skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it indirectly affected the salaries of everyone who works in tech in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and possibly a larger portion of the U.S. tech industry.

It's standard practice in HR to calibrate salaries based on what other companies are doing. Some large companies end up being benchmarks for entire categories or regions.

If top engineer salaries at one company are suppressed, then so are junior engineer salaries. If that company's salaries are artificially low, then any company that uses that as a benchmark will duplicate those low salaries.
That doesn't make a lot of sense as the article doesn't have more comments than upvotes (which btw isn't even abnormal for an HN post, including this one.)

Also that's a really bad system. I come to HN for the discussion.
One important barrier to this is that merchant agreements, at least years ago when I last read one carefully, prevented you from offering lower prices to non-credit-card payers.
How to network better starts with a thousand words.
Flagging is one explanation although I can't understand why anyone would flag that article, so that explanation doesn't make sense. HN also heavily punishes articles with certain undisclosed keywords, but this is very rare (the only ones I think were discovered was "nsa" and maybe "bitcoin".)
This is very true and something I think about a lot. I come from the perspective that knowledge is always good to have, however it's a balance. You want to experience life in the now and live to the full, so most of the time these services are getting in the way.

I imagine as more computer 'clothing' comes out things like this will become more common because more knowledge at no more time expense can't be a bad thing.
Well, google ended up being forced to give 10% across the board raises when Facebook refused to a non poaching agreement.
Writing your moment of clarity down doesn't give one the smug feeling that acting out a scene in Good Will Hunting or A Beautiful Mind does.
It's better at showing how ems work. As the h3 is set to show at 1.17em each nested h3 is slightly larger than the last.
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The thing is the guy that is new to the language is not going to be writing idiomatic code. In C# this means you are going to see unnecessary ISerializable implementations, problems with Data Binding/MVVM, fighting with the GC, and not knowing what you get out of the BCL. Depending on their personality and who else is on the project this may not be a problem, but without some mentoring you can end up with an unmaintainable mess very quickly.
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I was officially a junior after my first quarter (three quarters to the school year) of undergrad. I stayed much later than that, but that's because I took additional classes, not because I needed the time to earn credits.

The first two years of undergrad at UC, by design, are for the general education requirements. You're not even supposed to take classes in your major until year 3. It shouldn't be hard to skip much of that.
There is also a framework on github:

https://github.com/emeryberger/Heap-Layers
> It has the same signature whether it's an accessor or a behavior,

That turns out not to be the case:

-(void)behavior;

-accessor;
I just did an 'Inspect Element' on HN. That's some state of the art 1999 web design there.
Interesting! I was aware of parasocial relationships [1], but mainly as things where media consumers feel like they know stars even though they don't.

This is in a way the reverse, where a brand pretends to know consumers in hopes of generating social feelings. Creepy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
I will have to disagree on this, this advice is only good if your sole purpose is to make a quick buck. If you want to start a long term solid business than I suggest you treat people like humans and not like cheap interchangeable pieces as this post suggests.

Think of it this way, since you are not the one developing the application how much will you know about all its inner workings? When you will have customers and a critical bug in production who will solve it?

If you intend to outsource it I will suggest that you do not look for a cheap quick hack, but rather look for a freelancer with a decent rate, with whom you can build a working professional relationship. You want someone that will stick around for the long run and take responsibility for the software he develops, since building it is just the first step.
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In my opinion, the biggest drawback of JPEG is that its window is non-overlapping. Ring-artifacts are generally not a big deal for natural images at medium quality or higher, but blocking artifacts can be noticeable even at relatively high quality settings.

There are a lot of post-processing techniques to try and mitigate this, but in my experience they tend to do about as much damage as they fix. The proper solution is to overlap the blocks using one of the myriad techniques DCT-based audio codecs use.

It is bizarre to me that for all of the attempts to beat JPEG, nobody seems to have tried simply overlapping the blocks by 2 pixels. You'd have an implementation only marginally more complex than JPEG (in fact, you can even implement it on top of an existing JPEG encoder/decoder) with a slowdown of only 25%.
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How is this even a debate? Versioning is a form of content negotiation just like encoding, language, mimetype, and charset. Why treat this one extra property any differently?

http://blog.begriffs.com/2014/02/api-versioning-best-practic...
No Shit.
> While the SAT and ACT are not IQ tests, SAT/ACT scores are correlated with IQ scores.

