skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think you probably missed a lot. I suspect there is a long tail of jobs with > $200k salaries. For example:

"The median income for public-university presidents in the 2007-08 academic year was $427,400. The average head of a private university* took home about $100,000 more." [1]

And that's old data.

[1] http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/02/0216_college_pres/1....
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>Any guesses as to why they did this?

I know we're talking about totally different scales here, but web users are able to be very, very fickle. Look at something like digg. In what seemed like a few days, the site all but completely lost all relevancy because the users' perception of "management" was that they were catering to advertisers.

Twitter could fall just as quickly (and so could facebook, despite what seems to be popular opinion) if the users start feeling like they have to be cautious about what they're tweeting (or who they're following, in this case).
I'd suggest you to check social/economic/cultural aspects outside Silicon Valley and then plunge.
For some websites, this makes a lot of sense.

A language learning website that I use recently added trophies to their beta. They previously already had a points system for studying completed and contributions as well. It really works well and helps motivate you a little.

For others, not so much. If Amazon added things like that, I would just scoff and ignore it. And if possible, I'd probably disable it. I don't need a retailer to game me into buying things.
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Android is perfectly capable of competing on it's own merits. The idea that the iPhone is the phone to end all phones is a very HN-centric idea.

Android has been competing quite favorably with the iPhone in hundreds of other markets that lack carrier exclusivity. I think they'll be just fine.

Don't forget that there are going to be LTE capable Android devices long before (apparently) we see an iPhone version.
I would be very surprised if the iPhone 5 comes in GSM-specific and CDMA-specific models. I'd expect a unified model.

I only wonder whether it'll support LTE as well.
Perhaps for access to the large and mature standard Java class library or access to other libraries written for Java?
Combining monitoring data from multiple locations would give a more accurate response time overall. But as a site owner, that number is not very useful because it's not actionable. For example, if response times to my site become slow from say, Dallas or Ireland, there's is nothing I can do about it other than be aware that it's happening.

Monitoring from a single location is interesting because it gives a metric for how well my application is performing.
I needed it recently--I was driving around downtown LA while talking to a friend and trying to use Google Maps (he was trying to guide me somewhere and I was having trouble finding it). In that case I happened to have spotty coverage and my phone switched to edge and so I couldn't do it and that was adding to my frustration.

Also talking on the phone and needing to look up a reference happens surprisingly often. It's really nice to have data available while talking.
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Warren has been Informed.

You can stand down, now.
from http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/verizon-iphone-has-reloca...

as you can see in the photo above, the newly revised CDMA antenna notch has pushed the volume and mute controls down a hair from GSM version. That means a lot of cases -- Apple's current bumpers included -- won't fit properly on the Verizon version
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"Variety has a registration/pay wall"

It does? Opening the link with Opera took me straight to the article.
"Also does anyone think it’s odd that layoffs were announced in the midst of Verizon-iPhone hoopla? Yikes."

Why would that be odd? Why would Facebook care about unrelated companies while they are trying to remain viable?
Depending on demand vs. production, being first in line might mean a difference of weeks or even months in when you actually receive the phone.
It gives you first crack at a limited supply.
That's the difference between free software and non-free software. So do you want to argue that Remind is not free? Or free with just some totally unneeded annoyance? What is really the point of Remind behaving that way except of being annoying?

OT: I never have heard that OSX tries to detect if it is running inside a VM and if it detects that, it refuses to run. Do you have some background info about it?
There is a major difference between being annoying about it's hardware "preferences", and a legally bound license and it's protection to prevent end-users from breaking those defined rules (VMs, Debuggers, and cryptographic DRM). The first doesn't do anything. The second protects profits and secrets.

If the authors of this program decided that they didn't actually like Apple enough to build in copy protection, that would be fine, but nagging brings out the hacker in me, and I want to install it on every OS X machine I can get my hands on, just because they told me not to without a contractual obligation.
Agreed, but they've got some serious time on their side. For me (and everyone else who just picked up the 4), about a year and a half.
Thanks, but I think the grandparent was looking for help in what to choose. "It depends" is true but not helpful

What tea should we be drinking? :)
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I think "30-minute units" is better.
Sadly, for me all it evokes is Leeroy Jenkins.

Don't feel too bad. This is the first I realized that Hudson was meant to evoke an English butler feel.

I always thought of Henry Hudson. (Maybe because I grew up a few blocks from the river.)
My advice: if you don't understand it at first, read it again. And again. Follow the references and read them if you need to. Or google what you don't understand, read up on it on Wikipedia, or another source. People give up way too easily.

