skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly undiplomatic, but I wouldn't say it was rude. The "spin the wheel" incentive scheme is demeaning to the people it is meant to incentivise. For the senior management to propose it means they are either seriously clueless about people or simply don't care about them. In either case, in a business setting, the OP "telling it like it is" is a brave but appropriate response.
So, uh, what is it?

"Create a Request, Get Introduced & Pay it Forward"

Oh, that's what it is. Wait, what is it?
Yep, sorry mixup on my part.
This one! http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/

#lang planet neil/sicp
Never criticize company policy other than in a 1:1 with your direct supervisor. If you have specific HR complaints, it should go through official channels.

It isn't public politics; you have no right to demonstrate or be heard (unless you are unionizing,) and it will never advance your career.

If you want to impact change, curry favor and build coalitions. Don't make any move or objection until the outcome you desire will be seen by everyone as inevitable.
This.

I went on the page and couldn't for the life of me work out what the service was for or about. I had been redirected to http://volleyit.co/sign-up so I even manually took the "sign-up" bit out of the URL and tried again, but just ended up back at the same unhelpful page. I even tried to scroll up and down on the page in case it was one of these new-fangled non-obvious scoll pages - but to no avail.

Getting introduced and paying it forward sounds all very worthy to be sure, but I'm not giving my gmail credentials to something when I don't know what I'm supposed to be getting in return.

Did I miss something obvious?
wow! its incredible how they design a lattice that can help all occupants survive within water !
If the guy can't eat, he will shortly not be able to do a lot of defending of human dignity. If you think it should be defended at all cost, then surely you'll send him the $8/hr he lost by speaking up? Or do you just mean "at all cost to other people"?

I agree with your spirit here, but solving this problem requires playing the long game.
Forgive my naivety here, but is there any way to tell which sites over the last 2 years I/we have used that may require new passwords, and whether they've been fixed?

I'm kinda looking at a site that lists the major sites (Banks, Socials, Shops, etc) that shows a status on whether you're fine / should change password / await fix before change password)
even with a comment in the code...
I'm wondering if this is too specific. The other alternative proposal that someone floated in response to my proposal -- a file containing just CVE numbers and timestamps for when the site was no longer vulnerable to each of them -- seems more generalized and covers more than just passwords.

I'd extend that proposal to allow a CVE to be listed with a special token indicating "never vulnerable" (perhaps "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z" as the patched-at timestamp) and perhaps to allow a CVE listed with two timestamps indicating the range of time during which the site was vulnerable.
As others have pointed out, it's unlikely the company did anything illegal. That aside, I have been in the same situation as you and the OP, and it's far more important to learn the obvious lesson here than to waste time trying to find recourse.
They did finish with "Scroll down for 10 more." ;-)
oh Mike, whata goof
Yes, I'm aware of that, but at soon as you interact with the DOM, a canvas, etc, you reintroduce all the overhead that you wanted to circumvent with compilation. And JavaScript without DOM interaction is rarely useful in a browser. For node.js, on the other hand, it sure is awesome. I didn't want to imply that JavaScript itself is necessarily slow, it isn't.
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I tend to hold on to mine.
Expecting more than $25 worth of reward for solution that saves the company $5000 a month is not being greedy, it's being reasonable and adequate.
Um... Then you'll vote for a party you don't agree with. Your point was?
I'm willing to bet all the CA's are collectively smacking their lips right now.

Even if exposure is unlikely, the default response must be "better safe than sorry". Because if your data is compromised in the future because of a pk leak due to heartbleed, you do not have an excuse.
Reference manual for Maps: http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/maps.html

Manpage for Maps: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/maps.html

Older documentation for Maps (EEP): http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0043.html

Important note found on the reference manual page:

Maps are considered experimental during OTP 17 and may be subject to change.

The documentation below describes it being possible to use arbitrary expressions or variables as keys, this is NOT implemented in the current version of Erlang/OTP.

Exceptions returns badarg instead of badmap, this will change in the future releases.
There's also the self employment tax to consider for contractors working for themselves in the US.

Employers pay 7.65% and you pay 7.65%. If you're on your own in addition to the income tax you have to pay you also need to pay the whole 15.3% of it. To compare salaries between a person working for themself and someone working for a company it should be taken into account since it's a big chunk of the money you're making.
From the "What you'll need" section of the first tutorial -

A Mortar account. You can sign up for a free Public account with Mortar here. If you want to keep your customized recommendation engine code private, you will need a Solo-level account ($99/month). Beyond that, you'll only pay for your actual usage of AWS cloud services (we never add an upcharge).

Kudos for the open source, but it looks like to actually use this for business you'll still need to pay. Unless i'm misreading it, "Open source but you'll still have to go through our platform" is pretty disingenuous.
OP learned a very valuable lesson: people don't always play fair, and politics/appearances count for a lot in business.

