skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope some academics are doing a study on this, as it's an almost prefect real-world example of efficiency wages.[1] I wouldn't be surprised if they see large increases in productivity amongst downmarket employees, as they now have an extremely strong incentive to kick ass at their job (any other job they could get would pay significantly less).

That being said, I also sympathize with the workers who were making $70k. If I were making $70k and a junior developer making $30k before (all hypothetical) got a raise to $70k I would absolutely be pissed off that I am now apparently considered equally valuable to them.

Probably a better way to handle this with total buy-in from all employees would have been to give an $Xk raise, where $Xk is the amount required to bring the lowest paid employee up to $70k. This would have preserved proportional productivity values while giving everyone an awesome reward (and introducing efficiency wages). Of course, it probably also would have been much more expensive.

Tangent: a salary of $50k seems absurdly low for a web developer in Seattle. That guy should be looking for a new job immediately.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_wage
I couldn't agree more, it's completely ridiculous. The sad part is I believe they actually have a department that was/is in charge of it (NSA), but they've been completely focused on "terrorism" (the kinds where stuff blows up) and offensive work.
Can you elaborate on that with an example? I can't imagine when running MAX() or MIN() could be better than a static digit, so an example would help me understand your comment!
Well, the company does have a finite amount of money, and he wanted to get the minimum pay to the $70K that studies say make the most difference.

I hope CEOs don't use the same thought process to keep their pay at 300x their minimum wage workers when the minimum wage is raised to $15.
Indochina was the name for the eastern projection of the upper mainland Southeast Asian peninsula region under French domination - hence, "French Indochina". The name probably derives from the fact that the historic and modern cultures of the region are a mix of Chinese and Indian: a little known fact is that there were all-out Hindu kingdoms as close to modern China as central Vietnam, northern Burma, southern Laos and Cambodia. Indian influence is also heavily felt in Burma, Thailand, and upper Laos, for instance in writing systems (abugidas), language, mythology, law, religion and royal/court rituals.
Appreciate that you took the time to write an indepth explanation. Thanks!
(Does not necessarily mean I agree with everything though)
Thank you for all the work that you have done so far Michael Niedermayer
Yeah. My first car was a bug @ 16 and that book was my gateway to greasy wrenching.
The Snowden documents showed that the US had already hacked SMSCs and other major communications infrastructure right across China. The notion that China is the aggressor here is laughable.
Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan for “inflating assets”
The A-10 worked because the Soviets didn't export man portable SAMs.
I'd be happy to hear any feedback you might have on this side project. My friend and I spent about a month developing it as a tool for entrepreneurs to help refine their pitch.
A fulfillment service that can't ship internationally is pretty lame, don't you think? Of course we cover international shipping! We don't mention it because it should be a standard!
My early math education was based on these rods, as well as a stackable Lego-like plastic clone[0].

I used to think it didn't have very much impact. But in retrospect, I think it really opened my young mind to math as spatial reasoning. It wasn't long before I could visualize the answer, or at least a very close approximation, to complex algebra much more quickly than I could do actual calculations.

[0] http://www.mathusee.com/
No, it's not a display of weakness, not even close. It's purely an act of public opinion manipulation. They are trying to steer the public opinion to a certain direction.
Naïve algorithms on immutable data structurs tend to have very bad worst case performance.
I've always wondered how pro athletes in their weird economy deal with this issue. With salary caps, max contracts and scarcity there are all sorts of constraints that change from year to year, and a superstar on a max contract signed a few years ago can be making less than a merely good player who just signed a contract. (One of the rare cases where one's actually voiced displeasure: http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2015-07-14/john-wall-m... )
Yes, we can ship to those countries.

Our fulfillment centers are all over the US and coming to Canada soon! But again, they can ship internationally.
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Indeed. Dirks v. SEC touches on loophole-creation in at least one place:

"The SEC argues that, if inside-trading liability does not exist when the information is transmitted for a proper purpose but is used for trading, it would be a rare situation when the parties could not fabricate some ostensibly legitimate business justification for transmitting the information. We think the SEC is unduly concerned."

