skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds nice except when you consider that:

1. Even Leo Messi isn't "1000x more productive/as talented as the average [footballer]". Messi is a difference maker to be sure, and one might even say he counts for two or three men on the pitch, but even an extreme outlier like him only, perhaps, double or triples the statistics of another very good player. 1000x? No, simply no.

2. All of the recent studies coming out demonstrating that highly paid CEOs have no correlation with high performance, or worse either a correlation or possible contributor to poor performance, would say differently.

3. While most CEOs are certainly talented, many simply achieve their position thanks to connections and networking, and are not necessarily superhumans compared to their employees.

So no, this really says nothing about pay equality.
Well to be fair, they likely get many more applicants than you have interviews scheduled.

And it's just a pre-screen, right? It's not like you have to make your decision right there and then if you do well in it.
BitPay processed $5k/day in May 2012 [3], $18k/day in Sep 2012 [3], $160k/day in March 2013 [1], $300k/day average through 2013 [2], and now $1.0M/day [4].

BitPay had 1k merchants in Sep 2012 [3], 10k by Sep 2013 [5], 30k by May 2014 [6].

BitPay raised $2M in May 2013 [7], and $30M in May 2014 [4].

They had a single office in Atlanta in 2012, now they have 8000 sq ft in Atlanta [8], plus offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York City.

BitPay had 7 employees in April 2013 [9], and 40 by May 2014 [8], and plans to have 100 by end of 2014 [8].

You can bury your head in the sand as much as you want, but their growth is obvious... Have you been to any Bitcoin conference? The number of new startups, flury of projects, funding rounds, etc, is mind-boggling. You belong to the super-minority who believes that "Bitcoin is seeing no consumer growth" (!)

[1] http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/04/bitpay-processes-5-million-...

[2] http://www.paymentssource.com/news/the-companies-signing-up-...

[3] http://bitcoinmagazine.com/2298/bitpay-exceeds-1000-merchant...

[4] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-payments-pioneer-bitpa...

[5] http://paymentweek.com/bitpay-reaches-10k-merchants-mileston...

[6] http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/05/04/merchant-spotlight-sendowl...

[7] http://bitcoinmagazine.com/4626/bitpay-raises-2-million-led-...

[8] http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/05/21/bitpay-s-office-grand-open...

[9] http://blog.bitpay.com/2013/04/22/bitpay-expands-staff-to-se...
Even a sample size of 5 allows us to reject some claims. Consider claim - "this die is fair". If it comes up a six 5 times out of 5, we're justified in being suspicious.
I'm not sold on the idea that you need Web Components (and thus Polymer/React) to build or maintain a complex web app. I think that "complex" can mean a lot of different things. I know from experience that things like <canvas> and Web Workers are already showing a lot of promise by bringing multi-threaded processing to the browser for graphics- and other CPU-intensive operations. I'm also excited for WebRTC, the telephony APIs, WebGL, and other things. These things will help us build complex web apps.

When it comes to code maintainability, there is no shortage of organizational frameworks (backbone, angular, etc.), utility libraries (jQuery, underscore, etc.). These are helping me build complex apps.

What is Polymer doing for me? Allowing me to use Web Components and shadow DOM? Oh, how earth-shattering. No thanks.
I've never seen an intersection that didn't have some amount of time where it was red in all directions during a light change. I can't find references to back it up right now but I'm pretty sure that in cases where this period is extended you end up with drivers adapting and driving through a stale yellow that they would have previously stopped for.
Premium SMS is already gone: http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/12/premium-sms-billing/
Ah yes, this acquisition seems to be buzzword compliant

"Dynamic Pricing" using "Machine Learning" in "Cloud computing"

That, or they found a correspondence between a detail in their offering/capabilities that matches what Dropbox wants to do.
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What about Nick Kyrgios defeat of Nadal today at Wimbledon?
I see your point but I'd happily trade an increase in vehicle-vehicle collisions for a decrease in vehicle-pedestrian collisions. Vehicles have all kinds of safety features that are designed to handle this sort of thing. Pedestrians don't.
Protecting Your Anonymity: A How-to for Sex Workers
>Heck, pushing an update to every Windows machine that simply resolved *.no-ip.org to 127.0.0.1 would be better than this.

...I don't know if you're joking or not, but that would've been far worse.

At least in this case, Microsoft is attempting to make an effort to preserve all non-malicious domains.
Yes, it's really annoying. Especially if you have things that are literally 1 character issues. The amount of bureaucracy involved is enough that I'm not going to bother. Instead bugs like https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3755 get raised and... ignored. Even if fixing it probably takes less time than commenting that it's going to triage. Sigh...
As the primary striker for such a juggernaut, it can be hard to detangle Messi's goal-scoring prowess from Barcelona's general offensive dominance. (...) I think this criticism is fair -- and I found it intriguing enough to look into the matter myself.

