skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: One month into dev job and I'm recruited for one with twice the salary
I graduated from college last December, but have been working as a software developer at various companies since I was 17. Last summer I was Developer #2 at a startup, then in the fall I was hired part-time for a tech company you've heard of (a startup five years ago; IPOed fairly recently) and transitioned to full-time four weeks ago.

Things could be better (and better-managed), and I'm anxious to work full-time on a startup (currently doing 2 hours every morning on the side), but overall it's a good job and a good experience and I thought it'd be educational to be here at least until early next year. However, the other day I got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter for a local startup that's raised gads of cash and is already drawing a lot of revenue. He said I sounded like a good fit, and he really wanted to interview me (according to TechCrunch they're hiring three people a week). I make $75K + about $50K of RSU now, but he was offering up to $150K and other really nice benefits. And I'd probably be happier working for a startup than a larger company (but they have enough employees that I'd still get the mentorship I was looking for).

I responded and said it sounded great but it was a really bad time since I'd just started my current job. And he responded encouraging me to interview anyway and see where things led.

I am an at-will employee, so in theory I could skip out, but I'd feel like a giant douchebag if I did so. On the other hand, if everything pans out (I'm not being deceived by slimy recruiter tactics; they accept me; I like the company...) it's a really great opportunity. I'm happy to answer any other questions.

What would you recommend?

Thanks

[HN user for a long time; throwaway for obvious reasons]
Thank you for this! I've been looking for a tool like this for a while (up until yesterday too), I'm glad it has been done.

I'd like to ask, are there any caveats?
I seriously had to do a double take and make sure this wasn't an article out of the Onion. It'd be even funnier if somehow the instructor survived, -- people can say--oh you don't want to signup for his class, he blew up the last one lol.

On another note, heaven's running out of virgins... as they just lost another 1694 virgins in a single day.
Not directly related but these blog posts does includes links to some great resources:

What's in my iOS Toolbox (in 2 parts):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7148286

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174916
To answer your rhetorical question, America is coming from being a hyper free market system, in which both culturally and legally people were expected to fend for themselves. This approach was extremely ingrained into American life for 200 years. Culturally the attitude was all-pervasive, and it was regarded as something that made Americans distinctive: self-reliance.

Given America is by far the world's largest economy, and possesses a fairly complex sociocultural system (significant diversity in most every respect, many competing large interests), I'm not sure why anybody would think transitioning to a soft-Socialism or "modern welfare state" model would be fast or easy.
>To answer your question seriously and without any implied political bent, the reason is: healthcare in the first world has become considered a right or entitlement.

That's the thing though. It has only become a right or entitlement in the places that provide it. I'd wager people would feel the exact same way if their government provided housing when compared to countries that don't provide housing.
Jesus, did you watch the video that's subject of the post, or are you just posting, since "you are here." This is exactly the information that the video covers, with animations, explanations, and even links to sources.
I just use a cheap cinfu bitcoin paid VPS to stream BBC but you can also use https://hola.org/ (free) which people have claimed is good enough for streaming BBC or CBC in Canada to watch events. I haven't tried it.

Due to over the top DRM this year CBC can't stream any Linux compatible streams because of fears somebody might actually record it. Never mind that competent pirates already pvr and encode entire Sochi events and have them up on torrents everywhere we must make your streaming as annoying and difficult as possible.
It's higher than Google Fiber's average speed per the article. Netflix doesn't saturate connections, it doesn't take that much to stream an HD movie. They also don't stream "Super HD" to browsers which is the only way to get a higher bitrate than that.
> Now when I want to know what my friends are up to, I go check out their pages, essentially going from a push feed to a pull.

I think you just invented MySpace.
Marriage between apps:To combine or not to combine
Any questions? Go ahead.
Bitcoin Wins Best Technology Achievement But Satoshi Doesn’t Show
If you're very early in your career, you probably haven't learned that most companies are very disloyal even to people that show them extreme loyalty. You owe an employer nothing other than giving 100% of your effort for your time there. Unless there is something about this current job that you really, really love, it would be (IMO) pretty foolish to turn down double the salary. I would at least interview with them and see if they are serious about it.
Inheritable Aliases in Ruby
If the probabilities were as bad as you suggest, there would be no such thing as health insurance. They need to bring in more than they spend on health-care costs. Most people can't end in a devastating health-cost manner.
I think the idea is that it's such a small amount relative to the size of the source, that you wouldn't notice a difference over some ridiculously long period.

I could be wrong though!
The part that resonated with how I feel everyone should live this tiny universe.

Just creating an innovative company is a huge contribution to the world.

