skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are absolute numbers. From 1 million to 5 million is a 500% increase. I doubt any nation has seen anywhere close to a 500% increase in their population numbers.
What was very interesting was bullshitting with somebody who knew a good chunk from DataStax, and realizing that the use cases for Cassandra actually do edge out pretty far into traditional business territory. It's something that you could actually envision replacing mainframes and whatnot in many cases, even for relatively mundane line-of-business applications.
I honestly don't recall seeing much, if any, evangelism to the extremes of "hey you don't need a relational database anymore" as it relates to Cassandra. Talks I've seen have generally focused on using it as a tool to fit a specific niche/do something that the existing RDBMS wasn't optimal for.

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I have some first hand proof that google pays not-all-that-senior engineers that kind of money and more.

So if you're good then you may consider moving to one of the bigger players for a substantial increase in pay.
What's with the resentment towards psychology on YC?[Insert Freudian joke here]
My recollections of Cornell and UW are the same. Show up and ask questions and you might wind up working in their lab.
That's still the saving grace to me. Every Uber driver I've talked to was happy to have the job and felt like they were making good money.
> However, I seem to be the only one who sees the irony in complaining about the NSA recording everything we do, and simultaneously giving large amounts of recording equipment to other parts of various levels of government.

The NSA can surveil everyone in mediums the average person considers to be a private venue. Whatever I'm doing on a police chest cam is something they were able to see with their eyes already.
We would love to be on Android. We focused on iOS first because we've been exploring the space over the past two years with new products every few months to find something that sticks. This is the first app we've launched, and you can bet that we will bring it to Android as soon as we have the resources!
Colin, you're missing end-parenthesis in your memset calls.
very cool - finally an app thats for people who dont want to put their entire life on instagram / fb - but still want to share it with loved ones. The UI is also pretty impressive - 5* from me !
2nd wrong, DDG doesn't use Google for search results at all. Google essentially killed Scroogle that did exactly what startpage is doing now by banning their search proxy, which makes one wonder, what is the special relationship that startpage has with google that scroogle did not.
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Nope. Groupon wasn't great for it's main customers, small biz owners. Uber is great for it's main customers.
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And twice as many ER visits!

That sounds like an awesome challenge for a Japanese game show - soapy shower treadmill walk...
Because they don't do a read before insert/update/delete, so random inserts don't do random reads/io, but create new versions.

They aren't trying to trick you. Bigtable,hypertable,hbase (i think even tokudb/mx) work the same.
Get up early. You have to make sure to do the important thing first in the morning and chip away at it day by day. This is very hard, but still possible by slowly building up a routine (even if your an 'owl'). Spend your best brain-time on your own stuff, get to work and try to manage the dayjob with the leftovers. Be a B player, fuck them.
You moved the goalposts on someone else's assertion. No where was "on a regular basis" stated except by you. The recent chokehold death - a banned technique that resulted in a death - is a good example of what the parent was probably talking about.
Beyond a certain amount of money (I'll throw out a number and say, $10M), the incremental gain is not much. The change in your lifestyle in going from $0M to $5M is huge; but from $10M to $15M? Not much. So these CEOs are doing the smart thing (in addition to the nice thing). They know that when they get the inevitable itch to do the next startup, they can count on a stellar reputation and recruit some great talent.
we're a small team so we started on ios, but it would be fun to implement this on android since it has a lot more access to sensors and control over what happens in the background. we'll likely iterate a bit more before starting on the port though.
Yes, it will stop when platforms are distributed and cannot be shut down so easily. Where APIs are replaced with protocols, built on top of the open web.
Just reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvnr52Muwo8
Most carry an array of networked sensors on their person already. - NSA
Is having your eyes poked out a part of police training now? Every cop comes with two cameras, the output of which cannot be reviewed but is highly trusted in a court of law.
Ubers model (and AirBnb) are comparable to the models employed by sites like 'justeat'. First you are a convenience, you move into an empty field and supply a service that the public loves and suppliers become dependant on.

Then, once you've achieved market dominance you start the squeeze, slowly capturing more of the revenue stream. Because a huge amount of the customers now comes to the suppliers through you if a supplier balks they get cut off and that bit of the revenue stream gets redistributed over the ones that remain. Those will soon learn 'not to mess with you'.

