skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a UX guy, but I love this graph. Lots of data in an easy-to-explore format.

Having said that, I'm not sure if the colors were important enough to merit being included. Do I really care that some occupation gives people a better chance of being in the 1%? Probably not. I'd rather see how many total dollars we are talking about. For instance, do the 1% working securities law make a bunch more than the 1% who are construction managers? By how much?

I'll attempt a tl;dr, although you really should read the article. The 1% consists mostly of: managers, physicians, and lawyers, maybe with elementary and middle-school administrators thrown in as well.

I would caution to be careful of drawing too many conclusions, however. Every time we have these discussions it's the little details that always get you. It's very easy to feel like you are learning more than you actually are. Always be suspicious of aggregated data, especially when you are looking for insight. I blogged about this last month. (http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/12/management-by...)

Guys like lawyers and school principals fit into nice, little boxes. Entrepreneurs don't. I run into this every time I fill out a government form. For instance I know a guy locally who runs a couple of convenience stores, sells fuel on the side (by "on the side" I mean hundreds of thousands of gallons or more a month through home heating oil trucks, propane, etc.) , has a go-cart track, and is getting into e-commerce. What do you call him? A fuel speculator? Grocery manager? Entertainer? We talk about this all the time on HN, even though we don't know it. Take your average startup, say Stripe, are they a technology company? We would probably say so, but they also look a lot like a financial services company. How about the guy who's a lawyer and helps startups in a participatory manner for equity. Is he a VC? A lawyer manager? A partner? Yes, I know the IRS has legal definitions, but when looking at data like this the legal definitions don't really fit the discussion -- it just leaves us more questions than we started with.

The category of many of these business alone is problematic, much less trying to figure out job titles. Real innovation happens between the cracks. It doesn't fit into nice little boxes. The economy works because people are free to pick and choose little bits of all kinds of things to refashion them into something new that never existed before, so the parts that aren't being tracked here are the most important. Once you start looking at aggregates, averages, and deviations, you can make numbers say about anything you want.
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Why is everyone missing this? JQuery is a library that provides a consistent API across browsers. In a future release couldn't they detect CSS3 animation support and update the animate function to use them if supported?

Some projects are already doing this:

http://www.benbarnett.net/2010/09/01/enhancing-jquerys-anima...

Sounds like it should go into mainline jquery pretty soon.
The difficulty with canvas is that it can't really be dropped in to a site in the same way. A site that makes use of slides and fades using a JS library could patch the library to use transitions instead with only a few lines of code (well a few hundred perhaps). Using canvas requires dropping the accessibility benefits as well as having to replicate all the elements manually on canvas.

I agree though, this contrived example would surely work better with canvas.
I'm really surprised how rude Richard Cotton was. It doesn't matter what anyone else was saying, he would just interrupt and tell them they were wrong.
Look more carefully at my wording - most of the time, when you hear a news report using wording like "the income of the average family..." (as opposed to "average income"), you're hearing a median value, not a mean. The newsreader probably doesn't know it, but this is precisely because the median is less skewed by that long tail you mention.
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price of those bullets reminds me of Chris Rock's bit on gun control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuX-nFmL0II
A summary for those who don't have 18 minutes:

1. Excellent introduction and overview of the debate by Chris Hayes

2. NBC General Counsel makes three interesting (cringe-worthy) points:

-jobs

-this only applies to international sites

-the internet is a lawless place

3. He is mostly shot down by Hayes who said if it really only applied to international rogue sites then people wouldn't be making such a big deal about it

4. Alexis makes the points:

-the problem of piracy will best be solved by innovation, not legislation

-the internet is not a "lawless" place and the DMCA is effective

-"piracy is a service problem" ie, if you provide better access to information you will win

5. Random other dude chimes in and says the government did a massive study and can't conclusively say that piracy is killing jobs at all... the entertainment industry is actually growing

