skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He will be instantly out-competed by people who actually understand capitalism and markets and will die poor, alone, unloved, and unwanted by the world. 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.

Businesses only have to act as profit-seeking (that is the word you mean when you say "psychopathic") when they... want to survive.
First, if it works against Russia, it can work against China. It's just harder. Level of dependence between many EU countries and Russian energy sources are comparable to US trade with China.

Second, there's a false assumption in your real-world example that China doesn't want to protect their environment. If the danger is real and serious, they will. Currently they are just playing catch up with economic activity and living standards and at some point the environmental issues will become to focus. There is already raising environmental awareness in Chinese cities due to pollution.
You can give jobs to a few more people, you can serve a few more customers, you can experiment with bigger ideas, you can have a bigger impact, and you can sell something bigger when it comes time to sell the whole thing.

But as you seem to already know, there's no reason that those need to be your priorities and pursuing them comes with added cost and risk. If you're confident that you can satisfy your personal goals without taking investment, there's no reason that you should.
And...so what? Why does it deserve discussion. Sure, Google openly has always favored a practice of releasing products/features very early to to validate them and evolve them through real-world use with willing early adopters that accept the risks associated with potentially unstable feature sets of not-yet-stable products.

What's the issue, here?
You could just read the rom in 8 bit home computers using normal memory access, and then disassemble it. I dunno about run of the mill hackers, but plenty of people would read the code for "fun".
Looks like a good trend to me. WallMart upping it's pay, Starbucks paying for college. Etc...

I think value added from workers not under the poverty line is a force multiplier for business. Source? Arm Chair economics.
Start with the Result
If I was running a company, anyone who was resentful of the lowest paid workers getting a raise, I'd be more than happy to pay them to leave.
Marriage is a social construct. Strip away how everyone else views it for a moment and look at it in a different light: If there were no tax benefits, no immigration benefits, etc - would you be the person's partner anyway?

If so, get married for the visa, it doesn't change anything important anyway.

Incidentally this is what me and my wife did so we wouldn't have to deal with the immigration lottery, it's working for us.
Why not simply let DNS handle the routing and load balancing?

Bring up another HAProxy with the new configuration. Then swap the new and old IP addresses in DNS. Wait for DNS to propagate. When traffic on old HAProxy is zero, bring it down.
Yeah, I kind of do the same at my company, but it's not a public matter.

Once an employee gets enough training and is valuable enough for the company, my minimum wage is 1200 pesos weekly. (I'm from Mexico). It's not a huge change, but almost any employee reach that salary within a year in my company. (The minimum wage in mexico is about 402 pesos weekly)
You should read Gruber's piece:
http://daringfireball.net/2015/04/the_apple_watch

The Apple Watch is not a real watch mainly because there's a lag between the time you glance at it and the time you see what's on it -- if you turn your wrist. If your wrist is already turned, or you can't turn it (for example, because you're typing) then you have to touch the face to turn it on.

It's not waterproof. I'm not sure it's readable in very bright sunlight.

It's very accurate, yes... contrary to the most expensive watches, which are the less accurate of all watches. Believe it or not, extreme accuracy is not a required feature of "real" watches.
People keep comparing this to Bluebird, which is great and all, but Bluebird's JS is 72KB minified, whereas this library is just 3KB.

That's what makes this a "small" JavaScript library for managing asynchronicity. And when you're using it for things like choosing which ads to display, etc (like some of the examples) you really don't want your JS load overhead to be very high.
Encryption Platform and Website Security Embraced by Linux Foundation
Internet Security Research Group and its Let's Encrypt platform will now be hosted by the Linux Foundation. It provides open and secure SSL encryption for websites.
Read more @ https://medium.com/@aahnajain/encryption-platform-and-website-security-embraced-by-linux-foundation-afa35d226faf
Female candidates preferred in tenure-track hiring
Only drama I've ever seen that discussed technical details of the TI-99/4A.
Ah, thanks - didn't know that. Tarantool is very interesting, btw.
If the employees aren't creating enough value, then where is all the profit coming from? Did the CEO catch a leprechaun?
Ahem... Inflation.
Web Performance – Cache efficiency exercise
The Most Powerful Consumer Drone yet Is Coming to the Market This Summer
The Technical Reference Manual for the original IBM PC included a listing of the source code to the BIOS.
The problem with nuclear waste is that you need a 0% failure rate or you might detonate a dirty bomb in the atmosphere. It doesn't matter how often it worked if it fails once.

Also it's a great target for sabotage for radicals.
I just tried to change the URL but the 'edit' feature is only allowing me to edit the Title and not the URL. Does anyone know how I can edit the URL also?
BitTorrent and the digital fingerprints we leave behind
I felt the same. It had the surface qualities of a series about nerdy/geeky computers in the 80s. But missed the essence. I identify much more with Mike Judge's work in Office Space & his Silicon Valley tv series.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/17/393596736/forget-binge-watchin...
Whoops, sorry, I meant to post the above under the parent, not your reply.
This is great! This is exactly what needs to be happening, and what needs to get more broadly publicized if we're to see a more representative ratio in STEM faculty.