(...)

By now I've studied nearly every aspect of Messi's game, down to a touch-by-touch level: his shooting and scoring production; where he shoots from; how often he sets up his own shots; what kind of kicks he uses to make those shots; his ability to take on defenders; how accurate his passes are; the kind of passes he makes; how often he creates scoring chances; how often those chances lead to goals; even how his defensive playmaking compares to other high-volume shooters.

Yet none of that really addresses the main potential confounder the author acknowledges: most measurable aspects of a player's game --not only (assisted) goals but also even touch-by-touch, more seemingly 'individual' skill measures such as passing success-- are arguably heavily conditioned on the ability of the rest of the team. (Today, for instance, Messi didn't score against Switzerland, and the team was goalless for 117 mins until a tepid 1-0 in extra time (edit: but assisted by Messi! my apologies)... go figure).

A 'matched' design would have been much more appropriate, but I realize it's hard to do sound data analysis on a journalist's deadline.
The article covers that. They compare Barcelona vs Spain. Both play the tiki-taka style and have mostly the same players. But Barcelona is significantly more efficient. The conclusion is that you need a player of his talents for that style to really pay off.
This isn't accurate. It doesn't mention that the u.s government can in very high likelihood de-anonimize users , sometimes even without cooperation from foreign governments , and sometimes even ISP's can do that.
I believe the technical term is "Talent Acquisition"
In this case, disagreement isn't the problem, it's being snarky that is.
I'm assuming this is HL7v3, if I remember correctly the transmission is only setting a permission on the patient side to allow the primary care physician to transmit the data to a third party, c.q. another physician.
How did you spend your time at work when nobody knew what the company was trying to do? And where are those companies now?
Electric cars are guzzling a growing amount of power from the grid at night
> The article says

You lost a bunch of text at this point. Seems like it might be important.
Perhaps the market for Classical music isn't big? NBD to me...
Already have learned SO much more than anywhere else over the course of a single day.
What does the % at the end signify?

EDIT: % after 'delete' on every submission
Ask HN: What open software is there for visualising binary data/memory content?
In a recent TED talk, Chris Domas, a cybersecurity researcher, shows a few ways of visualising memory content (binary data) as 2D and 3D images, showing how each different type of data has a different visual signature. In the software he shows, in 2D, music looks like a thin diagonal shear or a slanted picture of a galaxy, text in English looks like a well organised square grid, images look like a tilted rhombus, and so on. 3D visualisations are even more detailed and revealing, and all of these abstractions can be done at several levels, allowing you to basically zoom in and out of data, and find what you're looking for, or identify what you're looking at, incredibly faster. So what software is out there that does stuff like this?

Here's the link to the talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_domas_the_1s_and_0s_behind_cyber_warfare
Anyone know of another equivalent music service, I refuse to touch Google products
If an application wants to offer their users multi-factor authentication with LaunchKey it's free. If the application wants to use it internally for their employees with some of the Pro features or requires forced factors then it starts costing money. Non-profits it's free.
Just In Case You Didn’t Know, This Thing Exists And It’s Insane…
I have the following in my ~/.ssh/config, which for those who don't know, maintains the connection even after you disconnect so you can reconnect really quickly:

ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p
ControlPersist yes

Having said that, sometimes I need to remove the entry from /tmp to reconnect if my network settings have changed.
There's been a bunch of articles about ssh that all say more or less the same things recently.
> It turns out, the majority of the people don’t do this. They simply put on their best face, answer every question and try to sell themselves. Some ask questions everyone should ask, such as the financial situation of the company. Very rarely someone probes me to see if they would like to have me as their boss.

It's funny. Lots of companies are going to increasingly great lengths to filter candidates based on inane tests that supposedly measure technical competence, but many if not most of them do little to filter candidates based on their apparent interest in the job opportunity as a whole.

Obviously, there are reasons candidates shy away from asking "tough" questions other than "I don't really care", but startups in particular should be wary of candidates who don't demonstrate a certain level of curiosity beyond the day-to-day technical rigmarole.

Put simply, look to hire people who understand that interviews go both ways.
English explodes in India – and it's not just Hinglish
This is a really relevant piece, if I'm interviewing you I'm going to wonder if you're not asking any questions about the company. I get that its hard to ask challenging questions in a situation where you want to get hired, but you will need to ask challenging questions when you don't want to get fired too, and if you can do that you are more valuable than someone who can't.

