skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, to write the word for fish, you write the character pronounced "Yú" which happens to be 魚. Chinese speakers don't see that and think "that looks like a fish". They think "that sounds like Yú". Just as when you see the letter F you think of the sound, not that it looks like a hook: Phoenician 𐤅 - wāw. (Or if you know that the Latin root is piscis: 𐤐 - pē, that means mouth.) And before you point out that a Chinese speaker would describe 魚 as "the character for fish" remember that an English speaker when asked to spell a word might say "F as in fish."

Like I said, all written scripts if you go back far enough started with pictograms. But that was many millennia ago. Their evolved descendants are divided into alphabetic or syllabic scripts, both using the symbols to represent sounds but with a different granularity.

And really, Firefox spell-check, you're not going to recognize "millennia"? What's wrong with you?
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@Calibraxis see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9475883

Today with all the shrill American feminism, other women have been denied a voice in this debate and nobody from outside America is posting in that twitter hashtag or blogging about how they are suffering WIT while earning >90k dollars per year.
Also had this issue when applying to a Scribd internship
Really? Perhaps I was never running it at a large enough scale, but even pre-v1.0 I've basically never had any troubles with it (outside of operation concerns like occasionally confusing query syntax.) Then again, I never had more than 11 servers in the cluster so again I may just have never run into problems at scale.
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You don't, no, although we unfortunately can't sponsor visas.
I really don't understand the reluctance of companies to pay their employees as much as they reasonably can. If a company is struggling or burning cash, sure I get it, but if you're Apple and have $200 billion in the bank, why are you not paying your employees significantly more? That money sitting in the bank isn't doing you any good, and there's something to be said for reducing turnover and generating loyalty by demonstrating to your employees that you recognize the full value they provide.
To be fair, Node/Javascript prefers to have many small packages that do just one thing (hopefully well).
Asking for a raise is not how its done. You just find another job and you'll get paid right. You can ask your current to match,but generally I'd just move.
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I guess you need to get over feeling awkward :-)

You successfully started a business. Not many people even try to do that, and of those who try, not many succeed. You have created jobs that people are evidently happy to have. In short, you have come by your wealth honestly.

The only other thing I would encourage you to do is, if any of your employees express interest in the entrepreneurial path, encourage and even mentor them. Maybe even be their angel investor, if you believe in them and like their idea. That would be a great way to give back to the world out of what you have received.
One of the things I've always tried to be aware of is how much value I add to a business. Dollar figures help most, but some places are wary of giving developers that knowledge, though it's usually not difficult to work out. This has helped guide my salary requests in a way that I hope is fair for all parties; rising tides lifting all boats, and that sort of thing.
Until we discover time travel, learn to understand alien cultures, and universally mesh with the minds of artists, we'll never really know what the Venus statue was intended to be.

Which is not to say that this scenario is impossible. Just that we are not there yet.
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At Eaze, we're building the future of marijuana delivery. We're only 8 months old but are by far the largest in the space and recently raised a $10MM round in funding from significant Silicon Valley VCs.

We're rebuilding our application on a Node/Angular/Ionic stack. We're currently looking for more Node engineers to join an already strong team with contributors to top open source projects.

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Ten of the most inspirational books you will ever read
Whose sponsoring the development of such a large project? It looks like the lead is a Google employee?
Maybe, but Gmail just started doing that a year ago: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/20/5530072/google-encrypts-gm...
TL;DR framework to build native Android applications using Dart that have highly performant native UI (think React-Native retained mode, functional style).

Related talk & demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIWl33YMwA

The exciting thing here is that from a developer's point of view sky is just a Dart package and you can immediately start to write an Android application but still keep a fast feedback loop similar to web development (like you've seen in React-Native demos).
What interview question to ask when hiring an Associate Software Engineer?
Recruiters on LinkedIn message me all the time. I come back with, "unless your client is looking to pay {double my current annual income is} + {25% bonus} I'm really not able to make that kind of transition in my life" (I would act as if that was my base)

Didn't work a few times, which I was fine with as I didn't want to jump ship. I really just wanted to get off their list. Then, a few contacted me again a month later saying how they found me the perfect fit.