The usual thing to point out here is that the SAT correlates with IQ tests roughly as well as two IQ tests correlate with each other. Discounting the branding, what is the sense in which the SAT and ACT aren't IQ tests?

> The real interesting thing is how the SAT is changing to become a better test.

The changes to the SAT over time usually reduce its discriminating power. Often the accompanying rhetoric indicates that they're supposed to reduce its discriminating power, but it's hard to describe that as "improving" the test.
"But simply making those test-prep tools more affordable and easier to find will only have the effect of compressing the distribution of scores, making the SAT a less discriminating test in the technical sense and thus a less useful measurement."

What you are advocating amounts to intentional "handicap" for those who find test-prep tools expensive. Yes, you are getting higher distribution of scores. If you would single out brown eyed people and denied them access to those tools while giving them everybody else, you would get high scores distribution too.

Both tests would be just about the same useful. If the childhood leaves some less prepared to do well in college, then you do not need to add another handicap to them. They are more likely to fail even with access to those tools. If the access makes them perform better, then your "it is fair cause they are not prepared" goes out of window.

Note: I'm not saying they should not sell test prep. It is business and it is ok business to try to earn money. Just that the more expensive materials are, the less you choose on actual aptitude.
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Be civil.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This looks excellent, congrats on the launch.

Also if anyone out there hasn't read Michael's Rails Tutorial, read it now. The best and most thorough tutorial I have ever read on any topic, it opened my eyes to modern web programming.
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Well, maybe that's because they aren't actually methods?

A method is an implementation, something that executes. Protocols do not contain implementations, though there have been proposals to actually add methods to protocols. Talking about such a proposal to add methods to protocols becomes difficult when you have called the messages that are already there methods...
If you’re interested in proprietary solutions, I think the ”original” SSH server (from SSH Communications Security Oyj) can do stuff like that.
"It's like all these bitcoin sites are running a bug bounty without even realizing it.." (https://twitter.com/jjarmoc/status/440927360821764097)
Don't forget...

> SHARE WITH FRIENDS

Because highly personal data needs to be shared with your friends. Just because.

Actually the real feature here would be "SHARE WITH MOM" for those mothers who always call to ask "Are you getting enough sleep?"
There is more to life than Programming
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Guessing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_action_review
Wonderful! Usually when I find something hilarious, I share with my non-programmer friends who stare at me like I'm some sort of freak; and I am surprised every time.
> An average person, talks to himself multiple times in a day, evaluating decisions, simulating how things are/should be, thinking about course of action etc etc.

> This is done in a language

Why do you believe this?
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Immediately after Obama won his presidential election in 2008, this was one webcomic's take on Obama's promise of "Change":

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2994
At my uni there were a large number of profs with websites that, if you viewed the source, showed that they'd been creating in MS Word. This was a CS department. Slightly depressing.
Hard coded style inside hardcoded markup does get cached though (as part of the html)
Although I am not that big of a fan of Dodd-Frank on the whole, one good thing in that bill, at least in the US, is that it outlawed such clauses in merchant agreements.
Being a QS geek myself and partner in a QS based startup, I am always interested in new products.

However, it seems to me that 90% of people doing anything in this space have the same idea: track as much as possible and then try and see if there's anything interesting there.

"44% more likely to check in when you climb more floors" -- big whoop! I suspect that this is exactly the level of insights that you are likely to gain from that sort of approach. You will discover that you are indeed less productive if you don't sleep well or that you tend to have headaches after drinking large amounts of alcohol.

Exploratory data analysis is appealing because we like the idea of discovering something completely unexpected and revolutionary but I think confirmatory analysis (the boring one where you form a hypothesis and set up an experiment to test it) is much more likely to be useful.
Yyyyyep HN is formatted almost entirely by tables...

But it does look good!
Maybe posting should be done with a richer client-side app than a vanilla form. The unaided browser is a pretty sad user agent.
It actually renders fine without increasing the font sizes in IE 8. The creator maybe only tested it in IE?

See TIFF export here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1388427/__www.sewingande...
Banks have insurances too,something all these exchanges dont have.No insurer would ever back up a bc exchange.
Of course - I never said otherwise. But the changes they're making don't seem to be simply about making the test more accessible and less elitist; they seem to invite ceiling effects, and I don't see how that helps anyone.

