jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Salary information for state employees can be found in many databases. I was surprised at how much professors at public universities make. For instance, at the University of Minnesota, one prof in the education department made $430,000. Almost every professor in the medical school made more than $400K. Economics professors made $350,000/yr and even some lowly liberal arts professors made more than $300K.

Part time instructors don't do that bad either. At the engineering school, $60-$70K to teach two classes, use of all campus facilities (library, rec center, etc), full health benefits, only work from August 15 until mid-May. And you don't even need a PhD.

Sadly, the site I used makes it hard to directly link to a specific query, but the tool I used is here: http://extra.twincities.com/car/salaries/

To me, this does not seem to me like poor academics suffering to do what they love. In fact, factoring in pensions, relaxed working hours and benefits it seems like much better overall compensation packages than almost any private sector job. Especially in Minnesota. Outside of certain physician jobs, nobody there really makes those sorts of salaries.
Computer science does not equal programming. Yes, programming is a part of computer science but you learn a heck of a lot more from a computer science degree. You learn about algorithms, computational complexity, lots of math, logic and a lot more. You learn how to use a computer to solve hard problems and how to identify patterns in problems that others have already solved. A lot of it is theoretical; you won't be taught how to build a web site.

If you wan't to learn how to program just enough to validate your idea, then perhaps taking a computer science degree might be a little overkill. Read some tutorials and just start programming easy stuff and work your way up.
I agree with this sentiment, but have some reservations about government ability to maintain neutrality. As things are, government doesn't understand how the technology works, and are ill equipped to regulate something they know so little about.
Syncubator Chicago http://www.syncubator.com
Just yesterday I wrote a Chrome extension with the same idea. Algorithm is:

password = base64(pbkdf2(secret, username@url))

Where PBKDF2 uses SHA-256 and 5000 iterations.

You can get it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hegbhhpocfhlnjmemk...

Website version: http://sellme.ru/p2

Source: https://github.com/dchest/cryptopass/
I really enjoy the reading here. Have never given in to the 'listen don't read' experience but for some reason I was compelled to click Play today. Kudos to having a very entertaining voice (both written and spoken)!
I was a beta tester of Smarthost (smarthost.me) and it helped me rent out my house for SXSW for the first time. Well worth the money!
> Yet, 46 out of 50 states have accepted the Common Core, which seems to me to be a tremendous success.

I believe receiving Race to the Top money was tied to adopting Common Core, which contributed to the adoption rate. I think a state could in theory have adopted a different standard but Common Core granted them the most money and was the most easily accessible.
65% is 'most' of us
I read Permutation City in High School. It's my favorite book and arguably the best science fiction book about computer science. Greg Egan's books really go deep in a way that I enjoyed a lot. I really crave to read more books like that. Would you have other recommendations ?
This reminded me of a weird little web-comic-ish thing about a guy who taught his cat to text: http://louisvsrick.com/
I think the actionable is get more people to read about the issues and the specifics of the issues.

I'd rather have an author take the actionable instead of giving me one.

Yay author!
Wow what a crowded space. This reminds me of the daily deals site era, but at least then there was some room to compete because there wasn't a $40 billion behemoth waiting to crush them. I suspect that at whatever point Uber Logistics (or whatever they choose to call this inevitable extension of their service) takes flight, DoorDash and its $40 million will quickly vanish. This definitely isn't a space I would be doing a startup or investing in at this point.
The git that everyone would use is to the actual git what the app store is to apt-get. ;-)
I was just having the problem but it magically went away.

Using http://hackerne.ws/news worked for me.
Another vote or Pro Git - great book. And the last chapter where the author steps you through manually inserting objects into the git database is revelatory.
Every single child is completely different, and has a different learning capacity and developmental time line.

True, but most groups of 30-40 children are roughly the same. There will be a few smarties, a few morons, and a multitude of people in the middle. It's called the law of large numbers.
The advice seems pretty similar to any other sort of writing that is done for other people.

Here is a blog full of advice on how to write admissions essays: http://blog.gurufi.com/ which follows many of the same themes.
When clicking the back button in Safari, Monster popped up an alert attempting to make me stay and subscribe. That's just not very nice.
And yet, what is GG known for? They are being openly misogynistic, attacking anyone who dares speaking against them in a pretty serious way.

Okay, so first off, "attacking" does not imply misogyny. Attacking a woman for any reason that's not directly related to her gender is not misogyny. Period point blank.

Secondly, "What GG is known for" is the perception, the thing I take issue with, "What GG actually does" is something else.

I find it somewhat telling that you (not sure if you did this on purpose or not) characterize the community's response to being called misogynists as "attacking", and you characterize the people throwing the accusations as "speaking against". I'm not sure that any reasonable person would respond with anything but derision at being pre-emptively labeled in this way. Are people not allowed to defend themselves?

What I'm looking for here are facts. It appears, and please correct me with something I can actually verify on my own if I'm wrong here, that basically three people are saying "i'm being attacked because X", without actually backing up that accusation.

The cycle appears to be:

* Person writes incisive article or otherwise does something skeevy (GJP email list)

* Community goes "WTF?"

* Person characterizes this response as harassment.

I see no evidence, none, other than the words of the people concerned (which for obvious reasons, is insufficient evidence), that GG is mass harassing them. THIS IS THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE FOR ME. Every time I try to follow the evidence trail, it ends at, in effect "I say I'm being harassed, so I am", with a side order of "The extremists in a group define a group".

I do not accept either of those explanations as true or logical.

And as a follow up, even if we acknowledge the existence of that mass harassment, what effort does the rest of the GG community, the people that are actually part of the revolt for the purposes of journalistic impropriety, need to do that they have not already done?

Loudly state they don't support harassment? Already done. [1].

Form a group to ensure harassers are removed from their ranks? Already done. [2]

Try to assemble a code of conduct for people to follow? Already done. [3].

What else needs to happen?

The problem with your standard is that you allow any group to be trivially discredited by the existence of a minority of troublemakers, either real or invented by the discreditors. The same kind of thing happened to Occupy Wall Street, the difference here is that this is the internet, and we should be able to logically separate troublemakers from non troublemakers.

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[1]: https://jennofhardwire.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/gamers-discu...

[2]: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23gamergate%20harassment%20pat...

[3]: https://docs.google.com/a/tkware.info/document/d/1WjidVijE_f...
Can you show me the peer reviewed studies that you think Fauci etc showed have used to recommend mask wearing in the general population?

We had lots of studies around mask wearing, and most of them really struggled to show any kind of benefit.
Haha. Thanks I needed that Monday morning laugh.
So basically that makes all bursts on Earth in recorded history small, other than volcanoes. Which puts these methane bursts in the same 'small' category as underground nuclear tests.
w.r.t investing: If you're on a good income you are actually incentivized to do so in some countries. In the UK every pound you earn between $140K and $170K USD is effectively taxed at 65%. Investing via contributions in to a pension is tax free. 100% gross salary. Even if the market goes nowhere for 30 years that's 3.5% annualized return.

You pay tax when you take your pension of course, but by that point its on your terms.
One important detail: "digit" when talking about sdigit & ob_digit are not base-10 digits, but base 10000 for 32-bit CPython and base 1000000000 for 64-bit CPython!

That means PY_SIZE(-15) is -1, not -2! And the maximum representable integer in Python should be closer to 10000 * (sys.maxsize / 2) for 32-bit and 1000000000 * (sys.maxsize / 4) for 64-bit.
in before "but this is freedom to make rational decisions!"

rational decisions require concentration and that isn't free. at some point the cost of making these decisions outweighs any potential benefits. don't forget your externalities, folks.
#pragma omp parallel for
>The JAR is still there, though, in the package. Although I'm not sure why you'd think that a long-abandoned piece of software is more likely to run an a much later runtime than on its own embedded one.

Easy, because I don't want to run the application under wine.
I agree. Applications that rely on the ordering of columns are as bad as people who complain when I add a new column into, or change the ordering of a CSV which has column headers. There is no technical reason to do this; computers are ample fast enough to look up columns by name!
This looks awesome. I've never used it, nor much JS, but now I'm going to write something in it or about it. Cheers
http://operawatir.com/ appears to be down.
Why? A database is just an optimized flat file with a query engine.
Architecture is why we refactor

I sincerely disagree with this point of view. To me, 'architecture' consist of exactly all those aspects of an application that you can not change by a mere refactoring. There are parts of an application's design that are much harder to change, after the fact, than others.

If you've built your Japanese pagoda from wood and rice-paper and you decide afterwards you're really going to need a concrete foundation and some central steel columns to tie your pagoda to it, you're basically going to have to rebuild it.
This looks very interesting.

If you're interested in testing on browsers with their heads intact, have a look at the Watir project, for which Opera has just released an implementation to complete the set: http://operawatir.com

Disclaimer: I work for Opera.
When I reading the story, that part was just screaming at me. In my limited knowledge of the law, the guy got incredibly lucky in having illegally gain evidence accepted in a court of law (from a defendant).

It's mind blowing to think about being in a situation where the only way to get justice is to break the law. It sounds good in action movie but in real life, it's appalling...
> 1. Erlang has a funky syntax; deal with it. If you can't or won't learn the language b/c of the syntax that is your loss. I'm sorry, but I can't really find this a valid argument as it basically sounds like "Erlang syntax scares me. Me no likey".

And this is invalid, how?

A well designed syntax is a must for a good language.

If Erlang has a "funky syntax" (your words), then that is a real disadvantage that should raise concern. Syntax affects code readability, maintenance, etc.
Description is so vague. Pledge for wat?
Then by pledging I'm also agreeing to a ToS?

No thanks
Had a Mazda 3 with this, although before Android Auto sadly. That input method is by far the best possible; everything is laid out so nicely in terms of using muscle memory, and the rotary knob interface just does the job.

Their approach is far better than the all glass, cost saving Tesla one.
What I see happening in real life is..

Hacker has access to Foo that's how they got your creds. If they want more access they will use the admin account to gather all info Foo knows.

Hacker picks a global service. Paypal, gmail, appleid, godaddy and tries all usernames/passwords.

When they hit 2fa they attempt a code. 99% of times it fails. You get a warning/change the password and get scared.

User receives an email saying that you have been hacked. They have proof you did something illegal or something illegal has been planted. Send bitcoin here or this video will be sent to all of your friends/work/family.

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2fa usually locks you when you need it the most (no battery/texts not going through/paid bill latertexting is turned off can cause this)
Synonyms.vim is a frontend plugin that allows you to show synonyms in a vim split, it is meant to shorten the cycle of going to your browser look for a word and comeback to vim.
Plus the backend that search for synonyms is customizable, in the UNIX philosophy way.
Hey, message board geek? (And, I'm calling you that because it takes one to know one.)

We know there are things that have little to no luck involved in them, and things that have a lot of luck in them. Yes: there is more "skill" (let's not have the message board geek argument about what that word means) in chess.

Exactly what is the point you're trying to make?
Yeah, a better Soros analogy would be that he's good at speculation. He's not running off to build websites or start car companies.
There are people who go to top schools, study an easy major and solely because of who they know, come out of school making 150-200K a year, proofing fashion magazines. NY is filled with girls like that, I know a few of them.

Though for the rest of us, with non anglo last names who didnt go to a top 25 school, its much harder.

This girl was just chasing that.
It is much more so than chess.
Good advice here from philip.

To put it another way, these "accounting" packages are more about book-keeping and report generating - all useful, but no substitute for the advice from a human accountant who can advise about tax-efficient structures for your particular circumstances.
Perhaps! But at least it's something we can attempt to discuss. As opposed to whether or not "luck" is a component in something, which is just a message-board dork argument.
Wouldn't that would mean an accumulation of grand masters that would then by an large win all tournaments in the long run. Is that in fact what is happening?

Gus isn't winning every tournament. That might be due to the fact of other better players entering the game. But if your theory is correct wouldn't it mean that the more you play the better you become?

It would seem to me that a game where so much information is hidden from you and that information was randomly distributed luck is a bigger part than skill.
You forgot:

Hunter shot your fiber relay with a hunting rifle - 6 shots
Funny thing is, once people started blanketing with roundup, it didn't take long for roundup-resistant weeds to develop.

> Growing reliance on the broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate has triggered the spread of tolerant and resistant weeds in the U.S. and globally [5–10]. To combat weeds less sensitive to glyphosate, farmers typically increase glyphosate application rates and spray more often [11–13]. In addition, next-generation herbicide-tolerant crops are, or will soon be on the market genetically engineered to withstand the application of additional herbicides (up to over a dozen), including herbicides posing greater ecological, crop damage, and human health risks (e.g., 2,4-D and dicamba) [6].
Heh just wait for the Urban Warfare edition that adds mace dispensers above the windows...
>My ISP does this: our wireless router came with a randomly generated password.

yeah, about that https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15...

"With no exceptions, all WPA2 default key generating
algorithms that were recovered during our experiments
use either the router’s MAC address or serial number, or
both, as input."
You could just click the "Play On-line" button from link #2 and arrive at http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2Fi...
> 3G HSPA (~1.5Mbit/s): 8 seconds

1.5Mbit/sec is the theoretical maximum output of HSPA. That means people will perceive much less then that. And 3G is something which is still used by people. My mobile phone falls back to 3G whenever there is no better broadcasting signal. Many websites become unusable with slow mobile uplink. That's a terrible state for the web.
> You can reasonably easy cut out parts and weld in new sheets.

That's only going to add to its dystopic future flair.
Japan is way more compact than the average US city, though I do love a place that's really walkable like Montreal or Boston
Well that's a handy list of vehicles that won't be on my list when I'm shopping for my next car.
Personally I find that one easier to read and tend to write e.g.:

WHERE foo
AND bar

Or with long, complex ones:

WHERE
foo
AND
bar
Right, so not a DF, which is what we're talking about here.
The fact that this shit is just 20 years old is precisely what shocks me, at times.
i notice that their $1 billion dollar valuation is based entirely on things in the game sector.

and $100 million dollar valuation for an iPad app seems crazy...ditto for the $100 million valuation for the sibblingz...I dunno their numbers, but their alexa rank is close to 2 million, which is like 5 visits a day.

same for the crowdstar and openfeint...sure those are successful, but not $400 million valuation successful.

this article sounds like a puff piece to get people interested in youweb.
Yeah ok, it's sort of interesting as a curiosity. But it's going to be terribly inefficient if used, and doesn't really have any practical application.

I've always been more of a practical "why not just use a loop" kinda guy, so it's probably wasted on me.
Indeed, the fact that I've been using it since late '92 shocks me even more!
Even for simple arrows, I'd go with the multitude of unicode arrows.

This has the added benefit of screen reader support.

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edit: I'm not sure why I can't reply to you below, but here are some of the unicode arrows:

http://img.skitch.com/20101119-n8558618t59wn8gdw5n6buax3d.me...

