skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Come salary review time, I'd be asking for a huge raise, because clearly the company has the cash to throw around, and if they're handing out 50+% raises, my value must have also increased.

Nope. The company isn't increasing those people's salaries because they are suddenly more valuable. It is doing it so that they can actually live somewhat comfortable lives in an expensive city.

Other than that, I would advise that you stop looking at salaries as a way to compare yourself to others. You will be a happier person.
> You are assuming that your client OS/browser DNS resolvers have the pre-shared trust anchors for whichever root zone. That's kind of a big assumption.

First: There are two arguments to be had. One is the server side, and one is the browser side. The server is going to know about the key problem if it happens. The client side browser can know, if the client is using plugins like this one:

https://www.dnssec-validator.cz/

Second: Here is the root key:
https://www.iana.org/dnssec/files
> What kind of impact would such a massive redistribution of income have?

Surely this would have terrible inflationary effects. Not that I'm against it.
She said "Stage 1 FTS has been safed".

FTS is the flight termination system. I believe that is a self destruct mechanism in case things go very wrong. They arm it before liftoff and disable it after it's well over the ocean.
Does this have any relation to the rise of right wing parties in Europe?
Why did you choose Lua?
Ah, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense!
I don't think they said anything after "landing burn started". They like to milk news like that a bit.
And the commentator doesn't comment or speculate anything about it. Really odd.
Average salary for a programmer in Seattle is $72K according to GlassDoor.

Why should a mailroom guy make the same as a programmer? The programmer had to go to school, learn his craft, keep up with the latest technology, learn several different languages, fix bugs at odd hours, forced to learn new things or be obsolete, etc. The mailroom guy just sorts mail and packs boxes. Why should they be paid the same?
Every time we reach these new frontiers I'm reminded of Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot'. http://oi46.tinypic.com/11w8z7n.jpg
What to expect in NetBSD 7
It wins? Does it? Because I don't see how you become a company worth nine digits of VC by selling private JavaScript package repositories to twenty thousand people. We're talking about a difference not only in degree but in kind to Github.
I never watched one of these before ... T+13 shows Dragon deploying solar panels (really should to be called 'wings' I think). I think a second stage camera shows the Dragon with a some fairing panel spinning away from it. This is amazing!
The trap and the vent stack that prevent sewer gas from pushing back into the bathroom are not obvious. I'll bet a lot of people don't quite know what the vent is there for.
i came to say the same thing. her ccc talks are actually worth watching, was really fun to watch her play around with radio.

https://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5588_-_en_-...
i feel like this is a zero-sum situation though, since they're all employees and not owners, which means to a certain degree, the decision by the employer/owner to give more to one employee usually necessarily means giving less to another. to be more pedantic, you could even say the employer doesn't necessarily give less to another but HAS less to give or allocate to another employee.

the situation of course changes if we're talking about part owners as well, then the argument does get a little murkier since it can be argued that improving the overall morale of the lower paid employees will bring about improved productivity and thus eventually lead to improved sales/revenue/profits, which ultimately benefits all the owners.
Consider contracting (in addition to) your day job. My day job reached peak salary 2 years ago(160-ish as an engineer), and I started taking on remote contract work for larger IT companies(eg VMware and Cisco, not John Doe's Lawn Service). My contract earnings soon eclipsed my salary by double, and eventually triple. The rest is history as they say... I wish I had done this years ago.

TLDR; If you want money above all else, work for yourself, and contract out to companies that have deep pockets. With your skill set, you shouldn't have much trouble getting in the door.
Wait, what? You seem to be saying that person who was making 45k was getting paid less than they were worth. And now that they are paid 75k they are "finally" getting paid what their worth. And the person who was previously making 75k was getting paid exactly what they're worth before and after? That seems like a bold claim. How convienent that everyone happens to be worth almost exactly the same.

It seems to me that the person who got the huge bump is now getting paid more than they're worth. If person A is getting paid 66% more than they're worth and person B is getting paid only what their worth then person B is going to be upset. Maybe they shouldn't be, but they absolutely will.
Surely the main cause of failure is human rather than the actual design. Nuclear stations may be safe, but that comes at an increasing cost in money and complexity. How do we deal with the institutional failings that allowed us to build "old reactors with very shitty failure modes". Stop blaming it on the tech. I want reactors that are simple enough to be cheap and easy.
Looks like we'll have to find out if Stage 1 makes it on twitter. Webcast is ending.
That's a good point. I knew that was how Pinboard worked but I guess it slipped my mind. Having catch all survey questions is more work than it looks! Thanks for your time, much appreciated.
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Thanks, that's not a bad suggestion for our needs.

