skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what's propping all of this up is the immense size of a typical startup acquisition. These acquisitions are typically priced at $5 million per engineer for an acqui-hire, and more if there's an actual product. These numbers are consistent to scale: for an established, public tech company to have a market cap of under $1 million per employee is unsuccessful.

Think about that. A mere relationship (which she can end at any time) with an average engineer (most startup engineers aren't anything special, as startup success these days has more to do with marketing and sales than technical excellence) or technical person is worth several million dollars. Why?

Companies like Yahoo buy startups at a panic price: several millions of dollars per head. That's the price of mostly mediocre talent. Also, acquisitions are fraught with peril. Good people tend to bounce and bad people tend to stay. Huge tech companies still do them. Why? Because their middle management filters are so broken they can't recognize talent at the bottom. Engineers who are just good enough to support a half-decent sales/product teem are, along with that sales team, valued at $2-5 million per head.

And we still don't think of ourselves as exploited, when we suffer under closed allocation for a comparative pittance?

These startups are an attempt to capture the immense surplus value that we (especially the top 10% of us) create. They used to enrich... engineers and makers, as well as investors. They now deliver our surplus value to... friends of investors (hired in as executives, or made founders) as well as investors.
Yep, styled links!
Never more relevant... http://xkcd.com/435/
I always thought it was good to compress first because you can more easily avoid frequency attacks. In that way I think it's better to compress then encrypt.

EDIT: That and you get to encrypt a shorter data stream. I realize frequency attacks aren't as much of a concern these days but it's just the first thing that came to my mind.
"Because labor markets in science and engineering differ greatly across fields, industries, and time periods, it is easy to cherry-pick specific specialties that really are in short supply, at least in specific years and locations."

I'd wager that software engineering is one of these "specific specialties" in which there really is a genuine shortage.
Harmonic extraction algorithms are cool. Make a recording of yourself standing in a stairwell hitting a wok with a spoon, push that through the algo, and you get avant-garde jazz out the other end. Sometimes. It's certainly easier than spending 30 years learning to play the keyboard.

I guess with it hooked to youtube we can rapidly try out all sorts of unusual inputs.
This is excellent. I'll be sure to include a link to this when people ask for advice.
this youtube video is not available in your location
this deezer song is not available in your country
this youtube video contains content from [x]. it is restricted from playback on certain sites.

on the first three clicks. oh well...
The difference between AAA and indie games is blurring. If I was EA & Ubisoft, I'd be concerned.

Consumer are/will benefit from this movement.
Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet
"I'm worried people might think something's going on between me and So and So. So I'm going to act in the most suspicious way possible around them and assume nobody has my superior observation skills, especially not those men who keep perpetuating the glass ceiling by treating women differently."

Logic.
Great, so stock blood animation, stock Wilhelm screams, and stock explosions everywhere?
It's rarely worthwhile to try and optimize for caching if you're doing disk I/O in your critical loops anyway. To the extent you do optimize for caching, focus less on the particular size of things and more on packing data tightly and accessing it in predictable sequential patterns. This might involve, say, changing a tree structure into an array structure or changing an array of structs into a structure of arrays. Try not to jump around between data structures so the prefetchers can do their work. This means thinking about each cycle of your algorithm, and trying to reduce the number of distinct "streams" of data that need to be prefetched.
It's funny how the things you know well always happen to be the bare minimum of what you expect from others. Then you learn something else and hopefully realize that yourself of yesteryear still managed to write good, maintainable software, but that your current self would consider the old self a charlatan.

Lists like these reflect your own experience. I care more if an engineer can quickly grasp the "big ideas": Maybe they don't know about threads, but do they express disbelief that they solve a real problem, or an unwillingness to explore them? A willingness and aptitude for learning is so much more important because the state of the art is a moving target.
Yeah, it will definitely be better off being released well after its had time to have been polished and, you know, has games
I think so too. I'm happy and reassured to hear that assets are served unmodified now, but do you have a guarantee that it will remain that way?
Yes! Another step forward in the field of graphics.. Soon we may see graphics approaching eye level quality
The original file was not minified: https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/pull/478
Clashing over office clutter
Cloud Vendors Desperate for OpenStack Skills
Backblaze is great-- the product is fast and works well. But, there's one big issue that prevents me from using it-- they delete your backups of your external hard drives if they aren't plugged in for 30 days.

I have a drive that I may be away from (at least, my Macbook Air is) for weeks at a time, and I don't want to continually lose version history or have to reupload some of the larger files (home videos and my photos).

CrashPlan doesn't delete your backups after 30 days (they keep everything as long as you're subscribed), but the upload speed is so horrendously slow I couldn't upload the entire photo library plus videos (~300 GB or so) in the month I was subscribed. I'm on a gigabit network over Ethernet, so it's not my connection that's the issue (Backblaze, on the other hand, uploads this data very quickly).

