skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand they get paid based on how much value they add.

Nope. That only happens if they're scarce. If they aren't scarce (or are otherwise deleveraged) they get paid minimum wage regardless of the value they create.

> Someone whose skill is French Language is surely is not much worth compared to someone who knows how to make pancakes.

You seem to be awfully certain of that. Unless you meant to assume what you set out to prove (French lecturer is poorly paid => there isn't demand => poor pay is justified) I don't understand your argument. Clearly there is demand: sum up the price paid for the French credit by all the students in the class. There's just a middle man that skims a tremendous amount from the tuition paid for those credit hours before the money reaches the teacher / support staff.
Help me improve my CV
I want to do an internship this summer and I have some doubts writing my CV. In Technical Experience & Side Projects section I have most of my doubts.

I don't have experience working on a open source project, I'm right now at the beginning of the two listed projects, but I don't have enough milestones to publish them. I don't know if I should even list them. I could talk about them, but implementation wise...it's almost nothing done.

The most experience I have is in Java, having some mock projects that I finished(Polynomials calculator, Bank application with a DB, Point of sale simulation, Product management app, Bank application w/o db - just to learn how to properly use Design by Contracts - mostly university assignments but with the extra mile.), some experience in C, mostly for school(various sorting algorithms, some cli book management app to learn how to implement single/double linked lists), some Python(mostly to learn the language, some scripts and now learning some Twisted, which I need for one of the side project) and the rest are assignments for school, some of which I find them very insteresting(Haskell, Lisp) but didn't yet managed to study them more closely.

Having read your comments on this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854029, I thought I could use your honest (especially, cruel truth) opinion and advise for improving my CV. The more honest, concise and true (even if it's cruel), the better. I really want to find a place that gives me opportunities to grow in my passion and want to be good at it, not just to earn some money.

My CV can be found here:

https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/7f548d7fa1f599e290f0d033655e948320140621064314/8a3e97ed8c7279926a1b4721eb498f8420140621064314/26a136
>Then I fail to see what the problem is.

That's because you're thinking like a market rather than a human being.
I guess it doesn't make much of a difference if Google or Amazon is doing it.
To whoever downvoted this: I challenge you to explain why he's wrong.
Huh. I have somehow never heard of s6 but it looks very promising. What did you find when using it for this purpose?
investment in C++ compiler technology has been shared in form of llvm with rust and other languages.
A married man's wife resides in a married man's bed
Encrypted Web Traffic and iMessage Vulnerable to Statistical Snooping
Open Sketch Search Engine
http://www.opensse.com
4GB is not literally nothing, it's 25% of the memory available on your laptop. That's a significant chunk.
Algorithms 2.0
Umm yes it is?

"Some economy of data is possible where a frame need only rewrite a portion of the pixels of the display, because the Image Descriptor can define a smaller rectangle to be rescanned instead of the whole image"

Every frame of animated gif can choose to modify small portion of previously drawn image. This is why you cant display animated gif starting in the middle, you will only render moving parts until you loop whole thing.

This is precisely what Author implemented, he is encoding changes between frames, this way cpu has to only modify parts of display memory that are changing.

How is that not the way animated gif works?
"Rush Hour Rewards is a service that helps you earn money back from your energy company by using less energy when everyone else is using more.

http://support.nest.com/article/What-is-Rush-Hour-Rewards
Convincing distros to package it as the default "python" should be the priority. Until that happens, Python 3 will see limited adoption. The path of least resistance will always have the most traffic.
User voidlogic was pointing out that converting to bytecode before interpreting was so mainstream (and relatively simple) that even undergraduate students do it for an assignment.
Go might be a good fit for game servers, but it seems like a completely uninteresting choice for game clients. I'd imagine game developers would either want to continue to work in C++ and leverage their existing skills and code bases or use a high level engine like Unity. The potential market for this seems quite small.

I'd really love to see Google throw some serious engineering muscle behind Rust, with the long-term goal of making it the default first-choice language for Android development. I'm not holding my breath for this though.

The design of Swift was somewhat hobbled by ObjC/Cocoa legacy requirements but it's still much better language for native client development than Java, IMO. Sooner or later Google is going to need a better story here.
They have money, but not the semiconductor expertise, assets or experience of an Intel. See this explanation forvwhy that matters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7922277
Be careful using LuaJIT as a representative example for anything. Not every language implementation can be written by a human super-optimizer like Mike Pall!

But yeah, people have a better idea now of what features need to be built into a language to get good performance, and Rust shows off many of them.