It's a long road from here to there, but this is encouraging.
I am 35 yrs and have been working for 10yrs now. I make less than OP (various reasons).

However, I have seen lots of engineers (young and old) make > $150K. In my industry (Networking) and in that group (S/W Engineers) $150K+ means being in top 10% earning bracket.

You have accurately captured everything that makes these folks reach that bracket. Two things I want to rehash:

(a) Working hard consistently and being smart: Consistency is the key and I cannot emphasize how essential it is. Please note that consistency != long hours and weekends.

>> I also suspect they orchestrate situations where they work for managers who they have a good relationship with, so the chances they get promoted are greater.

(b) Sometimes, its the other way round. Some managers attract, even 'poach', good engineers who worked with/for them in past. Thus, creating a familiar environment/culture in the team.
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> 2 can outright ignored because almost anyone making that argument will never actually live by it and are merely using it as an escape.

Plenty of socialists seek fundamental reforms of the economic system to mitigate, to the extent possible, and to eliminate if possible, the economic coercion for labor generally, whether the labor involves sex or not, so I don't see how you can say that 2 is always just an escape when it comes to sex work. That position on labor in general is one of the major positions in economic politics in the world.
It is interesting to consider what this does to the psyche of the 45k/yr employee.

Do they become less likely to risk leaving this role? Do they value less the opportunity to test out a different career, even if the potential salary is higher? Do they become more devoted to the wellness of the Company? How does this impact their drive? Results? Retention?

It would be fascinating to see their HR metrics 10 yrs from now.(assuming Gravity Payments doesn't put itself out of business)
CloudFlare has an IPv4 /12 to play with: http://bgp.he.net/net/104.16.0.0/12#_whois
What a Wearable Device Company Learned While Using the Apple Watch
Team tightens bounds on quantum information 'speed limit'
RainbowStream: A Twitter client on the terminal
It's funny to me how many people on HN are criticizing this decision and making semi-insulting comments about how people aren't creating enough value for the company to deserve the pay increase.

First, paying the CEO less and employees more isn't going to put the company out of business because it's all just payroll.

Second, the people actually making the decision know far better than you how much value their employees are adding to the company and whether it's worth cutting into profit to pay them more.

When you've bootstrapped your own company, hired hundreds of employees, and are making millions of dollars in profit, you can pay your employees whatever you want. Until then, stop shitting on this guy's plan to do something cool for people.
All that is true and more. Intelligence is bad enough, but start talking about consciousness and sentience and we don't even know what we don't know. Our understanding there is so spotty there are major camps of people who want to just chicken out on the whole question and claim thes things do not exist. Humans don't like to admit they don't understand things... Threatens the ego.
Right. Because no one ever changes a certificate legitimately.
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Know the Enemy: When and Why Crooks Like to Operate Online
Russian authorities nab Android banking malware kingpin
The reason for the industry moving away from age statements (or towards No Age Statement, or NAS bottlings) is popularity. Whisky goes through peaks and troughs, but, like coffee (whose trees take a few years to yield fruit), supply lags demand. During troughs, perfectly palatable 12+ year old single malts get chucked into your basic Jonny Walker type bottle because it makes more economic sense than storing it. Peaks require some creative thinking to cope with massive demand.

Take Japan: both Nikka and Suntory have moved to NAS (Taketsuru Pure Malt, Hibiki Harmony, etc.) because of a surge both in foreign demand for Japanese whisky (thanks to Murray who helpfully added that in his mind Scottish quality had been declining for several years after giving top ranking to Japanese names) and because Suntory (I think) tried to resurrect the waning appetite amongst the young Japanese for the "unfashionable, old-fashioned" brown spirit by launching advertising campaigns centered on highballs. They just don't have enough 12/17/21 year old barrels to meet demand and try to deflect some onto the NAS blends (and also skim some margin off the wave of popularity). I don't know what Laphroaig is doing, but as a long term drinker of the 18 I've also noticed a steady drop in quality (shorter finish, less complexity). And of course most of the major houses now add caramel to their base offering and often in more expensive older ones too...

Meanwhile, Karuisawa distillery, which had to close some years ago (like Port Ellen) for economic reasons and due to the lack of interest in whisky at the time, is now seeing its last bottles go for thousands - if you can find them anywhere. Hibiki 17 is out of stock at all Japanese duty frees and - as of April - is no longer sold at Haneda airport. You're seeing a lot of smaller names come into existence immediately at Scottish level prices - Ichiro/Chichibu (formerly Hanyu), Mars, Fuji to name three - and they are also often out of stock. (If you're interested in the subject, the Nonjatta blog is phenomenal.)