That bit about everyone focused on the stock price also really resonated. Back in the late 90's "everyone" was a millionaire, at least after all their stock vested be that in 1, 4, and sometimes 5 years. Way more people than I expected couldn't really handle that. The most common failure mode I saw was that suddenly the person would do no productive work at all, and instead start shopping airplane or yacht catalogs, or talking about where the best islands to buy were with their co-workers. I once pointed out to a person that if they did no more work, then the company's value would go to zero and knowing the best islands would be a useless fact to know. But I had grown up in Las Vegas (well spent my teen years there) and that was a town that taught people that money is fleeting in a very brutal and efficient way.
Sorry, you're being sligtly misleading.

https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ

"The GNOME Foundation had a temporary lack of reserves due to processing the funds for the Outreach Program for Women (OPW). Due to a very fast and generous response from the Free software community, the foundation now has over three months of operating costs, which is more than enough time for the pending invoices to be paid."

In plain English: They ran out of money because they used money which people had donated for software development to pay for the women's outreach program. Instead of waiting for the corporate downations to arrive, they prioritised the women's outreach program over everything else.

As for the GNOME charter, "The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software."

Nowhere does it say that the GNOME foundation is going into the business of diversity outreach. So why should people donating to the GNOME foundation, who expect the money to be spent on building the GNOME platform/desktop, instead see it goto an outreach program?
This is not factually correct.

If you use tor correctly (https everywhere, don't leak cookies) you can be pretty safe.

I'm fairly sure I know what I'm talking about, but feel free to point to some articles and I will try to explain one by one what Tor can and what it can't do.

Here, some links on Tor operational security, do read them carefully:

- https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning

- http://cryptome.org/0005/tor-opsec.htm

- the server side: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Operationa...
The author advocates questioning the interviewer directly, but he doesn't mention questioning anyone in his Netscape interview, only making mental notes of various red flags.

In practice, I think that's the way 'both way' interviews generally have to go - you don't interview your interviewer, but you do evaluate and judge your potential employer critically.

Personally, my attempts at interviewing an interviewer have served to inform my decision, but not at all due to the face-value of the responses as they're generally going to be hard if not impossible to validate.

>'Very rarely someone probes me to see if they would like to have me as their boss.'

I'd like to try that someday...

Who's the weakest person on your team? What do you mean to do about that? When's the last time you lied to someone here? How did you rationalize it? Are you on any medications? Do you cheat on your spouse? What are you most insecure about?

The type of questions I'd really like to know the answers to - the sort that you learn the answers to within the first few months of any new job aren't the sort that I'm likely to get answers to much less completely honest ones.
I don't disagree but it seems impersonal at best, rude at worst.
This is what happens when communities fail to make a distinction between visual design and interaction design. There's relatively strong visual design here, but as you've discovered, that's not worth much in the absence of actual communication.
Can someone confirm that invites have been sent? I didn't receive an email at all and I would like to know if I was accepted.
For decent security, both problems need to be addressed- trusting the identity of public keys, as well as securing your private key.

Unfortunately, I can't think of a decent key-protection solution that doesn't involve custom hardware.
this idris paper, maybe, or how is security guaranteed?

http://www.simonjf.com/writing/bsc-dissertation.pdf

quote:

enforce resource usage protocols inherent in
C socket programming, providing safety guarantees,
Not if what a downvote means changed that drastically recently. I never complained about downvotes, because I believed in the community collective wisdom. However, in the past few weeks, I've seen many cases of downvotes being used to basically communicate that "I disagree with you and your six-paragraphs, coherent, civil post, which is even on-topic, but I'm too lazy to write my own comment explaining why, so have a downvote."

I'm seriously thinking on putting some effort into collecting some examples and starting a discussion on the topic, because it's IMHO very bad tendency.

EDIT: Although in the case of your parent post downvotes are understandable.
This attack was hardly caused by the USMS, it was caused by terrible security practices.
Social engineering attacks work, particularly on non-technical users, and it is highly likely that the US Marshals didn't uniquely possess this gentleman's email address.

The really terrifying thing is not losing 100 BTC. The attacker got DNS. That's not game over, that's "Your Nintendo just developed a circuit fault and burned your entire apartment down." Convincing an employee to disburse a small sum of money is almost the most boring thing one could do with that.

P.S. Go into Google Apps as your domain administrator, check "Require 2 factor authentication for all users." If you've already got it on your personal email, check again that it is set on your work email. I mistakenly didn't have it on for my main email address and didn't notice for years.
Hi Mazimi, I'm Victor and working as an engineer at Picnic this summer.

At first we are targeting patients with chronic illnesses. These patients often see doctors in different systems and are not able to view all of their medical information in one place. Picnic will consolidate their data and provide it in an easy to view fashion.

