skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Explaining to people who are perfectly well qualified for the job including your own existing employees why they're at the bottom of the range is an uncomfortable conversation

I would imagine having to explain to your employees why you're underpaying them is a difficult conversation. But the problem is that's the employee's know, the problem is that you're underpaying them.
I think the answer is here [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Misconcepti...
It can get worse - I know of people who have been asked by the IB to prove their current salary/bonus levels, to avoid inflation or overstated earnings. They do also verify via the P45 as well.

Best bet is to join one, if you have to, from a contractor route. Then you have an advantage, as they know you are most likely on a higher rate and are not willing to muck around with the usual HR demands.
CyanogenMod comes preinstalled on OnePlus One, so for me it is no longer a "custom ROM". Even though it is not rooted by default, Privacy Guard has been working for me out of the box from day one.
iOS apps do not (can not) "start a background process to receive notifications".

Notifications are globally handled by the OS over a single dedicated optimized connection. And then dispatched to the individual applications.
If I'm being given information about heart attacks, I'd much rather hear from a doctor who is well informed on the scientific consensus than a survivor of a heart attack, even if the doctor has never had a single heart problem. Why is information about the experiences of gender or race so different than all other information, being that for any other information, experience is neither necessary nor sufficient for expertise?

Also, anecdotal experience, even by large numbers of the population, should not be taken as anything significant without a scientific endeavor to interpret them. Consider the numerous parents who will state "As a parent..." when disagreeing with an expert on child development. Even if thousands of parents disagree, even if the expert has never been a parent, an immunologist saying children should receive vaccines is still correct.

In all other fields, the expert lacking personal experience has the better perspective than part of the population impacted with their own personal anecdotes.
I think the problem is not "if you find a frequentist (as opposed to bayesian) statistician", but "if you find a frequentist (as opposed to bayesian) e.g. biologist".

Non-statisticians have been trained using bad, frequentist methods, and one way of forcing them to retrain is by forcing them to learn new statistical tools to get published.
Completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, but does anyone know what generated that page? I really enjoyed the page separators and how that was done to pace the reading, even if it is completely useless in a webpage-format. Thank you.
Sorry for my lack of clarity. I'm using "Stalinist" as shorthand for constantly changing party lines, which Stalin was infamous for, e.g. the public about face of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, obviously reversed on 22 June 1941, the day when Communists e.g. joined the French resistance, stopped sabotaging US rearmament, etc.

As for "cutting down trees in Kolyma" ... well, a few minutes with Google just now indicates he's become an unperson on the web, something else Stalin was notorious for doing. While I doubt Eich's been reduced to hard labor in a rural region unless he just wanted to get away from it all, who denies his career is effectively over? Unless, of course, he's doing things anonymously?
I am ranked N.1 for Lua in Paris and N.66 worlwide, but yes, there are not that many Lua devs on GitHub (the Open Source community is small).
Chapters 1, 4 and 11.
It sounds like you're opposed to the gamification; care to explain why? I'm curious.
How HR knew about their current salary? Did they tell it themselves? Cause it's clearly not beneficial.
The troubling context of R&D in the USA
> "Recruiter: “Why don’t you tell me how much you think you’re worth?”"

My response: You're the recruiter. You should know more about this company, the industry in general, the industry in this city, current skills, etc than me. It's your job to know what I'm worth.
Scrapekit: get the data you need, fast
It is all about the employer maintaining the power in salary setting.

Think of airlines. In the handful of times, I've asked how much people have paid for their seat. I've gotten ranges of a couple hundred dollars in both directions for a cross-country flight. Some of it was when the ticket was bought. And I thought I was getting a deal on Priceline...

There are always disparities in salary. The most glaring and entrenched - being that of males and females of near equivalency being paid different amounts.

If all salaries were made public, you would have to equalize salaries to prevent the fomenting dissension.