Finally, nostalgia for the old days often includes a failure to remember the many limitations of software back then.
Let's hope Unity will support Rust, too, then...and I guess Go now as well, if Google says they want it for games.
I'm on the Go team. My work has been internal to Google up until now.
I have always put Stephanie Kwolek on my "long odds but beyond deserving" list for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Alas, she never won it.
I think title should be "Better Go support for Android NDK" Now it seems like a linkbait. I clicked and felt so...
I cant wait for haswell-like processors to be so small they can be powered by kinetic side-effects (walking, etc).
This and Uber's "surge pricing" are perfect examples of how technology enables more efficient markets.
> This is what I hear: "I am java newb and it doesn't work!"

You might want to check your hearing, because this is Tim Bray.
Definitely. My first reaction was, "haha, I wonder if that response is logged along with your server ip somewhere."
Cycle of Vim
I downvoted the comment, but not because of the viewpoint. I only downvote when I believe that a comment is detracting from the discussion.

eli_gottlieb said: "Don't pretend to moralities you don't actually hold, capitalist". eli was implying that zanny was immoral (or at least amoral), which is something that cannot be deduced from one or two comments; moreover, pointless ad hominem attacks do not advance the discussion.

I regularly downvote comments which espouse views that I agree or disagree with, when they resort to irrelevancies and personal attacks, as was the case here.

edit: quote from HN's comment guide

"What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.

Which brings us to the most important principle on HN: civility. Since long before the web, the anonymity of online conversation has lured people into being much ruder than they'd dare to be in person. So the principle here is: don't say anything you wouldn't say face to face. This doesn't mean you can't disagree. But disagree without calling the other person names. If you're right, your argument will be more convincing without them. "
Big retail chains in India are finding it difficult to compete with mom-and-pop stores primarily because of two reasons - 1) mom-and-pop stores operate at very low profit margins, and 2) weak taxation enforcement for small business owners.

Big businesses have much more potential in disrupting wholesale space as that is very fragmented and therefore inefficient in India.
Your username is apt, but novelty accounts aren't a thing here. What exactly are you hoping to communicate?
another interesting question would be will webkit.js support single origin policy? basically, what if you could use webkit.js like an iframe but with the ability to execute javascript and manipulate that window.
JUCE also does.

http://www.juce.com/
can servo be used to run tests sort of like how selenium does it?
Misread that as "Schmidt said" and was surprised but not totally shocked (e.x. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place")
That's not true. $1000 ultrabooks often have 4GB. Hell, the base model rMBP has 4GB (I paid the extra for 8GB).
In practice, is the number of hardware targets larger than two or three? I doubt it would be a problem for google to certify hardware targets.
Similar concepts to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

There was a company, a big one, that I forget the name of that was run like that through the second half of the 20th century, but I can't remember the name :(
Wow, this is the first time I've seen Bad Apple on HN. That alone is enough to earn my upvote!
Strong recommendation for Speechpad: https://www.speechpad.com
> Kevlar has generated several billion dollars in revenue for the company. Ms. Kwolek did not directly benefit from it financially, however; she signed over patent royalties to DuPont.

This is kind of sad to me. I realize it is more or less standard practice to sign over all IP rights to your employer, but this was a significantly greater contribution than your standard invention. Reminds me of the engineer who created the blue LED who only received a bonus of <$200. He later sued and got closer to $9m. (http://www.out-law.com/page-5208)
I'm not sure what X-Frame-Options has to do with it. I'm suggesting either not allowing rendering of bitmaps containing different origin iframes/images, or blanking out those elements in the rendering. Canvas does exactly that by not allowing different origin images to be drawn into a canvas element.
CleanMyMac v2.2.5 MacOS X
Teaching creationism as scientifically valid now banned in all UK public schools
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have extensive rules on what mortgages they'll buy. These are known as conforming loans and get buyers the best terms and easiest approval (thus raising sale prices). For condos these rules are especially complex. Any property which has commercial use or rentals is already flagged for extra scrutiny and there are some uses which flat-out get it disqualified.

Lenders not only want to be able to have Fannie/Freddie buy their loans eventually, but they also want the home to be easily sold. And traditionally home buyers want the "white picket fence" dream. Once the property turns into a an apartment/vacation/commercial complex, their market of buyers totally changes. There's nothing wrong with that inherently but it means that different people need to be underwriting and making those loans who can properly assess the value.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769769 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668138 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209378
Drchrono is hiring Django and iOS developers
This is delta coding; it's part of animated GIF, which then applies LZW compression to the deltas. This guy has used RLE compression (like TIFF, I believe) instead.
One the one hand it shouldn't.

On their other hand it is bizarre to come into a thread about how teachers aren't getting paid despite school costs rising and present as an alternative paying teachers even less.

On the gripping hand I'm not entirely sure what you think the welfare theorems have to do with this but its worth remember that they do not and quite likely cannot actually describe reality.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Meh, i'd order one in an instant... However, that seems to be US/CA only, not shipping to Germany...

