skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't require a "session" unless it's possible to set an infinite timeout. It makes writing an API client very difficult, because before every request, you've gotta go check to see if your session is valid. In a backend scenario, this adds retry complexity that wouldn't be there otherwise.

It's so much easier if the request can contain an auth header/parameter pointing to a long-term API key or equivalent.
Totally agree with you
Plus the game is further rigged in favor of the corporation
>If you want to get promoted, just start acting like someone at the next level up.
Imagine 5 people working their ass off to go to the next level only 1 gets promoted
But company gets more throughput for free
This problem isn't limited to Google. Everyone remembers the creator, nobody cares about the maintainer. There's a reason why software developers in general earn more than QA.
Alex and sturob, those are both gorgeous, guys!
(honest question) is this a good thing? When would I want to use this?
Thank you for comment.
No I didn't down vote you, but in my experience that is exactly correct. If you start acting like the CEO you will eventually become the CEO. The tricky bit though is that often times people don't really know why the CEO acts as they do. And that is partly because there is information available to the CEO that isn't available to just anyone, and partly because the CEO is often balancing problems and opportunities that aren't necessarily visible to those outside their direct reports.

One of the first things I try to impress upon new managers is that their job is not about telling people what to do, rather their job is about getting the most done with the people they have on the most important parts of the problem. They have to take the whole set of possible things that could be worked on, and figure out the important ones to invest in. Sometimes the importance comes from being or staying competitive, sometimes the importance comes from keeping things alive long enough to get to the next milestone.
NSLs exist, and is there any reason to believe they're not enforceable for non-US data?

I think the unresolved issue is if a normal warrant/subpoena can force a US company to hand over data from a EU subsidiary for a EU end user.
I wonder if VC's apply the same metrics to the new start-up companies. If so, no venture capitals give funds to google.
Pretty jealous. I need to get my site together in order to play around with the Opta historical stuff, I'm working on letting people back test betting strategies.
While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years.

IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing.

Wherever you are, Internet Explorer is the ideal way to play games, catch up on your reading, watch videos, and browse the web, of course. Use fast and fluid Internet Explorer across all your Windows devices—tablet, Windows Phone, and TV with an Xbox with an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

This program is really a great way for bloggers and HN commenters to spread the word about the new Internet Explorer web experience in a cool, visual way. There's also opportunities for fun prizes and rewards through duration of the program.
> and the "automated killer drone AI" isn't close yet either.

Now there's a terrifying prospect. Is this actually something we should expect to see any time soon? My understanding has been that, films aside, "AI" software is nowhere near the point where we might run a drone that can kill on it
This is awesome!

I'll certainly contribute to this. Will the source be opened up?

Here's a delay filter:

var delay_array = [];
var delay_length = 5;
var delay_feedback = 0.6;
var delay_volume = 0.4;

function delay(x) {

y = 0;

if (delay_array.length < (delay_length * 1000)) {
delay_array.push(x);
} else {
y = delay_array.shift();
delay_array.push(x + (y*delay_feedback));
}

return (x) + ( y * delay_volume );

}

Include this in the DSP return code, ie;

return delay(synth);
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"I [think] I am already doing the work of one grade above me... at Facebook."

Is more often the case. It's interesting to see folks who act on that thought and find out they were mistaken. A manager of mine once quipped "The grass is always greener somewhere else, but sometimes that is because it's astroturf."
Just the need not to be homeless.

EDIT: I'm not trying to be snarky. I literally work to pay for rent and food. Sorry if this bums you out.
Agreed. Important that one should look at not just existing competitors but also failed competitors while doing market research for startup ideas. However, knowledge of failed startups is a bit difficult to find, especially the knowledge of their reasons of failure. In my experience, veterans and VCs are great help here as they embody this knowledge by virtue of their long experience in the industry.
If you work at a company like this you should leave immediately.
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> or who don't fit into an obvious mold,

Genuine question: is that why you went in a completely different direction with Capn'proto than protobufs?
What if your key cycling write fails?
The levels don't work like that, as the blog post describes. They basically count for paygrade and job title, and that's it.