6. NBC GC talks a little bit more, mostly being hysterical about how piracy is rampant and terrible.

Great job Alexis!!
i especially liked how he kept pushing the same two lines over and over again, but as soon as alexis came close to saying any sort of soundbyte he just yells out "sloganeering doesn't help anything".
It's a shame that the "piracy is a matter of convenience" argument is dismissed so quickly. Living in the US you can easily get legal access to lots of creative content through the web, but for people outside of the US it's a different story.
I wrote it mainly because I found Disqus and IntenseDebate too limiting, not because of concerns about hosting or data ownership. I'm trying to implement per-section commenting for the Phusion Passenger manual similar to how it's done in the Django book (http://www.djangobook.com/). However after a week of trying it became painfully clear that Disqus was only designed for one use case in mind: a single comment box per page, e.g. blogs. Comment topics in Disqus are tied to the URL, which doesn't work in my case because I want each section on the same page to have a different comment topic. The Disqus developer documentation says that they support AJAX but I did things exactly as documented and all I got was vague undebuggable JavaScript errors.

IntenseDebate was the almost exactly same. I gave up after two days.

I finished the most important parts of Juvia today. I got Juvia commenting in the manual working in about 15 minutes.
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Did you ever heard about what they did with Abdus Salam?
and motivating your kids to do MCP is nonsense? yea she was great but still i think she dont worth to have things named after her. It would be better if they promote real giants (Alan Turing, Dennis Ritchie etc), most of Pakistanis are unaware of them. They think computer science is just Microsoft and Bill gates.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/21/salaam-abdus-salam.html
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[1] http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_lua_scripting_language_in
[2] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/examples/lua/?only_with_tag=MAIN
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It strikes me that he is deliberately lying and pretending SOPA actually says only something that more people would support, ie "shutting down illegal foreign websites stealing american content."

I suspect that someone at his level who is speaking publicly on the issue knows exactly what is in this bill. After all, it is his lobbying money that is buying the bill in the first place.

How can Alexis defend against this bald-faced lie in future debates? It seems like a tough thing to defend against.
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Isn't this sort of approach a security nightmare ?
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Have you made a final decision on no-nested comments/replying? There are some comments related to adding nesting as a feature, as you can even see with your own comment reply here- it's useful and pretty much a necessity these days to make sense of conversation.
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Exactly - hopefully this will happen one day. Having used that plugin though it doesn't work perfectly on all code (jQuery Cycle + that for instance doesn't always work as expected). Any mention of transitions seems to result in a wontfix if you check through the jQuery bug tracker.
Aw c'mon, at least read the article and don't trot out a knee-jerk argument. It makes many valid points about how well Microsoft could really succeed in selling a Unix-hosted product when their heart was in Windows. Just by flipping the question around I think it buries the issue pretty well: If your Unix enterprise app needed a SQL server, why would you look to Microsoft?
Well it works well enough in modern warfare 3, though slightly noobish...
That is pretty nice Peter. I have a few short book ideas and I'll try your service out on one of them.
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I love what Alexis is doing, but unfortunately I think Richard Cotton won this one. As someone who cares about the future of technology and the internet, I know that what Mr. Cotton said isn't true, that this legislation will not only affect foreign companies "wholesalely devoted to illegal content". Yet, as a consumer, I come away from that debate remembering little past the fact that the media companies and their supporters only want to go after these evil foreign websites. "Sure it might not work, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try."

We need to push a clear explanation of why and how this legislation does actually affect US companies in a negative and unjust way. I believe it does, but not having read the legislation (neither will 99.9% of Americans), I don't know exactly how, or why. SOPA supporters' strongest argument seems to be that this act will not harm lawful, job creating US companies. We need a concise explanation of how this harms US companies that is easy for the non-technical American to understand.
Actually, I really looked the colors, it adds another dimension to the data: "given that you have X job, what is the chance that you would become filthy rich". I was actually frustrated with the graph until I noticed the meaning of the colors (viewing on a cell phone didn't help)
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People not familiar is Microsoft are probably not taking part in a discussion on HackerNews, let alone a discussion of why their SQL Server product was not ported to *nix.
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Have you developed any Windows desktop apps?
-"piracy is a service problem" ie, if you provide better access to information you will win

I see this argument time and again and as much as I agree with it, it just doesn't sound very convincing to the mainstream argument against piracy. This is gonna be a huge-ass debate and HN, in some ways, is preparing ground for our folks. One of the things I hope we will do is be dicks and challenge the arguments laid out by folks we like and support, including Alexis, so that the next time they go on, they are better prepared.

