skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the prevailing strategy in negotiations is to make the other person show their hand first. For example:

INTERVIEWER: What are your salary expectations?
CANDIDATE: Before I state my requirements, I would like to know the entire expected compensation package including salary and benefits. If need be I can present my counter.
I wonder how did the Linkedin employees organized in order to file the lawsuit? I imagine that, if the wrong person heard about the plan, the organizers would be fired right away.
A breath reveals a hidden image in anti-counterfeit drug labels
Why shutting it down? 200 users can be served using a $5 droplet from digital ocean.
It would be interesting to see an analysis of what the economic impact of these depressed wages has been. $3 Billion is probably not too far off the mark. Probably not $3 Billion directly to the programmers impacted, but definitely to the broader economy.
In NorCal that's like, what, 2BR/2BA a mile away from any public transit?
You know what's funny? Often the highest converting and best user experience emails are... just text and links.

Yep, all the branded shenanigans and responsive mumbojumbo doesn't necessarily beat just sending an email in its native form.

As it turns out, most of the logos and branding are self serving and nobody cares. Many of the most profitable email lists on the internet have no style at all, are long form text, have plain blue links, and they make millions of dollars in sales.

This is a cool project, but don't forget to treat email in its native form.
where does it get data from?
You really don't think WikiLeaks has a negative connotation in the media and the public in and of itself? The media spent a very long time running WikiLeaks through the mud.
Wit – Natural language for the Internet of Things
Scheme vs. Common Lisp: Which characteristics made a difference in your project?
your trans is just the "mapping" case. in general other functions can be applied to (c -> a -> c) -> c -> b -> c which will have more complex implementations than just composition.
IIRC They sell gold coins via infomercials...
Speaking of Facebook specifically, the evolution is interesting. They replaced BMCs with the reboot-on-LAN hack but then their next motherboard version had BMCs again. It would be interesting to hear the story behind that.
There are 64,000 plaintiffs.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/08/judge-rejects-comically-low...
I deleted the comment you've replied to because of the rapid downvotes... but screw it... I'm putting it back here. Who needs karma anyway...

To the rest of the public, we probably look like complaining oil or Walmart execs. While the rest of the general public is dealing with insane commutes and thankless/soul-crushing jobs, we got things like "The Social Network" movie, San Francisco gentrification issues, fancy catered parties and Google Glass. I can't even explain this to the rest of my family. They're like "Why are the people in your field complaining? Aren't they partying like it's 1999?" And seriously, my life is basically a dream compared to the rest of my family and past classmates not in tech. I make more money than I ever thought possible, I have no commute because BART is so close, I can WorkFromHome just about anytime I want, I work in San Franciso with lost of food options and my job is something I'd be doing on my free time anyway. I have the flexibility to be at my standing-desk on HN debating with people online while drinking my fancy glass bottle VOSS water from Norway. And the icing on the cake is probably the minimum 2 recruiter LinkedIn emails I get a week offering even more money. Also, I never negotiate salary. I just take the first offer so I assume I'm in the lower-range compared to most of HN.

Seriously, go try and explain this to the average lower/middle-class American outside of tech. This must look ridiculous. I'm right in the heart of this tech scene and I'm not even convinced we should be complaining.
Actually delaying the orders, or reporting an availability of 1 to 6 weeks, pre-order?

I suspect one of those options is legally questionable. And would cause a very large hoo-ha.
That clojure does not follow the duck typing approach of ruby and python but uses interces (protocols) does not make it a statically typed language. It is still dynamically typed to my understanding as the implementation of a protocol "method" is chosen at run time, i.e. _late_ binding.

For example: If I implement the ISeq data structure, I can use instances of my ISeq implementation in code that was written for lets say list processing (such as a function that uses ``(first val)``. The implementation is looked up at runtime. My program compiles, even if I call ``(first 4)``, it will lead in an error at runtime however, since the number 4 is not a sequence. Java is fundamentally different. It is checked at compile time whether the ``val`` does adhere to the interface. This is what makes it static.
Tactics For Effective Conservative Blogging
Elon Musk says city needed on Mars to achieve multiplanetary goal
Very true. I 48 years old and can remember reasonable home prices, so I kind of just did a Dr. Evil on that.
From Apartheid-Era Jail Cell to the Bench in Pistorius Case
"I know it for a fact that I will make the life of people around me very miserable."

How? Are these things you can address (either directly, or taking measures to minimize their impacts on others)?
I wasn't aware so thanks for the heads up!
I've seen users right click on a link, click "Save as...", navigate to a specific folder, open Windows Explorer, and promptly forget where they put the file.
OT: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-08-05/
There's a few benefits, the main one being decoupling of the application and the back end. This way, rather than your application developers needing to know how to talk to the database, they simply use an API to talk to the middleware, which never changes even if you replace the back end database software (moving from Oracle to DB2 for instance). Think of it like a translation service, in this regard.