At Google you were basically expected to make all the decisions you had good information on, and you had access to a lot more information than people did at most companies. I launched the [blink tag] easter egg by socializing my ideas around a few peers who said "Cool idea, go for it", implementing it in my spare time, getting a code review, and then e-mailing PR, legal, and Amit saying "Hey, I'm planning to launch this easter egg in a couple weeks, any objections?" I had approval powers for putting stuff up on google.com myself, so in theory I could've launched it with just one other person's code review, but if you launch without approval and things blow up you (and your peers) will never ever be able to do cool stuff again, so it's a nice courtesy to keep the execs in the loop. (Although this rule has been bent before - [do a barrel roll] was launched without any execs' knowledge.)
In SF the other night, coming from the airport, the cabbie told me the company CC reader had a 10% charge for him. Whereas if I used his Square account, it was only 3% or so. He seemed pretty excited about it and mentioned it several times.

He also shared my disgust at those ad-screens and provided a towel to cover up the bright display that would have otherwise assaulted my face.
Consulting. Not a longterm in the company thing, but there is money in coming in and cleaning up others messes and get them on a path that can be maintained.

For myself - I've got projects I've helped as above. I'm not a maintenance/sustaining kind of guy, but many companies gamble on a "make it work now" scenario and then need help after the fact to bring it back to reality for long term support.

It's not sexy, I don't do it often, but if someone has an interesting challenge to get from X to sustaining, I'm happy to hear and maybe work something out biz wise.
What's really amazing is how lackluster the whole campaign is. IE is a touted as a "new browser", but here are the features they are especially proud of:

1) Full Screen Browsing.
2) Multitasking, which apparently means "Skype while full screen browsing".
3) Reading view, a la the Readability or Clearly plug ins.
4) Pinned sites, which I guess I don't understand, but it looks like Windows 8 tiles.

http://www.rethinkie.com/hello-again/#/newbrowser

Do I qualify for a payment?
Thank god for people like her. While residing in this United States of Apathy, it's good to see some people trying to make a difference.

Oh, and the IRS now had 6 more laptops "crash" that had ties to her original emails. What a sad state of affairs.
Possible hidden Latin warning about NSA in TrueCrypt's suicide note
To download an image asset.
To download build that is checked in to github as part of the build process.

Doing it through the github web interface takes a lot of clicks.
The lobbying power in the U.S. Is far more powerful, though
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Pretty much this. If I can get a ClojureScript interpreter (similar to CoffeeScript) that would be amazing and would lower the barrier for a lot of people.
I've had four SSD failures and three SSD failures in an office of five people, in only 3 years. Backup your data and expect drive failures.
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The problem is not the tool itself (sql or nosql?)
I'm upvoting you for clever parody. I think [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
> Titan is the richest laboratory in the solar system for studying prebiotic chemistry

Does that mean prebiotic environment + time != biotic environment?

Is this NASA being conservative and managing expectations?

I'm probably incorrect in assuming this but given our current theories about abiogenesis you would think either the environment isn't viably pre-biotic or it would be full on biotic by now.

If it is, say, quasi-prebiotic wouldn't that make it much less valuable for study if the goal is to understand the origin of life?

I think this suggests they're either downplaying the mission as a search for life or overstating the value of studying the moon as a "prebiotic" environment.
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No problem, I am flattered that you would have remembered a blog article I posted five years ago.
It's not quite as slimy as, say, Samsung paying for fake grassroots badmouthing of competing products [1], but it's little different from fake user reviews on Amazon, unless the blogger discloses upfront, in a very visible way, that it's a paid-for post.

Nothing wrong with rewarding developers for porting app to your platform, there is nothing deceptive or otherwise unethical about it.

1: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/04/17/samsung-fake-web-rev...
At least try to make is sound like a real comment rather than copy and pasted marketing verbiage. Unless this is satire...
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nice article and information about linkedin early days, how they test the concept and attracted new users. Maybe now its annoying, but they get many active users.
Finally, a role for the DFW-inspired footnote-heavy writing style!

Edit: to be more constructive, it doesn't seem like this would be hard to represent in the underlying data:

...
<p>omnia haec, quaecumque feret uoluntas
caelitum, temptare simul parati,
pauca nuntiate meae puellae
non bona dicta.</p>

<p>cum suis uiuat ualeatque moechis,
quos simul complexa tenet trecentos,
nullum amans uere, sed identidem omnium
ilia rumpens;</p>

<aside>
The next part is usually taken at face value, but, really? Try
reading it in the most insincere and melodramatic way possible and
it becomes quite funny. His love is cut down like a flower by the
plow? Seriously? Have you read the rest of Catullus's poetry?
Have you read the rest of this poem? The last verse was about how
many lovers his ex girlfriend is sleeping with (300 at once).
</aside>

<p>nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem,
qui illius culpa cecidit uelut prati
ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam
tactus aratro est</p>

I'm sure there are much better ways to do it than that; that seems
like a workable starting point, though.

