skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you can easily look up NYC teacher salaries. They start at $50k and go up to $105k.
http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2712AB02-A1EF-4CE2-B879-...

When you take into account the shorter work day/work year
http://www.uft.org/new-teachers/your-work-day-and-year

really good benefits, including a $50-$60k a year pension (http://www.empirecenter.org/publications/pension-calculator/) and essentially tenure...well, it's not too bad...
what a crap, pardon my french...

How about Asian or LGBT founders?

didn't it occur to you that claiming diversity you do exactly the opposite?

Suppose, A > B, and you think it's not right. Good for you! But then, you come out and say, We fight for diversity 24/7!! and then you claim X < Y. You so proud of yourself that you don't even see you did the same: Y > X - save the sign.

If you want best and brightest idea or/and people why DON'T you select best and brightest ideas and/or people?! make it A == B truly, can't you?

Why do you care founders' ethnic origin or who they sleep with?

Do you really think things like affirmative action work for the best of nation?

Given all is equal, you'd have to choose one candidate over another. According to affirmative action, you choose minority. Good!

But in reality, 'all is equal' almost never happen. And one (or two) would have to choose minority even if it is clear it would be a wrong choice. It is done once and again in fear of 'social workers' who are eager to 'earn' one (or two) thousand grand taking you to the court.

last, but not least, having 'open Hours for Black and Hispanic' makes you very vulnerable in eyes of, say LGBT social workers. They will gladly take you in court and, forget presumption of innocence, you would be the one to proof you didn't violate their 'rights'. And chances are you will fail.
So, how many lines of code does it have?
A slighlty older one (1634) on the same dam sold at Christie's in 2000, for $47,000 (http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjec...)

Christie's also gives background info on the bond, such as "While it was originally a requirement that the bond-holder send the original parchment to the Lekdijk Bovendams on 12 January to receive the annual interest, the successful bidder on this lot need only send the allonge, on which the payment will be neatly recorded by a responsible clerk of the Waterschap Kromme Rijn (successor to the monk and Secretary who sealed the document in 1634), as it has been for 302 years since 1698."
Cheap power by day, expensive by night can shift a lot of demand to daytime. Like water/building heating, cooling, battery charging, etc.
Calling it an accent is an understatement.

He's basically reading off a script word-by-word with German phonemes. He sounds like a first year English student forced to read out loud from a text book he's never read before.

It's not that he has an accent. It's that his English skills are ridiculous for the position he is in. English is taught throughout all high school education in Germany and fluency in English is required or at least recommended for the vast majority of jobs.

He's not just any politician either. He's not some lowly drone in a communal government branch. His office involves a lot of international communication and English is the standard language for most of it.

But there's a bias here: he's mostly ridiculed by younger Germans. His English (just like Merkel's) is on par for his generation. It's not entirely ridiculous when you consider that he likely grew up in times when learning English wasn't considered as important as it is now -- my grandmother speaks no English whatsoever and my parents-in-law just barely understand some basics.

If young Americans groan about their presidents' "dad jokes", this is more like being embarrassed by your grandparents.
Inflation would mean that also people need to get more money. Currently, inflation is at 2%, but wages stay the same, as wages are coupled to economic growth usually. So only those who already were rich before profit from the current situation – while originally, inflation was meant to prevent people from hoarding money.
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NSC draft options paper on strategic approaches to encryption
You pointed it out yourself, but I think you underestimated its importance: Microsoft works on many other things. Office, XBox, Windows Phone, Exchange, SQL Server, .Net, etc. I suspect Microsoft's total line count is similar to Google's. The difference, however, is that it's not one codebase.
this is exactly what I don't get. Why is a CD made in 2015 less romantic than an LP made in 2015 ?
Another example that should be nearer to the hearts of anti-YC partisans: the "looking for people that look like Zuckerberg" bias Paul Graham accidentally evoked a few years back.
That was my thought as well.
> That said, by turning the above features off, why are you using a smartphone in the first place?

Disabling some of the location services, spotlight suggestions, and all that nonsense doesn't really reduce the functionality of the phone.
The US Treasury could raise rates on their paper (T-bills and bonds) to push rates up, but then the Treasury would be paying above market rate.
Good point about more powerful networks becoming available, that never came to mind when I wrote my critique. I guess the phrase "conference call" is a little dirty to me, so I was quick to judge. Thanks for taking the time to respond!
I played with ruby and rails briefly, and then decided it was not for me. It felt a bit archaic and it seems like 5-10 years ago it was the best option by far for a web framework, but today things like node and django have caught up. I went with django because I like (and am better at) python.

