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Or naive enough to assume that there is a good answer beyond "You're not a good negotiator so of course we're taking advantage."
That is non-developer roles. The lady is question was a developer. We get payed more, because we produce value. No most other positions don't.

But I guess given your username I wouldn't want you as a boss either.
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My understanding was this suit was just to cost him some legal fees - they knew it would be thrown out based on jurisdiction. I expect them to re-file in the correct state.
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This is a significantly more compelling use for Dart than anything else I've seen.

Dart team; stop screwing around and pay attention to this! Dart has failed as a browser script language, but its a good language in itself.

A cross platform language for building high performance apps, with a good package management solution and tooling... Thats a compelling use case. Something like a cross platform Swift...

Add some compiles to native binaries (or some kind of runtime bundling like xamarin do) and you'd have a pretty interesting piece of tech there.

('lets focus on our to javascript compiler for the dart compiled from typescript because the dart runtime is never going into Chrome or any other browser' is not. Stop running down that ridiculous road already)
If I meant that I wouldn't have bothered commenting as that is what you were saying in the first place.
>I don't think bubbles need a complex financial system to form (the famous example of the tulips). And a society can sustain any bubble.

The tulip bubble was small and did not have knock on effects for the Dutch economy, and for what it's worth, there was a futures market for tulips in 1637. Complex financial systems are not new.

>I live in the UK and I am always perplex when I see how natural it is for people here to mobilise all their financial resources, bury themselves into debt through all the means possible in order to bid as much as they physically can on a house. And this is encouraged by the government who pushes for 100% LTV loans.

Guess who gets the government to push loans on people?

People take loans and buy a house because they're told by those above them that it's "the responsible thing to do". This message is echoed around the media as well.

>One can blame bankers and speculators but I think this is missing the big picture here.

No, that is the big picture. They are the ones who benefit from an over-leveraged economy and they are the ones who are pushing for it.

Ordinary people certainly aren't dying to drown themselves in debt, just as they weren't the ones pushing for student loans. In five years time they won't be the ones pushing for the student loan book to be privatized either, but guess what? Someone out there is salivating over it.
Yep, and has exactly the same "company officers residing in the US" exposure to the NSA and any of the agencies fighting the war on [drugs|terrorism|pedos|political-rivals] getting closed or open court warrants with or without gag orders.

In fact Dropbox is doubly at risk, law enforcement or national security could target either (or both) Dropbox themselves - go straight to Amazon to get access at hypervisor level to their entire infrastructure.
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Pension funds used to be highly invested in government bonds, which are risk-free. The risks they did take were, by and large, reasonable and minimal. They owned some shares as well, of course.

They weren't taking outsized risks in order to chase an outsized gain - "chasing returns" as you put it.

2008 changed all that.

Once government debt yields dropped to zero (done to save the bankers' hides), in order to still maintain the same returns which they needed, they started chasing returns.

This was more done out of desperation than greed. They had made promises pre-crisis that presumed the economy would continue as normal - exactly what economists and bankers of the time promised us would happen.
Some claims about asteroid mining:

1997 book, Mining the Sky, http://www.nss.org/resources/books/non_fiction/NF_011_mining...

Sales pitch, http://www.asterank.com
This made it sound like it was:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2yfsi9/rust_to_js_wit...
Nice mea culpa, and a day after the "101 random and mutually exclusive ways we wanted to fix Apple in 1997".

No doubt obervers, critics, and expert opinions have their place. But never underestimate the man in the arena - especially if you are the man or woman in the arena.
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I subscribe to the Farnam Street weekly newsletter (http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/newsletter/) and have been reading it regularly for the past few months -- good stuff.
"Is youtube profitable?"
Oh yeah, very, it is eating traditional TV alive.

In Europe Governments want to intervene because it is taking so much money from their tv companies, and sending good jobs and money abroad.

"If search-engine-ad-$ go puff, does it stay up or go down?"

And if a meteorite crashes in the Earth?, or a big megaexplossion on the Universe sends cosmic rays to the planet?

If nothing like this happens, there will be markets that grow, like TV from the Internet, and markets that recess, like traditional TVs. Early adopters use to benefit from growth in their markets.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotia...
> It doesn't help that, for a long time, the
> status quo in all free software web applications
> (and indeed all web applications) was to check
> javascript and similar served-to-client web
> assets straight into your repository.

That really does help, this would have been a short blog post if they were to follow the status quo.

Operating systems trying to deal with managing applications dependencies has been a huge source of fustration for me. You cant have jquery randomly upgraded for your application without having tested it, that is always going to cause problems no matter how religious you are with semver.

Anyone who has developed erlang on ubuntu can attest to how ridiculous the situation can get (debian split erlang up into seperate packages).

