skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't just a case of salary. This was a case of HR didn't even want to consider anyone that didn't exactly meet the job posting and were unequipped to evaluate what candidates came close enough.

The job was for a devops type role with a very niche healthcare environment. Simple fact of the matter is that very few people that already met the requirements they were asking for exist and expect to be paid market rates as a result. That means most people have to train into the role.

The massive disconnect with HR was that they were totally unequipped to understand what skillsets would translate into the position they were seeking to fill. The massive problem with their process is they weren't involving the hiring manager in determining those skillsets and were actively resisting her input on the matter.

I don't doubt that their were probably candidates that would have been an even better fit than I was that were rejected out of hand because HR didn't know what they were looking at. The only reason my hiring manager knew I evn existed was because she had specifically asked me to apply for the job.
Techdirt leans pro-piracy, just as torrentfreak does. I'll pay for my content in whichever fashion gets the artist paid the most - makes no difference to me. And I am not just talking about music. TV, Movies, etc. It's content as an entire class. All content companies are getting smashed against the backdrop of piracy.

I'll do whatever I can to support content creators.
I suspect that this copy is something her PR agent wrote, even if she may have contributed the sentiment.
I talked with Chris Lattner a few years ago about register allocation and he had an interesting perspective. In his view (from what I remember; my recollection could be somewhat incorrect) most of the classical academic research on it is solving the wrong problem. Most formulations of register allocation are graph coloring algorithms designed to answer the question "is this function colorable using K registers without spilling?" The algorithms for handling the case when you do spill usually don't have as much thought put into them. But this is emphasizing the wrong aspect of the problem in practice; for almost any interesting function on the commonly used architectures (x86/ARM), the answer to the theoretical question is trivially "no" (because there are relatively few registers), and the most important practical problem is how to spill effectively (including deciding whether to spill versus split versus rematerialize, etc.) As I understand it, that's the idea behind LLVM's (relatively) new greedy allocator [1]: the graph-coloring part of the problem is simple, and the focus is on spilling and splitting, problems that the classical academic literature has tended to put less emphasis on.

[1]: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/09/greedy-register-allocation-in-l...
Constant surveillance is even more Orwellian, and yet look at London.
If not for unions it would be 'work from 7 to 7 until dead.'
I guess it's about doing the best you can within your comfortable time frame. For e.g last week, a colleague of mine was trying to execute a statically compiled program like an executable i.e. ./myprogram.go and then raised hell over how bad Go is and we should rewrite everything in Python. That's the kind of attitude I am talking about.
For more of latest info, you may want to check out The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne. Disclaimer: humanity still has no clue.
iOS 9 content blocking extensions are not a mobile advertising armageddon
A lot of register allocators can rematerialize, though, and that can have much the same effect. (ax and xx should be candidates for rematting.)
From README.md:

M/o/Vfuscator 2.0 is a complete C compiler, and will be available soon.

Just be patient, or submit patches :-)
I think being I/O bound is orthogonal to whether you need kqueue or epoll.

You could be I/O bound on a small number of simultaneous sockets, in which case select() would work fine. Or you can be I/O bound on a lot, in which case select() would take too much CPU by scanning the descriptor table repeatedly.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/970979/what-are-the-diffe...
You can sell support for software and usage for an app. There's very few recurrent revenue in music.
Wouldn't Marpa [1] be an alternative to REs?

[1]: http://marpa-guide.github.io/chapter1.html
There are places where slow correct is worse than fast wrong [for some definitions of "correct" and/or "wrong"]. Janestreet works where perfect is the enemy of the good, and are probably looking at registers because they have already squeezed caches for performance juice. This is a post where the quant context matters. It's not a sophomore CS student's blog.
I think rematerialization covers most of the cases in which you would benefit from doing that (such as ax and xx), and rematting is standard in advanced compilers like GCC/LLVM.
> [employees] also don't take the risk when it's not [successful]

This line, which always seems to come from founders, is to my mind pure and utter bullshit. Taking a job with a company that may fail soon is absolutely a big risk, particularly if it's paying below market. Even more so if this person is "passionate" and spends every waking moment thinking about that company's problems, as so many founders love to encourage employees to do. I fail to see how this is any less risky than spending someone else's money (investors) to pursue the creation of a new company. The fact that employees don't share in that reward is just a matter of who was able to get their names on the paperwork, and it has nothing to do with who takes on more risk.
Have We Come Too Far with Digital Photography?
Wanted (or at least I wanted last time this came up): (Multiple) terminal streams in an OGG container (or similar) and integration in VLC/mplayer. Could make for nice precise output in addition to regular video instead of just having either the raw terminal or a video only screencast.
and I would imagine some of the people filing bugs are people who are paying for support given MySQL and, later, Oracle's business model
To my knowledge, the only claim that Apple is threatening to remove music from purchase comes from this one guy ranting on Twitter and it was specifically denied by Apple. Doesn't mean Apple's telling the truth, of course, but it seems likely that Newcombe didn't have a full grasp of the situation. http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/report-apple-threatens...
And the Person can see itself in a "mirror" that shows the magnified movements, thus making drastic adjustments and shortly losing all control.
I found myself wishing the first appearance of the cards on the page were bigger so they were readable.

