skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's sales and marketing expense category consists of the following items (from their 10K) - some (perhaps most) of it is actually stock comp for sales & marketing employees.

• Labor and facilities-related costs for our personnel engaged in sales and marketing, sales support, and certain
customer service functions;

• Advertising and promotional expenditures related to our products and services; and

• Stock-based compensation expense for our employees engaged in sales, sales support, and certain customer
service functions.
Errr..except for the computational overhead of 10,000+ concurrent SSH connections - Salt's message queue architecture is a significant improvement there :)
SF is complicated because the housing prices are so in flux, but as of a few years ago I was living in SF in a decent place with a single roommate for about ~$25k/yr (it's a couple K higher now). I'm still rent-controlled at that place but market rate on that same apartment is roughly double now, and that's far far more than any of my friends are paying (my location is pretty great). So even worst-case (i.e. if I was paying market and chose not to move into a cheaper place), I would be paying maybe $40k?

So the long and short of it is, $125k, even before tax, is far more than you need to live in SF for a single person. That isn't to say it's wonderful to have to spend so much on rent, but it's beyond hyperbole to say you need $125k+ to survive.
Lists aka Collections aka Containers. There are so many manifestations of this pattern on the web that we really ought to try to standardize how one can create them, and read and write resources that are members of them.

W3C, MIT Decentralized Information Group, Web Annotation Protocol, Oracle, and IBM (amongst others) are working on it.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-ldp-20150226/
I think the most confusing part for me is that wages and COL are correlated, obviously, but generally (and specifically in the cities mentioned in TFA), COL is driven by wages and not the other way around.

So your objection seems to be conflating a follow-on effect with a cause, and dismissing the article because the author didn't address that effect when he was really interested in the cause (of COL and many other effects).

Mostly I just wanted to encourage other people to go ahead and read the article. But since we have this thread to ourselves, there ya go. :)
Author here so I will respond to some of your points. The most important thing about this list is that it is a checklist where the aim is to develop ideas that tick as many as possible off the list, not every one. It is impossible (well near impossible) to have an idea that ticks every one of them - just getting 7 or 8 makes the idea a fantastically good idea.

Ideas that can be bootstrapped can affect the world. They might take a little more time, or be a little more limited in scope, but having external funding is not a prerequisite for changing the world.

Of course you can exploit first mover advantage and natural monopolies without external funding. You just need an idea that is cheap enough and profitable enough that it can be bootstrapped. Of course finding such ideas is really, really hard, but if you do find one it is very valuable.
Scientists Link Moon’s Tilt and Earth’s Gold
Don't forget the Novena project:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=28
This is true in a lot of fields. I know someone who was doing international relations work for Walmart in Bentonville Arkansas which is basically a Walmart company town. They axed his group and he basically ended up living out of a suitcase and then moving to look for a new job. (Obviously a pretty specialized role and he needed to be somewhere he could physically network with a lot of folks.)
Oct 6, 2015 - US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks
http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota...
The rise of ISIS is pretty simple, the power vacuum created by the destruction of the Ba'athist Iraqi state and the subsequent withdrawal of US troops was filled in Shi'a areas by Shiite militias and (largely Shiite) Iraqi government forces, in Kurdish areas by the Peshmerga, and in the Sunni areas by the Sunni militants who had been fighting the US troops. Lots of groups fought the US of course, a number were wiped out to varying degrees. Because the US held an overwhelming advantage in conventional firepower, the only groups with any lasting "success" were the ones that embraced terrorism as their core of their operations. When the Americans left the strongest of these groups -- ISI -- consolidated power and the destabilization in Syria created another power vacuum which ISIS flowed into.
Amazon shows off prototype drone for future delivery service in new video
We are Aldous Huxley's version of totalitarianism, where we are drugged and entertained into submission.
I believe there is a difference between hyperbole and outright falsities. No excellence of academia redeems a statement like "The Paris attacks did not take place." I'd argue that any kind of academic appreciation of these false statements, in postmodern reflections on hyper-reality, say more about the hyper-reality that academia seems to dwell in, particularly in the non-technical sciences like sociology and philosophy. For reasons of lack of rigor, it's easier for these specious "worldly" reflections to dwell in the non-technical sciences, than lets say Chemistry, Biology, Math or Physics. Need I say more about how I feel on the (dis)merits of this article...
I've been working on a realtime framework for 3 years. It got 0 attention for the first year. Then I repackaged it and renamed it and it got some traction. The community only started up one year ago. Before that, it was just me.

I was always very greatful for any comment my project received - Especially negative/constructive ones.

I didn't get much feedback early on so there weren't many opportunities to improve.

SocketCluster was never about the code. It was always about creating a useful tool. It has gone through many refactorings and changes in technical philosophy. Seeing steady improvement in the product and the dedication of the community is what keeps me happy.

