skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny. I do want to point out that this article is just terribly written. It seems to be based more on this: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/people-w...

That article tends to go a little more in depth. I do think it's interesting that they can make the correlation between retention rates at a call center (with average 45% annual turnover) and browser choice. Those going with chrome/firefox stayed 15% longer in their positions.

How that gets turned into some cliched 'nonconformist' categorization, I don't know. It would seem pretty conformist to stay in your position longer rather than quit, but what do I know.

"As correlations like “Chrome users are better employees” bob up from a sea of data, it’s important that they don’t start to generate the same rigid biases that Big Data is partially dampening—rejecting an applicant with the “wrong” browser would be silly."
> As someone else said, Stallman does not identify himself as being an anarchist.

Self identification is his personal choice. I'm talking about his ideas however.
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If you're looking for realistic names, try the names of people you vaguely remember from highschool. Or ask your friends for the names they remember from their own highschool. Only works up to a poont, but something about each of these names is perfect. Often they're too silly to seem made up. Here's one: Chris DiJacklin. (If you're reading this, hi Chris!)
>as the ability for anybody to attain the "American Dream" without having to work for it.

It's not impossible to get ahead in a socialist economy, it's just that the bar is raised for the lower classes.

I think you're hitting on a bigger problem with American culture, which is the "hard working" bias. Is the employee who comes in at 7am and leaves at 7pm really a better person?
Reference for the half effect by Newtonian: (bending of light and gravitational time dilation are effectively a single phenomena)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#De...
It also highlights that just "build up" isn't a magic bullet for high housing prices in areas where a lot of people want to live. In any given location, you can always do more building but, in some places, there seems to be almost insatiable demand.
This reminds me a bit about what was mentioned in the book "good to great". A company, or in this case a product, can do everything at a level a little above garbage, or it can focus on its core competencies and be the best at something.

The more features you add to a product, (in my mind) the worse it becomes.
In a virtualized environment, system time and wall clock time can vary widely. Imagine a VM that's paused and restored.
Whoa! Spoiler alert!

;)
Ecuador is surprisingly well built up. It was definitely my biggest surprise when traveling South America. People who know it mostly from the economic collapse around the turn of the century will be surprised at how much progress they have made.

As an added bonus for US travelers, they use the US dollar as their primary currency. No obnoxious money exchanges to deal with! The only thing to watch out for is change, because Ecuador mints some of their own "dollars" that obviously won't be worth anything in the US.
I did a bare metal install, and I sadly don't recall what was painful about it specifically; I recall fighting with Apache and Nginx and WSGI in some sequence of combinations.

It is definitely designed for a larger deployment. My memory is that it felt very 'heavy weight'.
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I am not sure why you are seeing so many downvotes.

I have worked in a poorly funded chicago public school that had just that year become a "turnaround school". That's just a very cute euphemism for "we fired everyone, hired whatever assholes would work for the least amount of money (Yo!), more or less eliminated any budgets you would be working with, and are making no other real changes". I guess the logic is that if we were going to be set up for failure, we might as well do it on the cheap.

Then, a few years later, they wonder why the students who went to those schools are so far behind the rest of the students in the city.

I should also mention that many of the students going to these schools were already saddled with the disadvantages of being poor and black in Chicago, before having their entire educational world replaced with an even shittier and more dysfunctional one.

The funny thing is that I agree with both your cynicism in practice, and the parent commenter's optimism in theory.
They also link to this:

http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_Statusn...
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>If I could wave a magic wand, I'd turn this situation--wherein parents have to cope with the relationship between their kids and the web--to one where parents can do something about it.

They already can do something about it. They can actually teach their children how the world works, how to react to various situations, why blindly believing strangers is a bad idea, and maybe even (gasp) limit what their children are permitted to access on the internet! Shocking ideas, I know.

It is not a government's job to raise children - nor should it ever be.
Good point about static linking. Though Go's big fat binaries count against it as a busybox replacement in areas where storage space is a premium.
>It's absolutely possible to get the novelty he's after while living well

Can you expand on this? I don't necessarily disagree but as a frugal traveler(bike tourer) I can't begin to imagine how I'd have similarly novel experiences traveling affluently.
I recall reading somewhere that there's a whitelist for MSE and only a few sites are enabled on FF right now?
Redlock, not Redshift, I assume?
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His model is not heteroskedastic. The log-error terms are i.i.d, so they have actually all the same variance. The distribution they are sampled from is a normal variance mixture.
> then it should be just as good for a population of 100M

Assuming an normal (or similar) distribution. It seems plausible to me that we're in some sort of multi-modal period in our history. It may not be sophisticated enough to just take a mean or group opinions into five buckets on a one-dimensional graph.
Smaller than my basement home office. I do not regret living in Chicago's suburbs.
A couple of people have pointed out my phrase "non-members extracted from my address book"... Perhaps this should more accurately have been "possibly" extracted from my address book.