For a new company, pick a scripting language you are most comfortable with (if it's php, pick your next best language). Then pick the most active framework from that pool. You can never get to the end of a rails vs whatever debate so just go ahead and pick a framework you will enjoy working with.
You mean: "we keep pouring money in at the top, but it just isn't trickling down" ?
I have used Cassandra in the past and would consider using it again but I agree its strength is not for 'analytics'. I'd say its strength is needing to scale reads and writes out on large large quantities of relatively simple data that you do not want to lose and you need low latency access to, and for when data needed to be easily partitioned across machines and data centres. I used it for data needed in realtime bidding systems for ad exchanges. It seemed well suited for that.

Then again, it's been 5 years since I worked with it, there have been improvements. Back then it had a _lot_ of warts, and I spent a lot of time fighting JVM GC pauses.
> Attackers could have seized on the omission of the X-Frame-Options header to change a user's search settings, including turning off SafeSearch filters

The horror!
2/3 of them are. If you doubt it, look at any international comparison of incarceration rates.
There is no engineering without dollar signs in the equation.

I didn't say it had no value in general, just in a particular context.
Say I make a change to a commonly used library (let's say deprecating a function, and replacing it with another):

* I can see literally _every use_ of the old function.

* I can run the tests for everyone who uses that function.

* * this is automated; the build/test tooling can figure out the transitive set of build/test targets that are affected by such a change.

* I can (relatively) easily update _every use_ of the deprecated call with the new hotness

* I can do that all within the same commit (or set of commits, realistically)

---

None of this is impossible with multiple repos, it's just a lot more difficult to coordinate
I think the point of the parent comment was that mechanical keyboards (except for maybe the junk Razer sells) aren't considered to be "run-of-the-mill" compared to the millions (if not billions) of rubber-domes floating around, and a wireless mechanical keyboard would be particularly far outside the "run-of-the-mill" classification.
What is the ultimate goal you wish to achieve? Do you want to be known as the "gay black guy", or just another human friend?

What if your sexual interests go beyond current definitions; are we to add a new slice to the pie chart simply for one person's identification?

The trans-gender, sexual-orientation debate gets specific, but it's irrelevant in the end.

As I advised a kid confused about his orientation recently: it doesn't matter what the media labels as OK, it doesn't matter what your family labels as OK, listen to yourself and come up with your own (potentially-unique) ideas and then get on with your life. Nobody is going to tell you how to do it as well as you can tell yourself.
If it's in the same repository, and you update a library, you can update all of the uses of that library in the same commit.
You should hit me up sometime. I'd love to party with you. /s
That is not at all what is being done here; in fact, that's a grievous misrepresentation of what they're doing.
Yes. (IPFS author here)

1. Add a TXT record to DNS <domain> with:

dnslink="/ipns/QmWGb7PZmLb1TwsMkE1b8jVK4LGceMYMsWaSmviSucWPGG"

2. should be able to use https://ipfs.io/ipns/<domain>

See it in action here: https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io

WARNING: IPNS is still under dev. it's not robust yet, convergence may not be perfect.
I interviewed with them recently. They claimed their success was due to picking up Erlang.
Do you have a link to this story about being arrested for sending messages?
You can do all those things you mentioned with a CD, no? So why use an inferior format like Vinyl ? I am not talking about vintage vinyl. I am talking about buying brand new vinyl.
Keep in mind also that the 10% reserve doesn't mean physical money (paper/coins). When a bank loans money, it can create $9 out of thin air for every real $1 it holds (be it in paper or in DB entry). When loans are being paid back, the banks count that payment as "real" money against which they can loan 9x the value again. In theory at least, this process can repeat to infinity.

I wonder if anybody unit tested this design for flaws.
This is an interesting take on material design.
Morphis, ipfs and Freenet all work similarly here - allowing hosting websites in a distributed datastore. It'll be interesting to track the different usages of the systems.

I started off mirroring my blog on Freenet and and now I'm experimenting with storing it there first and using a reverse proxy to make it available on clearnet [1]. This approach would work on IPFS and Morphis too. If the clearnet site gets taken down it's always available on the distributed store and it's simple to spin up a proxy somewhere else to provide clearnet access.

For systems where unpopular data goes away over time the access via the clearnet proxy provides more access to it to make that less likely since clearnet is full of crawlers, bots, search engines etc constantly hitting it.

[1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/09/14/using-freenet-for-static...
I can't say. I work here, but I don't speak for the company.
As long as a loan is collateralized by an asset that a reasonable market would value at or above the amount of the loan, the only issue is liquidity...right? So whether the ratio is 10%, 2%, etc. is kind of irrelevant. If folks want their money all at once, no reserve requirement would be sufficient. But at least the idea here (not that it has been followed) is to keep things stable enough so no large group runs for the exits and so long as conditions are maintained that don't foster those runs, the system should work.
Announcing TypeScript 1.6
That's basically Lyft Line[1], which offers fixed price $5 (at least in Manhattan[2], not sure about other markets) smart routed shared taxis. Seems like buses would just be a matter of improving routing further and scaling each vehicle up.