Some of you might remember the invisible wall in your mind between you and college-level (and higher) math/science books/papers that you had before you went to college. Breaking that barrier has been one of the most important things I got from college.

Nothing is too difficult to understand (someone had to understand it to write a book about it), so don't give up too early.
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I used Scala for some small projects. I absolutely loved much of it, although I found I got caught up in experimenting with syntax to learn "better" ways to the point of distraction.

These days I use mostly ruby and have started on node.js. Ruby programmers don't seem to understand the importance of encapsulation and typing, which is quite frustrating and leads to much head banging. I yearn for the day Scala or something similar is broadly adopted.

Interestingly, many of the best features of scala mentioned here are veey new to the language. Named parameters and built in copy for case classes were not available until a year ago. It's great to see a language implementing prudent improvements quickly - here's looking at you Java.
I would recommend reading the book recommendations in each chapter. It takes a while but you'll read a lot of good stuff
The release announcement has links to posts by Riptano and Rackspace engineers with more details on the new features: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/11569
20 years ago such singulitarian ideas were considered to be on the extreme fringe, and only a handful of diehard geeks even knew about them. Today they merit a documentary premiered at a trendy film festival and a story in Variety, a solidly mainstream publication.

How times have changed.
If you think Oracle gives the slightest shit about good will you have not been paying attention.
Note: this is not a troll or me trying to be a jerk. Nonetheless, can you link us to some of the research on L-Theanine?
"So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor"
http://twitter.com/#!/drelabre/status/24646925328326657
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Using Kinect, MIT Media Lab pulls off gesture-based web browsing
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I highly recommend (as I do to all interested family, friends, and coworkers) that you wait, just a few months, until Apple has launched the new iPhone.

The worst case is that the iPhone 4 will be half the price of what it is today and you waited a bit (assuming no beneficial upgrades; unlikely) and the best case is that you'll get the new phone, with all of its features benefits, for the same price of today's iPhone 4 (much more likely).
A lot of the cases with ADHD are very specific to the type of ADHD. Usually things that somehow alter norepinephrine or Dopamine levels in the brain (as Caffeine does) often alter somebody's response with ADHD.

For me, it doesn't work. I'm just too wired, my heart feels like it's going to pop out of my chest if I take an amount that will affect my actual concentration (not the same as alertness). Adderall, to me, feels like a much smoother caffeine, and I can concentrate. However, I hate the way it also makes me feel in high doses. Atomoxetine worked great for me as well, but had weird "sexual" side effects. Right now I'm mostly on Wellbutrin XL, which is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, and while it doesn't work as well stimulants, it does work to a point and I feel like my normal self and even better. So far, the best combination for me has been Wellbutrin with a small kicker (5-10mg) of Adderall. Before Wellbutrin, I would take 20-60mg of Adderall a day. Also, Wellbutrin helps with some of my natural anxiety as well.

Also, for what it's worth, Adderall (a stimulant) tends to decrease anxiety for me in certain situations, while amplifying it in others. It's a weird relationship. In some social situations where tons of things are happening, without Adderall I can't focus on anything and I start to go on a weird panic mode. With adderall, that decreases because I can ignore certain things. But it also decreases with alcohol too, because I just don't care.

Anyways, the best thing I ever did was see a psychiatrist. Treatment of ADHD sucks because it's hard to know what will and what won't work, and what side effects are involved.

end tangent.
"Android has been competing quite favorably with the iPhone in hundreds of other markets that lack carrier exclusivity."

I always thought that Android was a second-class citizen in places where the iPhone had been out for a while with no carrier exclusivity. Do you have data to the contrary?
Well, you can demonstrate this already either with normal Bluetooth tethering or with MyWi after jailbreaking.
Send me a message if you end up selling your iPhone, I'd be willing to take it off your hands. (username at gmail)
I don't need a retailer to game me into buying things.

Yeah, and I doubt that would work anyway. It's too easy to go from "ooh I got a trophy" to "I am not your goddamn trained monkey!".
It's interesting that the different incubators would provide such a different experience. Thanks for the post.
The Life of a Paper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity

Though, not a digital good, its a psychological way to increase it's appearance of being good.
How stupid is it? Extremely in my opinion. You are running the configure script on an Apple product, so of course you are insisting on compiling it. That is just unprofessional and in my opinion childish.
Some perspective on the iPhone CDMA limitations on Verizon
Wait, are you saying that naming your CI server after Leeroy Jenkins would be a bad thing?