I'm a friend of Tom, Jerry, and Spike. We all have each others' email addresses in our address books.

We're all LinkedIn members apart from Spike. Tom and Jerry both upload their address books to LinkedIn, but I don't.

LinkedIn doesn't require a wizard to work out that austinjp may know non-member Spike. They simply have to display Spike in a mixed-list of members and non-members and wait for me to click him.

They even differentiate non-members from members, but too subtly, and all it takes is one mistaken click.
You're defrauding the IRS out of tax revenue by writing off OSS donations as business expenses when the product is free.
the dude is a dead man walking. don't think the FBI will take this lightly.
"“In the future, intelligence services might use the [Internet of Things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper said."

This is one more way that the NSA will break the "in-home" barrier for surveillance, as though keeping track of your online thought isn't enough. It may not be exactly the same as having a camera in your home, but it's uncomfortably close when your toaster can tell the government about your habits.
Martin made no mention of strong vs. eventual consistency.

If you write to a store like cassandra using a monotonic token, the result will converge correctly. If you require to never read "stale" data, you can read / write w/ quorum. There is no linearization in the storage layer in this case.

In this case the lock is not superfluous and you have safety.

Regarding CAS, I said that your argument (in support of redlock) was wrong. I would be happy to respond to a proposed algorithm, but as someone else mentioned, either the storage layer can provide a CAS operation, in which case your lock is not required and the workers read, mutate, CAS, OR if the storage layer has any weaker semantics then it is not possible to ensure safety with a token.
fair enough, but then patio11 should donate out of his own pocket.

That's what I did.
"especially foreigners"

You realize most foreigners come here for the American dream, right? I don't know about you but look around. Many Americans, including myself, don't believe in that made up non-sense.

It was a period in world history where everything lined up. In the 50s to 70s, there was enough population but not too much, great economic expansion, and opportunity to be found.

As a generation that grew up with 9/11, two wars, an economic crash unseen in decades, unemployment, and now college debt, don't tell me that I'm not optimistic because that's the only thing I'm running on these days. The dream is dead (never probably existed), but doesn't mean we need to flush all our hopes into the toilet either.
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Thanks. Learned something new today.
It's unfair to generalize about "these 'math wizards'" or "these parents" just based on the context of the article.

On the topic of "math competitions" or rewarding kids for "being the best," "being the smartest", etc... I gotta say that really didn't work for me. I'm very slow at math (in a 'big picture' way), even though I love it. So making me do that anxiety inducing speed competition actually just made me feel like I was awful at math. The whole "speed multiplication tables" thing in 4th grade honestly made it impossible for me to quickly remember my 7's, 8's and 9's calmly or easily consistently, and even to this day I still have to think about it.

So I see what you're getting at. But I'm not convinced that's all there is to the programs described in the article. While you're probably right that plenty of still parents put unwarranted pressure their kids to be good at math (or anything for that matter), I think you might be injecting your own experiences into this article a little bit.

edit: one more thought... for me, math is a kind of spiritual practice. It is a way of exploring perspectives of things that would otherwise be assumed, under the radar. So for me it's very important, even if I don't "do something with the math" to have a healthy, creative relationship with it. A lot of people are effectively superstitious about math. It's a bummer. So called "advanced math" is usually just the most elementary stuff. Number lines and venn diagrams, sets and groups... these are things that people use every day! I wish more people had confident intuition about these kinds of things so that we could elevate beyond just taking our cultural mathematical constructs and perspectives as givens and evolve them to other possibilities.
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I had to restart chrome because it killed my cursor.... I have no idea what key command I could have pressed to revert that... a much needed restart though.
In the USA we have a public education system that strongly indoctrinates our youth (and their parents) for 13 years that kids must go to college and must get a degree or they are utterly worthless, given that its "pay or die" they'll pay anything. Will not talk about apprenticeships or the trades upon pain of being fired from the educational establishment. With a side dish of propaganda that all educational debt is good productive debt. There's also a widely held misconception that high paying jobs are magically handed out with each diploma, so an increase in the number of diplomas issued magically means high paying jobs are created, which is tragicomic.
certainly looks interesting, thanks
Ask HN: Who to approach for app pitching?
I'm working on an advertising app, and want feedback from small, local businesses on whether they'd be interested in using it.