The last sentence is not immediately followed by any argument in support, so at this point I have no idea why the majority would dismiss the SEC's concern, which looks plausible to me. Perhaps they think it is not a relevant concern, but if so, why not say so? Irrelevance would seem to offer a stronger counter-argument than a disagreement over the magnitude of an effect. Perhaps they are uninterested in considering this issue because they have already decided the case on what they think are logical grounds.
Yeah, it sounds like we're asking to balance some pop psychology against a minimum amount needed for a middle class life. I would emphasize the latter, personally.
I recently played The Talos Principle, which is basically just a puzzle game. They included a little making of featurette that included a great line about how every player experiences puzzles differently.

What one person thinks of immediately, another player could spend an hour trying to solve. The makers of this game did extensive testing and some brilliant level design to allow for this variation.
How is someone who believes in private cloud, with zero remote management, observationally distinguishable from one that is OK using 100% public cloud? The answer is related to how they establish trust within their organization and themselves based on their use cases.

Some Tibetan Buddhist monks practice a type of mindfulness that consists of imagining bits and pieces of their bodies are being slowly dissolved or devoured, until nothing is left. They trust their 'souls' are actually a part of a higher consciousness that they seek to become aware of through their actions, and death. These monks definitely prohibit certain actions to attain their intent. Drugs, sexual desire, right thinking, right action, right mindfulness, etc. You can totally tell the difference from them and someone who isn't considered (at least by Buddhists) to be enlightened.
Ma penis is on fire!
How many other small bets did NewLink place on promising technologies coming out of academic labs, and how many of them panned out? Put another way, was 200k a fair market rate for the license at the time they paid it, or do you have reason to suspect corruption or malfeasance?
White-Collar Poetry Jobs Moving Overseas (2003)
> Experiment if you want, but as a guy, I would "nope" right out of there.

As would I. I found the PyCon2015 talk by Ola and Ola rather too cutesy, but I liked the djangogirls' tutorial online just fine. I can imagine there are others who find the online tutorial too dry, and would like some of the cutesy stuff to maintain attention or interest. All we can conclude is that these techniques are not for the likes of you and me.

> I don't think those sort of tricks have a net positive impact on your numbers.

These are all didactic methods. Not everyone learns something best in the same way. As far as I'm concerned, there are still some people whose learning needs are not met by current mainstream methods. Any variation that attracts more people into the field ought to have a net positive outcome.

Consider this too: books for young children have lots of pictures in them, whether they're storybooks or textbooks. I can clearly recall a time when I was 6, and the first thing I'd do with a new science textbook is look at all the pictures. Back then, I found the books for older children rather dull. I grew out of that phase, as did millions of other children. Who is to say that these cutesy addons don't perform an analogous role in the early stages of some programming newbies?
Not the bowl, inside the water passages, they get constricted, the toilets lose their flush action. Sure, you can religiously pour muriatic acid down the things, but that will etch away the non-glazed surfaces, and metal sanitary piping (but it's good for roots). I'm pretty happy about my Toto toilets but I'm not getting commission or anything. I wouldn't fight you over it. You enjoy your $79 HD specials and your extra hundred bucks. Try not to spend it all in one place.
"But in a series of classified meetings, officials have struggled to choose among options that range from......"

Apparently the meetings weren't really all _that_ classified.

Sadly, it has come to a point I don't know what to believe anymore. Whoever released the story has an agenda. Does the agenda in any way mirror factual reality? Beats me.

I'm a westerner. I support the west. My lively hood depends on it. So if they say we've always been at war with Eastasia I guess I don't know enough to say differently.