The lesson was learned very cheaply, all things considered.
Actually I'm very surprised (read skeptical) of the precision and firmness of the claims in this article.

For example "...the nautical mile – 1.852 kilometers – was introduced in the 15th century..."

For one thing, there was effectively no international standardization on other units in the 15th century. Indeed different countries did not even agree on the current calendar date. So the claim that the knot was precisely international defined in the 15th seems incredible.

Also, the diameter of the earth was quite controversial in the 15th century (Columbus notoriously used a very low-ball figure to raise funds for his westward expedition to China). So it seems unlikely a precise figure for the length of a minute of arch could be agreed on and less likely that it would be accurate.
He asked for feedback before I raised my hand. But the reality is that you're right and I should just learn to shut up unless I'm completely confident that the other person won't feel uncomfortable when I open my mouth. I spend most of my time pretty quiet as-is. :)
I'd recommend watching it before reviewing its premise. I didn't take away "SV is full of assholes" after watching the first episode.
This is why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game.

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium.

Beyond that, it's simply a bad idea for corporate leaders to go out of their way to make their wage-slaves feel exploited through juvenile "prizes" and "games". A genuine smile and a pat on the back can make someone feel valued, even if they're really being robbed blind.
Medicare and medicaid have traditionally underpaid regular commercial insurance with the result that more and more doctors have dropped it over the years.

So it makes sense that payments would concentrate around certain doctors that are still accepting it because more people on medicare will go to them simply because they don't have any other choice, especially in areas that have high concentrations of the elderly, like Florida.
I had no idea about IIS using a different implementation.

The More You Know...
Yes. If you download the April ASP data from CMS [1], you can search for "Ranibizumab injection". CMS has calculated a $397.014 payment per 0.1 mg. Each dose injection is 0.5 mg, so 5 * 397.014 = $1985.07. If you add 6% to that, you get $2104.17.

Your memory was correct.

1: http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Part-B-...
Indeed. The proper thing to do is: write your own malloc, learn an enormous amount from implementing malloc, never ever under any circumstances allow your malloc implementation to enter into production use.

Hopefully the act of writing your own malloc implementation will be enough to convince you not to use it in anger, but it's probably best to be clear on the subject.
>If you work for the company, you should want to see it succeed >for the sake of your own future with the company.

Lol, no.
I thought that at first too, but it would actually be a funny plot development if someone later points out that information theory dictates that the claims are impossible. Then the main character would receive more VC funding to pivot into a completely different but even more ridiculous idea.
I'm sure there're 10 reasons to use too. infinite scroll as opposed to infinite pagination? I like infinite scroll, it's just fun. It's a lot about the goal. If it's facebook or instagram, users won't go too far, they don't have time and they check feed regularly, however for search infinite scroll might be not the best fit
Native apps, here, as well. In fact, whenever she's complaining about UX, it's always browser based.
Is a "Tech Consultant" the same thing as a programmer?

I read that article under the assumption that a "Tech consultant" was someone who gave high level strategic advice.

[Although I'd expect those folks to charge a ton more than a programmer]
What does this even do? Business intelligence is such a vague, abstract terms. Tell me what this can do for me, in plain Engrish terms, please.
I'm also intrigued. How would one program for iOS in a practical sense with Haskell? A great deal of iOS programming, as I understand it, is navigating the APIs and libraries provided by the SDK... is this a simple task in Haskell? The FFI is something I haven't really dealt with much yet. I guess people could/will start writing wrapper libraries?
its not faster and the accuracy improvement is more of a curiosity than of real value.

infact on modern desktop/console hardware invsqrt hack is really bad. it causes type aliasing which is 'expensive' in native software terms. the x86(-64) chips underlying them all now has a dedicated instruction for this, as do the PPCs that came in the generation before... still of value on ARM though which is becoming more and more important.
His "outburst" may have been more for the benefit of his fellow employees than for management. I'm thinking that a few of them were quite encouraged that someone bravely spoke what they were feeling. It's hard to overstate how inhuman and alien some if these situations start feeling. I jolt of realness is a precious thing.
"Now, you folks better give me my damn acquisition, understood!?" - VC
If you're not getting paid for these days, there's something wrong...
Right. Like abortion. Or death penalty. Or gun ownership. Or taxes. All false dilemmas, right? Both Democrats and Republicans want (obviously!) the same policies for the problems pointed above. Or not really?
Here's how linkedin does pagination

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkKYEmkCAAA3x8u.png:large

I think an infinite scroll would be better...
What about simply using TrueCrypt + S3? Encrypt through one GUI, upload through a second?
I always thought it was pretty easy to tell being human.... One's an asshole, and one's not! zing

Update after downvotes: apparently no one reading this has a sense of humor, liberal or conservative.
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> The problem with security through obscurity is that it is not security.