I would expect a paid-for service to not require me to run my own proxy though.
Same as last time - we didn't hear anything more about the first stage until much later.
NCC Group to Audit Let's Encrypt
The plausibility of a vulnerability in AES which reduces the search space by more than half of the key bits is essentially 0.
I predict at some point that something like an roomba for solar panels might spring into existence...
If everyone made $70k though, wouldn't the amount of "buying power" that $70k commands now go down/prices of things would go up?
I'm guessing they don't show it live because if something went wrong, they'd like to figure out why before releasing the video, like last time. Instead of just having a failure without the known cause...
> I dunno about that, sounds like they are just getting paid more.

The free market has always been shitty about getting money to people who "deserve" it versus people who acquire it. If you think a high-paid lawyer is somehow worth the same as elementary school teacher, you should agree with the reduction in the massive disparity of salary. If you honestly think the lawyer is "worth" more, I don't want to know you, be around you, or have to interact with you at all.
Thanks a lot for this great piece of feedback.

- T&C : that was a fast fix for something, it will be solve as soon as we find a few minutes

- lazyloading on W3C listings: agreed and noted

- PDF/average top-1000 result : indeed, we have to add that!

- Detected Technologies: Yes for Google Analytics, that's odd. No for social widgets. We are mainly focused on CMS and frameworks.

- Table of Contents: you're right

- color-coding: it will be changed soon. New policy will be: if you have one issue at least in a given category, the category will be red (for now is based on the average grade of the category).

- "short" report: you're not alone, we add you to the list, but still to few people

- 99/100 damned!

"A good pricing hook might be a free (scheduled) report once a month"

> you have that daily for free (from you're dashboard, you can create a "monitoring"). Paid options allow to use the tool on other pages than homepages and to use advanced settings (custom bandwidth, authentication, etc)

Thanks again! (and sorry for typos)
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A couple of things: The article mentions salaried employees. Maybe the have no hourlies.

Two. However things work out, we can be happy for the workers who got a pay raise. Maybe other cos will follow suit and lessen the spread between upper mgmt and kind worker pay.

The current trajectory of increasing disparity does not bode well for the middle class or the lower classes both of which are experiencing an economy squeeze compared to their late sixties counterparts, in real terms.
Uber, Lyft and traditional taxi outfits all applaud new Maryland ride-share law
i too prefer LA over the other major cities (sf,ny,chi) for a variety of reasons, but to be fair it's a lot better than it was even 10 years ago in terms of diversity, culture, food, transportation, entertainment, industry, etc. there is still a large polarity of wealth but it's not as bad as SF or NY in my opinion, just because there's more land to use.
If you were making >2x the cash your colleagues were, you are DEFINITELY overvalued.
Hm. Good point. I like that rule.
You need a lightning protection consultant. Lightning protection is a solved problem - power lines, large communication towers, and wind farms are struck all the time, without serious problems. Doing it right can get expensive, but is quite possible.

Grounding on hard rock is tough. There are methods for measuring ground conductivity, and in a situation like that, you'll need them.
T+17m: Not a successful landing today.

That sucks.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/32jnyd/rspacex_crs6_...

Edit: "Looks like Falcon landed fine, but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing" @elonmusk
How to build a mobile friendly website Part 2 – Ok to Go
Look into OpenResty (http://openresty.org). I'd also recommend Lapis (http://leafo.net/lapis/), which provides a Rails-ish MVC framework over OpenResty.
Just because it's a narrative doesn't mean it's not also a reality. Story telling is how we make sense of collective societal changes. The presence of a narrative simply means society is trying to work out the problem. Conflating reality and narratives would be to believe that men and women are actually fighting when the reality is there are more than two genders with allies on all sides.
The reddit spacex thread suggests another 'hard' landing for stage 1. But sounds like they got close again. One day ... one day ...
I've been digging the last few months of blog posts that nginx has been putting out, especially the articles around microservices. They're very well written and have inspired our company to think differently about a few of our applications. When we were offered the opportunity to talk with nginx directly for a private webinar, we were left with a very underwhelming feeling. It may have been the specific sales person, but they couldn't explain how nginx's paid services could help our company.
"Official Rumour" is that the first stage hit the drone ship but did not land well.

https://twitter.com/sarahcruddas/status/588076036207812609
"Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588076749562318849
That's a ridiculous statement without an evaluation of the economic contributions of each employee and the availability of employee alternatives for each position.
You might have twice the experience, but if the value of your output and your coworkers output is the same, why should you get paid more?
I don't think thats is entirely correct. The issue isn't just storage but also production/output of the actual energy and as someone else once said here. Green energy is a linear solution to an exponential problem. I think there is something to that.

Also it doesn't solve anything for space travel which I don't believe are going to be put on hold.