I very much lean towards having my dependencies bundled. I have misgivings with npm but it does a lot of things right in that regard.
So they are fearing that American cooperations can sue EU governments for unfair trade barriers, which then should be settled out of the ordinary.

I'm having two issues with that:

1. The US government is basically in the hands of those cooperations, so why not led the US government sue the EU government over those barriers? Go the legal way.
Those barriers are typically based on consumer protection laws, so these are in danger. (privacy, health, anti-trust, illegal practices, warranty, ...)

2. Out of court settlements is too american and too illegal to me. We are not in a colonial world without international law anymore, even if the Americans still think so.
A very good point, but, and this gets a bit complex, they would have to prove that they relied upon on false information to decide to hire or pay you.

So Bob and Anna are equally qualified and currently paid 50k. They both apply for same job and Bob says he has a (fake) PhD and is paid 50k and anna does not lie about qualifications but says her base is 100k

Most of us would say Bob has committed an illegal act because the link between qualifications and hiring decision seems so clear. But there is a very weak link between previous salary and hiring decision, so how far must the company prove that it uses prior salary in hiring decisions? Just the fact that it asks? The fact it only offers prior plus 5%? That prior salary is used to rank CVs?
They're highly invested in literally everything. Again they own the shares in the companies that own other assets. They do buy government bonds as an asset class but have a diversified approach where they own FX, property etc.

The only non pension funds who own anything substantial are governments. Private holdings are vanishingly small.

Who do you think owned the shares in the banks that took all the risks? 99% Pension Funds. Even if the Pension Funds had 85% as Government Bonds, from the rest they still owned 99% of the banks and hedge funds and private equity.
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Shame on the airlines for such a gaping hole in their pricing model, but hacking the system like this isn't without its negative externalities...

When you buy that stopover ticket and ditch the connection, you're likely to have gate agents calling over the intercom for you repeatedly while a plane full of passengers could be waiting for you to show up.

I've been in plenty of planes which pushed back a few minutes early after a quick boarding, and it's always a nice change from the typical late departure. The idea of a full plane ready-to-go save for a passenger who had no intention of showing up in the first place doesn't sit well with me.

I've also had plenty of flights where I've timed it wrong and been sprinting to the gate with just under 5 minutes left on the clock. Sometimes you make it, sometimes you miss it. But the more common-place connection dropping becomes, the more likely the airlines are to close that gate at exactly 5 minutes pre-flight even with a checked in passenger unboarded, which makes flying overall just a little bit worse for everyone.

But on the whole, I despise the pricing games that airlines play a lot more than any hack a passenger can come up with to beat them at their own game. Trying to book a flight last week and it seemed like every single time I reran the search the prices were up again another $20. It's definite race-to-the-bottom pricing strategies. I understand that as seats sell the lowest available price changes, but it seems like even existing inventory is being repriced in real time. I think the price for a specific seat should not be changing more than once per 24 hours, or better yet, once per 7 days.
I can't help thinking that his comments are seen as "channel-flooding" because he has been isolated. Not only is his comment frequently relegated to the bottom of the page, but people who share his opinions[0] either don't frequent HN[1] or end up hellbanned[2]. So before criticizing him for his comment, think about what kind of environment you provide for this conversation.

[0] Which is much more prevalent than reflected on HN and I meet a lot of hackers/makers/entrepreneurs. From Portland to Shenzhen.
[1] From what I hear, HN definitely isn't seen as "a place for intellectual stimulation" or conversation outside the people who frequent it.
[2] State something against the prevalent HN narrative in your first 10 comments and you most likely end up hellbanned.
Just ask them what's the maximum they can pay.
He says Google got 100x their investment since it's 'worth' that multiple of what they paid. I don't think it's a valid argument since they paid real cash and have only a notional value in return. It's hard to see anyone forking over $100bn+ for youtube, and I doubt it's even made enough profit since they bought it to cover what they paid originally paid.
None of this is to particularly criticise either the original post or its followup - it takes courage to call it as you see it and then own up to your mistakes, but it's always worth taking another pass at the figures to see if they really stack up.
"Fun"
Dare I say it ...and nothing of value was lost
Genuine question for behavioural economists: Has anyone tried to simulate an entire population's financial transactions yet? Computers are surely getting fast enough to simulate millions of people interacting. It would let you do "what if" scenarios without needing an underlying theory (I often suspect the "theories" around macroeconomics are nonsense).
~> looks interesting
Its nice!