Looking around at bureaucratic politic filled government agencies and big companies I don't see real protective measure being taken any time soon. The leadership of those places has been filling up for years with ass covers and bullcrappers, and a turn around towards effectiveness isn't going to happen any time soon. So maybe send some drones or something. Oh wait... we can't do that, because those are all reserved for poor Muslims who can't really fight back at any scale. So I don't know. I guess puffing around and taking the lumps is about the only option for now.
How do your customers handle inserts in your boxes? Seems that many products need some really custom insert to keep from rattling around.
Wow, maybe I have a future in cryptography!

Anyway, why exactly isn't the hash function constant-time? I don't understand this, the hashes I've played with for hashtables are just a bunch of bit shifts. Is it only message length?
I've been scratching my head on this for quite a while as well. It seems to me that the value of the degree is going down, yet the price continues to rise.

The self-education model (and ignoring the complexities of managing that) is often written off as lacking in comparison to attending a college environment, which I completely understand, but yet institutions seem to be scaling back in ways that soon will seem to render themselves as more and more aged as self education becomes... viable? Changed, at he very least.
I would be willing to work on the server side portion of that.
This is complete speculation, but perhaps an interesting idea. What if the recent turmoil in China's stock market is a direct result of the US retaliation for this incident? Clearly, the US wouldn't admit that, but they might want the implication to exist.
Putting it in the public domain sounds great, but someone needs to conduct the human trials needed to make it safe and effective. They aren't cheap and producing a vaccine carries huge liability risks.
I guess this article was right. Hopefully, nobody here is trying to start a business. According to PG, you will fail.
Now we're getting somewhere. :)

1. EODAS looks pretty good for long-range encounters and assisting short-range. Video avoids dogfight discussion past tracking and questionable assumption that enemies are always one missile away from defeat. Guess I'll just have to wait to see how it pans out with guns.

2. That's a good situation. The DAS and HMDS are pretty badass so long as they work as advertised. You didn't mention the top Russian and Chinese planes. How does it compare to a Su-35, for instance?

3. I meant pilots hitting what they aim at with acceptable spread. Daily Beast reported it had software issues. Since it's Daily Beast... I want see testing before I'll buy their claim and there should be some for an A-10 replacement.

So, you've given me some good information to work with. Appreciate it. Your last sentence is interesting. What are the "real problems on the flight line" for F-35?
Actually, mature consensus on some graffiti is that it is art and should be treasured in the moment it exits. Banksy, for example. People are totally OK with removal for aesthetics, instead of the previously mentioned censorship.
A few years back, Bill Gates said that he'd be working in biology if he were still a teenager [0]. There's a lot of exciting work happening in the field, and if anyone finds this sort of thing particularly inspiring, I'd encourage them to read up on bioinformatics -- there's plenty of programming work to be done in the biosciences.

[0] http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/heres-to-you-biolo...
Other sources I've dug up showed the A-10's lack of thrust hurt it in Iraq and other places. They used it to mop up less-equipped front of line troops. I might need to re-evaluate it.
Enemies have their work cut out for them.
Ironic that a wealth management advisor, who essentially peddles mutual funds and pats clients on the head in exchange for 2% of their wealth is concerned about paying for talent.

My grandfather owned a bar years ago. He paid the bartenders a good wage, way more than what he was required to by law. He did it because it kept good people around and reduced pilferage.
For those catching up. I made this Mt Gox timeline: http://newslines.org/mt-gox/
I didn't like the writeup, because I can't tell how the layout works from his bad description of it. The author makes that classic mistake of technical writing in which the writing assumes the reader already knows what they are talking about.
Well... at one point the loser in the cyber war might decide real bullets can compensate for a loss in cyberspace...

I wouldn't count on China coming out on top at that point.

