skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"and trust me, there will be plenty willing to have my money and do a better job"

See this is the bit I don't understand, my understanding of market forces is that those that do the job better will grow if they are in anyway scalable. Now your in a position were small protection rings are unable to work against there large competitors. Similar to how you say you can't compete against government in the supply of defense of sovereignty these small firms can't compete against the large firms in defense of law.

So now you have a system were you have these large protection firms consolidating absorbing any small upstarts and focusing on specific territories (to become more efficient).

Soon you've carved up the protection by geographic region and these companies have carte blanche in their own regions with a few places having oligopolies. Now these groups were obviously very friendly during this time and obviously never abused their position because the market is good at incorporating moral values into the cost of what they buy... but you would have to admit that as they are now acting as the sole provider in a specific location then it makes sense for them to extort that region at an amount that is lower than the cost of leaving for those extorted.
That's the whole point of a humblebrag.
Here's some recursion for you! My team builds a web app that allows our clients to run their own automated, customizable customer referral program. We use it ourselves, and it has brought us new clients.

So if you like our referral program saas, you can use our referral program saas to refer our referral program saas to anybody else who needs a referral program saas.
> but about half are below average

> I'd say I see about one good recruiter for every 20 spammers

These two seem contradictory, but the second statement strikes me as much more true than the first. Recruiters in this industry seem to be more parasitic and less knowledgeable than even real estate agents, and I say that with great hesitation. Any job where the attracting principle is "ooh money, and I don't even need to know anything!" is probably not usually a service that's worth a damn.
Instead of looping continuously, it would be more efficient to run the tests only when file modification is detected.

Something like https://github.com/Maher4Ever/guard-phpunit
It is difficult to predict NSA actions, but opportunistically putting up inexpensive surveillance on all Tor users and nodes seems like a reasonable thing to do. As a developer she is a Tor user and also probably operates a few Tor nodes [for debugging and testing purposes]. So she would be in that group. I think this is plausible. I doubt that NSA would specifically target a Tor developer in US, without court order, as this would probably be illegal. [Although subverting some Tor developers, especially ones who build Tor binaries would be useful.]
I heard a slightly different version of that saying: "When the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold."

Funny how when the US credit rating was lowered, the prices of US Treasury bonds actually increased, and their yields fell. When US financial institutions went bankrupt, the value of US government securities went up.

When the Federal Reserve printed money to buy bonds, the value of the dollar actually increased. And when the Federal Reserve stopped printing money to buy bonds, the value of the dollar still increased.

Maybe the rumors of the death of America are premature, and maybe the old saying is still true.
Yes, Jobs are so hip right now.
You think there's going to be a "McDonalds" button on the dashboard? No, you'll have to press half a dozen buttons to reroute, and so you'll have past the restaurant and won't bother. Whereas currently, your control is direct and immediate.

Although (to argue against myself), why shouldn't there be a display that shows you the upcoming businesses along your route, that you can click on to reroute? Perhaps businesses who pay extra get slightly larger visuals or video ads, or get shown for a larger radius (for example, the default is to show businesses just to the immediate left and right, but pay extra to get shown a block to the left or right). Quick, file a patent. :)
Yes. Once you decide to go into the secret services area, there's virtually no way of going back.
I have been craving for something like this for Facebook. I've had so many interesting conversations with friends over the years, I wish I could extract all of that stuff and use it as drafts for essays. Cool work you're doing.
It's used by Metamarkets in production (http://metamarkets.com/); I've seen talks about it at Strata and they're getting really impressive query times on terascale problems.

Shameless plug: if you're interested in fast in-memory analytics and more of the PyData bent, I'm building a system with some similarities to Druid at my company (http://www.datapad.io/) but more focused on optimizing single-node performance (i.e. minimizing EC2 expenses) on medium data (single columns of tables typically fit in memory) than high scalability / real time ingest.
Read the thread 'tlrobinson showed you. Like, carefully.
To me it comes across as the reverse of sour grapes: "Oh woe is me, I'm being solicited by diamond salesmen to add extravagant adornments to my golden palace. Can't they just understand that my platinum plated safe contains more diamonds than they could ever offer? Why is life so hard?"
So despite what other people have said, Roll20 does not use Google Hangouts. It uses Tokbox. However, it tends to work better than Google Hangouts ever did for us in the past. Enough so that we were able to switch to using the Roll20 video/audio chat rather than our normal Skype session.

