skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point I hadn't thought about. So it's governed by game theory moreso than by market forces, i.e. even if candidate1 is not a great candidate, she's the best candidate available and we can get in our industry niche.

Perhaps a movement could be begun where companies use low ceo/worker multiplier as a marketing tool to highlight how pro-staff they are and by extension how pro-consumer they are.
amazons alexa is an always on internet connected "speaker" that answers your questions.

i expect amazon intends to obtain acceptance by not copping to the fact that it also has to be a microphone.
Kickfightingfilms channel
People pay with their privacy. Google's support is generally considered to be somewhere between dismal and nonexistent for most of its services. Clearly, they're making enough money to be doing better.

No one expects intensive 24/7 support for free webmail, but Google's balance of profit and support is off. Free-tier users aren't cattle, especially not when you're tracking them.
Maybe they've got a great mentoring program. With hundreds of employees, surely the handful of programmers still have time to teach the cleaning staff how to code.

But seriously, it is nice that a company is raising the bar for some people in traditionally shitty jobs. Q doesn't deserve a whole press cycle over it, but it's still a net benefit. Playing it up more than that only serves to highlight the gaps between basic subsistence, comfort, and "fuck you" money.
Productivity is the root of all prosperity. Read this excellent article: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/02/always_keep_you..... Workers become on average ~20x more productive when they migrate to the first world. Because we are capital rich and we have sane government and law and order. Imagine if you were moved to Haiti and you got stuck there. How much could you contribute to society in Haiti? You could maybe slice some coconuts on the side of the road - is that gonna make the world a lot richer? Roadside sliced coconuts? Nah, much better for you to be in first world even if you're doing a low skilled job here like delivering catering to a high tech startup. That catering company is able to produce food much more efficiently, and in SF or NYC you're able to distribute it much more efficiently, and you're part of this souped-up economic engine that's changing the world. That's why they make 20x or up to 40x more (in the case of the extreme poor) when they migrate to the first world. It's better for everyone! Economists estimate that moving from the status quo to fully liberalized migration (i.e. open borders) would roughly double global gdp - that's an insane silver bullet. That's everyone getting way fucking richer in one fell swoop.

Please see my comment here for more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
I don't think you need to do much more than add more tax brackets and increase them. The top bracket really should be approaching like 90% for income in excess of $1M a year... IE. the tax brackets and rates should generate an income return that looks somewhat like a sigmoidal curve... if you've looked at biology this usually results (or is a result of) stable equilibria.

Also, capital gains gets taxed as income.
you must not read the wall street journal. not long ago i read a lengthy article discussing the threats of solar and wind power. there is substantial concern they will displace coal fired power plants.

see the investors already own utility stocks.
The guidelines are:

* If you use the original title, that's wrong; you should use a less-sensationalized title.

* If you use a less-sensationalized title, that's wrong; you should use the original title.

I hope that clears it up.
Productivity is the root of all prosperity. First read this excellent article: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/02/always_keep_you..... Workers become on average ~20x more productive when they migrate to the first world. Because we are capital rich and we have sane government and law and order. Imagine if you were moved to Haiti and you got stuck there. How much could you contribute to society in Haiti? You could maybe slice some coconuts on the side of the road - is that gonna make the world a lot richer? Roadside sliced coconuts? Nah, much better for you to be in first world even if you're doing a low skilled job here like delivering catering to a high tech startup. That catering company is able to produce food much more efficiently, and in SF or NYC you're able to distribute it much more efficiently, and you're part of this souped-up economic engine that's changing the world. That's why they make 20x or up to 40x more (in the case of the extreme poor) when they migrate to the first world. It's better for everyone! Economists estimate that moving from the status quo to fully liberalized migration (i.e. open borders) would roughly double global gdp - that's an insane silver bullet. That's everyone getting way fucking richer in one fell swoop.

Please see my comment here for more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
Just FYI, some of us don't have flash installed to save battery life, not because we want to feel good...
I think Kyllo was referring more to first-class/higher-order functions. I believe Java 8 added support for lambda expressions, but it's nowhere near the same thing.
Direct incentives for financial gains from higher incarceration rates, and kicking that money back to lobby for laws that put more people in prison at tax payers expense...

Baby steps.
It doesn't have to be. Not for exceptionally high wages.
Natural resources don't guarantee success; conversely, lack of natural resources does not guarantee doom. Russia and Brazil on the one hand, and Japan and Britain on the other hand, tiny island nations, relatively speaking.

