skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why using something like GraphQL should push REST out of the way.
I want to create and manage my resources, publish them on the web via a RESTful API - and also provide a way for the user to query those resources in a meaningful way with just one call.
That's exactly what I'm doing today - but with a proprietary language (and querystring - which is not ideal).

I see this as the perfect companion for REST and I hope it will be standardized.
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Negative filtering is bad for reddit-like communities. We need people like you to see these comments and downvote them, for the benefit of all other readers.
I'm starting to see a strategy here. I've been wondering how Microsoft can make money from all.this open source activity. Their platform is becoming obsolete, but is being replaced by OSX, iOS, and android. That makes developers unhappy because of the multiple OSes they need to support. But MS can step in and bring their own platform as an abstraction over these others and make developers happy. Build once, target everything. I'm betting key pieces will not become open source, they want to have control over the new platform. That is the midterm goal - regain control (even a little bit) of a dominant platform.
But with an unhedged option spread like that, his losses are unlimited. I.e., QQQQ continues to skyrocket while SPY tanks (or is flat).

Naked put selling is very dangerous. (Well, his risk is limited to the strike, but that's a small consolation when the premium for selling the put is 5%-10% of that.)
Hey, there's a lot of factors involved--especially in Houston, for example, the age distribution from people fleeing aerospace is skewed.

You just asked for numbers and stories, so I found you numbers and stories.
The GP could get the data out of the system, but wanted an additional convenience factor. And the system is a 'service', not a 'computer'.
> otherwise merit-based processes

What a delightful thought experiment! In the meantime...
My brother did this at a small business. He worked there for a year or so and realized that out of the folks he worked with (his level and the next level up) he pretty much knew the most and actually did the most.

He went into his boss' office and said "It think I deserve a promotion" and his boss said "ok, I'm promoting you to X" and he said "no, I deserve two promotions to Y". His boss thought about it for a minute then said "you got it".
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> shortest was 3 months

What did you tell the next company during the interview when they asked you why you were looking to leave your current job?
I have a great experience which taught me a lot in negotiating for salary and keeping an eye on your check.

I worked at a telecom startup. Was given a beefy salary ($45K) plus commission. As a young sales guy, I had a blast. Then I scored a huge account, just as the company was about to go under. They paid me, then sent me a letter demanding I give back the commission check because they were going under and needed it to pay their attorneys and would file a lawsuit against me for a "fraudulent" sale.

I went back and started looking at my checks and realized they were only paying me $35K instead of the agreed upon $45. I sent them a letter stating if they wanted to give me my back pay (almost twice as much as the commission check) I'd be happy to send the commission check back.

Never heard from them again.

Just goes to show, you not only need to negotiate your raise or your salary, but always make sure the company does not pull a fast one and short change your paycheck.
I'm flattered you responded to my comment cperciva!

patio11 is unusually (yet refreshingly) open with his financial information.

If you're going to blog about your intimate financial details, you should of course "have your ducks in a row".
It's good to hear of others. I've never heard of any, and when I worked in aerospace nobody knew of any examples.

The JSF, sadly, is certainly not an example. (SW produced a lot more than the SR-71, they produced an unparalleled series of unique and spectacular aircraft.)

You've piqued my curiosity. Got any references to these comparing them to the original?
Recruiting expert here! First off, a company "walking" without your salary information is a failure on their part, and their loss! However, to answer your question - I find the salary question to be a great indicator on many levels, here a few:

It's just one data point in determining whether you're a qualified candidate

1) Why would I waste the candidate or the client/employer's time if there's too large a gap between candidate's salary & their highest potential for this role? The company has a budget, candidate have a minimum; let's get this out of the way - it would be terrible if the interview process went swimmingly only to find that the candidate wouldn't budge under $125K and client wouldn't exceed $100K.

2. Finally: it's not a huge deal if candidate prefers NOT to provide salary; sure, it makes you feel a little uncomfortable. If that's the case: no worries, but then I do ask that the candidate gives me a 10% range for their current salary & expectations. Again, employer just wants to know that we're potentially on the same page before wasting time.

3. Literally 95% of my software engineering candidates have no qualms about sharing their salary. The other 4% will at least give me a small range. These candidates that challenge this minor issue end up being more trouble than they're worth in other ways too; it's a red flag. (next stop: "no, I'm not taking a coding test").

Again, there are ways around REQUIRING the salary #. It should not result in a candidate or employer walking. Oof!
They may not be getting paid that much because they can answer your "stumpers." You might be better served by using the interview to find out why they add so much value instead of trying to prove that you're superior in some way.
Serious question: if you value equity at 0, then (ceteris paribus) given a choice between (1) an offer at $150,000 and 50 basis points and (2) an offer at $150,100 and 0 basis points, you should choose option (2). Given that: why should any employer offer equity?
Maybe i'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't this mean that there would be no way to safely remove a relationship? I guess there are a number of cases where this would be ok.