I was very fortunate that the project got so much traction. It did help me with my career. I owe it to everyone who clicked that star button on Github to keep going.

GitHub: https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster

Website: http://socketcluster.io/
> It probably relates because the marriages themselves don't matter, it is the family that forms and the impacts that has on individuals that do.

That's speculative, and not at all what the study found.

It could be that that's what's important; it could be, instead, that what is important is the social expectation of marriage combined with the opportunities available for it. It could be something else. It could be a combination of any of the three.

> Thus if you had some society which allowed only monogamy but also allowed concubines, you would likely see the same issues as caused by polygamy.

Since concubinage is generally exclusive in the same way as marriage is (and exclusive of marriage), you'd expect in pretty much any case it to have similar social effects to polygyny (if it isn't just considered a form of polygyny in which there is a wife with a formally preferred status, which is common in polygyny.)

> Or if you had a society that didn't do marriage at all, but the relationships that formed tended to be greater towards polygamy than monogamy.

OTOH, if it is the social expectation and opportunity aspect of marriage that is at issue, a society which lacked the formal marriage and social expectations tied to it might not have the problems of a formally polygynous society even if the informal relations formed were generally polgynous rather than monogamous.

And if, on yet another hand, there is a stabilizing effect of socially-recognized relationship, the absence of social recognition might produce problems similar to those in a formally polygynous society regardless of the form of the informal relationships that form.
This seems like a non-optimal equilibrium. Any way we disrupt that?
We've witnessed this manipulation first hand. My son used to go to the local day care that had stellar reviews on Yelp - 4 or 5 stars with a single 3 star review. I knew the vast majority of reviewers because they were parents whom I've met through kids birthday parties and the like. Then one day Yelp called the owner of the daycare asking her if she'd like to purchase some advertising. She already had plenty of business so she politely declined. A week later 20-something reviews went into "Not Recommended" category, effectively becoming hidden. The only review that remained on the site for the business was the single 3-star review. This is effectively extortion. In other words yelp won't fabricate reviews, it'll just selectively filter reviews if you don't pay them to pain a worse picture of your business.
This isn't about evil sociopaths, it's about people who are deluded about what's good and evil. ISIS thinks they are doing good.
Most of the modules I have seen are using .pm6 and .pl6.
> I truly don't understand why nothing is done about that. Why doesn't anyone lose their job over this, let alone go to jail?

My suspicion is that the FBI and various three-letter-agencies have dirt on most of the elected representatives. The mass surveillance apparatus is the perfect tool for collecting blackmail material on current and future leaders.
If you say the word "alpha" in the context of social group dominance, and EVERYONE knows what you mean...

Then the word means something, despite your political correctness.
ITU reports 3.2B interconnected humans – looks to an IoT future
the purpose of school is to train kids to get up on time, to endure an unpleasant commute to an unpleasant place where they engage in unpleasant activities all day for the better of society.
I understand that that's a reason why it's not done. However, my question was about why their legal system is like it is.
I always think that the immigration guys at airports get selected for being the most obnoxious a...holes they can find. I have seen a lot of instances of really bad behavior like berating tourists that don't speak English well for not filling out the forms perfectly right.

I remember I wanted to visit a friend who was supposed to pick me up at SFO airport. I didn't know his address so I didn't fill the destination address field. The immigration guy just sent me back in line without listening to any explanation. Luckily one of the cleaners told me to fill in "Hilton, San Francisco"and I finally got through. I can't even imagine how somebody who has traveled less and speaks English not as well could handle the situation.

It really gives the US a bad image.
> Which makes me wonder how things would have played out had they not euthanized the current matriarch. Would she have lived long enough to allow her oldest daughter to mature?

Good point. Maybe the throne would've passed peacefully to the daughter. But the zookeepers decided to play God and now baboon blood is on their hands.
To follow-up : maybe they are still more laser-focused than Google, Facebook or Microsoft are at the moment ?
Didn't we already go through this dance with the Netbook fad a few years ago? Or is the idea that low end ARM chips are now powerful enough to make the Netbook idea work?
Keep in mind it's not so much that Mohamed was a 'paedophile' by our modern definition, rather that the definition has changed over time.

Even in our own culture it was once the norm to betroth daughters to suitors while they were pre-pubescent, and to marry them as soon as they reached puberty... Polygamy is also a result of a violent era in which there were more unattached women than men - and in which having a husband was the only social security net.

The problem is the literal interpretation of a 1300 year-old book in today's society (which is pretty much the whole philosophy behind Salafism/Wahhabism, that ever so destructive ideology propagated by our friends the Saudis). There's still Christians today that think it's OK to burn witches at the stake, and do...

