skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point. It's not the directors that get Union rates, it's the person that moves the flaps on the lighting unit, the person that saws wood, the person that runs errands, the person that holds a microphone boom.

When planning a movie, the producers work out what staff are needed, get out the rate card and calculate a wages budget. SOURCE: I have been assistant producer on a feature film.

Most of the staff are fungible. Only the heads of department make much of a difference to the quality of your movie (anyone else that doesn't come up to snuff simply doesn't get called back the next day).
It seems that government may have found a lever against a well-funded global operation that wants to do business in their jurisdiction.

Get ready for updated regulations in many areas where Uber is doing business now.
Networking isnt a disaster. It's just that the current container ecosystem on linux hasnt yet resulted in any real domain specific improvements yet. For "default" systems, networking is pretty damned reliable and performant.

A lot of the problems with regards to containment have already been solved in different systems. I believe solaris or opensolaris had Crossbow [1]. Any system that aims to provide connectivity needs to do the least amount of encapsulation possible and probably be a kernel module.

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris_Network_Virtualiz...
> Frequency-sweeping... How are you doing that?

The basic principle is called FDML; there's a short description of how it works on our company website:

http://optores.com/index.php/technology/5-fourier-domain-mod...

A much more thorough description is found in the paper that introduced FDML for the first time:

https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-8-32...

> Is the laser itself able to frequency sweep?

The laser itself is doing the sweeps.

> Or are you chirping pulses?

No. In fact one of the PhDs that came out of our group was generating pulses by compressing the sweeps:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/full/ncomms2870.h...
Speaking of material design, what's everyone's opinion on the best JS library? Polymer/webcomponents works spectacularly (i.e. indistinguishable from native) on Chrome on Android, but I'm getting terrible frame rates on the animations in vanilla iOS 7 and iOS 8 Safari.
My thought exactly.

Or, they are mixing an agenda (low to no regulation) with business, choosing to leave a market rather than operate in it's rules.
Economics is not one of the fields that has gained the "trust the experts" badge. Common sense says that you trust the experts when they have proved themselves, and, in economics, they haven't.
Dave Winer's response: http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHire...
Researchers seem to encounter a handful of privilege escalation vulnerabilities for Windows every year. I wonder if this will ever be "fixed" (dramatically reduced in number).

A well organized cyber-crime group or a whole number of spy agencies could have access to at least one such vulnerability throughout the year.
A Practical Guide to User Needs: how to actually figure out what users want
I think you're conflating generalizing with discriminating.

If you speak a certain English based on a guess informed by unrelated characteristics, you are generalizing. You created a group in your mind of people who have certain characteristics and speak a certain English, and put the person there.
I mean, the cost is already shifted to the drivers (who have to pay for license, submit maintenance paperwork and buy insurance) and taxpayers (who hire government clerks to review all that stuff).

But I get what you're saying - at that point the profit opportunity diminishes somewhat. The upfront cost of it also discourages casual drivers who only planned to do some weekend work.
I changed my desktop search engine to Bing because of the rewards I get. It's a great incentive to use Bing. (j/k)
"The qualities most commonly used to sort applications, in descending order, are school prestige, extracurricular activities and grades. Well down the line are standardized tests, previous employment and diversity"

The funny thing is that all of the companies that are put on a pedestal here on HN do exactly this: Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Many silicon valley startups and companies focus more on education and school than actual work experience. I thought it was one of the most 'progressive' places in the US? Instead, it seems like your are looked down upon for not having the right education.

I've worked for many companies large and small (none in Silicon Valley) and the only think we looked at was work experience and outside related experience. An employer just wants to know if the person can do the job. I think the writer of this article is stuck in the silicon valley bubble, which doesn't represent the rest of the country.

"movement from the very bottom to the very top of the economic ladder has become exceedingly rare,"

I think it's always been rare. Even if you start out at the bottom, you can make it to the top. But most people aren't willing to put in the effort.

When my friends in college were out partying, I was working on my career and learning new skills. 10 years later, I've had great jobs and now run my own business. Most of them are in the same spot they were 10 years ago: in debt and little job prospects because they never worked on their skill sets.

All of the people I know that are successful have the same thing in common as me: we all worked our butts off and sacrificed our free time to get ahead. If you don't have the connections, this is what it takes.
$ curl --version
curl 7.40.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0) libcurl/7.40.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets Metalink
$
I'd be interested to know how simple you can make the graphics and still have a good experience. Isn't there an inherent problem with VR that if you try to compete with state of the art non-VR graphics, you're always going to need a more powerful machine for VR than you need for non-VR (e.g. larger field of view, two screens, higher FPS)? The problem will only increase as the headset Field of View increases.
IIRC there are laws saying that any commercially relevant information obtained by NSA is supposed to be forwarded to domestic businesses.
I'm 55, and having a hard time figuring out what I should do for the next 10-20 years. Programming seems unlikely, though it's what I enjoy the most as a vocation. I am not as current as I should be, and that's probably a death knell for programming.