I realize that they're trying to reduce costs by deleting data that doesn't seem to "be in use", but I'm sure a lot of people have "archival" data that they don't look at often, but really value.

Instead, I'm currently using Arq 4 (which is fantastic, by the way) with Amazon Glacier for the photos. It may cost something to retrieve them if my drive dies or is physically destroyed, but I'm not planning for that to happen. I have Arq set to use S3 for my other documents and such so I can restore versions whenever I need to, so it's really the best of both worlds.
I'm also inspired by how open Backblaze has been, one might even say they're "blazing" a trail. :)

I have a lot of experience with using the Supermicro chassis for storage. The question to ask yourself when deciding between "Supermicro or Backblaze pod" is: "Is storage density important to me?"

The final costs of a loaded Supermicro chassis vs a loaded Backblaze chassis are pretty close. In fact, the Supermicro may be a better option if storage density is not important to you (e.g home/office or inexepensitve city - http://imgur.com/gallery/QfD6qIw) But if your server is in a location where square-footage is expensive, the storage density is the primary metric you're looking to optimize for, since rent (and electricity) is your primary ongoing cost.

To run a scalable storage solution with the Backblaze pods you need GREAT SOFTWARE. Maybe a really well configured ZFS pool/custom software/and great sysops? As far as I can tell that's Backblaze's secret sauce.

For a company that wants to run a server that's going to be "pretty good" for what they need, using a Supermicro chassis with hardware RAID is definitely going to get you by for up to 96 TB.
Using Grunt to Update the AssemblyInfo.cs version number
People to avoid on Facebook
No argument here - if you walk into any hiring situation without some knowledge of fair market value, you are in a bad spot. I think candidates don't prepare for the question as well as they should and try to improvise on the spot, and many are not good at the improv. Having a number that is well-researched is quite useful, and being able to negotiate on your feet as necessary once numbers are discussed is important. Email is made much of that easier, as numbers are often shared in that manner instead of in live conversation.
Java 8, now what?
From the main FAQ[1]:

How do I submit Unreal Engine 4 changes back to Epic?

GitHub is our channel through which the community can fork and modify Epic's code alongside our own engineering team. Source code changes you check in at GitHub will be viewed by the community, and if the vetting process goes well, we'll incorporate your code into UE4. This means you'll help lots of people!

1: https://www.unrealengine.com/faq
> i get a disgusting toilet, and Justin gets a partnership.

The difference is that most people, including Justin, would likely clean their toilet instead of griping about it on an internet forum.

And if you're physically disabled, there are plenty of maid services aside from Exec.
Thanks, I didn't see the files were in sub-directories for Bootstrap.

Here is my final Javascript query:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/g/jquery@1.10.2(jquery.min.js),boot...
Look out, Amazon – OpenStack jobs are on the rise
"Meet the Developer"  Apple SoHo: Chelsea Clinton interviews model Lily Cole
You're cherry picking the worst examples and it just sounds bitter. That isn't how most people were, and there are plenty of bad actors in industry that have done (and continue to do) far worse.
1. It depends on who "we" are. For almost everybody, it would be a non-event but for the hype in the media. Electronics would not be deep fried. Some damage would occur to satellites, but few would be permanently affected.

2. "Impact" would be from the sun. The magnetic effect can wrap around the earth to some extent.

3. Most "infrastructure" would require no shielding. The atmosphere does a good job, except for certain circumstances.

4. No hard drives would come close to being wiped by the CME, even it was directed at earth.

This CME was rated about 80 nanoTesla. The "Carrington Event" of 1859 was about 50 percent stronger. This CME is notable primarily because of its speed, not its size or destructive potential (except when used for selling newspapers).
Hulu has it too, IIRC.

Also - if you are a real human but fell asleep or walked out of the house/room.
These 'Bitcoins For Marijuana' Try To Solve Legal Weed's Big Heist Problem
Because the IBM PC and compatibles ended up running away with the market.
The Part-Time Parliament – Leslie Lamport
Gym etiquette for men
The Zombie Developer
The public school you attend is not generally viewed as a free market decision as only certain members of society have the economic freedom to 'select' a different one, and public schools have legal obligations to protect the privacy of their students.

I imagine most people here are not working in K-12 education and so are not familiar with these issues, but it should be understood that many public school districts are making use of Google Apps for education in a capacity which is either explicitly or implicitly compulsory for students, including creation of private accounts on minor students' behalf.

If Google is not being entirely forthcoming on precisely what personally-identifiable information they are retaining about minor students they are potentially in a great legal mess here.
>"Nobody knows what they're doing".

How can you possibly make this assertion? I have a direct counterexample; I know what I'm doing. There's a lot of stuff I don't know, but I would not describe my state of being as "not knowing what I'm doing".

