skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in small companies this stuff is hard, but larger datasets are easier to make anonymous. For example, you could release data about how many women were paid more than their male peers across many departments, and how many were paid less, and not specify which departments are which. Luckily for you, if you are a hiring manager for just IT, the company is probably large enough to publish anonymous data.

The goal here is to have an actionable list on which companies statistically are likely to give equal pay, and which are not.
It sounds like the loop hope is the word "unreasonable". The agent may always search you as long it is "reasonable".
Made up analyst numbers are made up.
It's not charging an extra "late fee", it's removing the "discount for early payment".
Which more or less translates into client-side encryption. Which some people here don't like, weirdly.
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If you take that timeframe, fair point.
Thanks for the comment. The bold is applied again in the css...not ideal. Removing it makes it less heading like though. Can increase the font but not sure if it will suffice.
This really shows a fundamental misunderstanding of not only the background of "net neutrality" regulation, but also of the very structure of the Internet itself.

In your analogy to a printing press, you've misplaced the Internet layer. Time Warner is not the "printing press", Hacker News is the printing press. Time Warner is UPS--shipping the pamphlets, periodicals, and books to the end users.

And in case you didn't know, shipping companies ARE regulated by the federal government in how they are allowed to decide what to carry. There is a set of rules called "common carrier" that specifies how shipping companies may advertise their rates, accept or decline customers, etc.

It's a legal system that dates back, in the U.S. at least, to before the railroads, when stage coaches and barges were the best means of getting pamphlets from one town to another. The goal of common carrier law is ensure that members of the public are treated fairly--so that UPS does not sign a side-deal with Barnes and Noble to "accidentally" deliver all of Amazon's books 4 days late.

This impetus for fair delivery is what is behind the push for net neutrality. Understand that without regulatory protection, it would be legal for Time Warner to (for example) sign a deal with Microsoft by which TW would deny passage of Linux files across the TW network. Or Verizon could sign a deal with Apple to block access to Google Play.

Now--the opponents to net neutrality make a very good point that generally speaking these sorts of things have not actually happened. So one could argue that a compelling need for net neutrality has not yet been demonstrated. But your analogy is flawed.
Nextdoor Raises $18.6M: A Facebook For Local Communities
Looks beautiful, but there is no description the app or its purpose - just a description of 2 of its features.

So, what is it?
Roguelike game in C++ - using Perlin noise for terrain generation
I was talking to an HR guy from a mid-tier web company who said they were pretty adverse to hiring PhD's without proven industry experience. It sounds like they were burned a couple of times by people who couldn't make the transition.
So what do you fell that karma "earns you" that makes it worth the effort? Is it something intrinsic to karma, or something about what you think karma says about you to others? If the latter, then do you think karma is the best way to deliver that value?
Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy at Sun Valley Conference
I mentioned this on the last Collections thread, but I'll mention it again. Getting an email with the word "collections" in it causes a quick jump when I glance through my emails. Not sure how to get around that since it's the name of your software, but it makes me feel like I forgot to pay something and upsets me.
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It would also be good to be able to change the 'expenses' field for ownership.

For example, if you live in NYC there's pretty much no chance you'll find a place which doesn't have (at least) a few grand/month in "coop fees" or "condo fees".

Also, there's "how much will you spend on maintenance", which you don't need to worry about when renting. Replacing a roof, hot water heater, etc. I'm sure you built in some numbers for that, but it would be good to be able to set.

And, as other comments have said, the 30 year mark seems to just be broken. I filled in some random numbers (100k, 60k) and I get 339k expenses in year 29, and -125k in year 30.
My favorite:
http://www.reddit.com/BuildaPC

Something that most folks can do, and get a better product for the same dollars. Not to mention gaining many of the advantages about learning hardware as programming gives you on software.
While a tragic piece of news for stock market analysts, that's not Apple news. :3
Thanks Phil. It's been quite a tough job keeping things looking clean/simple, yet providing all the content and info needed. And I believe we've still got much to learn and improve on...

However, kudos to Michael Calleia -- our UI/UX designer.
Broadcom announces its first 802.11ac Wi-Fi chip for smartphones
I have to agree with this; I like the site, but a quick search for a few books that sprung to mind turned up either a pile of irrelevant results (as someone said above, sort out your stopwords; if I search for "The Gunslinger", "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest" is not relevant) or nothing at all once I started trying distinctive title (Cryptonomicon, Accelerando). I'm keen for someone to do a better job on book recommendations for me, but I think this needs a lot of improvement before it'll do the trick.
Oops. I wonder if this pattern of heat domes will continue for the rest of the summer and what their frequency is. By the end of the year it might no longer be as unusual.
Try turning sending referrer information on.
We do not know the real impact of stuxnet.

