skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, I just looked up my state's statute on this and it contained verbiage like "Includes, but not limited to". How the heck can they get away with defining a law so vaguely? I guess I wrongly assumed that a law had to actually define what it was making illegal.
Very true, but the typical college student's experience does not include that.
Movie Hopping as Traveling Salesman Problem
A manager's pitfall: striving to “add value”
Please elaborate.
"But we also believe the Web needs a diverse set of revenue sources, and advertising is an important option that should be open to publishers who want to use it. So rather than blocking ads outright, EFF’s aim has been to incentivize better behavior by advertising companies. ... Adzerk provides ad serving infrastructure to Reddit, BitTorrent, and a number of other high profile sites. They will be offering the ability for any publisher using their platform to serve ads that respect Do Not Track requests. If publishers choose to deploy such ads, they will not be blocked by default by Adblock, Disconnect, Privacy Badger or other coalition members."

So that's the EFF selling out. Ad spam is fine, as long as the ad spammer claims to comply with some privacy policies, and ad blockers shouldn't block EFF-approved spam. Expect "contributions" to the EFF from ad companies.
Wow, well done. That really took me back.
Yeah, this was, to me, the most insightful slide of the whole talk.
If the US had health care cost controls (and if every state expanded Medicaid), its healthcare system would be pretty good. It's already quite similar to the Swiss system, except for this critical lack of cost regulation.

As far as I know, Massachusetts's "Romneycare" (the blueprint for Obamacare) was improved to add these cost controls, but I don't know how it has worked out for them. They seem to have very high per capita health care costs relative to the rest of the country.
Which doesn't mean that it's impossible to build something better. But if you want to build something better, you have to understand what's good about what you're trying to replace.
They can no longer drop stuff in /usr/bin as of El Capitan, though.

You can't even do it with root:

[mason@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]$ sudo bash
Password:
[root@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]# touch /usr/bin/nope
touch: /usr/bin/nope: Operation not permitted
[root@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]# cat 'nope nope' >> /usr/bin/nope
bash: /usr/bin/nope: Operation not permitted
Zesty is hiring developers to help make the world healthier
"Don't copy that floppy!"
Or just Conway's Law. One of the things that Cloud Computing is imposing (with its inherently stochastic performance variation) is the notion that developers develop systems that are inherently fault tolerant. It's been a long time since I wrote programs that trusted other components to always do their job.
Ask HN: Samsung vs. TSMC A9
Has anyone published an Samsung vs TSMC benchmark. If the Samsung has a smaller geometry its caps should be smaller the length of the wires should be smaller meaning it should at least run cooler and use less power. Theoretically it have a higher max clock rate if the chips can be over clocked.
in the US, you can make almost the same salary as a 'technical designer', who work alongside engineers. or if you're a very talented draftsman / cad operator / machinist kind of individual. your career as an employee will be somewhat limited - however, entrepreneurialism is the great equalizer when it comes to money. starting early in a trade field with a solid career foundation can set the stage for running a business later in life after a decade or two of wages and experience under your belt.

again, remember this is all in the context of paying/borrowing $TONS for college. that's the tradeoff here. is being an engineer worth the debt you incur as a very young person, versus starting in a lower track but making the most of your time and money earned.
He(?) said:

> Sure there are a few experiments but the baseline is that sweden (which has a huge public sector) cannot afford it without raising taxes further.

The general idea is that while you might just kick office workers out the door 2 hours early, and not see a drop in what the actually get done (and there are a lot of office workers in the public sector) - in other areas, notably healthcare (and also Miletary, Police, Search&Rescue, Firefighting, Child protective services ... and to a certain extent education) you need to have a certain number of people on at any given time. Like-for-like that means changing from 38 hours to 46 (although it's not that simple, as schedules tend to overlap, and there's probably at least double the people working during daylight hours).

If you pay them all the same, you have a ~15-20% (guesstimate) pay and pension cost increase (along with a similar increase in income tax, but as no one pays 100% income tax that won't cover the new positions).

Being Norwegian, I don't have that much of an idea about Swedish government finances, but it sounds reasonable that the public sector would probably need more staff if moving to 6 hours.

There'd probably be many benefits, eg: lower percentage of sick leave, early retirement due to health issues etc -- but it's not inconceivable that it would be overall more expensive. I think it would be worth it -- but that's a different discussion.
> "Texas earns C-minus, ranks 39th in nation on education ranking"

California ranked 42nd in the same report with a score of D+. [1]

I'm obviously not arguing that every school in Texas is good. There are some utterly terrible districts in that state.

I don't think anyone would that point.

But there are also some great schools. The existence of some (even many) bad schools shouldn't necessarily deter someone from moving to a community in Texas with good schools.

All of that applies equally to California—there are some horrible schools there too.

