skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a similar April's fools joke at one of my old workplace. This was the late 80s. Well, one morning, when I booted up my computer, it echoed out a message like "your computer has a virus" or something similar. The message was also showing up on a number of other computers. It caused panic and confusion in my workplace. It was a small company and computer knowledge was lacking. We shut all the computer off and called in some computer specialist to checkout the problem. It turned out that someone has modified autoexec.bat to echo the string out as an April's fools joke. Well, the manager was not happy and it caused the company a bit of money to recover. I think the person who did it was given a dismissal warning.
[I am one of the authors of the paper.]

The paper reports overhead numbers from existing research. For instance, see Figure 18 in http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1411, which shows the cost of SC for memcached - 1% on x86 and 3% on ARM.

This overhead is primarily due to the cost of fences on existing hardware. What we (not so cheekily) say is this is likely to get better as hardware platforms provide better implementations for fences.
You're right, I didn't see the 120 employee figure.

I'm going to work this out a little different though than you assumptions, given the types of jobs that are here, I don't think the average will jump a huge amount though.

The average for a callcenter employee in WA is around $30-35k. There are 70 employees that are going to receive an increase and I'm going to assume that they're all on $35k (even though there will probably be a proportion of those closer to $70k), even though this is overly conservative. Even minimum wage in Seattle now is about $32k/yr.

70x ($70k - $35k) is a net $2.45m increase in wages.

Payroll tax in WA is 5.5% on salary expenses above $800k/yr.

5.5% of the additional $2.45m is $135k.

The net increase in wages is therefore around $2.6m.

His salary will be brought down to $70k.

Their current net profit is $2.2m, the additional gain from his pay cut is around $900k.

Therefore this increase (even if done in year 1) will still have their net profit (assuming the $2.2m is before tax) at $500k. Sure, not as good as my original math, but still sustainable in a predictable business like this probably is at this stage.
Meditation practitioners manage to dissociate the experience of pain from the emotional response that usually comes with it (with fMRI at least one (edit: two) fMRI study that shows the dissociation as well, in that areas associated with the emotional processing of pain are less turned on by painful stimuli, while the rest of the pain detection areas light up normally).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395910...

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/14/5540.short
> it matters a lot what the barrels have been used for before

Which is a good thing, because it allows distillers to be creative, adding different notes to both scent and taste. Quite a few whiskies nowadays do tell you what kind of cask they were aged in.

Bourbon and sherry have traditionally been popular choices, but wine, port, cognac and rum barrels are also being used recently.
Yes, it does, provided programmers restrict themselves to the safe subset of the language. Rust is a wonderful step in the right direction.
The devil is in the details. Those "some adjustments" are not exactly trivial, if they need to be correct and undisputed. And different people may have different requirements for what is "correct".

Things get trickier when the company is multinational. You might even be prevented by law from handling the salary data of one country in another.

(FWIW, I have some years experience as a line manager in a multinational, with reports in another country; this was not always a breeze even though from what I know, we were a decade or two ahead of most multi-nationals in the level of international integration of corporate IT.)
It's just classic puritanical morality run amok, as usual. They'd rather that some people died from paracetamol overdoses than be allowed to live as "sinners".
You should try the ones on the train from Mumbai to Panaji.

Otoh the food is amazing, just try not to imagine how the chef washes his hands.
Magic Lantern is designed to be as simple as possible - you stick a file on a memory card and that's it. ML is 'marketed' as something that 'just works'. The developer needs to understand that the people who'll use it are, essentially, IT newbies who won't always understand the need for backups, understand what a roll back is, and won't follow instructions. That means they won't necessarily understand the fix, and they will believe a message that says their camera is bricked.

None of that means he shouldn't have played a joke on the users, but it definitely means he ought to have thought it through more. And, as you say, he should have had a much better response to people's understandably somewhat panicked reaction.
Are you saying I could live on 10 USD a day in Argentina, including renting a room, and eating food? How much for Internet access? That'd be a cheap retreat at ~1000 USD for 3 months (assuming a 3 month vacation VISA).
I actually find them very useful. If I need any external library I usually check them out first.
No, but it will take you down a career path that exposes you to more luck & uncertainty than an SIE.

Features engineers can have lucrative, long-lived careers. It usually means they need to be the primary or lead engineer responsible for a significant user-visible product. Think of Andy Hertzfeld for the Macintosh, John Carmack for Doom/Quake, Anders Hejlsberg for Turbo Pascal and Delphi, or Aston Motes at Dropbox. Some of them cashed out directly with F-U money from a startup; others used past track records to get a startup of their own funded or a lucrative job at a big company.

