skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not some conspiracy perpetrated by the rich that our wages have been going down over time, it's simple economics. In this country, women are now just as likely to work as men, so the labor pool has roughly doubled. Wages decline accordingly. There are also more and more people in other countries willing and able to produce goods and services we desire but at a lower wage.

I don't see what the problem is. I like the fact that women work as much as men do. I also like the fact that people in other countries are so productive. It means my family can buy better stuff than they could 40 years ago for a much cheaper price, and someone halfway across the world can put food on their table because of it.
Stories like this make me think there would be a market for low-volume, high-security email services. For example, a service that only accepts logins from pre-authorized devices, where any access pattern out of the ordinary is immediately vetted by a human with extensive experience. A sort of concierge email / instant-message / voice-mail service.

Does anyone here point me to such a service?
Surviving in the Jungle for 30 years
If you didn't read the article, then you have no business posting comments on this thread.
Sure, except that it makes no sense to then compare the two signatures.
What I hate, and don't quite understand why they do it - are the "survey" places that call up and insist on me confirming what my job title or position is.

Obviously working off a script, because "I'm sorry, I don't see what that has to do with anything, how can I help you?" throws them for a loop. "I just need to confirm that you are blahblah". "Again, that's irrelevant, how can I help you?"
> Is that speculation or do you know it will happen?

I had troubles a few years back with e-mail routing from GMail to mail servers for a domain that had previously Google Apps set up for it but was subsequently moved to another provider. They disappeared after deleting Google Apps.

Maybe it's not an issue any more, maybe it was just some weird caching problem, maybe disabled domains are handled differently but it wouldn't also surprise me if they had some system for handling what is essentially mail internal to GMail.
Yeah, I don't know why they didn't just roll it back.
The IRS does not treat a sole proprietorship as a "single-member". It ignores the existence of the sole proprietorship for tax purposes, as do the states (generally). In other words, you and the business are the same in the eyes of the tax codes. An S-Corp which has a single member is also treated as a disregarded entity by the IRS. However, states differ on their treatment of S-Corps. Most states follow the IRS in disregarding the S-Corp entity, but a few do not.

Fee-wise, the differences are immediate. You must pay fees to the state and federal government related to your corporate entity. The total amount depends on your state.

Tax-wise, the difference is minimal, but the S-Corp form does make it easier to take and support deductions because you will probably maintain separate records for your business. Sole proprietors are audited more frequently by the IRS because they generally do not keep proper or sufficient records delineating the business spending. States differ on the taxes they impose on business entities.

Liability-wise, the difference is immediate and substantial. S-Corps offer limited liability, meaning that generally the S-Corp's liabilities are not yours. In practice, banks won't make loans to S-Corps unless its owners agree to waive limited liability, and if the S-Corp is not properly capitalized (i.e., does not maintain proper insurance or reserves to cover liabilities) then courts will ignore the limited liability shield. However, sole proprietorships offer no liability protections--your liabilities and the business liabilities are one and the same: i.e., if your business goes under, creditors can go after your house.

Self-employment taxes: A sole proprietor owes self-employment taxes. These taxes include your social security contribution. You would not necessarily pay self-employment taxes if you use the S-Corp form, if for example, you pay yourself a salary up to the respected salary limit and properly treat the remainder of distributions as potentially self-employment income.

You really need to talk to an accountant and/or lawyer about this.
I have no idea if this is related, but I'm really starting to think about the studies related to long sitting sessions and the sedentary lifestyle that come with impassioned software developers/engineers. Our love for what we do might be killing us.
So while blacksmiths and farmers could buy a five acre plot of land and build a house with a barn in 1970s without taking out huge loans

There was really only a short period in the 1970s where food prices skyrocketed and the price of land didn't keep pace. Outside of that small window, I don't think farming was any more difficult to enter then than it is today. The land is more expensive now, sure, but the profits are much greater so it all equals out. Owning a barn on a small acreage in the 1970s that loses you money each year isn't exactly what I would call a win, and I think you could still find some unproductive land that is affordable to the average person if you really still want that today.
Thanks pflats for pointing this out. I changed the post and added a note with a link to this comment.
This morning I went ahead and implemented this on a project of mine. So far I'm pretty pleased with it overall.

Here are a few thoughts after playing with it a bit first hand...