Anyways, Roll20 is great, and I'd give it a shot. Roll20 has allowed my 10+ year gaming group to keep gaming.
The odds of a job coming out of contact by a Google recruiter are nearly indistinguishable from 0. They constantly carpet-bomb everybody.
I know Shane Legg from his work with AIXI, the mathematical model of infinite general intelligence. That's some heavy hitters.
I love that pg says that it was the greatest comeback of all time.
Statement 1 is tautologically true.
I don't know about Nexus 5 but my Nexus 4 comes with Google's bloatware apps, none of which are uninstallable.
I actually have this written on the corner of my whiteboard because I can never remember bash's syntax for piping out stderr!
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Its not just Google..

Amazon has the same problem..some low recruiters working for Amazon spamming devs

My solution was to contact Amazon dev advocate and state that I would not upload my android apps to their appstore unless the recruiting spamming stooped..

That worked for awhile, it no longer works
If wages in the US were low, they wouldn't be outsourcing labor to other countries. Reuters must not have realized how many things have "Made in China" stamped on them.
I make it clear I am only interested in small companies and startups (and detail why). Consequently a good recruiter for a medium/large company won't contact me at all. OTOH the spammers depend on volume.
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China's central bank makes Ben Bernanke look like a do-nothing.
Hmm.

(Your list) * (20000000 other people)
"Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?" -- Thoreau

Sorry, couldn't resist.
repeated references to your cushy career situation

What references are those? I only mentioned Tarsnap once at the very end. Based on everything else I might have been unemployed.

classic humblebrag

Being repeatedly contacted by Google Recruiting is hardly something to brag about.
I also turned Google down after interviewing [1]. They contacted me every six months to see how I was doing. Eventually, I asked them not to contact me again, and they haven't.

Other recruiters haven't been so nice, but it's important to remember that recruiters are people too. Their jobs can be very stressful, since much of their compensation comes from successful hires. I ended up writing a rather conciliatory post, and I link to it whenever a recruiter contacts me: http://geoff.greer.fm/2013/10/23/dear-recruiter-please-do-no...

It has been quite successful. Replies from recruiters have been understanding and pleasant.

1. One cool thing about Google: They asked me to do a post-mortem to talk about out why I turned them down. I met a manager at a coffee shop and discussed my reasons. He also wanted to make sure that the interview process had been enjoyable for me, and asked for feedback on what they could do better. I was impressed by their thoroughness.
Right there with you. I love the fact that I can now pull together the metrics for all of my shared posts and content. This can really make it easy for people to quickly gauge someone's topic authority.
That doesn't change the fact that tech folk are unique in being so lucky in the current economic climate to be complaining about getting asked about job opporunities. I know plenty of people in other skilled fields who would be happy to hear back from any of the many companies they ask about jobs at
When you have the capability to achieve dreams as immense as Google can, it's best to reach for the most powerful dreams possible.
"They suggest that you have a problem because this way of thinking questions their way of life."

Well, perhaps. Or perhaps they have noticed that, or have accepted the conventional wisdom that, people who say things like this are more often depressed than both not depressed and thoughtful.
If you don't mind being bash-specific, you can shorten 2>&1 | to just |& .
US Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults
Thanks! That's definitely something that we think is missing and I hope you check us out. We started with blogs/scholarship/reddit/Q&A sites, but are adding Twitter/FB next. While many people have quality discussions worth aggregating and quantifying on FB, we were worried that it might dilute our initial product. I appreciate the feedback and hope you like it. Our next version - which is en route to completion - will feature data visualization of written content on iOS (which is currently available in an early form on the web profiles).
Visualizing physician supply in US
Why doesn’t Apple include a calculator app on the iPad?
I'd like to see a variation of this contest where a "typical", valid source code is given as part of the rules, and the objective is to change the code as little as possible to produce the highest amount of compilation errors. For example it could be measured the ratio between the output of the compiler and the edit distance with the reference code.

It would be more representative of all those WTF moments when you have some code that compiles perfectly fine, change a line and suddenly GCC decides to throw up thousands of meaningless messages :)
Netflix also uses Druid: http://www.slideshare.net/g9yuayon/netflix-druidstrata2013
I like to call these "First World Annoyances".

http://i.imgur.com/UQu7dey.jpg
Yeah, that's a really good point. I doubt it would fit in a tweet anymore, but it would be worth it. Thanks for the feedback and the link to Guard. I'll have to drop a link to that on the site.
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I can't think of any other company which has had recruiters continue to contact me after I've replied "nope, not interested".
Regional income variation certainly seems significant for the single measure picked for the article. There's more detail in Derek Thompson's article [1] with maps for both "absolute upward mobility" and "relative mobility" measures. Even though it uses national income rankings as a base, the "relative mobility" measure compares outcomes between people growing up in the same commuting zones. That should exclude the affect of differing regional incomes. It's broadly similar, but more variation is visible in the South than in the other maps.

