skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is incorrect. This article specifically mentions engineers on the Safari team.

Admittedly more tenuous, but other emails mention HR staffers being fired for cause due to contacting employees from another firm in the cartel. This would send a fairly extreme message to other recruiters about where to direct efforts.

In my own experience, I never heard from Google while at Apple. 6 months after moving into finance, three recruiters from Google contacted me independently of each other. Ironically, the only reason I went into finance at the time was because I needed to move to NYC and Google wouldn't speak to me.
I'm glad he was careful to clarify that he would only try to end one of their many unconstitutional programs. Bravo for the man we all hoped would "change" things. More of the fucking same.
Is it the Nokia 515?
it's not impossible for large and complicated apps to end up with over 4K selectors

Is that 4K of selectors that are all actually used, or are most of them just taking up space? If it's the former, then I can see the concern, but if it's the latter, then maybe the 4K limit is perfectly reasonable after all, and instead we should be rethinking how we generate our CSS (a quick search shows plenty of tools that will find and remove unused selectors.)

Or put another way, it's the difference between complaining about some system not having enough RAM instead of trying to rewrite your application to be more efficient so it can stay within the limits; and I think most recently there's been far too much of the former and not enough of the latter.
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Google feel confident enough that they wont be returning malicious JavaScript.

Obviously, you should use JSON.parse in 99.99% of cases, but if you can trust the source of the content (not as easy as it sounds), and you have no other alternative, eval wont cause any security problems.
Very neat, though it's a pity that the warning about crypto in the lower-right is so hard to notice.

I mean, people weren't going to trust NIST on this anyways but if you're going to warn about crypto then it should probably be more prominent.
...the wrong President.

Which one are we talking about? Frankly, all the ones I've had the misfortune of living through, blur together for me. It's not like any of them have had any different policies. How could they, possibly?

If any area secedes, it might be because of "The President", but it won't be due to any particular one.
Email from Schmidt asking his people at Google to stop poaching: "Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving up salaries across the board."
Even when I know a city well, having realtime traffic info from Google Maps is really useful.
Ask HN: Anybody used kabbage.com (small business loans online)
Anybody used kabbage.com? They provide loans to small businesses (anywhere from $500 to $100,000). They are linked from Stripe (https://stripe.com/docs/integrations) and curious if its a better option than a traditional small business loan from a bank.

https://www.kabbage.com/how-it-works
Wow, I honestly would have never thought that cities would have better (easier to navigate) layouts in countries like Pakistan. I am very interested in learning some details on what exactly you mean by this. :)
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I think the word is apt in the context of employer-employee or employer-employer relationships involving ownership claims.
Lessons from Tinder, the dating app that offends, excludes and pisses people off
You mean the guy who calls his users "dumb fucks"?
It's just some fringe movement organizing an online petition. Almost nobody in Italy had even heard of it until the foreign press (apparently the Telegraph from the UK) started spreading the "news".
Not a financial startup or related to my specific product, but in terms of skills someone with that background is expected to bring to the table:

1) Experience with evaluating market markets
2) Knowledge of business models and experience analyzing competitive dynamics
3) Financial planning and modeling skills
4) Business development experience

Those are all skills that should be very helpful in a startup. Has anyone had experience on how skills actually translate in practice?
This was the only issue I noticed having gone through them all, the ordering seems to be specific on a few of them.

All in all pretty fun, the tips on the right make it fairly trivial to trudge through if you're not great at CSS (like me.)
We need the kind of concerted attention paid to this stuff that we gave to horse thieves in the Old West.
That, unfortunately, is how VS menus are now as of later versions. It's very grating on the eyes.
IBM's Newest Invention Mimics the Human Brain on an Atomic Level
That does not fall under the Secure Multiparty Computation category?[^1] Or are you upset that they did not mention bitcoin mixes explicitly?

[^1]: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/beacon-secure-multi-party-com...
The dearth of documentation is also a pity.
Disconnecting means no phone.

I currently have an old POS dumbphone, my first one since ~2006. I will get rid of it in the coming months.

The convenience factor is not high enough to justify the cost, inconvenience of work calling whenever they want and the hit to my conventional skills.

