skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this is about what one would expect. However it is somewhat concerning that they are using the criteria of selectivity to define the prestige of a school. While MIT is a very selective school, it's not a liberal arts school. You can probably get a history degree there but the quality of that program probably is at best on par with a less selective school, with a strong history program. Seems like what you should be comparing is whether going to a school with a top rated program for a given major affect future earnings? University of Washington probably isn't a top 50 school according to most lists. But they mint science and engineering grads. Especially CS. I'd expect higher earning from a CS grad there than one from say Brown.
> But nobody was sad when it got killed, you know

Oh my, isn't that damning with faint praise? It's an indictment against Apple: Ping was so bad no one missed it.
> People hate ads (pretty much everyone).

And yet the percentage of people who watch the Super Bowl explicitly to see the ads is a non-trivial percentage of the viewing population (obviously anecdata, but I know many people who throw super bowl parties for groups who have no interest in the football, and just want to have a party while watching the moderately amusing, big-budget ads with breaks for football in between).
> If Google disappeared the world would screech to a halt.

I agree that Google vanishing in an instant would have a more tangible short-term effect than Apple doing the same. But I feel you paint them as (nearly) opposite ends of a spectrum. Google provides many centralized services that people have come to depend on, whereas Apple creates physical products that would continue to function even if the company ceased to be. But Apple provides some similar centralized services and its various stores that sell virtual products (apps, music, video).

Either disappearing would be inconvenient for a lot of people—notably those who use centralized services—but my opinion is that in both cases, people would adapt fairly quickly.

All that said, as someone who doesn't use services or products provided by either of these two companies, my instinct is to agree with you that Google feels like it provides greater net value to society than Apple.
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It depends on how you defined "above the fold", but I have seen this on occasion. It's hard to replicate, though. For instance "credit card" is a search terms often overflowing with ads, but it's only giving a few to me right now.

Where GP is wrong is that this is something "they did not do 5 years ago". There were a ton of articles complaining about it in 2008/2009. Unless it is happening on many times more search terms than it was back then, it wouldn't explain the increased click rate at all. The fact that the increase was YoY makes it even more dubious.
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I think there was a light going on: they found that bugzilla.freedesktop.org doesn't offer the right ACL tools to keep the trolls away, so they migrated to github.com's issue tracker.
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First, I don't think Mayer makes over 100MM per year, or anything close to that.

Second, CEOs get paid lots of money because the market punishes firms that aren't growing and have no-name CEOs, and the cost of a name-brand CEO is probably more than cancelled out by avoiding that penalty. By the time Mayer was recruited, the market consensus was that Yahoo needed a turnaround CEO. There are no cheap turnaround CEOs for companies managing 4-5B in annual revenue.

Mayer's entire yearly salary is a rounding error compared to the total headcount cost of operating Yahoo, which is widely believed to be both tremendously overstaffed and larded with third-party contractor contracts.

Further, ask yourself: what exactly does it accomplish for Mayer to forego a salary in order to keep 1% (check my math, I might be way off) of Yahoo's workforce employed if that workforce isn't doing anything to improve Yahoo's outlook? Yahoo isn't a charity: everything it's employees do ostensibly have to have some hope of providing a return on investment.
Not completely a non-concern, but definitely much less so.
"most is in use most of the time"

I don't know how you measured that, but Linux will use all of your memory all of the time with various caches.
How are you running it?

I've had a shout server running on my DO droplet for 8 months now, and I've never had any issues.

I run it using nginx and Passenger (and the setup was quite simple, I had never set up a node app in production before doing this).
The Conde Nast magazines (Vogue, New Yorker, etc) have iOS apps in which you basically download a glorified PDF for every issue during your prescription period. I haven't done it in awhile but the PDFs are generally massive, around hundreds of megabytes, but contain full-color spreads and ads like you would see in the print product.
One of the big problems with rolling out infrastructural upgrades to the US train network is, in general, its size. Consider that there are still substantial sections of freight rail in the country that are what is referred to as "dark territory," meaning that there is no signally installed. Additionally, there is usually no radio or cellular coverage in these areas. Train motion in these areas is typically governed via track warrants, meaning that an engineer must obtain written permission from a dispatcher before entering the area (and only one train is given this permission at a time).

