skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like instead of being low across the board, their base salary is too high and the premiums for expensive locations and for experience are too low. For instance, a junior engineer working in Manilla is making a killing while a lead engineer working in San Francisco is getting horribly low-balled.
Right now it's murky how much of this stuff is going to end up being backwards compatible. RecyclerView and CardView are the only ones in the preview's support library but I'd imagine more APIs will be backported before the final release.
It's not that they're not entitled to disband, it's that they make it seem like the community should be happy for them. Outside of companies with cult-like status, it's the product people care about, not the team. Why would anyone be happy that a service they need/love is getting shut down?
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Counterargument here: http://pc.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/more-roads-doesnt-mean-mor...

"By comparison, building expensive transit systems aimed at getting people out of their less-expensive cars generates zero economic benefits if it generates no new travel. Only new travel generates economic benefits, so people who argue that new roads induce new travel are actually arguing that new roads create economic benefits.

If congestion is the issue, then–as Mann briefly mentions–the solution is congestion pricing. But Mann doesn’t understand the difference between true congestion pricing and New York City’s proposal for cordon pricing. Cordon pricing is more a way of raising revenue to fund urban boondoggles than a way of relieving congestion.

Even UC Berkeley planning professor Robert Cervero believes that the induced demand argument is “wrong headed.” “Road investments by themselves do not increase volumes,” he writes. “Only by conferring a benefit, like faster speeds, will traffic increase.” Provided that benefit is greater than the cost–something that could be assured, Cervero says, through proper pricing of roads–then it is a good thing."
Men lie women lie the numbers don't whats the numbers for this site break it down who what when where why
That's an interesting perspective. Thanks.
> Hardware headphone amplifiers are obsolete. Software equalizers are the solution.

Huh? Equalization and amplification are rather orthogonal concerns.
Frustratingly there is very little technical information to be found on the website.

They're essentially saying "hey, here are some words we made up, now trust us, it works!" without delving into any real detail with examples.
I often disagree with other posters here on HN - sometimes just to play devil's advocate and stimulate conversation around a certain point or points.

I've been down-voted just a few times for expressing my opinion when I present a well-reasoned, logical argument. (Unfortunately I've been down-voted many times trying to be funny or posting a comment that's taken in an offensive way). I think you'll find that having a debate or even just a conversation with more than one side being taken is often the best way to see the whole subject.
I use http://middlemanapp.com to generate the static site.
I used some google-fu and found that they left the RSVP page open from a different year and it can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp

It seems to be a way to find if you are in early. However I got a message that I was not accepted, let's hope that was a mistake on that link!
If you like the people that work there, you're probably happy they found a soft landing.
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Curious why you resorted to email diffs around instead of using pull requests on GitHub? It would be cool to see this integrated with the GitHub API so I could push out my comments to GitHub after editing.
The answer, as I understand, is that .NET has to copy code for each non-reference-type instantiation. .NET gets away with it because most types are reference typed and can use the same code.

In F#, you can use hat types via inlining to get even more power. Like creating a map function that works directly on List, Array, and Set - but without using any common interface. Pretty neat, but it emits the function's IL into every callsite so it can get out of hand.

I recall there being a mailing list thread on Go where the designers addressed this. I've no idea how Go is implemented so perhaps the multiple-copies problem is actually significant.
The only technical details I could find on the site were:

> The method is called biochronometrics and it maps behavior based on a series of complex algorithms. 5 million live tests show that bots can’t mimic human behavior when biochronometrics are applied.

and:

> NoMoreCaptchas analyses behavior while a user name and password are being entered and determines if the user is human or a bot.

So presumably it monitors mouse and keyboard events during login; particularly the timing, judging from the name "biochronometrics"...
Actually, thinking about it a bit more I think there is a natural explanation. If measured ability follows a normal distribution then the farther out you go the more spread out (on average) individuals become. For example, draw a billion samples from the right half of a normal distribution with mean 0 and stddev 1. There will be more drawn between 4 and 5 than between 5 and 6. The extreme outliers will be in some sense more lonely.

Edit: here are the most extreme values from a run of a billion draw with the distance to the next smallest value.

