skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple doesn't have stores in India. Those are Indian-owned retailers licensed to sell Apple products. Indian law won't allow Apple to open their own stores in India like they have done in China.

Apple would only sell second hand phones on India if their was a market for them.
Depends where you are, obviously. Good javascript devs were on £30k a few years ago. Now it's £50k.

We've had javascript dev positions open for over a month now, £25k to £55k.

...if any javascript devs are after a job in Brighton, UK, shout.
Says every architect ever. Hifalutin words. So what, we build in 'flexibility' - guessing which way we plan on going in a year or two. Then in 6 months we pivot, and find we didn't anticipate that direction.
average is skewed towards distribution outliers, the more asymmetric the distribution the more pronounced will be such effect.

On the other hand median just gives you the value that split the distribution in two exact parts.

Price/Income distributions are the perfect match if you want to see avg bias taken to its extreme.

e.g.

median of [2,2,2,2,2,2,2,100] = 2
average of [2,2,2,2,2,2,2,100] = 14.25
That's the one I had my eye on for years. It was supposed to be available in the US in 2013, then 2014, then 2015.... Now they're saying August of this year, but we'll see if it's real.

Edit: I just looked up the specs. The PHEV version (at least the UK one) apparently drops the third row seats. I can't figure out the available cargo space. Everything I find says it's 436L, which is about 15ft^3, but there's no way it could possibly be that small. In any case, all I can say is: no wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame.
If you add in a phone number, almost every company I interact with in Ireland.
That doesn't apply yet in China.
"The sun baking down on the rock isn’t good for the falls and it also affects the appearance of the falls. I’m very concerned about the long-term effects,” Gromosiak said. “I wish they could do it without turning off the falls."

Forget about how much tourism money goes to the Canadian side because the American side is so deficient in any attractions. Forget about pedestrian safety walking across the bridge. Let's worry about how ugly the falls will look with no water for just < 1 year and the color of the rocks BELOW the water changing because of the effect the sun MIGHT have on them.

It's this short sighted thinking that makes me and many others want to leave Western NY and it's this way of thinking that we can't change anything about the city and it's surrounding suburbs for fear of loosing the past. Which is exactly what it is; the past. Many old cities have moved on from their old industrial history. Buffalo and Niagara Falls are still trying to cling to it and for what reason? To preserve history? It stifles innovation; it stifles growth and it restricts money being spent. Only recently (last few years) has money been spent on the downtown water front and it looks amazing. They hold concerts there now; food trucks show up; there are a number of nice restaurants; theres nice green spaces / walking areas. Areas for kids to play - It's great.

Niagara Falls should not be neglected like this.
Parallels from Potter (startup lessons from the HP series)
Yeah but there are no cookie in DNS queries. Tracking by IP is a lot more toothless than tracking by cookies / super-cookies.
Easiest things on the planet to mine, too - the below lark appears to still work, from its ongoing prevalence.

"Your superhero name is your first pet's name, your mother's maiden name, and the street you grew up on - mine is Muffy Hitler Queen, what's yours?"
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I would guess one of the reasons to be the fact that there are a myriad of (money-free) hosting providers out there offering plain drag&drop file uploading with PHP support (often paired with a mysql database access). This makes PHP software extremely easy to install.

Not that it would be even possible to run non-PHP server side scripts with majority of said providers...
If you support their message and cause, it's a reminder that they exist on donations from people like you. If you're thankful, it's a reminder to show thanks if you can/want to.
You aren't going to get paid by a bankrupt client, no matter what happens.
It would just be much easier to use the Facebook graph api, there is an official Python module and is well documented, and would be less likely to hit rate limits or other blocks - ironically that was one of the reasons that the author used scraping instead of the api.
Yes but I don't expect this sort of performance for cable or DSL. We are talking about Optic Fiber really.
If you can't figure that out on your own, then you're obviously unqualified to be a TSA officer.
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Where others see a weakness, I see an opportunity: that's how we could send traffic-tickets straight to policemen's door.
Enjoy watching "Rémi GAILLARD vs POLICE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJMLS4RDAzk
There are countries where they "Ban" stuff by just not lookup up the domain name.
I guess that why he did it this way.
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To be fair, he not only put up his code on GitHub, he also created a semi-professional looking and analogously worded website. That's not something that is posted to HN by "mistake". It sounds more like a startup than a hobby project:

> We are a Chicago based team of developers, dedicated to creating useful, intuitive software that helps people better integrate digital computing into their daily lives

The GitHub repository also proves it's not "we": https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/graphs/contributors
EasyPost is hiring developers
I started blocking ads when adblock plus was not even a thing. Not sure when that was exactly, 10 years ago or more?
However, I did it when they started to add moving ads. There was a site that I regularly consumed (multiple times a day) and that I wanted to support. But, I was not able to focus on the content, everytime that blinking ad just distracted me.
So I had the choice, stop using that site or blocking the ads. I started using adblock back then and everytime I have to use a computer without a blocker I thank myself for the wise decision back then.