But it will definitely be great.
SpaceX Rocket “lands on droneship, but too hard to survive”
I'm sure this is great, but can I see some benchmarks?

I think many frameworks allow you to include the "basic" subset of the framework, without running all the usual Inversion of Control bootstrapping.
I would rather be able to buy less for myself than far more than my peer.
"Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival." -- Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588076749562318849

Update: Photo @ https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588082574183903232/photo...
It's annoying that they took SPDY support out of Community and put it into Plus. Want updates? Too bad, you gotta recompile.
Shopify SEC Filing
Nobody is arguing against tinkering with cryptography as a mechanism for learning. This advice is meant to stop people from writing homebrew encryption for real-world, production systems.

You described a relatively simple protocol that, at worst, does not decrease security in a theoretical sense with at least one critically-important and unmentioned caveat (don't use the same or related keys for both ciphers). In a practical sense, your simple protocol is likely a security disaster.

In the absolute best case, it really only defends against a break in the underlying cipher that is so thoroughly devastating that ciphertexts can be decrypted essentially for free. Even DES hasn't been broken this badly, and it's been considered broken for decades. The reason this is the case is that such a simple transform is only useful against an entity that is automatically decrypting ciphertexts on the wire en masse, and who isn't looking for your data specifically. Against a targeted adversary who can "merely" break AES with substantial effort, the additional cost such a transform would impose is completely negligible. In your example of a transform on top of a TLS connection, it would be completely obvious through packet analysis that the protocol was TLS, and your transform would be trivially understood and reversed after watching a few handshakes.
Love that pic.
That's all very good. I didn't mean to imply any criticism -- I was just wondering what that pay meant in terms of after-tax etc income per year.

Curious about the house-loan thing: how long does it take to pay for a house with that wage? Can you buy a house with 4k or 8k USD a year in household income, and own that house after ~25 years in Mexico? (As 8k*25 ~ 200k -- I suppose that's not entirely unreasonable. You might be able to get a one-room apartment for that price in Norway, so assuming 50% of the income is spent on housing, and considerably lower cost for housing... not as far fetched as I initially thought).
Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/58807674956231884...
>> We are basically drenched in free energy, but we can't store it cheaply enough. If that's fixed, we're done here.

I think that's a simplistic view. Yes there is tremendous energy in the movements of air in the atmosphere, and water in the seas, even more in the daily exposure to sunlight, and quite a bit in the geologic forces operating in the earth's interior. That's all well and good, but what matters in terms of powering a modern civilization is energy density, portability, and durability. Electric power isn't going to get a lot more portable than it is now. Storage improvements will make it more durable. But in terms of density the only sources we have are heat cycle sources dependent on fossil and nuclear fuels. Storage advances don't magically make renewable sources dense enough to replace the power we now get from non-renewable sources.

Edit: I should also have mentioned the obvious non-heat cycle source, hydro, which is dense enough in some places to be a very significant contributor.
Ask HN: Accepting cash for online orders?
Hi,

I am trying to find a good model for supporting cash payments for orders placed online but haven't been able to think of one where I can be guaranteed payment in full once the order is delivered.

Do any of you know of an example where this has worked well? I would love to be able to support this, and I'm hoping someone has an example that I can learn from.
Safed.

Meaning switched off from being armed.
No.

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2zhg6z/how_true_is_this...

Read that and tell me that it is Ok..And see how that comment has been downvoted. That is PHP community for you. In 2015.
I really like the twig template engine [0]. It will compile your template back to PHP code so it will run as fast as if you used PHP directly.

[0]http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
All the modern design proposals are to mass-produce smaller units -- sometimes, completely sealed units -- which would then be installed several to a site, and maybe sent back to the manufacturer to be refurbished at periodic intervals. This is the "save money by mass production" economies-of-scale approach, as opposed to "save money by being more efficient with large custom-built plants" economies-of-scale approach which has failed the industry and led to many of those ballooning costs.

(Whether we have the regulatory wherewithal to go with that plan is another matter, but the very idea of reusing the same design over and over does help keep compliance costs down, and you can focus on site-selection costs.)
This suggestion only apply when using mobile testing with our tool. We do not penalize target="_blank" on desktop websites.

And unfortunately, for now, our service still needs big updates for mobile UX, but most of our users only use us on desktop.
Wind and solar might have large capital costs in-total for similar capacity, but you can deploy it in much smaller increments and time periods than nuclear plants - that goes for both actual deployment as well as R&D investments. I think that makes a huge difference in how the technologies are rolling out in practical market terms. I expect it will be similar for storage technologies - much lower capital investments required for a given increment of technology improvement & roll-out.

