008. Perhaps things have changed since.
Given that rewriting a text using AI is not that hard, I wonder. At what point does it stop being copying and start being creating ?

I sort of wonder about stuff like that. If you look at what we know about the algorithm that "is" the human mind, it's not actually capable of creating. So nothing is created. It's copies of other things, usually mixed together.

Most commercial AI products these days avoid patent issues by using AI. Every AI program that isolates and OCR's text uses dozens of patent pending techniques. It's just that this is not visible in the actual code. The reason that it's not in there is that that code encodes something akin to a VM, and the real program is the training results. It is generally very hard to determine what exactly the program does, but for trivial patents that (e.g. energy-lines to separate individual letters, or tracing likely pen movements and recognizing the derivative) is something these algorithms can be shown to do. Yet as far as I know, no-one's been successfully sued.

The algorithms themselves have the advantage that most are quite old, and have obvious roots in the 60s and 70s. So they are not patented in the US (effectively). Is this the perfect way around software patents ?

I wonder. Copyright-wise. If I use an algorithm analyse all text from an author and then have it produce "his next book", would that be legal ?
yes, the eq works just as you'd remember it, presets are even there.

also, apparently although I've not tested it yet, the visualisation plugins work too!
Your argument doesn't hold because transparency will mean there will eventually be a state of equilibrium after you take many employees and after many employees are taken away from you. Talent snatching cannot go on forever. After that, employees will feel compensated, safe and complacent. If still you want to pay more for other employees then they probably deserve it because the market is supply and demand.
that's twice as long as it has to be.. not that it matters.
something i find more important than how much people use strlcpy, snprintf etc in terms of safety and easy of use of strings in C is the lack of good implementation of library functions that give you the string length upfront so you can safely make an allocation of the right size to use such a function with.... coupling that with the fantastic level of brokeness of wchar_t*/wcs functions on the Apple platforms and the poor consistency of the Android NDK (%S, %ls... can't remember) and Microsoft's general lack of respect for the standard and desire to encourage their own brand of 'safe' functions and deprecation I find working with strings in a useful way in C to be an enormous pain when it really shouldn't be.

This should be embarassing when 'script kiddie' languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript and co. do a fantastically better job. It has nothing to do with the level of abstraction and everything to do with poor implementation of the standard library on /every platform/.

And I am supposed to trust 3rd party libraries when these giants make mistakes with both trivial, yet highly important functionality? It makes me cynical that they want to force me to use their NSStrings, Java string or Platform::String^ crap, which I really don't like to trust because they are bad in their own ways too... how can I trust these people with my strings?

C and C++ are ridiculously cross platform and utilitarian, but this area is definitely one of the weakest imo :/

Still, I don't advocate rolling your own, but making things work safely and nicely across platforms is a pain in the arse
Really? I'd love to have people that focus on design patterns and nice classes. Sure, it'd suck to go overboard, but I've too frequently been stuck with people who use single letter variable names and 10 level deep for loops.
Where Working-Age Americans Are Moving
To be honest, putting it on pastebin took me less time than writing a cynical response would have taken me.
I got a 3 character pattern for the first puzzle and a 4 character pattern for the second puzzle (and reading a comment here I see there is a 2 char pattern for the second puzzle).

Only used 1 special char between them (anchoring something). So the first two sets have repeated 3 character sequences, and in one of them they follow an additional pattern.

For the third sequence, 8 character solution, lots of specials.
They would be able to view it instantly instead of waiting for people to bother posting it on Pastebin