For some sites that render code I use stylish add-on in browser:

Here snippet for nice "code fonts courier-hinting" in stylish add-on:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("forums.gentoo.org") {
.code {
font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono'
}

}
I would guess that natural differences between individuals in thinking style would heavily outweigh any differences caused by wearing a suit or not.
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Could have abstract interpretation (http://www.astree.ens.fr/) or some other formal method prevented it?
The obvious caveat in this is that they could only estimate an average salary. You could state that your salary progresed rapidly during your previous employment, although they may not buy it.
>>> OK its not simply that a node dies, but that disks on a node are replaced (which might sort of be related to a node dying).

TSB 2015-51: Replacing DataNode Disks or Manually changing the Storage IDs of Volumes in a Cluster may result in Data Loss
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Updated: 4/22/2015

In CDH 4, DataNodes are identified in HDFS with a single unique identifier. Beginning with CDH 5, every individual disk in a DataNode is assigned a unique identifier as well.

A bug discovered in HDFS, HDFS-7960, can result in the NameNode improperly accounting for DataNode storages for which Storage IDs have changed. A Storage ID changes whenever a disk on a DataNode is replaced, or if the Storage ID is manually manipulated. Either of these scenarios causes the NameNode to double-count block replicas, incorrectly determine that a block is over-replicated, and remove those replicas permanently from those DataNodes.

A related bug, HDFS-7575, results in a failure to create unique IDs for each disk within the DataNodes during upgrade from CDH 4 to CDH 5.
Instead, all disks within a single DataNode are assigned the same ID.
This bug by itself negatively impacts proper function of the HDFS balancer.
Cloudera Release Notes originally stated that manually changing the Storage IDs of the DataNodes was a valid workaround for HDFS-7575.
However, doing so can result in irrecoverable data loss due to HDFS-7960, and the release notes have been corrected.

Users affected:

Any cluster where Storage IDs change can be affected by HDFS-7960.
Storage IDs change whenever a disk is replaced, or when Storage IDs are manually manipulated. Only clusters upgraded from CDH 4 or earlier releases are affected by HDFS-7575.

Symptoms
If data loss has occurred, the NameNode reports “missing blocks” on the NameNode Web UI.
You can determine to which files the missing blocks belong by using FSCK. You can also search for NameNode log lines like the following, which indicate that a Storage ID has changed and data loss may have occurred:
2015-03-21 06:48:02,556 WARN BlockStateChange: BLOCK* addStoredBlock:
Redundant addStoredBlock request received for blk_8271694345820118657_530878393 on 10.11.12.13:1004 size 6098
Impact:

The replacement of DataNode disks, or manual manipulation of DataNode Storage IDs, can result in irrecoverable data loss. Additionally, due to HDFS-7575, the HDFS Balancer will not function properly.

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HDFS
All CDH 5 releases prior 3/31/15, including:
5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5
5.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4
5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, 5.2.4
5.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.2
Cause
Instructions
Immediate action required:

Do not manually manipulate Storage IDs on DataNode disks. Additionally, do not replace failed DataNode disks when running any of the affected CDH versions.

Upgrade to CDH 5.4.0, 5.3.3, 5.2.5, 5.1.5, or 5.0.6.
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Don't let their skepticism thrown you off. It is just another technique to low ball you.

A key insight is how many salaries do you negotiate in your life - 10? A professional recruiter does this 10 times per day.
This is a point of view that I'm hearing a lot now, mostly from technically capable people who know that computer algebra systems exist and are more reliable than doing everything by hand. And there is merit in the argument, but I've always felt uncomfortable about it, as if something was missing.

More recently I think I've identified what it is, and I included a little rant about it in my blog post about the birthday problem[0].

In particular, you've said:

> I wonder if there's not some way
> to skip a lot of the tedium of
> algebraic manipulation that is
> forced upon students,

I'd like to compare this with the idea of missing all the tedium of practising the cross-court forehand drive in table tennis. And the answer in that case is no, not if you want to be a top flight player. You need your body to recognise the shot automatically and play it without thinking, so your brain is released to do the higher-order stuff necessary to work on the problem, not the detail.

But more than that, sometimes it's the hours of practice in algebra (or similar) that means that when something turns up in disguise then you still recognise it, and still know how to torture the equations to twist them into the standard form.

It's really hard to explain. Sometime I'll have another go at it, try to put into words the meta-intuition I've developed over the past 40 years. In the meantime, the side-box with the rant is the best I've managed.

[0] http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html#toc_na...
Very interesting. There is a very good interview with Chad about the wild ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56Hw5H-DEI He talks quite a bit about their situation then.

Not many startups go from 0$ to 1.65B$ in 22 months.