The downside is that you're very exposed to the risk of your project failing and nobody caring about it. At the stage of a project where a SIE is most useful, the project is already underway, people know it's a good idea, and they just need to execute solidly. At the stage where a SFE is useful, the whole point of the project is unknown - that's why you need an engineer that specializes in rapidly testing things out. This applies in big companies as well - my role at Google could best be described as a SFE (though they don't have the title), and I had to prototype a number of features, a couple of which worked out and a good many of which did not.

There's very significant crossover between the SFE role and that of a technical cofounder - the main differences are risk tolerance, willingness to go out and interact with users personally, and product vision. It's very common for people who enjoy the prototyping aspect to end up starting their own companies, as that gives the best alignment of incentives and ability to capitalize on their own work. It's still possible to be a "professional early-employee" or even make a prototyping/R&D role work in a big company, but you need to demonstrate wins in your career.
Only discovered GoT a year ago, and caught up by binge-watching all the episodes in less than 2 weeks.
Can i invest on gas and petrol companies?
You say "people" but do you mean "men" or does every female have a shewee?

http://www.shewee.com/
That's what GAAP is for no?
> At any given time there’s only a single running code block.

> But here… there be dragons.

That's one of the things Erlang solves pretty well. Sometimes I sort of envision it as that robot dog/mule thing that they keep kicking and it gets back up and keeps going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ if you have never seen it before.
>Also, if HTTPS became a requirement, then demand would increase for free HTTPS certificates in exchange for, say, advertising.

Any plan that puts more advertising on the web is going to get a big fat thumbs down from me.
> Mr. Price ... would pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salary from nearly $1 million to $70,000

There's money in every successful company that could be redistributed — it's a moral choice whether you do so. If you prioritise your own comfort over that of the people you stand on, feel free to do so.
Dams are one of the best kind of battery there is. They store gargantuan amounts of energy with very little complexity. Basically: pump water up into the dam to "charge," and let water flow and run the turbines to "release" energy.

That's why hydro power is absolutely critical to a renewable grid. It's the only scalable way to normalize supply and demand.
I thought he may have used JSDev[1] to do some unit testing (which I understand why he set it up but it feels so awkward to me) but I don't see anything. No idea; he's certainly talked about the privacy of closing methods and unit testing but I thought he still did it just with JSDev.

[1] https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSDev
There are warranty warnings on any open source platform. I wonder what would happen if an open source database would decide to do this on april 1st :)
I'm curious as to how you think this will fail?

Do you think they'll suddenly get a lot of pressure to decrease their revenues?

Do you think they'll suddenly lose a whole bunch of clients because they're paying above market?

Do you think staff are suddenly going to become less productive because they're paying above market?

Do you think new staff are going to be of a lower quality than his competitors?

This business has been around for 11 years. Has 10,000+ customers. And is profitable, even with the adjusted salaries.

Given some really back-of-the-envelope guesstimates on the way this type of organic business grows and their current profit combined with Dan's current salary, Dan's probably already extracted $5-15m from the company over the last 11 years. That's a very comfortable living wage for someone who doesn't seem to live an extravagant lifestyle.
Perhaps this is a hint. Something is amiss in the Tor project?

Infiltrated perhaps? Backdoored? Even worse? All they can do is throw this CEO moving on shit.
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> But aren't the vast majority of possible orbits unstable?

No. Ignoring perturbations from other planets, planetary orbits are stable ellipses with the sun at one focus.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_mo...
Meditation is supposed to be able to achieve this.

I've experienced it exactly once in a 45-minute session and it only lasted a few minutes. At the time my elbow was hurting quite a bit (I have hemophilia and arthritic damage from frequent bleeds); for that brief duration, I continued to experience the pain but it was akin to observing that an object is a particular colour, rather than suffering personally.
> Additionally the pace of .NET doesn't matter, because the enterprise is dog slow to upgrade.

In some cases they will never upgrade. I'm talking about places still running WebLogic 8 and JVM 1.4.2. Huge business critical production systems. They'll probably still run on that exact stack for the next 5 years at the very minimum. Everything new gets written in whatever the new stack is, that old stack just stays there, forever.

The strange world of mega corp enterprise IT.
What about I2P?
Your hypothetical of 'what if this happened in the workplace' is a good one. If someone changed their coworker's or manager's background image and ended up getting charged with a felony, I would be equally outraged.

Even as grounds for firing it's a stretch, although I suppose the specific content of the image could rise to sexual harassment which could make it more serious -- but that would be based on the coworker's response, and a greater pattern of behavior.

If they had to guess a coworker's password in order to do it, then the further reprimand goes to the coworker for having such an insecure password, but the original act of changing the background image is dealt with all the same, namely, a) laughing about it, b) laughing and then saying 'don't do that', or c) an internal reprimand. Under almost no circumstance could I imagine involving the police in any capacity for changing a coworker's background image.

