skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to degrade gracefully without actually doing much work is to detect the lack of JS and put up a note - http://dribbble.com/shots/114735-Caring-for-those-with-disab.... At least it tells a no-script visitor that the page designer is aware of JS-incapable users and the associated issues.
I'm graduating from Stanford with a BS in CS this year and I'm interning at Google this summer, and I'm being paid less than $8000/month. I've also been told that I'm being paid a "master's intern" rate, so presumably interns who haven't completed their bachelor's are being paid less. That said, Google's intern salaries are extremely generous (just not $8000/month generous).

Also, the Stanford CS department conducts a salary survey of graduates every year, and for 2009-2010 the average salary offer for CS/EE undergrads was $79,333 and the median was $80,0000.
The internet does not enable two-way communication, but rather, one-way communication between two or more people.
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To repeat myself from the previous time this study was posted:

The work itself is behind a paywall, but you can read some of the supporting material at http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2011/03/30/1018033108.DCSu... to get an idea.

I found the giant line graph problematic because of the hand waving they did to normalize when the breaks occurred during the day. It also disturbs me to see such large, high frequency variation in a line that is averaging a large number of events without explanation.

The dataset certainly begs for a better analysis. For instance, from the supporting material, is there really a judge (the 'X' marker) the never granted parole to the last three people before his morning snack, but granted 70% for the first three of the day on average? All year, for a significant number of cases? Did no one notice that the people before snack time were not getting due process?
This one is only a month old and suggests that the issue is far from resolved:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/nokia-complies-in-indi...

"A deadline of March 31st has been given to the BlackBerry manufacturer, Research in Motion, to hand over encryption keys which would allow the Indian government to intercept corporate emails and other data used on the secure handsets."

"The corporate BlackBerry system works in such a secure manner, that even the BlackBerry manufacturer cannot intercept messages on its systems, leading to Research in Motion being unable to offer what the Indian government wants."

Was this resolved? I can't find anything newer than the above. Maybe the BBC-interviewer couldn't either and wanted to know what's happening.
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It's inaccurate to label your opinion as tl;dr.
This is one of those "life changing" videos.

I'm not sure about the whole paleo diet thing, but I'm pretty sure humans didn't evolve to eat large quantities of sugar.
It's not exactly paradise. Because classes are only ten weeks total (slightly less in spring), you can't exactly spend the first week or two shopping around without doing non-trivial work for every single class you're shopping --- an approach which doesn't scale, to say the least. There's still a sprint the first few days. But still, it's nice.
Nice article. I would love to see similar data for orchestral auditions. It's common wisdom that it is best to play when the committee is fresh from a break but I'll bet the data would show that that is dramatically the case, since as with parol hearings, rejecting an auditionee would be the default choice.
For someone who has little or no experience in JS and CS, how realistic is it to get away without learning JS and skip directly to CS ?
Yep, just play around with the "Try CoffeeScript" interface they have right on the site. You can actually get pretty far with it right there. Open another window for reference, and start hacking away. Watching the transformations as you code is really interesting.
You are shifting all the work that the criterion was meant to do into the term "meaningfully". Without elaboration on the application of that term, this is of no help as I used a very common standard of "meaningful", "having meaning". A question has meaning, even when the answer is obvious or the answer to a "who" question is "no one". Example: "Who has been to Mars?" is a clearly meaningful sentence.

The issue at play later is: does person A have a right to liberty. Warrenwilkinson's criterion for it not being a right was the ability to append "At whose expense?". I even made that a more reasonable criterion, by implying the further requirement that, in order for a hypothetical right to be considered not a right, it had to come at the expense of someone else (the elaboration used by many other people in better statements of similar criteria, and seemingly the underlying consideration really at play in the two lists warrenwilkinson gave). The objection to even this elaboration was that in the case of a society with slavery, the hypothetical "right to liberty" would obviously come at the expense of slaver owners.

You introduce the interesting symmetry constraint, as charitably as I can gather, intending to use the symmetry between the slaves and owners. No help really, as the owners might as easily conclude that they don't have a right to liberty, they simply have liberty itself. If you landed on an island with slavery on-going, does the criteria proposed have any teeth?