This can be done at smaller organizations. For larger organizations (think Fortune 500), the higher-ups could not keep their larger salaries because a) they would not be able to justify them (as much) and b) their larger salaries may have been largely due to 'taking a larger share of the pot'.
Thanks for bringing this up, Bill.

Regarding the larger issue, SI2 does not require open source, but it suggests that it is a good idea.
It's a good thing observational studies like these are not notorious for never replicating and for motivating enormously costly (financially, medically, and personally) fiascos such as the wars on salt and cholesterol.
Did you miss the bits of the submission where he describes being attacked by people under their real names?

> (the title of Amanda Marcotte’s hit-piece

> My photo was on the front page of Salon, {Arthur Chu}

> not once but twice on ‘Dr. Nerdlove,’ {Harris O'Malley}

See also XBOXLive, where people feel free to be thoroughly toxic even though their online identities are tied to an offline identity.

Or Facebook, where racists are happily racist under their real names. http://www.salon.com/2014/12/10/whats_up_with_the_rag_head_w...
Announcing the Confluent Platform 1.0
You might want to give Bufstop a try, it solves a lot of problems buffer switchers have and it's much more customizable.

https://github.com/mihaifm/bufstop

I've also created Vimpanel (since we're talking about Vim as an IDE)

https://github.com/mihaifm/vimpanel
The book has exercises that you can type out, execute and debug in the pages itself.
But I don't want to give you access to my social account
> In this example allwinner is applying the eastern "share, modify, pass around" model

How is that different than the gist of the license. And isn't the whole problem here that they didn't share?
I have to disagree with this. If you don't do your market research ahead of time and reserve enough space in the budget to close a deal with the person you want, you are wasting the time of everyone who could close such a deal elsewhere.

They are not wasting your time. You are wasting theirs. The candidate cannot reasonably determine how well your company is able to monetize their skills ahead of time. It's the employer's job to figure that out, and offer a reasonable fraction thereof to the employee. The employer should know that the position will be profitable, otherwise advertising it as permanent would be a misrepresentation. If you don't know how technical professionals will make you money (or cut your costs), and to what extent, you have no business hiring them.

That's why whenever a company starts to discuss salary before their goals for the unfilled position and my qualifications, I back away.
Scientists find giant black hole weighing as much as 12B suns
OnePlus has announced that they are moving away from CM for future phones, so it will be a custom ROM for all new phones.
We should take it as a chance to be #1 somewhere ;)
Allwinner's SOCs are popular as Raspberry Pi-ish single-board computers for hobbyist Linux users who want a dirt-cheap home server.

What are some alternatives that have better track records with the GPL?
Explore Urbanistan
Photos of School Lunches from Around the World
"Share" does not implies they are sharing freely with everyone.

It does mean that if you crack open any product built around Allwinner (or other similar SOC's), you'll find PCB's that are all close variations of each other, and if you look at the code accompanying it, you'll find plenty of "sharing" going on even if they're not sharing the source with us.
The Set of Prime Numbers (2007) [pdf]
Companies like that tend to complain about how it's so hard to keep staff!
Nobody. The problem is that if you conduct 20 trials of the efficacy of rabbit feet, you'd expect 1 trial to show a significant effect. (if you're interpreting P-values the way many people do, incorrectly.)
> As a consultant, they were able to offer me a whooping 60% more, and that's after I accounted for all the benefits of the full time position.

As a consultant, you're responsible for paying taxes that they would normally pay, which when combined with other benefits represents up to 50% of your total salary as a normal employee. You also lose out on a number of legal protections you gain as a regular employee.
> Kids who say stupid shit get that held against them forever from employers,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22083032
It seems to be well-covered by the Internet Archive already. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/

Edit: I see it has been added to the ArchiveBot also. http://archivebot.com/

Edit2: I just grabbed it myself as well, it's less than 500MB for the whole site. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dtkyhb8ep8dvhaf/AABGKmFDKhIXo88mU...
> In this example allwinner is applying the eastern "share, modify, pass around" model, which isn't compatible with the western model of strict license adherence.

