skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that working retail has gotten a lot worse since the recession. I worked retail after high school before deciding to go to college, and then worked the same job on summers home from school. What was interesting was that between when I started that job in 2005 and when I left for the final time in 2010, my coworkers went from being mostly high school and college kids to all sorts of folks of varying ages and backgrounds. That was the most telling sign of the recession to me. I strolled in to pick up my job where I'd left off in 2010 and I remember every single day people asking for job applications. I had thoughts like, why would you want to work here? This is a job for kids! But we even had a PhD biologist for a while.

Conditions have been deteriorating for a while now. Extended hours on holidays, terrible scheduling, and peculiar "performance measurement" tools. At my particular store, they adopted a system of tracking how many transactions a cashier performed per hour and then penalizing them when those transactions exceeded a certain number. The thought was that if a cashier rang up so many customers an hour, then some of them had had to wait in line and the cashier was at fault for not calling backup. (What backup? And what if they were just a really fast cashier?) Another was the obsession with collecting customers' email addresses. Cashiers were expected to collect so many email addresses a day or week or whatever or be threatened with losing their job.

My silly, between school semesters little retail gig had become very stressful towards the end because of the obsession with these metrics and a general attitude of "I could fire you today and have someone cheaper by tomorrow".
That other spying (phone metadata collection) that she agrees with also includes her data, so this isn't really an example of hypocrisy. She's fighting more invasive spying that applies only to a smaller group of people that includes herself.
three he's working on simultaneously: an untitled cowboy-themed shooter, a vertical flying game called Kitty Jetpack and an "action chess game," as he puts it, called Checkonaut, one of which he'll release this month

Don't say the names of his to-be-released games; someone might grab the app names now. (Unless they're already approved but hidden; though Apple usually doesn't allow "in-progress"/beta app submissions)
It really brings to mind the Casablanca scene (changed to fit the OP): "I'm shocked, shocked that there is spying going on." "Ma'am, here is your secret report." (Pockets report), blows whistle: "This office is now closed."
Or he spent money on buying votes for his game and rather than deal with a ToS breach and lose his money, he took it off the market.
Same. Looks like it's a global problem.
Thank you. We are a C-Corp registered in Delaware. Would you have any recommendations on some service which can help with this.
Hamming is great. I try to re-read his "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" once every year or so.
ARB_multi_draw_indirect (and its bindless friends such as NV_shader_buffer_load) somewhat invalidates your statements re: saving a bunch of commands.
They're likely preliminary titles anyway.
Freely available, more or less safe and sanitary public water fountains have not resulted in economic or cultural collapse; nor have they wiped out the bottle water market.

The people who really hate the idea of a basic income often have a religious background... how dare they be allowed a civilized level of charity without following religion, etc.

One way to work around price manipulation is to cut out the highly profitable middleman... Here's your bag of rice and block of cheese, see you next week. Need a safe warm place to sleep? Here have this empty unlocked jail cell. It would likely close resemble a long term version of natural disaster / hurricane aid, perhaps more formally run. In culturally inferior areas it'll almost certainly resemble the worst imagination (caricature) of the projects. In better cultural areas, it'll probably look a lot like a student dorm. People gonna be themselves, no matter if you like it or not.

If you want even the slightest tiny bit better, and most will, that'll cost a bit. In fact it probably will cost a bit more than now.
Twitter is indeed down.
No message on http://status.twitter.com though.
> What's the solution? Mandatory severance for every job?

At the risk of opening a-whole-nother can of worms.... universal basic income.
Author of ftfy here - thanks for the shoutout.

By the way, here's another problem with taking the "encoding" parameter at face value: you're opening yourself up to DoS or data corruption bugs in the case where someone tells you to use a dangerous encoding.

There have been multiple bugs found in Python's UTF-7 decoder recently, and generally they were found by people who were scraping the Web with Python. These bugs, such as [1], could cause you to write strings that corrupt your data or crash the Python interpreter. And until the latest version -- and this is possibly still the case in all versions of Python 2 -- someone could give you a gzip bomb that decompresses to petabytes of data, and tell you it's in the "gzip" encoding [2].

I'm sure there are more bugs like this out there, and that Ruby has similar lurking bugs as well, given how recently they changed their Unicode system.

Basically, you shouldn't let someone else's Web page tell you what code to run, unless it's code you're planning to run. I recommend making a short list of encodings you trust, including ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-x, Windows-125x, and MacRoman, and maybe a few others if you're working with CJK text, and just rejecting all others.

(The x's can be filled in with digits. Don't accept UTF-7, because it's clearly horrible. And I don't have any particular reason to be suspicious of UTF-32, but I've never seen anyone seriously use it.)