It's very clever and it works over and over again, there are quite a few industries that have suddenly found themselves in this situation. I call them 'the new middlemen', where the www was initially thought to allow us to cut the middlemen out a new generation of middlemen has stepped up and has exploited the opportunity and has in the process gotten rid of the old middlemen.
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Cool - the notes are very educational. I love this kind of thing: "This must NOT be more than 12 characters long and character 9 cannot be X"
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Fair enough - I didn't mean to imply it on the part of the parent but on arguments about police brutality in general, particularly on the internet.
I took a below market salary to work for a startup. When we were acquired I ended up with about 8 grand. I was kind of exciting because I honestly didn't think that the equity in my contract would be worth anything. Founders made something like 24m, 26m, and 8m. I handful of early employee my have made a couple hundred k. I still have all of the paperwork and I believe there were a handful of employee millionaires. I joined late and missed out on a big pay day. Do I wish I got more? YES. Do I think I deserve more? Probably a little bit more than 8k but I didn't put go through the early grind and put in the same work they did. I helped the company grow to acquisition though.

The thing about the startup lottery is that in the small chance your startup wins it, that doesn't mean you'll also win.

Founder did take the whole company on a tropical vacation which was unexpected and even paid partially for spouses.
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You could still do it with two colors if it remembered the previous color as well, and if you didn't allow "keep going straight" or "move back in the direction you came from" as options.

(Imagine the ant as a space-ship, and every time it turns, it also changes its pitch/yaw, so the directions are based on its direction of travel.)

Current | Previous | Action
white | white | go starboard
white | black | go port
black | white | go down
black | black | go up
"Who watches the watchers?"

I hope you realize that does that one thing you question.

Also, police encounters are generally in the public, where you shouldn't expect privacy in the first place. You can't ask for the right to film officers, then complain if they film you.

Besides, most likely you're on camera anyway. So smile :)
> "The business owners may deem the posting or order of user reviews as a threat of economic harm, but it is not unlawful for Yelp to post and sequence the reviews," Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for the three-judge panel. "As Yelp has the right to charge for legitimate advertising services, the threat of economic harm that Yelp leveraged is, at most, hard bargaining."

That's an interesting interpretation of what it would constitute if a company were to do that.
No way to know what keys to hit? Pretty cool though!
Well... there is app.net - But honestly I don't think that anyone beyond a certain german podcast-bubble really uses this.
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> engaging in immortal practices to eliminate competition

Since when is poaching employees considered immoral?
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Why wouldn't you make key volatile? Shouldn't that solve all the problems? Or is it because it would be to slow because the compiler can't do that many optimizations in the rest of the function any more?
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When Rialto, California PD ran it's pilot program it found that both parties tended to behave better knowing there was a camera. 88% drop in complaints against the officer and 60% drop in police officers use of force.[1]

While you'll still have criminals that don't care, there are plenty that do, especially when they know that it's no longer just their word vs the police officer.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-poli...
This is a good approach or you can just check or add links to your fav framwork/ language in this link bank on github, which is in development repo and has all links to trusted blogs, videos etc.
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Caffeine appeared when plants started producing it, however it must have evolved from a similar molecule. I guess it makes more sense to talk about evolution of larger molecules like proteins, but the title isn't completely wrong.
I think you're thinking of Nebraska or other cheap states. Alaska, Hawaii and other remote places have never been cheap to live in
It looks like only a small number of officers will have them for the pilot program. But even if widely adopted, I feel like this wont help stop police abuse due to the Blue Code of Silence.

Besides, cameras on squad cars don't prevent racial profiling on the road. I've never been told "you were driving while black, so lets see if you have something illegal in your car."

Instead, I hear: "it didnt look like you were wearing your seatbelt..." or "you were following the car ahead of you too closely..." or "I need to check your window tint" (and i dont even have tinted windows!)

I feel like body cams are just another obstacle for abusive police to maneuver around.
What if the company was really worth $9 millions at its peak post-bubble, but its founder's good/lucky timing selling it near the peak of the bubble gave it a 100x multiplier?

Say your contribution to the company is worth 1% of the company's value, would you say you added $90k to the value of the company or $9 million?
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Would love to hear feedback and impressions.

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Thanks!

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This is revealing in 2 ways.

1. Twitter doesn't care about developers.
2. Twitpic wasn't making enough money.
If you've ever been in a country with a completely unregulated taxi "system", Uber's success should absolutely terrify anybody.

Trying to make sure you aren't part of an "express kidnapping" or "millionaire tour" is a real problem in many places.
Sounds like GroupMe, sold for 80 mill and was around a year old at the time
>Los Angeles simply outlawed the jitney due to the amount of revenue it was losing as fewer people were taking the city's railways.