Area income seems to offer a compelling explanation for one local result highlighted in the paper [2]:

"San Francisco has substantially higher relative mobility than Chicago: y ̄100 − y ̄0 = 25.0 in San Francisco vs. y ̄100 − y ̄0 = 39.3 in Chicago. But part of the greater relative mobility in San Francisco comes from worse outcomes for children from high-income families. Below the 60th percentile, children in San Francisco have better outcomes than those in Chicago; above the 60th percentile, the reverse is true."

Someone on a >60th national income percentile in San Francisco is going to be in a much lower local income percentile. That would make them relatively disadvantaged in comparison to someone on a >60th national income percentile in Chicago. And if they leave the city for somewhere with a lower cost of living, even if they stay in the same local income bracket as their parents they will appear to be doing worse in terms of national income ranking.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-geog...

[2] http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_geo.pdf
Howdy lawrencewu, I think it's fantastic that you're working on something to scratch your own itch!

It's exactly what I did a year ago when I started work on http://www.memorific.com to build a SRS that was fine-tuned for software developers. We just changed to public beta a few weeks ago and started generating revenue and it's been a great experience helping people learn, grow, and meet their goals for learning.

Keep up the good work on noot.io and have a blast doing it! There's nothing like making a product that people use and enjoy.
It seems like it's part of Netflix's data pipeline, Suro[1].

[1]:http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/announcing-suro-backbone...
Heh. I read the title and knew immediately what the contents would be.
Ask a support question about Tarsnap? Bam, blog post about you annoying the shit out of him with your question.

Only if I send you repeated requests to stop contacting me first.
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(Yes, if I have to spend time removing bloated stuff it's malware, I don't care if it's an "antivirus demo" or something like that)

I don't like this, there is a reason there are different terms.
Isn't there a way to make a relocatable virtualenv? I'd be inclined to just do that, compress it up and distribute the entire virtualenv (our deploy environment is homogenous to the extreme).
>> secure backup software

The software isn't the problem - it's probably great - it's the service that I wouldn't recommend.
It seems quite likely the dogecoin reddit moderators are involved with this due to absolute radio silence about market manipulation on the subreddit.
I don't mind recruiters contacting me. I mind recruiters contacting me when the file in front of them tells them that I've specifically asked them to not contact me.
Yes I am sure that they never figured other nations exist and that the US imports from them when making this article.
Well that was aggressive.
No. Consider the sequence (2, 2, 2, 10).
I don't even understand what you're trying to communicate anymore. "The software's great! But don't ever use it!"
Yes, it is. Coming to this mess from the joy of bundler/gems, npm, or hell, even CPAN will ruin your afternoon.

It is just an unfortunate circumstance of the community not efficiently converging on well designed standards quickly enough, and so, the rocky soil has sprouted strange twisty crops. There are articles on how the setuptools/distutils frankenhack pretty much set off the whole trainwreck that you see today, e.g.: http://blog.startifact.com/posts/older/a-history-of-python-p...

Armin (the OP) has also written about this sad history previously: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/
I flew to Seattle for an Amazon interview two years ago. They declined to extend an offer yet still hit me up on LinkedIn and send me emails every six months.

I'm not sour about not getting the job (I totally blew that interview—100% my fault), I just don't get the dissonance they send out.
It's very rare I say this, but he has every right to be.
I don't think you fully understood my comment. Contact by a Google recruiter does not constitute a job opportunity. It constitutes a waste of time on a massive scale. Replace them with automated spambots and the effect is the same.
No, she was experiencing constant and unnecessary judgment by people like you.
He wasn't successful at being a human being. That counts for a lot in my book.
there is a Massachusetts startup scene ?
You aren't helping. This sort of statement is why debates about poverty end up all over the place.

Yes, computers were once so expensive that, quoting Professor Frink, "only the five richest kings of Europe would own them". Now they just about come free in a box of cereal.

The usual solutions are either 1) use something like the OECD approach, where poverty is the number of people making under 1/2 the median income, or 2) use a "relatively absolute" basket of goods concept, which includes housing and food.

Instead, you hand-wave "faaaaar better", without explaining what you mean.

For example, it is not "faaaaar" easier for said unskilled person in NYC to find affordable housing now than 1914. For one, zoning laws and regulations have reduced the number of boarding houses, cage hotels, and flop houses over the last century.

You can have all the bandwidth you want, in your proverbial shelter under the bridge, but it won't keep you warm.
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You know that simplicity of use is very complex to achieve, and requires complex tools behind, right?