I've checked their german store and there doesn't seem to be a similar offering for refurbs here - or is there?

Advice appreciated, coz at $200 it'd be a steal...
Yes, because it's not about spending bitcoin, it's about compelling merchants to adopt it, thus inflating the bubble, thus giving one the benefits of hoarding a deflationary currency.
Higher risk of the tenants destroying the property, which might not be covered by the insurer.
The time it's taking to pull off a half-way usable Linux install, to answer your question.

Believe me, I'd love to hit the books, but I've got to reinstall Ubuntu for the third time after a failed GPU driver installation.

And don't get me started on the EXT4 Superblock fiasco...
Back when I was writing a client for a REST website, the default HTTP library lacked POST. The recommendation was that every app which wanted to POST should bundle the ~2MB apache HTTP library, which seemed a little painful given that other than that, our app was ~50KB :(
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But this is completely backwards…

It's not the companys equity, its the shareholders equity - a company is owned by it's shareholders not the other way around.

It the same sort of issue thats allowed management teams in large listed companies to just do what they want even when it's not in shareholders interest - compare the compensation packages of many boards with the return they make for shareholders.
Racketeering?
Ah, didn't realize that. Everything is clear now
I don't understand their pricing.

$9.99 a month or $99 a year for a rolling 7 days of video. I guess most of that is a still, unattended image. Amazon cloud storage is cheap. It seems very expensive to me.

For example. My flatmate has a child. His ex-partner is prone to make stories in her head and go to the police with that. I'd be keen to host the kid until the father comes back from work, but I'm afraid of the ex-partner's accusations. I'm looking for a cloud storage service to store those hours for a few years, not to serve as legal proof, but to reassure the ex- that nothing weird happened. With Dropcam, that would cost me a few thousands dollars of storage per year, or am I mistaken?
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The author is correct, "adjunct" perfectly describes the fact that teaching is an add-on at most universities. Those institutions exist to obtain grants for research and donations from alumni. Educating undergrads is an unfortunately coincidence from the perspective of most tuition-gathering organizations.
Try a tool called youtube-dl.
Good catch. Being a selected chapter in an otherwise obscure book(to me, pardon) i would have never known. It looks like the root site is littered with various articles, origin unknown, at least after a quick browse. Still, Since the title mentioned 'Involution' on a site about tech/startup growth, i am curious what the poster wanted to point out, if at all.
>Apple designs something new, tries hard to get it right the first time, and commits to it completely.

Oh really? That must be why they removed all of their USB and HDMI ports to replace them with Thunderbolt ports. Anyway, let me get back to writing my IOS apps in AppleScript and hosting my website on my Xserve. While I'm doing that I'll being sharing my music listening habits will all of my friends on Ping.

The point of that is that they hardly ever commit to things as 'completely' as you imply. They just have a conservative marketing strategy where they won't release anything until much later than most companies would.
>How many people value anything rationally? Ever?

So you admit you are getting a bad deal?

>I hate foraging

Have you EVER foraged in your life?

>I want to eat well (tasty+healthy), but without any direct effort on my part.

If you are talking about the meals that Google provides, there is no evidence that their food is any more healthy than alternatives.
It's looking like the kind of pilot program we need to get more enterprising self-taught people into dev interviews: backed by big companies to instill faith in the smaller companies, teaching new/relevant skills, capstone project to show off and discuss in an interview.

It does cost though ($200/month), which can be significant out-of-pocket if you're in a low-paying job, and you may not need whatever service that $200 buys you. It's unclear what that goes to, but I'm assuming it's to the coaches.

Still better than American university prices
How did you seriously conflate sharing ideas with coworkers and sharing ideas with employees from other companies?
Interesting. I know several Googlers in the SV area and none of them work on a 40/hr schedule like that. They work like a regular salaried person where they just do the appropriate amount of work to get their tasks completed on schedule. Sometimes they will have a relaxed week where they only work ~20 hours and other times they will be in a code sprint and do 60-70 hours.
> If I own the land, and I mean own and am responsible for - no taxpayer subsidized safety net if I go too badshit crazy with the nutrient depletion or chemical baths - then it is in my best interests not to ruin the property so that it remains valuable if and or when I want to sell it.

Realistically, most people would want to extract as much from the land as they can in their lifetime. This means, while they may not necessarily destroy the land with in their own lifetime, they will bleed it dry by the end of their lifetime, leaving nothing to the future generations. This, of course, also presupposes that most people are rational, smart, and sane individuals. The truth is quite the opposite, and if you have doubts about the latter, just read YouTube comments of any video :)
> FWIW, I said it and did it.