That said I would rather not consume anything anymore than allowing ads again.
The things that I was and am really interested in, will be saturated by buying books and the people that put up stuff for free, like I do for certain things.

Also I would pay for services I like. Byte.fm did it the right way I think. It's online radio, from the beginning on they never streamed ads and still do not do so today. Not long after I started to consume them I paid them and still do so today because I support services that explicitly do not use ads.
The same thing for Unaoil scandal, it's not being covered by the media
Sorry for going orthogonal, but I have been wondering about donating for quite a while. I really do like the EFF, has a good mission and most their statements are very much aligned with my pov. Except for some, like their financial statements e.g. https://www.eff.org/about/annual-reports-and-financials

Concerns like:

1. Their numbers don't add up, there is no corresponding arc to the Salaries and Benefits expense for instance (5,377 > 5,184)
2. Salaries and benefits jumped 20% past years, which might mean more employees, but also could be more benefits
3. What are Board Enrichment expenses?
4. I know nonprofit has subtle nuances in meaning, but how could they have 1M Net Investment Income?
5. Most importantly their Support and Revenue figures are double of the expenses, should I really donate them? I mean they can put it away for a rainy day, but is my money actually further any cause?
You're not paying tax on profit just for fun, you're paying it because you're receiving a service: limited liability. If you don't want to pay extra tax, simply accept unlimited liability and you're set!
How did they do that, put a rootkit on his machine forcing all hits to them?
Thank goodness KeePassX remembers my mother's maiden name! I always have a hard time remembering NortOrnEgMeefibrocEu myself.
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I just lost 6 inches of penis. I read the whole article down to the last sentence. When I got to his tag line I realized I had just ingested an overdose of SF tech nerd. This is supposed to be a funny comment but it is not
It really is mostly about the land value, with a bit of local planning opposition. Allowing people to build un-code houses would save a surprisingly small amount of money in the short term at the cost of all sorts of long-term problems.

In the UK if you want a house but are completely agnostic about where, there's Stoke-on-Trent; the council were selling houses for £1 on the condition that the new owner renovated them to code. Otherwise, rural living in Scotland is also quite cheap.
Adblock Plus does that. Ad networks can in some fashion request their ads be unblocked, and ABP does some sort of review (I'm not sure how it all works, I don't use it).
It is most definitely wrong, if your definition of wrong includes disallowed / not recommended by ICANN and IAB.

What is wrong with it is, amongst other things, the real-world possibility of colliding with internal hostnames.
sounds like the dark-pattern bait & switch
If you or anyone else is seriously interested, leave your email and I'll shoot you a note.

My buddy has started commercially farming oysters and other seafood the last few years. The info is not widely available, but you can find it if you look. Many existing farmers (at least half) are fully willing to share knowledge with each other, give you a tour, etc. The fact is they are more in competition with traditional oystermen than they are with other farmers from another region. Another great source of information is the aquaculture folks in your state's DNR (or similar department). Set up a meeting with them and ask away.
Or the UK: Welwyn Garden City, Milton Keynes, etc.
That shouldn't be necessary on this site, but since you asked.

Average (or mean) is the sum of the values divided by the number of values. Because of the way it is calculated, it is more likely to skew when the data includes extremely large or extremely small values. Median on the other hand is a way to measure the "middle value". For data sets of odd cardinality, it is simply the middle value, and for even cardinality, it is the mean of the two middlemost values. You can have a large number of extreme values with no effect on the median value, depending on the data.

As an example let us look at a hypothetical neighborhood. We have a family making 50k, another 100k, another 150k. Their average salary is 100k with the same median. Assume some super rich guy making 10 million. Our average goes up to several million dollars, but the median sits at 125k, more representative of where the data is clumped.

None of this to say that median is a good measurement in what I'll call malicious data sets. Imagine a data set with 1000 entries of negative 10m and 1000 of positive 10m. If I add a new data point of 5000, this is my median but doesn't represent my data at all.

Bonus: there's also "mode" which measure the value that has the most entries. E.g. in a set of 1 2 2 2 3 4 5, mode is 2.
Why would you ever have them in one place?
Kerbside charging points are already becoming common in many cities, although a lot more are going to be needed. Look to cities like Oslo or Amsterdam for examples of best practice here.

Some boroughs of London are quite well covered, with charging points every 1-2 blocks or so (Westminster), where as other parts are pretty useless (Camden). Because the charge point spots are reserved for EVs only, and can only be used while charging, you can usually find an available one pretty easily.