In the NE corridor, everything is of course fully signalled, but installing additional wayside equipment such as for PTC is a huge project over many miles of rail, even in relatively small areas. Solar-powered radio equipment has driven down the cost of installation, but not by as much as you might think. A big part of the high cost is the engineering requirements of the federal railway administration, which are (for good reasons) extremely strict and require proven high reliability.

This reliability must apply everywhere. GPS availability can be iffy under a number of circumstances, most obviously tunnels. There needs to be some non-GPS method of positioning trains in most systems. An example which the HN community will be relatively familiar with is the BART, which features automated train control. BART trains position themselves (and receive speedcodes for central control) via a continuous antenna strip mounted to the safety cover of the third rail. If you inspect the third rail across from a platform you will see it, as well as occasional cables connecting to the trackside control equipment. Installing this sort of thing over miles gets very costly!

The closest analogy to what you are describing is a product called GE Trip Optimizer that uses information about the route and train consist to automatically control throttle for fuel saving purposes. Trip Optimizer does not meet requirements for a safety system, though, and so the engineer is always permitted to override it (and must if any unusual circumstances are encountered), and the engineer must manually account for signals. To be a full PTC system it would still need quite a bit more, most notably reliable communication with signals (better than current cab signal systems).

There are sub-PTC safety systems available, such as train stop devices (which can be rigged for overspeed protection). These are still expensive to install though and at this point most everyone wants to go directly to PTC, which provides much greater protection.
We could probably think of alternatives for most of these things, but there are a lot of people who just use what came with their phone/browser.

Additionally, think of all of the Google-backed services out there provided by other companies. How many companies use gmail heavily that would lose all kinds of records?

Normal people would lose their e-mail too, and businessmen would lose a lot of their calendars. The actual solution doesn't matter as much as the data already invested in Google's solutions that would be lost if Google just vanished.
Ah. Bummer. Interesting to know, though.

I'm kind of un-bullish on toml in general, sadly. I tried toml in a couple of projects, and found for structures nested beyond a certain level, it doesn't really seem all that simple anymore. I ended up going back to json or yaml (only with a parser that doesn't implement most of the fancy features of yaml, for conservation-of-sanity reasons, of course).
I don't believe that the "best and brightest" consider lavish parties as a deciding factor in where they work.

Notice how I phrased it. It's not cost cutting. It's about investing in employees. That is something the "best and the brightest" love.
Instead they release a "me too" watch, a "me too" music service, a "me too" laughable pro tablet. They are losing their touch. No need to say it... it is obvious.
These salaries on the image on the right seem extremely high. Half of Colgate Social Science majors are in the top 5% of income earners? Half of Tufts humanities majors? These are great colleges, but it doesn't pass the smell test.

And, looking at the actual data collected, the image on the right doesn't hold up. The study must have collected data from hundreds of colleges, yet there were only 7,300 observations. Sounds like a lot, but assuming that there were 200 universities (probably a low estimate) and 8 categories of majors, you're only looking at 4 to 5 observations per college per category. And these observations were probably unevenly distributed. So it's inevitable that a few colleges will have extreme "median" reported incomes, as the table on the right shows the highest incomes observed in each field.

So while the percentile distinctions cited in the article between selective and less-selective schools are likely accurate, the numbers on the image of the right-hand side - the really striking part of the article - have almost no statistical validity.

The WSJ is leading people to a shocking conclusion even though the real finding - that there's a 12%-18% difference in earnings between selective and less-selective colleges - is much less extreme. (It's also likely making a lot of people feel poor... one of the strange selling points of the WSJ that in this case simultaneously gets eyeballs on PayScale.com)
IP address blacklists can be effective, and certainly make a lot more sense than blocking anything that doesn't appear on a whitelist.

