skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like showing salary is more common in USA but in other countries it is NOT a norm.... and unfortunately this gives an edge to the employer to play the game the way they want as very rarely supply is less than demand!
Thanks. I don't even have kids yet. I'm still ~5 years from having little ones I'd imagine. Both of the people working with me on the project have kids, and I admire them (and you) tremendously for fitting everything in.
It told me it coudln't identify my city from my github account. Indeed, i did not have "location" field filled out in my github profile. I went and filled it out. But it still says it cant' identify my city. Caching? Which hopefully will be refreshed at some point? Or do I need to fill out my location in a way other than I have?
Understanding the Enigma machine from “The Imitation Game” with 30 Lines of Ruby
This is obviously Google trying to grab a piece of advertising budgets of apps and impact of this on "discoverability* will remain to be seen as emergent property later on. Definitely not the primary driver behind this feature.

However, before we start booing Google...

Facebook already holds unarguably the biggest part of this already, and Google heading closer to the center of that particular arena will likely result in a net positive for publishers.

My guess for would be that this will push Facebook little by little to specialize in iOS ad-mongering.
> The final example though, where a Crow returns the camera-lens cap to the family requires some pretty advanced thinking.

I think the article (and probably the podcast? haven't listened yet) make too big a deal of this. We don't know that the crows realized that the lens cap belonged to those people. Perhaps they just saw it as another neat thing to gift. Perhaps they smelled the family on it, and just returned it to a place that smelled similarly.
> Lisa logged on to her computer and pulled up their bird-cam. There was the crow she suspected. "You can see it bringing it into the yard. Walks it to the birdbath and actually spends time rinsing this lens cap."

Why wouldn't they put this video in the BBC article?
Sure. But just because you're more likely to pay a new hire more than your existing staff than less doesn't mean they're underpaid, or indeed not paid comfortably above market rates for their skillset (above-market payers often have the most opaque salary structures)

Most employers able to pay market rate or better would rather attract candidates for a position that are substantially better than their existing employees than substantially worse, so the feasible salary range is naturally skewed upwards even if you pad it at the bottom. Most employees don't think they belong in the bottom half of the salary range for their position, even if they do. Something has to give, and its usually transparency.
> Wharf = WareHouse At River Front

These acronyms / backronyms are almost always bogus etymologies.
It's already started, right? "Github is your resume" is often said; which sucks for those of us who work on enterprise software and private repos that can't be open sourced.

All kudos to those that can spare the time for, make their livelihood on, or have their company allow them to release, open source software.

I want to be like you, but unfortunately cannot.
That sounds like a bug in the application.

While I'm not exactly certain on how Privacy Guard works (I have yet to examine that code base), if a phone returns [] for a list of contacts and the application crashes...
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Same I'm in Rhode Island not Irvine

http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=mpiannucci
Or one person made 30 repos and stared them all himself once... giving the account 30 stars in some obscure language.
I would like to highlight dump1090, the ADS-B encoder. It has become a "must-have" for RTL-SDR enthusiasts.

It is small, simple, and works great.
NuoDB Geo-Distribution Demo
Why I Dislike Google Services
I'm skeptical of the grocery store claim. Do you have anything to support the claim that one layout is more common than the other (and that would further suggest it's for this reason)?

If I think of all the grocery stores I've been in, I can think of many examples of clockwise layouts. Much more so than counter-clockwise, but that's likely because of my personal brand preferences. The factors in the layout seem to be dominated by:

1. The position of the entrance (if the store is part of a mall, the entrance is often predetermined, and only one layout will be feasible).

2. The brand of the store. Thinking of Canada (and in my experience) Loblaws brand tend to be clockwise, and Sobey's counter-clockwise.
The name is wrong, it's Musixmatch not MusicXmatch :)
Touching the Void is the story of Joe Simpson's epic climb on Siula Grande with Simon Yates.

They summited the 20,000+ foot mountain in the Andes, but Joe fell just below the summit and broke his leg. Simon could have climbed down alone to "get help", but he chose to try and get his partner down. I won't give away any more; Joe survived in one of the most epic survival stories ever.

The movie is based on a book, and it's really well done. This story makes me stronger in the mountains, because every time I start to complain about how hard or miserable something is, I realize things could be much, much worse. If I ever do have an epic of my own, I'm pretty sure I'll handle it better for being aware of Joe's story.
You can tell them a high target that would absolutely get your interest in the job. If it hits, great next step in your career. If it misses, no skin off your back.
No, I never thought that. I was extrapolating what might happen when an (almost) monopolist like GitHub would start to mine, analyze, and sell data like Facebook.
This is what a probation period is for. I have no issue applying to a job that is "Permanent with XX month probation period".
I don't know why this keeps coming up. It's proven that a significant number of people are deficient in vitamin D, and also Magnesium I believe.