I can believe that some government idiots after looking Matrix sponsored "cyberwar".

I can believe that some smart guys really tried to write a first "cyberweapon".

I can believe that iranian intelligence service gladly playing this game.

I can't believe that a country with a lot of people with high education can have a problem with a worm.

Windows or not Windows - it does not matters. Sane persone can't overlook some strange process in OS.

Rootkits? Do you think that this kind of servers frequently rebooting?

And now it even plays AC/DC for "stupid iranians"!

Even lamerz can do nuclear physics! Process explorer for true genuises!
Congress Opens Inquiry Into Data Brokers
Were you doing computational or theoretical or a combo thereof ?
Does Parse support Newsstand yet? I mean in an easy-to-set-up-we-already-did-everything-for-you way, not just in a "yeah, you can use Newsstand with Parse" sort of way.
But, returning to the particular case of the OP:

His essay seemed to say that the cautious incrementalism and turf-buildout that succeeds well with NSF (where most of the funding for academic ML research comes from), turned out to be less exciting than riding upon the Google juggernaut.

It's hard to argue with that. The applicability of ML technology has attracted companies with deep pockets, and really changed the landscape of research.
Things 60 minutes didn’t tell you about making apps
Great stuff - great to see some Aussies hitting it out of the (AT&T) Park!
Brand new accounts can't flag posts (~200 karma) or downvote comments. (~2000 karma) Once I hit those thresholds, the urge to grind goes away.
If your particular research interest involves eventually killing someone, you'll do fantastic. There are of course other sources of funding but they typically have much smaller wallets, especially the further you go on the 'for the good of humanity' scale.

Unfortunately, being in the EU, I don't think changing this part fixes that many of the problems. EU grants are not about killing people, but typically about cooperation, building understanding between nations, reducing violence, integration of immigrants, that kind of thing. Goals I like more, in principle, than DARPA's. But the actual administration is if anything worse: 100-page proposals via hugely bureaucratic processes (NSF's are at least only 15 pages), unwieldy multi-country consortia, periodic mandatory status update meetings in Brussels, the works. If you can sell what you're doing within that framework and work with it, it's good, but it's still very much about being on the right track to impress the purse-string holders.
It was developed at Greylock Hackfest.
Great idea to add relevant sub-Reddits - just put some of those on there!
I wouldn't say it's unforseeable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
This scares me. I know it's only the surface that thawed, but what happens when more than the surface melts next time around? How long can people keep denying the Earth is warming before lower-level coastal regions start to flood?
Near the very end:

"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," said Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data. "But if we continue to observe melting events like this in upcoming years, it will be worrisome."

Makes it a bit less scary. I think this is called burying the lede. ;-)
The hunt for the Higgs boson is going on at CERN, which is not a university. It's more along the lines of a national lab.
Good stuff.

Way back in the day I decided to become a software developer instead of getting my PhD in economics. Economics didnt make any sense to me. It was all philosophy and religion. As an undergraduate, I read only one article that had even basic calculus in it. Perhaps I should have majored in physics and then got my Economics PhD., but nobody did that sort of thing.
Guy strips at PDX airport, court rules not guilty, TSA still wants to punish him
So Greenland will finally be able to live up to it's name. Nice.
"Unlike traditional tuition reimbursement programs, we exclusively fund education only in areas that are well-paying and in high demand according to sources like the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and we fund those areas regardless of whether those skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. In addition, the Amazon Career Choice Program will pay tuition and fees in advance rather than reimbursement after the completion of the course."

That is /really interesting/ I mean, why? from an employer's perspective, it seems like you'd keep your low-skilled employees longer if you helped them pursue their dream of, you know, something unemployable. (I mean, assuming they are going to learn something that doesn't help amazon, amazon keeps people longer if they learn something that isn't in demand.)
The comparison on cost is again on the EC2 on-demand pricing. Reserved pricing or spot pricing would cut that down substantially.
"I have nothing to hide, your search is not reasonable, so I do not consent."
While the back-end seems to have stabilized in the past few months, I'm not sure how useful it'll be unless/until is integrates with both iMessage and SMS/MMS, even if the latter requires an iPhone to actually send and receive messages, and until it does at least "eventually perfect" conversation synchronization between devices.
Holy smoke! That actually works! I can actually read WSJ from behind their paywall now?!? Awesome!
I love it. I looked into doing this a while back with one portion of the business model being Amazon affiliate sales; you should be doing that. Not only is it good for you ($$$) as a user I want it too. Nice job!
Per TFA, this isn't actually all that unusual. Core samples suggest it happens about every 150 years or so, with the last occurrence in the late 19th Century. Indeed, one of the scientists in the article says, "this event is right on time."
> spend a month moving our framework over to Go

Seems a little extreme. Just use it for small, discrete projects. No need to bet the farm.
I wonder about the article title, too. How do they justify calling it "unprecedented" when they clearly state there's a precedent (melting events every 150 years on average)? Seems disingenuous at best.
Sounds cool. But where are all the books?