I don't think your comment matches reality. Eastern "share, modify, pass around"? How does that even remotely match what is discussed in the google group thread? What All Winner did was to take free and open source GPL code paid for by the community (including competitors), modify said code, make binaries, ship defective non-compliant hardware and software BSP to customers and expect everyone to be silent about it. Nope. That's not an "Eastern model" at all. No need to hide their behavior behind shadowy cultural claims. AllWinner knows what they're doing is illegal.
On Git History – Or, “The Case for Merge Commits”
It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK:

http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin

https://github.com/kylecronin
Raspberry Pi: different methods of getting time
The stars information comes from GitHub Archive : https://www.githubarchive.org/

There are some limitations, for example it doesn't include events before 2011

The concept of "star" has also changed several times (they are still called watchers in the API)
This ugly hack is not useful in general and only looks interesting here because the original example query is in bad taste. Simplifying it removes the tedium motivating the use of window functions.

For example, this is equivalent to the original query:

SELECT sku, sum(price)
FROM invoice_items
WHERE date_part('month',created_at) = 9
GROUP BY sku

See how the tedium disappears? In the original, the HAVING clause doesn't use any aggregate functions, which means it can instead be a WHERE. Removing the HAVING means we can further simplify the GROUP BY.

Of course, that only works because this example needs only a single month group. If you want multiple months and per-month price totals, then my rewritten query is no longer equivalent. It would need the more complicated GROUP BY. However, the window function version would also get more complicated in just the same way. The complication is inherent to the problem, not due to standards conformance.

Actually, what's really tedious is the verbose expression required to get the month and the fact that the author is repeating it. The standard provides "WITH" to avoid that duplication, and Postgres implements it.

Here's a reasonable version for multiple months:

WITH items AS (
SELECT *, date_part('month',created_at) AS month
FROM invoice_items
)
SELECT sku, month, sum(price)
FROM items
WHERE month in (7,8,9)
GROUP BY sku, month

But suppose we make the example even more complicated. Suppose you want sums over different time periods, like per-month and per-quarter. Then you can't use a GROUP BY and must use window functions and DISTINCT.

WITH items AS (
SELECT
*
,date_part('year',created_at) AS year
,date_part('month',created_at) AS month
,date_part('quarter',created_at) AS quarter
FROM invoice_items
)
SELECT DISTINCT
sku
,year
,month
,quarter
,sum(price) OVER (PARTITION BY year) AS yearly_total
,sum(price) OVER (PARTITION BY year, month) AS monthly_total
,sum(price) OVER (PARTITION BY year, quarter) AS quarterly_total
,sum(price) OVER (PARTITION BY month) AS month_number_total
,sum(price) OVER (PARTITION BY quarter) AS quarter_number_total
FROM items
ORDER BY 1,2,3,4
Are you @SavedYouAClick from twitter?
I have hiring responsibility for a startup. Honest question...Over the period of time when you were preparing for interviews how much meaningful code did you ship? More? Less? Algorithms and data structures are dandy but I would have a hard time hiring somebody with this knowledge but no history of shipping production code.
Depends on if contact is made to the top or the bottom of the wheel. (sorry)
2 kids, 3 freelance gigs (full time at this), a couple startups behind me (1 pivoted away, 1 still running). I would love to get 5 hours for an OSX app I really want to build.

You really do have to shut out the rest of your life if you want to make a serious run at a project. When you are cramming a side project into you life, you really can "work" 80 hour weeks. The irritability you're experiencing will probably just get worse.

I'm just starting to learn to cook. I began riding my bike last year. I'm 34. The grass is always greener of course. But it seems like you are enjoying a lot of the things I wish I had made time for earlier.

Maybe shut out the art project. Turn your code into open source and let that be your art for the next few months.
EC2 Pricing: finally understanding compute costs on AWS
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Pure VimL, no external dependencies.
Spotify fully integrated with MusicXmatch
I think many people agree that hireing in IT is kind of broken. I think many people in the business world understand PR/marketing budgets. I'd position FLOSS spending as a way to open a marketing channel to potential employees.