I felt like the samples flip too quickly. Maybe showing 2-3 of each at a time and either not animating or doing it much more slowly?

Maybe an animated example of one round of play would demonstrate better?
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If only the labels had 5 years ago put a reasonable music licensing system in place for the digital world... we might now have a burgeoning ecosystem of startups and niche music services competing to provide a great customer experience instead of a couple of giants.
That video is fake. I think it is a funny illustration, and could possibly work, however it is not real.

Many police forces use Glock 17 pistols, which have a standard capacity of 17 bullets[0]. Ignoring how fake the muzzle blast looks, the "officer" empties his 20 round clip into the air. I can't find a citation, but I believe police are not meant to fire unless they are in danger. While an officer could certainly ignore this, one would know that they could have disciplinary action take for emptying an entire clip haphazardly into the air in a busy location.

[0]https://us.glock.com/products/model/g17
Isn't this exactly what Cordova does? You mention "so you don't have to use Cordova", but you don't mention what the advantages are.
And the xml paresr will fail if the xml is not well formed while the regex will just keep sailing along. I had an example of this with BlogPoster.py which uses python xmlrpc. There are Wordpress hosts which return invalid xml and this causes an exception, I reimplemented what I needed with Bash and cURL using regexes and it works fine.
Not for non-signed artists, which Apple played up pretty hard at WWDC. They don't have labels negotiating for them - in fact, they were left out of the negotiation altogether.

But in any case, now artists have two large organizations worried about themselves between the artist and the consumer.

This is better, how?
Agreed. $1-2/mo is about right, but for $10/mo month we get orders of magnitude more value from other similarly priced services.
Only if they are registered as a songwriter:
http://blog.songtrust.com/publishing-tips-2/what-you-didnt-k...

Internet radio is different, as it's not considered to be a public performance.
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The special effects team on Ex-Machina overlaid graphics onto the actor. There were scenes where the actor was "motionless" but they observed that the emotional experience of the film required animated overlaid motion to match the actor.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/8/8572317/ex-machina-movie-vi...

"We also put a lot of effort into things like the muscles contracting properly, and the various pipes and wiring having just a tiny amount of jiggle. And it’s something that you really do not notice. But I remember when we were looking at shots, for whatever reason when we put a shot through to render overnight that secondary animation hadn’t rendered properly, so it was missing. And everything suddenly felt very stiff. And you kick the shot off again, this time with that animation integrated into it, and it works again. It’s not something that you can necessarily put your finger on as being wrong, but if it’s missing then you suddenly feel that something’s strange."
I think an economist would say you do get to choose. You could have chosen a different product that was packaged better. Since the onus is on you to sort out the packaging, you should have incentive to prefer products with packaging that you don't have to manage.

That's all well and good until all of the products in X category have the same packaging. Then there's no way to provide a market signal. (Plus that concept ignores all nuance. Either something is the Biggest Deciding Factor Ever, or it gets lost in the mix. And even if it is the primary deciding factor, there's no way of going "The reason I didn't go with you was because of your packaging, rather than your price/functionality/willingness-to-spy/tantalum use." and the result would at-best get confused for something else.
Coinbase as a cross-currency, international Venmo
Which due to pilot error, though, not technical problems. The kind of delivery drones we're discussing will most likely be auto-piloted.
> Techdirt leans pro-piracy

Does that make it OK for artists to get 2.34% of what listeners pay for the music they make? Or does it make TechDirt's figures wrong? If so, how?

> Or were you not paying for anything already, and then came across that info which now justified your position?

I am not striking, but I agree with everything s/he wrote. And, as it happens, I do pay for all the music and video and software I acquire. So it is simply not true that holding the opinions s/he expressed is always a rationalization for not liking to pay for things.

(And: do you actually have any evidence that striking pirates things rather than paying for them? Or do you just assume that anyone who takes a position opposing yours must be a pirate?)
Funny, I fixed a bug caused by exactly this recently in a program in production that had been humming along nicely until the output of another utility had grown larger than it ever was in testing or previously in production, causing the deadlock. The big warning in the Python docs sure was helpful in finding the problem.
Great just more apps for me to not use... It's not like people won't try to make nicer, simpler interfaces like they already do.
Sure there is - live shows.
It's hard for me to think of a language that doesn't feel preferable to C++. C included. JS is still a really poor competitor in this space; almost everything I've used scores higher in my personal ranking - even VB6.
No, that is not my entire argument. (However, ASIDE: when every advanced nation disagrees with your view on morality or pragmatism, it does not mean you a wrong, but it does mean you should closely examine your line of reasoning for both pragmatism and consistency with reasonable and well-grounded moral standards. Of course the democratic consensus of all of these countries can be wrong, but it's worth taking pause. That's all. END ASIDE.)