But I'm really surprised that newspapers and magazines really present
different versions of the same story to digital readers vs. print
readers.
Whatever Microsoft is paying you, it is not enough.
I hate staring at a blurry/pixelated monitor more than I dislike the viewing angle of this TN panel. The white balance and viewing angle are the problem here - the colours are pretty good, almost as rich as this Retina Macbook. I have the Samsung UD590.

For coding it's perfect really and I've had no problems using display port at 60hz.
If only we could each contribute 4 minutes of our time towards building the Great Pyramids of Giza.
Having done a few code signings physically at Nokia Tampere back in the Symbian days, I would say they were pretty serious about these codes. Not that the security was 100% tight, but it did involve having to go to a single locked up computer with someone looking at you, keys to the safe in different places, required two separate persons from the signing to be there etc. Impressed myself at least.
"Alternatively they could have built more than four Great Pyramids of Giza..."

Why waste your life in front of a TV screen, when you could be pushing rocks into a big pile?
> Especially, when junior can't report or discuss ideas with the manager, who can make decisions

Why do you think having levels prevents junior people from discussing ideas with their managers? Everybody has the chance to discuss anything with their manager at the weekly one-on-one meetings which are being held with people of all levels. Also, like the post says, your level determines your compensation, but not the potential impact you may have on a project. Nobody's going to actively prevent you from working on something because you're "not senior enough".
I'm not sure man. Look at the size of the radar on a Patriot battery.
In cricket, the Magnus Effect produce "reverse swing".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No2Nz4R4HUs
ok, agree, but thats doesn't covered in the article, which can lead to misunderstanding
It's just that Mike Arrington, whose posts on TC have been some good money printers for many startups of the fund he went on creating, likes to bash who is more naïve and less expert than he is at monetizing or rewarding Web contents.
So, yes, he's probably repeating himself somehow, here.
This is the dumbest article I've read in a long time.
The most interesting part of this piece for me was that the peer feedback isn't anonymous. I can see this leading to some uncomfortable situations, but I can also seeing it be a net positive. Getting honest feedback (unrelated to performance review) from one of my senior peers at Groupon was a very beneficial for me.
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This assumes people would have been doing these things instead of watching the video.

This article gives an interesting perspective of how many man-hours were lost, but that doesn't mean those man-hours would have been put into something constructive instead.
When I read this, I was really hit because I was the same way my entire high school life. So this topic makes me very emotional and I'm saddened by your story. No one should experience the loneliness you're experiencing...I'm sorry.
But I think you're definitely not alone in this area--many computer science students feel the same way. Many people have mentioned making yourself respected, doing activities, etc...these things help but a relationship is two-way. To make a friendship work, you really just have to be other-centered: thinking about other before yourself, actively remembering someone's name, actively listening to people.
One good book to check out on this very topic is "How to Win Friends and Influence Others" by Dale Carnegie. And if you want you can email me :)
Given the pay rate at any established company in the valley, I don't think being an underpaid "slave" is a concern.
Microsoft pays people to write about their products. It's called marketing. How evil huh? Is there a medium to large company who doesn't do this?
Surely the Economist writers, of all people, can imagine that being entertained is worth something, and might possibly be worth the opportunity cost of the time people spend on entertainment. After all, by watching the video people have revealed their preference for spending their time this way.
Why you think this is true?
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This is why I like about working in Microsoft's Marketing. They have a lot of money to spend (or waste). It's just fun to experiment different things with huge resources. So why not? I would do the same if I work in IE Marketing anyways. There is nothing bad about it but the ROI is probably low. However, there is always a way to tweak the metrics to say: hey, I ran a successful IE rebrand program or some shet like that. Go Microsoft (Marketing)!! ;-)
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If work would only scale like that my web app would be done in under 4 minutes.
This assumes people watched the video again and again.
In reality most people watched it a few times, then only listened to the music, doing something else meanwhile.

How much of a Giza pyramid could have been built instead of writing this article ?

Edit: typo
I didn't downvote you, but vague comments idly questioning the point of the article usually don't do well on HN.
So far, I've only made some (large-ish, granted) prototypes with Cljs and Om, but I've run into this as well. I ended up opting out of local state. I put view state and model state in the same atom, but I tried my best to keep them separate within the atom.