[1] http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2015/state-highlights/2015/01/08...
One of them was Mainsoft I think, where one of the famous source leaks came from. MS used it for IE for Unix.
> It's best to install updates when you want to install them.

For company servers, I absolutely agree.

For corporate desktops, the administrators of WSUS (assuming an environment large enough to warrant running it) should approve them for installation after having had a chance to review them. Even so, the desktops should (IMO) be set to automatically install them and reboot once they are available.

For home PCs, just set them to automatically install and reboot and forget about it (n.b.: general rule; obviously there are/will be exceptions).

Personally, my own Windows machines (a grand total of two, running Windows 7 Professional, that are very rarely used), are configured to automatically download and install updates at 11:00 p.m. on Mondays. When an update is released that breaks things, this gives me about six days to hear about it and turn off Windows Updates until they get it fixed (assuming a typical Patch Tuesday release). A long time ago, I reviewed every update before installing them but not anymore. When one of those "drop everything and patch now!" updates comes out, I hear about them elsewhere and install them manually.
Normally 6-hour work-day efforts imply equal pay, so taxation might stay the same, or go up, not necessarily down, even for hourly wages.

For hourly wages, that'd mean a ~20% pay high per hour.
http://vj.tv/wallflower/

VJTV Wallflower also used to a good one to put on in the background on unused monitors in hip restaruants/lounges/offices/cafes. It makes a seamless playback experience and smooths the transition between videos.

Seems to be down now, but they use a Vimeo playlist for their videos here:

http://vimeo.com/groups/wallflower
Much of what our government does is protect us against the consequences of our poor choices.
Actually, under their license (GPL) you are allowed to sell it, as long as you include the source when selling it. Most prominent example: Linux CDs sold before the Internet was fast and ubiquitous.

https://github.com/iFixit/iFixit-iOS/blob/master/LICENSE
Except that someone still has to pay for it, and unless the cost of college is trivial then that means society still has to make choices about whether the ROI for doing so is actually worth it. Resources spent giving people an education they won't actually need is money that could have been spent on other things like healthcare, disease research, or enriching their lives in other ways. The free college of other countries still comes with its own cost,; it's just hidden from the individual members of the public by being spread across the whole taxbase.

If you want to learn and absorb knowledge there are many cheaper ways to do it, e.g. libraries or MOOCs. But that won't give you a special status signaling symbol (the degree) that you can use to get past HR departments into the hiring process. That creates positional externalities that are a huge expense for society beyond just enriching people's lives through knowledge and education.
Open source is surely a silver bullet that increased productivity 10x at least, for most of us.
that assumes you actually have 300k at 22 though; whereas most people need to take out interest free loans to afford the 300k
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"This "must be colocated" mind-set is lose-lose no matter which way you cut it."

Is it? Are they that starved for talent? You turned it down, but was it that hard for them to find another?
why the heck is chrome telling me codeplex isn't a secure site
But that's exactly the point.

All growing up we were told, "Be a generalist, not a specialist" There was no other acceptable route, so all the "good" kids identified patterns to get ahead.

That leaves many of us barking up when we notice a pattern.
Of course, a generalization is a big bundle of things: abstractions, ceteris paribus, the act of generalizing, a general statement, pattern naming
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=logic
GlaxoSmithKline fined $3B after bribing doctors to increase drug sales (2012)
I'm left with the question of how hard can it be to google the job prospects of the degree you're interested in? It's never been easier to discover that sort of thing.

Even during the medieval (i.e. pre internet) times I attended college, the pay for various majors were well known. Highest was chemical, lowest astronomy.
I love this story. iFixit knowingly violates a messed up TOS, and the only outcome that happens is their app is taken down, which results in free press.

Even if you call the TOS an NDA (which iFixit didn't post, which is kind of annoying), you do have to wonder, what did Apple expect to happen? iFixit has been publishing teardowns and helping people repair Apple products for close to a decade.
Startup L. Jackson agrees with you

https://twitter.com/StartupLJackson/status/64938140832707379...
Tiny Core Linux
Any 'better' camera sucks without optical image stabilization which neither phone has.
Prescription medicine being too expensive and Middle East strife news from '91 as well.
It notifies you of the update and asks if you want to install it. I haven't been forced into an update.
Bank of America is even worse than that. Their currently advertised savings accounts offer 1 or 3 basis points APY.

Double your money in only 2300 years with the miracle of compounding interest.
I'm not arguing California is better; I'm arguing there are plenty of places to go that are better than Texas.
This reads like it was written by an undergrad who just took Socialism 101. Flagged for being tripe as much as for being off-topic.
Does this actually sync with remotes? That part isn't clear.
5% interest risk free is a pipe dream.
Solaris has had this capability for many years:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1456/prbac-2.ht...

https://blogs.oracle.com/casper/entry/solaris_privileges

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/hands-on-labs/s11-...
I've had the same anecdotal experience with a coworker. Brilliant engineer and amazing mind for engineering -- but not reliable in the slightest with a terrible work ethic.
So are you against ads completely, or are you against the tracking in ads? Because if you're just tracking, this seems like a realistic solution.
Well, start by giving us a list of who broke the law, and what laws they broke, and we can look up names to find out...