5.967211966	0.056293894

5.910918072	0.043174783

5.867743289	0.081026984

5.786716305	0.043416671

5.743299634	0.094533593

5.648766041	0.000088773

5.648737164	0.005932669

5.642804495	0.011669773

5.631134722	0.003206244

5.627928478	0.004643796

5.623284683	0.013723654

5.609561028	0.014653298

5.59490773	0.018714748

5.576192982	0.001690759

5.574502223	0.031026791

5.543475432	0.002331827

5.541143605	0.022237834

5.51890577	0.004242771

5.514662999	0.009347961

5.505315038	0.004298492

5.501016547	0.02271157
> And even in the alternative that the donors would have spent the money in the general economy, that has obvious societal benefits as well, e.g. job creation or easier access to capital.

You're making an assertion that needs some citations to back it up - on a prima-facie view, wealth not spent on charities generally sits in coffers or is used to make more money, which does nothing or little directly for the poor.

The view isn't whether the money is "being put to use" but of what qualitative use it's put to. For every angel investor or VC there is out there funding startups, there are 10x or more wealthy individuals who don't invest their wealth with any goal other than increasing what they have.
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Patrick killed my answer; he's nailed it:

If you're complaining that someone acquhired your favorite service, you were being heavily subsidized by a venture capitalist.
Will Lebron go to Cleveland?
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Maybe a new problem for AllAreGreen to solve?
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For the curious, this is about 8,470,329.47 yottabytes.

For the even more curious, a scale to think about from wikipedia[1]: In 2010, it was estimated that storing a yottabyte on terabyte-size hard drives would require one million city block size data-centers, as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte#Examples
- User research

- Market research

- Testable business goals

- Testable success metrics

- User testing plan

- User feedback collection plan
Wordpress in next to not manageable with git anyway in my experience.The plugin system is totally broken when it comes to versioncontrol. Anything added to wordpress might f.. up the db or the cms itself.
Wordpress codebase is f.ed up, ugly, badly architectured yet this is the most popular CMS and its ecosystem is huge.
It's amazing and scary.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that sort of detailed classification, but I think it's simply out of scope for a consumer-facing music product.
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What are some other things? Having no circular dependencies doesn't seem very novel or something that requires much of a tradeoff. Although I will admit I am more of a fan of it after having used it (F#, which requires tight opt-in to mutual references), than before having used it (at which point I would have said "just don't do that").
In addition to what other commenters have said -

man pages are nice references, but in a lot of cases they seem to be kind of obtuse. They'll have a short technically correct description of every individual flag, but not really what you'd use the flag for, or how it combines with other flags.

Most man pages need a lot more examples. I like blog posts like this, which are pretty example-driven. They lay out an actual use case, and then walk through the flags necessary to achieve that goal. A man page starts with the flags, and assumes you'll know when and why to use them.
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As of the Snowden-leaked documents creation (so at least 2006-2009), the NSA was not, in fact, using that capability at all.

Nor was the FBI or DEA in a recent high-profile case against a certain Tor hidden website. Nor were international LEAs going after Freedom Hosting.

Also note that the final author on the Users Get Routed paper is Paul Syverson, inventor of onion routing and still an active Tor designer. Academic attacks are pretty common against Tor because Tor is the most serious and therefore most well-studied anonymity system. Most of them aren't feasible in the real world regardless of what the abstracts say.
Is that necessarily that bad? I bet there is a heck of a lot more published recorded music after the CD player than before. If you weight by listens per day, I suspect that would be even more so.
pg has said many times in the past that it's OK to downvote for disagreement -- even if a comment is civil, coherent, on-topic, etc. (I usually prefer to voice disagreement in such a case, but don't always have the time/energy.)

It's usually self-correcting. A lot more people can upvote than downvote, and most people don't like seeing good comments in the gray.
Even the NSA has to deal with the base rate fallacy. You can't just magically "correlate" traffic.
I don't understand the point of this link. Is this related to the comment you replied to or is simply spam?
That's an interesting visualization, but the concept isn't even remotely usable for a consumer-facing music product.
Solid redesign. Can't wait for a responsive version on hacker news. I use ihackernews.com now but I occasionally have trouble upvoting or commenting due to api rate limits.
There have actually been a few experiments of various kinds, and they've all (to my knowledge) showed somewhere between little positive effect and significant positive effect.
I am T-mobile customer as well, and it happened multiple times to me. Every time I think it was refunded, but it was a big hassle. I can easily imagine less savvy customers getting ripped off for hundreds of dollars over time. T-mobile was definitely not putting the customer first, and now it sounds like they had hundreds of millions of incentives not to.
You're sort of on the right track with this (and I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted). The difference in talent of the top 250 or so CEOs is actually very small, but the huge size of modern companies means that even a small difference in CEO talent makes a huge difference in dollars.

