skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the potential that the offer gets pulled because they realize you're not a good fit based on the large salary range discrepancy. If I'm hiring for someone at $50K and they're asking for $150K, I know that there's a good chance the employee will end up being unhappy financially and looking for another job anyway if we compromise closer to $75K.
>> I also have no problem with people refusing to shake hands with women on religious grounds unless it's a sign of disrespect.

Uhm, my explicit point here is that if the muslims have some of the weird stuff they'll usually have the whole package.

To be clear -- it seems needed -- if someone isn't shaking hands with women then they will almost certainly have lots of attitudes which would make a non-moslem in Sweden almost burned today...

I have no problems with that burning, except the disgusting double standards for different people. The politically correct hypocrisy is even racist -- "those brown can't do better, don't hold them to the same standards as real people".

(A note: What the Swedish politically correct idiots I talked about lack, is a sense of history -- 150-200 years ago the state church in Sweden was as tolerant as the islamists, including most of the weird stuff. Like e.g. not tolerating peiple leaving the religion and forbidding prophylactics. This is totally forgotten now.)
Unrelated, but holy crap are those some click-baity articles advertised in the sidebars.
Totally fair! Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
Disney employees are the content creators, no? You may find that point moot, I find it highly pertinent. People create artistic works. Copyright is supposedly - in it's base form - for those people (and the public) and not primarily intended to ensure shareholders get rich.
> I think the reason "Let them make the first offer" is such common advice is because most people, when faced with the prospect of choosing a number, usually go too low, perhaps out of discomfort with appearing arrogant or for fear of losing an offer entirely. The former's probably the bigger concern for engineers, given how notoriously bad at appropriately valuing their own skills they are. The latter is rare in tech, but is occasionally a legitimate concern for other fields with worse job markets.

I don't think it's really unique to tech. The information asymmetry you describe below is more than enough reason for this to apply to nearly any prospect in any field, and it applies doubly in situations where the pay is generally low to begin with (eg. shiftwork).

Only the most exceptionally informed prospects will be able to make an opening offer that won't stand a good chance of getting them shafted.
Does anyone code on their tablet to go? What do you use?
I've started commuting via bus and will soon be commuting via train and am finding myself spending time or wondering about small problems on my iPad from time to time. It would be nice to have a ruby interpreter or irb right on my tablet to muck around.

I could use my laptop, but it can get bulky whipping out a 17" mbp from my book bag while sitting next to someone to test something out. Any of you guys coding or looking at code on a tablet?
Paging Dr. Norman:

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
Drug prohibition also plays a major role. Much of the violence is a result of dealers fighting for territory.
Actually it has the same or more vertical space than any monitor you can name in the sub-4k category. It just has an extra monitor's worth of width.
As mentioned in the article, Elephants can recognise themselves. The article mentions the example of elephants using "their trunks to touch white crosses on their foreheads". You can see this in the following clip from the 2011 Royal Institution Lectures (in London) which discusses the idea of "sense of self"

http://youtu.be/_Voh-hL2BLg?t=43m44s
The comment by ntl more or less nails it.

This example is contrived at best and intellectually dishonest at worst. These kinds of patterns simplify applications with complex business logic. They complicate applications with straightforward business logic - much in the same way having more equations than variables makes a system of linear equations overdetermined.

These patterns exist to help domains with complex use cases test the business logic - which is likely to be tricky and filled with edge cases - quickly and and in a distraction free layer apart from the rest of the supporting infrastructure (eg. models, views, and controllers). This narrows developer focus to a single level of abstraction so they can solve the hard problem at hand. These patterns then provide an integration path for reintroducing the rest of the infrastructure (eg. dependency injection, etc).
Because it's Chicken Parmesan without all those unhealthy carbs from the pasta.