They were obviously successful if they had to be stopped for emptying the trains. It's a shame they don't try something similar these days - private minibuses that you can flag down. They'd need to be regulated a bit I think as when Thatcher tried allowing private busses in the UK they all piled into the same central locations and caused jams, but if you could avoid that it could work and be a lot cheaper than an Uber.
> This will turn out to be the most important technology news of the year.

I live in Manhattan as well, and I used to think this would help.

But then Eric Garner[0] happened. The video evidence there was about as clear as you can get, and still it was amazing how apologetic the responses I saw from both NYPD and other LEOs in other jurisdictions (e.g. /r/ProtectAndServe)[1][2].

And look at Ferguson. We have no shortage of evidence of the atrocities that have been committed there. The problem isn't just pictorial evidence. The problem is actually turning that evidence into action.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner

[1] https://pay.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/2b4on3/i_d...

[2] Note that this particular thread was later linked from /r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut so the current state is not representative of what it was when it was initially posted - previously, the comments defending the NYPD had far more support (votes-wise), and many of the comments defending Garner are from readers of the latter subreddit.
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He's referring to the accusation that Uber employees are deliberately ordering and then, shortly afterwards, cancelling rides with competitors' services in order to screw with the dispatch system and waste the drivers' time.
Unfortunately, Firefox only supports Ogg for video. Although it's open, it's far worse than h.264 for quality :(
I studied physics at Harvard. It was incredibly easy to interact with top shelf professors. It was one of my favorite parts of my education.
Anyone else getting audio clipping at the end of samples?

(Windows 7, Firefox 31)
Cool, great work! Please do post your changes back to the main project, assuming most of them will be generally useful to VexFlow -- 0xfe/Mohit seems quite active and good about responding to pull requests.
Well, I can scratch him off my list of insightful individuals. I don't know what it is with "success" but it seems to really mess with your mind. I wonder if it's that certain types of "successful" people live in a bubble where everyone is agreeing, cajoling, and otherwise brown-nosing that you start losing touch with reality and cannot think clearly.

To say that a bubble cannot be a bubble because the "broader public is not involved" is just flat out stupid. Sure, it's the last stage of a bubble, the defraud the general public stage where the crooks gather up all the money and run for the getaway car, but it's still a bubble.
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It sounds like you're looking for Haskell.
How big compared to an elephant or blue whale? I feel like a quick image mashup would do this justice.
> You can't ask for the right to film officers, then complain if they film you.

Sure you can. For example, it's commonly argued that there's a public interest in how police officers carry out their public duties. It's also commonly argued that the legal power differential (see: monopoly on use of force) between police and civilians justifies different restrictions on the police than on civilians.

I actually agree that there's no problem with the police filming in public, but your argument is crazy.
Relax or else: mandatory paid vacations at tech companies
About the talks, yeah. There is no one talking about how we replaced our rdbms (except where they were using the rdbms as kv or something similar like reddit), because it isn't possible.
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RelativeInterface is the framework that powers rendering for compositions made with Form. There's no need to purchase it. We're hoping to open it up for people to use in non-Form projects, but that announcement will be coming later.
You know what makes a criminal different from you? Nothing besides the fact that they broke a law and then got caught. Have you ever broken a law?

You do at least realize you're a racist, right?
Great economist would optimize the money at the start of their career? I would expect him to optimize lifetime earnings.
I have a BS in Physics from UCSB. There were only 5 of us physics majors in my graduating class, compared to 800+ anthropology majors. As a physics major, access to professeurs' time and lab resources was excellent.

Back in the 1970s, my education was very much less than it would have been at an ivy league school!
I applaud the effort and it may help in significant violations of human rights. As far as general harassment goes, not sure this is gonna help much.

What do you expect to happen when someone gets harassed? Who is he going to call? The police station?

Civilian: "Hello, Mr.Officer, one of your colleagues were being mean to me and didn't let me get on the bus today without questioning everything about me."

Officer: "I apologize for any inconvenience he may of caused you sir, we'll look into it."

Officer to colleague: "So....Did we decide on Mexican for lunch? Or Sushi?"
Slightly OT since it has little to do with security, but fighting the optimizer is something FPGA Verilog and VHDL designers must also master.

If you don't use an the result of some logic it will be optimized out. One way to prevent this is to route it to a pin.