Here is the argument that I have been expressing in various forms and you don't seem to understand or provide cogent counter-points to:

PRAGMATIC CLAIM: Employers are allowed to "discriminate"/select based upon non-intrinsic signals of characteristics relevant to the job at hand.

WARRANT: This is necessary for society/businesses to function because otherwise, it would be prohibitively expensive to hire people using anything other than coin-flips.

MORAL STANDARD I: In order to use a signal as the basis for a hiring decision it should be both a) non-intrinsic, and b) signal something relevant to the task at hand.

EDUCATION MEETS THIS MORAL STANDARD:

a) CLAIM: Education is non-intrinsic

WARRANT: It is something you seek out and work to earn, not something you are born with. (The issue of ensuring universal access is entirely separable (and something I support, btw).)

b) CLAIM: Education signals something relevant to the task at hand

WARRANT 1: Technical background is assured through testing in relevant coursework -- testing that you would have to (at great and impractical expense to the business) reproduce in order to make informed hiring decisions.

WARRANT 2: Education can also serve as a signal of necessary problem solving ability, communication skills, etc.

MORAL STANDARD II: Any moral constraints placed on the set of available signals should not make it prohibitively expensive for business to function.

EDUCATION MEETS MORAL STANDARD II: Because it's a cheap signal to use as an initial filter.

BANNING THE USE OF EDUCATION WOULD FAIL TO MEET MORAL STANDARD II: It would require companies to essentially require a comprehensive examination that is well-proctored etc, which is a pretty huge burden for the company and -- besides -- basically would amount to credentialing anyways because any reasonable firm would outsource this.

Other relevant claims:

CONSISTENCY CLAIM: There exist signals that meet both standards.

WARRANT: Education can be used to select a small number of applicants, and the cost for choosing among those should be marginal wrt the value-added by the employee.

CLAIM: These moral standards preclude the use of race/sex/age discrimination.

WARRANT: these are all intrinsic features that are explicitly forbidden
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I'm not making any statement on whether it's good or bad, right or wrong, but ...

Software developers aren't immune to piracy's effects, either. Whether we like it or not, we're quickly shifting into a world where art is only viable as a labor of love. Everything being digital means copying is free. Scarcity has gone out the window. Now if only our increased productivity and automations led to lesser and lesser working hours, we'd all have a lot more time for artistic endeavors on the side.

But yes, it's becoming increasingly difficult to sustain yourself solely as an artist. Life isn't fair, unfortunately.

Would the world be better if we had purely gratis art? I don't know ... the production values would certainly be a lot lower. But maybe people doing things solely because they enjoy it, rather than for the paycheck, would result in more passion and creativity; and less cash grabs. Or maybe everything would be awful.

Either way, it seems futile to rail against something none of us can possibly change, and wish for the good old days of $15 CDs with one good song on it, or $200 OS installation CDs, or $800 paint programs.
I'm going to guess you have misunderstood what Chris said (with no offense meant) :)

Spilling is actually a very well known and very well studied problem, and in fact, most compilers and research spend a lot of time figuring out how to place spill code and coealesce copies, not how to color things. Chris knows this. I had discussions with him (many many years ago, before he ever started at Apple) about GCC's register allocation approach vs what he was thinking of doing for LLVM.

There are actually only so many good approaches to spill code /rematerialization/live range splitting you can use. At some point, it's really just a large integer-linear programming problem.

Note that coloring is essentially free on SSA form. It's linear time or better.
> These streaming services came around as an alternative to piracy and not paying anything for content anywhere.

Maybe I'm an edge case, but I bought music until I got a Spotify subscription. Now the only time I buy is when it's not available (for instance, Tech N9ne latest album was on iTunes a week or two before Spotify)
Actually you're wrong, using a variant of a false dilemma, both options are selfless, you're also annoyingly redefining the word selfish. Yes my last reply was a bit harsh, but the previous guy's a bit of an idiot in trying to claim I was 'not convinced' rather than admit his obvious mistake.

The key to your intellectual fallacy is that you've presented it as a 'choice', while missing out option 3, which is do nothing, or option 4, which is exploit the situation and ask to be paid for saving the life, or option 5 which is to expediate the deaths.

Suddenly both option 1 & 2 look good.