I wanted to place DBV outside of my web root and then programmatically include it from existing admin authentication code.

For my use case this also addressed most of my permission-related concerns.

It did unfortunately require a few very minor code edits to DBV which I'm going to try to package up and submit a pull request for. These were just basic things such as changing the CSS / JS include paths, moving those same assets to an accessible location, and changing some JS / AJAX action URIs to self-reference instead of being "hard coded" to index.php...

All in all, pretty trivial to get setup and it really hits the spot in terms of solving the actual problem.

Thank you! :-)
It's not obvious for a non-Pythonista, but the if .. else .. is meant to be on the previous line. It's a ternary conditional like cond?a:b in C (with the condition in the middle).
Well, people are loudest when things go wrong. The thing is though, evidently it wasn't actually a pivot, but a complete retool/redesign. Perhaps they didn't realize that you can add features without removing others. Perhaps they got bad advice.
I like at the end some sort of busker thing going on.
I'm quite happy with Fastmail.fm, there are not that many options out there i'm afraid.
The "high price," I suppose, is the reduction in private practice physicians. Since the article provides no evidence that private practice is superior (for society) to hospital practice, I'm left unable to assess whether this is in fact a "high price" at all.

Presumably this is not accidental but is instead a manifestation of an intentional policy. The details of this policy are left unaddressed by the article, as are its pros and cons.
that's "only" $18mm a year, so yes and a whole lot more
Probably the bit about being mortified about screwing up. It's certainly not an attitude that's going to jive with the majority of the HN audience. Embrace failure, learn from your mistakes, etc.
Excellent point. Corrected and added [3].
It's gonna roast its inhabitants during the summer and then freeze them in the winder.
Experts: Unbreakable code message found on WWII carrier pigeon
5 Statistics Problems That Will Change The Way You See The World
When I was doing IT consulting before starting my company, we used to contract a great Florida-based company called AppRiver for hosted exchange (plus IMAP and POP, naturally) for some of our clients.

The service was excellent, and their customer support was even better -- always extremely friendly and very responsive.
What Brand Is Your Therapist?
Most phone plans I've seen offer free domestic calling on nights and weekends (i.e. not typical business hours).
I'm guessing the "pretraining" described in this 2006 Science article: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/science.pdf. (Possibly the same line of research the article you mention). Sure, if you look at things from a wide enough perspective, there haven't been any "revolutionary" breakthroughs. But this did seem to reignite interest in neural nets after they had sort of languished for a while. (Science described this work, somewhat hyperbolically, as "Neural nets 2.0").
I don't know if I missed it, but what exactly is "deep-learning"? The article doesn't really indicate how it's different from earlier machine learning techniques.
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Another Lisp Hacker.

Mark wrote the first IMAP client in Interlisp for the Xerox Interlisp-D Machine. He wrote also the first server, though not in Lisp.
Remove the trailing '/' to make it valid - https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/ZZWLtq6t...
Who said anything about consulting? Your complaint was the lack of quality libraries, not the lack of quality libraries which can be used in every possible computing environment.

Which languages/libraries work well in all environments?
> About JS MVC frameworks - It's about scaling your development teams by putting a re-usable pattern in place so that things will jell together.

But is MVC the right pattern all the time? I really doubt it.
Well in the US it seems like they do. Rates and rules are changed to achieve a certain revenue level, and there is pro-forma evidence that this is means taxing those least able to construct plausible evasions. Its only after that tap starts drying up that the more 'complicated' targets are gone after.

Watching the UK Parliment tear into the tech guys for using legal ways to avoid paying taxes in the UK is an example of legislative bodies turning their sights from the 'easier' (but now nearly tapped out) tax payers to the less easy ones.
lol, he must have had the 2015 version of Ubuntu ;)
In fact powder metallurgy is not new, it's an established and respected way to make various parts including ones for aerospace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_metallurgy
A lot of what they're showing off (in terms of design) has been similarly implemented in OS X (through iTunes, iPhone, etc.) and it's been very successful.

How has it not worked in the past and why don't you think they can pull it off?
How SEO Consultants are like Financial Advisors
"In the end, Crashplan is sending me out a 3tb seed
drive so I can get my entire archive back online, and
they’re also issuing me an account credit for the
previous seed drive service I had purchased."