[1] https://www.lyft.com/line

[2] http://blog.lyft.com/posts/highfivenyc
Yes, unless your towers are that far away from each other that the distance would be considered a "large geographical distance" making it a WAN (Wide Area Network).
Does Tech Drive DevOps Forward or the Other Way Around?
This morning, I just felt that the green was striking and drew my attention to those articles. Admittedly, a lot of it could be my habits and expectations. But I know I wouldn't ordinarily have focused on them based on other factors.

I'm not being controversial, though now that I think about it, there is a shift in the semantics of the color: it used to be reserved exclusively for people, now it is also being used for "things". That may account for some of the undercurrent for resistance to change.

I can see why it is helpful for moderation. I guess the real question is does the green spike the level of participation in moderation activities? As a reader, it doesn't really highlight the sort of information that I make my decisions on.
Because the system is designed for banks with large sums. If you want similar protection for your money while accruing interest then you can buy government securities (notes, bills and treasuries).
so, affirmative action should not be done, and structural racism should not be combated, just so that we do not offend the pride of the discriminated by labelling, or? this is ridiculous. by this logic we might have to ignore racism completely. e.g. if you say that cops in the US are more prone to killing unarmed black suspects, you're also pointing out that black people need help. i guess we should not do that either :D
There are some reasons to run things locally:

* when your network is not so good, and the connection is laggy

* when your network is inexistent but you still want to read mails/write them so they can be sent the next time you're online

I can only assume that you always have a connection and it is always good enough to "feel" local, or that you don't need permanent access to it ?
I'd contend that black markets for tax evasion are qualitatively different from black markets for restricted goods. Consider the hefty tax on cigarettes. Sure, there's a cigarette black market, but it's not nearly the majority of the market.

The (highly-opinionated) Tax Foundation did a study on this [0]. I'm not sure how reliable their numbers are (again: they're a foundation with an agenda), but if you read through their own spin, you can see that the big tax-based black market for cigarettes exists where there's a state-border disparity in tax rates, and even then, in 48 states the (estimated) black market took up less than half of the actual market.

So: set taxes at whatever arbitrary level, but don't go too high. Also, consider setting national tax rates instead. So many of our problems derive from state-level control of stuff. Delaware corporations, state taxes, state laws. But I'm just a poor socialist / federalist.

[0]: http://taxfoundation.org/article/cigarette-taxes-and-cigaret...
Actually, it is the kid himself is who is saying it. http://mic.com/articles/125400/texas-police-officer-to-ahmed...

Now given you are getting all high and mighty bandying around terms like defamation, you going to go calling him a liar?
When tasked with the protection of human capital, it's not a big surprise that the administration takes the most extreme response when confronted with uncertainty. That being said, the Engineering professor could have prevented the whole situation if he had just kept it in his class for the rest of the day instead of advising the student to "hide it".
You can - buy T-Bills. You can even buy them directly from the US treasury at https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tbills_gl...

This is pretty much exactly what the banks are doing, albeit at a larger scale. They buy T-Bills, or other equivalents such as Gilts (UK government backed bonds) as they're as secure as investments get - with reduced returns as the compensation for the increased security of the bonds being backed by one of the worlds major economies.

For more information - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_bond and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(finance)
As of now, the number that's issued is a +1 number. And it's issued for free. You have a really good idea, though. In the future we're thinking about offering the option to select the country where the call is hosted. Or to also allow people to join/call-in right from their browser. That would make it easier for international participants to join as well.
Yeah, it's not common knowledge how the law works for public providers. Most people just know that keeping their own WiFi unprotected is dangerous.

That said, this seems to slowly change. Long-distance bus services have sprung up recently (I think there was a change in regulations) and a lot of them provide free, no-hassle open WiFi. Of course they tend to block the big streaming sites (e.g. YouTube) due to the bandwidth limitations, but it's still better than the WiFi you get on long-distance express trains (which requires you to have an account with the network provider and AFAIK isn't free).
I disagree. If Lyft goes too deep into a specific market, then they risk Uber using their dominance in another market to push them out of this one. They need to compete on all fronts to keep Uber away from their cash cow.
Quite. She's absolutely 100% in control and doing what she wants to do. I guess some people find that threatening and try to use a trigger word to shut it down.
David Attenborough declares support for an Apollo-style clean energy programme
True, and guess what it happens in the same time while white men has all the privileges.