There is, I think, a sharper edged point than this merely amusing slavery objection, but I've mentioned it in other threads already.
I assumed he meant it was a security issue within the nations the interviewer was asking about, not the US.
Thanks for confirming that you went to wrong site.

CaDealerQuotes.org is now filled with filler pages. The general feedback was that domain name did not match content.

The new site domain so that there is less a mismatch is:

BuyNewCarGetNewLife.com

It will show guys if they buy a certain car what the life (mainly women they will attract). I have lots of work to do.
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While I would like a better defined social circle feature, I think Facebook would lose a lot of appeal to many people if suddenly they could only access their closest social circle. Voyeurism is a very powerful part of being a Facebook user.
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Indeed, at least one of the lines was lifted directly from a film. When I ran across that all-caps line at the end of the please-don't-reply-all section, I couldn't help hearing it in Gene Wilder's voice ala Willy Wonka.
Sounds like the concept behind Color (the one with all the money)
I don't think entrepreneurship drive as a trait is exclusively "American." It is quite presumptuous to assume that and smacks of "oh Americans are so cool, we have the most entrepreneurial drive of all countries in the world. No one has drive like we do." Slightly ridiculous, don't you think? Africa with its large informal economy made up of mostly small and medium scale businesses could certainly do with more incubators and venture funding opportunities.
You are right, FSF considers it a free software license but it's not a copyleft license. Google is not required to give out the code. It's compatible with the GPL because you can re-license Apache code under that license.
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As much as anything, I come to HN for the comments and the expertise of the crowd in general for subjects outside my particular areas. If I don't have time to read an entire argument/thread or study a topic in detail, it can be useful to see the prevailing mindset. Sometimes that is akin to consensus.

Would be interesting to be able to enter a thread being able to see the votes but not vote, or voting without seeing the results. First time you enter a thread, that choice is locked in so you can't straddle the fence.
Clopen software?
Advice on how to go about finding a good startup lawyer by those who have gone through the process would be much appreciated.
> what animal would you pursue jogging?

Cheetahs
Paul, even though you're more experienced than most of us when it comes to building and maintaining entrepreneurial ecosystems, I do feel that the community part of this equation can be accomplished regardless of geographic issues.

For me, the great thing about the web is that it is geographically agnostic. This allows for building great businesses and communities without the need of geographical proximity. Meeting other like-minded individuals physically is great, sure, but the inability to do so shouldn't be an obstacle that hinders working with them and accomplishing great things together imho.
I have dealt with this a number of times, and any time I think I am going to write a comment that is more than a few lines long and has any real significance to me, I do it in a word processor or full text editor where I can easily review it and spell check it before posting.
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It has made me recognize that the scores of posts are purely a reflection of opinion and removing that element of opinion reduces the odds of my voting negatively or positively based on my reaction to the opinion the score reflects.

I would not have expected it, but it turns out that for me the comment scores were a probably distraction. The highest rated comments on a topic still rise to the top regardless of scoring 8 points or 48 points - and the difference between a top rated comment being one or the other is often the popularity of the topic and how early in the life of the page it was posted.
What are some stories of unconventional job searches?
For example, the guy who knew that top creative directors were Googling themselves, so he put up a Google ad that said, I see you're Googling yourself - hire me.
There is an argument to be made that modern fruits have been bred to be sweeter, which is worth examining. Also, it is well known in the "paleo" community that fruit should be avoided when trying to get lean (~10-11% body fat for men) - and this is related to fructose and/or its affect on blood sugar. Last point is a type 1 diabetic, now doctor, eats no fruit and this was a very important step for him to maintain healthy blood sugars and get healthy - Dr. Richard Bernstein (he runs a diabetes clinic in NY). I believe that modern fruit eaten is large quantities isn't so benign.
You are extremely fortunate.

I started using Facebook in College, when it was just for college students, and the use case was COMPLETELY different than I would want to use it now.

Now, I'm constantly searching to find an online equivalent of the high-level conversation which I get in the real world (similar to your humour literary allusions).

I'm much more protective of my real-world social connections.
I don't claim to know much about Taubes, nor did I claim to characterize his arguments. Perhaps you noticed that I explicitly disclaimed any direct knowledge of his book?