Rather than making test prep widely available, the College Board should strive to design a test for which the only effective prep is getting a solid well-rounded education, and they should pay no attention to the complaints that some of the questions are too hard for almost anyone to answer.
I think half the people here haven't seen the ultimate crime:

http://fabricland.co.uk/

The service in the shop is just as bad as the web site as well!
Thanks for the feedback. I thought I was fairly clear in the article that I don't really care whether you add the (id) or not, as long as you know why you are doing it, but it appears I wasn't. I've amended the article to be better about this.

If you think it increases readability for you, OK. If you want to conform to whatever Apple recommends, OK.

What worries me is that apparently (the discussion confirms this), Apple has managed to push the notion that there always have to be types, that Objective-C is not an optionally statically typed language.

Both parts of "optionally statically typed" are useful, the static typing and the fact that it is optional.
Renders perfectly in IE8.
"I'm seeing a substantial number, if not the majority, of CS students who can't code worth a damn, but got into the department solely because they did well in a small number of unrelated subjects."

Isnt that argument for more relevant testing? If the current selection picked up people with poor aptitude for programming or whatever, then it makes sense to change it.

Engineers needs ability to think hard and solve complex problems. So, lets measure those instead of how many arcane words they memorized, how great are they in writing self promoting essays, how much irrelevant facts they memorized or how fast they are in solving simple memorizable math problems.

There is nothing wrong with adjusting expectations to current world.
Should've gone with thrive.io. I don't want to exist; quantify what I'm doing wrong, and how I can change it to achieve my goals.
Seriously?

This is like the fourth time that someone posts this to HN in the past 24 hours.
And just as those, this will get deleted.

Please stop.
I'm not a fan of the payment input in a separate window, although I'm not sure if that's just a browser quirk on my end. Much preferred the old modal dialog on the same page.
The rise of apps will help Apple, Google and FB kill the Internet as we know it
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CIO is a lot more than security. In some companies, CIO is on par with CFO in importance.

CISO sort of exists to get thrown under the bus, but in a regulated industry, has a huge compliance role.

The whole point of policy is to resource the whole thing adequately so individual mistakes get prevented, or caught and corrected, before they turn into a Target-scale problem. But that usually requires doing more than just bare compliance minimums, and is only possible with board level support for that kind of thing. Probably exists at Target now. Probably didn't before.
>Science creates knowledge via controlled experiments, so a data query isn’t an experiment. An experiment suggests controlled conditions; data scientists stare at data that someone else collected, which includes any and all sample biases.

As he said himself in the next paragraph, this would also not include things like astronomy. You can't just redefine science to mean "just doing experiments." Interpreting the data is at least half the work of science. If you are a bayesian, then doing experiments is nothing more than a necessary evil of getting more data so you can do more actual science.

And since when don't data scientists do experiments? A lot of work goes into collecting data, and there are things like active learning.

The conclusion he reaches article doesn't seem well supported, and in fact I'm not even sure he knows what a Data Scientist is based on his description.
I'm actually surprised. So many unclosed h3 tags would seem to indicate it was a programming error and that the page was generated by some script rather than a visual editor.
Some experience is good to put it :)

I know how it works, i know something about architecture, I can use it from frontend. But i don't have experience in writing plugins.
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This sucks, but there's a bunch of things in the pipeline that promise to vastly improve the state of Bitcoin security.

There was a really interesting talk today at the Texas Bitcoin Conference by Ryan Singer of Crypto Corp (https://cryptocorp.co/) about "hierarchical deterministic multisig" (HDM) wallets: https://cryptocorp.co/technology.htm

Even exchanges can make use of this sort of technology to avoid holding customer funds for longer than absolutely necessary.

I think we'll start to see a migration to these sort of systems this year. Hopefully there will be increasing competitive pressure on services to implement safeguards like this.
There is no execution side difference for writing or omitting the (id). The point is that you shouldn't follow advice blindly, even if it comes from Apple.

The KISS principle or Occam's razor strongly suggest that those who introduce redundant entities are the ones who have to justify their choice, not the other way around.

"Everybody does it this way, now" is a reason, though we can debate whether it is a good one.
What are the distinguished features from the latest one ?
Insurance just smooths out risks over time and among different parties. It doesn't reduce the (expected) total losses from events, across the entire industry.

Banks have insurance for some risks, yes. They are able to buy insurance for a reasonable price precisely because the insurer perceives that the risks are low and well understood.
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The developer console has access to everything the origin does. If the user can do it, the console can do it.
Oh god the h3manity
No. There's nothing RESTful about changing the data format without notice - on the contrary: REST implies that media types should be well defined, and that includes specifying those issues.