It also helps reduce overhead and latency. Imagine if you had to constantly write the actions of users to a database in real time for 50000 users, including all the metadata, just so your servers could communicate amongst themselves. The latency involved would be huge, even with today's vastly-better equipment. A fast middleware layer greatly helps to cut down on the data that needs to be written to the back end system, while also improving latency, for what's really not a lot of extra complexity. Two birds with one stone, so to speak.

This approach also helps you scale - you can treat everything as a node, with the middleware data as distinct messages. Messages are created and consumed from queues, and so you can have multiple application servers and multiple database servers, with applications publishing messages onto queues for processing, with the database servers consuming these messages if they have the resources to do so. Adding more capacity to the system then becomes as simple as creating a new database server and telling the middleware it exists - the extra resources are automatically used.

Most enterprises work this way.. The basic outcome is that you can start treating the components as a service, with easy separation of duty.

There's more detail here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware
As much as you can get. Start high and negotiate sensibly. Don't overvalue based on silly things like huge purchases that Facebook made, but don't be a fool and lowball yourself because you're afraid to ask for a lot.
> Why do you feel they are obligated to pay him for work he did not do?

From the account given, he did do work remotely.

> may not have even been an official hire with contracts signed.

A contract generally doesn't need to be signed to be valid (there are specific exceptions to this, but employment contracts generally aren't exceptions), it can be oral, and, accepting the account given by the OP, offer, acceptance, and performance under the contract are all evident.
I fucked up and I am sorry
I'm always willing to negotiate.

Upwards.
Did you even read the article? Right before the part you quoted the author defined customer service to be the un-automatable parts of what we now consider customer service, the purpose of the redefinition being to make people realize that not all aspects of it can be automated. You mentioned problems with the computerized components of what we today call "customer service". You're arguing with a definition the author didn't use, not to mention making a speculative ad hominem attack...
I don't see the harm in supporting companies and protects the case from scratches in that particular area.
Fenrir Bound: Why Bring Back The Wolf?
Great, thanks for this, I'll have to check those out when I'm at a computer with access.
TechCrunch?

The Lean Startup?

Built to Last?

The Six Sigma Way?
SemVer has failed us
We started with Lob in July 2013. Having done a lot of startups, I knew there was probably a hamster wheel powering everything behind the scenes, but they did a good job fulfilling some rather enormous orders with grit and professionalism. Looking forward to sending out a bunch of prints this fall. Hopefully, they are now powered by a massive grid of hamster wheels.
When you, or a hedge fund, or any other market participant, decide to sell or buy a security, the trade is submitted to a broker. That broker may submit the trade to the floor, an ECN, or market maker, and so on. Only in very specific cases -- particularly an ECN to a specific exchange where it might have a spread with a regional exchange, is timing so critically important.

But for 90% of those trades, it's a block limit order that sits on the order book until it's filled.

For many trades this is irrelevant. For those where it does matter, it is the very last, smallest part of the system -- the execution engine -- where timing is everything. That is the part of the system where HFT engineers are building hyper-speed interconnects and optimizing every single instruction, but it is not relevant to the majority of the stack.

Delays everywhere else in the system are largely meaningless -- yeah prices may have changed slightly, but unless you've mastered market timing (which no one has), it will generally even out and is irrelevant.
Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
> your mother could do it

are you implying that my mother's stupid?
Love it. SimplyBuilt uses Rails as a backend too!
Not if there's any chance that tmp would get automatically cleared out, ever. I've seen people intentionally, cluelessly save work in temporary directories and then get upset when it was nuked at a later date.
Treat it like you would treat any other deal, you're selling the company. Whether or not it is an acquihire is not up to you but to the acquirer so sell it for what you think it is worth for them if that price is higher than what it is worth to you.
Good thing it is no 65536 plaintiffs or the 16-bit counter will overflow!
No, it is trivially easy to put non-DRMed books onto a kindle.

One publisher who I find particularly reader-friendly is Baen. If I buy a book from them, it goes into my account there so I can download it at any time (and any number of times) in the future, in a wide variety of formats. Since I do my reading on a kindle, I click the send to kindle link and it pops up next time I turn on my kindle's wireless.
Just build something for yourself. Something complicated but not too complicated. Best way to learn in my opinion.
Nope. I'm implying that your mother most likely doesn't have the skills necessary to build a website either from scratch, or other existing tools.
I want to find this programmer and fire them
You better run! I want to find the person responsible for making the default choice in Microsoft word to cross-reference an entire caption.
Who is minding the shop at Microsoft? What kind of idiot makes that the default and NEVER lets the user change it.
I want to find you. I want to find you and have a long conversation about the decisions you have made in your life that brought you to this point.