There's talk of designing charge points that can easily be attached to existing street light poles, so in terms of infrastructure the cost to implement charging points on every street should not be unreasonable, once the demand is there.

I see Teslas and BMW i3's parked on the street near me regularly in London with no obvious access to a nearby charging point, so it's certainly possible to use an EV this way at the moment - if not entirely as convenient as having your own charge point. If you're only driving around the city then you probably don't actually need to charge all that often (maybe once a week or so), and for long-distance trips you can stop at a fast charger or supercharger.
> This doesn't work for me, because http://thepiratebay.se is hardcoded in the code and that mirror is blocked in my location. I filed an issue.

Can't you fix that with an entry in your /etc/hosts file ?
No one is forcing you to read their works in the first place.

Nor is your example correct. The first sale doctrine still applies. If you own a legal copy then you do not need to give money to the copyright holder to sell the copy. If someone else has a copy, then you can buy it without sending any money to the copyright holder.

Granted, we appear to have collectively and foolishly decided to reflexively click on "I agree", and switch to on-line rentals instead of actual purchases, making this harder. But it is only illegal if you make a copy. So don't do that. Then there's no (data) highway robbery. Problem solved!
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I'm impressed that you can go four hours between stops with a wife and kid in the car.

I think it depends very much what you grew up with. My wife and I both grew up in families when 8-9 hour drives with only a quick stop for lunch as a vacation was the norm from basically when we where born, and neither one of us thought anything about it.

Our daughter on the other hand spent the first several years of her life basically never going anywhere by car (as we didn't have one) and she absolutely hates spending more than an hour at a time in cars.
I don't know how it's done either, and I've heard about them a few times. It seems somewhat unlikely that there is a remote code execution vulnerability being exploited only by adverts that hasn't been urgently fixed by the browsers.

If there genuinely is an exploit, an advert blocker isn't enough as you could put it on any website as well.

Therefore I wonder if it's possible that someone has a mis-informed definition of viruses and really it's something a little different, such as a simple link to actively download malware.
Well they didn't exactly say "do we have your permission to run your CPU up to 100%, hog all of your memory, and install trackers on your computer? And occasionally, can we install malware on your machine?"
How many people have a venereal disease? 20%?

Doesn't mean I'm going to get fucked by ad networks without protection.

It's not worth the risk.
I think your miscalculation might be devices per person, not people per square meter.

My desk area in Tokyo (so maybe not 120ft²; let's call it 60ft²) has a whole lot more devices than people. 4 computers + personal/work phones + 1 watch + 3 tablets + wireless camera + let's say 5 other random items with an IP address that might be paying a visit (think health/fitness devices, teledildonics, wifi-enabled geiger counters, etc.).

I may not be typical in April 2016, but I'm also not that much of an outlier. 10+ devices per person seems to be the direction we are heading, so... at 100 floors, yeah 100+ devices per square meter.
Additionally, we also have to consider why exactly this company out of all possible companies was selected as the target of the "leak" (or hack?) Maybe exactly because these who selected it as the target knew who would going to be hit and who wouldn't.

I wouldn't be surprised when the impression of most observing or commenting the case would assume "if somebody is not found here he's clean" instead of "this is a (possibly very biased) subselection of some people from all who possibly attempt to obscure something using similar methods."
> That was not well received because democracy is only good if people elect who we want them to elect.

Well, there is always the age-old question of whether democracy canbe abandoned with democratic means. (Note I don't know what the MB platform was in these elections, nor what the constiution looked like). Egypt has deep rooted issues with its military being entrenched in all parts of society and politics (A problem which in turn to a large part was created by western intervention /long time subsidies!). Reversing that will take a very long time, and there is always the risk that the people elect a populist government (be it religious populism or some other kind). There is little reason to believe the situation in Egypt will improve any quicker than it has in e.g. Burma. Which is to say, the west will try to meddle in semi-democratic elections for many decades yet.

When I say everyone in the west would be delighted to see free and fair elections in Russia it's because I believe that the Russian people are quite sensible and would elect a decent leadership if given the chance.
GCHQ sent men with angle grinders to destroy any computer, hard drive, or chip that had touched those files.

This prompted the Guardian to move it's head office to New York - leaving the UK after 195 years.

A better illustration of the UK freedom of the press could not be devised. /s

Interestingly the Guardian article notes they specifically destroyed particular chips, like the keyboard drivers...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-relea...
I can get on board with 70% being too high. It's in line with their previous reservations, and $1k is still not chump change, but it is less than original $5k the Model S reservations went for.

To put things in perspective, right now there are more preorders than the annual sales of the top 3 or 4 small luxury cars combined (BMW M3, and Mercedes C-Class, etc). I can't recall ever seeing this kind of production capacity needed for a single car model, much less a luxury-class car. Exciting stuff.
And microkernels had user-level file systems since the 1980s. By your logic, you must have been using those for quite some time.
Why does it need to scale up? I think scaling up is what caused problems with our planet, we need to start thinking locally.