But people tend to make mistakes. When you discover that someone has added a link between Daniel Day-Lewis and Ernest Goes to Jail all you would need to do is delete a row in the movies_people table. But because of potential collisions in the bit arrays you can't safely remove a relationship?
Excellent article!

What is the profile of the people who would agree to work there? Do they do it for money? You need to live separated from social life for a year (let alone reiterating the next year), that means you're not progressing in terms of love/family. Basically your whole private life is suspended like it is in prison. Even as a solider, there is probably more private life. Is it properly compensated by the coolness of the job?

So do those sysadmins have a profile of "They gave me the choice of prison back home, so I opted for the Pole"? They are ultra-skilled for sure, since paying one excellent admin is cheaper than two average ones. So I guess the pay is 3x the SF wage? OTOH, research isn't known for paying much since it's full of passionate people who'd give up everything to be here.
Read your own link dude, its over half and many have absurd levels of debt.
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I experienced the two sides of the coin first hand. Right after college, I started to work at a start-up; everything was just awesome, people were cool, job was interesting, I was extremely happy. 3 months into the job, after I talked to my colleagues, I realized that I was severely underpaid. I asked for a raise, got something like 5%. After 2 weeks, I switch to a job paying me exactly x 2 of my salary.

Worst decision of my life, and I still regret it to this day. But knowing the fact that my old job was taking advantage of me just because I am a new-graduate, I couldn't return back there. But sometimes money isn't really worth comparing to being absolutely happy at work.
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Hi, I am a High School student, who is trying to find an internship this summer. I have been programming for six years now, and am taking data structures at Columbia University this summer. I know you are looking for a employee, but if you want an intern I can send you my resume. Just email me at scellenoff@gmail.com
You can clearly see who benefits from that policy... the company.
Recruiter here. Some may not like this answer, but: honesty is the best policy. Bluffing, or LYING, could backfire - especially if things escalate and they eventually learn about this.

It's bullshit, especially for those who began their careers during a time of salary deflation.

However, the right employer will NOT base your future salary solely on your current. It should simply be one data point in the process - your value as an employee should be based on a multitude of factors. This isn't pie in the sky; many of my clients do have a compensation system for employees and end up paying fairly.
This was not done by microsoft at all :)
Twenty20 - Los Angeles, CA

We're looking for a senior/lead mobile developer to come help us change the world of stock photos.

I'm our internal recruiter; feel free to reach out to me at john@twenty20.com.

Here's the job description: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/Y6eZhv/Sr-Mobile-Soft...
> While dealing with recruiters can be a hassle their goals align much more closely with ours if we are maintaining the fallacy that only the money counts. Recruiters are typically paid a percentage of your salary so they want you to receive the highest salary possible since that is the best payout for them as well.

No, this isn't true, and this misconception is explicitly why I invoked the realtor problem. If the recruiter gets paid, say, 15%, the difference to the recruiter between $100K and $110K is $1500. To get $16,500 instead of $15,000, the recruiter risks extra days of negotiation in which the applicant may find another job, or one or both sides passing on each other because of lack of salary fit. In most cases, then, it is in the recruiter's best interest to pressure you to take the job at $100K. Most recruiters are out of the business in a couple years, only a few are in it for the long hall--since he's not going to work with you again, it's in his best interest to get the payout now. Over any length of time, they will make so much more money by you saying yes than you pushing for more money that it's stupid of them not to get you to take the first offer that comes down the pike.

A few recruiters, among them the best ones I've worked with, are in it for the long haul, and cultivate real relationships, but they are uncommon. I remain on good terms with them whenever I can--I've been on job interviews before where I was clearly sent to the wrong job and told the interviewer "look, you don't want me for this job and the recruiter just wasted your time and mine--go talk to this guy, he'll feed you candidates you can actually use." It's worth it, because what goes around comes around, but most are in-and-out and they act like it.
Clang was already planning on using MS libraries/headers.

IE this is literally not different from what was already being done, without MS :)
"Price discovery"
> Absolutely incredible culture that shows how treating someone as a responsible adult can reinforce mature and honest behavior.

The neat thing is I've applied these ideas in my subsequent life, and by and large it's been very successful. People tend to rise to your expectations of them. For example, I refused to put copy protection on the software I sold in the 80's, and never had any problems with piracy.