And also: Stop changing the GUI!!!!
Interesting. Is there a demo login with dummy data, so we can see how well it actually works?
I don't know about HUP but Springer certainly doesn't. The only editorial support is answering questions about providing camera-ready copy and the only marketing support is ensuring libraries get copies of their catalogs.
Weave (YC S14) Adds Groups and Events to Its ‘Tinder For Networking’ App
Mass Desire: The First Unbreakable Law of “Breakthrough” Copywriting
I have no idea whats going on but its very exciting looking.
Reminds of an interesting debate around using the mini-map in games like GTA that ruin gameplay vs learning the city itself to enjoy the game more. You're forced to remember landmarks and know your war around a bustling sity. See: http://kotaku.com/5828760/youve-been-playing-gta-iv-wrong
Should the Government Outsource its Media Monitoring?
NIFTY-USDINR Rotating Inversely Correlated Assets [QuantConnect]
Anyone know where the name came from? It happens to be my last name and it's really amusing me reading the docs and these comments.
It would be nice if this were more meaningful but the Mint director is not significant policymaker or even influencer. Perhaps he is in a position to advocate for cryptocurrencies from an informed position regarding the cost of printing reasonably secure banknotes, but he's not equipped to say much about whether, for example, Argentina should convert to a cryptocurrency if their current currency collapses and the altternative is dollarization.
Unfortunately, large companies can also much more easily engage in rent-seeking behaviour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking) which small competitors can't engage in effectively unless they organize as a group (effectively a small business union)

Even worse, rent-seeking is often a better use of money than actually innovating in the market you supposedly compete in. If I can disadvantage all of my competitors with horrific regulations that severely penalize small size competitors, then I need to do nothing and rake in the cash.

So, its a tired refrain, but one of the other main issues is that our regulatory and governance bodies are just not agile enough to deal with companies that are, and actively manipulate them.

In some cases, that can be a benefit, as loopholes or slow response may allow companies to get established before regulation catches up and reams them, but if the big boys (JP, GE, Exxon, Apple, Walmart, ect..) are on the ball, they can effectively kill whole markets as they appear. Just regulate them away.
By the way, Judge Lucy Koh estimated that fees would be $82885000, so each of the 64466 class members would have received $3750, not quite the “essentially zero” that Alex at TechCrunch claims in the article you link.

Source: Judge Koh’s order http://www.scribd.com/doc/236255928/Apple-Google-Intel-Adobe...
Is this actually possible? I would have expected the authors' contracts with Hachette to include some sort of exclusive right to publication (perhaps for a time window or some such).

Does anyone have experience with this?
>I'm surprised that the first link of yours doesn't show the fact

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=medical%20patent...

Dean Baker has written a lot on patents in medicine, and in other fields as well. It would probably be interesting for you.
General Electric Wants to Act Like a Startup
I'm in sales (network monitoring, deep packet inspection and security). I've tried code bootcamps six or seven times, but coding isn't for me, talking is my thing. As you said, the frontpage is the day after tomorrows news in my industry. Just because I read HN, it seems I'm very well informed.
Besides that I'm a failed entrepeneur (closed shop after 2 years, now mostly wantrepeneur/idea-guy ;)) and I enjoy reading succes stories of others.
I wish that routes weren't stuck within strings like `/artist/:id`, but instead used some kind of pattern matching like `['artist' :id]`. It's better to use Ruby syntax instead of a quoted string of characters that can't be manipulated or verified as easily.
To the most of the world, even being poor in the US is a dream. They would never understand you parents complaining about tech people complaining.
It's strange that even the NYT got this wrong -- the bulk of the agreement was not in fact about poaching engineers, but rather sales and product people[0].

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-br...
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I can tell you your last name means "wheel" in greek (ρόδα). Maybe it's a "Ruby on Wheels" wordplay of some sort?
No we shouldn't be 'complaining'. As tech workers we have it better than most professions in the United States. However that doesn't mean we should be happy that the powers that be are conspiring against us to not pay us what we are truly worth. Any profession shouldn't accept collusion against them by corporations, regardless of what they're currently paid.

Lawyers can charge hundreds of dollars an hour but no one begrudges them that because that is what the market for their services is. Maybe the market for strong IT workers will land in that range too if the market was allowed to work.
This collusion depressed the price of engineering talent but so does H1B Visas. Need to work on the current battle as well...
As coldcode pointed out, "being an OTA" is a lot of work.

I'm not involved in that side of the business, but I'd take our public statements at face value.
Glad that you appreciate them! Feel free to use them or contribute to them to your hearts content :)
Is there any recourse for the engineers who weren't directly affected by the collusion but were affected by the indirect effect on the market as a whole?
Indeed; I have a number of health records that only exist because I kept copies (and I'm lucky my copies only got a bit damp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado and http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ ).