Boy oh boy did they ever.
I was actually shocked to find out that there are actually a few programmers that does this. I don't know what is the reason but it is tantamount to stealing.
This is posted every month.
It is still a bit early but the Q&A in the end hints that eventually you might be able to have a Dart code base that drives native apps on Android, iOS and basically any platform you want to support with a development cycle that feels like web development (tooling, feedback cycle, debugging power) and yet gives you highly performant native apps (120fps, very responsive to touch interactions).
I'm sure they're intending to gain favorable financial benefits but moving the actual data to Ireland isn't necessary for that.

There are plenty of companies registered in Ireland which do not have a physical presence here. There is no test of what proportion of business activity occurs in Ireland.

For example Norwegian Airlines has something like a dozen " brass plaque" companies registered to a solicitor's address in Dublin but the only time their 787s touch Irish soil is on their delivery flight, to receive their EI- registration
NQ mobile--I still can't figure out what this stock does, or why the SEC has not delisted them. I think when it all blows, like always-- the big boys will have gotten out, and the little investor will have lost everything.

No wonder banks/investment houses are afraid of Elisabeth Warren? I feel she know what the future holds?

That reminds me I need to get my cd out of .10 percent this week. Yes, I am making .001 percent on my retirement. Homelessness--here I come! I'll even mention the wonderful bank that didn't inform me of the rate change--lovely Luther Burbank. "The bank that really keeps your info quiet!"
>>the cultural significance of India, and the danger it faces in losing those cultural artifacts if they are not given the respect

A very interesting city (Mumbai).

A recent bill for development of mumbai is caught along the same line.[1]

As for cultural festivities you mention in mumbai, its largely driven by political intentions.Mumbai is largely multi-cultural and every community wants to rival another.Its also driven by xenophobia amongst the local marathi-speaking.Am not sure how long such a model can withstand but things seem to be changing slowly.

Much of Mumbai's core infrastructure like water-lines etc are more than a 100 year old, they are crumbling.Corruption rids quality out of any recent project,these don't last long either.

Population and long commute for work (under crowded conditions i.e.) are very common too!

The one biggest difference is the people , who tend to change the outlook.They help each other and treat strangers better than most indian cities i've seen.People make all the difference.

[1]:http://scroll.in/article/717914/loss-of-heritage-open-spaces...
Your bioinformatics engineer positions say that this job closed yesterday. Are the positions still open?
Easily. Here is one created by a Russian guy https://youtu.be/vcaOKX7Ko7w
But you can always invest in NQ mobile. Another winner?
Eric Seidel is working on this, previously he worked on Chrome (WebKit, Blink, …).
I was paid eighty grand my first year out of college and ninety-five my second. And I wasn't (yet) any good, even. She was real underpaid, and your post strikes me as tremendously weird in its attempts to discount reality.

And "this woman"--she has a name, you read her blog, don't be a jerk.
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Seeking a developer who excels at Javascript & UX/UI and is no slouch when it comes to backend or SQL. Bonus points if you know our stack (C#/MVC/Azure), but experience with any similar stack is a-ok. Should be smart, get things done, and have some fun.

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Another great place rarely visited in Paris is the Musée Cernuschi - a far east Asian art museum. http://cernuschi.paris.fr/en/home

Their permanent exhibition has some pretty rare early stuff (mostly from grave-robbings) and their current exhibition is a review of a southern Chinese painting movement that became part of the international network of the Nationalist resistance during the 20th century, on loan from Hong Kong. This is rare stuff to see outside of Taiwan, and probably rare in Hong Kong these days.

Another sometimes amazing spot is the Institut du Monde Arabe, which had a brilliant exhibition on the Orient Express train lines last year. http://www.imarabe.org/

For those focused on design, note also the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, Australia. http://maas.museum/powerhouse-museum
Man...c'mon. Nobody goes from forty to eighty because they're an "unproven undergraduate." They go from forty to eighty when somebody's screwing them and gets called on it.
> this move would de-emphasize the importance the skill of negotiation, which would be a detriment to the company

Can you explain this a bit more? Because poor negotiators are paid easily half as much as good ones in this industry, but the amount of my value that hinges on my negotiating ability is somewhere between 0 and 1%.
I like his Simpsons reference at the end there.
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I totally believe that your watch have served you extremely well, but dare I say you are in a minority in term of normal daily life usage of watches. I don't know about you, but weekends/hiking trip/gym are a small part of my waking time. These things ("bad weather", "under water", "to look up time in split second", "all kind of weather", etc.) are the least I am concerned with. Instead I am interested in dressing(including small personal items) with a little personal touch, a little bit different. If so many people around you wear a Casio ProTrek PRW-3000-1, that's a silly situation, isn't it?