I also run the D programming language forums, and the D Conference (along with Andrei). We refuse to put a code of conduct on either. We simply assume professional behavior, and that's what happens.
I watch this and I can't help thinking, "Apple has won".
See you guys only put it like this because you haven't heard him sing along to TLC. He's really just a straight-up celebrity.
I guess I'll have to try contributing an easy patch over the weekend.

Hopefully it's as easy as you make it sound!
Well, that's a funny question, right? On the one hand, they really were careful in their announcement to indicate "we're not sure about this". They were clearly making a real attempt to exercise proper scientific skepticism of such a remarkable result.

But on the other hand, they were willing to make that public announcement in the first place. If they'd really felt the same level of skepticism that most of the rest of the community did, they might have done the tests that eventually found that loose cable before they stuck their necks out. (But then, part of their intent was clearly to get help and suggestions in figuring out what the lingering errors might be, and to get broader input on how feasible superluminal neutrinos might be theoretically. I can't judge them too harshly, even if they did wind up looking a step or two more willing to believe than they should have been.)
Legally obligated, wow, never heard that one before! Good answer. When I'm talking to a reasonable candidate, that's all I need at the end of the day: an expectation $ range.
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Let me boil down your essential claims:

1) Bacteria in the gut make stuff you need and helpfully digest things for you.

2) Endotoxin is only a problem when it crosses the gut.

3) By various magic bacteria in the gut strengthen the immune system.

Well #1 just isn't really true. There aren't any identified compounds that are at all hard to get from food that you need gut bacteria to make for you. Maybe some vitamin K and that's about it, but a serving of liver or some other foods will more than cover your vitamin K dose.

#2 is a silly argument because endotoxin is constantly crossing the gut barrier. LPS endotoxin is a continuous stress on the liver to detoxify. Whether it's a real problem in an otherwise healthy individual or not is a separate question, but the argument presented here is totally specious. It is quite plainly a continuous stream of toxic material the organs work to clear.

As for #3, that's the big totally open question I guess. You see the claim made but nobody ever really breaks it down in detail in terms the experimental physiology proving the idea. It's usually some eye-roll-worthy trials.

The fact that the sterile rats can't survive outside the lab environment is not the point. No kidding they have under-trained immune systems. The point is that absent the chronic stress of bacteria load they do in fact live longer and are in fact stronger in the literal definition of strong. This guy is being deliberately hand-wavy.
We created OneLiners.co in just over a day to try and help people with coming up with a gorgeous tagline for their company, by allowing the public to submit suggestions, and vote on other peoples suggestions.
why didn't parents who wanted to avoid originally European names take from actual African names, rather than minting new names

As an immigrant to the US I've been perplexed by this too. In the UK it's not uncommon to meet people with distinctly Black names, but they're clearly of derived from African languages. I people living in the UK and Europe also get more exposure to African names because of geographic proximity to Africa, meaning African politicians, business leaders and so on are mentioned more frequently in current affairs programming than they are in the US.

Things may have changed since I lived in the UK, but I can't recall any analog to the neonymous phenomenon in the US.
I agree with folks who think this is a bit confusing.

This blog post is announcing:

1. Using clang as a frontend.

2. Using C2 (MS compiler) as a backend.

What the LLVM community (IE not MS so far, but participation is of course, welcome)) has been building:

1. Using clang as a frontend

2. Using llvm as a backend

and even more specifically

1. Using MS Headers + MS Libraries

2. Using clang as a frontend

3. Using llvm as a backend.

(see blog.llvm.org/2014/07/clangllvm-on-windows-update.html for a 9 month old view)

Some of the mingw32 folks have been working on replacing #1 with non-ms stuff, but let's put that aside for the sake of this description )

Using clang as a frontend is where almost all of the ABI compatibility happens anyway (and where various developers have been focusing), so you end up with VC++ ABI compatible binaries whether you use C2 or not, if you/they use the pre-existing clang stuff.

Whether they are doing that (and then lowering llvm ir to c2 ir) , or if they've built an alternative IR generation with clang (IE generating c2 ir directly from clang), that they haven't released, is not clear.

If they've built something that generates C2 IR from clang, they would have had to write their own ABI compat, which would mean it may be different than the binaries clang would build.