I'm also of the opinion that no one is getting enough potassium (but vitamins won't help with that).
Perhaps in the mind of the crows, they are giving gifts as a reward. In effect, training the human (in the article).
So a potential employer can verify your current salary through the government? That's terrible. I don't think employers have that ability here in the states, but I could be wrong.
>but the moment you have something free with source code available, why should I pay you for it?

People bought the paid version of xchat for some reason. Don't assume the customer is that smart.
Someone toned the title down just a smidge from the original, which is still in the URL:

> another-reason-to-hate-the-nsa-china-is-backing-away-from-us-tech-brands

Anyways, the equation also isn't that simple. The "black" budget of the US is $50-$60 billion a year. A significant portion of that is on tech, especially with the NSA. You don't store exabytes and have the world's most powerful supercomputers without buying a lot of hardware.

I'm not saying there isn't damage done, but this is just clickbait. It's light on specifics (outside of Cisco), and some of the issues have nothing to do with the NSA. HP is struggling in China because China is favoring local companies. China has had a history of backing away from foreign companies to bring tech in-house. This is actually what the original, non-filtered-through-zdnet article says:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-china-tech-excl...

The Reuters article has far more information. The ZDnet article is just someone filling their allotted articles for the day.
can give back in many ways

The standard way society compensates persons for useful goods and services is by exchanging currency, not by bartering favors or by saying "look! we made a billion dollars using your software, here, have these free 40 lines of code as a bug fix. thx."

Unrelated note: every time I see these (needlessly?) optimized string compare statements, I fall out of my chair laughing and/or crying: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy/blob/a36fdae2a8a3c166d9...
I've always worked outside of technology companies. It seems to be the norm, at least with the organizations I've applied to, to list a salary range.
Orchestrating Docker with Machine, Swarm and Compose
Have an ereader for every book! It's flawless!
Well, if you don't really care if anyone else uses your open source, then it doesn't really matter, right?

The reasons you might care are -- to get more contributors, to make the software more sustainable; fame for your yourself or your company (how valuable is this?); etc.

Being clear on what benefit (if any) you will get from the project being more popular will make it easier to guess whether the 'investment' will be worth the 'benefit'.

But how do you do it? I think you've got to not just 'advertise' in general interest places like HN. You've got to find the community of people who will find your code most useful (perhaps people in the same business domain as you are working), and advertise to them, sometimes direct one on one. Conferences and meet-ups are good for this.

I think you've also got to have really good docs, and really good release management practices (semver, no backwards compat bugs, no encouraging using off 'master' instead of a release, good release notes, etc).

And if still nobody is using it, then I guess they don't actually find your software useful!
I'd suggest looking at the ODROID boards from Hardkernel (http://www.hardkernel.com/).
I suppose releasing something that is completely redacted isn't the same as releasing nothing. That's the only scenario I can think of that doesn't make this look like self-sabotage. Makes you question the usefulness of FOIA requests.
http://github-awards.com/users?language=c&type=world
An interesting note at the end of the Reuters article:

> "The danger for China, say experts, is that it could leave itself dependent on domestic technology, which remains inferior to foreign market leaders and more vulnerable to cyber attack.

> Some of those benefiting from policies encouraging domestic procurement accept that Chinese companies trail foreign competitors in the security sphere."
I think he means not 'responding', not complaining the website doesn't resize for different screen sizes (responsive).
they sure do, the standard 'dosage' is 2k cals per day and they have a calculator (that you have to dig for) if you figure your requirements differ from the 2k cals per day. Nevermind the fact that these types of calculators of woefully inaccurate.
Thanks. Unfortunately public transit is non-existent where I live. I'd love to spend my commute time working on the project rather than hoping that a distracted uninsured driver doesn't smash into me.

I do enjoy thinking about the project while cooking.

Good luck on your project!
Kind of question the validity of the rating. I'm supposedly ranked 2,390/161,465 world wide for C++ development. Yet, I have only been posting any code to github for the past year, and I know quite a few better C++ developers than me ranked way below me.
Under pressure, Google moves to consolidate its European business
You tell them the number you want, and you round waaaay up, of you reply "Confidential", or "X-to-Y, variable".