Now, new small fission reactor R&D may work out differently, but we have yet to see any of those efforts come out of the gate in terms of being even close to ready-to-install states.
Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival
Yea it does!
Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival. - @elonmusk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588076749562318849
Good questions, but wouldn't it be fun to find out the answers using empirical tests? You might even be able to add tests and submit a PR, and be immortalized in the annals of github.
Just remember that hiring doesn’t end when new engineers are in their seats,
and keep an eye out for hiccups in your integration process — if you spot
dissatisfaction early, you can intervene before it becomes critical, ideally
with transparency and honesty about what's going on.

I don't feel like this is emphasized enough. Having the strictest, most rigorous hiring program in the world isn't going to help you if engineers are getting frustrated getting up to speed with your specific product and culture.
Curious, but why don't your docs request that the install be done with Composer? Manually downloading a tarball isn't the best solution for managing an application dependency.
Read about things, and use things, and you will find out about what's missing from those things (and therefore what people want).
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Hey Brands, MCNs Aren’t the Answer to Your UGC Needs
Great, but that's not a product. If you're on board with the CQRS/ES thing, actually building your own should not be difficult. (Ok, so I'm assuming non-distributed DB here, but with a bit of imagination one could also do infinitely(!) scalable CQRS/ES within Bounded Contexts, given the fresh crop of easily understandable/implementable concensus algorithms.)
Too bad bento requires signing in with Facebook or Google.. ugh
Ask HN: How can you find Open Source contributors?
I know that some people are looking to contribute to Open Source projects and searching either for projects or ideas.

But what about the other way around? I'm working on an open source project which is not quite popular or fancy. I'm looking for contributors and willing to help/guide them learn as they work on it.

Any ideas/suggestions or even if it makes sense?
Raise when you can, not when you have to.
Percona acquires tokutek
You shouldn't, and that isn't my argument. If Gravity was paying some people $40k and some people $75k for the same work and result, they were being economically irrational. I'm saying that the $75k worker, up until today, was someone who likely commanded $75k because a) their training and experience allowed them to do productive work that exceeds that of entry-level workers, and b) they are harder to replace than entry-level workers.

If your employer says "your value to this company is equivalent to the value of unskilled entry-level workers", when you are in fact a highly trained and experienced worker, that may well be difficult to swallow.
Interesting. Why does it only analyze the first 60 seconds of speech? Is that a technical limitation or a theoretical one?
Same as "rolling your own crypto"; in fact, that's generally, except in extreme cases, exactly what we're referring to when we talk about people rolling their own.
You are probably going to get it wrong, not because there's anything bad with you, but because standard crypto libraries are too fine grained. The primitives are too low level, and you have to assemble sequences of calls in the right order and be in the watch for unexpected side effects.

I could tell you how I have gotten it wrong in the past, but there is no guarantee that I won't get it wrong again in a different way. So, the audit idea has it's merits, but you really want not to rely on the Linus Law of eyeballs. That means knowledgeable auditors who charge actual money for their time.
This is pretty well-done overall, though the author shows some remarkable bias with his descriptions of some of the Eastern religions vs. some of the others.
Well yes, it's dispatchable in that sense. If you frame dispatchable as a binary property, it's certainly dispatchable in the way that wind is not.

But if you think of it from a power system planning perspective of economic dispatch (not just, can I dispatch - but can I afford it), nuclear isn't really there. Yes, you can E-stop a nuclear plant in seconds, but the cost is astronomical. Some nuclear plants like Bruce NGS in Ontario have thermal bypass - this increases their dispatchability by allowing them to dump steam and reduce electrical output quickly without touching the thermal output.

Nuclear's dispatchability doesn't really counter-act wind or solar's lack thereof since the time scale you're looking at is much different. Being able to start and stop my nuclear plant in 72 hours doesn't really help me if the wind stops blowing for a couple of hours. So in practice, you'd build other, more easily and economically dispatchable assets to meet your needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_dispatch
It's not controlled by NSA? The largest nodes in the tree are literally controlled by them. The corporations that control the root are domiciled in the US. Google's remedy for misuse of any of those zones is to stop being GOOGLE.COM. This is a silly discussion.
Not sure what you mean. The native data field is a union, and its interpretation depends on the type of object. When the native function object is created, it can be set to an arbitrary integer, and when it's used as intended, it's interpreted as such, as the post says, "generally in a switch statement to further direct the call". When a NetConnection object is created, it's set to a non-arbitrary pointer by the constructor and interpreted as such. The issue is tricking the NetConnection implementation to use the native data of a native function object instead of a real NetConnection object.
You don't get things done very fast, do you?
Docker is a YC graduate so it makes sense for there to be extra interest here.
You guys know we are looking for software people, right?

http://www.spacex.com/careers