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue19279

[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue20404
Sweden offers a nice solution to this: responsible unions.

In Sweden there are 2 unions, One for white collar workers and one for blue collar employees. The salary rates/hikes are industry wide.They are usually determined by the competitive part of the economy - the export sector and than applied to everybody.

The unions understand their role as protectors of employees, but on the other hand, understand the need for Sweden to remain competitive and the huge responsibility put on them by representing so many people without hurting the economy. So they come with reasonable demands.

All this is supported by the Swedish mentality of fairness, which makes employees happy just taking their fair share.
wish these guys all the success in the world, but this is radically cheaper, high quality, and works great from personal first hand experience:

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
Dan is right to point out the sloppy analysis in the Quartz piece. Unfortunately, I think he is also misreading that chart and the report[1]. The chart in the post shows salaries by major; it ignores what these people did with their major. Page 17 of the report shows salaries by occupation; that chart shows no gap in "Math, computer, and physical science occupations" and "Engineers".

I think the evidence shows that women who do go into the tech industry get paid the same as men, but that either not as many women who get the degrees go into the industry or some portion of the men who get them take them into one of the occupations noted as having a significant gender salary gap.

[1] http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-th...
OpenGL drivers on Windows are still pretty far behind DirectX drivers, especially on the kind of low-spec hardware (read: Intel GPUs) average customers have. If you use OpenGL instead of Direct3D you might be paying as much as a 50% performance penalty (we certainly see about that when comparing our GL and D3D renderers for the same scenes)
I suspect that the best objective function would be "maximize the time until I lose" which is closer to avoiding the worst case scenario than it is to performing best in the average case scenario.
I was genuinely surprised when the AI lost.
And I thought I got a late 'free password reset' .. I am disappoint.
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Same in Turkey also. Can people write their country also with twitter status?
fun to use
A nitpick about terms, but not all discrimination against women is 'institutional' sexism. Institutional prejudice may be sufficient but is definitely not necessary for acts of sexism to occur. People are quite capable of acting on innate or pre-learned biases.
> If you're so busy you can't take 15 minutes to chat with someone who comes from outside your network, you're doing something wrong

I'm not busy, I just don't want to. I don't want to hear about your startup. I don't want to hear about how great of an opportunity working for it is. I want to read a book, go running, or hang out with my friends.
I think to myself that I definitely wouldn't have, and that I would have weather the storm of the press outside my house, and just focused on that great payday (everyday).

But from what I've heard, the paparazzi changes everything and it really is life-changing. So hard to say either way.
France here. down too.
http://status.twitter.com is kinda down here (Italy).
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Since, agile is dead it's time for the Knights Radiant approach to software:

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.
Multithreading in GL does not work consistently. If you ask the driver vendors (AMD, NVIDIA, etc) they will tell you it doesn't work at all or across platforms. If you ask engine developers (like Valve) they will tell you in talks that it doesn't work across platforms.
Same from NYC.
> twice as much per week as I’d earn in a month at the store

300 = retail pay per month.

300 * 2 = 600, which is twice the retail pay.

600 * 4 = 2,400, multiplying by four weeks to account for new job earning twice as much per week as per month in retail.

2,400 * 12 = 28,800, which is an estimate for the annual pay at his new job.

Politico most certainly pays more than that.
What exactly does this client do?

Does BitTorrent protocol support ordered downloading? What usually prevents streaming kind of usage is the fact that BitTorrent clients download file blocks without any specific order. If ordering is possible, then any client should be able to do that.
Yes, UK.
Down in London, GB
Yesterday I showed this game to a fellow graph theory buff and we also sat down to think about how to solve this game with AI.

The most straightforward solution is expectiminimax, which I see this solution has implemented quite nicely. In case someone here isn't familiar with minimax, the OP wrote some very elegant and well-commented code that would be a great primer.

The less computationally-intensive approach we came up with was to model the game state as a graph G(V, E), where V is the set of active tiles and E is a set of edges connecting adjacent tiles, weighted by the function c(v1, v2), which returns the absolute value of the difference between two tiles. For each decision, the AI picks the move that minimizes the sum of all edge weights in the new game state.

The reasoning behind this is that the only way to progress in the game is to have tiles of equal values adjacent to each other, for which the weight in G would be 0. Thus, the AI should try to minimize total weight. Eventually there will be large numbers on the boards with large edge weights to adjacent tiles, so the AI would try to keep these tiles next to other large tiles to minimize the difference.