I'm sure we'd like each other if we sat down over coffee, and would find more in common than, not, but I have to politely disagree with you here. It does offer a degree of security, and I can give you a challenge that is measurably testable:

Move your sshd from 22 -> (eg) 222, and watch the hack attempts disappear.

Now, in the context of "remote logins", moving telnet from 23 -> 223 offers a _degree_ of security from a casual person connecting to port 23 and trying their luck, but we all know that telnet is a poor remote access tool these days. Switching from telnet to ssh is security by technology (encryption, mechanism (ie: keys vs passwords)). Moving sshd from port 22 -> 223 keeps that many more people from knocking on the door, no matter what other security is setup. "Security by Obscurity" adds to "Proper" security.

Surely we're both on the same page that, given better options, security solely through obscurity is stupid.
Nice to see Continuum on top of the issue. Always quick response from development.
More importantly, one of the main reason that services like Kelly are used is that Kelly is the employer, not the company that is contracting for services from Kelly, and Kelly didn't fire you -- a company that was contracting with them exercised an option under their contract with Kelly to stop receiving services from Kelly. As a result, Kelly doesn't have any work for you until they get another request that you fit.
Thanks. I wonder how I stack up against other developers...

Let's see... Applications Engineer, well I do create web applications and I think I'm pretty dang good so I'll choose "V". Oh but wait, I'm also a programmer right? Or am I a software engineer? But I also "architect" most of our applications. Ugh...
> And then we'd have potential exploits both in the daemon and in the safe language runtime/compiler.

That doesn't make the idea futile, especially considering the current alternative. A language runtime focused on safety and a daemon that uses it for that purpose are going to present less of an attack surface than ifdef soup with custom malloc implementations and hand-managed buffer transfers.
Ruby Warrior – write Ruby code to move through the game.
Patching The Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
In 2009 I sold Compilr.com in for $3,500. AMA
Those bikes do exist, but they're more of a Burning Man thing. I don't think anyone actually has meetings on them.
Thanks for the feedback. It's clear that we need to communicate more about what Volley does prior to asking you to sign-up. To date, this hasn't been an issue and our thinking was that people were intrigued by the limited copy on the landing page, signing up to learn more. In retrospect, it's likely that those who have signed up to date have had a little more context about what Volley is since many signups are coming through referrals.
Ah. Well, I was one of the founders of Mark of the Unicorn, and helped write MINCE (though most of the credit belongs to my colleagues Jason Linhart and Craig Finseth).
and how do you prove this?
Thank you for this. Any idea why they would 403 visitors from HN?
Taking precautions is good, but I don't understand the mentality of "guilty until proven innocent", instead of the opposite.
>Founded in 2009 by former Facebook engineers, Quora is a revenue-less, question-and-answer service with 500,000 topics and an unknown number of users.

>Quora has now collected more than $140 million in funding from investors.

How could this possibly end well for the investors?

EDIT - besides a FB acquisition.
Or a limit on the number of pages you cn paginate to.
To be fair, perhaps it is lossless, but only for a subset of all possible data files. Like compressive sensing, which beats the Nyquist-Shannon limit, but only if conditions about sparsity are met.

In fact, the Nyquist-Shannon theorem itself is a kind of lossless compression. It says you can potentially throw away data without losing information.
The Last Psychiatrist wrote some interesting commentary about the Science paper that this article mentions. "[T]he actual finding isn't that conservatives are fearful; it's that liberals seem not to exhibit much response to scary photos. But it's actually a little worse than that."
(http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/09/either_conservatives_...)
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I would think the post stating that "All ESBs are now patched" was that message, no? Before that post, you were not safe. After that post, you were.
As an alternative, I'm going to start using something like http://emberjs.com/list-view/

(warning: not mobile optimized)

It solves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 10, and could reasonably be implemented with bookmarking to fix 6 and 9.

SEO is still an issue, but really, when is it not?
You may want to have a look at some of Jorge Hirsch's papers on complex aromatics and ring currents. The guy is a bit of crackpot on superconductivity, but what he says on aromatics might be of interest to you.
Just as a few other comments have mentioned, I'm interested but I don't have an iPad or any tablet for that matter.
Spinning a wheel with token prizes (upwards of a $300 item) is not necessarily a terrible, humiliating idea. I have participated in a similar exercise at a previous company and it was well received. In that case, we all wanted to improve the company already so it became a fun contest.

Some companies have idea boxes that don't get used. I don't see the harm in making a small contest out of it.

It sounds like the OP is dissatisfied with his compensation and lost some control and lashed out in a meeting. If the OP was my temp worker I would probably fire him too. Juno Pacific is probably paying the agency 2-3x which might be upwards of $16-$24/hr. Often, it's the temp agency that is taking more than a reasonable cut.