The good players that give back need to be recognized and praised.

[I honestly have a hard time understanding why bigish companies that use/rely on the software don't just give 50k to the GPG developer or sponsor OpenBSD etc. which can be great PR while they can spend similar sums on somewhat silly PR campaigns. I guess "IT people" generally don't have much input when it comes to PR...even outisde of signaling that you're a cool employer it's genuine good PR for (tech) companies]
Surprised to see that I'm only detected as having 34 "Ruby" stars when one of my Ruby projects has ~6,700 stars, all told across all my projects I ought to have closer to 10k ★.

Fun project, but buggy data makes for a bit of a crappy user experience. Doesn't GH classify languages pretty well using it's Linguist project? The project with ~6,700 stars is correctly classified as [ Ruby 97.5% | HTML 2.5% ] (the 2.5% seems to be from documentation and templates, which in itself is already weird)

I understand that many people find gamification fun, but I know a lot of people who don't like ranked leaderboards, based on stupid things like "how many people bookmarked your project", it leads to unnecessary egotistical competition, and driving more barriers between us than we need. (Example, what benefit would we get from comparing stars on vim, and neovim?… so we could argue to one group of people that their work is less important than another group?)
I'm in a very similar situation -- got a pretty decent open source project out (a mad 2-week programming project over a Christmas holiday vacation). But I'll be darned if I can find time to work on it now (how does the average person find 5 hours a day to watch tv?)

But here's what I'm starting to do now -- I set an alarm to make sure I remember to leave the office at 4:30 pm, instead of squeezing in that extra bit of work (or slacking off). That gets me a bit of a jump on the evening, instead of leaving work at 6:30 or so. Seems to be helping a bit.
To have standing in most places, the "somebody" would need to be an author of one of the works they have infringed on. That limits the pool substantially to begin with. Then that somebody would need to be willing to take the risk and cost of a lawsuit that could drag out for ages, with an uncertain outcome.

That's why we see as few lawsuits as we do.
Pivotal is arguably a grand experiment to try to build an eventual RedHat-sized revenue stream on open source through subscription pricing. It's $300m now, and everything is open source or just was announced will be open sourced this year. Most of it in house R&D, some like Redis is sponsored patronage.

What's interesting is that most enterprises don't really want to freeride - they don't have the knowledge or legal will (indemnity) to go it alone, plus have esoteric requirements that usually don't lead to good open source projects and will pay for proprietary add-ins.

The main free riders are startups that couldn't afford a subscription anyway (until they scale and want help), along with service/cloud providers that are at such enormous scale and have such a large braintrust that they can go it alone. These are the organizations IMO (the Googles of the world) that really need to sponsor individuals and OSS foundations to avoid a tragedy (like GPG or even OpenSSL).
It's more sheer luck with their deal with IBM for doing an OS (which wasn't even their core business).
Internet Slang Meets American Sign Language
The only way to do it is to have a job where you can complete the work in less than 5 hours a day. Preferably one that gives you the freedom to leave early/come in late so long as you're doing well on your work.

No one actually works 8 hours a day and comes home to work 4 hours sustainably. I couldn't see someone doing that for more than two months without getting burned out.
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same for me - plus it counts only half of my repos...
UK Postal Code Density [OC]
What are you using to parse and resolve location? There doesn't seem to be a suggested format for a github profile and myself, like many other people in the US just put in a State abbreviation or City name which has DC in Van, Turkey.
There's an old 4Chan thread where a user starts 'World War Crow' by favoring a certain group of crows over another.

Allegedly, after some time, the two groups of crows have an all out battle over which group gets french fries.

http://usvsth3m.com/post/69700674556/has-an-anonymous-4chan-...
Understanding Uniprocessor OS Scheduling Policies
Also, it looks like the cities w/ the same name in different countries are treated as one city.

