skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GMU is a commuter school ranked outside the top 100

GMU is R1.

R1 unis compensate faculty unusually well compared to other institutions, regardless of other social prestige indicators. R1-level compensation is not typical of US universities, period.

> The average salary for a full professor in the U.S. is $135,000

You've grossly mis-interpreted this data.

Notice that the data breaks down salaries by the type of institution (phd-granding, masters-granding, bachelor-only) .

The average for a full professor is far closer to $91,935 because the vast majority of faculty/instructors in the US work at non-Ph.D. granting institutions.

Many professors never become full professors or become full professors very late in their career (55+).

According to your data, the average for an Associate Professor is $70,334 - 88,306, which is a better comparison because most professors are not full professors for most of their career (especially at non-R1 schools, where budgets often trump professional competence considerations in terms of full professorship appointments).

Also, many full-time instructional staff aren't professors. Instructors make average or below-average salaries (your data says $45-$57 average).

> Median personal income in that age bracket is about $40-50k

Unless we adjust for the fact that all professors have bachelors degrees, then we add 10-20k depending on your data source.

So typical professors 10-20k above average and typical instructors make maybe a few k extra or below average.

Oh, and note that this is all the upper tier of the tertiary education system. Instructors at community colleges are often doing so as a second job or scraping by on less than their students make in their first positions -- far more akin to high school teachers in terms of social status and earning power than anything else. Damn leeches...

Upper middle class indeed... eye roll

> a few people getting rich isn't as big of a concern as tens of thousands of moderately expensive people on payroll.

It is a bigger concern because it's needless waste.

We could slash instructors/professor's wages if we want to re-create our shitty secondary education system at the college level. But other than that, professors/instructors are the singular necessary input for providing higher education. Loan servicing is not necessary for providing education.
You can also cache intermediate results from calculations, the idea is don't fetch things you don't need. And as you know the result from fetching an add is going to be blank you don't need to fetch it. Much like a screen reader not downloading a JPEG.

As to downloading you can try it you self your talking fractions of a watt savings from not downloading a few Meg's.

In terms of other downloads from a page, most of that is things like tiny images which you can mostly skip. The Amazon homepage sends lots of junk but all you actually care about is the search bar and links to other areas.
Buybacks by Companies Like Apple May Signal Danger, Not Growth
"Leaving" sounds like a choice, there are lots of considerations. We don't know how the roadshow went, so we don't know what people were saying about participating at different prices. We also don't know what constraints they had on dilution from previous term sheets.

Personally I'm glad to see a "Unicorn" step out of the corral and survive in the wild. If it is still above a $B valuation after the employee lockup period ends that will definitely classified as a success.
Let's assume Apple aren't stupid and know all of this, and every objection raised in the linked article.

Clearly they think, despite the obvious huge objections, that they can win this one. Can they? Can they make more money doing this than not? By how much?

And what can we do to break that?
Seems crooked, Trump was right all along!
> As opposed to your Apple iPhone where through the magic of telemetry every app is dumping your every finger motion into services like Mixpanel and Kahuna for later analysis.

This is not true at all. And there is a difference between your smartphone and your laptop, even if you can't see it.
buggy rendering engine
Our take...
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It's explained in the answer on the linked page (and in the top comment). Depending on how it is rendered (due perhaps to a buggy renderer) it might show on a screen.
The price of games is intentionally inflated. An IMAX ticket for many new releases is also a magnitude more expensive than seeing it at matinee or through rental or even cheaper when its on TV or Netflix later on.

Most games go on Steam sale for $5 within 3 years of release. And even that is honestly still really inflated (after all, the real per unit cost of a game is $0, so its all pure profit anyway since people are willing to give away the game for free on torrent sites) but mobile demonstrates the real price floor for video games - the microtransaction whale market where you have to give it away for free and hope you have 1/100 customers actually pay money is fairly "real" in terms of pricing.

Even for paid mobile games, if they have a PC port, it will be a third or less the price on Google Play than it was on Steam, not because of development costs but because the Steam userbase "expects" $15 purchases while mobile users won't pay more than $5.
it matters because we're eager to drop legacy code/bloat based on our audience and also how much money to invest into optimization for specific browsers.
It's easier to teach maths to kids than Oxford undergrads
You are right ... but there are two things to consider:

1. New buildings are usually aimed towards the higher end of the market. New buildings tend to be more expensive, because building loans have to be repaid, so they tend to aim for higher rents/sale prices. If it happens, affordability tends to happen as older buildings lower their rents or just do not raise them as fast as inflation.

2. More supply of housing is usually a good thing regardless of price. Eventually, prices should align with demand. Nobody wants to own an empty apartment that just sits and leaks property taxes.