The idea of writing a check for a portion of the improvement is more ridiculous and can quickly become complex. Is that paid for eternity? How are ideas with softer benefits calculated?
DeepBeliefSDK
Your first statement negates your second. Shit keeps happening because people keep using the excuse that it's a large project. The OpenSSL team needs to take a step back, start proactively auditing their own code, adding unit tests, getting rid of stupidity like having their own caching malloc library. When a project shows a consistent lack of responsibility like the OpenSSL project has, then calling the maintainers irresponsible /is/ the responsible thing to do.
Yup, Thiel Fellowship included.
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. I think most users would be happy that the vulnerability was patched within 48 hours than the lack of proper communication.

In this case Amazon choose to focus on fixing the problem versus communicating every detail. The potential consequence in dollars of not fixing the issue in a timely manner is likely in triple-digit millions. I would imagine the cost of having some small number of users complain about how they weren't up to date with communications isn't worth them focusing on it.

Also, I would imagine that customers such as Netflix and other major clients likely got more in-depth communication.

I'm sure it's not going to really affect Amazon's bottom line if opbeat decides to move to a different provider. If you are a very small fish in a big ocean, expect to be treated that way. It's sad to say that but that's the reality.

Personally, I'll take them getting this fixed as a fast as possible, versus getting hourly updates telling me how they're still working it. For example, I just want to hear that they found the MH370 plane. I'm tired of reading news stories with the same depressing message.
It reads like "open source but not free to make proprietary." First, it's awesome just to see source as something to learn from. Second, it seems reasonable they don't want people forking, modifying then profiting from their work without contributing back to it - either by also releasing source or by paying.

I think it's a nice model actually.
Here's the README:

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_17.0.readme
Why Google is broken for debugging
Sounds interesting - but please, provide sources for such bold statements or expect to get downvoted.
Great! Can't wait until the next release of the Haskell Platform now.
Things Employees Really Need to Hear From You
First off, Compete.com is a JOKE (I've regularly seen it off by 10-100x). Second, investors care about growth more than traffic-- do we have any data on Quora's growth? Third, Quora's founder/team is pretty bankable-- a failure scenario for them is an $80M acqui-hire. Assuming preferred shares or liquidation prefs by the new investors, that almost entirely de-risks this investment. That coupled with their long term ambition (supplant Wikipedia?) makes this a non-terrible bet.
Doesn't browser pinning usually pin to the CA?
I haven't watched the show yet but I hope they manage to accurately capture this sort of continual shameless self-promotion.
Seems like people forgetting that downvote button is not "I DISAGREE" button.
There is also Parquet from Twitter which is inspired by the Dremel paper: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/dremel-made-simple-with-parque...
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> This is (I hope) a once-in-a-lifetime incident, so we have to be careful not to extrapolate it too hard.

Don't bet on it.
That is not sensationalism. Much the opposite.

Giving the appropriate importance to things is part of what makes good journalism.
Here's a good explanation of Ant Pheromones and how it's used as a routing topology in the MUTE P2P software.

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml
TL;DR- Apply for unemployment, collect your monies while you search for employment. Do it ASAP most states require you to apply the first day you are out of work. They also expect your to be looking that day.

IANAL, but I think you may be eligible for Unemployment insurance. Here in MD. It's at-will emploement. You can be fired for any reason. But you'd be eligible for Unemployment. The burden is on the employer to prove that you were grossly insubordinate. Which it doesn't seem like you were. Also, companies are expected to try an resolve issue like this without going as far as to fire someone.
Skimlinks revolutionizing traditional HTML hyperlinks
If Heartbleed is the result of supporting a massive range of architectures and ever-moving standards, the answer is to do less. If OpenSSL can't maintain quality code and architecture support and feature support, the answer is NOT to let go of code quality.
Yeah, my inner pessimist says that's a stupid thing to say. On the other hand, when was the last time something this bad and widespread showed up?
And GOD HELP YOU if you have a page with a footer and infinite scroll.
Clarification: all Turing complete languages allow you to do any _computation_ all Turing complete languages allow you to do.
How geographically widespread is your circle of friends? It was the "anywhere in the world" part I was wondering about, not the fact that your friends can discuss wages.
How can we learn to be happy from a programming method
But I have been trying to see it myself as an invocation of that Java method, random(), that has been in fact triggered in the morning and that it’s in my hand to change my mood and feel inspired, enthusiastic and ready to start the day by finding some compelling objectives to achieve during the day.
>> "it feels like what someone would think SV was like if they based their entire impression on Techcrunch articles and 80s nerd / guru tropes."

It's not a documentary. The aim is to make people laugh while not straying too far from reality that it's completely unbelievable. I think they achieved that. Personally I didn't think I'd enjoy it at all but I found it kind of funny and will probably return for ep 2.