The rum industry is relatively untouched. Yes, there are massively marketed rums using all the tricks in the book, but if you are a fan of vintage rhum agricole (e.g. La Favorite La Flibuste or Privilege, 35 year old rhum agricole, still hand bottled and waxed, for 100-120 EUR!) or limited editions from Italian houses finding interesting barrels, you'll pay a lot less than for the equivalent quality in malt world...
Thanks for the tip, did exactly that, new users get redirected to page with blank note and a temp folder
Alan Turing's notebook sold for $1M
Well, Ford didn't do too badly.

As for what if someone better shows up, well if you were swapping out staff every time someone you thought was better showed up, irrespective of money, you would kill off your business. Stability is more important than chasing some vision of perfection if you are wanting to get stuff done.
Sure, but there are also plenty of cases where you don't care. Why make everyone everywhere bother with HTTPS? If you want to protect the user, as a browser, go ahead and yell or block access, but only when the user's data is at risk. Blocking access to my page because someone might have misrepresented what I put there, and thus forcing me to deal with HTTPS? That's more than a little excessive IMO.
A great employer. Appreciate the employees. But one big question, if he ever do this , will he feel satisfied with his income in future?
Using sexual language to describe a non-gendered object in the workplace is a different issue to sexism.

"That car is sexy" = Could mean sexy as James Bond. It depends on the car, and the tone of person speaking, and who is saying it. You can't automatically assume it is sexualising women.

You can discuss whether saying such things is appropriate in the workplace but what the original comment say is this issue isn't related to discrimination against one particular gender, unless one is prejudicing one particular gender to be more prone to being uncomfortable with sexuality to begin with.

"It is just a matter of getting people aware and encouraging them to actively think about whether any things they do might be making women uncomfortable"

should be corrected to:

"It is just a matter of getting people aware and encouraging them to actively think about whether any things they do might be making people uncomfortable".

The former is gender discrimination, the second isn't. The former subtly suggests women are more prone to be uncomfortable, and can, for example, worsen the bias a potential employer may have against hiring women, for fear getting into trouble with women being easily uncomfortable in the workplace, because they're women. I am aware of this bias in mind consciously, already.
It will be interesting to see if the salary increase (for some it will be double) will result in overall better workplace happiness, higher retention rates (meaning less resources required to train replacements) and a better end product as a result of employees being happier. This is really great, other startups and companies should take note of what is happening here.

While it will result in a temporary downfall because profits are being used to fund this in combination with Dan Price's pay-cut, I think the long-term results will mean the company eventually makes that money back and then some more. We need more risk like this in the business world, invest in your employees who in turn will want to be at work and want to do a good job to keep their salary.
SPUR from Microsoft Research demonstrated slightly worse than V8 performance for JavaScript on .NET. Too bad SPUR didn't seem to go anywhere...
> And swinging back round to prostitution, what about those who are financially coerced into it? Fully informed consent requires that one be both of age and not coerced. Thus someone who is financially coerced is incapable of consenting

"Financial coercion" inferred from material need isn't generally recognized as voiding consent in any other domain where consent is critical (e.g., marriage, contracts in general -- labor included, but not exclusively, etc.) If "financial coercion" were treated as a real form of coercion that voided consent, capitalism -- even in the moderated form seen in modern mixed economies -- would collapse entirely.
NSA declares war on general purpose computers
That's a good point. Part of me is trained to think about this like an economist (the subject of one of my bachelor's), but in the end I really hope that human compassion triumphs and this proves to be a win-win. I'm routing for Mr. Price.
A soap opera with a technical facade.
It's not that I don't believe the author is correct, but I'm having a hard time picturing why it is true. Imagine a rocket pointed in the exact opposite direction the earth is orbiting. So the rocket starts to orbit the sun slightly slower than the Earth, and so the Sun's gravity would pull it closer and closer every year.
DNS is a fragile system to use within a DC to do service/endpoint discovery. That's because DNS tends to be a single point of failure.

Though the DNS system can inherently be resilient, within a DC most people only operate a single DNS server because a hierarchical domain scheme and DNS setup within DC is too cumbersome and is much less reactive to end point changes.
Eg: Changing a service endpoint in an emergency takes way too long.

A single DNS server means, still there are propagation delays(local caches) and a single point of failure at critical moments(when there is a thundering herd)
DNS is surprisingly tricky as a service discovery tool. A lot of clients are poorly behaved, and will cache values for too long (or forever). It'd also be another dependency critical for site functionality.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct (2009)
One of the few things that money genuinely cannot buy is the satisfaction of proving to yourself that the lustre of a shiny coin is not what rules you.
I found my remote job through my personal network. There's a great site recently launched called http://remoteok.io that may be helpful.
Coin: Dead or Alive?
>While some people might be that petty, it's very possible that Gravity never hired those kinds of people in the first place.