Of course it would be better if builders actually built with view of the price sensitivity of actual potential customers instead of chasing imaginary millionaires, but even this is much better than nothing.

As I have said before, the bottom is already falling out of the very high end of the market. This trend will probably continue downmarket.
Any scenario where the SVG's shapes are rendered with anti-aliasing, and the edges of both overlapping shapes are mid-pixel: the edge of the top shape would be rendered with partial alpha, and then beneath that, the edge of the differently-colored lower shape would bleed through as it is also rendered, at that contiguous line, with partial alpha.

EDIT: You can actually see this very effect in action if you zoom in on the diagonal edges of the yellow and blue faces of the logo on the BBC's page for the EU referendum happening right now: http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results - on these anti-aliased diagonal edges (enlarged: http://i.imgur.com/GmxUD60.png), since there's no indentation like the one this SE question highlights, the red shape underneath both of the shapes bleeds through.

Compare the outlines of the shapes with the red shape conterminous beneath them (http://i.imgur.com/Nwyl8YE.png) to the outlines they have when that shape is removed (http://i.imgur.com/iOQmyJx.png).
"Where are the checks for these institutions?"

The Constitution allows federal judges to be impeached by Congress:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_investigations_of_...
> Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.

Call it proximity bias to having just seen High Rise, but this sounds pretty Ballardian to me.
Almost every unit was once luxury and priced accordingly. Adding supply at the top of the market reduces pressure other price segments.

And if they stay empty, eventually things will crash and prices will drop. It's happened in other cities.
The EU Is on the Verge of Allowing Traffic Throttling
BBC isn't really government, and it's definitely an organisation that's often been quite advanced in pushing new broadcasting technology.
I focused on that somewhat in this thread because that was what you initially asked about, but note that only my first response to Swift's creator's justifications even mentions that. I do think servers moving from GC to RC would not be very advantageous, but not for that reason (or at least, like you said that reason only applies to a minority).

The biggest reason is that while some server side applications are very latency sensitive, many (most?) are not. For most websites, significant (i.e. collections of older generations) GC pauses are going to be relatively infrequent and having a few requests slow down just a bit for less than a second is not a huge problem. In these cases (which if they aren't the majority, they're still close) throughput is more important that latency, which is where a GC shines. And ease of programming/maintenance is likely to be more important than both.

As far as "helping you reason about your object graph", I don't see the argument about how forcing you to RC helps you do that at all. All of the extra reasoning is centered around something that would be otherwise irrelevant. Even in cases where you do something that is not amenable to GC collection (e.g. events/observers that keep objects alive which you didn't intend to), it seems of little benefit to have to constantly think about all of your other references at the same time.
> My point is that academic jobs are generally well-paying and secure

That is a completely wrong assumption for the United States. 66% of faculty positions today are non-tenure track, also known as adjunct or contingent faculty (source: http://agb.org/trusteeship/2013/5/changing-academic-workforc...). Median salary for adjunct faculty is $31k a year (source: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Adjunct_Professor/Sa...)
Response boils down to "they didn't do it so we're legally allowed to". But WHY are you trying to Trademark that name other than to harm the Lets Encrypt business? If there's any other answer than harm towards Lets Encrypt I'd really like to hear it.

Despicable.
Mmm, this answer is much better than mine because it uses the word alpha.
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I would think "no expectation of privacy" implies that a computer is a public space. Wouldn't that make it difficult to say that an access was unauthorized?
Exactly. It's 2016 already, I expect to be happy and engaged sitting on my couch. Elevators are so 20th century.
It actually doesn't totally avoid the issue, because you're still leaking information unless you use a different ID for every request. Someone looking at referer logs can see that you accessed two different things from the same folder.

There's also the u= parameter which tells which user you are. That _is_ obfuscated, but it has the same correlation issue, it's the same for forever for a single user, so you could tell that it's the same user looking at different URLs.

(we use the u= parameter both for supporting multiple concurrent logged in users on the same machine, and as an extra layer of CSRF protection)
But how is it all relevant to the discussion? Bottom line is that using adblock in one browser and not using it in other browser makes the comparisons meaningless...
Why do so many people in Stack Overflow try to answer the answer by adding a comment to the question instead of adding an answer which, I suppose, is the correct way? Are they just trying to get visibility?
Would be nice if it included pricing per # and per SMS msg sent, etc...and any other fees.
> He's either being disingenuous or he's terribly misinformed

He's trying to register the Lets Encrypt trademark and deflecting with "but they didn't so we can". I don't think there's a question of being disingenuous.
Results timeline - local (US Eastern):

