jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
$30k is the 1st tercile. $62k is the 2nd tercile.

They are also the 2nd and 4th sextiles, on either side of the median, which is the 3rd sextile, and approximately the same as the 33rd and 66th percentiles, or the 333rd and 666th permille.

Income is not a normal distribution, so the two numbers don't tell much of a story by themselves. Usually, the statistics are shown as quintiles, plus median, 95th percentile, and maybe also 99th percentile and 999th permille, depending on whether the statistics presenter wants the audience to gasp or not.
Didn't Zecco already prove this wasn't a sustainable business model?
Is pushing directly to master still not disabled to this day?
Strongly suggest that you read What is Life by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.

In it the authors discuss the evolution of the eukaryotic cell: a multi-part cell that evolved due to penetration or symbiosis of multiple organisms. Pretty much all complex life evolved out of eukaryotic cells. In particular the mitochondria that power your cells did not evolve from the same stuff that the rest of your cells did -- they were an addition later on.

Likewise, most of the genetic diff between us and Chimpanzees (or for that matter, blue green algae) are from external sources -- viruses and 'parasites'.

For that matter, 90% of the cells in your body are not genetically yours -- they are other microbes (though these account for only 10% of your body mass). If you are purged of these cells, you die. This lack of microbial transfer was one of the reasons suggested for why infant mortality was so high in the years when babies were isolated from their mothers and other human contact upon birth.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Life-Lynn-Margulis/dp/0520220218
What is the issue?

Set the app store to require a password for any purchase.

My kids or I have never racked up any huge bill.
I have read several different takes on "Worse Is Better" on the Web, as well as Gabriel's book, Patterns of Software, and generally think it is a good way of developing useful software. It is too bad though that he didn't give it another name; the bad part about the phrase is how lazy or careless programmers use it to excuse their laziness and carelessness.
In case you wonder what the fuzz is about: the page has been changed in the meantime.

This is how it looked: http://i.min.us/idDeBk.png

Meta: I'm reposting the link originally posted by recoil [1] because I just spent 5 minutes skimming the comments.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018992
The idea is good, is the tagline 'social bookmarking for introverts' really motivating? It seems that at least in the 18-25 age range the word introvert has a stigma...
This is an interesting definition of 'free', since you have to pay for it.
About the visitors on launch day ... It really depends on your community niche. When you have absolutely run out of ideas, hire people on MechanicalTurk to post on your site. Be warned though that most of the posts will be rubbish, and of the "Hi, I'm new here" variety.
This is quite nice, but the real killer version would be when the user has "virtual light" glasses (cf William Gibson, or - more physically - Prof. Steve Mann's "EyeTap" wearable computing ideas).

Then the colour-blind user would receive the benefit as long as they were wearing glasses (contrasted to looking through a phone when they needed to check a colour).
The one good thing to take out of this is that Facebook made a measured decision, and ran with the best technology.

So easily (as many companies do) they could have taken a 'not invented here' decision and run with Cassandra.
Didn't the parent say exactly that?
> Has anyone ever paid the individual price for an article?

For various business interests I have paid full price to read scientific studies quite a few times. And I felt foolish about it later once I learned about Sci-Hub. I'm sure there are many other entrepreneurs that could admit the same. Sci-hub is great and a very important service.
>But humanity will not get rid of this last anthropogenic perspective on the world that soon or that easily.

If humanity doesn't have free will (since the thing doesn't exist as you say), it's not up to humanity to "get rid of this last anthropogenic perspective".

And yet, you attribute an agency to this humanity, and even seem to condemn it about not doing what you think it should do.

That's a self-defeating argument if I ever saw one...

Actually, if there's no free will then "psychology, sociology and all studies of human behaviour" are also bogus: they just come to predistined conclusions, not to some truth arrived at by actual free study. They could not but arrive at whatever they arrived at, true of false.

Heck, this stands for physics and chemistry too, and all their empirical verifications. It's not like someone making an experiment actual has the free will to say anything other than what they were predetermined (by a causual chain of events going back to Big Bang) to say. Truth and accuracy is thus irrelevant, their proclamations and what we believe about them "is what it is".

Now, to step aside this "free will exists/doesn't exist" thing for a moment, we know so little about the universe, constrained by our IQs, energy available for experiments, etc. (just 400 years ago we didn't even know about crude Newtonian gravity equations - much less how it works -, suddenly we think we've mastered most there is), that it's laughable to claim with any certainty whether free will exists or not in general.
There was a very brief moment when the desktop and start menu was visible and clickable with a finger.
I'm not at the level of a FB Senior SWE, but how does one do anywhere from 1-5 chapters of CLRS each day? Doing a single chapter of CLRS would take me multiple days.

Is it that I'm just that far off from the level of a senior SWE? Can most of the experienced, talented programmers here cover multiple chapter problem sets of CLRS in a day?
This article is complementary. I particularly liked how it describes some other interesting rail trails around the world.
From sysctl -a on my M1:

hw.cachelinesize: 128
hw.l1icachesize: 131072
hw.l1dcachesize: 65536
hw.l2cachesize: 4194304

EDIT: also, when run under Rosetta hw.cachelinesize is halved:

hw.cachelinesize: 64
hw.l1icachesize: 131072
hw.l1dcachesize: 65536
hw.l2cachesize: 4194304
To expand on the why:
They are the theoretical foundation for imperative/procedural programming. Things like assembly or C would not exist without Turing machines.

The only other influential, foundational turing-complete language is Church's lambda calculus, which is much nicer to reason about and led to the development of functional programming.

In fact, comparing Turing machines and Lambda calculus gives you an approximation of how much easier functional programs are to write (provably) correctly than more conventional ones.
From the creator of TDD on why TDD doesn’t work in many highly innovative environments https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/08/28/facebook-eng...
There are plenty of nice to haves in terms of breakthroughs. However if all that improves is the cost, that completely kills ICE cars in the next 10-20 years because the current batteries are more than good enough in terms of range, durability, safety, charging speed, temperature management, etc. Even the price is not that bad actually. Can things be improved? Sure, massively probably. And that's actually continuing to happen for the foreseeable future.

But even if that weren't the case, the current market pretty much proves that for a lot of drivers we've hit the "good enough" point.

IMHO the main issue is driving cost down further since EVs are still on the expensive side and somewhat scarce. The fact that with total cost of ownership it actually does make sense for a lot of people doesn't matter; we need cheaper batteries. Funnily enough, there are hardly any unsold units in this market. Even at the currently high price, most manufacturers struggle to meet demand and are selling everything they manage to produce. So it will take a while for cheaper vehicles to get interesting enough to produce in volume (margins per kwh are higher on the more expensive ones).

Just scaling up production is going to address prices in the next few years. IMHO VW and Tesla are going to be working hard to undercut each other with the entry level price in the next few years. They are both heavily investing in being able to scale production and I expect that they will be getting results from that. Both are aiming for mass production. A few other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think in terms of volume those two will be competing for the #1 and #2 position for the next few years.
Because USB standards progress so rapidly and standard AC sockets don't. There's also the durability issue. A standard AC socket is easy to wire/replace, a USB socket isn't.
There is an idea to assign a positive hourly rate for good time spent and a negative hourly rate to other activities in the internet.
The app would track that time spend and show balance to gamify productivity rise.

This is the current idea of how to approach the challenges you have mentioned.
This happened to me and I keep getting the guy's notifications on instagram and all. So annoying!
That's interesting. Thank you for sharing that!
> on-call isn’t compensated with the rationale that it’s part of your engineering duties

This is twofold; namely your team and management should be aware that you aren't available for normal work capacity when you're on call.

> theoretically, you should not be exercising or driving if you’re on

This is not possibly sustainable; Your company needs to have someone else available, a backup in case one person misses an alert, someones for at least the other 2 shifts, and someone that can cover while driving, eating, exercising, or using facilities.

Your company is just lying to itself if it believes it has any coverage.

> In a gambit to prioritize uptime over engineer time, we have more alarms, tighter tolerances, and a larger operation that generates more tail problems. Good for users, but not so good for us.

This sounds like the crux of the problem. Your company has prioritized rapid fixes over sustainable engineering. The bandaid may be repeatable, but that doesn't make it sustainable with growth. The most simple solution, is that for every amount of time spent on call 2x as much time should be spent in resolving any tech debt that leads to such a situation.

> IMO compensation or extra time off would be ideal

I think that you should negotiate this based solely on the fact that you can no longer sleep. Aka, you should take off days for every night you work
Zoning is also an issue.
GUID v6 is pretty nice when you need monotonously increasing numbers that are globally unique.

On another note, I worked somewhere that prefixed GUIDs with the environment the app was running on. All of production, staging, even dev machines all used the same connection string.

There was even a stored procedure to copy user accounts, etc of prod for your machine. It was hands-down the best debugging experience when a customer had an issue.
I suggest you read the comments in the linked thread. Why do I have to repeat those who can explain better than me? It's pretty clear that the current state:

1) cannot be called "fully unlocked",

2) more locked than what people used to have, even on Apple devices.

It might be fine for you, but it certainly is potentially bad for privacy and freedom. Look up keyword "tor" in the thread if genuinely want to understand and not trolling.
> One of the statements in the CRUSH paper introduction is flat-out false. Specifically, it says that "RUSH [a predecessor] remains the only existing set of algorithms in the literature that utilizes a mapping function in place of explicit metadata" etc.

Looking at the rest of the sentence: " ... that utilizes a mapping function in place of explicit metadata and supports the efficient addition and removal of weighted devices.", I feel like calling the statement is "flat-out false" is incorrect.
I think the story touches on a really critical issue, how are companies going to take responsibility of having access to so much of our data?
"You're Fired" can be the beginning of a beautiful career.
Finally!!! I have very big hopes for what this means in terms of propelling man off into space.
First, I love my Eris. Love it, love it, love it. Would sleep with it under the pillow, if I weren't so worried about its well-being.

Second, in my experience, people react to it with a "So you're a DIY-er, huh?" That is, people are aware, however vaguely, of the opensource/hacker vibe that the brand carries. I'm not sure if that's what you meant by "what it says as a lifestyle accesory," but I think it is.

(Btw, you had your +1 at "Jay-Z mentions...")
I don't understand why mobile devices have so little "RAM" when they have fixed storage in the tens of Gos that is effectively made of memory chips...?

What is the difference between the two kinds of memory, and why isn't more RAM added? Is it a cost problem? a size problem? both? Or is the CPU not capable of addressing more RAM...?
This is exciting, hopefully space programs continue to go in the private direction.
Indeed. I was surprised by this statement in the article: "Contrast this with the most prominent competing desktop platform, the Microsoft .NET framework and C# language on Windows, where memory-managed code is the default and everything else is considered risky, literally being denoted with the "unsafe" keyword in the source code."

I've been doing development with .NET/C# for the first time for the last six months and I was surprised to see that the default mode for development is unmanaged. Do any big apps actually use managed mode?
I don't know if they're any that have been open-source but I've made a few with ease. Cordova has a nice plugin repository so you can use pretty much the entire device with nothing but JavaScript calls via ClojureScript => http://plugins.cordova.io
>> People choose careers for social reasons as well as for money. Adding a significant fraction of third world immigrants to a career lowers that career's prestige, meaning that talented natives who might have joined the field are less likely to, since they have options.

First of all, as someone born in what you term a "third world" country, I do find your argument morally outrageous, but apparently I'm not allowed to argue morality.

But let's see: "Foreign-born entrepreneurs helped start one-fourth of all new U.S. engineering and technology business established between 1995 and 2005, including Google and eBay. In high-tech Silicon Valley, California, more than one-half of business start-ups over that period involved a foreign-born scientist or engineer; one-fourth included an Indian or Chinese immigrant" [1]. Is being a founder of a multi-billion or multi-million dollar company no longer considered prestigious?

What is prestigious? Being a doctor? "Of the roughly 853,000 health care professionals employed as physicians and surgeons in 2010, more than one-quarter (27 percent) were foreign born. ... Persons born in India, the Philippines, and China accounted for 34 percent of employed foreign-born physicians and surgeons." [2]

[1] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2011/usforeignborns...

[2]
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/foreign-born-health-c...
Jeff Goldman will do free consults for startups. He reps all TechStars Boston companies with immigration concerns. He comes highly recommended.

http://jeffgoldmanimmigration.com/
This is the first App that makes me want an iPad. The Wii version was amazing.
Yahoo email that gets checked about once a month, Flickr but sure I could move to picassa its only because of the convenience of iPhoto + flickr

Delicious is the only service I used at least every other day
Your girlfriend would only be treated `that way` when she's the type 3 lawyer in the article.
The article is wrong.

This was covered in the NY Times. The articles were published on the same day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/us/16prison.html

Edit-- Actually, this was covered in the NYT 4 days ago, and the article was submitted to Hacker News and ignored:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996994

Plus, the issue of it being "ignored by US media" is not covered by the article in anything resembling an intellectual way, and merely serves as a sensational hook to get people reading a story already covered by other sources.

http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/12/georgia-prisoner-stri...

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=georgia_prison_strike_in...
SF is a writing style, not a set of technologies. Hence why Neal Stephenon's Baroque Cycle is SF despite including no SFnal technologies (except maybe an allusion to just one), and why The Time Traveller's Wife is mainstream, despite being about time travel, the most outlandishly SFnal concept there ever was.
Not as long as Cory Doctorow is around.
Love the domain name, site looks good too. Pricing seems rather high but I guess developers are not the target audience. I tried uploading a video and it seemed to get stuck 1/4 of the way though 100mb. Thats probably my net connection, not your service though.
yes, I can mount my Windows partition on Ubuntu, but I'm not sure Dropbox folder on Ubuntu can be moved to overlay exactly Windows Dropbox ...

Something to think about it for next version of Dropbox.
What’s odd is calling it capitalism when its the same as the communism: you see something you want and you take it.
It can't trust that all the metadata is correct, otherwise security issues can happen. And if you need to do that, why not just gather / regenerate the same information at compile time.

Also, what do you do about code loading? e.g. scripts loaded from other files at runtime, or eval? Does it throw an error if a third-party script uses a function incorrectly? Or do we assume that metadata is local-use only?

There are a lot of things in JavaScript and also the "browser environment" (e.g. ads, third-party scripts) that can limit the utility of traditional compiler techniques.
Let's look at some actual science.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/DRI/DRI_Vitamin_A/394-419_150.p...

The Manganease recommendation is based on observed western diets not actual need. From existing studies it looks like there is a fairly wide tolerable range for Manganease with some people needing quite a bit to maintain Manganease levels. Anyway, 5x ensure is well within the 'Tolerable Upper Limit' and thus Not an issue.
That could go the other way too - if they don't hire people based on their GPA they might be weeding out bad developers even if they did well in school.
It gets worse when someone tries to use Typescript AND JSX in the same project. A total hell since both languages are incompatible.
I wonder why the author didn't just read() in bytes from STDIN_FILENO? No need to use stuff like fget*.
curious: how old are you? location? friend's locations?

i'm 33, sf now oregon raised, and i'd say in general i see less fb usage by my friends, but those that still do use it, it's almost all positive, brag-ish sharing.