I would add bacon though. And black olives. Maybe artichoke hearts. But probably just bacon.
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In the past the little displeasure like this I've heard expressed has been related to ebook readers. I imagine this response to device/software creators will slowly grow as it happens to individual people one at a time, on their phones or tablets or Steam or whatever Microsoft is selling these days or...
I'm sure the end goal is to actually be able to plop down a car anywhere and have it go, doing all of the data processing in real time. Even if Google could map out all those details, the world just changes too darn often. Feels like it'd be a liability to rely on potentially out of date Google information.
Rick Falkvinge presents a history of the "Copyright Wars" since the invention of the printing press in 1453 ("But how will the monks get paid?"). I think a look at the 500 years of the history of this topic is relevant here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPEO-u_c0t0#t=3m02s
So you're okay with the idea that the content owners should charge you every time you use the content for a different device, instead of "buy once, use everywhere"?
I'm not sure I understood your question. Push notifications have to be originated outside the device. If you want an app running on your device and sending notifications to the device itself, it will be just a regular local notification. If you want to receive notifications from events that will originated outside the device, like the case you mentioned, website downtime alert), some application running running outside the device can use a service like Urban Airship, Amazon AWS, Parse.com and some others. These providers have an API that your app, running on a server somewhere, can use to send push notifications to your iOS device. You would need an app on your device the subscribes to these messages and the app could be launched by the remote notification when the user taps on it. If you are using one of these push notification service providers, your iOS app would have to be linked with their SDK. In iOS, each app that can receive remote push notifications is a topic and the originator of the push notification has to address the notification to a topic/device combination.

This page has a list of several push notification providers:
http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/promotion-techniques/115219-my...

And several of them have tutorials explaining how to use thier service.
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>Its regrettable to hear that you feel we were not able to resolve your concerns. Please accept our apologies as we truly want every client on our platform to be satisfied with their service.

was this (and the one below) response posted from some outsourced call/service center ?
This article unfortunately elides "sensory deprivation" and "social deprivation." Which I suspect are two very different things. They may bot be difficult for most people but I suspect there are very different mechanisms in play.
> http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/11/13/366988/over-half.... We subsidize Utilities & Telecommunications roughly equally via tax breaks.

Uh, please read the methodology of the linked article. Those aren't direct tax subsidies. It's a made-up number based on effective tax rates below 35%. By your logic, the government is heavily subsidizing Apple & Google, which pay much less than the 35% rate.

> Please explain how all other utilities and common carriers are effective in the US and able to receive sufficient capital investment to provide reliable service?

They're not. Utility infrastructure in the U.S. barely gets enough investment to keep it operation, much less keep up with technological development: http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/12/asce-report-o....

> https://www.ncta.com/news-and-events/media-room/article/2338

The one-time ARRA money is for jobs programs. The money is distributed to municipalities, and may or may not be used to actually build broadband anywhere.

> Sweden didn't even put 1 billion in.

Sweden putting in $900 million is like the U.S. putting in $27 billion.
I would have liked it if this article listed all of the animals that appear to pass the test. What about dogs and octopuses?
So is it a fair précis to say DRM enables content owners to choose who (which distribution channel) is allowed to distribute their content to the vast majority of mainstream users who cannot be bothered to hunt down a DRM-free copy, and so through that choice extract rent.

A perfect uncrackBle DRM would still serve the same purpose.
Job seekers who throw out ridiculous numbers as a starting point lose credibility and find themselves backpedalling to try and regain that credibility farther into negotiations (if negotiations even continue). In my career I've seen candidates do this enough that it bears mentioning when we are about to enter negotiations, particularly with younger candidates who haven't held many jobs.

The anchoring concept is somewhat skewed when you are asked to provide current comp info. Most of my clients (recruiter) require me to provide prior info. The current comp info provides an anchor right away, and any accompanying information with the current comp will be the true anchor. So saying "Candidate is currently earning 120 and will entertain offers above 135." The client now knows where the bidding starts, so any offer below that won't be considered.
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Huh. So what's the value of x before it's "decayed" into a pointer?
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If the worry is that Comcast won't follow the FCC rules, then why bother with anything?
Any chance you can make it so I can send the balance of a debit card to another debit card, or bank account for $1?
Hedge fund managers are fund managers. In general, fund managers make money in proportion to the magnitude of funds under their management. This proportion tends to be bigger for the hedgies than for other fund managers. (Often so-called `2 and 20' fees are charged: 2% of funds under management and 20% of investment gain (often subject to a high water mark) per annum.)

All else being equal, good performance leads to inflows and poor performance to outflows. However, many institutional investors have been increasing their hedge fund allocations despite the hedge fund world underperforming typical simple passive strategies over the past five years. This could be in the hope that the hedgies will outperform during the next bear market / downturn / financial crisis; after all, the whole point of hedge funds is supposed to be to achieve reasonable positive absolute returns come what may.
>One upvote is not enough to get to the front page

Oh! of course. The perception that stories languish on the "new" page inspite of having received upvotes (not mine) was a qualitative observation rather than a quantitative one. May be the compete pool itself has grown larger and it needs more votes to get promoted.