I feel the functions of watches you mentioned can be easily performed by a mid-range phone, and can be done better with a phone in terms of configurations/flexibilities/features with a few apps here and there. So I think with the prevalence of mobile phone, people put less and less emphasis on utilities when shopping and wearing a watch.

My silly prediction is not about doubting Apple watch's dazzling new utilities. It's about people's need for individuality/differentiations/style, especially adults, they want and can often afford to wear different things than the next person in the office.
As someone who has worked for more than one agency, reading this list is like listening to a high schooler complain about getting up early for school. Yes it's a pain and there's lots of good reasons for change, but there's also probably reasons you're not familiar with (or care about) that make it necessary.

Also, some of these are really stretching:

>> 3. You tether developers to their desk

Not having Wifi is a dealbreaker? I don't know about the author, but i became an engineer because i wanted to build things. If the problem is interesting, does it really matter if you can't go 'chill in the lobby' with your laptop?

>> 10. New technologies are guilty until proven innocent

When managing anything that can vitally affect many people it's important to not just jump on the next bandwagon. This is engineering 101.

>> 13. Speaking at conferences is tightly controlled

What? Are you talking about OPSEC procedures or travel limitations or what exactly?

>> 16. You measure your hiring process in months

Your freaky fast startup is what...5..100 employees? Come on, an agency (while can be small) is part of something much much larger. Also many agencies require a full background check and/or security clearance.

>> 18. Recruitment is unheard of

Just because you're not getting spam from NASA or your local gov about an 'exciting opportunity to change the world' doesn't mean agencies don't attend job fair, offer scholarships, and recruit talent.

>> 19. You block half the internet - I honestly don’t know how I’d do my job without social networks like Twitter.

Really? "It’s not unsurprising that many government employees are out of the loop", like we can't or won't read/browse/learn things on our own time. Get off your petastle.
does it mean that if I have 10 modules that depends on exactly the same version of another module (e.g. dependent 1.1.1).. npm will download 1.1.1 10 times? Wouldn't it just use the single package with the correct and share it across? Or the cache is main use to copy the dependent module 10 times.
Children use time words like “seconds” and “hours” before they know what they mean
I like this approach. A Smart Bear wrote about it on his blog once: http://blog.asmartbear.com/how-to-say-yes.html
I took the counter and it worked out. They just didn't know what I really wanted, and I guess I never did a great job explaining it until I explained why I was leaving.
Genuinely curious how this works in the financial sector. Is it hard to find passionate employers who want to do more than get rich?
DigitalOcean becomes the second largest hosting company in the world
How RocksDB is used in osquery
The solution of "working out loud" needs to be expounded.
Oh my blog isn't giving an analytical solution, if that is what you want to do, it is simulating the problem to find a solution.

(The video does do an analytical solution though).
Spellcheckers should really detect repeated sentence fragments. Also 'theiw'.

25 standard deviations has to be an exaggeration? I fail to see how any model could ever be that far off the mark.
I've used this in the past:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SXBWDOY

Seems to work. My wife uses it regularly. Just a couple of data points for what it's worth.
And completely unreasonable not to suspect that the NSA can freely acquire those keys.
> Everyone works in their own best interest and the system is actually not "broken".

You assume that all actors are rational. It ignores things like office politics, people building fiefdoms, people holding grudges, the idea that you aren't a "team player" if you're asking for more money, the idea that one should be "loyal" to the company (but that the company can be "cold and calculating" when it comes to you), gender/racial/whatever discrimination, etc...

People often do not work in their own best interest. Or maybe they work in their best short-term interest while ignore their medium- and/or long-term interests.
One thing I found fascinating is that, with a sizable majority (I set red to around 80%), the minority actually becomes less stable if you set a moderately low threshold for moving. With a high threshold (like t=67%) you get very rapid clumping as both reds and blues try to move into areas where they're in the majority. But with a low threshold (like t=25%) the few majority people who are isolated move, minorities quickly fill the open spots, and then the only remaining locations for minorities are completely surrounded by the majority (while no more majority members ever move). So the minorities just shuffle around between a bunch of unacceptable locations, none of which give them the 2 minority neighbors they require. Then there's a sudden transition when t gets low enough, at around 16% -- the minority will tolerate having only one similar neighbor as long as there's also an empty spot, and therefore they stabilize very quickly.