Who should I try to get in touch with? Managers? Owners? It'll be free/free-tiered as it gets rolling, and I honestly think it would be a great boost for startups. But I'm worried I'll be dismissed as a solicitor if I just start walking into restaurants etc.

Any tips from personal experience?
> Why would the next generation want to take up that room?

Because they want the things money can buy.

> Would you take up a career where despite long & expensive education, long hours, hard work, and lives-in-your-hands responsibility, you kept just 27% of your income?

Maybe, maybe not, but, anyway, that's not how marginal rates in a progressive tax system work. Even if the marginal rate that kicks in at $10 million is 73%, that means you only keep 27% of the amount after $10 million, and some greater amount of the part below $10 million. Obviously, an increase in the top marginal tax rate decreases the incentive to work to increase income once you've reached the annual income level at which the higher tax rate applies, but doesn't it really hurt anyone that people already making at least $10 million/year prioritize making additional income less over other priorities?
For reference, the Space Shuttle SRBs were 2800k each at launch and bumped up over 3000k. This chart is a little nuts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Srbthrust2.svg
As with any other service it depends whether your username has already been taken or not.
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The development is the product of a 2012 design competition intended to address one of the city’s more vexing housing problems: How do you build safe, legal and reasonably priced apartments for single New Yorkers who do not want to double — or triple — up with roommates?

This is actually not that hard: the solution is to reduce or eliminate height restrictions and build more subways. That's it. I wrote more about the issue here: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-futu... and do see the links within it.

The failure to understand basic economics is amazing.
There is certainly some involvement of magic - read: metaclasses[1]. However, I just want to add another anecdotal data point. A few month back we had a four hour Django session with interested teenagers. Most of them had no problem picking up Django based on a prepared tutorial. Even though other frameworks might be more lean and slim, Django has still a lot to go for it in terms of comprehensiveness and ease of start.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/100003/89391
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If you're already logged into e.g. Gmail, it doesn't even matter if you don't use the same password, because Google will still pop up a dialog box asking you to allow permission.
Dream and try to become a cosmonaut, or a rock star, or a Princess of Wales all you want!

But this is counting your chickens before they hatch. Make $250,000 first... Then advocate for tax cuts to that bracket.

Doing otherwise just makes the advocate a Useful Idiot. [1] You're expending your money and energy to make someone far better off then the majority of the electorate even better off - at theirs, and your expense. I would understand if this is done for selfish reasons - but when you're a pauper, Rockefeller doesn't need your charity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
except for trivial cases you can't sell tickets at cost - there are way too many factors at play and you need some extra budget in case things go haywire (and they will). You want to plan your budget so that the conference is slightly profitable. BTW: Accepting sponsoring is a for profit activity as well - you get money and perform a service in return (advertise the sponsor etc.)
And what happens when "more than 40 organizations and experts from 13 regions" aren't in agreement with each other?

This seems like hand-waving; and if it isn't, look what happened when reddit tried to move away from being an anything goes environment
Distorted text isn't even used in reCAPTCHA all that much anymore -- Google used a Deep Convolutional Neural Network and got over 90% accuracy in reading street numbers in Street View, and 99.8% accuracy in solving distorted text reCAPTCHA (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6082).

Most users will just check a "I'm not a robot" box now; and if you do get a test, it will likely be a computer vision / image labeling problem: https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-ro...
I'm sorry that you hate this quote, but I strongly agree with the sentiment. A perfect example of this mentality is Joe the Plumber from the 2008 election. Here is a guy that was out of work had a lien on a property for not paying taxes, and yet what is this guy worried about? The raise on taxes Obama was proposing on the top bracket. Why? Because some day he hoped to start his own business.

What kind of person worries about raising taxes on the rich that cannot pay back taxes and is underemployed? A temporarily embarrassed millionaire. I've lost track of how many people I've met who can barely make ends meet or are deeply in debt and yet hold onto this philosophy.