In the workplace, again, the far-worse offense is actually the coworker losing control of their password. If an employee came to me complaining their background image was changed to two men kissing, on a machine with proprietary business documents (aka state standardize tests) on it, my first questions would be, not who did it, but where did you leave your machine unlocked and how did someone else gain access?

A felony conviction has lasting impact for decades, not to mention the act of prosecuting costs taxpayers thousands of dollars, and a waste of public resources. But even short of a felony charge, IMO it's simply not in the interest of anyone for accessing a computer to change a background image to be anything but an internal / administrative matter.

But I shouldn't have to venture into the hypothetical, and dramatically change the scenario to make the point, because in fact kids aren't treated the same as adults, and yes, when the clock strikes 12 and a child becomes an adult under the law, their responsibility and their relationship with the state is fundamentally altered. So the fact this is a child does make the charge even more outrageous.

I just fundamentally believe that the police and our criminal justice system are a form of violence to be wielded against the people only in times of absolute need and even then only in the minimum necessary and proportionate response. Changing a background image, to me, is an order of magnitude lower on the violence scale than any police intervention.
Cost of living is accordingly lower. I lived quite comfortably on my monthly wage of $400 in South Africa when I was starting out in 1998. When it got to around $1800 a month it was really, really comfortable. Your foreign purchasing power sucks so I never bought Apple, but food, accommodation and anything else in the local economy was affordable as heck.
Problematic in what cases? You could always get hostname from the IP before.
^This.

The whole premise of making money by providing capital and hiring labour is that you do not pay according to value created/contributed, but as little as the labour market will allow.

Some people think that the invisible hand of the market will ensure that the difference approaches zero. These people often tend to believe that unions are worse than hiring right-wing thugs to bust up unions, too.
Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy
Holy %$! that's bad.

If you're paid to take photos, roll up to a gig with all the gear you tested yesterday, and get this...good god.
> What possible basis do you have for judging his mind and his life based on one paragraph?

The body of scientific work called human psychology.

I genuinely hope it's not news to you that people are terrible at accurately assessing their own mental state.
How to know you've been coding too long in .NET
London Underground toilet map: https://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/toilets-map....

They are usually very clean, probably because people assume they don't exist.
By distributing it gradually, the get more subscribers. I know plenty of people who pay HBO only during the time of the year that GoT is broadcast. That's about 3-4 months.

I recall the the last episode was postponed one week last year due to some strike or something alike, forcing people to pay an additional month of HBO. I heard a few complaining about this extra cost (and the fact that there was no episode that weekend!).
Graal is a JIT compiler done in Java, it has nothing to do with DLR.

Graal together with SubstractVM offer AOT compilation and is also being used by AMD for the GPGPU support targeted for Java 9, latest Java 10.

Truffle is more of a AST manipulation framework for nodes that can be fed into Graal for compilation.

Then there are those meta-circular JVMs like JikesRVM which are done in Java.
Public Displays of affection, beyond holding hands, doesn't have any rock solid claim on being "civilized" in my books - so, I'll call that more a question of currently fashionable behavior, much akin to public nudity (the recognizing of which probably has a better claim to being civilized in my books). As far as gay rights, agreed - Singapore is behind the curve on officially recognizing gay marriage. With that said, it's not as though Singapore is actually enforcing any of these laws - Singapore has a pretty active gay community/nightlife: http://blog.happymassage.com/the-gay-bars-guidance-in-singap...
That's not a problem with XP, that's a problem with people that use obsolete versions of IE.

Note that the subject here is talking about what to do in future browser versions, so IE8 never comes into the picture.
The natural solution to this would be more rail to allow people to have reasonable commutes into the city. But some critics think rail encourages sprawl and the only answer is more skyscrapers and density.

And on the other side, NIMBY's in low-density areas like Menlo Park and Atherton killed the restoration of the Dumbarton Bridge Rail (also victim of a mysterious arson recently) and are delaying electrification of the Caltrain. The Dumbarton Bridge, for example, would allow people to live on the East Bay and take direct rail into Palo Alto, Redwood City or Menlo Park, and up and down the corridor.
If you assume that there actually is no issue at Tor, how would the message be different? This could just be that the top guy is leaving, and this is their way of reassuring that it's still business as usual, and everything _isn't_ falling apart.

Of course that's the sort of message that you write if it is falling apart as well, so I guess this is basically a contentless press release on that part.
You need SOME code to display debug info or at least a message when the processor encounters an unrecoverable exception. Otherwise all crashes would just freeze the system.
Singapore's public restrooms are clean because they can afford to hire armies of 60 year old cleaners with no minimum wage.

