skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this picture is from Finland (a country with very small differences in incomes): http://hs10.snstatic.fi/webkuva/taysi/630/1460170330858?ts=5...

Y-scale is the taxes paid

X-scale is the income

As you can see... people in middle class and lower play by the rules almost perfectly. Now the richest don't play anymore. There are those that play by the rules, but a lot of those that don't.

Finland has a progressive income tax.

So let's stop the bullshit that everything does it. This picture shows it clearly that only the richest are the assholes (in meaningful way).
When I'm learning a subject for myself, I buy the previous edition from Amazon (if I can't get it from the local library). I rarely pay more than $25 for a book.
For example, if the same illegal websites were accessed from someone's home wifi and their mobile phone?

Or maybe the target used the same pseudonym for illegal activities that they used years ago on a public forum?
I think that the singer said in some other video that he made some influence - not directly this kind of curriculum, but an improvement towards that.
I came here to say this. The health benefits for the heart and lungs of "active walking" are well established and anecdotally, people in NYC just walk from place to place constantly vs. other cities. Even metros like SFO. It's even worse in places like Atlanta and Dallas where you basically have to drive from place to place.
The paperback version is also available on Amazon for $26 (it is currently out of stock though).

http://www.amazon.com/dp/149192912X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdm_Tsad...
I don't work for Google, but I did follow that career path - started as a developer, then moved into operations. I didn't immediately become an expert as soon as I made the transition - it was a slow process, and I'm still not what I'd consider the equal of a veteran sysadmin in terms of low-level system knowledge. However, I can hold my own in either discipline.
It's not enough to control the funding, you have to control the political speech. Basically, candidates would get fixed slots of tv and radio time to spread their message, and all other political speech would be forbidden. Otherwise money can dominate the conversation as it does with the pacs. However, such a thing could never be done in the US due to the core belief that free speech is a fundamental right that cannot be curtailed.
> It needs to be stopped not because it's a different party, but because of who is donating the money. In the Obama campaign his fundraising records were set by small, individual donors The GOP on the other hand is using a few mega donors (along with candidates like Clinton)

It's not so simple.

First of all, it's hard for us to accurately compare 2008 and 2016, because there's a lot of data about the 2016 race that won't be released for a while. On top of that, the way data is broken down has changed, so not all of the buckets are 1-1 comparable. That said, most (53%) of Obama's money came from donations of over $200, and almost a third (27%) came from donations of $2,300 or more.[0]. In January, 95% of Clinton's money came from donors under $100.

You can say that we need to look at PACs as well. But actually, most PACs are still limited in the amount of money they can accept per person as well. It's only independent-expenditure-only committees that can take unlimited contributions. Even then, you'd be surprised how little money they actually raise. For example, only 25% of pro-Clinton money went to PACs, and that's counting all PACs, including ones subject to contribution limits[2].

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by 'candidates like Clinton' - in the presidential race, there's only one candidate who's not in the GOP and not Clinton. Is that meant to be a comment about Sanders?

[0] http://www.factcheck.org/2008/07/average-campaign-contributi...

[1] http://time.com/4208386/hillary-clinton-fundraising-bernie-s...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/electio...
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This should be the top comment. The article is full of Galileo gambit (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit) silliness and short on evidence outside of conflating correlation with causation.
The old GHC build system did do everything in 3 phases. And they were pretty magic phases. It's not clear there's any upper bound on the number of phases, and maintaining each phase separation is very tricky.
My problem with this is that we trying to fix finance by expecting Goldman Sachs to act as good citizens. Guess what will never happen.

Goldman is not a good citizen. It is a market maker. It provides the function of creating financial products that people want to buy. Goldman also wrote the first swaps against the mortgages in these securities. Guess what, they didn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts. They did it for the fees.

Goldman is one of the few actors in this mess that performed their jobs well. Rating securities was not their job. Determining if mortgages were sound was not their job. Their job was to package loans that were underwritten by other banks and sell them to _qualified investors_ who wanted to buy them. Goldman did it's job very well.

Ratings agencies had the job of determining the quality of these securities. They did their job poorly.

Investment managers had the _incredibly high paying_ job of selecting sound investments. They did their job poorly.

Goldman is the only one who even comes close to being competent in this entire mess.
The Science of Smart Hiring
I have a Hackberry A10 board. The company behind it, Miniand, just disappeared from the web at one point, along with their website and the discussion forum it had hosted. So yes, user and developer community and sustainable backing is very important.
"Here English should be understood as a stand-in for any field which could be held in dialectical opposition to Computer Science: anthropology, criminal forensics, art history… Pursuing knowledge in this way, much like learning a new language, not only introduces you to, but installs you within, new diverse cycles of thought and promotes a creativity which I think is essential to excelling, dominating, or “winning” at Software Development."