For Connecticut, this is a local issue (too much Nitrogen in the sound) and this is a local solution that not only _reverses_ a problem, but produces real food and economy.

This economy doesn't have to be at scale, other places on this earth have different problems and require different solutions.

Research "greening the deserts" on youtube for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A

We need to work with nature, not against it. Let nature do the work. A healthy natural system is the true meaning of wealth in this world, it works without ANY human or oil expense. A fly-wheel system that generates money without effort.

Reference: http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2719&q=325572&deepNav_... | "Each summer, the bottom waters in the western half of Long Island Sound experience hypoxia, or very low levels of dissolved oxygen. Extensive monitoring and modeling of Long Island Sound have identified the excessive discharge of nitrogen from human activities as the primary pollutant causing hypoxia. "
Could quantum physics hold the solution? I keep a particle here that I move around and you have it's pair particle on the East coast and watch it wiggle. Somehow turning that into bit flips.

Is it feasible?
Looking at the graph it sure looks just like normal fluctuation.
This. I tend to think ads only work when people don't care or even notice them. If an ad annoys its viewers, it's already a failure of the ad and they don't deserve money, whether or not it's blocked. Many obscene ads failed silently. Ad blocking is just a visible part of their failure.
Welcome to my life. Where you're at right now is where I was not a while ago. So it's too early for me to tell you it's awesome just quit and go on your own... Though, I've worked as a SWE for 10 years going from junior all the the way up to staff level. At the end I was working for one of the best companies out there doing %80 bug fixing versus %20 feature work. %100 Micro-managed and absolutely zero motivation/innovation/future/control/independence.

I quit and started making Apps. Again, it's too early to say that it was the best decision of my life. But here is my only advice for people like you:

You're a SWE, the world needs SWE/developers/coder depends how you call it. There are not enough SWE in this world at the moment. So, you're set... This is something you've acquired already, why do you want to spend the next 10 years doing the same thing and not learning anything else? Now, look at Berkley university for example. They received $250 million in fundings from the silicon valley in order to help students starting businesses. That's where we're going. More Startups, new ventures, more entrepreneurs etc. This is the next SWE job that is coming faster than you think. Go out there and go learn how to be an entrepreneur and do it NOW. If you stay stuck in the corporate world you'll be downgraded to a worker working in a factory in a few years from now. Maybe software will be the Nike and you'll be that 14 years old kid coding in Asia for $1/day (sounded horrible sorry but that's my vision). These kids will write code for us. You'll be more than obsolete. If not, machines will do it for us. So, learning new skills and more specifically entrepreneur skills is crucial. I'd encourage every SWE to jump into the other side before it's too late. We're smarter than anyone else. Companies like Apple, Google, FB, Microsoft were built by people like you and I. Not by some BS product managers hiding in the middle of an organization who has no idea where the money is going...

That's what I told myself before I quit. Of course, like you, I have savings and can survive while learning all these awesome things thanks to 10 years of slavery in the corporate world. Good luck and sorry for my crude language.
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Too simplistic a model.
To be quite honest, "bad government wasting taxpayer money" is more than newsworthy.

To your other point, we have in the past seen the media reporting these types of things in incomplete ways for fear of irritating their sources and losing reporting access.
I'm not saying their system of government is Muslim. I'm saying that 98% of their population is Muslim.
does Mark respond to any of the posts? if so, what kind. Do some types of posts always generate more "buzz" among other commenters? Those are some of the questions that would be interesting to answer.

In this case the process was far more interesting than the findings, thanks for citing the book and videos.
If you've got Cat 5 installed, then ~$10 per port can fix that for you.
You'll need to disrupt the ITU/UN bureaucracy first though; or make do with over crowded ISM frequencies for which GSM isn't designed.
Why did this have to be built and can't we just imagine things anymore?
Building an MVP: cost and process
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If you drive like an idiot, fail to think for yourself, and perhaps deliberately try to run down the battery, then it was pretty much impossible.

And three years is a long time. Here's what the Supercharger situation looked like then:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_AFED015E-139C-420B-A040-FE...

Here's what it looks like today:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_A922B393-0F4B-4E07-9CEA-50...

You'll notice a slight increase in the availability of chargers along that corridor.

In my experience, the people insisting very loudly than range isn't an issue with EVs are all Tesla owners who have taken their cars on 1,000 mile road trips, while the people who insist that Superchargers are worthless and long trips in EVs are terrible are all working from partial information, speculation, and imagination.
Just because Nest did a terrible job being ready for the real world doesn't mean that the idea behind the product isn't sound.
Faster than light communication is impossible.