So I guess he was able to restore the lost data only because he had a local copy?
The completeness of CTS was also used in the proof of completeness of the 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine.
Deep belief networks are extremely powerful, we are finally getting to the point where we don't need to do tons of feature engineering to make useful complex classifiers. Used to be you would have to spend a ton of time doing data analysis and feature extraction to get useful and robust classifiers. Of course the usefulness of those sorts of networks were limited by how well you did the feature extraction. Now you train networks with much more minimally processed data, and get great results out of them.
Blackberry 10 will debut in February - Shares of RIM today closed up 13.7%
I was watching his lectures and I saw this post when I take a break. He was talking about the ups and downs in the history of Neural Nets. As far as I understand from all these lectures we're on the verge of a new up phase. Neural Nets are meaningful when they are large and deep and training such nets becomes feasible, although not immediately.
I didn't have any real working relationship with Mark, but I remember him well.

I met him over the Arpanet; we shared a common interest in Atari computers, and when I moved to the Bay Area to work for Atari, I met him (and Mabry Tyson) at a local users group meeting. He was kind of intense. He knew a /lot/ about mailers (how much, I didn't appreciate for years).

He had a DEC-20 in his spare bedroom. I saw it once, years later. It was orange. It's safe to say that not many people had DEC-20s in their houses.

Anyway, he introduced me to the Silly Valley hacker culture, and decent chinese food, and I'll never forget that.
Nice to see they are doing something good for the human kind.

But seriously, do we really need to be spying on other countries? That means there's distrust by default in any and all relationships (also proven by the US hacking of France's president's computer).

Positive long term human relationships can only work if there is trust by default, not distrust.
Yes if you've seen Xbox music app, its a big advert which is annoying.
Its definitely possible. Though usually that kind of massive traffic can be monetized in different, more creative ways than general banner ads.
I was hoping for more analysis of the game mechanics, rather than the UI.

I love how letterpress is really a territory game disguised as a word game. Instead of rolling a dice like you do in Risk, you find words to form your attacks. Rather than trying to pick up words with obscure letters, or lengthy words, you try to capture strategic tiles and expand your controlled area. Once you cover a large area of dark blue tiles, you choke out your opponent's ability to score points, and the game slowly snowballs further in your favor. It's really fascinating.
The reason is fairly simple. As a small business, I need my email to work. When I do it myself or outsource it to a small company, it works most of the time ... but not always. I can't afford that.
This is pretty sad, I had the pleasure of meeting Mark a few times when I was part of the Lemonade working group, he seemed like a very nice guy, energetic, unfazed by commercial interests, someone who stuck to his guns.

It reminds me of Jon Postel, in the sense that many of the core IETF people, those responsible for building the world as we know it, are getting old now, and some of them have already passed away. Everyone remembers Steve Jobs, but the greater public at large is oblivious to people who have built even more important infrastructure.

I hope the history books of the future won't just jump from Edison and Westinghouse directly to Steve Jobs, but also remember those who did the massively important work done in between.
Because the kind of people who tend to use linux have very different needs than the kind of people who use OSX.
What's wrong with terraforming Mars?
I've read an article about it this week and it was amazing:
The gist of it http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js...
Talent acquisitions, however, are not product acquisitions. The latter are easier to reason about in terms of business/economics, but the former seem a lot "squishier". "You hire an awesome team and then put them to work on something else" seems like it introduces too many variables to give you a lot of certainty about the outcome.
Does Sockjs correctly fallback from websockets in all situations? Looking at this:

https://speakerdeck.com/3rdeden/realtimeconf-dot-oct-dot-201...

Makes me afraid to turn on websockets. Will websockets correctly fall back if blocked, even if I don't use SSL?

One of the biggest problems with socket.io is that it doesn't fallback correctly.
This will result in the doctor writing a note in Elaine's medical history saying the patient had been `difficult`.

Source: The Package https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Package_%28Seinfeld%29
They're doing it with Skype, too.
Loren made the game because he wanted a simple word game to play with his wife.