A comment on Dave Winer's blog post about "hiring Doug Engelbart" (http://scripting.com/2015/04/24/iWouldHaveHiredDougEngelbart...) in the 80's. I interviewed Doug Engelbart in the late 80's when I worked at Autodesk. The problem with Doug then (and, perhaps, with others in his situation) is that he wasn't someone that would work for you. He was only interested in "finishing Augment", the project he started over 20 years earlier. The likelihood of him being a mentor or otherwise being a contributor to an existing team was very close to zero. Dave Winer wouldn't have hired him in 1987 because he wouldn't have taken the job.

I'm not saying this is true about all graybeard legends, but Winer sure picked an improbable example.
Apples and oranges?

When you hitch hike (or pick someone up) you and the other party are taking a mutual risk together.

But if money is exchanging hands I, and I'm going to bet most people, would want the risk factor removed.
When your money supply is pegged to a physical resource, the primary economic activity that is incentivized within that economy is producing more of that resource (ie, digging gold up out of the ground, or invading/"colonizing" countries to get theirs). There are few people who would consider that a healthy way to grow a modern economy.
I do feel like I'm nearing the peak of my programming ability

I'm very interested in what kind of projects you have done that made you feel like that. Sounds very interesting.
How does this affect advertisements and click rates? Often times I am presented with two results which are correct - one promoted (ad) and one search result. If I click the promoted one I am contributing to the advertisement's click through metrics. If more people are using google as their navigation aid, is the ad value still as important? Could facebook or other top services be paying $$$ in advertisement fees simply because people don't want to add ".com" to their query?
I can totally see this. :)
Zulily shares tumble as it lowers sales forecast
Could you share any lessons he taught you about how to properly deal with the "technical sidekick"? I often encounter them in web consulting and I'm curious to see what Phil's advice on the topic was.
http://webplatformdaily.org/
Working for The Man ain't so bad
Thanks for writing, I like this:

"Programming is not what I do, but who I am."
Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, a Highly Scalable and Performant NoSQL Database
Presumably lotsofmangos is making a reference to the Nazi salute.
In the terminal snippets, latency is specified in "us", which I'm guessing is µs, microseconds.

In the table, those latency numbers are specified in "ms". Also microseconds? Couldn't possibly be milliseconds, for two VMs that should only be a couple dozen metres away from each other, right?
You're also trusting that the Internet is going to stay up for the duration of the install script, which is an unreliable assumption. Imagine at some point the script does:

rm -rf ~/.config/google

and the connection gives out at

rm -rf ~/

Suddenly your script didn't install, and you've blown away your home directory. HTTP(S) is designed for reading documents, where it's OK if you can't read the document in its entirety.
I've got mixed feelings.

At one end, I think it's perfectly reasonable for the state to require more insurance coverage for Uber drivers since there will be more risk involved than a regular driver.

Background checks required by state? That's Uber's job to decide, and they do it anyway. If Uber doesn't do background checks, and there are incidents (even a small number) it will hurt their business at the end of the day. It's in their best interest to do the background checks in the manner they please.

This is a weird situation where Uber doesn't want to "employ" it drivers and pay for w/e is needed for them to do business, but at the same time their drivers require them to provide them with everything to do their job and now their source of income (employer) left the state and them jobless.

I wish we were provided with more details like how much this background check/insurance would cost. They already do both (Uber does a background & provides commercial insurance coverage) so honestly this half-written articles do nothing but make people even MORE confused on how Uber REALLY does business.
Suicide Dance
SlinkyDB: Query Your Heroku Postgres Databases
Thanks for doing that. I hate how people can not have any idea that they've been banned. I wonder what he was banned for.
Perhaps it's less likely in jurisdictions where unpaid overtime is actually illegal.
amen, use it daily.
Google Crushes Small Business Owners
What's the difference between this and Heroku dataclips?
https://dataclips.heroku.com
Wonder Workshop Gets $6.9M, and a Home in Apple Stores
I agree about the smaller text but at the same time, it's been more of an issue for me when the content wasn't created primarily with DK2-class hardware as the target. Elite is great and I feel like Frontier owes Oculus money because myself and just about everyone I know who got a DK2 also ended up buying Elite but it's still primarily designed for a monitor.

If you're targeting a game or other application for VR (and assuming generally similar hardware to DK2 or whatever), there are a lot of design decisions you can make to improve the experience. Something as simple as using larger text goes a long way. Color choices help, as does less focus on lists and menus in favor of gaze-based control.