What I am talking about here is that even after I have upvoted a story and refreshed the page after 15 minutes it still does not show the upvote.

Question of voting ring does not arise, the very thought is quite preposterous ! :) Unless it has a tendency to trigger false positives. If there was indeed such a tendency, I think that would have come to light sooner.
Except that the amount of money those companies are pouring into infrastructure is dropping already.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140514/06500227230/cable-...

Maybe if their margins drop, they will stop opposing community broadband:

http://www.consumereagle.com/2014/03/13/cable-companies-figh...
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4 of the 5 things she requested were things that would result in her doing less teaching. That's a pretty big red flag when the job she was offered was primarily focused on teaching.

If a software developer tried to negotiate that no more than 50% of their time would be spent developing software, they would probably also get some offers rescinded.
I once worked for a social network (dominant demographically and regionally) that was destroyed in a matter of a few months by Facebook coming into the open market. I have a pretty intimate knowledge of how weak these bonds can be. It took a catalyzing event (a major change the users didn't like) to make them truly gone, but in the end they slowly left their (often very creative and interesting) data behind and moved to the better thing.

You still exist as an independent entity. There's no data you have on facebook that you can't possibly do without. And you almost certainly concurrently exist on several social networks.

I'm not really sure how you can try to argue that this is a similar kind of 'lock-in' to the fact that there is only one distributor for any piece of content and they control that distribution online pretty much right to my TV. Social networks are nothing like that.
You never know for sure, but I believe this happened to me. I had a follow up call with HR about why they weren't continuing with me despite what felt like a good "getting to know you" introduction interview.

The gist of the answer was "we feel that you are in range of [some job level/position] but only the very senior people in that department are paid in the range you mentioned as your requirement."

So they decided not to spend any more time with me because of the mismatch of salary and their perception of my experience level so far.
Ooh. 28 submission points for 104 comments. I'm glad that the submitter submitted the article. On the other hand, it may be correct (as is apparently the judgment of most participants here) that the article just isn't that informative. See an important article from The Atlantic, "Confusing Math Homework? Don’t Blame the Common Core: States, districts, and schools are actually in charge"[1] for more on what's really going in classrooms around the country.

Some of the comments here refer to a period of "reform math" instruction BEFORE the introduction of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics,[2] which are actually quite recent. Implementation of the Common Core in school classrooms in the United States is only a year or two old today. The Common Core was an attempt to introduce coherency and logical progression into the mishmash of topics that characterized "reform math" textbooks such as Everyday Math (which is probably the best and most mathematically sound of the reform math textbooks) and TERC: Investigations, among other titles. The Common Core standards are generally regarded, as curriculum standards, as a plain improvement over what most states set as mathematics curriculum standards before.[3] On the other hand, many of the mathematics who criticized the preceding period of "reform math" instruction (basically most United States school practice in the twenty-first century) think that the current Common Core textbooks and teacher training courses still don't go far enough in improving instruction.

As a parent, I expect and welcome school instruction in any topic that is better and more research-based than what I received as a child. The quotations from parents in the article kindly submitted here along the lines of "Why should my child be expected to learn things I don't understand?" seems like a very bizarre approach to parenting to me. (As a homeschooling parent, I used the Miquon Math[4] and Singapore Primary Mathematics series[5] with great success in helping my four children learn their elementary mathematics. They have been able to go on to more advanced mathematics study with relative ease. I had to learn new topics and new techniques to use those materials, but that is good for me. I was lucky that my wife, educated in Taiwan, largely understands the approach taken in the Singapore materials, but so far both of our older two sons have gone well beyond the mathematics study level of either of their parents. Education is supposed to improve from generation to generation, or what are schools for? (That's why we homeschool--we lay a good foundation for our children with the best available curricular materials to get them ready for classes with teachers who know what they are doing for our children's secondary education.)

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/confusi...

[2] http://www.corestandards.org/Math/

[3] http://educationnext.org/the-common-core-math-standards/

[4] http://miquonmath.com/

[5] http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Mathematics_US_Ed_s/39....
Most likely, yes. This is what I've done with my two previous posters (smaller run).
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Aye - the daybeds (and the beds) were what I was referring to.

So much of that mid-century design was focused on designing things that could be constructed affordably - this largely came from the same post-WWII era of suburbanization where building houses affordably was solved, and a whole lot of middle-income folks needed to furnish their new houses. Roll this forward a few decades and we have Ikea's flat-pack furniture, and what was effectively the 1950s Ikea became "trendy" and "designer" and got priced up.
> the terms are unattractive enough such that only the big de-facto monopolies are willing to take the deal.