Going to a bar where everyone has their smartphone on the table and checks it every 3 minutes is painful.
There are 100s of ways to game this cycle spec too. For example, for all we know there is a 100WHr pack inside the box and they only make 50WHr of it available to the user. This way you can make a 50WHr battery that effectively never "degrades". The BatteryOS just manages the "reserve". Then the only thing they are really measuring is the speed at which their algorithm looses calibration. The software for many BMUs (battery management units) actually does this today.
This is pretty slick, I usually do just basic CSS, this got me to see the power of selectors.
That's probably because he isn't really in charge of it. But he makes a better figurehead than the last bozo I guess.
That's quite a generalization you're making. Most of Montreal is served by 10 minut buses - that is, most time between two buses is 10 minutes. And there are buses 24/7 on big streets. And there's the metro. And there's the train if you want to go on either shore.
Who in their right mind would trust anything NIST offers considering Dual DRBG EC? Best bet is to use many entropy sources including local hardware (ie sound card audio input) mixed in a fortuna entropy pool.
I just feel like either I am missing something, or there is a lack of rigor here. Clearly, sampling introduces errors and under-reporting introduces errors. What I am looking for is a case (based on data, not hand-waving) that Google's errors are worse than the CDC's, and so far I'm just not seeing it. Maybe I am missing something which is obvious to people in the field.

Edit: I see how the CDC's numbers could be a lower bound, but not upper.
Was Apple under Jobs the most explicit threat and perhaps that was likely more intimidating for Google than Facebook? I remember reading Jobs threatening some tit-for-tat?
Ah, ok. Using something like loose-loose as hash function is indeed a terrible idea.
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Because they valued more the engineering advantage of a built-in battery: thinness, weight, individually connected cells for power management.

Those attributes of design are more appealing to the majority than are interchangeable batteries.

My MBP and MBAir, even with the single built-in battery, gets more runtime than a 1996 laptop with two battery packs.
Shouldn't this post now be deleted given the Reddit article? Seems sort of pushy if Ryan wants to be left alone for a little longer to keep such a thread up that has no news value.
Huh? This just goes back to the whole, fixing the urgent things instead of the important things.
Please remove your source map bindings
I'm not sure if it's a question of how civilized people are, but I get the feeling that the key reason why a certain number of people do not want Gun Control in the US, is precisely because they want to have access to weapons and resist, should the Federal Government turn tyrannic one day.
That works, along with just

:only-child
What platforms doesn't make support? AFAIK GNU make supports pretty much everything and there are versions of make for Solaris/BSDs.
We don't need a law. These programs are a violation of the constitution. What Obama and his cronies are trying to establish is the govt's unlimited power of surveillance. If this passes then it implicitly accepts the premise that their policies could be legalized at anytime by a future president under future "national interest" circumstances. This is how dictators are established.
Jolla is shipping, and Sailfish just went 1.0. You may need a friend in Europe to take delivery and ship it to you.
"All those employees" including almost all of whom were (as a fraction of population) junior/mid engineers who were never covered by the anti-recruiting agreement.
The word has not evolved past the negative connotations. Poach implies that someone is being wronged, but you being offered a higher salary for your skills is not wrong.
I'm not sure there's any workable alternative.

Self-determination breaks down just as easily. You get regions seceding from countries, but nothing stops cities from seceding from that region, or blocks seceding from that city, creating an ungovernable patchwork where everyone is a king trying to extort taxes from neighbors.

Permanently fixing borders based on a population's will at one moment assumes demographics are held constant for all time. (And how do you pick how large of a population gets to vote?) Re-voting every time anyone calls for a referendum destroys any certainty that the state will exist for more than ten years, and creates little wars of demography, where populations try to pack supporters into a territory for political control.

As you noted, borders drawn according to pure whimsy aren't much of a prize either.

All of these systems are basically terrible for different reasons.
Never have had a smartphone, and don't really want one. Can they be handy? Yes. Can they be useful business tools? Yes.

In the end though, they are way more problematic:

Standby and talk time battery life just isn't there.

I don't want to be tracked not just by the phone company, but by Apple or Google, or any other company with an app on the thing.

Security is another issue, especially if you're connecting to a VPN or other business resources.

When I'm meeting with someone, they and the topic at hand are the subject of my focus. Smartphones destroy that focus.

Smartphones are making us dumber, ruder and less considerate of others. I've watched twenty-something couples out on dinner dates never speak, but completely focused on their smartphones--even when eating. Someone you want to introduce yourself to? They're doing something on their smartphone. And there's nothing more irritating than speaking to someone about a project and they whip out their smartphone to text or update/check statuses. "It's ok, I can multitask." Yeah, right.
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I'm not guessing as to how Eich might treat people. I'm saying how, with his cash, he has stated how the state of California should treat people. If he believes otherwise, he should say/fund otherwise.
Google Buzz was G+ version 1, hardly a throwaway investment.
The Daily Mail is not a reliable or trustworthy news source, please treat it as a right wing comic packed full of anti-europe, anti-immigration, xenophobic claptrap. It's the morning paper of a generation of colonial middle Englanders who'd love to see corporal punishment returned to our schools and anyone with the wrong coloured skin stopped and searched for, well, having the wrong colour of skin, or the wrong accent.

Here's Melanie Philips, one of the Mail's regulars, talking about Scotland and vilifying Scots for having the temerity to call a legal and planned referendum.