>everyone to a degree doesn't know what they're doing

This is very different from "Nobody knows what they're doing". Just because no one has a perfectly clear idea of everything doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing.
Interesting viewpoint. I got the impression that the Lisa just wasn't a very good computer, and not worth the price, but maybe you're right.
Why not just use web components?
Around here electricians go through a 4 year apprenticeship with 4 two month school sessions. Only then do they work without supervision.

Plenty of programmers have 2 year certificates or none at all.

That being said, I'd consider programming to be a 'creative' profession in many ways...
The correcting mechanism is banning booth babes.
OpenDaylight Project finds industry wants open-source SDN
"""Far too many offers come through as:

$Xk/year
10,000 options

This is literally equivalent to:

$Xk/year
$100bn in monopoly money and bingly bongly bangly boo"""

It is incredibly dishonest and disrespectful when startups job offers hide information about the value of their equity. I know some investors are encouraging this behavior, but please have the courage to stand up to them. Employees have a right to know the fair market value of the compensation they will receive for trading away their time and labor.
Scientists to Americans: This climate change thing really is a big deal
>This falls under the "shit you know you don't know" category.

Then so does the statement "Nobody knows what they're doing.". The author has no idea what people know or don't know.
I wonder when pip will be considered old and outdated?
You have low standards for society if you it would crumble that quickly.

Granted there would be some chaos, but I really don't think people would so rapidly 'devolve'.
lol, you peons worried about a yellow border... let Fluke have it if they want, move on...
In "The Man Who mistook His Wife for a Hat" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_fo...), a book on mental disorders, there is a case of a man who can only make rational decisions. He is unable to function, he can't get past what to wear or what to eat in the morning. Even this simplest decisions take him hours.
It's great if they consider those use cases

I couldn't find anything that mentions using the hash itself to locate the requested document (in DHT network or in local cache) in that spec. Did I miss it?
PAAS – Pagerank as a service
Ahh good catch. Didn't see that in the blurb above. Good call.
"There are things you know but can't quite put the finger on what it is. It often happens to me that I read some news here, see how opinions are evenly divided but to me it's crystal clear what's going to happen. Then it happens. Still I cannot explain why."

Sounds a bit like confirmation bias in action to me; there are almost certainly times you are crystal clear on what's going to happen and then it doesn't happen.
We're talking about the extreme limits of how cheaply this could be done.

When was the last time you trusted your life to something that boldly tested the limits of that edge?
Agreed, and it's been an amazing success for Unity. I imagine it's why they now give standard Unity away for free, they make more from the asset store than from the editor licenses.
Agreed.

Capitalism gives people the ability to be driven by generally selfish factors, but there is a line between selfish motivation and greed.

Unfortunately that line is more of a moral one which can make it harder to define.
Kinda funny to have to pay someone to contribute to their code.
New Orleans, post-Katrina. Cash would have less necessity, but if you have a gallon of gasoline, or water, or a can of soup ... you can barter for whatever you need.

... or if you have lead.
Ask HN Mods: Did you take this poll down?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7429793

The poll suddenly disappeared from the frontpage and I’m not sure why. It was meant as a sincere question and was inspired by this talk on TED [0] in which the host Chris Anderson (curator of TED) asked the same question to the audience. I thought it would give an interesting opportunity to discuss the question of guilt and innosence.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY
Paul Graham wrote "On Lisp." If ever a book was written by a true hacker, that one is it, and it will be read as long as there are programmable computers.
It takes a very small amount of electricity to power a smart phone. Yes, you're using more energy by streaming music, but it can't be that much more.

http://lifehacker.com/5948075/how-much-energy-a-smartphone-u...
Flappy Bird Will Return To The App Store
In case you weren't aware Erica (OP of the parent comment) lives in Austin. The two of you should meet.
You might also like the Yanno chord extractor, with super-academic-looking but quite easy to use UI here: http://yanno.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

If I remember aright, both Chordify and Yanno use NNLS Chroma for the feature extractor but they use different methods to segment and label the chords. (Yanno uses Chordino which you can find at http://isophonics.net/nnls-chroma with the NNLS Chroma plugin.)
Yeah, corrected myself just as you replied.
No, I mean, which "cool kids" are you referring to? I'm asking seriously. What exactly are you talking about? I'll respond in detail. I've been involved in vulnerability research since high school. And I'm guessing I'm significantly older than you are: I was already working professionally when the Lopatic overflow hit.

I'm weakly willing to bet that whoever you think the "cool kids" were actually sucked.
That is "not the full list". That is a list of "customer stories", and certainly a subset of the full list.

In fact, it's the site I suggested you visit. Next, use the pull-down under "all types" to see that the three targets are "K12", "Organization", and "University".
When I said stories, I'm speaking of stories of close acquaintances and family.