3-4 a.m. (10-11 p.m.)	- Results from half of the counting areas are in

Around 5 a.m. (midnight)	- About 80% of counting areas have reported results

7 a.m. (2 a.m.)	- All votes are likely to have been counted and the official result is expected shortly after.
Shouldn't the title here be "UK referendum results"?
Deep learning for robotics is tremendously harder than you're making it out to be. It's not magic pixie dust you just sprinkle over something. The state of the art in physical robot deep learning is robots learning a single simple action like picking up something in front of them, and even this is quite difficult.
"It's not a bug, it's just how the algorithm works!"
You can cross-compile from Linux.
hahaha, this comments wins for use of the word "sheeple"
I found that to be a bad argument as well. The author is conveniently ignoring the fact that those options vested in the first place. By that logic, why should investors get a lot of the windfall when they didn't "work hard" for the life of the company?

Basically it is a disguised argument against shareholders who are not already wealthy. "Here have these shares of the company. Oh, but you don't really deserve them because you didn't buy it with cash like we did, you earned it through sweat. Your labor is worth less than our capital".
Well the article starts by saying "affluent young professionals" and talking about "millennial-friendly extras" but I agree. The people paying $1.5million+ on condos are executive and VP types, but that still leads me to my question...

Who is buying those? I work at and work with companies based out of the bay area, seems like most of those senior big money roles are not in Austin.

But I'm not a real estate developer and don't know the entire Austin tech scene either...
The chromatic descending bass starting on　the tonic of a minor chord is a cliche that appears all over the place, and is a staple in the blues.

Triumph: "Young enough to Cry": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em8OqpGjUPI

George Harrison: "Something": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9lgfa0Nh3c&t=26 (0:26)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_bass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_progression
The decision talks about the expectations of privacy of criminal defendants, and weighs the interests of privacy against the interests of law enforcement.

The information that that the government malware obtained in this case was metadata, like IP addresses. The decision cites precedents which say that since the user's IP address is already shared with third parties (e.g., ISPs and any web site that the person goes to), it's not private information. Presumably, once the government got the IP addresses, it correlated them with ISPs' records and obtained warrants to physically seize the computers and search them for child porn.

In my opinion this is an overreach on the part of the government, but it doesn't claim that a private computer is a public space, or even that the government can read files on people's computers without a warrant.
Sure, the brain uses the concept of abstraction, but that is so far away from supporting the assertion that "that's how the brain works."
Developing new or improved models.
> it doesn't sound like you played much Quakeworld or Quake 3

You're right. There were multiple factors that made it less fun than the alternatives I had at the time.

> Spawn times on all items are on a fixed timer, and a large part of the game dynamic is, when you're behind, knowing when the opponent picked them up and knowing when to contest them.

> Your suggestion is that these games would allow a weaker player to win because of lucky spawn or item pickups early in the game

That's not sufficient for the scenario I described. It's not just that you get specific items early, it's that some maps supported specific routes you could traverse that allowed monopolization of those item drops. Now, my point isn't that this is necessarily bad, but that without effective tactics to combat this (which may exist, I was by no means a pro), then it's possible it may boost the ability of a player over someone who might be considered somewhat more skilled at that game. Based on how good my recollection of the situation (from almost a decade and a half ago) was and how well I was able to ascertain methods to counter it (possibly very poor), it may not be a good example.

> In all games (Tennis, chess, whatever) one player very often has to play from behind -- whether you agree this is a good thing or not I'm not sure ...

I think it is a good thing (thus my original point, a few comments up-thread). I also think a game that's meant to be competitive and skill based that it should be possible for a more skilled player to outplay a less skilled player, given enough time. Any situation which allows the lead player to maintain a lead regardless of skill (or even just ignoring everything but great skill differences) is a poor game of skill, and not really fit for competitive play.
> Notice that the data breaks down salaries by the type of institution (phd-granding, masters-granding, bachelor-only) .

> The average for a full professor is far closer to $91,935 because the vast majority of faculty/instructors in the US work at non-Ph.D. granting institutions.

Okay, fair point. But schools that don't grant a doctoral degree are also the cheapest institutions (elite liberal arts colleges aside)--the ones where students aren't taking out huge student loan debt to attend. So those aren't really the target of my ire.

> It is a bigger concern because it's needless waste.

You're fixated on some people getting rich when the real problem is that we spend $500 billion a year on giving kids higher education that very few of them actually need. That's the big waste.

If we cut our higher-education spending by 1/3, we could cut a $10,000 check each year to every single kid in poverty. If we cut it by 2/3, we could additionally pay for health insurance for every uninsured American.