My only direct knowledge of him is reading one of his blog posts and finding it very misleading, attempting to make a reducto ad absurdum against the standard calories in/calories out theory while ignoring about 90% of the calories in. Not exactly a compelling reason to shell out $11 and hours of my time on his book.
> Can Google plausibly claim to be OSI-compliant on Honeycomb when they have released the product without the source?

The GPL requires that sort of thing, most other open source licenses do not. The Apache license covers what you can do with the source when it has been given to you.

> I have difficulty seeing how "I'll show you the source at some point in the future, when it's convenient for me to do so" is in any meaningful way open source.

Microsoft could release the source code to Windows tomorrow but say you have no right to modify it or distribute the modifications. Just because you've been given the source doesn't mean it's open source. Furthermore, if you haven't been given the source, there isn't anything to say about it. In this case, you are not entitled to the source just because you have the binary.
The first two classes (106A and 106B) are very techinical, though I'd hesitate to let anyone who hadn't taken classes beyond them to work on a piece of software I had control over.

I think a good metric for classes is the final assignment, since it captures "how far" the class goes. For reference, the final assignments are:

106A --- It varies, but has recently been a text-based "Adventure"-style game (in Java) that requires tracking the map, player state, various objects and their capabilities, etc. I think there might also be a small graphical component.

106B/X --- Again, it varies, but the best assignment (in my view) is a BASIC interpreter that implements both a REPL and stored programs. All C++, it's about building a big list of abstract expressions of different types (assignment, etc) that can be executed by walking that list (taking advantage of dynamic dispatch) and tracking global program state. It's a nice intersection of data structures and (very simple) recursive descent parsing.

107 --- A heap allocator to implement malloc(), realloc(), and free(), written on top of mmap(). A fantastic assignment.

So yeah, they're not trivial classes.
Yup. Facebook is people I used to know, Twitter is people I'd like to.
WTF? Scoble is smarter than this. OS X (and Linux to a lesser extent) replaced Windows among hackers and developers a long time ago. Where's he been this whole time?
I'm guessing the gp was referring to the many "detox" programs, which claim to remove unnamed "toxins" from the body through fasting, eating raw food, lots of pooping, etc.
Maybe I should rephrase the question: In Silicon Valley do most people negotiate? Is it just part of the culture?
I too had my first machine at a super young age in 1994 and learned to program just the same. Our only difference was that I was still on chat/IM all day back then too, a distraction, but not as big of one as doing anything on a 25mhz Mac with a 33.6kbs modem.

What really made me learn to program was the NEED to figure out how to work the machine and network to be as fast as I could. I do doubt I'd be as interested in learning the innards on a smartphone or netbook...
I was only replying at your statement that Android is not free software: it is, by the letter of the law, even if it doesn't feel like it at all, in spirit.
Sorry, didn't do it for me. I was at first confused by the "give it a name", then it took me to another page and I lost interest.

Why not just a simple form that lets you enter your salary, and provide some optional info that will only be revealed to people you choose?
Actually, if you read his blog, you'll find lots of articles that, at least indirectly, indict rice (and basically anything that spikes your blood sugar, which includes all grains). For example:

http://www.heartscanblog.org/2010/07/what-increases-blood-su...

Generally, he advocates close postprandial monitoring of blood sugar as a sort of proxy for triglicerides/ldl and often notes that some people may have higher tolerances for certain foods than others. If rice doesn't raise your postprandial blood sugar much, then I'd imagine he'd be ok with it.
I do have a source for this, I saw the offer myself. I was also told that this is given to all interns, no matter what department. That being said, maybe this applied only to grad interns - maybe undergraduates get less.
This is a strong case for the GPL in the GPL-vs-BSD debate. Lots of the BSD-license proponents are claiming that the GPL would turn commercial companies away, and that if they give back due to the GPL, they'd do so for the BSD projects too.
As an off-topic request, I prefer links to the original source, not to intermediate sources. Yesterday TechCrunch got love for an announcement made on Google Blog; today for an announcement made at Wordpress. In neither case did they add any value.
I really don't mean to sound unpleasant, but does anyone else think that the primary goal of Greplin is to exit via Google or Facebook? From a consumer point of view, can it ever be anything more than a niche product? I'm genuinely curious...these patches are somewhat superficial, and while a nice gesture, the cynical part of me sees it as a ploy to gain cred with the people most likely to influence buyouts.
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Not very realistic. CoffeeScript semantics are nearly identical to JavaScript semantics -- you'll have to understand them.
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There's an intern for that
And none of the valid ones will allow two-three days to matter. If you are humming and hawing for weeks, sure, point taken.
I wonder if the licensing is open or hampered by fees like Firewire was.