Isn't it a good thing that people have hope? Yes. But is it a good thing to live in a fantasy world and make decisions based on that fantasy while failing to live up to your obligations in your every day life? No, I think it is a terrible thing. A significant portion of Americans seem to live in a state of delusion. It's stupid for people who are un or under-employed and have no capital to vote for and advocate for those making millions because they themselves think they will get there eventually. This seems to happen quite a bit in America and nowhere else.
My personal experiences with IBM representatives in Eastern Europe were rather negative (IBM was a strategic partner of my company), concerning IBM BPM and Cloud hosting. Their people were not trying to be nice or helpful. You had to really push them to get anything done. I'd expect better service, more focus on documentation.

edit: I do however recognise how huge the company is and how dramatic and brave their decisions have been to redefine the business.
Yeah that's true...although in non-functional languages it seems there are less ways still...well, it feels with Haskell there is multiple ways to think about writing the solution the problem whereas other languages there are multiple ways to just...writing the problem.

"Maybe" still blew my mind away first time I saw it...MAYBE?? MAYBE?? :D. Sure it would all be beautiful if I spent time learning it.
Thanks! Placed an order for the hAP ac lite. Looking forward to setting it up.
At the grocery store Winco I have seen inside the package of a fresh side of salmon a little white worm crawling around. Their produce is otherwise seemingly very fresh and I've never had quality issues buying from them. I have no idea if that worm was at all dangerous to humans, but ever since then I have assumed that all of the salmon I eat is similarly affected and I am extra careful with preparation.
Yes, and the real rate for those making above 500k is less than 10% lower. So...35% of what they earn.
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Let's say that you make $50,000 a year. There's a bill that cuts taxes by 5% for anyone making under $1,000,000 and 50% for anyone making over that. Do you vote yes on this because "I'm going to be a millionaire soon anyway" or do you vote no, because while both people benefit, one tier benefits a disproportionate amount?

Nobody is telling children "don't have dreams". They are saying "Hey you middle-aged Americans who have lost their retirement savings to Enron, WorldCom, 2008, etc, maybe you are getting the short of end of the stick here."
50% is a guess based more on the linked article that shows the internet share of advertising's growth rate is slowing down (http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-02-28/ADS_revenue-after-5-yea...).

Also look at the linked graph from the 1.29% article: http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-02-28/ADS_medium_share2.jpg

Each generation of advertising takes over more, but magazine, radio, are remarkably robust. TV will remain too (even if some transfers to Hulu/Netflix/etc...).
"especially foreigners"

I should have been more specific, but I'm obviously not talking about foreigners who come to America for the American Dream. I'm talking about foreigners who criticize the American Dream despite having never came here to try to pursue it themselves.

And I happen to know a lot of foreigners who came here for the American Dream and actually attained it. They are its staunchest defenders, in fact.
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> That's what the current "Obamacare" plan was supposed to solve.

And it reduce the problem considerably (though less than it would have without the bizarre Supreme Court decision that Congress can't actually set the terms on which states get federal Medicaid funds, and particularly change the rules on Medicaid to require states accepting federal money to expand coverage -- which resulted in a number of states opting out of the expansion in Medicaid coverage that was intended to cover the lowest-income portion of the uninsured population not already covered by Medicaid -- the higher-income segment was addressed by the exchange-and-subsidy system.)

> After thrusting much of the health system firmly under government control, raising costs substantially, and literally fining people for being unable to afford more expensive plans, we're left with ... the same number of un- & under-insured people.

Actually, a much smaller number, but still more than many people would like.
The guy who wrote that is just full of archaic anecdotal neoliberal propaganda nonsense.
Ot but arstechnica is now using the shitty mobsweet ad network making reading the article impossible on mobile - and they complain when the users fight back!
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There aren't enough qualified doctors for our population as it is.
Thanks. The inner circle is always useful to start.
Last night I applied for a job, and there was a link that you can click to allow the website to access your LinkedIn information. I clicked on this. I usually breeze through this because all these applications just want to access your basic information. I entered my password and hit enter when I looked at the screen and realized that I agreed to the following:

iCIMS would like to access some of your LinkedIn info:

YOUR PROFILE OVERVIEW

YOUR FULL PROFILE

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

YOUR CONNECTIONS

YOUR CONTACT INFO

NETWORK UPDATES

GROUP DISCUSSIONS

INVITATIONS AND MESSAGES

So I looked up what this meant :

Network Updates - Retrieves and posts updates as you.

Group Discussions - Retrieves and posts group discussions
as you.

Invitations and Messages - Sends messages and invitations to connect as you.

So it seems I gave them access to pretty much every feature except the ability to close my account and/or change the password (which I promptly did.) Woops.

This is a category of dark patterns: have the user click on something that has been benign the last 20 times they've seen something similar, but this time isn't.