(exception handling is also codegen'd by llvm, so exception handling could end up different, though of course, compatibility is the goal)
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FYI, thrown out on procedural grounds (jurisdiction) not lack of merit.
Here is an agent based simulation that illustrates this concept:

http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...
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The post specifically calls out that distinction:

> We are interested in the typical attributes of systems that self-identify as REST, rather than systems which are formally REST.
Can you comment on whether or not you'll be releasing any implementations and if so, what languages they'll be in?
It's a nice offer but I wonder how people should trust them with their watches?
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In the short run. In the long run this will just increase their turnover rate until an equilibrium is reached.
I was surprised to find this one too, but it was used in a recent lawsuit against Kyocera [1]:
http://www.google.com/patents/USRE40989

That, to me, looks like a solution to one of Bloomberg's interview questions, so it's surprising to me that with a 1999 priority date, Microsoft's lawyers did not find enough prior art to keep it from being asserted. (Generally when you assert a patent, if you're smart, you'll conduct another prior art search to make sure it sticks.)

But in general, independent of the quality of the patents themselves, the article [1] indicates that none of those are specific to Windows Phone specifically.

1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/09/microsoft-drop...
The amazing thing about computer software, relative to every other human endeavour: once you've got one component right, it's right; you can treat it like a simple little node in an even more complex design, and scale it up 1,000,000x, and it'll keep working every single time.

Once you've built a C-to-JS compiler, and a Nim-to-C compiler, you've got a perfectly-functioning Nim-to-JS compiler. There's no game of telephone gradually confusing things; the fidelity is perfect no matter how deep the pipeline goes.

(This is also what's amazing about layered packet-switched networks, come to think of it. The core switch transferring data from your phone to AWS doesn't need to speak 4G or Xen SDN; it's just coupled to them, eventually, by gateways somewhere else, and it all just keeps working, one quadrillion times per second, all over the world.)
I can't begin to tell you how much more likely I would consider a lunar McDonald's publicity stunt than a demonstration that "momentum isn't conserved after all". The first is so implausible as to be laughable. But the second makes the first look mundane. The future behavior of large groups of people is enormously more complicated and less understood than quantum field theory and the standard model.
Reading this study reminded me about the lady named Marijuana Pepsi Jackson.
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Recruiter here. Good question. In the majority of cases, I would say your approach would be just as effective. However, I prefer asking because:

1) It's about gaining intelligence - not in a nefarious way. If enough candidates at the right experience level are giving me a range of $90K - $100K and the client still won't budge beyond looking at candidates in the $60K - $80K range, I can eventually come back to them and say "Listen: of the last 10 candidates you liked, their salaries were..." A smart, reasonable client will make adjustments.

2) In rare cases: a "rockstar" candidate may be able to get 10% more than the budgeted amount, for example. So I would hate to send you that $80K tops message if there were potential for a perfect match. Then suddenly you're no longer interested and we missed a grand opportunity.

Again, I agree with you for the most part. But ultimately, the recruiter figures: 99% of candidates give their salary number or a tight range, upfront, without issue, so there's no harm in asking for reasons 1 and 2.
(sigh)...
The numbers may be bleak when viewed in isolation, but taken as a percentage of all active patents, the number of patents asserted in lawsuits have been remarkably constant. The more recent spike, as you surmised, can be attributed to the AIA joinder rules.

You may worry that the spike in number of active patents is unhealthy, but again, there are studies that indicate that this is due to increased innovation than just over-patenting: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=556630

As for number of patents getting "screwed over", that is a very difficult metric to measure, simply because "screwed over" is ill-defined. If you can define "screwed over" I might be able to find a paper that tries to measure that. (Seriously, SSRN appears to a number of papers on all kinds of crazy topics.)

The Katznelson paper is not about just software and patents. By "historic" rates, the paper means revolutions in technology similar to those wrought by the computer revolution. Similar litigation rates have been observed in the past when major new technologies were introduced, such as radio and microelectronics. They are not the same thing technically, but the potential for new applications that these new technologies introduced is similar.
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VC is a relatively small sector, it was ~50bn last year.
If you're merely well off you too can pretend to be an obnoxiously rich douchebag!
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easy business! it reminds me fake rolex thing ...
A thousand times: this.
Makes sense.

I mean, I mostly work with C# and F# on the back-end, but I created my fair share of WPF apps which I vastly prefer to web front ends. I also tinker with Scala in my free time, but I don't really know much about the JVM ecosystem.

I also readily admit I know next to nothing (neither have a feeling for) the UI/UX design, which is why I usually relied on libraries like MahApps; lately I had my eye on Material Design for WPF.

Considering my contract is up soon(ish), what you're offering looks tempting. :)

All things considered, I still feel compelled to ask: do you have a salary range or is it discussed individually? Or both, to a degree?
> And in the end, the only reason to use proportional font is for style and a marginal increase in readability.

Everyone always claims that "we read code" more than "we write code", yet we still optimize for writing rather than reading. Reading code that has been typeset well is a joy and much improved experience vs. reading code that has not.
My first week without an Apple Watch