You don't need to tell upper management, you know. Your late-night Continuous Integration battle cry can be your own little secret.
I wonder if this post qualifies.
I find MobileOrg's workflow clumsy to work with. I wish it would just allow me to browse a directory in my Dropbox and leave the syncing to Dropbox itself.
Ask HN: When would be a good time to start looking for summer internships?
Last year I had to pass up on an internship because my college forced me into a compulsory summer training program (a terrible ASP.NET course). This year, though, I want to work with a real startup on a real product. Since I have never had to look for a job or internship before, I'm more than a little clueless in this area. Possibly stupid questions incoming.

- I usually see students sending out emails in February/March. Is this too early? Too late?

- When sending out my résumé, is it fine to mention technologies I am not familiar with but am going to study this semester? For example, is it all right to add a field that says "Learning this semester: Lisp"?

- What about applying for jobs that are not related to my degree? I'm an engineering student, but I also like to write. Sadly, my "portfolio" only includes my blog.

- Do early-stage startups usually even hire interns?

- Is it a good idea to apply to businesses located in a different city? In case I'm hired, I would obviously have to live in a strange city for the duration of my internship. Sounds fun and scary at the same time. What does HN think?

- When should I negotiate payments?

- How much does GPA matter?

- When writing a résumé, would failed attempts at building software count as "experience"?

Thanks for listening. My apologies if any of this has been asked before.

EDIT: formatting.
Wait, did you say Facebook? If that isn't representative of the problems Myspace is facing, I don't know what is.
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Apple refuses frozen iPhone repair
Interesting scientifically, sure, just like electrons and protons and Newtonian physics and all sorts of other things. But there's not much mystery to it. I agree with uvdiv, acconrad was almost certainly thinking dark matter/energy.
Now that the iPhone is on the Verizon network, the competition with Android will heat up.

Until now, Apple had to field unnerving questions about the total # of Android units sold vs iPhone units sold. But there was always a very relevant factor holding it back: to get the iPhone in the US, you had to be on AT&T.

Until now.

Now that the iPhone is no longer married to AT&T and will be offered by Verizon as well, millions will flock to get it. Now we can truly answer the question: do more people like the iPhone than Android phones?

My prediction: yes.
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But kenjackson is looking at it from Apple's perspective. Sure a number of people may switch to Verizon from at&t but if they already had iPhone's Apple doesn't see any increase.
I think you may be secretly sneaking a step whereby the adjustment layers all run with more bits then only collapse back out to 8-bit at the end to get their higher quality. If you've fixed your code to work with the adjustment layers, you might as well fix it to work that way in general, which I think what GEGL is . It's still not the "adjustment layers" that are fixing anything, it's the fact that you're actually retaining the bits. Pure 8-bit adjustment layers will still look bad, and 12/14/16/8+-bit normal layers will look much better with and without adjustment layers. You can't escape from the fact that computing with too few bits necessarily entails information loss.
That's a good idea. I could sort on a score based on response time and page size.

Update: I added a score-based sorting (bytes/response time). Is this interesting or confusing?

https://www.blamestella.com/group/ycombinator?sort=score
... with a puzzling lack of pricing information about hotspot usage, or even basic data.
Wall Street Doesn’t Like Verizon-AT&T Competition over iPhone
This confused me as well, but I think he means that the bad news will be buried in all the media hype/time being devoted to iPhone.
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Right now it would cost me about $400 roundtrip to Hawaii. The flights are a lot cheaper than they used to be.
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Dear Upset guy,

Try a different build (as it looks like yours is broken), consider using Go-OO (http://www.go-oo.org/) which is much better than straight OO anyway. Don't forget to uninstall before reinstalling and check your appdata folder for leftover config data.

Hope this helps, hugs and kisses,

iuguy
Now that iPhone will be available on Verizon, which way will you Sway?
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Also, Iraq. Thanks, Darrell Issa!
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Looking at the breakdown, then perhaps Indian mothers are the superior ones? :-)

The point is that optimizing along one or two metrics such as income or education is myopic (which was the actual topic of the article), especially when you don't take into consideration the associated costs (opportunity and otherwise).
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Ramanujan[1] had smallpox as a child and died due to malnutrition at the age of 32. As much as we would love to believe otherwise, intelligence is a genetic trait much like athleticism. Unfortunately, the former statement is taboo in our PC culture, while the latter is common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
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You are confusing 'rich' with 'idle rich'.
It's on a different frequency and uses a different communication protocol.

There are a few Verizon phones that are "world phones" meaning they can operate on CDMA and GSM, so you can take them out of the country with you.