Since the game is stochastic the approach I described may not work in a worst case scenario, but it could also be applied to the existing minimax solution as the weight function for each node in the tree.
PubPeer explains how their commenters helped identify some fraud there: http://blog.pubpeer.com/?p=117

So what's the role of Nature group here? Print colourful printouts of sloppily-reviewed papers? I feel somehow these "publishers" (basically, they're just glorified PDF repositories) aren't really worth the money they're getting.
There is no "tradeoff" here for a reasonably vertebrate hominid. When you demand user trust, security is core. If it's not core, go home because you cannot be trusted to make adult decisions.

The people using your software are more important than your fucking term sheets, man.
The gap between GL and D3D has nothing to do with visual quality and everything to do with framerate and load times.
1 - Double opt-in like jtoeman says is key

2 - "but if someone I intro doesn’t reply before the intro-ee does, they’re going to have a hard time getting another one from me. Ever." I've never heard this before, and am not even sure it's remotely reasonable.
Service jobs aren't inherently crummy. What makes it crummy are the software systems that let managers schedule people on variable, on-demand schedules, and policies that micro-manage bathroom breaks and the like. There's an entire industry focused on getting additional tenths of a percent out of service workers.

Papa John's founder said it'd cost something like $0.50 extra per pizza to offer his employees health insurance. I'm not even talking about a luxury like health insurance. What would it cost to let employees take a few extra sick days or be able to plan on when they'll work or the occasional unplanned bathroom break? http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1djlt0/pregnant_tmobil...
I miss the fail whale.
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Same too from France…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381006
Wisconsin here and also see twitter is down. Stuck in a two hour corporate meeting. #terribletiming
I think we're misunderstanding each other. I thought you were claiming mysql is faster for "most common uses cases", which is why I pointed out that it is actually the opposite. Yes, mysql is faster at count(), and yes it is because it doesn't actually do a count() and just returns a guess. If your argument that postgresql is bad is that it doesn't return fake data, then it says more about you than about postgresql.

>Why should I have to keep a computed column when the core engine has all the data all the time?

The core engine does not have that information, keeping that information for no reason would be foolish. You should keep a computed column for performance, obviously. That is your complaint remember? How is this any different than "select users.id, users.name, count(photos.id) from users left join photos on photos.user_id = users.id where users.id = ?" being slow? How do you solve that being slow? You use a computed column. The fact that you complain about a complete non-issue because you inexplicably refuse to use the standard solution to the problem in this one particular instance of the general pattern is neither logical nor reasonable.
Here is commentary from the group blog by science journalists Retraction Watch on this story, "Co-author of controversial acid STAP stem cell papers in Nature requests retraction: report":

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/03/10/co-author-of-controver...

Stem cell research is a "hot" research area, because it can be hyped as a cure-all, so we should all be especially skeptical of initial reports on new stem cell research. In general, we have to distinguish submissions to Hacker News based on press releases (there are way too many of those) from review articles by experienced researchers that digest the primary research done by a variety of researchers around the world. The latter kind of submission (a review article from a peer-reviewed journal or a book chapter from a practitioner's handbook) would be an excellent submission to Hacker News if it has a link that lives online for free reading, but it would also mean reading something longer than something that can be summed up with a one-line lt;dr summary. Otherwise, a thoughtful article by a science journalist who interviews scientists besides the scientists hyping a new discovery can be much better than a new "peer-reviewed" preliminary research finding. All too often, in our haste for "news" here about medical research, all the hackers here can be led astray about what is really established knowledge in medicine.
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Couldn't agree more about the flow thing. same reason programmer complain about meetings. although once you go back to a cube you start to feel isolated.
> The only features it lacks are geometry and tesselation shaders.

fp64, draw_indirect, multi_draw_indirect, shader_buffer_load, bindless_texture.

These are all killer features in writing fast renderers.
Slight variation (which may have been done before) where you tap instead of holding. Your upward bounce has a predetermined strength that makes minor course corrections impossible. It's definitely an added challenge.

Re: Asset store reskin, I have no idea. But FWIW I hadn't heard that accusation before.
eh... Sorry - I was tipsy when I posted that...
Define "less weird"
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Dong Nguyen speaks and Twitter shuts down.