But more than likely it will stay just short of that and be like a fly that is just annoying enough not to walk inside for the flyswatter. Incidentally, what would China want with personal records of US government employees? Is it going to send them all spam or order stuff on Amazon using their bank accounts or something?
I probably wouldn't join a mastermind for this sort of thing. Why? There's nothing stopping anyone in the group from taking the money-making idea. It's hard enough to come up with a good idea to make money.
Yahoo! simply boggles my mind. I have no idea what they do well as a tech company anymore or why they're still around. Their homepage spams with news about Kardashians and other celebrities along with horribly written articles by Yahoo! journalists. Every once in a great while you'll read a great but rare REPOST from AP, NPR and other major news sources. Otherwise, they're squeezing every drop of any kind of mediocre news about a cat getting stuck on a tree with a 10 minute video description performed by some Yahoo! bubblehead.

They've shutdown any interesting projects like pipes, maps, search or any other area of innovation. Anything that's still around is just rotting on the outskirts of internet. When was the last time anyone heard of YUI? The Yahoo! email experience is quite terrible and buggy with frequent service outages. They're purchasing these random startups and generally show lack of any direction. It just seems like their execs get in the room together and go "What the fuck are we gonna do today, boys? Let's buy a fashion startup! Do we need it? No, but who gives a shit. Our users sure don't." And I genuinely think that most users don't. They're just stuck on Yahoo! because they don't know how to change their default homepage.

I don't know... I'm just glad they haven't killed Flickr yet and I have a place to follow some great photographers.
HN frequently discusses issues of globalization and the effect on jobs, so I thought this might be relevant.

Also the design of the site is absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for the correction, I'm not sure why I decided to upper case the R :)

To clarify what I think you meant to refer me to, the Tor client actually chooses the three nodes in the path of a circuit, doesn't use two nodes on the same subnet, nor ones the network classifies as belonging to the same "family" (although I'm having trouble determining what this means in practice).

Given that there is a hard limit of three nodes in a route, I'm still have trouble thinking of an adversary that Tor protects you against that a VPN to a jurisdiction of your choosing doesn't, and a VPN is significantly faster...
You know we are masters of marketing, right?
Lucky+the+Kitty+-+Urgent+Medical+Fund+|+Medical+Expenses+-+YouCaring
If Facebook really cares about performance so much, I wonder why they don't just implement that app engine native.
There was a recent submission about SaaS and sales compensation. It might be a too complex and talks about whole teams of sales people but it's well researched. https://bvp.app.box.com/30-QA-for-SaaS-Revenue-Leaders
Print-on-Demand Areopagitica
Alan Kay has said the same thing on a few occasions (though he did get an undergraduate degree in the subject).
Given the entire world's financial systems are smoke and mirrors to begin with, that's not a half bad assumption. If people knew were the smoke machine's plug was...
Show HN: Crocagile – Web-based agile development tool
Interesting source just above the <head>.
Don't, it's not needed, just use shell scripts.
Ready for combat? Against who?
The mix up of "r" vs "l" thing is a Japanese problem, not a Chinese one. Are you saying that if the US hacks China, the Japanese will call the US to stop? Be a little smarter and do a little more research next time when trying to be cute.
News to me. Where? Link?
> So what you are really saying is the problem is people knowing other people's salaries?

There are times when that can be part of the problem.

But it can also be part of the solution, when e.g. the problem is discrimination, lack of consideration for the not-so-squeaky wheel, etc.
Right! Hope this helps spread the love.
Also known as "stealing hundreds of millions of dollars"
Just need to add a port-hole...
How do you know how valuable you are? Or how much more valuable you are than the receptionist.

My assistant is ridiculously valuable. She's a multiplier for the team. Her presence means invoices get paid, visitor logistics are taken care of, contracts get renewed, the office is in order. I don't control her pay, but every hour she is present easily saves me a quarter hour, and probably saves my direct reports a similar amount of time.