She bases this decision to have a referendum on the tired old "the Scots hate the English" trope. This person is way out of touch with the reasons why Scotland is deciding its future via the ballot box. Sadly she gets away with it unchallenged on non-UK current affairs programmes. If she were to try and pull this stunt off on a BBC broadcast such as Newsnight or Question Time, or on Sky News she'd be laughed out of the studio, even by English folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7YxtlTKRY
> As Bitcoin has yet to be recognised/classified as a currency or security. . .

From a US district court judge's opinion dated 7 August 2013[1]: "Bitcoin is a currency"

> . . . one could argue that derivatives based on the price of a Bitcoin are more akin to bets than financial derivatives

No, one couldn't. Pork bellies are definitely not a currency, but they're something of the prototypical subject of financial derivatives.

[1]: http://ia800904.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.txed.14...
Half is taxes and the other half of that is rent for a 1 room apartment. NYC ain't cheap. I have no idea why there are software engineering offices in this city.
I'm one of the authors. It's interesting that you cite our paper as an application of the NIST beacon. Perhaps a better reason to cite our paper is that we actually design a beacon using the Bitcoin blockchain itself (Section 4.4), because the NIST beacon has many problems.
You seem to be quoting Pandodaily's misinterpretation which is in no way supported by the documents they showed alongside their misinterpretation.

The fired recruiter lied about a job offering and its pay level.
There is not need to be happy unless you read the real details of the legislation. I have a feeling that this is going to be mostly a carrot and stick like policy.
yeah, things are so different!
At least the beacon interface/api page has a warning about not using it for crypto front and center in red underlined italics: https://beacon.nist.gov/home
Can't wait until I can get rid of the wallet and keys too.

Almost there... :)
India's decolonization was also mostly peaceful. What was not peaceful in India was the post-independence separation between Pakistan and India.
Huh? College hires at Google got paid same or more ($100+K plus equity) than new JD lawyers ($150k).
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Thank you for pointing out how ridiculous it sounds for people in a field that is as highly paying as ours is, to be complaining about wage suppression. I think a lot of people have gotten pretty out of touch with reality.

Anyways... even if one were so inclined to not share my perspective on this point (that our earnings as an industry are great), you would still need to acknowledge the possibility that this "agreement" might have actually freed up salaries for the wider job pool, instead of coalescing into singularities around a handful of rockstars.
I think you are being the PC police. There is a difference.

1) Google employee applies to Facebook on their own.

2) Facebook employee tells a Facebook recruiter, who the best Google engineers are based on his experience at Google.

3) Facebook hires a popular and charismatic Google manager, and their first assignment is to bring over the best engineers in the group.

What terms do you use to describe these situations? I am happy to adopt a more PC term, but there is a difference between being "hired" and being "poached". When you are hired, you do a shit load of interviews, when you are poached, you get a bunch more money and don't have to do a bunch of interviews.
Yes, I worked on a reverse-engineered annotations project at some point in time, among other things. The YT space is definitely under-represented here, though I can't say I'm surprised. All the related startups are hybrid tech and media companies who tend to do (public) business more like media companies than tech companies.

I also attended Playlist Live last year (or the year before? I forget). Nice to talk to you Kevin :)
In 2005? And Google hires aren't really the right point of comparison – that's the very top of the tech market, which you're comparing to typical starting lawyers. New hires at top law firms did and still do make significantly more than that. A better point of comparison is the middle of each market, which is where lawyers were getting paid multiple x developers. By suppressing the top of the market, these companies were pushing the pay scale down across the entire industry, not just at the top. That's precisely what I think it's so shitty.
As a student from another city, I have only enough
understanding of the geography to read Google Maps
critically - for the details, it's indispensable.

Amazing that those people in ancient times--of what, 5-7 years ago?--could survive without smartphones and Google Maps.

People used to have maps, or just go out and explore new places. Not only learn the streets, but find great restaurants, coffee shops, stores, meet new and interesting people.

I am amazed daily at how these things have instilled learned helplessness into people in such a short time span.
FreeBSD tries not to install much third party software with the default install. Everything is available in ports/pkg. The things included in the default install usually BSD licensed/BSD versions. Personally I prefer having third party software disassociated from the core operating system. For me at least, it makes tracking critical updates a lot easier.
Fully agree. For some observations to back up your view:

A quick market analysis (aka, a Google search) finds this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weojd1crNQ ) which shows how manually intensive it is to make a custom dress shirt.

That comes from Deo Veritas. The cheapest shirt they offer is $50. The shirt is made in Hong Kong, and takes several weeks to deliver. The FAQ says USPS charges $15 to send a first class package to Hong Kong, so with profit I expect the shirt costs about $25 to manufacture.