Damn, that guys good.
I'm reminded of a time in elementary school when I opened a Pokémon booster pack to discover a Charizard. I thought it was the best day of my life, but all my friends wanted to trade me for it, and I began to hate my Charizard card. I even had a nightmare in which Charizard blew fire at me. Alas, fame and fortune are quite the deception.
I can log in, but I'm getting a 503 with the following: "Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."
Twitter is having technical issues.
so annoying, what am I paying for if this goes down like this?

oh wait...
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
twirssi failing, and re-logging returns "Technical issues" page on Twitter.com
Facebook PR? Like this?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/12/facebook-loses-much-face-in...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/17/we-will-fight-in-the-shade/
A software developer/entrepreneur is not a rock star. The paparazzi will disappear and the game be forgotten in a few weeks.
down in Ireland also
Well, if they aren't crashing, and the apps are already built, then aren't they really running just fine? What value do you buy by switching legacy apps that aren't being actively developed to Postgres?
Yep, was just about to submit. London, UK.
Down in Austin, TX.
Yeah, they should, except for that pesky 4th amendment, where the committee fucked up what not getting the FISA court to rubber stamp it.

Though the committee could counter that because the information could cross outside of the USA that it's really foreign information anyway and thus doesn't require a warrant.
With millions of dollars, you can just get stuff delivered to you for a couple of weeks until the press sees something else shiny. I've been straight-up bedridden for longer than he lasted under the attention of the press, and there is no way it's more restrictive than that. The guy's choice was his to make, but I do not buy that he had no choice.
Are you sure you know it's a problem? You haven't bought anything but an iPhone for five years...
The "of the people by the people" mode tends to happen during election years, so a bit surprising that she's speaking like this now.
What message does it send, other than valuation not being based on the reputation of technical superiority?
seems back again (in SF, CA)
They probably don't have to say that stores are closing everywhere. Every week there's news about possible store closings. This week it's Staples and Safeway, last week it was Guitar Center, before, Pennys, Best Buy, Disney Store etc.
I can't tweet about twitter being down!?

Next best thing, post to HN.

Down in London, UK.
"other simple microscopes that can be made for even less money"

What microscopes are cheaper? It seems incredibly hard to beat this on price without sacrificing a lot of magnification or durability.
More like this: http://techcrunch.com/author/josh-constine/
Just updated to a 'Twitter is currently down for maintenance' message encouraging users to look at the status page.
Their API doesn't appear to be working, either.
http://downrightnow.com/
You say that sarcastically, but I imagine that many brands, who have advertising campaigns scheduled for one of the more lucrative days of the week, will be less amused.
My father mentioned that Sigfried & Roy were attacked by the very tigers they trained. Sometimes the dangerous animal you need in order to do the show, turns on you.

That said, even among politicians there is a sense of borders. And that the Senator has found that they are interpreted differently by others isn't a huge surprise. I still hope to get her out of the Senate at her next election cycle.
Very late to this party, but...

I'm used to my dentist's office manager calling me every six months to remind me about my cleaning appointment. This last time, the call was automated and I instantly thought "hey, Appointment Reminder."

No, it turns out it was SmileReminder that the dentist uses. When I went in for the appointment I spoke to the office manager and the light in her eyes was obvious: "Now I don't have to spend hours calling everyone to remind them. I love it" No idea how much they pay for the service, but it's obviously worth it to them.
Unless they developed some significantly different hardware with significantly different capabilities, I'd say they don't add much.

What Microsoft may achieve is to build machines that are better suited to run Windows, as most other large scale operations don't deploy Windows servers to production. Microsoft, being the only company that has 1M Windows servers is uniquely positioned to develop it.
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"Something is technically wrong."

Maybe: Technically, something is wrong.

Or: Something is wrong with our technology.
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My last gig was with a medical software company, storing and uploading physician recordings. The first thing I did in the process of building the file system component was to set up AES based off a passphrase and never let it out of memory (not safe against a rooted phone rummaging through memory, but that user's acknowledging the risks by doing so). It took me, like, a day, with tighter performance requirements than storing text messages will ever have.

But I kind of disagree with your wonderings. The problem here, isn't "base competence"--it's that it's harder to suck people into your funnel when you have frictional stuff like passphrases or verification. I cannot see an eventuality where this isn't the result of malice, where this isn't user-hateful by design. That bothers me profoundly.
accusing a sect of liars of telling lies, is not making things up, taking proven liars at their word is just as bad.

by saying "the executive spys on the public generally in a way that acquires only metadata", he's sticking to the facts as admitted so far by these liars.

however, given that the people who are telling us they only acquire metadata, having previously denied it, also tell us they are not performing mass surveillance, use weasel language such as "under this program", redefine words that have sensible meanings such as "collect", it's worth taking the time to criticize someone for repeating their party line.
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I'm not surprised that a journalist managing an 80-person team was paid $200k+.

What I am surprised by is how he ever ended up working retail with a salary like that. I'd expect him to have saved up enough to last a year or two of low expenses.