Focusing on patients with chronic illnesses will also help us give meaning to the data. We have a doctor on the team who is categorizing all of the tests as per different conditions and explaining how certain key tests are relevant to your condition. With the explanation, the tests gain meaning and you can see how your health is faring over time.

In the future, we will want to extend these explanations and information to healthy patients to give everyone insight into their health.

As for archimedesmodel, at this point we are not looking at giving health forecasts. We want Picnic to be a tool that clearly shows data to the patient and allows them to have a more productive conversation with their doctors. In the future we may consider extending the feature set.
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Given that folks want to automatically mine asteroids I'm amazed at how little I can find on automating mining. There is this puff piece: http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/features/automation-leadin... from 2011 where someone from Rockwell Automation was trying to sell mining companies on this stuff but this should be an interesting topic for anyone who wants to do anything on remote planets/asteroids/moons.
I've never interviewed anyone, but also, if they don't ask me any questions about the company then I'm gonna think they simply don't care and they applied for the role "just for a job".

I don't want to work with people who don't care.
One immediate use that I could see for such software is analysing memory dumps, and debugging in (snapshots of) live memory. I wonder if it would make life easier for coders everywhere, and if we're soon going to find courses on visual abstractisation of binary data, and interpretation..
Bret Victor's field is, "Applied Advanced Complex Simplicity."
The docs are great, and the fact that numerous examples with line-by-line explanations are coupled with higher-level prescriptions makes the docs great. Often documentation is too formal, and this formality makes it difficult to follow.

On the other hand, the writing style is way too "cute". It is legitimately distracting to see all these "Hooray!" and "Wait, whaaaat?" and "Not too shabby! I love eliminating mutable state.". It's unhelpful at absolute best.

Otherwise - thank you very much for this. Your docs are undeniably crucial for the adoption of Rust and they're extremely helpful.
>people who try to be progressive with respect to the policies of the rest of world, but are too selfish to be progressive here at home.

+9000

THIS. It's everywhere, you know. You just have to look for it.

Isn't it possible, though, that if nice, enlightened liberals, in their characteristic broad-mindedness, are choosing to restrict population density when it's good for them, that restricting population density (at some threshold, at least, if not necessarily theirs) might have something to recommend it?

Or, maybe not. Maybe we can safely just call them hypocrites and be done with thinking about it. I dunno.
"before you are accusing"

English is hard man, I know.
Knowing where you'll be in 5 years != knowing where you'll be in 3-6 months. For most earlier startups, that is near the optimum lookahead algorithm.
But don't you leak the same information during registration? What happens when a user tries to sign up with an already existing email address? Don't you return an error saying that email has already been used?
Absolutely, there is a book written about this topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Thanks for reacting. I've shared it to my vegan friends as I think this is a great idea. I've always thought the current soy curd based vegan cheeses required a reboot.

Reagent was the word I was groping for. :)
I think a better way to ask your first question would be:

"What would you say separates the strongest and the weakest members of your team?"

It allows you to get a sense of what they value in the team without needing to make them get defensive over staff they probably worked hard to acquire.
He described saturation as how much the processes want to use the resource beyond the maximum 100% utilization. E.g. if you look at load average on Linux, that's the size of the run queue (processes that are ready to run + blocking on uninterruptable IO) versus just CPU usage which cannot go over the 100%. That requires there is a meaningful queue. There's lots more in his excellent "Systems Performance" book.
And there's Lux for Android, as well.
Thanks. Yeah, I specifically have a thing open for it being too much in my own voice. Since this was basically ported wholesale off of my blog, it was better there...

And you'll be happy to hear my contract includes examples for _everything_ in the stdlib, so get ready for more of those!
Messi assisted the only goal of the game with a beautiful pass. There were 2 minutes remaining in extra time when the goal was scored. Seems right in line with the outlier theme of the article to me.
What software engineering needs is more engineering discipline, and less stupid mystical bullshit.
Maybe. I'll give it some thought.
I like this idea but usually interviewers leave me with such little time that it would be unreasonable or impossible to do such a dive with the interviewer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_%28C%2B%2B%29
Any plans for RSS?
Today, for instance, Messi didn't score against Switzerland, and the team was goalless for 117 mins until a tepid 1-0 in extra time... go figure

Except that goal would not have happened were it not for Messi. A great player makes all the other players a little bit better too.
They're going to leverage that synergy, empowering key corporate values to enable a full service solution. A true game changer.
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Many people are under the impression that Descent is no longer playable. I was under that impression until a year ago -- it had quit working when I switched to Windows XP.

Thankfully, due to the hard work of several people, Descent runs beautifully on modern hardware.

Come play with us. http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php (current version: retro 1.3)