Culture has a lot to do with it. Brazil had the immigrants (and still does have LatAm immigrants). On the other hand Japan has been very averse to immigration.
You have a valid point. It doesn't make sense for a single investor to actively work against their financial interests by devaluing stock they own. But that shouldn't necessarily hold true for institutional investors, especially a university like Columbia that already has a multi billion dollar endowment and doesn't have the financial pressure to be forced to make the most profitable decisions. For example, PETA owns SeaWorld shares for the purpose of attending and protesting the company at their stockholder meetings. PETA would be perfectly happy to lose their investment and they would just attribute that as the cost of accomplishing their mission.

Really divestment is the no man's land between working for change and supporting the status quo. Instead of doing good, Columbia just decided to stop doing bad.
Just do what everyone else does:

1. Write a blog post about it

2. Get the blog post to the top of Hacker News

3. Get a bunch of people to tweet @Google because of it.

4. Have Google begrudgingly contact you and fix the problem.

I don't know why you insist on making it so complicated.
I'd be interested in seeing a writeup on how you make them, what settings work for focus vs. work, etc.
Except most MVP share technical programming related articles. Not much different than sharing knowledge on your blog. At least you get prestige with Microsoft's program. Seeing Microsoft MVP on a resume is a good boost.
Sounds to me like they put defective rev of a USB3 host controller on the board, and they need their own driver to work around it, but the host controller is going to identify itself generically enough that Samsung can't rely on PNP ID matching to pick their work-around driver. Hence they disable windows update to avoid getting a driver update that would stomp their workaround driver.

Whatever it is, it sounds really sketchy.
Show HN: Agile in IT, beyond development teams (book)
Yes, you can do this on Windows too, but the problem is this update disabler executable was signed, so it would have run anyway.
I agree it sucks for anyone to lose their job, but using that as an excuse for xenophobic policy is a non-sequitur.

Do you honestly think there would have been a national uproar against Disney if they'd asked their employees to train other Americans?

Try replacing "foreign H1B worker" with "person of another skin color" and see if your arguments don't sound abhorrent. If you think the later sounds racist, the former is xenophobic.

>> it's always some anonymous others who will pay

Couldn't agree more. In the case of immigration and labor policy, the anonymous others who pay are those that didn't have the good fortune to be born in this country.
trickle-down theory presumes the whole rising tide lifts all boats deal where the creation of new businesses and increased wealth at the top will trickle-down to the lower and middle classes through jobs and wage increases.

"grow your way out of recession" is pretty much making the same argument.
Or government regulation; in which case it is not illegal by definition.

As americans we are trained to forget that it is possible to have collective norms that are enforced by law. And indeed there are many who believe that all government regulations are ipso facto immoral; while conveniently forgetting the government granted monopolies and subsidies that make them wealthy. "Ayn Rand fuck yeah, but don't touch my soybean subsidies." 'merica!
Greece would kill for those kinds of terms I think.

the people in charge of policy back then cared about long-term political and economic stability, the people in charge today mostly care about getting saved from their stupid investments.
Interestingly, I think it would be more illustrative of their point if they presented the graphs in some normalized form (such as percentage increase). The private inmate population has risen ~48% (~89k to ~132k) over that time period, while the total inmate population has risen ~14% (~1.95m to ~2.22m).
im building the The Global Comouter Employer Index at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/. not really global yet but look at seattle or portland.

i link directly to the careers pages of each employer's website, like http://www.google.com/jobs/

but a common problem is that companies advertise on job boards but not on their own sites. sometimes, even if i do i cant find the link.

sometimes i can google it.
"Move from one stagnant area into a prosperous one to the point of dragging it down to be stagnant as well?"

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong... 100 times wrong.

Productivity is the root of all prosperity. First read this excellent article: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/02/always_keep_you..... Workers become on average ~20x more productive when they migrate to the first world. Because we are capital rich and we have sane government and law and order. Imagine if you were moved to Haiti and you got stuck there. How much could you contribute to society in Haiti? You could maybe slice some coconuts on the side of the road - is that gonna make the world a lot richer? Roadside sliced coconuts? Nah, much better for you to be in first world even if you're doing a low skilled job here like delivering catering to a high tech startup. That catering company is able to produce food much more efficiently, and in SF or NYC you're able to distribute it much more efficiently, and you're part of this souped-up economic engine that's changing the world. That's why they make 20x or up to 40x more (in the case of the extreme poor) when they migrate to the first world. It's better for everyone! Economists estimate that moving from the status quo to fully liberalized migration (i.e. open borders) would roughly double global gdp - that's an insane silver bullet. That's everyone getting way fucking richer in one fell swoop.

Please see my comment here for more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
It's somewhat ironic to have a thread decrying unpaid community contributions appear on Hacker News (or any other forum).
Honestly, it's hard to embrace the "new MS" when there are things like this still happening: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/22/microsoft-...