Checking now, you can't make shirts in Asia and have them shipped to the US within 48 hours at that price point. FedEx International Economy (48 hour delivery) for the shirt costs $50 from Hong Kong to San Francisco.

Which means you'll need to make it in the US, or more likely Mexico. Which is why you need to get $100 million to make this idea work. You'll need to set up a maquiladora just across the border, get the building and equipment, set up a supply chain for the fabric, and plan for enough sales to be able to make the investors happy.

Minimum wage for garment workers in Mexico is about US$6/hour. Minimum wage in Hong Kong is under $4/hour. Assuming most of the $25 is in labor costs in Hong Kong, that same basic shirt would cost about $35 to make in Mexico.

This is above your price point.

More expensive shirts take more time to make. Once the labor differential between Mexico and Asia exceeds $60 (the price for FedEx international priority), your Asian competitors can undercut you.

FWIW, I have no idea if these numbers are right. I have no expertise in this field. But if you (the OP, not rufusjones) can't do this sort of back-of-the-envelope calculations, then perhaps you shouldn't enter this business.
If you're managing dotfiles with Make (which I attempted once...) then may I direct you to GNU Stow instead? It's much easier to manage a bunch of files centrally and just symlink to them all:

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...
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Hope he is doing well!
I agree. The rate of innovation is very impressive and I'm sure with the engineering talent they already have, these improvements are more feasible than say expanding from country to country. But I would love to see increases in the rate of adaption of existing features for international users as my company (and many others) would greatly benefit from Stripe in LatAm for example.
Plus equity and bonus.
In the mid 90s∗, right after the fall of the wall and a general loss of interest in the European Union, the idea of a Europe of the Regions was being pushed. The vision was to transform the EU from a organization of European nation states into a heterogeneous federation a autonomous regions. Nationalism being superseded by Regionalism under an European umbrella giving regions with a strong identity of their own independence from their respective nation states.

I also has it's weaknesses: the ‘Europe of the Regions’ project has the same dangers of underestimating the continuing economic importance of the state, overestimating the coherence of most regions, and conceding too much ground to the dominant neo-liberal ideology which would weaken the state's intervention and redistributive capabilities. Indeed, in some richer regions (for example, in northern Italy), regionalisms have been partly motivated by opposition to transfers from themselves to despised poorer regions, and nationalism has no monopoly on supremacist racist attitudes. Contrary to the benign vision, some regionalisms can be very parochial, even xenophobic, as well as progressive – they are not inherently either one or the other. [1]

In contrast to that the current political climate seems to like to challenge the very idea of a unified Europe; the future is very unclear in every aspect.

∗The Committee of the Regions just turns 20 this year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_the_Regions

Here is is map of western European regions with seperatist movements from the 70s: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people...

[1] http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people...
It charges slowly because they are charging over micro usb.
In the paper reference to arxiv, which supposedly explains what this tech does, that is exactly what they are doing. Equation (1) shows that rate of SEI growth is proportional to charge rate (note: this equation given is actually a simplification as their rho should be proportional to how full the pack is) so you can limit SEI growth to whatever you want by just taking a charge time hit. Your users may or may not like this.

I can promise you none of this is new to anyone in the battery industry. The problem is not lack of knowledge. In general, the problem is the lack of desire to pay for a micro controller which can run the software necessary to do the math in the battery pack.
We should all take a page from this book - data storage is incredibly cheap, and you can't predict what potential value you might get from it. Store any data you can get your hands on, timing information, raw packets, everything. It's easy to throw away later, but impossible to recreate if you never had it in the first place.
I went back to a dumbphone and those rare times I need a map (unfamiliar city) I either write down directions before I leave or just flip open the laptop.
"If you have a gun, you can only rob a bank. If you have a bank, you can rob everyone."
Emil Krebs
Why wouldn't you call it recruiting?
You do know Netflix buys region-exclusive content rights? This would hurt them as well.

Furthermore, HBO only sells its content overseas. There will always be a buyer - indeed there are more than ever. They don't really HBO Belgium to succeed. They just need someone to buy their content.
Yeah, never say never. One thing Charleston, SC has done/is doing is trying to become the tech startup hub of the entire Southeast (vs the med/bio hub), so you might potentially be able to do something similar - startup hub of Southern California. Then get the government to go all out into providing the incentives, infrastructure, and social life necessary to attract such a culture.

Oh, also check out Coalition for Queens, they're trying to turn Queens borough of NYC into a startup hub too: http://www.coalitionforqueens.org/ Maybe some more ideas there.
Everything you said is true and yet does not imply the parent's conclusion. You're making the point that poaching someone is not unethical despite the word's tone, while the parent is claiming that using the word "poach" makes someone sound like property. You're conflating those two claims.