I think I agree with him. In my university, most of the staff was kind of dilettants - I always reasoned that it's because a good teacher should master his subject and once you master it, you probably won't want to settle for 1/5th of the regular wage...
Has this diverged from WHATWG's "living" HTML spec or is it just a snapshot of it?
When I look at the emoji they show for the "grinning face with smiling eyes", three of them strike me as being nowhere close to that description. But I am especially intrigued that the three of them all fail in the same way: the mouth is flat with teeth bared, like a growling dog. I interpret that as much closer to a grimace than a grin.

What's really interesting about that is that it seems like a really unlikely mistake to make. Grins bend the corners of the mouth upward, yes? Surely not many people would say no? At least in the cartoon language of emoji, I would have expected that to be universally agreed upon.

That suggests to me a common cause rather than independent error. Was it a mistake that propagated through copying? Did one initial mistake become established through usage as meaning something different from the specs? Something else?

It would be interesting to know the lineage of these faces and to understand where the mistake was initially made, and if perhaps it was perpetuated intentionally. None of the other emoji have misconstrual measurements anywhere close to that one, which suggests a story.
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At what point does lack of information disclosure in the warrant application render the warrant itself invalid? Is there any precedent for invalidating warrants -- and therefore any information gleaned from the search, and perhaps allowing suits against the offending searchers -- due to circumstances surrounding the application for the warrant?
Honest question: If I create a website that someone uses to to facilitate commerce in Australia, why is it obvious that I should pay Australian tax? I'm not using the resources of the government and their government services did not facilitate the creation of my website.

Shouldn't taxes be at least marginally linked to services rendered by the government? If my business delivers products and I use public roads, I think its reasonable to contribute to that. Or if I consume a product that has been deemed safe by the regulatory body of that government, that seems reasonable to tax as well. But facilitating commerce through websites seems less obvious.
And Max Martin, the Swedish songwriter behind most of the international superstars of the last decade or two. Liked a song by Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Pink or Britney Spears? Good chance it was actually a Max Martin song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
> Until they re-implement it again :)

As the paper says, every previous implementation started nicely and got horrible towards the end. This time, that hasn't happened, so _hopefully_ it's the final one. But, of course, never say never.

> How about using libfuse?

What about Windows? Certainly you could use something like libfuse, and we're trying other solutions - if we manage to build a cross-platform API Shake will be able to use it easily.
Very surprised that this made it to HN, but I wouldn't be shocked if it didn't spur any meaningful discussion considering how insular HN is. Labelling any post with "Africa" is the kiss of death in these parts.
USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack
Layer3 TV’s Crazy Plan to Take on Comcast and Reinvent Cable
A paper log book. I like writing by hand.
I probably should have made my disassociation with the norms of my generation more clear. I am 25 years old and most of my friends are in their early 20’s or even very late teens, but I feel like I don’t quite fit in amongst my peers sometimes. Maybe that’s why I’m single and have ~4 actual friends…who knows.

For example, I agree that it's weird to send a random girl a message on Facebook telling her she's beautiful, but it’s far more common amongst 20-25 year olds than approaching someone in person at a social gathering is.

Maybe “completely normal” wasn’t the best way to put it. The point was to show a contrast in how different forms of interaction are perceived amongst the youth these days.

My source for this information is not official but is based off of the stories that girls have told me. It’s not unusual for an attractive girl in the 20-25 y/o range to receive messages from 2-3+ random guys every day.

I feel like there’s a big difference between how people in their late 20’s interact compared with how people in their early 20’s interact. Social media really “took off” around 2007 under most circumstances, which means that people in their late 20’s now would have already been in their late teens and would have already established their methods of interaction.

Now compare this with someone who has grown up with Facebook and MySpace from the time they were 12 years old. It’s a much bigger influence on them.

There have been massive changes in how people interact and it’s all fairly recent. My 33 year old brother was already well into the dating scene by the time _real_ social media even became a thing. Me on the other hand, I caught the trailing edge of it.

