skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're basically saying is that Cisco is so incompetent

No, I'm sure the company is very efficiently and rationally operated, but they can do that and still suck at innovation and retaining top engineers.

They could pay an engineer whatever the hell the engineer wanted

They could, but they'd also have to figure out how to let that engineer be productive and overall figure out how to balance research and innovation, and maintaining existing product lines (which is a huge drain in Cisco)

If you want interesting work, it's somewhere in the org, or will be on the next acquisition.

Yes, I worked with an acquisition at Cisco, it was cool, until they vested and almost all left. I got a raise and a better job by leaving too.

Four, they don't even need talented engineers to create products that will sell. Even college kids with no industry experience can create a successful product if they're determined enough.

In my whole time at Cisco, my group was not able to recruit a young "college kids with no industry experience", and not for lack of trying. Cisco was just not offering an attractive environment for junior engineers either.

Their well-oiled machine can deal with not having 'rock stars'.

Then why do they need aquisitions?

Five, great engineers work at all sorts of places for all sorts of reasons.

Some may stay regardless, but Cisco is not giving them the environment to innovate outside of incremental improvements to existing product.

You don't need to personally have the best engineers, you just need to be able to license their tech.

Sure, Cisco could give up market leadership, and just rebrand other peoples stuff, but then they wouldn't be a leading tech company. They would just be a marketing shell.
Very cool!

Another useful tool is http://selectorgadget.com
How scientists taxidermied the last Pinta Island tortoise
It's not working for OneDrive. After I signed in, it redirected me to the homepage. GDrive works.
It depends. I have worked in various places. Some were very sociable, other everyone went straight home to families. If I was considering a job in a new location, I think I would definitely factor in a "fun sounding" environment.
The given title was not appropriate because it did not fit the HN rule of "Use the original title"
Bidz.com Goes Up for Sale
Go's JSON parser ignores fields that aren't present in the destination type, so the addition of new parameters shouldn't be a problem.
I guess it wasn't entirely clear, but I was referring to repeated auctions for limited time permits (e.g. annual). That puts new entrants on an equal footing after a relatively short period of time.
There was a similar incident that comes to mind, BlueCoat hardware deployed by Assad's government in Syria.

It was found that Assad was having traffic monitored through BlueCoat proxies installed at the ISP level. Logs were leaked showing monitoring of religious, sexual, political content.

Of course many are now dead, countless others imprisoned. Much thanks to BlueCoat and salesmen who assisted Assad's government in procuring the hardware.

Sidenote: This topic, and others around it have gotten several accounts of mine here ghosted. Best stick to discussing how your start-up wants to sell traffic monitoring hardware and SaaS via independent sales agents to whoever has cash.
Even assuming these tests were highly accurate indicators of cancer, some carriers might literally die before either they get cancer or suffer any ill effects from the cancer.

Our bodies do naturally fight a lot of cancerous growths, which is why a family with a gene which makes them more susceptible to XYZ might never suffer from XYZ. The cells might grow out of control, then get nuked by the immune system before they get too big.

I cannot decide if such generic tests are helpful or unhelpful. On one hand it might make people extra vigilant to a certain condition, but on the other hand do damage to their mental health as the stress of "maybe" coming down with something deadly any day.

Plus family history seems a like more reliable as an indicator.
I agree that I missed cable television regulation. Thank you. With regards to satellite, that would fall under their regulation of the RF spectrum.
Study Groups
What language/platform were you using that had "2-4x" lower throughput than the port to Go?
The salary in this example is per year, the rent is per month. So actually a 10% rent increase is $1200 per year and a 1% salary increase is $1000 per year for a net loss of $200.
FWIW, the Facebook SVG in the home page doesn't seem to be loading for me. Rest looks great. Congrats!
It's comparable to any consecutive launches that occurred in the nearly five decades since.
A tiny startup is winning the race to power the smart home
Has anyone else tried this?

I've tried it with several people with varying degrees of success. The only real insight I've had from the process is that there are some people that just can't be taught programming because they have no interest in computers.

They're only making a half-hearted attempt to learn because they "hear you can make a lot of money programming."

Even junior level web programmers need to know a lot of non-programming topics to get their foot in the door. They need to know what a domain name is, what an IP address is, what a web browser is, what a file is, what a folder is, what a hard drive is and how to access it, how to back up files, how to copy files, the difference between http and https, the impact of various browsers and versions, etc, etc. All sounds great until you really try to teach a complete computer novice how to program. They just have incredible gaps in their basic computer knowledge that are not easily overcome.
I don't think that's possible. If it's public domain, none can claim copyright.
At every sales-pitch I've ever attended, the enterprise vendors mention “reliability” about every other word – the message that your boss will fire you for taking risks unless you buy their hardware is communicated with the subtlety of a solar eclipse.

As for the RAID point, you'd very much want to find real data for that. I've heard similar folklore but have also heard plenty of lost data stories from enterprise disks in enterprise RAID. If I were building out a large storage farm, I'd strongly consider forgoing hardware RAID altogether and using something like ZFS so it'd be observable.
Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge: Winning Model in Lisp by Gábor Melis
Here's what you must understand: for years, Rust has been a research project on the usability of memory-safe systems programming methods. Though the message has remained the same, the means used to achieve that message have evolved drastically. Furthermore, the actual truth of that message has gone from hopeful fiction to practical reality.

Specifically, having real, large codebases written in the language (Servo and the compiler itself) as well as an ever-expanding ecosystem of libraries has allowed the developers and the community to determine what approaches work best and should be emphasized. Abstractions and tools that are little-used are torn out or redesigned, while features that play to the language's strengths are given greater prominence. Modern Rust is actually a much lower-level language than pre-0.1 Rust (circa 2011), which, back then, conceptually resembled Go (via convergent evolution).

To answer your questions directly:

1. Yes, it was hype (or rather, naive optimism) in the beginning to believe that a memory-safe language could be compete with or exceed C++ in performance while also offering modern language features (without the menagerie of gotchas that accompany those features in C++). Thankfully, as the result of much iteration, it seems as though our optimism was not unfounded, and that such things really are possible.

2. You don't need to trust it now. The community is exploding all on its own, and I suspect that its growth is still limited by the fact that we're pre-1.0. Once the stable 1.0 release hits and a dependable library ecosystem coalesces, then evaluate the language and those using it to determine whether or not it's a language worth placing your trust in. Let it speak for itself!
Were the issues you hit being addressed by neovim (https://github.com/neovim/neovim)? They seem to be pretty interested in making a more extensible vim.
> I never made that claim

Sorry to report that yes you did, let me quote exactly (rather than paraphrase):

>> The detection is only done one while generating the bytecode

> That isn't how PHP natively works.

Since "the detection" is obviously a hypothetical assumed in case the compiler ever got a peephole optimizer, the only part of the phrase you could object to is that Zend PHP generates intermediate bytecode.
>How was the title not appropriate?

I'm not arguing that what you submitted as the title is not an accurate summary of the article; HN guidelines are that you're supposed to submit the original title of the article, and only submit a new title if the article's original title is appropriate.
I partially disagree. I know people, IT contractors(.NET) that got 490 euro/day in Germany
The argument the author is making is not about how hard the algorithm is to crack, it's about process. Also, I was a CISSP and everything can eventually be cracked. It's just a matter of time and access--that's why most process put in place is to limit those two factors.
I am an Indian. And curries smell.
This proposal already exists:
Subresource Integrity
http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/

http://www.chromestatus.com/features/6183089948590080
http://status.modern.ie/subresourceintegrity
You know, whenever we get one of these salary articles on HN, there's always one or two people chiming in with vague anecdotes like "That seems really low! Most engineers I know are making $200K+!" or "Company X pays engineers $250K LOL" despite the fact that most responses (backed up by averages from anonymously-reported salaries like Glassdoor) seem to agree that $90-$140K is about average in SF and NYC.

Not that I don't believe you, but I'd love to, one day, actually see a real, specific engineering job posting with a published (or unpublished) base salary offering over $200K. Just one.
CO2 isn't the only issue, of course. Biodiversity is another good reason to preserve the rainforests, and algae can't make up for that.
Do you mean PARC circa 1970s?
The title you submitted (which was not the original title at all) was a classic case of editorializing: cherry-picking one thing you think is important about the article. HN doesn't allow that. HN titles are pointers to stories, not little op-eds, and need to neutrally reflect the story's content as a whole.

HN readers can make up their own minds about what parts of an article are important. It's not the submitter's prerogative to do that for everybody. Being first to submit a story confers no authority over it. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do so in the comments, so your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's.

HN's value hierarchy starts with respect for the content and for the reader; submitters are somewhat down on the list. Sorry, but it does apply to all of us qua submitter.

I'm not disagreeing about the detail you singled out. Arguably, the article buries the lede. The place to point that out, however, is not in the title but in the comments, where there is ample opportunity to discuss the details and where the submitter is on the same footing as everyone else.

Edit: this discussion always comes up in the context of a title where people agree with the submitter's rewrite and disagree with moderators' reversion to the original. But that's not a good basis for assessing the rule. Instead, you should consider the far more common case of all the rewritten titles you disagree with, either because they're flat-out wrong or because the author's and your opinions differ. Imagine what HN would be like if it that were routinely ok. The front page would mostly be spin. HN would be more tendentious and have more kibitzing about titles than it does now. Those effects would be compounded everywhere else. It would be a very different place. The more experience I have with HN, the more I feel that pg's decision to have it always focus neutrally on content is one of the wisest design choices he made.
An entry level dev in Beijing from Beida/qinghua can easily pull in 20k rmb a month in Beijing (if they don't go abroad for grad school). There is competition for good devs that is pushing up salaries yearly. They are hardly diaosi.

Devs in HK aren't valued outside of banking; Taiwan is similar (many are coming to mainland to make more money, go figure).

India, oddly enough, seems much more competitive to me in terms of dev salaries.
I like the concept a lot. I'm definitely going to give it a whirl.

To go meta for a bit, it's sort of interesting that this is getting such a positive reaction from a crowd that typically sneers at CRUD software. I'm actually genuinely surprised because I was expecting lots of elitist and condescending comments from people, along the lines of, "gosh, we don't need another picture sharing app, we should be curing cancer instead!" Instead I see lots of props and encouragement, which means that there may be hope for HN after all.
In my experience, PHP can have really unexpected runtime performance. This site has some interesting benchmarks highlighting this: http://www.phpbench.com/

I'd like to hear of any other PHP performance gotchas people know of. One of my favorites: passing function arguments by value is faster than passing by reference.
1. 3 reasons that I cook: healthy ingredients, better taste, time saving.

2. I don't plan ahead. Some may find this as not organized, but I think it's a creative way/art in cooking. My brain even feel satisfied. I often go to the super market once a week with my wife and buy ingredients that we both like.

3. I cook things that fit my available ingredients.

4. I don't believe in strict diets as it's time consuming and expensive most of the time. I try to eat low carb, less sugar, less fat, more vegetable and fruits.

5. My 3 life hacks:

+ Eat when hungry (avoid over-eating to not get more fat)

+ Rest/exercise when tired (replenish your energy, get your fat to work, stay energized)

+ Work hard+smart
is there any logic to bringing some fissile material to mars for use as a future fuel source? My gut instinct says no, but its among the only things I can think of that would be heavy enough. Uranium and Plutonium are pretty heavy.

The only other things I could think of would be common catalyst materials like platinum. Something that could be collected and used later by some future mission. Lead might be useful, as a battery component, but forming it would be problematic.

If it remains tungsten, and the impact is going to be at very very high speeds, do any of the other mars rovers have instruments capable of detecting the seismic waves produced? Could that provide us any details of the makeup of the crust? A 150kg tungsten mass would likely make quite a crater traveling at 9000MPH.
Agreed, I spend most of my vacation days visiting family back home - it's been a long time since I've had an actual holiday, lying on a beach in the sun.
Combine Uber with Driverless Cars, and Nine Out of Ten Vehicles Become Obsolete
Where does the demand go? Not only one has to pay Liberia and various parties not to cut trees but one also needs to reshape the demand (for trees) or make sure that the demand is redirected to renewable resources and/or to tree plantations. To me, it seems to be the hardest challenge.
Ah, thanks for letting me know! I'll take a look to see what could be wrong.
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I suspect that, particularly in the startup arena, time is more valuable than money. VCs are throwing cash at you, but they want you to launch yesterday.
I think that was meant mostly as a compliment. Both trying everything and doing the right thing are rare enough behaviors, even by themselves. We should strive to be as good as we were, when he said that.
I've often wondered why Apple won't allow you to enter a 4 digit PIN with your touch ID. I would think that two-factor is better than just a thumbprint.
Yep, a lot of people have come up with this idea independently (I'm one of them). It's pretty obvious, after all.

But I don't think it will ever get much traction. Believe it or not, it's too far beyond the organizational and technical capacities of the people behind too many sites. The benefit, aside from slightly improved caching, will be minimal.

And if you're careful and meticulous you aren't doing braindead things like hotlinking javascript in the first place.
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Nice link. I'm not familiar with that community, although I think they might be describing something slightly different. Moldbug is asking how an audience from the ATL would interpret the actual fixed events of today ("a documentary"). But I think this link is more about how the ATL group would imagine OTL, without actually being constrained to it. Less wordy, but I think it's different exercise?
It wasn't just BitPay, also Coinbase and GoCoin: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Forward/PayPal-an...
It really seems to me like the CRTC is going after Netflix because a lot of people watch it on their televisions in place of content they may have otherwise watched on their television.
Related story:

The American Middle Class Hasn’t Gotten A Raise In 15 Years:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-american-middle-clas...
Hard drive age a bad parameter to use. It should be the hours the drive was actually powered on.
With panadermic semi-boloid slots? (Fully boloid slots require a macroflanging compensator, and who's got the money)
Thinking about tech innovation inspired by rock'n'roll reinvention
Probably not, but isn't that enough these days when so few companies do any sort of long-term bluesky R&D?
Allow me to preface this by saying I think we are in agreement, but I want to make sure we understand each other.

GP was just pointing out there is no law of nature that says the things worth having require effort. Your meditation anecdote is correct, but does not address the comment. There are things which are very good for us, but take little personal effort to attain (antibiotics are a good example, to continue with the drug theme...)

I believe meditation is an important, effortful aspect to understanding myself and how I relate to the world. I also believe that the psychedelic experiences I have had have worked in a similar, complementary manner. In either case, the amount of effort it took is not necessarily connected with the value received.

(Also, FWIW, not all meditation is concerted effort. Do you mean mindfulness? I believe Zen meditation advises that you let go of everything and do not focus; the blank slate principle and all that.)

Thank you for your polite comment.
We have this apprenticeships in Switzerland for all kind of jobs including IT. Those apprenticeships do always end in an official degree which is controlled by the government and is the same for all professions (e.g. mechanic, electrician, nurse, construction and so on).

For IT there is one apprenticeship with Software Development focus which takes 4 years and is split between school and working in the company. The content is defined by an IT company association and all companies providing those apprenticeship need to stick to this defined content. Those apprenticeships are usually done when people get 16, so they have this degree when they turn 19/20. After that they can go to university to do a Bsc or Msc if they want. I think its quite a good system because people get introduced early but slowly to the working world and also have a lot of time to learn other job related things like project management or office politics.
What I need is something like this that abstracts away where data is coming from (i.e. facade pattern). This would help make implementing offline capability seamless, and a discrete concern from the UI.
> Also, stock is not included in the data.

This is the big one. None of those numbers include equity, which can often be 40% or more of total compensation for engineers.
The URL will change along with the version and hash number, unless you're using jquery-latest.min.js which is a bad idea in general and wouldn't make sense to use with the hash attribute anyways.
I asked my mom once how they could make the foundations of the pyramids level over such a long distance. She replied that they could have dug a trench, filled it with water, and used that as a reference level for the foundation.

My reaction was "duh, but why didn't I think of that?"

We don't know if the Egyptians actually did it that way, but just because we are accustomed to think in terms of modern surveying equipment doesn't mean there aren't simple, low tech, accurate and effective solutions.

As for how to cut a rock accurately in situ, the usual way is to use a carpenter's square, jig, or form tool. Low tech and easy.
Give ankha a try. It's still in early development:
https://github.com/noprompt/ankha
They even had a blog post about why you shouldn't link to the latest CDN version.

http://blog.jquery.com/2014/07/03/dont-use-jquery-latest-js/
Yes but usually people come to me because I'm the tech guy and they expect something better then "Take whatever you want. They'll all make it through the first 3-4 years" ;)

The worst part of it is: my own HDs are all Seagates and I use them longer then that...
You may be able to role back to a registry before the offending change.

I did this once when an AVG update borked my system before a vacation: Got back, could not boot. Googling confirmed a significant AVG bug, repaired within hours of my applying the update.

Booted Knoppix, found a registry file dated just before the update (Windows at the time saved the last handful - this was XP several years ago), deleted the more recent ones, may have done some renaming, rebooted whilst holding my breath.

All was well.

Linux, the ultimate Windows recovery tool.
So you are saying it share's PARC's affinity for inventing things that were both difficult to manufacture and not economically viable? (Only half joking there)

I think it interesting that Sebastian left, he's a smart guy and I think he understood what he could do wielding Google X as a tool, that he left means he figured he could do get more of what he wanted to do outside the confines of Google X than he could with it. That makes for a really interesting thought exercise. And that brings us back to PARC, which discovered that the people who left PARC had a bigger impact outside of the lab than in it. The reasons for that were many but mostly they consisted of Xerox not actually being a 'research' company so much as it was a 'copier' company. What does that say about Google X?
But how do you stay the last mover? This is about building a moat.

To continue your analogy: How do you prevent yourself from losing your car keys again?
A CRISPR in your Future
> Second to that, you probably don't want to go single-source for your drives -- maybe use Hitachi with a mix of WD.

Can you explain why not?
>"The salaries aren't low. The data capture mostly the lower end of the distribution. Keep in mind that the data are from H1-B visa applications, so these are relatively low level positions. There are lots of recent graduates (foreign students who studied in US universities) starting in their first full time jobs."

Well the table with Senior Software Engineers certainly aren't recent grads (at least not in the places I have worked).

I disagree, the salaries ARE low. Why do you think US companies want more migrant tech workers? They pay them less, they are stuck with the company, and they work harder for various reasons (less social life, distractions, have something to prove, failure would mean disgrace back home, work ethic, ETC).

The farce that businesses want to import workers because there is a shortage of local ones has been marketed and propagated by corporations for their own financial gain.