people i know with kids, especially, it seems almost impossible to imagine sharing 'cats, snark, and sad moments'.
Are you sure it is a bug, and not just a difference in the way the vertical spacing is calculated? Apple changed the way Helvetica's height is calculated in iOS 3.x and for a while had a "legacy font metrics" that were available for their apps, which included MobileSafari until they pulled the trigger in iOS 4.x. I have found every browser and operating system and often different versions of each to calculate these metrics differently, even for a specific given font. I talked to some people at WebKit and on Safari about this, and they absolutely do not consider it a bug.
Funnily enough, this is the least realistic of all these suggestions :)
When you run out of legitimate arguments resort to personal attacks, got it.

The number of people on Earth who've spent the time studying Certificate Transparency in depth could probably be counted on two hands. You and I are two of them. That leaves ~8 other people (who are probably not reading these threads) to comment.

I'm grateful to everyone who's taken the time to support DNSChain, Namecoin, and related projects by writing about them, podcasting, tweeting, blogging, contributing code, etc.

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain#community

This certainly requires community support.
I'll partially copy two interesting comments from that thread:

> [A video with] 60 frames per second only allowed to identify the speaker and the number of people in the room.

> The demo in the video is based on a high-speed (1000+fps) recording by a special camera, not on 'normal' video.
Devs are used to learning new technologies regularly. Libraries that reduce the work of 5 people to the work of one are common place. Before RDBMSs, database queries had to be manually programmed on a case-by-case basis, including disk access etc. When one bottleneck has been solved, devs simply move on to other, more awesome tasks.

Unfortunately most of the population does not share this constant learning philosophy.
Similar to a sibling comment this sounds like pairwise / combinatorial testing. I learned about it by working through the examples and descriptions here:

https://www.testcover.com/
Is the Mac laptop ID significantly different than other laptops, e.g. PixelBook Go? I have a MBA, and was super surprised at how think it was compared to my Pixelbook. I would say that Apple laptop ID nothing special, and is lacking things like a touchscreen, etc.

I would say that M1 has good performance ON MAC SOFTWARE, which has been tuned for it (and vice versa). It is unknown if linux will perform as well on it.
> The most reasonable approach is to assume that there is little to no durable protection from a single dose

How is that the most reasonable approach? Virtually every vaccine ever discovered provides more immunity on first dose, than the incremental gain on subsequent boosters.

You certainly can't be sure of this, but pre-existing evidence would strongly suggest that this vaccine is subject to the law of diminishing returns. At the end of the day, we're just trying to maximize infections prevented. If the two-dose schedule confers 95% immunity, then as long as we expect over 50% immunity from a single dose, then First Dose First is best policy.
The buyer can just waive the financing contingency. To the seller that's almost the same as making a cash offer.
> *Narrator: "they didn't"

I know you weren't referring to Narrator the screen reader here, but I can't resist. While I was on the Windows accessibility team, which owns Narrator, we actually did phase out the old Narrator settings UI in favor of the new, UWP-based one.
Mathematician here. What do you want this for? Even if you had them, you probably wouldn't understand the definitions anyway.

As others say, there is no standard, and conventions vary by subfield, publication, author and over time. This is esp. true at the research level, where the mathematical content is still being worked out. Subfields have certain conventions, and well-written books and papers will normally introduction notation or include an index of notation, esp. if the notation is novel or they different from the usual conventions. You could start compiling something like this by going through the standard undergrad and grad textbooks for each subject.
Please post a URL to the announcement that I missed.
My mistake. It was a chaotic, violent situation. I shouldn't make snap judgements from cherry-picked shots. Sorry.
Less right-wing extreme, yes, but it is not filled with left-wing extremists. As someone that has literally never been in the US and consider himself very left-leaning, the leftist echo chamber that reddit has become disgusts me. Posts that just say "Trump should be impeached" gets literally 50k+ upvotes. Any attempt to show any wrongdoing by a Dem gets downvoted and banned.