Then there's the general stuff like "not trying to shoehorn that awesome first-person-shooter style that was so great on 2D screens into VR". Yeah, it's neat to look around in a FPS-style game but whereas seated or less frenetic experiences are gorgeous and immersive, asking someone to run around in first person while actually sitting in a chair is nauseating. I've seen all the omni-treadmills and other workarounds and I appreciate the way people are trying to engineer solutions but I feel like it misses the point. Some things just work well in VR while other things require a lot of tradeoffs or addons.
I think the biggest difference between your one off paying to hitchike with a single car and Uber drivers is that Uber drivers have in essence become common carriers.

Additional safeguards to common carriers make common sense to me, since you are now holding yourself out to the public, and not taking one-off or by arrangement only rides.

Kind of like the difference in regulations for airplane charter vs an airline.

The hitchhiker example and just paying one-off car rides is different than someone that advertises and holds themselves out to the public.
Cool or NOT?
as it turns out (just had to look it up again, incidentally!) the correct form when piping it to an output tool is -s -S. E.g.:

$ curl -s -S http://example.com/some.json | python -m json.tool

I want errors, but I don't want that annoying status bar to mess up the output. I don't use curl often enough to even remember I need two flags at all (e.g. I remember now, but didn't know when I wrote the original comment).

It can follow any philosophy it wants: when a user is consistently confused, I personally consider it bad UI.

EDIT: This is not the only bad / confusing default. Another popular one is -L. Not following redirects should be the exception; I almost never want curl to choke on 3xx. Result, I could practically alias curl="curl -L". Great software, but the UI is unfortunate.
Wonder why they uncharacteristically launched the Apple Watch in its current form, then.
Redshift uses Postgres drivers, but does not use Postgres semantics. Important to consider if you're using any nontrivial amount of data, because porting it even to other cstore databases will require a lot of thinking and probably some munging-at-scale.
Users Don't Fail; Designers Do
Pyjamas/pyjs is actually two parts: the transpiler and accompanying widget set. Only the latter is related to GWT. The transpiler can be used independently.
"the least amount of encapsulation possible" doesn't sound like much of a solution if what you are looking for is networking with strong encapsulation.
I have a small wrapper around `pygmentize -g` in my dotfiles that optionally overwrites the lexer based on the mime-type, as determined by `file`:

https://github.com/gvalkov/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/cats
It had all of them. To be more specific, I'm talking about App Engine.
Setting up a dev. environment with Vagrant
Reality may be closer than you think

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celle_Hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest_terror_attack
As if one need any more evidence as to what a shit-pile of a company this is. But the majority of this site's audience doesn't care. They don't need a car anymore! They're disrupting things and have a slick app!!!!
If this is the case, Uber is being either colossally stupid or both colossally stupid and colossally evil here.

You see, big businesses actually love regulation. It raises the barrier to entry and prices smaller competitors out of the market.

The only companies who don't like regulation are a) small businesses who risk being priced out of the market and b) monopolists or near-monopolists, who have no competitors left to price out of the market.

For Uber to throw their hands up and walk out of a market over regulation means that either they think like a small player or they think like a monopolist. If it's the former... well, they're a $40B company, and they should start acting like one; it's a sign of terrible incompetence that a $40B company is acting like a "poor, oppressed mom-and-pop". If it's the latter, then they're just plain evil, and they should be stopped before they actually become a monopoly. They're also being stupid, too, because they're not a monopoly yet, and Lyft is now going to eat up the Kansas market.
Hostage saves herself via Pizza Hut app
Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business
That Jose was me, and everything in that review described my experiences at coding house.
I know the first cohort was a mess, but the program has greatly improved, new instructors (he created the curriculum for GA, Flat Iron and another boot camp I can't remember). This program is not for everyone, but if you are prepare to do in 2 months what others do in 6 months you will be ready to get a job as a web developer as soon as the program ends.
Ask HN: Getting in front of people
Hi HN,

I'm a IT consultant with a background in CS and I'm trying to get an independent business started.
Recently, I lucked into two paying after-hours projects and I absolutely loved it!
Basically, I had to design, develop, install, educate, sell and price some stuff to make their life and company better.
It wasn't always easy, but it's the most fun I had in the last couple of years.

I'd like to continue on this path, but now my problem is finding new clients:
How do you get in front of potential clients when you don't know anything about their business? How can you make sense to them? And where to get started?

Any ideas?

PS: My target clients are medium sized local businesses.
A resenting B says nothing about their relative merit, just about merit as perceived by A. A usually sees more merit in A than B, C or D. B, on the other hand, tends to overstate B's merit.