It's easy enough to get screen readers to ignore it, if it is truly presentational.
Ironic too is the fact that the book was banned at "Nathan Hale High School." Leave it to literary fools to name a high school for a man who, while depicted as a hero, was uncovered as a spy after confiding that very fact in the people on which he was spying. Nathan Hale was a fool, and so are this school's administrators.
why would you write SQL with JavaScript? don't think that JavaScript yet at a point it can run heavy GUI element, handle AJAX, maybe Video or 3D and Query a database. JavaScript likes JSON very much, so all you need is just export your data with a language like PHP in JSON format, and handle it with JavaScript.
Do you mind elaborating on what 'functional' libraries exist in python? I've practiced a bit using the whole map-reduce paradigm in different ways in python, but I'm not really sure what you mean beyond that.
All of that stuff can still run as 1st party js on your site, then use your own server to proxy it all back to GA if you want to.
Really vibe with this
Still sounds like a JavaScript blocker, that doesn't clarify anything for me. I've never even looked at it as I've somehow associated it with "block all Javascript", seems like I missed out.
Firefox on iOS has more in common with safari than it has with firefox on Win/Linux/OSX. I didn't say it wasn't open source, but regardless of that it still cannot run any other engine than apple mandates.
Uncanny valley 2.0:

1. Take the output of thispersondoesnotexist.com

2. Animate the image of the "person" using this tool

3. Profit?
> These days Maya and Max are the same price as Photoshop - $250/y vs $20/mo. Incidentally Houdini is also about the same, $279/y.

As I recall, pricing of 3D modeling/animation/rendering suites was much steeper when Blender started gathering momentum.

[Checks pricing]

Umm, it looks like the price is still quite high (Maya and Max are each $1.6k/y). Where are you getting that figure from?
Shhh he's paying for our experience
You have everything you need for playing around available at home:

Want multiple endpoints? VMs.

Want some routing rules? Put VMs on one bridge.

Firewalls? Iptables or whatever is the thing windows uses.

General looking at the traffic to understand what's happening? Wireshark.
I've just tried not to be dogmatic about it... You can use a functional style without relying on immutable types or tail call optimization.

I think it comes down more to a personal style... we tend to conflate programming to engineering, which it rarely is. More often it is a craft discipline. It's more style, taste and personal preference.

That said, when you have to grow something past a few million users a day, or start to hit C10K/C10M barriers. Even then, there are ways to do that... to break up the load.
I have only been to HK and Macau but never to the China mainland. Pardon my ignorance, but why does the Chinese government bother to censor the Internet? Are the people in China not happy with the progress that has occurred over the past few decades? Is the government really that concerned with their populace discussing politics or sensitive issues openly? Do Chinese provinces consider themselves to be separate and distinct or is it more like US states where the differences are superficial and the division is unimportant?

It seems to me the US doesn't have much leverage regarding this particular issue. We would be best served working harder towards more affordable and flexible manufacturing automation so we can be more self-reliant.
I'm quite surprised that Nim's strings are null-terminated, and have a length field. According to a forum article[1], it is mainly due to the C interoperability.

I understand that FFI is kinda important for system languages, but isn't it giving up too much to disallow null characters in the middle of a string? Null-terminated strings generally work well, but there have been some corner cases that made me annoyed. (Such as PHP's preg_* functions)

[1] http://forum.nimrod-lang.org/t/125
can you say more about the details of your setup? I have pretty serious RSI and I've tried all sorts of input devices, but have never found a good keyboard setup.
It's down for me...
IMAX is 1.43:1 which is closer to the the original iPhone ratio of 3:2 or 1.5:1. I liked that ratio and thought it would be great for home cinema or a developer station.
You could be totally correct. I would like to know though.

I think you think it lower than me and I think it higher than you. Ha. Just good that he is gone.
If @realDonaldTrump said all the same things through, let's say, White House press releases, but through Twitter it was relatively "clean" do you think Twitter would've banned it regardless?
I mean, precisely because it's a private company, so they can set their own rules, guidelines and procedures?

Twitter have clear terms of service, and Trump broke them multiple times on a daily basis for the past few months at least - if he hadn't have been POTUS, his account would have been terminated long ago.
The linked blog post actually did the opposite of what you're doing and put these tweets in context. He didn't just say these words unconnected to anything, man.

Gotta love people -- on a news site made for people who tinker with computers -- thinking in binary and not having nuance.
It's a very clever pro-Turkish post expertly crafted to expose all the latent anti-Turkish hatred on HN.

Or perhaps, I forgot to put an '/s' at the end of my original comment, you tell me xD