No Hemingway, Vonnegut, Faulkner, Kerouac, Fitzgerald.

Why no classics?
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Hehe, this is where is gets interesting. There's a huge number of small to mid sized companies which give you huge creative latitude for projects. Perhaps the most famous one is Valve (read their handbook, it's amazing!)

I'm actually hoping to replicate some of those ideas of both the good bits of academe plus the modalities in aforementioned handbook as I start to pull people into my org, Wellposed. (because what's more exciting than working with fun nice interesting intelligent folks who do amazing work plus being paid insanely well? )
"Strawman" means to make up a silly opposing position and then attack it, rather than attacking your actual opponent. It does not apply when your actual opponent is silly.
Does accessing a page in a search engine cache provide assent to the terms of service for the cached page? What if the user has never even visited the cached website?

C'mon HN users. Use your noodle!

CL, which is supposed to be a free service, is looking quite petty here. Baseless lawsuits are more what we'd expect from a PadMapper-like site, which are a dime-a-dozen.

The wonderful thing about the US is almost anyone can sue almost anyone else and assuming the court rules are followed, the filing will be accepted. A "live" lawsuit is only a matter of paying a lawyer.

Of course, how long the suit live will depend on facts.

Others have tried these TOS arguments (where the user has visited the site, not simply a cached page in a search engine) and they have failed.

If you want to stop scraping, then do not put the data on the public web.

Put it behind password access and your chances in court increase exponentially.
I appreciate the frankness in the tone. Basically it says, "there is a lot of work in making a worthwhile App." It is something that folks struggle with. If you have a great idea, and you start working on it right now, in a few years you'll be able to sell it. Longer event horizon than many are comfortable with. This is because if it sucks they won't get their 'few years' back. They will have to do it again. Some folks feel empowered by that tension, others decide to go work for a big company.
I propose a simple compromise in which ISPs can elect into one of two regulatory statuses:

Unregulated and unprotected - The ISP is free to "curate" the content they deliver to customers as they see fit. However, customers may also hold the ISP responsible for their content, for example by initiating civil litigation if pornography is delivered.

Regulated and protected - ISPs cannot be held legally responsible for the content they deliver, but they must deliver all content requested by customers, in accordance with published tiers of service and rate cards.
The claims under "Mass Production of Education" are a little misguided:

1. Online education is not mass produced as he claims; the costs for every video that is downloaded to watch video lecture is incredibly small. Popping up tutorials on YouTube with ads is profitable and sustainable, and that's really all you need for someone who can dedicate themselves to learning more about a topic.

2. I have no idea where he pulls his "winners win" suspicion.

> why wouldn’t every student choose a Stanford or MIT education over, say, UNM?

If we have an open model of education, people would have the freedom of spending a minimal amount of time to look through a plethora of lectures and figure out what they like the best. In the end, you'll hear the best lecturers echoed from students who watched them. I'm making many assumptions here, and I don't want you to forgive me for making them. But we can't overlook the assumptions that the author is making either, and there are a lot of them.

3. Supposedly, online education kills a personal connection: an argument that has been made many times. Maybe I should point to a popular counter-example: Khan Academy. A very small group of people who manage to supplement the education of an incredible amount of people who want the extra help. They do it for free. They are happy with the results. And the people they do it for are very happy with the results. The argument he's making sounds like there's something to be yearned, but I don't buy it.

Were it not for this section and his rant on the "Funding Climate" (I really don't want to argue about politics here), I would not have thought this to be the rambling of an angry, old man. He may have some valid points, but it's hard not to see this as a giant middle finger to his previous employer as well as venting now that he's at his new job.
And in base-128 it would be only denominators up to 127, which is an even more amazing 0.2% ;)
I'm not sure if that makes it any less scary. I wonder what reactions are going to stem from this event? You know, to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.