Depending on how you are presenting the data, you might also find it helpful to impose a rate limit (accept only a certain number of requests from a particular IP address within a given timeframe).
Maybe not the perfect solution, but I created a bot that notifies me when "a lot" of activity occurs on my friends Rocket.chat server. Basically when more than 3 people write more than 5 messages each, pretty quickly.

I've found that I rarely check it anymore since I'm always notified when something interesting is happening or when people specifically want to reach me; I'm no longer afraid I'll "miss out".
For example:

Here is Washington state, we have a local software billionaire who has had credible allegations of sexual abuse and has settled at least one civil suit.

The larger local new paper (Seattle Time) omits stories about this from their searchable index even though they covered the several instances extensively.

Google comes to the rescue - "Paul Allen Sexual Abuse" links to other news sources, though it too is missing the Seattle Times.
This number (removed, as it seemed to cause problem in some browsers, sorry) fails the Fermat test for base 2 (i.e. 2^(p-1) is not 1 mod p). I can't believe it will pass Miller-Rabin. Edit: fails all bases up to 1000.
You might be serving something like a PGP public key, which you'd like viewers to be assured hasn't been tampered with in transit.
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> University of Washington probably isn't a top 50 school according to most lists.

But it is pretty damn close. UW currently clocks in at number 52 [1].

[1] http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
VLC is amazing. As a friend put it, "VLC will open everything, even a can of tuna". Thanks for VLC, VLC devs.
This is the reason RFC 5114 exists.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5114
There's a lot of noise in those images. You could reduce that by increasing the sample count significantly, which should be easy on modern GPUs. (I recognize the noise levels because I wrote a renderer for Clifford Attractors circa 2000, but back then, it took all night on a nice Mac G4 to get images with that kind of quality.) Maybe I'll post my OpenGL-based version.
Wow, really? I might need to report my card "lost" so that I can get a new number. Stripe protects that information from the vendor, right?

Though I doubt this kid is going to try to be that brazen, especially since he is using his real name to do this (assuming this isn't a fake identity).

Might request a new number just in case. I really don't trust this asshole anymore.
> For some inane reason, the language makes a lot of people upset and pouty.

People here have cited specific problems with C++ over and over. There are legitimate criticisms of the language that aren't "inane".

Personally, my biggest issue is that it's not memory safe, which leads to people making the same memory management mistakes we've been making since the '70s. At the same time, attackers have seen ways to weaponize use after free in ways that were not thought of when C++ was designed—and C++'s vtables make it much easier to do so. RAII and smart pointers have not proven to be an effective way to mitigate this, as a trip to any Web browser's bug tracker will demonstrate.

I do not believe this specific problem can be effectively fixed in C++, even with the ISO Core C++ lifetime checker, for reasons that I've elaborated on at length before.
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Maybe, but nowadays we know that C++ have problems with simplicity.
Me too. I wanted to switch to only reading Hacker Monthly, but sadly it's been discontinued :(
The figure is based upon stock options and bonuses.

It's here in this picture:

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/566edfb272f2c150028...
Which is fairly easily demonstrated by the fact that actual acquisitions of going concerns are usually at a premium above the market price at the time they are negotiated.
> I think there is some value in providing jobs to 10,000 people

Sure there is, but it's not the purpose of companies to provide that, but should be done by the society (government) if the society decides there's value in that.
If Goggle dissapeared, and it might through anti-monopoly laws, I would just move on to another search engine.

What am I missing? I don't know all the ins and outs of Google.
There's a lot more convo on this on the reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/43nvsm/ant_sim...
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> What people are doing is comparing the poorest to the the expectations of tigermoms. Don't. [First] thing is to teach [parents] they are the crux of their child's success.
[...]
> Unfortunately, this article is more interested in exposing income disparity, which is good, but its dressing it under [scholastic] achievement

This is an incredibly patronizing statement, followed by an equally delusional one. Let's unpack them.

The first one hinges on the assumption that poor parents don't understand that "they are the crux of their child's success". With the notable exception of the rare completely unfit parent, every parent already knows this. Parents have known this since the beginning of time.

This is then followed with a dismissal of the how wealth inequality effects education and thus lifetime gains. "If only the poors went to college!"