So no matter how wages are set, and regardless of disparities between salaries, people will find the wages unfair. In this sense equalization is bad because it reveals everyone's wage. The best is unknown inequality.

Of course it has own its drawbacks, I was just pointing out this one angle.
It's been a while since I read it, but I seem to recall his approach to it was what I assume to be the normal MIT student's: take the minimum he could get away with and complain about how useless it was.

I could be misremembering, though, and that was written much later in his life.
This is what excites me. 360deg desktops with depth perception. This will disrupt quite a few areas least of which would be multiple monitor setups.

An interesting implementation would be virtually working from a beach or sitting on top of a colorado 14er. Just have a table fan sending randomized breeze your way. :)
Postgres doesn't have a builtin clustered mode, or claim to be totally available (and also, incidentally, doesn't guarantee serializability for hot standby replication targets, which is prominently stated in a bright red box that says "warning" in the documentation on serializable isolation, i.e. the first place you would look). It claims to be CP in a single-node configuration (which it is) and aphyr tested it on those claims. Remember, Jepsen isn't about proving that a database can't violate CAP, nor is it trying to say "all databases are crap." It's about verifying the marketing claims and then determining whether there are any mitigating strategies. The fact that many databases make unreasonable marketing claims is unfortunate, but certainly not a requirement.

It's also worth posing this question in reverse: what would happen if these distributed databases were tested in a single-cluster configuration? As noted in the most recent article on Elasticsearch, many of them (e.g. Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and Riak) acknowledge writes before fsync and can therefore lose data due to issues like `kill -9`, power loss, and other exceptional conditions, while Postgres doesn't. For a single-node database this robustness is very important, while he argues that it isn't as important for a distributed one. Because these databases aren't designed to be used as single nodes, aphyr didn't substantially ding them for that. Again, what's important is whether the database does what its documentation says it does when used as its documentation says it should be used.
Some people are not cut out for management.

As a Marine grunt myself, I've seen leadership that runs the gamut - I go to bat for my team whenever I can, and work with other co-workers to get what they want in a reasonable timeline for all. I also generally advocate for higher salaries for all I choose to hire (higher than the company norm - this is due to my belief that our offers were not competitive enough prior and my desire to normalize the salary gap).

I am a lead frontend engineer & math PhD dropout who solicits criticism and graciously acknowledge faults even in meetings with higher managers if my team members bring anything up. I do so because to do otherwise is to create an environment I would hate to work in, and certainly not one where good talent can be cultivated.

On the flip side, I worked at one company that had a flat management structure, and there was an Army veteran who by loudness/force of personality forced things onto the team. It became frustrating to work with the person due to no willingness to budge without exhaustive discussions. Even with significant equity, it was not worth dealing with that.

Ultimately, the military experience enhances each person's core character traits, for better or worse.
Haha that sounds just like Philip, and it is an important lesson, because it happens so often.
Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record
Industry attitudes have changed quite a bit over the past 15+ years I've been around it. Engineers from failed startups were actually pretty popular to hire after the initial dotcom bust, with the theory that they would recognize mistakes. I distinctly recall many clients preferring experience in a failed business for both devs and manager candidates.

Being at one job too long does often count against you, but primarily if (as is mentioned elsewhere here) you were in one role (one team, one tech, one product, etc.). EDIT: (Not condoning, just reporting it)

I had clients years ago that would only hire candidates who had been at their current job for over 5 years. That attitude has changed substantially, and movement is accepted in the industry so long as the movement is 'positive'. You can have several employers and not be a job hopper.
How does Uber determine when you are picked up? That's the bit that could be gamed.
> It's a shame that there's no alternative, at least that I'm aware of, to UberEXEC/UberLUX.

How about blacklane.com or limos.com? Both are aggregators for existing car services and allow you to specify a general class of cars.
Worth noting, while we're on the topic of design: The inline demo grabs page scrolling, and as such is really annoying.
Fair would be a game like monopoly. Or tic tac toe. Or chess, go. Yet its quite possible to lose a game of tic tac toe.

Its comical to think of a 2015 video game implementation of player v computer chess, where you never get checkmated, just have to move yet another piece, and never run out of pieces, until you finally win.
:( We use some pretty edge tech behind the sites for Planimeter projects, unfortunately none of us have an iPad 1 to test these issues. We'd still be happy to work on it as soon as we can, though. https://github.com/Planimeter/grid/issues
SF provides great transportation (via BART) to its own airport and decent transportation (also via BART) to OAK.
We have Zenefits at my job and it really is amazing. All workers should be so lucky to have that type of interface for their benefits.
What?

I had to go back and see if we were looking at the same website. I don't think we were.
I'd be more interested in knowing if it's possible to have a life before retirement?