I know personally when I prepared for debates in debate class, I'd purpose take a completely opposite position to my own and try to crush my own arguments. It helped me lots - better me crushing nuances in my arguments than my opponents.

To play devil's advocate, here's a counter:

Indeed, piracy may be a service problem. But that does not keep it from also being an enforcement problem. Even in the best case scenario where we have optimal innovation, piracy will require enforcement. We believe there isn't enough of enforcement right now. This has little to do with innovation.
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Cotton was used to the environment where he knows there is a limited amount of time to make his case to the public. He (attempted to) connect it with a subject they care about (jobs) and then did everything he could to shut down any substantive exchange on the issue by talking over Alexis. Within the limited amount of time available, Cotton got more of his message across than Alexis.

I feel like I should be uploading episodes of 30 Rock to every site I can find just to even things out.
Rupert Murdoch squares off with Obama over online piracy legislation
No one likes the tactic of interrupting every dissenting opinion, but without a doubt it's extremely effective.

I know that having everyone at podiums or at a table is a very human thing for debates, making them seem like they're open discussions, but tactics like this prevent such discussions, and are fairly obnoxious for people who are actually trying to listen.

I'd rather just put everyone in sound booths with cameras and then mute them when it's not their turn.
The average is a pretty low bar in our industry. 3x as good as average is like the bar to even be employed in a small team environment.

With that in mind, I'd say that the industry is already paying 3x developers around 1.5x to 2x and lately it is moving into the 3x range.
That sounds like a really cool technical challenge. Care to write about how you solved it?
I agree with loceng. Nested comments are really valuable with any sort of active conversation. If you are only thinking of 2 people in a conversation as your test case, then it's fine as it is.

Btw, really good work with Juvia so far. Been going through your github source and might even play with it next weekend.
Ah, but the question is, are you saying something stupid, or something actually quite intelligent that other people just don't want to hear? The latter tends to attract even more hostility than the former.
Slightly tangential - I didn't realize that this was Hal Berenson's blog. This is an individual who carried serious clout within MSFT. All his other posts are great reading too for an insider perspective on lots of things Microsoft.
He's a lawyer. Does that answer your question?
News Corp. Boss Rupert Murdoch's Angry Anti-Piracy Twitter Rant
Eh, it depends. Would you rather have an 80 percent chance to make 75k per year, or a 10 percent chance to make 1 million per year? That's what I thought.

Engineering and software development are fields where you can consistently make very respectable wages. Risk aversion is a factor, after all...
I think the primary reason I use Disqus instead of coding my own comment server is for its community.

When you have Disqus powering your comments, you have two ways of contributing to this community: by commenting on other people's thoughts (be they blog entries, photos, or news articles) or by writing your own entry and having people comment. You're basically getting a free identity system without the complexity of OpenId or the control of Facebook. I like that balance.

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Do you think MCP is that prestigious?
"The US cannot force other countries to pass DMCA-style laws."

False.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/05/us-pressure... (US pressured Spain to implement online piracy law, leaked files show.)(US ambassador threatened Spain with 'retaliation actions' if the country did not pass tough new SOPA-style Internet piracy laws.)(2012-JAN-05)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reload/ is a Firefox addon which reloads a page when it (and any linked files) changes. Works great for me. It also works with file:/// URLs.
I suspect what is holding it up is both browser support and the time required to get it right. Maybe they don't use animate but provide a separate wrapper.