In another case, my doctor worked for a multi-doctor practice that went out of business, and it was claimed all records were lost due to "computer problems". Nothing really valuable there, but with so much chaos in the US medical systems, where I have and see lots of doctors giving up independent practice and going to work for "the man" ... well, at the very least PicnicHealth should allow a client to send them paper copies or scans of records.
This is my take at drawing in Clojure:

https://github.com/alamar/elegraph/blob/master/moscow.png

An infographic showing voting in some elections in Moscow, and presumed violations thereof.

One pixel - one vote. One blob - one voting comission. Had to learn to draw circles of a given area.
Here is link that goes through Google and bypasses paywall: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
Have you looked at https://www.healthvault.com/us/en?

Also, how does this product compete against Health Vault?
Indeed but so far, software has shown itself much more capable of solving logical puzzle than determining relevance. It seems fairly clear that the Jeopardy win came from the program having a lot of data and logical statements from which it could make relevant guesses and deductions.

If the software could make a coherent summary of and answer questions about what took place in a single, informal meeting, that would be an incredible advance. I haven't seen evidence of this.
It's frustrating that this perspective doesn't get more attention. HN and tech in general pays lip service to addressing social problems, but it's primarily concerned with congratulating its own success and getting defensive against the concerns of the rest of the economy.

No, it's not our fault that others aren't as well off. But that doesn't make mean we can't do anything to help; it does mean we should complain about getting paid marginally lower six figures with a little more self-awareness.
Is PicnicHealth a non-profit (although it doesn't appear to be)? If not how is the market willing and able to pay for such a service? (considering that users, not institutions are charged)

> We personally make sure your doctor has updates before you get to the office.

This is huge. With all the different record systems, many of which still use physical paper, this seems like a massive expense. Unless my physicians also have to use a piece of PicnicHealth software?

edit: It looks like this works by integrating with a patient portal provided by the healthcare institution.
(a) Many do. In fact, many old paperbacks had order forms in the back for other books directly from the publisher. Been doing it forever. On the other hand, you will pay full cover price, which for ebooks means full hard-/paper-back price. Because...

(b) The publisher's other retail markets (Barnes & Noble, Wal-Mart, other distributors and bookstores) would crap out a literal brick, which they would then apply to the publisher, if the publisher started competing with them.
I don't know what you're expecting (nightlies?) but KiCAD is a slow-moving project. Take a look at the old builds folder to get a rough idea of the interval between releases.

And that's not a random French server. KiCAD was originally started by a French researcher, and that's the site it's been distributed from for a long time. Only in the last few years has development shifted to a different location, but we haven't seen a whole lot of outward improvement.

I don't want to sounds like a fanboy; KiCAD clearly needs a lot of work on multiple fronts. But I've used it for moderately complex 2-6 layer projects and it's performed well enough for my purposes. If it's the Free Software angle you're interested in, there's always gEDA (which I have not used extensively).
$300 billion dollars isn't enough?
I completely agree except for your implication that the behavior of Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, etc was just some sort of trivial Silicon Valley nonsense. They actually committed a serious crime if it is true which it seems to be based on the released emails I have seen. The companies involved having to pay some money as punishment is just a slap on the wrist.
$3750 is about a week's pay for a tech worker, so essentially zero.

Salaries jumped by about $30K/year when the pact collapsed, so the commenters above who are calling for the decimal point to shift a place to the right aren't all that unreasonable.
You can still iterate through all the properties of an object (the indexes associated to the code units, in case of a String) and recursively implement equality on them this way.

The fact that, up to ES5, there's been no agreement on which name to use for the equality function and no default implementation for it it's of no excuse to avoid the issue. It's their (the people who standardized it) Map type, and they should've been able to make it as useful as possible.
It looks like a modern version of War Games. But how does it determine the origins and attack targets in real time?
I'm an electrical/computer engineer. Coding/CS is only an auxiliary interest for me.
These comments need to be hedges. With services like soundcloud and artists publishing their music and directly uploading new albums, a new method for payments that is not an over-extended method of sales and 'representation' based on antiquated physical formats will need to rise, and I welcome it.
HN readers like yourself are a big plus, it lends the site diversity. There is also a fairly big age range.

I would definitely agree with point A.

The odd gem, like [0].

Advice or pointers from other HN readers.

I do not work in the software industry, but I would call myself a hacker.

The term "hacker" can be interpreted in imaginative ways, I wouldn't be surprised to find hackers in your area of work.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7388576
"The attacks shown are based on a small subset of live flows against the Norse honeypot infrastructure, representing actual worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors."