skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had big dreams of creating an IT support contact system using Wave. I imagined users initiating contact and being greeted by a robot which would ask them for the basic details. Based on this information they would be picked up by the appropriate support team member who would seamlessly take over the conversation.

I could foresee that continuous improvement of the robot to include logic to deal with common problems and questions would, over time, eat away at the number of support tickets which were mundane "easy fixes".

Then Wave "died" and I took a new job where dealing with helpdesk ticketing systems wasn't a pressing concern any more.
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do you know the difference between net worth and income?
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That is NET worth not annual income. $250k is a very high annual income, and very few people attain this working for someone else. Most people bringing in that amount or higher are running a company.
Especially since it's the only way to be compatible as far as I know (since (VID,PID) determines the driver that will get loaded for proprietary protocols).

Also.. Can you even claim any special rights to a non-government registered trademark/brand name (one that is registered at a non-government entity - the USB Implementers Forum in this case)?
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That's net worth, not income. This is income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

That salary is not quite top-1%, but it is at least top 3%.
Those interested in automatic trading of bitcoin using algorithms should check out https://cryptotrader.org
This is net household value, not salary - it's safe to assume if his salary was ~$250k his household value was significantly larger.

In 2010, that salary would have put him somewhere between the top 5% - 1%: http://www.financialsamurai.com/how-much-money-do-the-top-in...
Why not run inside a virtualization environment like Virtual Box, Parrallels, etc. so you have everything working without any pain?
Honeypots have high value when embedded in high value networks.
For a while, there was an Android app, App Ops, which let you turn off permissions for other apps.

Google took it out. They claimed it would cause "user confusion", when badly-written apps crashed trying to use some feature they were barred from using.

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-android-wont-be-getting-app-ops...
>Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies. People volunteer all their social information.

Yes. It's about social networks, not Facebook in particular. The alternative is choosing not to participate. This is an intrinsic problem. You participate in a social network; you choose to be connected; you learn more about people and things in general, and as a result, people learn more about you. With technologies, there've always been trade-offs.
That a statement happens in the context of a promotional effort is utterly orthogonal to its truth.

EDIT: To clarify: if something is true, it's true, no matter where it's said.
Why not just call them interns and not pay them at all?
We're in the process of building a backtest for our ratings. We'll be writing about how they perform soon.
Thanks!

Yes, definitely, right now it is just opinions but we do want to analyze for actual sentiment (bullish vs bearish).
It's more like:

VC: "I am going to buy these goods at $1,000 today because I expect to be able to sell them for $1,100 in one year".

How they arrive at the $1,100 is based on the amount of risk there is and the return they could get on a zero-risk investment.

Seriously, finance seemed like mumbo jumbo to me to too before I learned about it. But it's actually pretty interesting. This is the calculation for present value.
On serious topics I like to avoid clouding the message with satire.

The Onion's article is great - just remember that the situation is no joke.
I don't agree. My thoughts are more inline with the articles below on Amazon search vs Google search.

Amazon has some significant number of repeat customers who are buying from Amazon because that is their preferred shopping venue not because search (Google) is driving them to Amazon. To those customers the question is not, where can I buy X but which model/version of X do I buy from Amazon. When making the purchasing decision, the reviews are critical content not boring.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/03/07/why-amazonc...

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/23/amazon-prim...

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-members-2014-1
Calculate the bandwidth required to send two high definition streams from the moon. Add the bandwidth required for telemetry from the rover and lander. See what communication speeds are available to and from the moon.

Also, try using an oculus with seconds of latency and see how pleasant it is.

The real point is that Daniel Shafrir borrowed that robot and a video camera and proceeded to take credit for years of work by a team of students and staff at CMU and somehow got a BBC reporter to publish his claims without verifying any information.
> If you work hard and join a large company like MSFT, Google, Apple, etc. you have potential to make this. It's not that uncommon in the software development world.

First, yes it is pretty uncommon in the software development world, because a small number of software engineers work for these companies in areas with pay like that.

Second, the software development world is pretty small in the overall employment picture, so the people who work for those companies at that salary are a small minority of a small minority.
Wow, the guy is exactly me when he graduated college and in winter he started panicking. Pretty good in Googling too lol Graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering this year summer and unemployed since. Winter now, panicking. Learning web Development in hope of getting into something. Strange how similar his and my path are up to winter. Time will tell where I end up.
wow! that is an awesome idea!
i'll try to get it done when I catch some free time.. i'll let you know
thanks!
Getting raises every year and a half for 9 years, making $250k at the end of those nine years, and then leaving to pursue your dreams (with the concomitant personal network, financial resources, and work experience) seems like a pretty sweet gig to me.
A "PM" at Microsoft is a "Program Manager". This is a relatively vague term when it comes to responsibilities and deliverables and tends to vary from team to team. Generally, though, they will tend to be more customer facing than engineers - collecting information from the customers and creating a plan for the Engineers to execute.

While this might sound like the old Office Space gag that they "take the specs from the customers and bring them to the engineers", a good PM brings a lot of value to the team and - in the classical PM role - frees up the engineers to worry about implementation and less about what this message should say when this error happens.

But a great PM will come up with product strategy and just do whatever needs to be done to get the software out the door. Sometimes this means working closely with lawyers. Sometimes this means working closely with the security team. Sometimes this means writing code. Or making sure the marketing team is on the same page as the product team. Or that the sales team knows how to pitch this and has all the materials they need to present. Or presenting to customers at conferences.

Sometimes this means baking cupcakes for the team, just because.

It's a time consuming, unenviable position in a lot of ways. But it's also probably the position at Microsoft with the most ability to impact products that ship to customers.

(Disclaimer: Microsoftie.)
Link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394327
OKcoin (the exchange they relied on in the paper for data) claims 0% commissions and a bid-ask spread of just 0.04 RMB. how real is that, I have no idea. but if you relied on this information you could believe that you can still take a few additional spreads worth of slippage (in addition to crossing) to compensate for execution latency and still come out very far ahead
Average household income for Redmond is < $100,000. Median is probably a lot lower. So yeah, it's enough to feel like you've "made it".
Causative. The full text is available in HTML for free, what kind of phone are you using?
Check other posts on this HN story; others have proven the drivers were deliberately malicious by analyzing either a USB stream or a driver disassembly (I haven't read enough to know which).
...that's Kohlber's moral development, which is in every introductory psychology textbook and has been central to developmental psychology since its publication in 1958.

Do all the things you think of as "pop" come from the 50's? Have you heard this great new pop singer Elvis lately?
Thanks for clarifying that. And I indeed meant the title hierarchy you mentioned.
What we are talking about here is something very different than your neighbors and acquaintances learning more about you.

Trade-offs for sure.
I do agree it was a hyperbole.
I think knowing that the NSA has some influence on NIST means you have to treat all actions by NIST as possibly the result of NSA pressure, and thus treat everything NIST does as suspect.
Locusts are simply grasshoppers who bumped up against Malthus. Literally.

http://www.asknature.org/strategy/33ba1618fc358f29f0be63a19e...

The grasshopper population grows until they start physically bumping into each other. Then they turn into locusts. The swarm moves because the front of the swarm is eating all of the plants, which leaves nothing for the locusts at the rear of the swarm.

i.e. the ones at the rear of the swarm start eating the ones in front of them. Who move in order to stay alive.
High Profile, Low Risk; Highest Profile, Highest Risk
What you posted is from good sources and is interesting, but I'm not sure it's conclusive or helps. They are two studies/reports of possibly many and I don't know their credibility or if they represent consensus or fringe, good science or bad. Also, they require expertise to interpret and draw conclusions from.

We're not qualified to perform our own analysis; what we need are conclusive analyses from experts about the scientific consensus and range of possibilities.
This is what Ebola is doing to West African economies
Inline style for bar height doesn't preclude use of external styles for common properties like color, borders, etc.

Also it's very unlikely you'd have many charts with markup written by hand. I'd expect charts to be generated from a template from a proper data source, so change in markup of all charts would still be done in one place.
"Russia has made its choice – we want to develop our economy and develop democratic values" sounds so innocent. Especially with overwhelming corruption, racketeering etc that I don't see is improving
> I am fine with police not being able to be fired until found guilty.

I don't understand this at all. There are all sorts of terrible things that are not quite illegal. You killed that drunk guy that took a swing at you? Not guilty, but still not good behavior. You were a real jerk to a bunch of citizens, but you didn't actually assault them? Not guilty, but still not good behavior.
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Totally agree with you here - Android's permissions model would be fine if only I could selectively refuse permissions to applications that ask for them, and have the application continue to operate but without the permissions I refused it. So that would mean my banking application wouldn't be able to take pictures of checks, if I refused it access to my camera, for example.
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Here's an interesting way to do operator priority:

Specify priority relative to other operators, including associativity, and let the language figure it out. If something is ambiguous or inconsistant, emit an error.

The nice thing about this is that it removes the entire concept of "first-class" operators. If you want to inter-operate with something, specify the relative priorities as needed and you're done.

The down side is that the worst case time to detect cycles is O(n^2) with the number of operators, at least if you include the relative priority of '!='. Although, that being said, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to include '!=' as a relative priority.

It also means that your parsing becomes... less than amusing. In particular, it suddenly becomes rather context-dependent. This breaks one of the "laws" described here. Still something interesting to muse about, however.
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Hungary wants to tax Internet data transfers
It is windows all over again. Just block internet access on everything and allow only a few apps to access internet.
Isn't TeX/LaTeX turing complete? I'm pretty sure people have done things like implementing an emulator in LaTeX.
Hire a private protection business, including physical site security devices that send alarm notices directly to that business, and NOT to the local police. You have to pay for the local cops, but there's little they hate more than handling multiple false intrusion alarms from small businesses, and they have no legally enforceable obligation to protect you or your business. That won't stop them from sending you a bill for responding to a false alarm, even if they arrive 6 hours after receiving it.

Aside from making your first line of defense private security, make offsite backups for all your business records, and refresh them regularly. Insure your business against damages from typical property crimes, and against potential liabilities for visitors to your premises, and follow your agent's advice on things to do that will decrease your premiums. Hire a registered agent so that legal documents do not arrive via deputy at your regular office.

The best interaction you can have with the cops is to never need one or see one. Second best is to be assisted by a cop that acts with honesty, respect, and professionalism. Beyond that, results will vary drastically according to your locale.

Rule number one is to not have routine interactions with the police. (Unless you're running a doughnut shop, I guess.)
Detroit gets a bad rap.

I've traveled quite a bit from 18-24- going coast to coast by car at least a dozen times. I always avoided Detroit because of the bad press it gets. This year Apigee hosted #apicraft in Detroit and it was AWESOME. I fell in love with the city. The outskirts are still rough, but Midtown to downtown was really, really good. The "opportunity Detroit" slogan everywhere paired with the local's can-do attitude makes me want to invest more time and energy into the city.

I can't wait to go back!
Just to clarify, the "at runtime" is a bit misleading. It doesn't mean every single time the app function in question is called. It's a toggle done once, and you won't be asked again unless you turn it back off manually.

Asking me if I need the camera, when the camera is to be used, and then being cleared to use it henceforth is my preferred operation. As I said above, it can always be turned back off if I change my mind.
Elvis' music may be old, but it's still pop. Pop doesn't only mean "popular right now".
note to self: investigate potential opportunities at microsoft.
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The world is not only USA,
where I live it's a LOT,

and then, there's Africa
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I wonder if anyone in Detroit calculated pros and cons of "defragmentation": moving people to several designated areas and shutting down infrastructure in vacated blocks. I understand that US is not North Korea and it is easier said than done, but still would be an interesting calculation.
Why Honda is venturing into Oculus' virtual world
That's a terrific idea (the backtest - sentiment analysis is interesting but the backtest could be a core part of the offering).
Hmm.. sounds like a case of, "I know a guy who... did something I'm not willing to admit I did myself".
If I understand correctly, the voters of Detroit would get to decide about creating the separate area (I'm guessing it would require amending the city charter).

I don't find it all that likely that such a thing would happen, but who knows.
"Bricking" doesn't mean a device is completely demolished, just that it's basically been rendered into a useless lump, especially via corrupt firmware. Even a 'hard' bricked device can sometimes be recovered via JTAG.
The app has been around for a little over a year. The search engine is powered by users of the extensions and apps and was released earlier this year. Hope you all enjoy! Happy Giffing!
> Certainly in the US if somebody produced a virus that did this nobody would even blink at a federal prosecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... to be specific
Possibly. Postscript certainly is. I don't think that really changes the point that most of what people do using LaTeX is markup, not programming.
>but maliciously attacking and sabotaging an opponent in a competition was just fine?

Empathise does not mean condone.

>This sense of entitlement

entitlement? Is someone acting entitled?

>very typical of anti-social b-tard behaviour,

nice...

>and it shouldn't be encouraged.

and it can't be stopped. It is a reality.
this begs the question why not just use dart (esp. since its from google as well).
Even in the US, for almost everyone, it's a lot.
Bubbles within bubbles.
How does that work? Genuinely curious - can a patent holder force someone to un-publish source code?
At the beginning of part 1, the author says that this data structure provides "practically O(1) runtime" (emphasis added) for the important operations of lookups, insertion, updating, etc. At the end it is explained how it's "O(log32 n)", which of course is actually O(log n).

And then here in part 3 where he keeps saying "effectively constant time* (emphasis in original this time), what he means is O(log n) time.

The Clojure people really need to stop doing this. Big-O notation is intended to describe how the time required for an operation grows as the number of items being handled gets large. It is precisely not intended to communicate the absolute time the operation takes in small cases. They are confusing people when they try to communicate both pieces of information at the same time. What they should say is something like "lookup takes O(log n) time, and for seqs of size up to N items, it takes M times as long as ArrayList.get".

And then, of course, to describe O(log n) time as "effectively constant" is just lying.

(Second and fourth paragraphs added in edit.)
I think individuals can create projects for personal use which use a patent so long as its only for personal use and is not used commercially or sold.
Moreover, why not put a separate tab on the control center overlay that would display current permissions for running app as well as number of requests made that used that permission. If you drill in particular permission it could display history of requests for that particular API.

Having something like this would also allow for better audits. A separate app could show requests against a particular API by all apps as well as allow filtering. Other useful stats would be average number of requests per day per API per app and a graph of API calls by time of day. If nothing else this would allow to quickly identify rogue applications that make too many requests and drain battery.

On the topic of battery drain, I think that "allow to run in background" and "run as a service" would be a useful permissions as well. First one you would want to give to music players and to GPS applications, for additional control include time app allowed to run in the background before it is killed. Second permission would cover apps like IM and Facebook that are known to be tremendous battery hogs.
Actually, you'd want three settings:

Yes, No, and spoof. Otherwise far too many apps would just go "I won't work until you enable the settings I ask for" - and then we're right back at the current situation.
It's quite aggravating that the DoL can only fine them $3500. I think that at the very least there ought to be punitive as well as economic damages in cases of blatant abuse like this. The problem with our politics is that as soon as someone proposes putting muscular penalties in place for egregious misbehavior some lobbyist or PR flack will pop up with a story like 'Joe Schmoe made a simple math error in distributing tip income among his restaurant staff...under a proposed new law, he could face ruin and even jail time at the hands of heartless government bureaucrats.'

Beverly Rubin, vice president of HR Shared Services with Electronics for Imaging [said:] "During this process we unintentionally overlooked laws that require even foreign employees to be paid based on local U.S. standards."

That's a bit like your VP of accounting expressing surprise at discovering a requirement to file annual tax returns.

The company said it cooperated fully with the U.S. Labor Department once it became aware of the problem, and paid the back wages of the employees.

And why wouldn't they when the costs of noncompliance are so low? Despite being caught, they still only paid CA minimum wage of $8/hour to make up the difference - good luck finding anyone competent to install computers at that price on the open market.

Hopefully the firm will be held to account for immigration fraud as well as labor violations, because there is no way they applied for work visas for these employees - doing so requires making declarations about wage/salary equivalence. Most likely they told their Indian employees to apply for tourist visas and say they were staying with relatives.
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This drives me absolutely nuts. I hit space and it cuts off the top sentence I'm trying to read.
Better yet: allow once / allow for <x> period of time / allow in foreground [ ] allow in background [ ].
Where the 3D printing revolution falls short
Wait wait, what? When you file for a patent, you make your invention known. In detail. With plans. That's public. The idea being that if somebody uses your designs, they pay you a reasonable licensing fee.

These are just plans. Even if they incorporate patented designs, those designs are public knowledge. It's the use and implementation of those designs that's restricted.

Am I missing something?
The people that have stuck around thus far tend to be really attached to their current location. If you get them to up and move, they might as easily move to another city (maybe where their kids are) then to the new district.
Snow crash had an emphasis on corporation habitats, and scrutiny of employees. I believe that was it, care to elaborate?
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Making the parody even funnier: It uses the exact same procedure to "brick" counterfeit devices as the Windows drivers did.
How performant is this kind of structures? For what is best?
They don't meaningfully own the PID and there are non-counterfeit chips using that PID for compatibility purposes.
Pleas don't spout out 'zero sum' like you think it means something insightful here. Any marketplace is 'zero sum' if you think about it. There's a buyer and seller. So what?
Swift and Objective-C: Best Friends Forever?
To be fair, Wave looked dated when it came out.
> This is why HFT people iterate constantly and also why they put their servers as physically close to the market as possible.

Do you happen to have read this :-

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michae...