I'm aware that Microsoft is a giant corporation and there are many different people employed. The amount of people who support Open Source most likely increased in the last years. But as long as they're doing the public "we love Linux and Open Source" and try to lobby Open Source away in the background, I have no reason to trust them.
How the Talmud became a best seller in South Korea
I dunno about that. The E3 visa is exclusively reserved for Australians and its terms are very generous.
I don't purchase music from iTunes. I give money directly to artists in any way I can. Whether it's merch, handing money over for a CD directly, buying them a drink, whatever.

Here's something to try. Think about some songs or some album you go back to over and over. Think about the way the music makes you feel, if it lifts your mood, lets you concentrate, or in any way improves your day. How grateful are you for that great 4 minute track? Or for the 50 minute album you played at twice per week last summer?

Did each listen of that song bring you 5 cents worth of joy? Or maybe even just 2 cents? If you have a last.fm account, you can look at your plays and total it up. I have well over 5000 plays for my most listened-to artist. The next time I see them, I can give them $100 in return for nothing, and just say "thank you" for making great music and encourage them to make more.

It's not about these companies being evil, or the business model being wrong. It's that very rarely does anyone consider the people behind the works that they listen to every day, even if that music has some personal importance or sentimentality. The reality is that those people who put out your favorite album are probably working part time jobs just to keep producing music, even if they have enough notoriety to be invited to international music festivals, or are even lucky enough to have a song licensed for a tv show or commercial.

Musicians will continue to make music out of passion, even if they have no hope or even aspiration of commercial success. Any bit of encouragement and support you can give will give them extra motivation to keep producing music, which is a benefit to you, as a fan of what they do, and also a benefit to other fans.

I'm probably just rambling to a wall here, but if you're someone who has their day slightly improved by music, take some time to consider if you want to be one of the few who supports the people who make your life better. Because they certainly aren't being supported by the services that you're using to listen to them.
Only way to find out about this 64€ editor is thru trailer or downloading beta? Did anyone try it?

If they are going to sell this, they should make a comparison chart against free products like Atom and VS Code (which is still quiet immature).
the social animal by elliot aronson

games people play by eric berne MD
If anyone wonders about dbus/kdbus, this[1] was asked on r/linux yesterday.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3auufg/eli12_dbus_vs...
Right, so because Windows has been historically shitty creating this problem in the first place, we now willingly want Trusted Computing and thus losing control and ownership of our own devices, with the grandma reason given as rationale. Well, when this relationship with the likes of Apple and Microsoft goes toxic, and it's only a matter of time, I'll be one of those that will enjoy it, as I'll consider it a sort of social justice, as a lot of people told you so and you wouldn't listen.
We live on a big planet with many different countries populated by the same species of human. Perhaps you could start by reading what other countries' governments recommend in terms of nutrition?
It brings out flaw in usual understanding/implementation of agile. my intro to agile came from typical scrum, team of 5-8, standups etc.
Interesting I wonder where they got their dataset from.
I'm "going for it", and I can assure you that a life of continual debt isn't happiness either.
your lying is screwing over people who join the Peace Corps.

If you don't want to be on a contract, don't sign a contract.
The article was better than I expected from the title.

It's not about Facebook, and it's not exactly about online media either. It's about failed expectations with (particularly mobile) online media, and how conflicting needs far too often neglect the user experience.

Speed matters. Performance is crucial. Load times are atrocious. And above all: screen real estate on mobile is precious. A badly transferred advert that happens to sort of work on desktop, when the user has >20Mbps connection - it murders the UX on mobile. And as a result, makes the entire site unusable. As a result, users are moving to anything that makes the content load faster, and where the ads are not as intrusive.

The irony of it all? FB is better at serving media than the producers and publishers themselves.

UX >> UI.
Free will is just what it feels like to model counterfactuals in your brain. It's a feeling.

Do you buy that humans have love?
I don't see how that is a ban.
Ask HN: Why does HN seem oblivious to race pertinent issues like Charleston?
I understand the need to avoid flame wars but that does not mean HN should pretend these things are not happening and just ignore them. Race issues exist everywhere, including tech. Silence speaks volumes and the tech fraternity cannot continue pretending the issue does exist.
Much of the variability in solar and wind is predictable, both long term (solar generation at night or during a given season is highly preditable) or near-term (weather forecasts give very good 72-hour estimates of both load and supply). Germany's experience, documented by the Fraunhoffer Institute, are an excellent example of this. There are occasions where per-MWh prices have spiked or fallen drastically, but those are both rare (2-3X annually, for a few hours), and are almost always instances where the forecasts were in error.

The means of dealing with this are to have:

1. Dispatchable load (rather than today's dispatchable supply): high-intensity uses which can be cycled rapidly or on schedule.