I've brought my CDMA phone with me a few times and more or less got by on wifi for data needs (I wasn't going to pay the ridiculous international call fees anyway, last time I did that with my iPhone a 20 minutes of calltime and a few emails cost me over $150!)
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the wikipedia article seem to be much more useful and objective than the original post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine
,and see references there-in
This should be:

1. Think about mistakes you've made today
2. Make a "list" of the #1 thing that you must complete tomorrow
Important clarifications, in particular highlighting that it's not a do-not-track list.
I like that this innovation is market-driven and introduced as a competing alternative, rather than imposed on existing markets in the form of regulation.

It will be interesting to see if this market provides better pricing for non-HFT participants.

The HFT outfits claim they net out to better pricing for all ("liquidity benefits"), but that's somewhat hard to swallow given that they're acting as giant money sinks on the market system.
I don't know much about your income, expenses, etc. However, I am suggesting that dealing with the I hate my _ list does not need to be that expensive. Relative to "I own a big house, drive nice cars* etc.

Home Equity Line of Credit + reasonable expectations means you could get a gas stove that does not look ugly for around 120$ a month. And in the increased value of your home and the real cost could be less than 80$ a month. (AKA 40$ a month becomes another form of savings.)

Now for you personally it's hard to (edit: quickly) cut 120$ a month from your nice cars and big house. But, I am willing to bet you would get more enjoyment from that 120$ than getting the "nicer" versions of other things in your life.

PS: It was vary freeing when I realized I was not spending my money to optimize my happiness. Rather I was buying things based on the amount of spare money I had when I was buying it. (Edit: Not that you have this problem, but it seems common.)
Sure... both.. Society should change and stop relying on credit.
Certainly on an individual scale, less education doesn't necessarily guarantee less money, and more education doesn't necessarily guarantee more money. In the large, however, I think it's safe to say that a society that has more well-educated people will tend to have more wealth than one with few well-educated people, all else being equal. The old "correlation != causation" line is, I think, orthogonal to the real sentiment of the author's argument.

I mean, I don't agree with our (USA) society's current viewpoint that college is basically high school 2.0, and everyone is expected to go. With employers generally requiring college degrees even for jobs with illustrious titles such as "Administrator" (secretary), I understand why someone would pursue a degree even if they have no love of learning.
>That's the difference between free software and non-free software. So do you want to argue that Remind is not free? Or free with just some totally unneeded annoyance? What is really the point of Remind behaving that way except of being annoying?

Indeed, that is the difference. I'm not saying that Remind is not free; I'm saying that despite the message, it remains free software, and you are free to use it and modify it as you wish, which is more than can be said for much of Apple's software. The point of the message is not to be annoying, but to remind users that there is a significant difference between free and non-free software.

> OT: I never have heard that OSX tries to detect if it is running inside a VM and if it detects that, it refuses to run. Do you have some background info about it?

Here's a little bit: "The "Trusted Platform Module," or TPM, is a computer chip embedded inside Intel-based Macs to prevent the Intel-based version of Mac OS X from running on non-Apple hardware. (during installation of Mac OS X, Mac OS X interfaces with the TPM. If Mac OS X finds that the TPM doesn't exist, Mac OS X refuses to install or run.)" [1]

There are ways around this, I guess, and some people have succeeded in running OS X in a VM, but it's not permitted by the EULA, and I believe it's a lot more complicated than simply firing up VirtualBox and installing from an OS X disc.

[1] http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Do_I_need_Ap...
Java learned a ton from previous language's mistakes. The fact that it's ubiquitous, not perfect, has traditionally been slow/judicious to adopt new features (good), and hasn't had a release in the better part of a decade (bad) , amplify the perception of it's flaws.

Compare Java to C++, for example -- the top 5 things that annoy me about C++ are mostly fixed in Java (#ifdef, STL inconsistency, .h and .cpp files for one class, destructors, bounds checking..)
As I understand it, the operations it supports all correspond to the Func<T> version of LINQ in C#, as opposed to the Expression<Func<T>> versions. That is, you can do much if not all that you can in C# so long as you're passing around closures rather than expression trees. LINQ uses expression trees to convert the body of the closure to SQL where and when necessary. I would guess you'd need to play around with operator overloading to simulate the same effect in Scala, and end up with something slightly more clumsy and less integrated (i.e. less tool support, diagnostics etc.) as a result.
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I think that is actually where I read it. It must have resonated internally and became the topic (in my mind).
Exactly. For more details, go to the source: Carol Dweck. A good starting point is her popular book Mindset. (www.mindsetonline.com) There's also now online growth mindset instruction for middle school students (and older) -- see www.brainology.us.
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Data-Driven Journalism, talk by Peter Aldhous of New Scientist Magazine