I had a hiring manager push me hard for this info at one job. I ended up taking the job (maybe lower pay than I could have gotten) and he turned out to be one of the worst people to teamwork with at the company.
Unfortunately, this is very true. I don't understand why it's considered "cheaper" to pay more money to a consultant than the salary+overhead of a regular employee. I get that they're different parts of the budget, but ultimately it's still money spent by the organization.
YouTube reportedly considering new ad-targeting system
Just started reading the whitepaper, and something does not make sense. Their experiments are done in a controlled room with multiple antennas that are being directed towards one pCell. That makes sense. But when this technology goes outdoors, where the RF propagation is extremely hard to accurately predict (especially because of the 'changing environment'), how is the pCell created (assuming you have to have accurate location and propagation information to create the correct interference patterns from multiple antennas)? Something smells here.
I do want to argue the point. :)

The strange miracle of open source software is that when companies use something like Redis to make a lot of money, they end up investing in it, they contribute work to the project, and the community does gain from their contributions. In other words, the whole point of OSS is that exactly the thing you say never happens, happens all the time.

Most open source development is commercial.

To take an example from my day job: Bloomberg (the financial media giant) sponsored Andy Wingo (of Igalia, that guy is a genius) to contribute support for ES6 generators to both Mozilla's JS engine and Chrome's. An example of his amazing work:

http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/11/14/generators-in-firefo...

Companies use all things to get richer. That's the operating principle of companies. The competing model to open source is commercial software, in which the company owning the software has a monopoly over it and uses it to get richer... and the companies licensing it still use it to get richer.

In corporate welfare, the money given to companies is taken from someone else's pocket. Open source software is cheap because it eliminates the artificial costs of copyright monopolies.
I'm a web developer. Not an engineer
True. It seems cubicles were an attempt to undo some of the damage of open plan architecture, which goes back even further than I thought:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-origin-of-cubi...

Damn you, Frank Lloyd Wright!
I guess what I'm saying is, I don't see how your (or anyone's) interests would be served by the cost of Redis being a lot higher.
I agree. It reminds me of the beltline around Raleigh. It's a circle.... I always envision it and explain it using clockwise or counterclockwise. However, when you get on at the eastern most point (3:00 on a clock), you are given options to get on the west beltline or the east beltline. You're going west either way. It's infuriating.
so they aren't really forthcoming about changing the total caloric intake, and you can't alter the macronutrient ratio because it's just one formula?
They may not have kept it. The camera system may keep a certain amount of prior footage that is automatically flushed at a certain age, or that the users clean out when it gets large. This is recounting a story from a few weeks ago.
The education profession could benefit greatly from a stronger implementation of the open source model. The software industry has been using vim and emacs for 40 years now. But the education profession has no dedicated lesson planning tool in widespread use - the most commonly used planning tool is Word. This situation is as if the software industry had everyone writing programs in notepad (the original notepad, not notepad++).

People have attempted to make open source lesson planning tools, but the ones I've seen have been low quality. People have attempted to make proprietary tools, but teachers don't have the funds to pay for proprietary planning tools.

I think the education world is ripe for a revolution in open infrastructure. The ed-tech world is seeing a flurry of startup efforts, but many will die out because their goal is to make money. We need high-quality open tools and resources in the profession.

I wrote a longer post about this a while back: https://peak5390.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/why-do-programmers...
Ok, with the strategy of employers to be reluctant with publishing salary info, how do you currently determine your market rate?

And given the fact that this market rate is not a clearly defined value (also thanks to employers' reluctance), don't you think it is necessary to at least negotiate with your current employer if you believe you're being paid below par?
If there is any LGPL code in that library, then it can be separated into a secondary library. And the licensing issue could get resolved (in new versions).

It would be great if the code of that library (hardware acceleration for audio/video decoding/encoding) was released with an open license. I hope it happens.

What is sad, is that the OP in the Google Group thread is using the "bitch about it hard and loud" strategy. Trying to be negative and so on. It's not a constructive attitude.
This is very interesting. I'm not sure how my company culture would tolerate my leaving early, but it does seem like the most practical option for actually getting work done.

I feel like I probably have enough autonomy to do this, but it's tricky business.
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Except if you look at the timeline, this particular facility started up in the late '90s, and continues a multi-decade pattern of abuse, so it's at best/worst the reverse, "CIA has been running horrifying Chicago police style black sites". At least per the original Guardian account: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...

(Which, BTW, should replace the posted link, since that minor detail makes the spin of original and current as I type this The Verge link blatantly wrong. Heck, is it even news that Chicago police are severely abusive?)
The simple answer is "because money". It costs quite a bit to be able to do any of that. And that's not something most open source projects or developers can come anywhere close to affording.