That is: Your post assumes that (unnamed) people broke the law. Let's not assume that. Let's either prove it, or not throw innuendo around.
All I know is that I spent two years deep in abstract algebra and other proof-heavy classes, and it was some of the best training in rigor and thoughtfulness I've ever had. Wouldn't trade it for the world. But, then again, most recent grads weren't math majors. I think my university of 30k graduated about 15 math majors a year.
The list of people who implemented (Quasi-)APLs contains some further illustrious names:

- Ken Thompson (APL\11): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.apl/u9sl6g...

- Dan Bricklin (Multics APL): http://lowendmac.com/2006/dan-bricklin-inventor-of-the-elect...

- Bill Gates (designed, never published): http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc30

- Robert Griesemer: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Go_From_Scratch/The_Origin_of_...

- Rob Pike: https://github.com/robpike/ivy
I don't think that is 100% true, some states have an apprenticeship model for getting a EIT/PE as well. CA for example counts industry experience towards it, and getting an EIT can be done with just three years experience (or three years of course credits).

In fact, its actually possible in CA to get a PE without taking the FE (just learned that) if you hold a ABET degree.

http://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/applicants/faq_eng.pdf
I read that NSA workers find nude photos and share them with others in the office. According to Snowden, the auditing is weak and this is considered a "fringe benefit" of working there.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/nsa-nude-photos/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/edward-sn...
TFA mentions that exact case.

"In return fire, Motorola Mobilty demanded Xbox patent royalties. In particular Motorola Mobility demanded higher payments for its s H.264 video and networking 'essential' patents."
That depends what you want to do. The work and opportunities a degree holding engineer will get is far higher than a tradesmen. Also, you dont need that much debt. A state school engineering degree is extremely affordable and gives the same opportunities as a more expensive degree.

But if you want a position as an engineer you need to go to school to be one, its one of the more cut and dry professions out there (Not talking about software engineering)
> Most of the extensions available for doing this rely on taking a screenshot of the available viewport so in order to capture larger DOM elements they need to scroll around taking repeated screenshots (which can be kind of frustrating if it takes a long time).

Or when parts of the page dynamically reposition themselves as the page scrolls. The worst.
Archive.is is a magical tool. Use it forever. https://archive.is/IcD1B
Integer Factorization
>I'm frustrated by comments like these that lump all of "my generation" into one bucket, as if the variety of people all around the same age can be combined into a single undifferentiated mass.

The scope of parent's comment is set at generation. Or specifically "my generation", localizing the experience to a time and place.

>The answer, as with so many things in life is, "It depends." Some millennials were probably given bad information that lead them to make poor choices. Some were given bad information but nonetheless were able to see past it to make good choices. Some just had rich parents so they were able to go to college without accruing any debt at all.

I had a similar experience as parent: the hubris of college education ejaculated throughout my k-12 education. Some of us saw through the BS, but there are plenty of people wondering what the hell kind phony dream they bought into, another American dream-bubble bursting with ulterior motives.

>Lumping 80 million people together (the majority of whom will never get a degree) is silly.

Culture is amorphous and hard to grasp in the present, arguably more difficult as time passes. But there are historical themes that can be said to have affected the "mind of the generation". I would call "get a college education" one of those themes, which has been pretty consistent from my interactions with people. Example: coming from older people "are you in school?" "No." "Shame on you."
With Google jumping into the wired internet business with Google Fiber, I'm surprised they haven't bought a controlling interest in T-Mobile yet (as Deutsche Telekom is always trying to unload T-Mobile on someone).
Never heard of MySpace angles?

You seem bitter. So here's some drive-by unwanted advice. I assume you are male:

- Hit the gym, lift weights. Eat enough to be non-scrawny. (Or lose weight, if you are currently fat.)

- Acquire currency---as a HN lurker you should at least be able to talk your way into a tech job.

- Get someone knowledgeable to help with your outfit.

- Get some nice pictures of yourself. Either practice the art of the selfie until you are good, ask a knowledgeable friend, or pay someone.
That's some frustratingly stupid logic right there.
You wouldn't have seen that in 2002, when islamophobia was at its peak.
it works with instapaper, or long press the reload button to open without content block
Will keep that in mind. Thanks!
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What happens if there are elements below the one you're screenshotting by z-index?
I thought the fine sounded large, but the last paragraph of the article puts it in context:

> Despite the large fine, $3bn is far less than the profits made from the drugs. Avandia has made $10.4bn in sales, Paxil took $11.6bn, and Wellbutrin sales were $5.9bn during the years covered by the settlement, according to IMS Health, a data group that consults for drug makers.
Ah, you're right. We did an s/it/they/.
This is exactly why I created Donald (http://getDonald.com). So many clients just default to email and don't use whatever project management system you ask them to. Sometimes even your own team defaults to email above all else.