We're forgoing game changing improvements in quality of life so that a bunch of 18-22 year olds can waste time learning things they'll forget the minute they graduate.

> We could slash instructors/professor's wages if we want to re-create our shitty secondary education system at the college level. But other than that, professors/instructors are the singular necessary input for providing higher education. Loan servicing is not necessary for providing education.

My argument isn't that "professors are paid too much." It's that we have too much higher education. Higher education is intrinsically expensive: as you say, professors are necessary input, they get paid above average wages, and we're not automating them away anytime soon. Consequently, we shouldn't encourage millions of kids each year to take on huge amounts of debt to get an education that's worthless.
>The USA in the bottom half of the developed-world pack for 25-34 year olds, less than half of whom obtained ANY form of post-highschool education -- including community college.

There are really only 5-6 countries who have significantly higher tertiary attainment than the US. US is definitely not bottom half of the developed-world pack for 25-34 year olds.
This piece is inane and I'm surprised to see it published by A16Z.

Options are a form of compensation, it's not as if the value created by the early employee goes away if they leave before a liquidity event. They created value and got compensated for it. To call the process of making it easier for departed employees to actually get access to this part of their compensation "optimizing for former employees at the expense of current employees" is disingenuous. If it were somehow possible to claw-back the salary of former employees to pay for the salary of current employees would A16Z actually support that with a straight face? I don't see how this is any different. This whole piece is hopelessly amoral.
Your argument is basically "some science-fiction has sometimes turned out to be true." That doesn't counter the fact that this is just speculation.
> Instead, you, who have been directly responsible for making the stock price rise so much that your options are costly to exercise

I agree with what you're saying, but to clarify, it'd be the taxes which are prohibitively costly, not the act of exercising the options themselves (your hard work doesn't change the price at which you exercise; it just changes the amount that is taxable).

You may still be unable to afford the money it'd cost to exercise your full grant, but that figure was determined before you started working at the company, based on the size of your grant and the price at that time.

(IANAL)
Maybe they're building more than they used to, but the rents make it extremely obvious that in absolute terms, Boston isn't building enough to meet demand.
if torrent traffic is encrypted they wouldn't know it's torrent traffic so would be unable to throttle it, is that right?

I can't imagine why anyone would not encrypt torrent trafffic, perhaps I'm missing something here.
Within the uk it's being referred to as the EU referendum, since we're having a referendum to decide about our fate in the EU. I can see how that's confusing for the rest of the world!
Yes, that makes sense in the context of the BBC/UK, but I was confused on HN because I was thinking the EU was holding some referendum today as well.
Is the vote for a simple majority? In my country, Australia, a referendum must achieve a double majority which means a nationwide majority and a majority in a majority of states. Are there any similar provisions for this referendum?
That's actually how I read it until I saw the comment a above and reread it
And now I will check every svg logo I come across for easter eggs.
this/hacker news is a Comodo SSL website...
I wish I had something like this sooner. I decided to go with Plivo for a side-project of mine and while my experience has been pleasant I really miss MMS support. I'm going to take some time going through this list evaluating different MMS providers. Anybody have any experience with a particular company on this list with MMS that they enjoy?
I agree.

Hacking a computer is illegal, which is why law enforcement agencies need warrants to do it. Being part of a law enforcement agency does not give one automatic authority to violate the laws.
The referendum is not legally binding anyway. It's just a big fancy opinion poll. Albeit, the shit would hit the fan if the government ignored a leave result.
Are there realistic alternatives to options? The point of them seems to be to attracting employees at less than market rate with the incentive that if the company grows they will get a financial reward. And doing so in such a way that it doesn't cost the company too much upfront.

Perhaps the company could buy a financial instrument from a company (secured against a portion of shares) that paid out employees according to a certain formula. If the company made it big the finance company would pay the workers and then recoup the cost from it's shareholding. IF the company died then the workers lose nothing.
Shapeshifting Blackbird can mimic any car
If you do that, though, you have to make sure you don't introduce an open redirect:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Open_redirect

It's not a huge issue, given the number of open redirects on the Internet, but it may put your site at risk of being used in phishing attacks.
Is this going to be decided by the pure number of votes, or is it separated by region and the number of regions is what will decide the result?
As I said, apartments are easily found for that price:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sby/apa?max_price=2000

But anyways, $3500/month (what I mentioned above) is 42k/year in take home pay. Doing some very rough back-of-the-envelope math, that would be a pre-tax salary of about 50k. Obviously that's not reality, but 60k is definitely livable around here. You'd drive a cheap used car and you wouldn't save anything, but you'd be comfortable and wouldn't have to worry too much about frugality.

Someone making 85k would be more than okay.