Weird. Don't you think? :)
> I doubt it

Why? What would an effective piece of anonymous dissent look like?
Regulations is a secondary taxation on legal dealers. Businesses have to pay high license fees, buy required security, keep records of EVERY PLANT (rfid tags).
Its still profitable enough and safe enough from police harassment that there about 900 businesses.
Because heart disease is the main killer, and obesity and poor vascular fitness resulting from inactivity are major risk factors. Plus people want a tight ass.
Err, WhatsApp?
LivnList Is a Social Planning App That Taps Video for Invites
http://www.wbjournal.com/article/20120903/PRINTEDITION/30830... says otherwise, as do other resources I've checked.

Now, you usually have to be a bigger fish to get a non-compete enforced, or you have to threaten business. Most places that have a contract with HP will still have a contract even after hiring an expert. Fortune 1000 companies have better lawyers that know how to craft jobs to avoid exactly these scenarios.
So much is shared, though, right? Which is why Android is sorted into proper repositories but still has the 'repo' front-end wrapper to make sure you're getting the right versions of everything you need.

If I wanted to change something fundamental, like I found a 10% speedup in Protobuf wire decode by changing the message slightly, there are likely very many services that all need it.

Everyone at Google operates on HEAD. You're not allowed to break HEAD, and pre-submit/post-submit bots ensure you don't and will block your submit.
Stoll makes a convincing case that between the ages of 6 and 16 computers are harmful to education.
Yes obviously, how do you prove it was not you who made the call?
Inflation needs to remain on par with growth so that $1 (or whatever unit of currency) remains valued at $1 as more value is created within the economy. The total of an economy's currency represents the total value within that economy; think a pie, where the number of slices is the currency representation of the totality of the pie. If the money supply does not increase as the economy grows, then each currency unit effectively stretches to represent more value: as the pie gets bigger, but the number of slices doesn't change, then the value imputed to each slice grows. If the money supply grows but the economy doesn't, the value of each currency unit decreases: the number of slices increases, but the amount of pie per slice decreases. If the currency supply increases on par with the economic growth, the value per unit remains the same while the total value of the economy increases: as the pie grows, you want to increase the number of slices so that each slice has the same amount of pie, even though there is more pie total.

When inflation exceeds growth, people get distressed as their "slice of the pie" gets smaller. When growth exceeds supply, people get distressed as it gets harder to obtain a slice of that pie. And the problem with the Fed conjuring virtual currency out of thin air is it makes each slice of the pie smaller without the pie growing...giving the Fed, and their cronies, a bigger chunk of the pie without earning it.
A universal citizens dividend funded via direct issuance would be the least corrupt way to stimulate the economy at this point.

In the long run, we will need a debt-jubilee if we want to continue the current monetary system.
I know that people have had experiences similar to yours. It's fine to disagree, but AFAIK pretty much all benchmarks show that there is no noticeable difference in performance from 7 to 8 to 10 and this matches with my own experience. I refuse to upgrade unless I get similar or better performance. But then again, I'm not really interested in researching every single benchmark. Windows is fast, stays fast, and that's pretty much all I care about.
LCS35 Time Capsule Crypto-Puzzle (1999)
What? This is surpassing the mouse genom complexity. See this charts for comparison: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million...
SparkleMotion by IFTTT – An Android ViewPager Animator
I believe the rate is determined by the bidders at the auction and not by the Treasury.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/auctfund/work/work.htm
Command-line based Task management tool in Node.js
I have been using QubesOS for a while now, I am happy to see it got a mention. Before using qubesOS, I had a vmware VM with a browser.
I believe using Qubes is a bit more secure than an OS with a hypervisor running another OS with a browser though.
See: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-...
Or: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_compar...
If this is really how you see the world, I pity you. Grow up, this is puerile identity politics at its best.
That figure is common knowledge, not new information that antics is sharing with us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code#Example
If you are going to include that, wouldn't you then have to include all the money it costs the state to pay for damages caused by drunken drivers?
Agreed, there is no conspiracy here. Just a series of systemic flaws. What's scary is that there needs to be a discussion on this but few economists are brave enough to voice their concerns. David Harvey, Steve Keen, and others are stepping up but we need more people.
And why is that number a corporate secret?
Aren't some of the worst performing school districts also the most expensive?
>There was never any negative fallout. Yes, partly because it was more than a decade before 9/11.

Lede buried.
'sparkystacey you appear to be hellbanned. It's not obvious why since your comments seem innocuous.
> single-digit _multiple_ of the entire Netflix movie catalog

Strange unit of comparison, although I may start using it.
How New Hampshire's Libraries fought back against DHS fearmongering about Tor
See my answer to mrep above. There's no net increase in wealth there, Fred and Ginger merely shuffle money back and forth. And some of finance is exactly that. But some portion is not (ie Ginger loans out $1000, leaving her nothing to pay Fred with, and he has no interest in her services); that fraction of outstanding debt must be paid with new wealth, created in the interim. Ginger's loan is predicated on that possibility.
So is it not available for anyone outside of US? Is Canada covered?