World would be a much better place if we just go about minding our own business making our own lives easier and not interfering in other people's business.
x^2

in Python is x XOR 2 :) You probably want

x**2
ZeroMQ (C++) and JeroMQ (Java) performance
> You owe an employer nothing other than giving 100% of your effort for your time there

I disagree. You don't owe your employer anything.
> The healthcare system isn't broken if you do an honest day's work...

And how about all those people that can't work, because they're sick, or disabled, or mentally ill, or too young, or too old, or they just need 3 months think time to get their head in the right place.

Too bad for those people, they're going to die.
I don't think anyone here can answer that question but you. I can sympathize though, as I am in a similar boat, although not as quick of a turnaround. I too hate switching jobs, it feels like a betrayal.

However, you should look out for yourself most of all. Does the extra income matter that much for you? Is it good for your career? What are the pros & cons of this new potential employer (commute, line of business, work environment, etc.)?

It's a difficult question, but one you have to come to terms with.
Really? I would have expected better from you for your reputation. :-)

Read carefully what I said. Explained more clearly, XORing is at worst a ceiling function of the entropy of two random sources. If it weren't, that would imply one-time pad is insecure.
I've had plenty of fine experiences when trying to get something unusual out of first-line support. They can't handle everything, but they should be capable of understanding that and handing you off to the right people when necessary. Plenty of other companies do fine with this, so why can't Comcast?

There is no excuse for making me deal with some gigantic company's internal structure. You hide that from the outside world, you don't force people to navigate it.
>>Just what does a rockstar mean anyway?

Like you said. Its basically a guy who sacrifices his whole life to make you rich and expects to get nothing in return.
If you don't like discussing the costs and methods of delivering health care, downvote the parent comment which mentioned it initially, not a person whom you disagree with.

If you can't handle an opposing viewpoint without becoming extremely upset and resorting to petty insults, you are part of the broken political system that has led to many of the problems we face, not me.
Is my job in another state?
Why 37signals is falling into obsolescence (2011)
A much younger and naive self wrote this several years ago. I have the upmost respect for 37signals and the amazing team behind Basecamp. I thought it would be interesting/nostalgic to post given their recent rebrand.
Why could you not Google this? The answer to this is everywhere.
Barnes and Noble Fired Its Entire Nook Hardware Engineering Staff
Getting Excited Helps with Performance Anxiety More Than Trying to Calm Down
I do a similar thing, work ISP provides native IPv6, home ISP doesn't but I'm using a tunnel broker with my router. It has a nice IPv6 firewall built in that lets me manually allow ports through which is nice. It's fantastic having multiple computers at home listening on port 80. :)
U.S. Debates Drone Strike on American Terror Suspect in Pakistan
Regarding #1 - Facebook conversion pixel (a JS script that has to be loaded the HTML header) solves the feedback loop problem.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/offsi...
>the overwhelming majority of loans issued were for "life expenses"

>micro-credit in this context is really just lending targeted at an under-served demographic

I think we have to be careful when providing loans to impoverished people as a means of helping them with subsistence-level stuff. Seems that it is very likely to leave them worse off, especially when interest is involved. Going forward, they now have largely the same income and expenses, yet also a debt to service.

Reminds me of payday loan places here in the U.S. And, it seems difficult to imagine that those who would saddle impoverished people with interest-bearing debt so they can meet basic needs aren't knowingly preying upon their plight.

But, I have no experience working in the field. I'd be interested in hearing success stories or other scenarios to the contrary that you may have witnessed.
Best. Advice. Ever. Thank you!
Donated. Best wishes to Richard. I had never heard of him, but I used PHP for years, and I suspect in some way he has contributed to my well being, so I consider this returning the favor.
There are medications I need that cost an entire order of magnitude more in the US than in Canada. I'm not exaggerating. They're about $80 full price from Canada and $800 here in the US.
Clickable:	http://blog.ravitejak.in/post/76219405433/jekyll-gui-app-kre...
You can use your own modem with Comcast business service (I do) but it took about two weeks of calling all the tech support numbers I could find until I finally got a tech who was able to do it. Not because it's hard to do, but because most of the people I talked to were lying or incompetent.

The guy seemed a bit weirded out at how profusely I thanked him -- after all, all I'd done was tell him the model and MAC address of my generic Motorola modem.

Don't waste your time explaining to them why you want to use a real modem (I have my own router/firewall, their modem had NAT I could not disable) or that it's the same modem that works on the residential service (which is the same physical network). It won't help, just say "I bought a <VENDOR> <MODEL> modem, can you set it up on my account?" and hang up and try again if they act like your request is bizarre.
Can't someone write a browser extension that tracks what you like/have liked, and then builds your own Facebook experience, putting back the content you are missing? Running the entire Facebook data system is daunting, but running my own view of Facebook that I want should be easy to manage in a browser.
It requires at least a year long contract and a hefty set up fee ($200 for a one year contract and $100 for a 2 year if I remember correctly).
Bug exploit to watch past 30 min. preview limit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/1xjx5f/watch_the_ol...
> "you can get this public picture that everything is great"

I'm not aware of anyone, from any political background, who thinks the US system is anything above "pretty crappy". I've heard some people express positive sentiments regarding small parts of the system -- the quality of certain types of care, for example -- but never for the system as a whole.