Yes, that petty university graduate with thousands of dollars of debt and many years invested in his craft should just be a better person.

Until the world is a very different place, return on investment is a huge factor in people's career.
> What are the chances of Enterprise switching to .Net instead of Java?

Plenty of enterprise shops are Microsoft full-stack shops (Windows Server/.NET/SQL Server/IIS). I get the impression -- though I haven't seen systematic data -- that .NET has been making gains against JVM as an Enterprise platform.
It's not a full bi-elliptic transfer, it's missing the third "retrograde" burn. In this situation the target orbit would be inside the Sun, the third burn is completely unnecessary. Your rule of thumb comparison of the two strategy doesn't work here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer
I disagree, and since people seem to be piling on REAMDE, I just want to pipe up in defense of it. Having read most[1] of Stephenson's books, I think REAMDE is the best of them, or at least the second-best behind Cryptonomicon.

It's less ambitious than most of his work, sure. But it is a lot harder to create a gripping and memorable book set in the present day, written in a conventional style, and without the benefit of speculative future technologies.

With REAMDE he pulled it off, though.

I have read a lot of light thriller-type novels in my day (mostly bought at airports in the pre-Kindle era, admittedly), and they are usually pretty hard to care about. Not so with REAMDE, though.

[1] Anathem is in my Kindle queue, and I couldn't stay interested enough to get through the Baroque Cycle. Have read the rest, though.
There's no particular advantage to putting an interstellar transmitter in orbit. Attenuation on the way up isn't a huge problem. Arecibo could in theory communicate with a similar installation across about 10,000 light years.[1]

[1] http://www.setileague.org/articles/oseti.htm
Ford wasn't doing it to be nice. Ford was trying to cut turnover as that was costing him loads.
Must be frustrating for Crockford to be in TC39.

He didn't like class keyword, thought typing (TypeScript etc) is a wrong direction. This (albeit it began 2013, but it was just updated) library does not mention ES6 Promises, proposal for async await, or the yield hack.
Many of the same moves have to be taken if the business wants to remain solvent into the next fiscal year.
Not much. Unless someone rewrites all those systems where there is a JVM available.

The world of enterprise systems isn't only Mac, GNU/Linux and Windows.

Additionally the pace of .NET doesn't matter, because the enterprise is dog slow to upgrade.

We are still doing .NET 4.0, Windows Forms and targeting XP. Some of the project code was written for .NET 3.5.

On the Java side, most corporations are now slowly moving from Java 6 to Java 7 and they hardly care about any alternative JVM languages.
At first I thought this was blown out of proportion, but the developer's comments are infuriating. When an issue was filed, the response was "can you post a video?" rather than "sorry, it's a joke – roll back for a fix". Even the official explanation is just the developer complaining about users being frustrated: https://bitbucket.org/hudson/magic-lantern/issue/2235/5dmk2-...
I see. Any reason not to patch HA to reload config?
That's not how it works. It would just place the waste on an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
The real (legal) mininum wage in Mexico is a joke. How much do you pay until the employee gets to that "level"?
A challenging but great example of training a young kids to think logically and out of the box
What kind of a business doesn't know that already?

Now that I think of it, the best-run company I ever worked for was completely open-book; everybody could always see what everybody else was making.
I'm pretty sure you folks are arguing in the same direction.
I never used to care much which seat I got on a plane. But now that I'm flying with my husband and children, I find it stressful that I can't usually get us seats together in advance. They've always accommodated us at the actual airport checkin so far, but it does add a big worry to the travel day.

Solo travelers prefer to choose a seat in an empty row, but the plane is going to be full anyway. It's just an inefficient system.
I had to resign from my job in San Francisco in order to go back to France for a couple months due to family issues.

My H1B was revoked by my employer in January. My I-94 is valid until September 24, 2015.

What are my options to go back and work in the US now? Is there anything besides filling a new petition in 2016?

Or is transferring the previous H1B still an option?
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This is very much required. We need to guide users on how to send the email with required questions answered to TRAI. I found a useful way of doing this - How to Vote for Net Neutrality in India - http://whatfix.com/#!flows/how-to-vote-for-net-neutrality-in...
Definitely not a classy move; perhaps it would've been better to do it immediately on boot-up, with an error message like FOOLS_FAULT, and after a few seconds pop up a dialog that makes the "error" go away.

"Your camera is now bricked" isn't exactly the message I'd like to send to my users.
It would not.

If you start out with a velocity slightly slower than the Earth's, you end up with an elliptical orbit (instead of Earth's almost circular orbit). Barring some sort of drag (to further loose energy), there's no reason it would decay into the sun.
Even economists have to take into account transaction costs. Hiring someone new is often a fairly costly transaction.
Am I terrible for actually getting quite a chuckle reading this?