I'd argue they are actually TOO clean. Because half the time I want to use them, they are being cleaned! It's a bunch of busywork to employee the otherwise unemployable. They clean bathrooms and sweep up leaves over and over again.
Most shops don't handle a gazillion requests. And if you don't handle a gazillion requests, you don't really care about 20ms downtime while HA proxy is reloading ?
I can't find any information as to whether the contents of the book have been scanned anywhere - anybody know?
I don't know why you chose to write your first sentence, which is so hyperbolic it makes you into a personal joke (he'll die alone and unloved? really? Why not add, "as a meth addict in a homeless shelter in Rio, on the run from the law after attempting to stick up a group of tourists with a butter knife.")

If 18 people can build a $1 billion Internet company, you can do the same while subsidizing out up to a few hundred $80K salaries (let's say $8M/year burned, which is 100 such employees) without any consequence whatsoever. Zero.

After your intro sentence, which sounds like you're attempting to get everyone to stop reading and downvote you, by writing something patently ridiculous, your second sentence is interesting.

Now that nobody is reading, you write:

>The people he tried to help will be struck down with him as they lose the jobs they've scrabbled their whole lives to maintain.

This is interesting. Yes, he is paying well above-market for these jobs. What is the consequence? Someone working as a janitor for $80K is in a job he or she could not ever hope to replace should they lose it.

What about hiring? Since he is paying above market (double), the natural result is that he should have 800 applicants for any job that becomes available. (The only reason he wouldn't is information dissemination.) i.e. if there are 100,000 janitors making $30K working a city, it would make sense for 50,000 of them to apply to him for $80K.

This could have a very large distorting effect. Or, maybe it won't.

We're still not talking 6 figures here. While doubling someone's wage is a very large step up, it is by no means the kind of step that completely distorts the market. And what if someone does scramble to keep or get an $80K job, but actually loses it? In fact, people lose cushy jobs they're happy with all the time. I think this is interesting and unfortunate, but by no means will ruin the people who enjoyed a period of unexpected windfall. In effect, they just become very moderate lottery winners. (They "win" a free excess doubling of their salary, while it lasts.)
Well there's no specific support for things like CUDA, but C++ support works for the most part. Not for CUDA's triple-angled-chevrons (yet), but neither does Visual Studio itself :)
It's not good at all, but the author of the post complaining is actually quite funny (sorry for your frustration if you read me!).
Sequences in database systems
7 Steps for a Successful Cloud Implementation
Ask HN: Book like Code Complete for business (administration) and management
Is there a book like Code Complete but for business (administration) and management?

I read Mythical Man-Month of course, but i feel I need a better overview of business and management. I want to know more about people and project management, but also about business administration and finance (not so much accounting but financial ratios, etc).
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I thought that looked like a real April Fool's joke for once, unlike the loads of mildly amusing news stories that have become the standard on April 1st. The author could have told it straight away on the forum though, instead of going further and asking for a video.
I suffer from bad back pain from a slipped disc. Yoga has a surprisingly positive effect on me. Although I can't quite do most of the poses and stretches, the hour or so of stretching has an overwhelmingly soothing effect on the pain and my attitude towards it.
A 1% CTR is quite normal for an adsense advert. Assuming your advert is a banner ad, it should have similar CTR.

It is important to understand that over time people develop banner blindness - your ad could have copy providing a lot of value, but the human brain would simply be ignoring it. I would suggest A/B testing with different types of ads, with different copy and call to actions.

One more suggestion is that you can build an email list. It might be slow at start, but over time as the list grows, you no longer have to depend on users coming to your website and clicking your ads. You can contact them directly in their inbox. Obviously don't spam them with useless emails - offer them something of value in every email and try to email them every month (or every week if you can). People also react differently to emails since they are more personal and if you build up trust, it should be a lot easier to get their attention.
This is hilarious to me and I won't apologize for saying that.
That raises an interesting question. Assuming the profit levels haven't suddenly risen, if the workers are now producing enough value for the company to be able to pay them this amount now, they presumably already were producing that value.

Isn't this an implicit admission that the company was underpaying them before?
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Has anything like this been done before? It's a curious concept. It's certainly costing the company ~nothing (legal, financial, broker fees aside) but it's an incredible gesture to the community that made all this possible. Very clever - and touching!
There's still the matter of cleaning up after yourself. The toilet doesn't have to sparkle like an advert, it just needs to be usable by the next person. I have gastric distress as often as the next person, but I'm going to clean up a seat that I make filthy.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what paranoia looks like.
Just set it down at the south pole.
If that's too much for someone to deal with they're probably not going to last long as a CEO. This is the kind of thing people have HR departments for, and you're telling me they can't crunch a few numbers? Come off it.