The primary disagreements I'm aware of concern how to fix the current worst-of-both-worlds system. Do we put it entirely in government hands? Do we enact more regulations to try to force down costs? Do we remove or relax regulations that appear to drive up costs? How do we create transparency in pricing? How do we respond to innovative groups like Qliance? How should we balance the role of government, individuals, families, employers, and charity in health care?

Do not mistake disagreement on how to answer those questions as support for the current system.
Watch the Olympics for free (thanks jQuery). Vulnerability on line 357.
I don't think anybody[0] is arguing that this stuff should be free. Rather, people generally argue that they should be allowed to pay for it without it being bundled with a bunch of other stuff. Why should I need a cable TV subscription in order to stream certain kinds of video over the internet? Just figure out how much money it should cost and then let me[1] pay it if I want it.

[0] OK, I'm sure there are some people out there saying it should be free. Just not that many, and not here.

[1] This is a hypothetical "me", as I don't personally care about these particular streams at all. But I totally understand where people are coming from when they want to watch something and don't want it to be tied to their cable TV subscription which should be completely irrelevant.
Magical thinking is probably the single greatest threat to the longterm survival of the human race. I can think of no situation where it is not appropriate to criticise it. Furthermore, illness and death are exactly the times when human beings are most likely to abandon rationalism and cling to magic, so these are the very times when the fight is most important, and we shouldn't shy away from that just because it makes us uncomfortable to tell the dying their fairytales are untrue.
How to Protect your Gmail from being Hacked
1nice
How to raise money (from me) in 2014
Did English ever have a formal version of “you”?
Ask HN: Is there an e-commerce service offers "Bill Monthly" capabilities?
Building a freemium e-commerce site and am looking to have monthly recurring payments... Is there some platform that manages this? I'm new to e-commerce, so thanks!
'Day We Fight Back' Protest May Get Silicon Valley Support
I donated $20 and shared the story with friends. hopefully, more will donate.
You would be surprised. It wasn't long ago when I met an intelligent and otherwise very well informed American who truly believed that the "socialized" Canadian healthcare system was a 3rd rate disaster and feared any change to the precious US system would lead to a similar situation.

Don't get me wrong he acknowledged it wasn't great, but there is more than sufficient doubt and confusion amongst most Americans with regards to what the actual problem is an how to fix it to prevent any kind of attempt and changing things.
User-to-User Encrypted Webmail (Prototype)
I was happy to be surprised by the answer!
Google wins Hangar One lease
Form a good team is more important than choosing a methodology.
There are all sorts of different health insurance plans. Most of them have a deductible, so you have to pay the first few thousand dollars yourself every year. Many plans cover a large percentage of costs after that deductible... say 80% ... which means that he'd still have to pay for the remaining 20% of some pretty expensive bills. (some plans cover 100% after deductible)

Some plans have maximum out-of-pocket costs per year... say $20k, some have no maximum. Some plans have maximum benefit... so the insurance company will only pay up to a certain amount... say $1M

These are just some of the choices, your history and where you live affect how much each of these costs. People choose their level of coverage and it's cost (or their employer does)

There are some cases of insurance companies trying to screw people out of what they are rightfully owed, but there are lots of cases where the coverage just isn't adequate for the issue and the bills are still very expensive.
Crows are amazing
Peter, I think you need to watch the Video again. Watch around 6:40 where he goes through the likes his cat fans like - such as mouthwash amongst dozens of other conflicting pages. Also watch the part where Facebook can't admit to this because they'd have to give back all that ad revenue.
I guess to answer that question, you first have to define what a working methodology is supposed to accomplish.

How do you know something is developed in a timely fashion, for example? All we really have is a gut feeling.

We could implement the same project multiple times and use a different methodology each time. Then compare. But you'd want to use people who understand the methodology and care about winning the competition.

Even then, I bet if you ran that experiment with 5 different projects, there'd probably be a different outcome every time.
Ghostery-clean websites makes me so happy. Hacker News is one of them.
Meeting with busy people
The Journey pattern – the successor to PageObject
Apple's trouble with its anti-trust baby sitter (errr... monitor)
You are correct. As far as I can tell, they never launched as a trading card website. It's unclear if the code is related or not. There's a debate down thread about this and the only thing on it seems to be the wired article. So we don't really know what the code base started as (which is of course the real question, not what the site launched as).