Here’s another example:

If you’re in your 30’s and don’t have a Facebook account, it’s not the end of the world (although still unusual). However, if you are 19 years old and don’t have a Facebook account, you will basically fall off of the map.
In addition to being treated better, my Lyft driver yesterday claimed that he preferred Lyft because the software is better, with more efficient routing and fewer bugs.
It's unfortunate that the researchers couldn't find someone who speaks English fluently to write the paper with. Here's the abstract: "The application of advance [sic] materials to manufacture hard armor systems has led to high performance [sic] ballistic protection. Due to its [sic] light-weight [sic] and high impact energy absorption capabilities, composite metal foams have shown good potential for applications as ballistic armor. A high-performance light-weight composite armor system has been manufactured using boron carbide ceramics as the strike face, composite metal foam processed by powder metallurgy technique [sic] as a bullet kinetic energy absorber interlayer, and aluminum 7075 or Kevlar™ panels as backplates[,] with a total armor thickness less than
25 mm. The ballistic tolerance of this novel composite armor system has been evaluated against the
7.62 × 51 mm M80 and 7.62 × 63 mm M2 armor piercing projectiles according to U.S. National Institute
of Justice (NIJ) standard 0101.06. The results showed that composite metal foams absorbed approximately 60–70% of the total kinetic energy of the projectile effectively and stopped both types of projectiles with less depth of penetration and backplate deformation than that specified in the NIJ 0101.06 standard guidelines. Finite element analysis was performed using Abaqus/Explicit to study the failure mechanisms and energy absorption of the armor system. The results showed close agreement between experimental and analytical [sic] results."

I'm hoping they carried out their experiments (physical and simulation; in my book, FEA simulation results aren't "analytical") more carefully than they wrote the paper.

The foam does sound like a pretty interesting material! I've read about metal foams since my childhood, but the hollow-sphere-based foam seems significantly stronger than the more irregular foams.
Eraser Map: Privacy-Focused Mapping Application for Android
Granted, I'm only on the fifth chapter currently, but this is the first IT-oriented book that I've genuinely had a hard time putting down. It's so exciting to be able to see so many components of such a successful software (and hardware) organization, and as they mention, to see the reasoning behind the decisions rather than just a dump of "here's what we decided."
Once I start seeing Hungry for Apple ads then I'll know for sure.
What's awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}?
Cool! A happy mistake to get corrected.
On the other hand, strawberry perl (http://strawberryperl.com/) for windows solved this by simply including a free toolchain (gcc). The gcc compiler for windows is hardly typical, but it was an interesting choice so that they could have more control over the build environment.

That said, I think MS can/should make installing a toolchain easier than they do. It ought to just be another component of the OS that you can choose to have or not have. Supporting different versions of the compiler on one box is a more advanced use-case that advanced developers can deal with - but each rev of the OS should have the "default" toolchain that installs seamlessly.
Reverse UberPITCH – This Startup Isn't Taking No for an Answer
Me too. Moleskine all the way.
Also, Lyft's GPS location for the car you're looking for is basically real time. Uber's seems to be off by about 1 minute, which is really not a great experience.
There are actually two different SRE roles: the one people are describing above where you are 85-99% of the way to SWE (Software Engineer), and you have sysadminy experience, and another one where you are 100+% of the SWE bar and optionally have sysadminy experience. The former is called SRE-SE (Systems Engineer), and the latter SRE-SWE.

SRE-SE interviews are super heavy on the sysadmin stuff usually, with less (but still significant) attention paid to SWE skills, whereas SRE-SWE interviews may not even have an SRE component (it's possible for candidates in the 'normal' SWE hiring pipeline to be shunted to SRE-SWE post-interview).
If you drop out you'll probably learn more but life will get harder.

School is a wonderful soap bubble and the trouble is not so much "drop out or don't" as much as it is "do we have a place for aspies in our English programs?"

Computer Science departments are not a safe compromise. The conflict @fat is trying to articulate is between those with a place in the school system and those without.
Also quite likely, it is due to the fact that Swedish rape law is quite different from many other countries in 2 aspects that have significant effect on statistics:

a) Every form of sex without consent is classified as rape, including "too drunk/asleep to say no" and sex within a marriage
b) Every incident is recorded separately

So if a person is raped 5 times by his/her spouse, this would lead to 5 rapes in the Swedish statistics, as opposed to zero times (b/c within marriage) or 1 time (b/c same offender and victim) in many other places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
This will show my age a bit, but am I the only one that had a rush of memories about Juno email seeing this headline? Good old dial up email...

I'm probably just weird. At least the general population probably has no such associations with primitive email services.
Probably 20 years or so ago, there was a company named Juno that provided free (ad-supported) dial-up Internet access -- even via toll-free numbers if they didn't have a local number in your area.
Note that the title refers to YouTube PIP on Android. (YouTube Red encompasses a large number of features and the HN title is ambiguous)
If you want to contribute with your home broadband connection, a bridge relay is more appropriate. You can run an exit relay for as little as $5/mo with a VPS.
He mentioned the discovering professor doing the presentation avoided making grand conclusion. I think the presenter not making preconceived conclusion is just basic academic discipline and is a good thing. His job is to decipher the text and present them as raw as possible to the others. The debate, conclusion, and implication should be drawn by the others.
I cant help but wonder if Juno and others are overestimating how much people care about the treatment of their drivers. I think very many people, myself included, would say that it is important to them that their driver is happy with his relationship with his employer. But at the end of the day does that really translate to a change in purchasing behavior?