Gabaix and Landier [0] run a counterfactual (based on their model) and suggest that "if firm number 250 could, at no extra salary cost, replace for a year its CEO by the best CEO in the economy, its market capitalization would go up by only 0.016%. ... this talent difference implies that the pay of CEO number 1 exceeds that of CEO number 250 by 530%. Substantial firm size leads to the economics of superstars, translating small differences in abil- ity into very large differences in pay."

[0] http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/123/1/49.abstract
Great stations, added to my bookmarks
I am pretty shocked to see this. For sales jobs or executives, I can understand. But for your average tech guy? Are they kidding?
I haven't even heard of such a thing. I've done a couple written Q&As, but those I think are fair, since I have time to prepare a thoughtful response and don't have to worry about communicating body language to a faceless camera at the same time.

To be honest, it sounds like a net lose -- it's a definite negative for a candidate, with perhaps not much benefit for the company (high noise, high false negatives due to the awkward environment).

My gut feeling is that I would immediately reject any company that asked me to do that, if I had the choice.
i've never heard of OSCAR prior to that article.

As much transparency as legally possible.

constantly blog about the behind the scenes, you need to be seen as a hero always - never be in the position where you need to publicly apologize - always do whats right for the customer, show how much money you lose doing the right thing (see https://www.thelevelup.com/interchange-zero) and the amount of cash you are sinking into protecting your customers and your reputation when you get it wrong.

TRUST is #1 here, medical bills are a huge pain point already, you REALLY don't want that anger aimed at you because of some small issue, or worse, CREATE the pain where there was none.

lesson from OSCAR: your customers are not your investors, their money is not something you can experiment with. So on't get bill estimates wrong, and eat the cost when you get it wrong. Earn the TRUST that you and your investors will do the right thing, you'll need backers to put up their reputation here as well.
At the very least, the founders should care enough about their users to make sure the service runs for a reasonable amount of time.

A business using a B2B service who wishes to have the service around N months from now has an option to achieve this. It is called "a contract." You can call up your local sales team and ask for prices. It is absolutely a thing you can buy.

If you do not get contracts which guarantee that a vendor will provide you with the services you require, anticipate that business will frequently work out in a fairly rough fashion for you.
Or even better, the full paper:

http://cryptome.org/2013/08/tor-users-routed.pdf

And from 2009:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough

> The Tor design doesn't try to protect against an attacker who can see or measure both traffic going into the Tor network and also traffic coming out of the Tor network. That's because if you can see both flows, some simple statistics let you decide whether they match up. Because we aim to let people browse the web, we can't afford the extra overhead and hours of additional delay that are used in high-latency mix networks like Mixmaster or Mixminion to slow this attack. That's why Tor's security is all about trying to decrease the chances that an adversary will end up in the right positions to see the traffic flows.

Well yeah, that sucks. Correlation attacks are a real threat. If an adversary controls both entry and exit, they can correlate. I personally don't think NSA are doing it (yet!) but that's a speculation. I still claim your statement is incorrect:

> 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.

Correlation attacks are a real threat but if they are "high likelihood" it only depends on your path selection and use case. Rotate your paths, don't use bittorrent, choose entry and exit points wisely.

> A somewhat pessimistic view would probably say ...

A somewhat optimistic view would say: the tools are there, use them, use them wisely! Using tor is still _so much_ better for anonymity than pretty much anything else.
Why on earth would you outsource two factor auth to a cloud service?

Talk about putting all your eggs in the same shared basket.
Yeah that could very much be a "record not found" error in disguise.
So you advise, in at least some cases, people go to those whom they haven't met, and express an explicit desire for sex, exactly as it comes to them in their mind?