Edit - I love the downvotes for stating that mideivel attitudes are due to circumstances that arose during the middle ages (actually, a little bit earlier).
Russian Hackers Steal $4M in Cash with Reverse ATM Hack
The number of connected people on the planet has reached 3.2 billion, according to a report from the International Telephone Union (ITU.) Managers, marketers, engineers, and designers who are building mobile and internet products for international consumption should read the full report. The many charts and graphics make the 252-page report on fixed and mobile internet and telephone services around the world an easy read.
I can confirm, though I cannot legally name the products.

As a hint, it's pretty probable (if you live in US) that your healthcare financial information is managed by a system that I took part in development while being 2-grade student freelancing at the other side of the Earth. And many my friends did the same.

I've seen the biggest internet websites have their major customer-facing features developed by my friends, yet everybody thinks it was done in California.
What about their margins ? It seems commonly accepted that Apple has much better benefits for every piece of hardware they sell than any other players.
Ask HN: Share Your Amazon Phone Screen Experience
Hello HN

I have Amazon phone screening in coming days, Can you please share your phone screening experience here. I have read the Steve Yegge blog post (https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-phone-screen-questions) to get an idea what to prepare. I would be very thankful if anyone who had Amazon phone screening share his/her experience here.

I would also be thankful for recruiter suggestions

Thanks
I think this article could have gotten to the point more quickly.

Was it that bacteria on the brain can cure cancer and also ruin you life? It then went on to talk about a reverse engineered virus that was also tried in some completely unrelated study.

The article seemed to have no structure and make no point. The doctor seems to have done some very unethical things here but it is treated as if it was the right thing to do? Maybe it's just the woolly language...
I don't know what Patrick was thinking of specifically, but I know many people will call customer support looking for handouts rather than support. They'll say, "My $5000 Whatchamacallit has a blemish on its whozit. This is unacceptable. No, you can't fix it. I want a new one free."
If I understand OP's point correctly, it's that there is no bankruptcy protection whatsoever, even with a qualified co-signer. And maybe there should be. Further, if one does not qualify for government loans, banks are the only place to go, with lower interest rates being a moot point.

BTW I am very intrigued by your idea of having a school cosign for a student after the second year. If nothing else it would force schools to think twice about their acceptance habits. It seems to me to be more in line with academia's not-for-profit interests, but I guess tuition dollars are too entrenched at this stage?
I just responded to your post as you do raise some important points.

I am of course not going to tell you my really good ideas (the whole point of my post that they are intrinsically valuable and rare), but I do write in details in the post about how to find good ideas and then how to judge if they are a good idea.
Yeah, but I'm wondering more about the inaction of other federal powers. Congress, President, I don't really know whose job it is, but someone in this country should have the power to deal with rogue government agencies? They don't appoint themselves.
Jesus! What a horror story. I don't get how the professor concluded that he was entitled to your time like that.

Agreed that it's best to cut off things like this early. Some programmers need to learn the value of their own time -- and act accordingly. If you don't respect your own effort, other people never will.
I always feel confused when people say diversity in working place, esp. now in IT. I am totally fine with a company that hires people based only on their professional skills. Bringing race/color/gender etc into account, no matter inclusive or exclusive, is discrimination IMO. Talking about diversity in work and increasing diversity in work are also discrimination IMO.
This is simply false. Most terrorists are highly educated. The 9/11 terrorists had a college education, some had PhD's.
Hah, not all cats! Ours will eat everything that is put in front of it, and then throw up
Ah, great! Glad it worked. We'll look at the issue with "+" signs. Thanks for reporting it!
Provided "who you want" wants to peer with you. Peering is a mutual relationship after all.
For most of the time covered by this graph, "gold standard" meant that the money was actually made out of precious metals, not merely that it had some official exchange rate with gold. Concerns about how the quantity of currency issued changes relative to the amount of gold held, or conversion to/from gold, simply wouldn't apply.
> Is Perl 6 something that non-Perl developers should be looking into?

Perl5 was feeling the weight of its humble origins as a small language for scripts, designed in the 80's. All that $@%<>$_ syntax, and bad support for keeping larger programs clean and organized.

Python's main selling point was: like Perl, but cleaner syntax and object system is in-build, not bolted on as an afterthought.

Also Ruby's selling point was: Perl, flexible for meta-language hacking like Perl, but cleaner syntax and in-build object system, also not as restrictive as Python.

Now Perl6 has everything that at a time made Python or Ruby feel more modern than Perl5, and more, even optional typing. (Well, it doesn't have Python's opinionated restrictiveness.) Of course at the moment, Perl6 doesn't have the huge selection of libraries that Python and Ruby have at the moment.

I don't know what, if anything, is a good reason for you to learn a new language. But while in the trio perl5,python,ruby perl5 was the most dated, old-feeling language, now in the trio perl6,python,ruby Perl6 is now the most modern in its design.
Prolonging someone's suffering? Giving their family false hope? Illegally test a technique/method or drug just to see if it works for someone else benefit?