Easy replay/undo was one reason. Another reason was that I wanted to be able to take a _complete_ snapshot of the app state, for debugging purposes. A third was that I wanted to keep all the state that a component needs to know in order to render itself in one place, not many places.
Reminds me of a Chrome extension I wrote a couple months back to figure out if the total viewing duration was more than 1 human life and show that instead of the play count: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/you-consumed/lpnkd...
U live in a more idealistic world than I do
There is no point climbing someone else"s organized corporate ladder with 10 levels when u can do ur own experiments :)
Don't want to be an old man filled with regret on level 3 or 6
>buku

Completely off topic, but did you mean the French beaucoup to imply the phrase "Lots of money" here?
Great lesswrong link.

It seems to indicate that people doing things in cults is a bit like spam, huge dropout rate but the people you wind up with will do lots of silly things.

The purpose of the initiation and nonsense is almost to weed out people who are not extremely controllable.

So it's not really brainwashing as much as gullible finding.
My bad, I missed that so deleted the parent comment as it made no sense at all. I really hoped that wouldn't be true, that they offered real money that is. I'd be OK with plain stickers..
Skip to 2:40 in the video to see the interesting part.
What happens to your retirement plans? Treated as if you withdrew all of them that year?
It is for money: under an actual contract, invoice and going-rate, etc. From the page referred to[1]:

Compensation

- This will be a sponsored post opportunity and payment will be made out via check.

- Please send an email (...) with the amount you typically charge for sponsored post opportunities.

Payment Process

When your blog post and corresponding social shares are live, please create an invoice (...). Upon receipt of the invoice, you will be paid the agreed amount within 60 days via check.

In the regards to the content itself, the language appropriately Orwellian: no explicit directive to write "positive" posts and plenty of fakey exhortations to "be creative" and "share your viewpoint"; but also a contractual requirement to include "required assets", and mentions of readily packaged, shareable "prepopulated content".

On a side note, I wonder how the disclosure of this particular campaign will affect them and any involved bloggers given Google's notoriously stringent linking policies... Doesn't getting caught posting/soliciting paid links get you a massive Panda penalty?

[1] http://unbouncepages.com/7975010c-edb3-11e3-b3e0-12314000cce...
IE is also very useful for installing Chrome.
Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web
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Quick summary is Luigi dies (hit by a hammer) while a beanstalk is about to grow in 5-2. Mario then spawns back in 1-2 and the beanstalk is there.
the real question is, why Github doesn't do this directly?
> NSLs exist, and is there any reason to believe they're not enforceable for non-US data?

Given the pains the NSA took (no matter how tortured the logic got), to keep trying to claim they weren't spying on Americans [except when they talked to non-Americans, or talked to someone when outside the US, or when an otherwise American communication got routed outside the US, or they accidentally included American data in a sweep "targeted" at non-American data, etc.]... I think we have plenty of evidence that the opposite is true.

Assuming the data is available in the US (so no other country can get in the way), it's easier to demand non-US data than it is to demand US data. Don't forget: part of the detestable legal rationalizations behind this surveillance is that non-US people have no Fourth Amendment rights - eliminating many classes of potential or actual legal barriers.
Put another way: Due to the low bitrates used by Netflix, the 4K streams will show a dramatic improvement in quality even on 1080p screens.
I dunno, if it's a pig farmer I'd take that as a signal it will be a cleaner place than expected.
Hmm, not sure I exactly understand the question. But I think the answer is probably "no". Cap'n Proto's design came mostly out of someone asking me one day whether two processes could share a protobuf object via shared memory, without serializing and parsing. I found the question interesting enough that I kept thinking about it and that eventually evolved into a design. My reasons for leaving Google had nothing to do with any of this, but gave me a well-timed opportunity to work on it.

I actually primarily quit to do sandstorm.io, and did Cap'n Proto more on a lark, although it turns out to be really useful infrastructure on which to build Sandstorm.
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They pitched me as well yesterday: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/478757246323548162
It is general problem, many companies do the same mistake. Programmer willing to do those needed useful maintenance things is penalized by a.) having less exciting buzzwords on cv, b.) having lower salary, c.) having less interesting work.

Surprise surprise, everyone avoids maintenance.
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Why? The drone pilot has been flying around that area for much longer than the A10. He is a fully trained pilot as well, except he has fantastic cameras and doesn't really have to worry about dying. I think you are underestimating the effectiveness of remotely piloted aircraft.
You've not heard about the police embedding undercover officers into protest groups then? And acting as agent provocateurs when embedded within them? To the extent some of them had sham relationships and are now being pursued for effectively rape?

Maybe that's not surveillance being used to suppress in your book. Whatever. Your post reads like propaganda though.
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