No? Then this is exactly what I'm criticizing: you have some classifier that you have black-box access to, with boundaries you can't really specify when prompted. And I would not have the confidence to convey something as advice unless my understanding yielded an intuition for these boundaries, which yours does not. Hence:

"If I actually understood this topic as well as you claim to, I would reveal that understanding much better than you currently are."

Now, the black box, for you, may certainly emit the correct answers, but not in what that allows you to convey it as meaningful advice.
Thanks for the info. In my case, I'm interested in a knife for general utility rather than defense.
Things I've used Tor for:

- Accessing BBC Liveplayer as if I'm in England (using lots of normally discouraged add-ons and defined exit-nodes)

- Bypassing paywalls (possibly still criminal?)

- Bypassing censorship (which is what it really is) on organizational wifi networks (in Canadian hospitals). The funniest block was to ginger.io, a big data smartphone data analysis play (but blocked by an over-aggressive filter for obvious reasons).

Does anyone else have some unexpected/interesting use cases?
"strategic partnerships manager"..."Szabadi was directly and integrally involved with the marketing of Amazon’s cloud computing business to its partners and resellers, and played a significant role in developing Amazon’s business strategy and direction in this area"
From the way you described it, it sounds there weren't any consequences to not paying back. In that case, paying back is a waste of money. Maybe the people overseas paid back because they had been taught to be more obedient to authority than people in Detroit.
Why would you like people who just happen to run a website you find convenient? It's not like you shake their hands each time you click through or something.

And after they decide it's more convenient for them to shut down that website, it's kind of bizarre to think their ex-customers would want to have a personal relationship with them.
That's why there are channels, that are just very broadly sorted into genres to start.
I am not familiar enough with the details. We don't have an _exact_ analogue, though our Traits are similar-ish.

I've pinged #rust, I'll see if I can get someone who knows more to answer here.
Probably because they aren't using GitHub internally.
It is hard, perhaps, but a good attack for the NSA would be to run many of the exit nodes.

The intelligence gathered this way would be very valuable, as the traffic on the TOR network is has a much higher intelligence value. This is because it is used by those trying to hide something, something which the NSA may like to know.
Except he's not your "average tech guy." The very first page of the complaint lists him in a "business development role." Going on, "[i]n this position, he was responsible for developing and growing Amazon's relationships with partners who utilize and sell Amazon's cloud computing services."
Yes, it is kind of a conundrum in a way, in a lot of ways you really need the real world experience of the industry people but that implies a little bit of a conflict of interest. I guess if there was a way to have someone have a career as a regulator, but again, perhaps that limits their experience and knowledge....
Frankly I would like to have only one login with Gmail which requires triple authentication (password + image or something else + phone or dongle or heartbeat or something), then for everything else just email me a link to log in.
This is a summary / cheat-sheet for diagnosing performance problems with the "USE" method. It's explained in much more detail here: http://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html

Worth checking out the rest of the site too, really useful stuff for performance engineers.

For reference, the definitions are:

* utilization: the average time that the resource was busy servicing work

* saturation: the degree to which the resource has extra work which it can't service, often queued

* errors: the count of error events
Are there no Indian music services that do a better job?
From the article it seems that he was in sales and marketing, and not involved with the tech side.
> What "dependable imperative languages" do you use in practice that offer better maintainability than Haskell?

Scala
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And I'm sure you don't trust the same thing of the drugs you take when you're visiting countries with no FDA equivalent. It's probably because the market incentivizes snake oil and counterfeits.
It’s very strange that in the category “Trending: Languages that are growing rapidly” the first one, with 100%, is Java. I understand that Java may win the “Jobs” category, but I’m sure that Java is not the most growing language.

(For comparison, in the TIOBE index, Java is decreasing ~1% yearly during the last 10 years. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... . I don’t like with the TIOBE, but at least it looks more sensible.)
This guy doesnt understand science...
Scientific method (as well as common sense) says that you dont waste time talking about hypothesis that are empirically untestable.

(We can invent infinitely many of these... eg invisible purple elephants that dance in your ice cream are what make it taste so good)

There is no way to prove or disprove things like this and its a total waste of time talking or thinking about things like this. That is what science says on the matter.
If you then go ahead and put "faith" (ie probability >0.5 that untestable hypothesis is true... then you are not a scientist.)
> This is because it is used by those trying to hide something, something which the NSA may like to know.

Sounds like a great reason for more people to use Tor!