2. Storage. Pumped hydro and compressed air energy storage (CAES) are the two most likely options. Synfuels -- hydrogen or synthetic gas or liquid hydrocarbons created from surplus electrical supply, are the most likely options in my book.

3. Standby capacity. Biomass, dispatchable renewable supply (hydro, geothermal), and other fuel-driven capacity (preferably carbon-neutral) seem to be the best bets. I'm pretty bearish on battery solutions in general -- they may work for standby, but the volumes and costs required for long-term supply are enormous. Fuel cell tech might be slightly better.

Rare earths aren't significantly used in solar, and only slightly in wind.

Note that not shifting from fossil fuels isn't an option. Whether due to CO₂ emissions or fuel shortages, that'll have to happen sooner or later.

Nuclear's a possible bridge but faces major long-term obstacles. Most notably that it fails of itself to answer the liquid fuels demand (though, as with renewables, synfuels driven by nuclear generation are possible).
Perhaps the technological singularity that we end up facing is not one of AI but one of nation-scale automation?
>Corrections officers unions have strong motivations to keep prison populations high as well and unions tend to be stronger in the public sector than the private sector so its not obvious that private prisons increase the aggregate political pressure for high prison sentences.

It's not about prison sentences. It's about the poor conditions of private prisons and the rampant abuse there.
Unlike the NFL, MLB doesn't have attendance-based blackout.
> it makes sense to take somebody at under their market rate, and 3 months later have a chat with management and bump up

Another strategy too commonly used by poorly run companies. If you feel someone will be worth $X more in only 3 months, they are worth paying that from the start. Kick the employee to the curb before their probation ends if they don't meet your expectations for the full salary. These games some companies will play ("we'll hire you at $x and then in 3 months we promise you'll get another $x") is despicable manipulation of employees' trust.

I worked for one company that did this to any new hire that was a pushover (they tried with me, I only accepted after constant back and forth for "HR approval" of my expected salary which was average market rate at the time). The gimmick is that nobody automatically got the promised raise at 3 months, and nearly everyone who went to fight for it never received it. An employee had to have already embedded themselves deeply enough into a product and be considered a "hero" in order to receive anything. The result was that the great developers would leave after being stabbed in the back, leaving the least talented people in play.

Suffice it to say, I don't even negotiate for salary or vacation time anymore. I request $x and X vacation days, and if the first offer comes back with anything less, I give them one chance to fix it. If the second offer is still shortchanged, I drop them. Unless you are desperate to find a position for financial reasons or you need your first job in the industry, these games being played during the hiring process are a strong indication as to the quality of the employer in general.
If your thoughts begin and end on memes, you've got nothing to say.
Nowadays, in the Bay Area, day-to-day baseball games are broadcast on cable-only channels.
Part N2: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0333/
Yes, there's not much luck associated with being dead.
If you read further, you'll see that his employers refused to sponsor him for an H1B.

He did in fact go for another job, which has fallen through. And so he must leave the country.
"Also, capital gains gets taxed as income."

That, is the most heart stopping sentence you can say to an American rich person. The tax structure is setup to tax the poor and middle class the hardest. If you are in a class that can do capital gains, 83b elections, double irish -- no taxes.
The fossil fuel subsidy is even more twisted than direct subsidies and externalities.

Yes, oil and energy are directly related to productive capacity. To the extent that gas and coal can substitute for oil in electricity generation and industrial production means that the near-term prospect of an oil crunch isn't a net energy crisis (ignoring climate impacts), but it does have a massive impact on transport.

But:

⚫ Energy is used to substitute for human labour in production functions. So it hugely increases output capacity.

⚫ We price oil not at its replacement cost, but at its cost of extraction. It's as if you had access to a bank account and were making withdrawals from it, but costed those at the rate of bus fare to the bank, rather than the full value of withdrawn funds.

⚫ Which means that not only does oil hugely accelerate industrial productivity, but it skews all economic prices downward hugely. It's not that oil companies have been greedy, but that oil's been under-priced for the past century and a half.

Biodiesel -- hemp or canola oil -- runs about $1,000/bbl, roughly 25x the longt-erm price of oil (about $40/bbl), and 10x the price of "expensive" oil ($100/bbl).

End of cheap, abundant oil is going to change a hell of a lot.
Yes, as do the rest of win32k.
Not to mention that in the industry I am in people will tell you the exact opposite about people. It makes sense, you want your worst people to work for competitors, and your best people to not.
Not to mention the classic MacOS of that era had considerable amounts of code still written in 68k assembly, so a lot of what you're seeing is actually being emulated as 68k -> PPC -> ARM.
That equates to 24g (1tsp of sugar is 4g) or around the same as in a can of Coke. That seems very low, is the sugar overuse that bad?