For me it does not.

I use Uber here in Austin because it is significantly cheaper that Lyft. I hear people say that their drivers tell them that Lyft treats them better. Apparently that's not so much better that they stop driving for Uber. I've actually never had a driver make a comment to me in either direction about Uber. And I've had many drivers who drive for both companies. They have told me, on the few times that I've asked, that the reason they do it is to increase their likelihood of getting a fare.

When I think about it more it really seems like drivers for these services are all getting a raw deal just based on the wear and tear on their vehicles and so small differences in business practices don't really count for much to me.
This is Not Real Life a Tribute to the best of what the Unreal Engine 4 can do
There is a paragraph in there about low levels of stress having an anti-aging effect. Very interesting, thanks for the link. I guess the question, then, is where the therapeutic/hormetic level of stress is. I'd have very much guessed that it'd be well below the level an average dense-inner-city resident suffers, based on studies regarding IQ loss due to stress and similar. shrug
I really liked learning in school. Many of my intellectual interests today would not be so if I didn't learn, for example, a bunch of stuff about linguistics. I don't know if a college education is worth its cost these days, but I think there is a lot of value in it.

There will always be time to work, and to be good at your job. School can be more than that. Pretty much everyone shits on college these days, and I certainly understand why, but this shouldn't be looked at as anything other than conventional wisdom at this point. It's not a cutting-edge take or anything of the sort.
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Most cheese sold in Britain is not sliced, but most people use an ordinary knife for slicing it.

I'd guess grated cheese outsells sliced cheese.
If you're interested in a hoverboard battery pack and motor drive, take a look at the hoverboard teardown that I did with iFixit: https://ifixit.org/blog/7821/swagway-teardown-hoverboards/
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Problem: Today's higher education system has become both costly and inefficient. In addition, students are forced to go through a system that restricts their learning to textbooks and lectures from professors that primarily do research and have no teaching experience or desire. This creates a terrible transition from higher education into the industry and life as an adult.

InventEd: Our organization is a personalized higher education alternative that allows our students to develop their own personal and professional goals that drive their curriculum. Our flexible environment will allow students to acquire an education utilizing their preferred learning style, whether its visual, audio, hands-on, etc. As a non-profit organization, we will utilize a volunteer base of retired engineers, current engineers, and anyone with the right amount of expertise to help mentor these students during their self-driven education. We will provide a direct line between the students acquiring an education and the companies that are interested in hiring students that are self-motivated with valuable real-world experience.

About Us: Founder (Dustin Poisson) is a graduate from the University of Michigan with a Aerospace background. He has gotten extensively involved with STEM education since moving down to Huntsville, AL. He has spoke to countless engineers, professors, and other STEM-focused individuals who back this concept. Co-Founder (Cody Stepko) is an Auburn University graduate with an Industrial engineering background who has an interest in an alternative higher education concept because he struggled in the current system as well. Both his parents are teachers and he has always had the passion to become a teacher as well.

If you have any further questions on our progress or our organization in general, feel free to comment!

Thank you and look forward to hearing from the HackerNews community.
Ireland also does that: https://twitter.com/ireland
I'm not debating the work and how it compares to other professions, or even how the pay compares, I'm just pointing out what I perceive to be society's perception of the prestige of the profession. Here in America, software does not have a lot of prestige, not compared to doctors and lawyers.

Lawyers don't even make that much money, and a lot of them drop out and change professions; we have a glut of lawyers. The ones at the top make a lot, but your rank-and-file ones don't, they probably do worse than your average software engineer. But it doesn't matter: society holds them and doctors in far higher esteem than engineers or programmers of any kind. It's a product of America's anti-intellectual tradition.

Now of course, there is a big factor of relativity involved: if a woman is a waitress or secretary or cashier, for instance, she'll probably be very interested in dating an engineer or programmer (doubly so if she's a single mom struggling to raise some kids). But if she's a lawyer or doctor or she has the traits necessary to attract a doctor, she won't be. If she's an engineer herself, she probably would be interested, but since she's such a minority in her field she'll also have her pick of male engineers and won't be single long.
Handwriting analysis provides clues for dating of old testament texts
The warrant is ridiculous even without the tor part. Read pages #6 and #7.

http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2016/04/08/1460...

ISPs maintain hash values of known child porn files? Show me a single ISP in the Seattle area that runs any of its residential customer http traffic through a caching proxy that examines and hashes each file, I'll eat my shoe.