10Gb bi-directional with 2 channels is nothing to sneeze at, and if this is even as common as firewire, it will be a godsend to many folks.

Synching a fresh 160GB ipod using USB2 is extremely slow.
I find copyleft stipulations a bit overdone, personally. Software licensed under the Apache license can match Stallman's traditional definition of Free Software if the maintainer chooses to do so, and that's why it's considered a Free Software license. Even the GPL won't bring someone who doesn't care about free software into compliance; just take a glance at ffmpeg's Hall of Shame [1].

[1] http://ffmpeg.org/shame.html
I hope that's not true of a university like Stanford. I know it's not true for my school (which is nowhere near Stanford in terms of prestige or name-recognition).
1) This is why we tell our clients, right on our online order form that increasing shares will increase the cost. If they still insist on increasing the # of shares, we'll call and explain to them that you can file a low # of shares now and file "Articles of Amendment" to change it to a higher # later when you are better capitalized. Besides, most VC's are going to amend your original articles of incorporation anyway to create multiple classes of stock, etc. so it's really not worth it to authorize too many shares.

Finally, I've posted this link to our site before: http://www.mynewcompany.com/annual-report.htm

Bookmark it, and then you can check a) when and if you have an annual fee due for your company/state and b) what the filing fee is.
The median can also be an actual salary, which may or may not give it away.
Not the original poster; but I am using Vibram Five-Fingers and they suits me quite well. (I do prefer barefoot running when possible.)
I don't know if my reply came off as hostile, but I am thankful for your correction. I'm quite surprised that the FSF is so forgiving about what they consider a Free Software License. These sorts of Android "shenanigans" seems like exactly the sort of thing they don't like.
If they have root access on the PHP servers they still access all the data in MySQL by writing code like this:

<?php

$pwnd = mysql_select_or_whatever_it_is('select * from sensitive_tables');

?>

Like most LAMP applications Wordpress uses only one connection with total access to all tables. It's the same unavoidable design issue that causes plugins and themes to be a security issue.
Honestly, diet and exercise help a lot with that.

AEB. Always Eat Breakfast. I don't care if you have lunch in 2 hours. I don't care if you're going to be late to class. I don't care if you're X. Always Eat Breakfast. I don't care if you have to eat breakfast, then throw away 90% of your lunch. ALWAYS eat it.

--

On the other stuff you can do: Make being prepared into a project. I like going over all the materials, identifying all the techniques I'd have to master (in outline format usually, but some materials are bad, so I reorganize it), then figuring out a way to determine if I can perform the techniques.

--

Lastly: Are you sure all the lectures are useful? I always found at least one teacher in a courseload that size to be completely ineffective and it a much better use of time learning the objectives elsewhere and reclaiming those hours.
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Nethack is probably a mess. Battle for Wesnoth sounds like a good idea.
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I stopped using Facebook a while ago for this reason. Family, personal, and professional are better off separate. Incidentally, at every family event I go to now I'm asked if my sister is a lesbian because "she is in a relationship with a girl on facebook, she must be a lesbian". My dad got several calls from relatives asking.

Bottom line is I dont want status updates from many people. And if I do, I want it to be so important that they'll call and tell me.
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Amusingly, I had exactly the same idea and registered a domain intending to create a site doing this as well. I then promptly kept working on my day job until 4am, so haven't done a thing with it.

I like your implementation. To everyone asking about context, I believe this tool is intended to be used when you have already created such context, where coworkers want to know group salary information while still protecting their personal information from each other.

I had imagined the use would be where people were already in a group and wanted to share information anonymously. I had a brief moment before I fell asleep wondering how to prevent someone from just reloading the page as others submitted their salary information, thus being able to know what salary mapped to what user by the order they show up. I see that you set a minimum limit on the number of users in a pool, have you addressed this once the pool grows beyond that size?