When I said news - I'm speaking of mass protests of employees from the public administrative sectors, that blocked the city I live in several times for, tam, tam, political reasons, right before the elections, with their only purpose being to show up on TV - while the people that pay their salaries, the rest of us, didn't have the time to organize protests against them, since we actually have to work for a living. I'm also speaking of teachers in public schools that are paid with dirt and their union doesn't do shit about it, with my old high-school teachers literally worrying about putting food on the table.

> Historically, every major technological advancement (industrial revolution, introduction of cars, and so on) poured vast new wealth into the hands of entrepreneurs and investors, while common workers either lost their jobs or had to work much harder.

I totally agree that this sucks. I'm not convinced about unions as the solution. Maybe you're right.
Odd that they think they outgrew postgresql, while only dealing with a tiny 30k tps.
Do It Better
Does this help with showcasing little-known projects? Basing it off of trending anything guarantees that the [currently] socially rich become richer.
The sources I've read (Douglas Crockford or Wikipedia) clearly state that DOM is separate from JavaScript.
Candy crush is NP-Hard
You're aware that the iOS developer program is $100/year right? People stopped complaining about that years ago.
I knew someone was going to ask this. I certainly don't have all the answers, but I have thought about this a lot.

First: software is nearly always a dicey proposition. There are so many variables that it's just impossible to predict much about it with any regularity. The best approaches that I've seen so far accept this, and say, "Trial and error? So be it: we will do trial and error as best as it can possibly be done." YC and the lean startup model (aim low, accept that most things will fail) are good examples.

The other approach is the "tried, no error" method, which cares intensely about the past. Hiring a web developer? Portfolio first, examples of use of specific technologies, examples of specific features. Find no one who meets your exact qualifications, and proceed to either a)raise salaries a lot, and constantly (banks, hedge funds), or b) complain to Congress about a "talent shortage" (everyone else).

I think YC is the better model, and is a sort of company-less version of michaelochurch's "open allocation." The key insight is: if you want 10x engineers to ride up on their white horses and save you, you can't presume to tell them what to do. They're cars, not faster horses. Beating a car with a whip won't make it go faster---and this is a feature, not a bug.

To get the best out of developers, you have to accept that they bring risk, and manage around that, rather than blindly trying to reduce it. That's why I think Apple is really fucking smart to have a huge cash cushion like they do: with that cushion., it frees you to go for long shots. Apple is nearly riskless in its financials, and so can afford to be very risky in its product development process.

If I were starting a software company, and knew exactly what I wanted to build, I'd hire people with proven track records, pay them a bazillion dollars each, and give them zero autonomy. Or, I'd hire a bunch of college dropouts who've obssessed over some kernel of good ideas (Tufte, Hickey, FRP, ML), pay them nothing, and let them run wild (this is basically YC's business model).

If you're really serious about this---and I think it's worth it to be---I'd read everything on michaelochurch's blog. He exaggerates, has a chip on his shoulder, uses weird analogies, and has a better understanding of these issues than anyone I can think of.
One of the many downsides of the "sexism in tech" scare is the growth of hypersensitive white-knighting.

Romance is the most commonly used metaphor in the history of the English language. I suggest you avoid Shakespeare.
For me this makes it easier to filter out companies. If I see remoteinterview.io I would simply move on to the next company .
Which you can run in, for example, http://sonicvisualiser.org/
You would probably spend your time writing blog posts criticizing other successful people [1], or invading small peninsulas like Crimea.

[1] http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/03/18/when-carl-icahn-ran-a-comp...
Aaron is a great and smart guy but why does having a failed tutoring service make him an ideal partner?
Google Maps API gets GeoJSON
Unity 5 engine revealed at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco
What happens when you fork a private repo into a public repo on github? Is this even possible? Or how will Epic enforce the EULA?
Plus, transparency isn't the complete solution. Just knowing exactly what you're being paid doesn't mean it's always a fair wage.
hah, I love that
Modifying already hosted files is unacceptable. The fix by CloudFlare was a custom code that disables the Control Panel features completely. Even if I or someone else enables it, it wont do anything.

I will be in contact with them to make 100% sure the fix wont be reverted in any case.
> They aren't MIT students ordering sweet and sour bitter melon.

What's that a reference to?
you'd have to be pretty brave to denominate your mortgage in BitCoin

I prefer "clinically insane"
Hacker Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer attempts to overturn conviction
Don't want to get too far off topic (or reddity), but Hogwarts seems like more of a trade school. (Great for magic, not for a university education or for fields such as computer science.)
Actual scientific relevant dissertation:

http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/226713/haa... [pdf]
As much as I didn't care for most of the entire Bush administration it always bothered me that he was made fun of for that quote since it is actually incredibly profound (if not particularly original).
How do you know sexism is a particular problem in the tech world? Unequal representation of some particular demographic group is not sufficient evidence for discrimination.
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