Which means that these are effectively sweetheart deals for the big de facto monopolies, since without them there would certainly be an incentive for smaller competitors to enter the market. That may not have been the intent of the municipal governments, so "sweetheart deal" may not be the best descriptive term, but that's what ends up happening. It certainly isn't a free market with these kinds of requirements in place.
From a interview with Lama Lodru Rinpoche about the challenge of three year silent retreat:

"The physical obstacles are not so difficult for people. After one week people have no problem with fewer hours of sleep. After several weeks the pain of sitting cross legged is overcome. The physical obstacles are not the problem; physical problems we can control. Mental problems are more difficult to control. It is very difficult to discipline the mind. No matter how much discipline you have, when a thought comes you have no power to stop it, unless you can employ very powerful effective techniques to cut off those thoughts.

Q: Are these techniques only available to people on 3-year retreat?
LLR: People outside 3-year retreat have no time to employ these techniques. First of all you have to tame your mind, make your mind soft and gentle, and then you can utilize more active techniques. Without this taming of the mind the techniques are not useful, and could even bring lots of difficulties. It is not so much that people outside 3-year retreat cannot learn or be given these techniques it is just they have no time to apply them. They have to make a living, there are lots of distractions, and this type of distracted mind is not good for the pr ofound teachings you learn in 3-year retreat. Also during 3-year retreat the teachings are given in sequence, not all at once. When one teaching is complete another is introduced."
> The real question is what we can do to fight DRM.

The best way to hit them is to hit them in the wallet, which means pirating on principle. Don't buy DVDs or BluRays, cancel cable, Netflix etc., learn about alternatives like TPB and PopcornTime and teach others about them. Every cent you spend for Hollywood's products is used to sponsor DRM, and things like the DMCA on a political level, so make sure they don't get a single cent from you.

While this may sound like a David-against-Goliath effort, keep in mind that pirating content has an intrinsic value proposition (maximum usability, zero cost, no censorship) which can never be exceeded by DRM offerings. So it isn't difficult to convince anyone to pirate instead of buying, you just have to show them how ;)

What we must get rid of is the (content-industry sponsored) notion that piracy is somehow immoral. It isn't. Trying to take away the rights of users just because they don't go along well with a specific business model is.

(note: of course all this only applies to DRM content, and companies advocating it. Non-DRM offerings like gog.com, independent artists etc. are fine and should be paid for if used).
The reason the slippery slope is considered a fallacy is because if you're not careful about the validity of your logic, it would apply equally well to any ill.

That would therefore mean that all bad things must be stopped with full force, because "First they $VERBd the $GROUP[i], and I did not speak out" would apply for the union of VERBs, GROUPs, and possible {i}s.

E.g. in this case you literally end with "Then they DRM'd me". Are you seriously trying to claim that the end state of Mozilla supporting EME is that DRM is used to physically hurt people?
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Rackspace hires Morgan Stanley to "evaluate strategic proposals"
Very happy with the outcome, indeed. I thought it was important, however, for others to understand what goes into (and comes out of) creating a Kickstarter project, and how they might avoid misjudging costs—as others have pointed out here.
Steve, is this launching to everyone "around May 22nd" or going into beta? If it's going into beta, I'd love to be on the list.
If I understood the health insurance industry, I would LOVE to disrupt it. I loathe the current players so much its not even funny.
In the music business, most indie releases are a total loss financially. This is true in the main stream music industry too, but the difference is they have some big hits which hopefully generate enough revenue to make a profit.

I find the hysterical arguments against DRM hard to grasp. Accessing various types of IP content is not a human right. There is an abundance of content available in the US which is not DRM'd. It just happens to usually of low quality.

FWIW, the contribution of the artist is only a small cost of the "product" that we consume. There are many other people who work on the teams that create content, and without them it won't reach a mass market (publishers, finance, legal, marketing, logistics).

I find the arguments that somehow DRM is detrimental to the production and distribution of high quality content to be obtuse.

To take another example I am familiar with: software for audio production. Many of the best creators of such software have moved to a very annoying and powerful form of DRM: the use of a physical dongle. Most of them say that without this, they could not be in business, as the pirating of such software is rampant. The DRM doesn't stop it, it merely throws enough roadblocks in the to get a significant percentage of users to pay who otherwise wouldn't.
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I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. Not necessarily a SEO expert, just recently read about the domain exact match change.