Actually it is even true for music instruments: A piano is very complex inside and can be played relatively easily, while a violin is much more simple in the fabric but much harder to play.
My local supermarket has low prices, and yet sometimes I get things at Costco. Prices are relative. US wages are low relative to historical US wages and wages in comparable countries, yet they are high relative to China et al. There is no contradiction. Otherwise, no country's wages could ever be considered low as long as they were higher than the Central African Republic's.

In addition, many jobs cannot be outsourced.
More to the point, if he'd opted to open source the code.

In Computer Lib/Dream Machines, one of the systems Nelson describes and lauds is Calvin Mooers's TRAC macro language. Mooers took his IP seriously and defended it seriously. You can read his argument in favor of copyright to protect software in a Computing Surveys issue from some decades ago. Mooers protected TRAC right into oblivion--if even 1% of those who read HN have ever heard of it, I'll be amazed.

David Turner, who has done very important work on implementing applicative languages, similarly protected Miranda, with the result that the major work is being done elsewhere, on Haskell et al.

Project Xanadu is "worse is better" taken to the limit, in which the better doesn't even exist save perhaps as a prototype that you can at best see a short video of. The story of Project Xanadu is a tragedy of seeking funding and resources, exhausting them, and then having to look for more. How much better off would the world--including Nelson himself!--be had he decided to open it up to the bazaar.
Can you clarify what you mean, please?
This is getting dangerously close to "no true scotsman".
I am the guy who always follows-up with recruiters. But even I can tell you that many of them are quite disrespectful and rarely have something to offer other than the brand of the company they represent.

Just month ago some Google recruiter emailed me to "see what I've been up to". He is not taking emails for an answer, he wants to schedule a phone call at some weird hour. Of course he wants me to submit some paperwork. I say fine, then he cancels at the last moment, another recruiter contacts me to reschedule and forgets about it.
If there was ever a time when someone should yell "Stop the presses!"
Is it just me or is Ted's vision basically OpenDoc?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
If you follow the monadic route and return a Maybe...

Stop. Let me reformulate. If you follow the standard AJAX route and return either a {'success': True, 'payload': ...} or {'success': False, 'error': ...} from your workers, your error handling will be fine.
Quick Sam Biddle take a screenshot of this and write a hit piece on highlighting the disgusting arrogance/ignorance of yet another tech douche!

I am fortunate to get similar attention and I live on the opposite coast. I am very flattered/honored to receive constant job offers. I've worked hard to get to this point, but it could all go away tomorrow. Nothing is guaranteed.
> Being repeatedly contacted by Google Recruiting is hardly something to brag about.

Do you have any idea how many people would love to be contacted by Google Recruiting even once? That's fine if you have no interest in working for them, but please don't pretend Google isn't one of the most desirable companies to work for.
> (12 rotor beast here: http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq83/Adam-Blackshaw/12rot...).

WTF... how many HP here?
What do the Nexus lines of phones come with?
And those things don't count as part of the US' GDP. And only count as part of the GNP if they're owned by a US company.
So my choices here are to believe that it's:

a) Some strange conspiracy that nobody understands.

or

b) A software bug.

As a long-time user of software, I'm betting on option B.
I've had the exact same experience as the author of this post. Eggs are great if you just want to install a python library. Horrible if you want to modify the library or distribute a program.

I personally use a mixture of setuptools and distutils2, and it's a confusing mix.
What's particularly disturbing is the sheer greed being shown in pursuit of these profits. There was a recent article about an auto plant in Michigan that went through near-bankruptcy but is now making a $2bn/year profit. The profit was attributed in part to $50m/year in reduced wages that were extracted from the union in exchange for not closing the plant. Those concessions represented over one third of the wages but only 2.5% of the resulting profits. That's just disgusting. They should have kept the wages steady and enjoyed their more-than-sufficient 1.95bn/year in profits.
>Anki unfortunately jumped the AGPL shark recently, making the code dangerous to have around.

Seriously?

Do you sometimes sneeze and, in the process, integrate your projects with external code (that isn't even packaged as a library) and push it out to users in one fell swoop?

It's far more "dangerous" to have any proprietary software "around" -- if you somehow violate that license, you'll face a lot worse consequences than if you violate the AGPL.
here's John Regehr on the construction of his entry - the "barest hands" winner: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1088
because it is two different divisions of the government that don't get along. And while the NSA may have the power to fuck with a Civilian TOR dev, if they were to start hacking Navy Intelligence they would get in a world of trouble.
I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil. What do they see as the benefit of the singularity? Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death.
Wage's share of GDP have been in decline in all OECD countries since mid 70's. U.S. is just leading the way.
Does SAS hire people with a machine learning / software dev background? Would you be be okay with passing on my resume?