Source: I run PortableApps.com and have had my GPL software used illegally by competing projects in other countries as well as at least one Fortune 500 here in the states.
Will Nissan Beat Google and Uber to Self-Driving Taxis?
Magic Leap: The Mom Rule
This is hilarious, but in all seriousness, standing desk people are approaching vegans in terms of annoyance level.

How do you know that someone has a standing desk? THEY TELL YOU!
The chinese skilled hackers are too busy snooping on their own citizens for their government. Hopefully the rest of the world can learn from this and move away from Chinese products.
This can also be seen as an expression of this fascinating "chirality" problem, whereby things, from living things to particles seem to prefer one direction over the other. Right, dextro-, or clock-wise: most sea-shells, most plants, DNA. most atoms but not neutrinos(!?)
Cops See It Differently
So much for "Freedom of Information". This looks like straight from onion news it's so ridiculous.
Personally I have not found this difficult.

Get engaged with the community. Follow folks building stuff in your ecosystem on Twitter. Follow them on Github. Then mention them when you release something cool, make good screenshots and a nice intro. It takes one tweet about your project to go heavily retweeted before all sorts of people interested in your future work follow you, and so it goes on and on.

Of course this will only happen if your project is explained well, integrates into your ecosystem's package management, etc. Make sure it looks as tidy and maintained as other popular open source projects you know and love.

Finally, don't forget to star your own repos. This puts them into GH newsletter the next day (“starred by people you follow” section, assuming you already got someone following you), and also will put these repos on your profile page above your forks of other people's projects.
RelProxy, Java scripting and a new alternative for Java runtime hot class reload
House of cards S3 is coming, are you gonna watch overnight?
This post is nearly a mirror image of myself! I tend to relax on the major holidays (xmas and nye), but everything else is the same. My brain is constantly working on some problem that is of interest to me. I have time to do side projects because that is what I do for fun.

I have the same sleep schedule as you (I work in Cambridge, MA but live West of 495), although I'm not sure if I'd voluntarily choose it. Working alone in the mornings is quite productive though.

And I second the sentiment "it's important to switch off for days at a time."

I expect much of this will change when kids come along though. ;-)
Hamburger for the sake of hamburger. Only 2 links behind it?
I spent quite a bunch of time on interviews with employers who promised to pay above market salary to end up with an offer 30% less than i am making.

Put another way - salary is big item in job description for me - amount employer ready to pay too often correlates with problems/technologies/colleagues/innovations i am going to work with.

So naturally first question I always ask recruiter - how much. And naturally most of them shy away from answering it straight.

As a result I created job form[1] and, unless it is someone's recommendation, or i had previous relationships with recruiter, I send all of them to this form to fill it first.

[1] https://e.l1t3.com/pavelkaroukin
I don't think you're going to get a concrete answer here. I've heard anecdotes justifying both layouts but in all major instances it's by design and not an arbitrary choice. In theory, forcing people to walk in an unnatural direction (clockwise) will make them go slower but be more on edge.

This[1] paper suggests clockwise layouts result in higher sales in discount stores. If you want to put your customers at ease it may not be a good idea to go with a clockwise layout. This[2] article interviews a few retail strategists that describe their intent. This[3] article contends that 'legged-ness' does not matter at all (albeit with a very small pool).

The science is soft enough that I wouldn't put too much weight in the grocery store example specifically. As I recall the trend in the '80's was initially pushing for CW stores to make customers browse slowly but shifted to CCW in the late '90's to make them feel more comfortable. I've heard other stores about shifting the grocery store layout from aisles to the "ring." This roughly coincides with Target stores pre-95 that were competing with Kmart for the blue collar and post '95 that focused on curated, upmarket design for the middle class.

From personal experience, products on end caps absolutely do sell better by 30-60% than those in aisle.

[1] http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/eacr/vol8/eacr_vol8_153.pd...
[2] http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223808
[3] http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post/do-people-really... & http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1207918/Find-...
As another data point - in the Clojure space, I'm ranked right alongside Rich Hickey down in the 30s.

For those of you who aren't aware, Rich is the inventor and maintainer of the language.
As a bonus, anybody who can implement the algorithm is a strong hire.
There's no such thing as lib1 version 3.x. lib1 is a single version. Every import path is a unique package. If you want to make a new version of lib1, you need to give it a different path. This can be as easy as manually inserting "v2" in the path, like /lib1/v2/ or /v2/lib1/

There's no way to use "go get" to get anything other than the head of the master branch... at least, not by default. If you use a service like http://gopkg.in then you can encode a version in the url/import path which can then redirect to a branch in github, so for example import "gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2" will get the v2 branch of github.com/natefinch/lumberjack (gopkg.in does this with some git magic)
Same here. I'm from Italy, but reported from Madagascar :)

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