Same.
Too Big To Comply? NSA Says It’s Too Large...
The Microformats Crash Course
Ironically he was stabbed to death while wearing a kevlar vest.
Also, what if you are a data scientist? Yes, you could encrypt User IDs. However, when even publicly anonymized datasets can be reverse engineered, surely, a person in charge of feature selection and access to company datasets could wreak havoc even under the restriction?

I am specifically curious how Facebook/Google/NFLX which are companies with massive datascience teams handle this.
This is a scam. By creating false associations between the product, and donating to give clean water via a massive marketing campaign (which includes a sophisticated web site and posting to HackerNews), I feel compelled to donate to give clean water every time I open the app. You've been warned. Stay away!
With 16nm parts in production now, I suspect conventional NAND flash has less an 8X density increase, and less than 10 years left, before we need some totally new tech to keep the party going. AFAICT memristors will not be anywhere near ready for high-volume production by then, at least not in a way that's better than NAND.

With the USD supply expanding 8-10%/yr, within a decade, we may actually see flash storage costs increase over time.
I built https://github.com/gwoo/goforever which has similar goals. I definitely like some of the ideas in runsit like automatic config watching. I still need to handle log rotation with something like https://github.com/natefinch/lumberjack

Thanks for putting this out there.
>Further it's interesting how much a privacy concern people think Google is on HN, yet in normal life the amount of trust in Google is...actually shocking. I mean Google makes no bones about telling you, endlessly, how much they know about you. They don't hide it.

Interesting. We must hear from different companies. The Google I hear from only says they just know a few basic things like showing an interest in technology and possibly being a male. Google excessively downplays the amount of actual information they have access to via social connections, mobile device usage, search history, email contents, etc.
Well of course they will do that. Any company in the US is compelled to follow the law and give up any information they can possibly access.
>Libertarianism (i.e. absolute belief in the capitalist market and private property).

I espouse libertarianism more under the following: freedom financially and freedom socially. So the former is generally a conservative ideal while the latter is usually a liberal ideal. A practical example is: I believe in small government (freedom from government financially) and I also believe same-sex marriage should be legal (freedom from government in sociall policy). This is my libertarianism.
A company for which I used to work decided to buy rather than invent some new technology. In this one case, after the principles had taken their money and run, I was asked to look at the IP that money purchased. This came in the form of 8 8" floppy disks (dating me:). At the time I was in a metrics MSc class, so I decided to write a comment stats program, and ran these disks through it. With a alarming result - precisely 1 comment. And when I searched it out, it was this:

"I don't know why this works"

Oops. After that they put me at the front end due diligence instead of the back end.
Okay, that's true. But the question was about confirming the target's ownership. And that is something you cannot ensure via DNS entries.
I always listened best by having my hand do something. So I often wrote (unreadable) notes, doodled around, and made drawings. Never used these notes for anything, but when I was studying afterwards, I could use them as an aid to remember the lectures better: at this doodle of a flying Christmas tree with antlers, the professor explained such or so. Very odd.
Mobile Platforms Icon Re-Sizer
An Icon Re-Sizer app that saves you lot of times by vectorizing icons and re-sizing them to mobile resolutions of both Android and iOS platform. Great for Mobile Devs and User Interface Designers.
If I had to guess, that device looks like one of the many "Android TV sticks" that are sold on Ebay and the like. I didn't see one that looked exactly like it, but it's the right cheap plastic and dimensions.

If I had to guess, I'd say an engineer bought this and decided to port FirefoxOS to it -- not something that went through any sort of design team.
Perhaps not so much a Serious UI Toolkit(TM), but anything that eventually compiles down to GL would work too. This is how play-clj does it: binding to libgdx, which eventually calls some OpenGL methods.

While I did jokingly say "Serious UI Toolkit", there's more than a few awesome applications on Android that have very, very simple UI widget requirements. Particularly games, which according to the article, they're focusing on.
John Cage would be proud.
EDM on http://8tracks.com most of the time. If not EDM, then alternative but it's always on 8tracks. I love that site.
Tim's rant is misplaced. The reason he can't connect to https://keybase.io using Java 7 is because Keybase have (mis)configured their server so it doesn't offer any cipher suites Java 7 could use.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=keybase.io&s=...

You can see this in the SSL Labs simulator, in the bottom part of the report. Clicking "Java 7" will show the cipher suites available by default.
There are a couple solutions that do that - none of them I find sufficient. If you want to clone live traffic, that's probably okay, but recording traffic and replaying it in a usable fashion is a non-trivial task. e.g. systems tend to be dynamic so your recordings would need to be dynamic too in order to be realistic.
Can someone please explain to me why doing high school-level technical drawing homework is considered a fun game now?
What's the book you're referencing?