I am in Santa Fe, NM but ranked with people in Santa Fe, Argentina.
Stack Overflow to overhaul close-voting logic
Welp, I'm convinced. Page 76 is key.
> I'm not an unprivileged user on any machine I operate in any practical sense, nor are most Linux desktop users, so to me that point is largely moot. That is, even if I'm technically not root most of the time, if I run a malicious app it can relatively easily set up plenty of traps in my home directory to get me to run whatever code it want with elevated privileges sooner or later anyway.

I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't snarky, but: be better about your operational security, then. I run all of my Unix machines with the exception of the Mac I don't care about with a user not in /etc/sudoers. That you're tripping yourself up is your own fault.

That doesn't excuse this sort of recklessness being advocated by a Docker employee.
Avoiding Complex View Controllers
I was disappointed that this article didn't include a definite scientific opinion on whether the crows saw this as an exchange for food, or if for some reason they bring objects to a feeding area.
Pebble Time is now #2 most funded Kickstarter at $10.2m, beating original Pebble
For even more fun, install the font and put the following in your user stylesheet:

* {
font-family: 'Sans Bullshit Sans', cursive !important;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility !important;
}
For what it's worth, OMB is overseeing the Executive Order that requires agencies to compile these inventories. You can find more background at:

- https://project-open-data.cio.gov/

- http://www.digitalgov.gov/resources/how-to-get-your-open-dat...

And you can see how agencies are currently performing at http://labs.data.gov/dashboard/offices

Can you point to some examples or links for the .zzz files you mentioned?
When you do a single trial you might show that rabbits feet are effective.

You don't yet know if this is a 1 in 20 result or a 19 in 20 result.

That's why you replicate.
Programmable Bioweapons Could Be the Nuclear Bombs of Future Wars
I don't believe it was generated. Knowing that SoverNet is a internet provider for northern NY and especially VT, I am assuming that this was 'hand-crafted' using a simple (circa 2000) table format with BR elements blocking it out. A quick bit of sleuthing about the author seems to corroborate my assumptions.
Interesting, maybe browsers should add a permission prompt like they do for web camera access before allowing a webrtc stun request?
My guess is that it comes from us considering the top of things to be generally more important than the bottom.

And that it's been very much internalized by anyone who drives a car. Turning right? Top of the wheel goes right. Disregard bottom of wheel.
So you think the Internet is a dark and hostile place
Does anyone have any suggestions for promoting an open source project? I hate mentioning my side project on various forums, even if it is topical -- it makes me feel spammy. I thought about taking out some ads once I add in a few more "enterprise" type features, and was hoping that some open-source focused sites would have a discount on advertising open source projects using unsold ad inventory. I'd also like to find someone to work with that can point out deficiencies in the project web site, or general improvements/features I should add.
I was chatting once with somebody at one of Cisco's competitors. He mentioned that, some time ago, Huawei had copied there router designs down to the English silk screening on the PCBs. My friend also does a lot of contracting for them. They're famous for not paying their bills.
Same for me: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=Azdle

Tells me I'm in Houston, actually in Minneapolis.
Algorithm that summarizes text
In the example she made fun of 1)black people 2) AIDS 3) White people. And possible offended all religious people in the world. What can possible go wrong? :P
if you're flipping something you wouldn't tell the buyer what you bought it for.

this has nothing to do with which party is stating the price.
Ask HN: Reliable Broadband on the Move
I'm considering, with my family, to take up a few years on the road in an RV, so we can experience our country from different perspectives and immerse our kids in the geographical areas of history that they are learning about as we tutor them independently. As a programmer, I know there is plenty of work that can be done away from an office, provided there's some internet connection to swap bits with at times.

I'm starting to do research on RVs and fast, mobile internet in particular. I was curious to see if anyone has ever done this. Are there success stories? Are there failures to learn from? Are there pitfalls to be aware of? Any advice on tech to outfit the RV with?
sorry, I meant a GUI written for in-house scripts, not from the vendor.
Finding a smallest expression tree that represents a natural number