There's nothing in REST that opposes versioning either. All it says is that you shouldn't use the URLs for it, since then if the client wants to upgrade, it'll break all his stored links.

Versioning can be handled just fine by having the client request the media type with the version he needs, e.g.:

Accept: application/users-list+v1

And if it asks for that, you should definitively give it the v1 format, not throw the v2 and let it deal with that.
>We all create data about ourselves every day. From task lists to fitness trackers to the tweets we share, our data is everywhere.

So many assumptions.
You may have missed the bits that came out about the capture going on with the knowledge of some Google employees. Th e original developer has plenty of experience with wifi data capture and knew exactly what you could do with the data as well as that you didn't need full packet dumps to snag SSIDs.

"Google long maintained that the engineer was solely responsible for this aspect of the project, which resulted in official investigations, some still unresolved, in more than a dozen countries. But a complete version of the F.C.C.’s report, released by Google on Saturday, has cast doubt on that explanation, saying that the engineer informed at least one superior and that seven engineers who worked on the code were all in a position to know what was going on."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/engineer-in-goo...
JPEG-XR has (optional) lapping. But lapping has the problem that you can't do spatial intra prediction, which is significantly more valuable. And no one figured out how to make frequency-domain intra prediction as good until Daala. Plus deblocking filters have gotten pretty good now that they're tuned based on the quantizer used.

But a bigger problem is that no one is really interested in designing a new still image codec that's better than JPEG, since JPEG can't be unseated. So video codecs are where the practical development goes. And avoiding in-loop deblocking filters there means OBMC, which is extremely computationally intensive.
There's nothing inherently unRESTful about just using GET and POST.
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You could just write:

id color = [UIColor green];
id viewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithBackgroundColor:color];

The UIColor* is largely there for your benefit, for the compiler it makes hardly a difference (pre ARC). If you don't find it a benefit, just leave it out.
I was going to, but the developer console works on the landing page and I don't have an account, so I can't verify Netflix is actually doing that.

If someone can verify, I highly recommend filing it.

ed: Looks like there is a bug already: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=345205
Douglas Adams satirised precisely this point with his Zaphod Beeblebrox character in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. To quote wikipedia[1], his was "a role that involves no power whatsoever, and merely requires the incumbent to attract attention so no one wonders who's really in charge, a role for which Zaphod was perfectly suited"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox
I'm not so sure about this. I think you'd be surprised by how rapidly some people can grok things, including things you might believe are only visible through extensive experience. What it takes is the ability to follow structural ramifications to depth, therefore being able to anticipate aspects of the system that others usually learn through experience.
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Sorry, it's just that these days I'm seeing a lot of places they do that kind of stuff (there was even a term for it - can't remember exactly what it was).

Having cleared that, I gotta say, it does look awesome and I wish you best of luck :) !
I know about my lifestyle. I'm there as it happens. I can't help but feel things like this just lead to a general sense of vexation over details of little consequence.
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Application security modules in firewall/load-balancers. Rigourous patching cycles. Proper source control. Peer review. Functional testing. Load testing. Unit tests. Layer after layer of validation in every tier (browser, app server, database, middleware, etc). Enforced leave. Background checks. Hiring the sort of people who run and speak at white hat conferences to white and black box test applications. Separation of duties. External reviews. Not picking up every trendy programming framework at 0.1 release. Not building dependencies direct from github and rubygems. Internal security teams. Network monitoring and response in real time. Red teams.

In short, all that boring, expensive stuff a large chunk of both the bitcoin and HN community love to sneer at buggy-whip wielding by bloated, overweight entities.
May I ask a honest question: why did you add email and remember me? It looks something like VCs will suggest. This makes me no to trust Stripe as platform.

Somebody smart said: the incumbent are wounded by the first disruptor and that disruptor eventually becomes the same as the incumbent and, then, both are killed by the real disruptor.
If you prefer "confirmatory analysis" over the "correlate all the things" approach then check out zenobase.com (I'm the founder). The answers you get are as smart as the questions you ask :-)

That said, I also just signed up for for Exist.io; the screenshots look great, and I'm curious to see where this leads!
Why do people insist calling this "Spritz-like" like it's something new invented by Spritz? Just google on RSVP technique for speed reading and you'll find a million of references and implementations. Even wikipedia has an article[1] citing >50 years old research.

Nothing new there, just walk on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentati...
The space of possible JPEGs is vast. You might find that there is less commonality between any given JPEGs than you expect, even considering a corpus of billions, and even when most JPEGs are of similar subjects.