EDIT: Explain the down-votes. Things don't just happen without something else feeling it. Just like how the Maori ate all the Moas and the Haast Eagle died because it had no more food.
By spamming HN.
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I've certainly seen the proposal raised that you should lose a patent if you don't bring it to market.
For (1), Use a "mark as deleted" option, with extremely strict permissions on viewing deleted data, to protect privacy.
Hard to say for sure with the information provided. While there is evidence that this has happened before, this degree of melting in such a short span of time is certainly "unprecedented" for as long as we've been observing, and it may well be a different kind of event than that which caused 1889's melting.

Either way, could use plenty of clarification.
What does BD stand for?
Between the 0% real rate of return on investments, 0% cost of selling your home, no HOAs, this seems to low-ball cost of ownership by at least 10%. Couldn't even come within 10 years of the NYTimes rent vs buy with my assumptions. Not to mention that this uses a 4% mortgage rate and then offers consumers 4.65% loans.

But when putting people in loans in the only way to monetize, it is going to be hard to give unbiased advice.
Why didn't they name it AirBnB?
Keep in mind that academic science includes fields other than CS ;)
One difference I notice is that RottenTomatoes uses color more effectively. Looking at their homepage I see the red and green tomato icons and instantly see which movies are highly/poorly rated. The blue and gray clouds here don't contrast as much and it took me a second to even realize what was supposed to indicate good or bad. Great idea, though and a good start. Best of luck.
If the officer can articulate (or manufacture later, on the stand) reasonable suspicion, which is a vague standard far below probable cause, it is a Terry stop and he can frisk you for officer safety. The supreme court majority that decided Terry v. Ohio did not adequately consider the consequences of their decision, but it's the law.

If there's anything in your pockets that feels like it might be a weapon of any kind, he can then retrieve it, even if turning your pockets inside out from the start might not be allowed.

Realistically, carrying anything larger than a sheet of paper -- like keys and a cell phone -- will mean that the officer will usually get away with rifling through your pockets.
Just out of curiosity, what would you call this language then: [:find ?entity :where [?entity :db/doc \"hello world\"]]?

What exactly do you see as the problem with this example? Or with SQL for that matter?

Honestly, I'm interested in what your criticism is. Is it the syntax?
Still, I wish they'd provide a bit more information. Do we know what kind of event likely caused 1889's melting? Would it, similarly, have happened in such short a span of time, or due to a similar weather event? It's still hard to dismiss as "normal" when there are so many unanswered questions.
Business development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_development
As a younger person, I'm already aware that I should be careful not to write such positions off. This was a great post to help reinforce the right thinking.

My question is: if you're about to write those roles off, what can you do to make sure you find said 'greatness' and not get saddled with mediocrity?
This isn't obvious if you don't know Clojure, but that's actually a data structure. In Datomic, queries are data you pass to the database, not a special syntax at all.
Folks looking for web development work in the U.S., and are willing to move, should do some job searches in the Washington, DC area. There is a major demand in particular for Drupal developers, as more and more cabinet agencies and trade associations are switching to that CMS. But in general open-source web dev is booming. It seems like almost every large dev shop and PR agency I've talked to (and I talk to lots of them) are hiring developers right now.
Ask HN: What does your dream course on App Marketing look like?
I am creating a course on app marketing based on my experiences as the first employee and product manager at a bay area startup.

I have the course structure in place, which you can see here: http://www.udemy.com/become-an-app-marketing-expert

Am I missing something which you would like to learn? Is it too basic or too advanced? Any other comments?

You can use the coupon code "hackernews" to get a discount on this course.

Still testing the hypothesis that people will pay for the course, so not able to give for free. Can make an exception for valuable feedback :)
Mission accomplished.

The article also states that this happens every 150 years or so and did so 150 years ago. Like winter comes every 12 months. Now it would be wonderful to understand the mechanism, we've only been watching via satellite for 30 years, so in another 150 years we'll have captured a full cycle on satellite and we will know a lot more. It would have been a much more reasonable article to say:

"For the first time NASA has captured a once in 150 year event on satellite images. ..." but you still might click the link but you wouldn't feel threatened.
You now live at the mercy of the government. It is an oligarchy. The rule of law is gone, as it does not apply to all.

It is time to leave. The writing is on the wall.

Beware normalcy bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

You must gather your possessions and your family, and move your business and self to another soverign state which respects its constitution and courts.
I wasn't surprised when I heard this. I've played with them - they just don't look very good. That's pretty important when the customer is looking at them all day long.
Get in touch if you are interested a better domain name, I've got bookjury that may need a new home -- despite a large % of the code being done. :)