Jason did not mention that Google itself was not a real business for a very long time. Are there good writeups of how Google managed to crack the biggest jackpot in business history with AdSense? Sure this experience taught them the lesson which they applied here. In poker terms it's like a draw to the nuts.
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By the time they have the p45, you've already negotiated a salary, thus unless you lied about previous salary the new company won't really care.
I really liked the support ticket system of Digital Ocean, one of the simplest ticketing system I've seen.
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No examples? Swift is already much richer than Objective C.
> In Europe Governments want to intervene because it is taking so much money from their tv companies

The European Government is planning to intervene, to stop Google putting paid adds into the search results, masquerading those adds as search results.

They also are claiming Google is fudging the actual search results by moving non add-paying competitors to the lower pages of the search.
This is really nice to see... but I have admit I'm really disappointed with how the Parallella has turned out.

The 64 core version of the board never shipped in quantity and has apparently been abandoned. There still isn't a practical way to connect them beyond the networking provided by the ARM processor. Lastly, there isn't a lower cost revision of the board intended to use in clusters, which is a shame because it's that ARM/FPGA chip that represents the bulk of the cost & heat of the Parallella board.

I love the idea and for the most part the community seemed like reasonable folks... it's just that the Adapteva folks were never really able to deliver on the promises made in the original kickstarter and so the whole ecosystem pretty much stagnated.

This morning I read an article about a new many core project using the 64 bit ARMv8 which is supposedly going to be a topic for a talk at this year's Hot Chips...

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/phytium-t...
Guh, I'm so frustrated by seeing this type of comment over and over again:

> Datasift falls squarely in the [business and analytics] bracket, which means Twitter’s decision is a complete reversal of their previous stated stance, a stance that led to investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s an ugly move.

It's not. Datasift resold Twitter data. They added their own metadata to Tweets, like sentiment, but they didn't do any direct analytics themselves.

In fact, if Datasift really were in the analytics business, they'd be free to sit on top of their customers' Twitter streams and provide analytics.

EDIT: full disclosure, I'm the vp of product for a company that does do social media analytics and measurement, so I've got a particular perspective on this subject. We get our data from Gnip directly, for what it's worth.

http://synthesio.com/corporate/en/2015/synthesio-news/twitte...
It wasn’t just the lawsuits - IIRC YouTube the business was also bleeding money at a terrifying rate thanks to infrastructure costs (servers, bandwidth) even without the legal problems.

When Google took them on they were able to cut their costs to the bone by using capacity on Google’s internal fibre network which had been bought up cheap after the first dotcom crash & moving the data over to Google’s server infrastructure.

Could anyone else have bought YouTube & managed to turn the business around apart from Google? It seems to me that YouTube was one of those businesses that had negative worth to all except a very few buyers. Did anyone else have the infrastructure knowledge to do what Google was able to do at the time?
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I hope so, 120Hz screens would be nice for VR. I think Samsung's latest Super AMOLEDs already have 90Hz or so.
> "Is youtube profitable?" Oh yeah, very, it is eating traditional TV alive.

Eating/destroying does not imply profitable. Look at streaming vs. the music industry, for example.

I would argue that all the changes that Google has been making to YouTube show that it, in fact, isn't particularly profitable.
I find it, well, interesting to read that the "Fail Safe" mode is to deactivate all power systems on the plane.
>When Brussels and Ottawa started negotiating more than five years ago, most politicians did not know what ISDS meant, and hardly anyone but a few legal specialists paid attention to this section of the agreement.
>
>That changed when Brussels started negotiating with the US in July 2013. A possible free-trade agreement between regions that exchange about €826 billion in goods and services a year, turned ISDS into a hotly debated issue.

Or maybe it was the leak of the previously-kept-top-secret TPP chapter in 2013 with a proposed ISDS mechanism that is an enormous political giveaway to corporations:

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investmen...

The TPP and TTIP have almost nothing to do with free trade. It's all about giving advantages to multinationals.
Agreed. Cassandra is especially nice if you have the DataStax Enterprise version which allows for seamless integration between the two.
I'd rather see the apps written in Go.
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He means TPP. For a moment I thought he was talking about TTIP (similar deal but for EU side).
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I'll repeat here an earlier comment[0] I made about this. In particular, I'm trying to gauge the precise achievement of this test flight. It seems to have gone up about 60 miles, about 100 kms, and then parachuted the empty crew capsule back to Earth. That's about 1/4 of the altitude needed to get to LEO.

Then we recall that the kinetic energy it needs to be in orbit is about 10 times the gravitational potential energy[1]. That means this is about 1/40 of the energy needed to get to LEO.

Does that sound about right?

This is undoubtedly a stage any company needs to go through, but it would be nice to have some confirmation of where they are in the progress time-line.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467587

[1] Very roughly, orbital velocity is around 8000 m/s, or 1/2 (8000)^2 m^2/s^2/kg, which is 32 x 10^6 m^2/s^2/kg. GPE is about 10 m/s^2 x 320 km = 32 x 10^5 m^2/s^2/kg.