It's a very common sentiment, but that doesn't mean that it's right. It stems from the mistaken belief that everyone gets what they deserve because society is a pure meritocracy. It's the same sentiment where a multibillion dollar company built on the backs of minimum wage labor tells their employees that if they don't buy gum, they're money problems will be over.[1] Whereas in the real world, "being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs"[2].

The reason why poor parents aren't sending their kid to preschool, is because they don't have an extra $15,000 laying around in their bank account. The reason why poor kids underperform in school can all be tracked back to wealth. The distraction of hunger[3], lead paint in homes, and even under resourced schools because... the schools are funded by local property taxes , thus ensuring that the poor remain disadvantaged to the rich. (And if you seriously believe it's all just effort, put your kid the poorest public school in your area.)

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/article/mcdonalds-sample-budget-sheet-...
[2] http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
[3] http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/inde...
That's exactly what I think is so neat about it. puppet, chef, ansible, are all really cool, and they manage to bolt a declarative and atomic looking facade onto something that is decidedly not declarative or atomic (a regular old operating system). But, NixOS hits the problem in the gut. It seems like everything that is hard about the problem disappears when your entire OS is built from the ground up to be declarative and atomic.

It's pretty neat, and once I get my current projects squared away, I want to spend some time with NixOS, and maybe even get involved. It's just such a nice idea, and doesn't make me feel queasy the way so many of the bolted on solutions do.
Doesn't a framebuffer read involve a pipeline stall, even on a immediate mode renderer?
Works in Safari as well
Congrats, you broke HN.
Oh man, what are the developers DOING at Tumblr? I tried using their api but got stuck requesting xAuth access for my application. Haven't heard back from them yet after several weeks.
I have Facebook only on the desktop, not on my phone. I don't want it bothering me. There's nothing on Facebook that needs immediate attention, and less and less of it that has anything to do with what my friends are doing.

Remember, sharing is spamming.
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you can, but shouldn't.
Right now bus stops are set with the idea that everyone will walk to their final destination. Stops will go down if we have autonomous "last-mile" taxis.
And IRC will still be there :)
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Is it possible to get all the stuff in the article integrated with Hangouts?
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Still wished I could have VLC as an engine inside QuickTime or whatever's native to the platform/OS.

Is that possible or do you have to source the web for several obscure codecs?
I don't work at Yahoo but I believe the answer is management.
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Thanks for also posting the link to the Tuatara GS1 algo (http://genopharmix.com/biomimetic-cognition/in_silico_cognit...). I'm much more impressed now.
Click on the subtitles on the youtube video to enable them and i wanted to let it begin at 8 seconds, so it would immediatly show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifO-ebmE1s&hl=en#t=8s ( but can't change the url)
That's still not close to 100MM/yr and it's contingent, but look, we probably all agree that Yahoo's investors didn't get their money's worth on a marquee CEO.

It is, however, weird to me that everyone's so quick to blame Mayer for that. She didn't make up the game. The game stays the game. If it wasn't Mayer presiding over the decline of Yahoo --- probably still after acquiring Tumblr! --- it'd've been someone else.
Your question had me interested, so I looked around a bit and found this forum post from "Peter" [0]:

>"foobar2000" is indeed a piece of random gibberish I had to type into "project name" box when creating a new project in MSVC, on the day all this started. IIRC I spent about 5 minutes on thinking about it - I wanted to get things working ASAP rather than worry about the name.

That forum profile has a link to Peter Pawlowski's website [1] and has been active since 2001, so I'd like to believe it's really him.

[0] - https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?PHPSESSID=j8ru3u6374lh2vvh4...

[1] - http://perkele.cc/
The NSA is old enough, and well resourced enough. Time and money solve these problems readily enough. In the case of FOSS, all you really need is a parser designed to hunt down specific sorts of flaws. We have static analysis for non-crypto needs, it seems reasonable someone at NSA got funded to write one for their use case.
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Gmail, Google Maps, Google Apps for Business, Android...just to name a few...
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If this the alternative, it very well might be.