So when the threshold is high, there's a lot of churn early but then stabilization. When the threshold is low, the tolerant majority stops churning quickly and therefore stops opening up spots the minority finds desirable.
One of HN's functions. One of.

For a counterpoint to the "intellectually interesting" function, consider the relative quantity and staying duration of articles and "Ask HN" and whatnot around the time of YC letter announcements, or the Nth "why we ditched x javascript framework for y", or whatever your favorite example of blase soul-searching/growth-hacking business article is.

Look, I'm not saying that you're wrong--I'm saying that your summary and idea of the purpose and function of HN is a subset of what it is actually used for, day to day.

Your moderation is appreciated by everyone, but yours is not the only valid opinion of what HN is and what it does and how it functions.
Lets be fair here though. Google encrypted their PRIVATE data links based on the Snowden reports. Most people/companies would assume their p2p (point to point) links would be private, which to be honest is a fair assumption.
I told them I realized pretty quickly after starting that it wasn't a good fit, but I stayed on long enough to finish my first project and for them to find a replacement. I got a 20% increase to work at this company and I would have taken a lateral move salary-wise to go to the next, but the new company ended up offering me 14% more than I asked for anyway.
I use ES only for search (indexes from a DB), so losing data isn't a massive drama, it's great for my usecase.
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It didn't fly under cloud cover. It flew Mach 3.3, which it couldn't do in dense air. Also, flying at 80,000 feet makes it much more difficult to shoot down.
I think your intuition is correct when you suggest that this approach isn't scalable. It runs counter to the concept of "flow", articulated in Peopleware[1] 30 years ago and confirmed many times since then.

Sharing the pain has benefits, but you're almost certainly paying more in lost productivity on both bugs and features than you're gaining in insight and sensitivity. As a small and stable company, you can probably afford the loss as you learn more about your market and as you prepare for more organizational complexity, but it will eventually inhibit your growth and burn out many of your developers.
Again, you are correct, your link suggests just what you are writing, unfortunately it is somewhat absurd the way it conflates assets and liabilities.

http://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_a... lists median net worth over a million\

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-fo... also puts median net worth over 1 million

http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-cl... also lists median net worth over a million

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/12/news/economy/congress-wealth... also puts median net worth above 1 million

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/01/13/Congress-worth-43B... also puts median net worth over a million
I've been half expecting that Google would announce something like this at IO as a counter to Swift. But this makes it look like an unofficial side project.
I'm sorry if you found my post to be tremendously weird, and congratulations for making so much more than the average undergraduate upon graduation. Was my math wrong?

I actually employ a large number of undergraduates (in non-developer roles) and it is really typical to pay them somewhere around $50k for the first 2 or 3 years (depending on geography + what year it is), the good ones are kept on and get substantial raises to low 6 figures. This is pretty typical across many companies. Her experience is pretty typical for recent graduates, not a special burden to bear.
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Yes, I acknowledge the disconnection from their ancestry. However, descendants of black slaves in other countries (the US is not the only country with descendants of black slaves) have not followed the same route to new unique and identifying names.

Moreover, you don't have to pick something randomly, you can look at names, read about their meanings and pick something that sounds nice to you. you don't do it in a vacuum. So, my question is why this alternative, vs, any other alternative at creating self identification?

PS never mind that in some countries you can't just make up names. You can use foreign names, but you have to prove they are viable names in the place you claim them to be used names. But that's beside the point.

And, of course, keep in mind, all names were somewhat "invented" and new at some point in time. My question is more about how/why did this method (of prefixes, among other unique qualities) predominate over other available methods?

Also, curiously, many Africans with their ancestral surnames will have a European forename along with an African middle name.
Big companies seem to have it written in their DNA that 3-5% is a standard raise, and 10% is the theoretical maximum anyone could ever get. I've made it a mission to prove them wrong, even if it means switching companies every other year on average. The idea was to get all my raises upfront, instead of spread over 40 years.