Depending on how the trading card site was constructed, large chunks of the code base for exchanging cards could be used for exchanging Bitcoins (though not, obviously the broken wallet).

It seems like a question one should ask and one that should not be dismissed as merely "ignorant" or with the irrelevant assertion that the site is now owned by someone else when what matters is who built it in the first place and if that code is still in use.
This was made clear in the video.
A NOTE TO ALL: http://eugeneross.com/e/
That's true, but the responses seem to be specific and tangible, rather than vague, which is what I might expect from someone worried about being taken out of context.
I hadn't, looks interesting!

We're actually building on top of Snabb Switch[0], which is giving us another 10x improvement on beefier hardware (2x$2600 CPUs, vs the single socket, $800 CPU we're using now).

Our current engineering goal is 1 million full transactional, ACID-compliant writes per second, and 10 million reads per second, on a single dual-socket E5-2697 v2 box. That's a line rate (for our application) of just under 24Gb/second, which we're handling with a single 40Gb Ethernet adaptor.

Obviously, we did not think Node.js would get even close to this, but we did think it would at least work for a month or two for 10,000-50,000 users. Sadly, it's only got us through development and now that we've submitted the app to Apple, the server is being rewritten from the ground up for adequate performance.

If Node.js's performance had been closer, I probably would have spent time optimizing the Node.js server, but it's so far off right now that it's just not worth the effort. The Snabb Switch port is expected to take less than 10 days total (we're already 5 days into it).

For better or worse, the way we've been designing even high performance servers like nginx is just out-of-date. Intel made a huge push to replace custom, ASIC-based network processors with E5 Xeons, and the software development in the larger community just hasn't caught up yet.

Snabb Switch, for example, has a wire-to-wire latency, in LuaJIT, of just 26 nanoseconds. For reference, that's about how long it takes a photon of light to travel 25 feet. When messaging speeds are that fast, the Linux kernel is an enormous source of inefficiency, and even TCP is less than ideal (we use a UDP-based protocol with full public-key encryption per packet).

[0] https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch
Python with braces.
WP wrote about this story, and there was an inadequate response from facebook http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/10...
It's a purely subjective priority issue, is what I was saying. All things that are entitlements only become such because they're first provided, naturally (can't have an entitlement without it first existing). I suppose your implication is meant to be that if it weren't provided, it could have never become an entitlement - that's true, but it wouldn't prevent the population from looking across the border or oceans and yearning for the entitlements others have in first world nations.

No doubt entitlement priorities vary based on the development level of the country, the culture, and so on ad infinitum. There is hardly a social safety net in China for example, the population is heavily expected to handle its own savings. Most likely their population will gradually demand more entitlements, looking to copy what others have done.

There are obviously all sorts of arguments that focus on bankruptcy, high costs, the burden of being without a job, and so on when it comes to healthcare - that sound far more reasonable than other entitlement arguments (eg should everyone be given a free yacht).

America of course does provide free and or heavily subsidized housing (not free house ownership mind you), in every state in the union in fact (along with federal programs). Mostly it's a matter of what you qualify for, and where (varying based on what's available in your location, and what your income is, etc). I don't think all entitlements are created equal in terms of demand or import; the population of a country is going to regard some as far more important than others.
A Note of Explanation
Something doesn't make sense here... I gathered from other threads that Google's ads are preferred over facebook's. So either Google doesn't do "contextual/interest based" ads, or contextual/interest based ads do not perform terribly (compared to what facebook is currently doing).
There are so many things that make me think working there must be so many things about abusive startup culture that I hate.

>You get this uncomfortable feeling when you see that hire [...] say goodbye at what you may not deem not a legitimate end of the day.

Come on Randy. I can smell bullshit management speak for "didn't work an unpaid extra four hours every day" a mile off here. Did you actually feel they weren't getting enough done or not putting in the work you paid them for? Why not say that if so?

>our 25 rockstar team members

I think the work rockstar has been hashed over here enough, but seriously. I'm sick of it being used a code word for overworked 20-somethings that don't know any better.

>And it’s definitely not to make it seem like we’re a tough or crummy place to work – pretty sure our Instagram feed would show otherwise.

Ooh, I can almost see the fun jumping off the page. Ski trips for the exec team, office pumpkin carving, #startuplife? There's hashtags so it must be a good work environment.
I have a similar package, but with HBO Go. Which is good for them, since Xfinity recently stopped working on Ubuntu, but HBO Go still works.

I'm seriously looking at dropping TV again regardless since I can't use Xfinity with my HTPC anymore.
Facebook somehow allows a website to determine whether the user likes a page or not. I've seen websites asking users to click Like (basically liking a page that paid the money to the click farm) in order the view the content. This kind of Like bait is extremely popular, and Facebook basically allow content publishers to trick users in this manner easily.