If logic is fed by a constant, it will be optimized out right up to the point where the result of the logic is mixed with some external input. (early tools could not use the dedicated reset net due to this- reset for each flip-flop had to be routed to a pin or the reset net was optimized out which means the initial state of your flip-flop is lost).

If you have identical logic, one copy is optimized out due to aggressive CSE. This is often bad for performance (routing in an FPGA is as slow as logic, so it's better to regenerate identical results in multiple places), so you add "syn_maxfan" constraints to prevent the "optimization".

On the other hand, an input flip flop will be duplicated if the fanout limit is exceeded- but this prevents the use of the dedicated I/O cell flip flop which then causes external timing to be messed up. So you use syn_maxfan=infinite for this case.
I'm not sure there's a meaningful distinction there. Caffeine is the (current) end product of an evolutionary process. If we went out and killed every caffeine-producing plant in existence today but continued to synthesize caffeine ourselves, caffeine would still be a product of evolution and would still exist, despite the fact that its "reproduction strategy" has changed from "biosynthesis by plants" to "industrial synthesis by humans", and that its continued existence is mediated by memes, not genes.
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I do understand the problem in "watching the watchers". My point is that the solution should not be to add more of the thing that caused the problem in the first place. If we do, then it just becomes a race to who can have the most surveillance of the most people in the most places.

Edit: Claiming "it's happening anyway, so just accept it" is the wrong way to approach this. Why shouldn't we try to make things better?
I truly hope that Woz is remembered as the guy behind Apple's early greatness and Jobs as just a dickhead who set us all back. Not just developers with his no compete bullshit, but everyone with his stupid no ports aesthetic. How are people supposed to learn to tinker when everything is locked down??
At the bare minimum, wouldn't you have deserved whatever the discrepancy was between the below-market salary they offered you and the market salaries you could have gotten elsewhere, aggregated over the years you were at the startup? I'm guessing that would be more than $8k in total.

You also had to deal with the post-acquisition career turmoil of either losing your job or having to work for the acquiring company, neither of which would have happened had you taken a market salary at a larger company.
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If you have ever taken one of those courses, whether brick and mortar or online, you will understand that it's simply a con job that the driving school industry has pushed through.

If the intent were really to penalize and disincentivize then punishment would need to be relative, e.g., your speeding ticket would need to be a percentage of your last annual income.
You are incorrect on Running. I know lots of runners that use the time to think things through, and I know personally that I have come up with numerous creative ideas while running.
People need to realize that if body cameras don't have public live streams they are entirely negative for the general population. They'll be used against you in court and "strangely malfunction" when they could be used in your favor.

It's very dangerous to give the police complete control over video evidence, which is why I feel body cameras are a misguided attempt at sousveillance. Instead, we should be setting up public live streams in public areas, and controlling the recordings ourselves.
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Thanks for posting the link. I am looking for the right approach not material.
In times of economic downturn there is always an uptick in newly minted entrepreneurs. Some of them will make it, most of them will not and will be re-employed in at most a few years. Think of them as the unemployed that refuse to give up, and that alone makes them worth watching, they're fighters, but that doesn't change the stats too much in their favour. Something similar is happening in Spain.
I hope you'll be glad to hear this effort is already underway: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/nyregion/new-york-police-o...
I dont think startup CEOs have any requirement to do this type of thing. On the other hand I think there is a powerful reality distortion field around start ups. Its literally more work than at bigco, for about 70% of the salary, for a lotto ticket that has a 1 in 1000 chance of pay off, and the jackpot payoff is something like 50K-100K.

Really Really doesnt make sense unless you enjoy the atmosphere you are not going to get rich as an employee in a start up, even if the start up sells for 500 million. you are going to get back the 30% a year you lost by not going to bigco unless the founders just feel like making everyone rich.
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Oh, interesting. Now, I wonder, is that ethically wrong? I mean, if you chose to identify as Muslim, is someone holding you to the Muslim belief system wrong?
I wish. I took the position because my previous position was so terrible that I was taking the first offer someone shot my way. Had I not been so desperate and naive I may have negotiated for more salary or equity. I did manage a 43% raise post acquisition (still below market). I wish I would have put the whole 8k into the Tesla IPO too but I can't go back in time.
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Ars Technica has a useful chart: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen....

(From http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/meet-dreadnoughtus-th...)
Yes, making key volatile would force the zeroing to happen; and yes, you don't want to do that because it would absolutely kill your code performance.
This is in the same way as Google is "in the sack" with Yahoo, Facebook, Softbank, Xaiomi or any of the countless companies that have recruited ex-Google execs?