Keep in mind, the specs are rather large. When people talk about CSS "animations" there really talking about at least 3 specs, maybe 4. CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms, CSS transitions and CSS animation. There is a lot of work to get it right and tested in a nice JS wrapper, not to mention making it work with an existing JS based API.
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Podcasts. I also read my Kindle on the stationary bike in my 30min warmup cardio session. Once you develop the coordination and cadence, you don't need much active thinking to spin a stationary bike. Once you're familiar with weight training motions, you only really need significant mental energy in the last couple of reps.

Personally, most of my gym time is spent mentally engaged in what's coming into my ears. A year in, I'm making fairly consistent gains, so it's working.
Unless you have a (Chinese) factory with EVA molds and some women who stitch the shoe together in your garage, I don't see anyone 'just doing it'.

Even if you start producing your own shoes in China, wait until the first two containers come back with your initial 1000 pair of shoes all having some error that renders them useless.

Sure, you can get quality assurances in place, but you can't go and sell running shoes for twice the price of Nike or Adidas.

It takes some amount of scale to simply make this happen. So he's waiting for an investor to cover the large sums of money required to get a shoe to the market (let alone market the shoe itself).
You guys are wearing some seriously focused blinders here.

Writing software (like a search engine) doesn't require millions of dollars worth of machine tooling just to get started. Manufacturing running shoes does.

The vast majority of businesses are nothing like modern software (which has virtually no startup costs beyond your own time).
I actually want to know more about SVG than canvas. Since SVG already has the concept of translate, scale, ect... built in, are these hardware accelerated like CSS3 animations for DOM nodes?
For a 9 year old? Yes.

For a 9 year old female in Pakistan? More so.

For a 9 year old female in Pakistan with an outlook on life that is more mature than some 20 year olds?

I'm having trouble coming up with reasons that this wasn't a very big deal.
I'd pay top-dollar to rent a movie while it's still in theaters (especially in lieu of a low-quality, pirated option)

A thousand times yes.

I have an AppleTV and would love to use it more. Sadly most movies arrive on the torrents months before apple adds them to their store. I just don't want to wait that long.

To add insult to injury most downloads on AppleTV are more expensive than the BlueRay and are plagued with infuriating restrictions; no HD on the download-version, or no download version at all. Sometimes there's even no HD version at all...
Actually, this tactic has worked quite well for me. More commonly, it's a case of person A asking me to do X and then person B asking me to do Y not realizing that I'm working on X already. When this happens, I usually say "I'm already working on X. Are you saying I should tell A I need to do Y first?"

This puts them in a double-bind: do they tell you to work on Y and come off looking like an asshole to person A? If it truly is important (or they are assholes), they'll say yes.

Then it's a simple matter of telling person A that you'll be behind on their project and letting politics take its course. If project X is really important to person A, then they'll go talk to person Y. Either way you're in the clear. Once you've gotten another person involved, it's much more difficult for someone to gaslight you in the manner you speak of.
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I'm considering becoming a computer engineer and i was just wondering how much they make.

That's like asking "how fast does a car go?" You need to know what kind of car it is, who is driving, what the road conditions are, etc. Computer engineers can make vastly different amounts depending on the company they work for, years of experience, what technologies they know, where they live, etc. I hope they teach her in school about defining requirements.
I understand this is a mismatch in terminology.

In your view, "spelling check" is applied to individual words, to see if they appear in a fixed dictionary (see my other comment about difficulties with choosing this "correct" dictionary in reality, though). I can imagine this view is inviting for programmers, because it's easy to implement, but I doubt anyone else finds useful a definition that says there are no misspellings in "Their coming too sea if its reel."

In my view, "spell check" applies to utterances and roughly means "all words are spelled as per the norm of the language; I can send this document to my boss/customer and they won't laugh at my spelling." It is a more user-centric view, and more complex too, because it covers intent and norms, as opposed to the comforting lookup table for a few hand-picked strings. Modern spell checkers make heavy use of statistical analysis of large text corpora, to reasonably approximate context needed to model such intent.

Once we agree on the terminology, I believe we are in agreement, so let's not split hairs. The "correctly spelled" sentence under question comes from the Wikipedia article on spell checking, by the way.