Both you and the op are suggesting we live in a world where perfection is the only possible way you can be selfless. The real world is a spectrum of white to black. In the real world it's impossible to be perfect and pretty good outcomes are still morally acceptable.
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> They only got a bit more clever when connecting different sims running on different conditions.

Part of the reason why a lot of these nets are trained with added noise, as well as drop-out (randomly disabling 50% of the hidden neurons, every training step).

Especially the drop-out tactic is particularly effective at preventing "exploits" of the neural net type, which otherwise appear in the form of large correlated weights (really big weights depending on other really big opposite weights to cancel out--it works, but it doesn't help learning).

Either way, adding noisy hurdles helps because exploits are usually edge cases, and noise makes them less dependable, as the region of fitness space very close to an exploitable spot, is usually not very high-ranking at all (which is why you don't want your classifiers ending up there).
I guess I was the only one who thought this was going to be Taylor Swift complaining that they named a programming language after her (before reading this) and putting a trademark on her last name (or something similarly silly).
Maybe an artifact of some online reputation scrubbing service? Procedurally create a site that looks legit enough to get some Google juice, which you can then use as a source for masking unflattering search results? Might explain the celebrity connection.

Obviously this kind of naïve adjective-permutation seems unlikely to fool Google today (although you said it came up in a search result for you?), but maybe at some point in the past it was effective. Does anyone know if the recent date listed in the ICANN record is a reliable indicator of initial regisration? Or would that just be when it was last re-upped?

Might be interesting to wget these two mirrors and diff their content?
Agreed. This just seems like a homebrewed version of Cordova lacking the ability to add plugins that provide a JS bridge to native OS features.
For anyone suggesting that Taylor is not greedy, most artists don't get the majority of the money from airplay, the record labels do. Apple's move is to cut record labels massive control grip on the market, not to rip off the artist. Taylor Swift is in a very unique positions to have a very lucrative record deal with her label. Most artists don't, that's why you are hearing from her and not others.

It was the same situation with Metallica and Napster. They got the majority of the money from their record sales. Most artists are just interested in the massive distribution these platforms offer, so when a relatively small act shows up in your town you might have heard of them. The live show is were most acts make any money anyway.

Many years ago, I recorded a number of albums with different bands. On average, for every $10 album sold, I would get 10 cents, paid to me after the label recoups costs. When you aren't Taylor Swift, that is the deal most artist are offered through a record label.
That's pretty amazing! Is the guide available as a webpage?
Is it legal for artists to sell virtual goods directly to fans, or are those rights locked up in record company contracts? That would allow separation of payment from distribution.

TPP/TTIP/RECP leaks suggest the criminalization of non-commercial copyright infringement, where prosecution will be possible even if the copyright holder does not want to prosecute, e.g. fanzines.

Can we develop a payment mechanism which moves funds from audience to artist for virtual goods, with no exchange of music (which can be obtained on any channel), but which provides a non-forgeable "protection from being prosecuted"? This would return control to the artist.

Unbundle the music license payment from music delivery payment.
Can you explain why that wouldn't be a great deal for app developers? I develop iOS apps, and I'd love it if apple moved to a pay for use model.

I care about a world where the most useful apps are rewarded.
Is there any solution for me wanting to have my recordings be private, or only distributable within a small group?
I can't say I understand much of this, but I find David Kaplan instantly likable.

For the real physicists among you... Is this question actually "What happens if you cross the event horizon of a black hole?" BH's aren't discrete things, right, the gravity of them (at least outside the EH?) is a continuum, no? Which would mean, pedantically, that we are already "IN" all the BH's now, just too far away to care.

Also, I find this 'stretching' argument a bit mind bending. Do we think this REALLY happens? If the gravity delta between my feet and head (assuming I'm heading in feet first, and if Ender's Game has taught us anything, why wouldn't you?) is so great, wouldn't I just get literally ripped apart? I'm not actually made of a stretchable material. Or is the gravity stretching the SPACE I'm in and I'm going with it and wouldn't notice?

Lastly - Hawking Radiation. I understand, probably incorrectly, that this is a manifestation of quantum fluctuations happening RIGHT AT the EH, and one particle flies inside the EH goes in, and the anti-particle outside the EH doesn't then get annihilated by it, and escapes, leading to an apparent radiative effect. If this is the case, why does the ANTI-particle always have to be the one that escapes? Why not the opposite? My question here is, wouldn't the particle/antiparticles that get split happen in equal amounts for a net zero radiative effect?
This is uninteresting. It is fully expected that foreign countries know about (and extensively surveil) your "official cover" embassy staff intelligence officers. We tailed everyone who stepped out of the Soviet embassy for most of the Cold War.

Those people are administrators. Your actual covert operatives will never interact with the embassy in a detectable/obvious way.
Do not track (Short serie of 7 episodes on privacy)
ISS Symphony – Timelapse of Earth from International Space Station in 4K