If the patient's best interests are no longer the primary concern all kinds of shady things become possible.
That would also explain why corruption is allowed to happen, kinda. Is there a realistic exit from that situation?
Internal debt is also internal asset, which net out to zero. China is a net international creditor. Its internal debt structure may have implications for its economoic future, but is not nearly as relevant as its current account balance for foreign holders of RMB.
I agree that a quicker death would have been better. However that's often times the case add yet most states don't even site patients to choose between suffering and death. The patient suffered so much because the treatment worked, but not well enough to safe her. That however can happen with many well proven treatments as well. I have a relative who just got a port to feed her liquids, dive she cannot swallow anymore. That treatment will extend her life longer, but she well probably will just suffer longer and die soon anyways. This seems to be a constant trade off in health care these days and usually we decide blindly in favor of extending life regardless of the quality. How we judge experimental treatments seems completely different though.
My gut reaction: "metric used to measure stroke recovery favors bilinguals"

The article mentions cognitive tasks that are likely to benefit on some level from "thinking in language". Duo clearly unrelated tasks like motor control also correlate? Is this really about brain activity keeping the system "fresh" and more capable of repair, or is it maybe just a simple matter of someone with "more words" pre-stroke having "more words" post-stroke?

My wildly uneducated guess, illustrated with computer analogies: when the brain has to cope with multiple languages, "language thinking" overflows from dedicated to general purpose "hardware" and due to some evolutionary dice roll, the dedicated stuff tends to get taken out first in a stroke.
George Lucas: To feel the true force of ‘Star Wars’ he had to learn to let it go
Thanks, how is the situation with the GPU on that device?
Open source kernel&2D drivers, and binary blob for 3D driver?
My cat doesn't care if the food is cold. In fact, he will eat pretty much anything.

He loves to eat the salad we make every day for dinner, and its not just the avocado, the other day he ate some tomato that I dropped on the floor by mistake.

If your cat doesn't like cold food, perhaps you are feeding him too much?
The problem with pumped hydro is that you need a suitable mountain to do it at a large scale. Those are rare and found mostly outside cities. Does it work at the scale of a water tower?
Saffy.js – Safest way to get and set properties in JavaScript
If you're wondering: http://sel4.systems/

> The world's first operating-system kernel with an end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcement is available as open source.
Smug level today: HIGH
Ask HN: Have you had to switch / compensate your NoSQL DB with a relational DB?
Hey all,

I'm a long time Rails developer who has been on the MySQL / Postgres + Ruby/Rails + Redis stack. I've been playing with Node.js lately, and it seems that the Node community loves NoSQL.

I'd love to learn about projects that started out NoSQL, because of it's advantages of speed and scale but had to turn to a relational database for it's advantages - advanced querying, data integrity etc.

Thanks!
Building inspectors’ online permit tracking mired in bugs, blame
Ubuntu 16.04 plans for this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-x-...

Arch linux already has.
It's a platform for learning. The asker is a beginner. There is nothing wrong with that and someone asking with the intention of learning should never be looked down upon. If you find it so easy why are you even looking at that question? Your google-fu is sub-optimal?
This is a bad article really. After reading it I'm none the wiser as to what 'hyperreality' and 'simulacra' actually mean in this context. I can make guesses, but the author doesn't explain his central concepts and fails to build a case around them. Am I wrong to expect much clear writing and a developed argument from a university professor? Or is the price of admission to this article a familiarity with Baudrillard's work?
I've actually seen a group of monkeys killing one of their own. It was a bloodbath and deeply disturbing.
As the person who made this project, I assure you this isn't true.

I have one cat who is a reasonable free-feeder, and another cat who is a food beast and will devour everything in his grasp.
First step: get everyone to agree that they must never use linux again. It is made by a Bad Person so it is a Bad Thing and anyone who uses it supports the Bad Person and becomes a Bad Person themselves.
Kittyo was so cool!

I actually own a petnet, but I wanted to see if I could build my own feeder in a simple enough way so people could adapt it and add modules on so it could be like kittyo or even like petnet, or whatever anyone wants.
I think you made only one mistake: you made assumptions. That's the root cause of so many problems, both personal and technical that it is incredible that this is not focused on more frequently and more directly. Do not make assumptions. Verify, detect when you're making them and test them to make sure that they have a foundation to rest on or you'll end up making no end of trouble.
Artificial intelligence for yachts, Brook
Base Jumping Off a Giant Spider Net
> if I could get the [X] running it would be mine

This is huge. As a kid, this would motivate me to learn everything about X. Heck, for many values of X, I would find this motivating today!!
The Myth of 'Easy' Cooking