Essentially that role for me is manufacturing an asset that I cannot buy -- time. If I could control her salary, I would double it.
To be honest my favorite part of SmartStack is that you are not tied to a single discovery backend or mechanism. Both Synapse and Nerve support custom backends using whatever system you want (zookeeper, etcd, DNS, etc). At the end of the day both just expose basic configuration files and we exploit that at Yelp to do pretty cool stuff like allowing multiple systems to inform nerve/synapse about services (e.g. marathon or puppet) and allowing us to control service latency using a DSL that compiles down to those configuration files.

Just to clear something up, we have not found it necessary to run zookeeper at a cross datacenter level to get multidatacenter support. We're still working on writing up the details but the general gist is run zk in all datacenters and then cross register from a single nerve instance to multiple datacenters. That's why we had to remove fast fail from nerve, because by its nature cross datacenter communication is flakey. This approach has some tradeoffs however, as all approaches do.

All that being said, this is an interesting system and I look forward to more mindshare in the area of service discovery!
You assumed I'd do it instantly. That's a bad assumption and you came up with the reasons yourself. It would take time.
If you think of them as a global media company then Yahoo! is much easier to understand.
There are plenty of full term babies that need "massive medical intervention". Are they viable?
You're right, my apologies. I saw (c) 2011 Nintendo in the footer, and thought it was by them. Upon closer reading I see that SmileBoom Co. Ltd were just acknowledging use of Nintendo trademarks!

Can someone edit the title to be "SmileBASIC for Nintendo 3DS"?
No it hasn't been forgotten. I think you've confused the purpose of the message.

This is meant as a last warning for China, and everyone else, that the US is going to begin aggressively attacking in response, instead of mostly just taking it. I don't think anybody is going to like what's going to come of it. Picture the US military, with its $600 billion budget, treating all global digital infrastructure as its new battlefield.
Thank you. I will give it a read.
You just admitted what the article claimed but with a different reason. We've spent X dollars for Y years for a plane with a partly usable gun? That fact is enough reason not to like the plane for situations involving guns or the program that led to that situation. That's before my arguments or personal preferences enter the situation.
You asked how I was harmed in general. My "homophobia" (the Greek roots make no sense) justifies nothing in what you think was the just-desserts outcome at Mozilla, even if your school-child Marxoid morality tale version of that event were accurate (and it's not).

Beyond that, your cropped reply chopped everything I wrote about bakers, florists, printers, schools, parents. Respond to that, if you can.
In Delta’s Frequent-Flier Magic Trick, Not Just Rabbits Disappear
Not necessarily every dereference, but only those in which the value could be something other than a pointer.
Japan police arrest Mt. Gox CEO over loss of Bitcoins: media
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9975912
Thank you for pointing that out; I would never have seen it.
Great question! Can I suggest an edit? You could ask if they help SmB or enterprise.
But you are ok with the "Freedom" to die on needless waiting lists, while willing donors would be available if payment was possible?
Fair point, i think any mastermind requires a certain level of trust. if you can't trust you fellow masterminder to freely discuss your ideas, then yes there is little point in joining
More succinctly: SQLite version whatever is specified only by its C source code, and C is woefully underspecified. Lots of Undefind Behavior on top of the memory-unsafe codebase itself. This is not a specification from which two independently implemented interoperable implementations could be written. Ergo, not a standard.
I didn't know you could use iTunes match from iOS devices but if Siri can be integrated with Shazam which has acoustic fingerprinting, then I would think they could do the same with iTunes Match on iOS devices.
Nice! I'll need to pick up a new machine soon. Might give this a go to compare with my existing 4.3Ghz machine.
Always open to suggestions, thanks.
Well, you seemed so...cavalier about it.
OK, so if I understand this correctly, a binary format where you can seek to arbitrary positions to read only the data you need to currently display is a huge performance win versus a big blob of text you have to read and fully parse. As someone who has had to uninstall FaceBook from my Android phone due to its poor performance, excuse me if I'm bewildered that they didn't realize this years ago (FlatBuffers isn't the first binary serialization format) and write it that way in the first place!