I agree with you that email is a utility at this point that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I think it's a matter of successfully integrating and organizing email alongside other apps/systems, and I do think that's possible.
Kong 0.5
Exactly. While we're trying to improve HN, how about a proper mobile layout? You know, one with upvote buttons larger than 3 pixels so, you know, I can actually click them? We're hackers, not luddities without smartphones.
Are college degrees risk free by any means? Especially since degrees now often confine you to a narrow career path compared to what was available for graduates in previous generations. But point taken - a more detailed analysis should consider the risk-adjusted returns for each path (college vs non-college).
Get an envelope. Put the number of resumes in it on the front. Sign it. Get back that number of resumes.

Seriously this isn't a hard problem to solve.

This should be standard practice for all businesses though I don't think that it will happen any time soon. All application processes should be as double blind as possible. So 2 people collect the resumes they number then and send it off to the redactor. The redactor send the envelope to HR/hiring manager. Then from that people should be selected. When interviewed people should be administered a test to look for competence if necessary and if not only then the interview should be conducted in such a way that the persons background, race, and gender should be obscured.

I understand that much of the value of a person on a team is how well they get along with the people who they work with so this needs to be addressed. Either with some kind of trail period where their coworkers can file complaints but they have to be weighed against their productivity as judged by a neutral party so people can't just vote minorities and/or genders off the island per say.

This is infeasible to implement but would be fair.
So, helmet laws are actually a terrible example of "effects aren't what you want", at least, it's a terrible example if the implication is that we are getting an effect that we don't expect. Now, it's possible that the legislators didn't understand this, but cycling advocates were and are well aware that helmet laws cause reduced bicycle use. Here's an article with sources which claims to be from 2006, the website copyright notice is 2013, so at the very least, it's from right around when Australia implemented it's helmet law. http://bicycleaustin.info/laws/helmet-laws-bad.html
" I'm sure some of that is driven by the fact that companies want to hire above-average people - but only 50% of people fall into that category."

And they're already employed/on the track to employment!
Why is half the article in quotes?
Nice.

BTW, if the creator is listening, if you add "pointer-events: none;" to all the elements above the YouTube player we'll be able to close the ads.
Fully agree! Different people at different moments in their lives have different time requirements. There is no way to make everyone happy with one single standard -- freedom of choice is the best choice here.
The Internet of Criminal Things
Let me get this straight, banks complain about returns of only 6 per cent?

This is ridiculous. Stop complaining, you still make more than inflation.
Yes, it's a lot of work, which is one reason, even on a short you'll see a long list of credits (specialization definitely improves the product). You can make a film for nearly nothing and occasionally someone will have the idea and talent to put together a film on a shoestring budget that cuts through (Pi, Primer, This Is Martin Bonner, Paranormal Activity, etc). And shoestring budget has different definitions for different people, everything from couple hundred bucks to low millions. The Duplass Brothers made a short for nearly nothing, whatever camera they had and an answering machine that launched their career (following it up with the micro-budget feature The Puffy Chair). Robert Rodriquez shot El Mariachi for $7500 (couple hundred thousand was poured into after it was bought to make it ready for theatrical release). It's easier now with so many great digital cameras and editing software. But first and foremost, filmmaking is a collaborative art. If you're trying to do it all by yourself, you're doing it wrong (unless it works, then you're doing it right) and people cost money, especially talented well trained people.
Some clearly well-built planes there, and some that definitely would only fly once. For some reason, I thought of Foghorn Leghorn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDjDv-RGC1Q
Hahaha, I take it by your first line you have some neural engineering background?
> Instead of arguing about the borders, you have arguments about which clustering algorithm to use, and what the weights to the inputs should be.

Yes, that's true. But with any luck the weights will have less knobs to turn, ie less information, than drawing lines.

> Unless you have a mathematical definition of districts that lead to good government, a purely mathematical solution won't be possible.

We just need to avoid the worst government.

Or perhaps the Americans can just look around the world to see how other countries are drawing their voting districts, and compare what works and what doesn't. (Shouldn't federalisms make that kind of experimenting work inside the US alone, too?)

In any case, there's a more interesting simple technocratic fix to try: count ballot papers that tick more than one candidate as a vote for each of the ticked candidates.

This way you can vote for the lesser evil and who you actually want.

(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting)
That'll save me from typing ⌘+^+⇧+4 and having to manually align the box.
It must be quoting from some source that isn't linked. If anyone can find it, we might change the URL to it. HN generally prefers original sources.