Hear more from him firsthand on the first episode of debug: http://www.zenandtech.tv/debug/debug-1-brichter-letterpress/
I thought this might be the case. Thanks for the insight - I've been trying to just read as much as I can. I'll spend some time with adexchanger.
The article is pretty clear that the "high price" is that the same procedure performed by the same doctor is often billed at a much higher rate when the doctor is an employee of a hospital instead of a self-employed physician.
Google is no longer leading GWT. it is run by a committee of companies that have deep vested interest in the toolkit. Google is still on this committee, but they no longer have the same number of resources working on it.
Since the fall of AI, there are two groups of people in this topic -- one trying to make some reproducible, robust results with well defined algorithms and second importing random ideas from the first group onto some questionably defined ANN model and getting all the hype because of the "neural" buzzword. "Deep learning" is actually called boosting and has been around for years.
I thought it's "Pulling all nighters"
Ask HN: Opinion for Software Developer with 24/7 oncall
My job requires 24/7 oncall scheduled once per month. We have about 7 people in the team but two are architects so they are spared for oncall schedule.

I've been working for almost 2 years and start to feel like my life and career are just evolving around oncall schedule. It's not that I want to avoid oncall but we constantly get pages multiple times per night. Some pages are bug related, some are network issue but mostly it's dependent services acting crap. During the day when oncall, I am supposed to be supporting/resolve issues reported by our users. This is a very big online retailer. The services we write and support has no external users impact.

I've been working as developers for 8 years with small firm (not startup) as well as biggest investment bank in the US. I do get called sometimes during the wee hour and stay late during release but 24/7 oncall like this is unprecedented.

I am wondering how many of you developers out there have such hideous oncall responsibility like this? Did you end up jump ship because of oncall and support?
Indeed, there's definitely a market for such an email service. Then again who knows how much they'd be willing to pay for it. To have a manned service like that might be difficult to bootstrap.
For those looking to learn about these techniques, I'd highly recommend the deep learning theano tutorials.

Hinton has a class on Coursera--I think it would be very confusing for beginners, but it has really great material.

Also, I run the "SF Neural Network Aficionados" meetup in san francisco and will be giving a workshop in January about building your own DBN in python, so feel free to check that out if you're in SF (although space was an issue last time).
Perhaps true, but Mark really doesn't look like the sedentary lifestyle type. I hear he was quite the outdoorsman. This Wired article has a picture.

http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/10/imap
Sci fi authors have, for decades now, envisioned a future with ubiquitous, pervasive advertising. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight it, but we shouldn't really be surprised....
Oh the hacker news Gestapo. Please show me where it says that in the TOS. And I did read it, only to the point where it started being fiction.
Your macro argument is a terrible one, you can do exactly the same thing with any sane language (and indeed I have done, getting python to create boilerplate java)

You dont need macros for this (which your post shows since I cant see any defmacro used there)
For future reference, it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/QHPWW.jpg
Not to mention the millions of starving Chinese workers.
That was a really bad move on your part. Could be social engineering. Collections agencies don't need to confirm your social before making a collections call.
Right, just interested in the choose of such an anti pattern.

What proxies are you considering?
> Having widely available phone support, even with fancy automation, increases the price of the product you are selling, as even at minimum wage, a user calling in and fumbling their way through a poorly-worded and probably-not-even-legitimate complaint simply costs too much.

Here's an idea for company in this kind of situation: move all call center staff to phone support. And then market the hell out of this fact. Like, "we the company X respect you as a customer, so we moved all our call-center staff to support. We won't call you with useless offers, and you can always call us if you have a problem." It would definitely help getting new customers, as well as keeping the old ones satisfied.
"It means my family can buy better stuff than they could 40 years ago for a much cheaper price..."

This can mean one of two things. You may mean you are from one of the wealthier families who have benefited from the decline of US hourly wages. If so, you're in a minority.

If you mean it in a more general sense, I don't think you understand the concept of the terms inflation-adjusted wages or real wages. The man in 2012 making less in inflation-adjusted hourly wages than his father did 40 years ago can not buy more with his wages. The amount of food, clothes etc. he can buy after eight hours work is less, not more. I don't think you understand what I mean by real wages or inflation-adjusted wages. The average American working 40 hours a week can not afford as much food, clothes etc. as he could 40 years ago. Because real hourly wages have fallen over the past 40 years.
For anyone that is coming to SockJS directly from socket.io, I've built an event system on top of SockJS that has a similar API to socket.io. It's called ChuckT, and [like SockJS] it has both a client and server-side component.

Client: https://github.com/epixa/chuckt

Server (node): https://github.com/epixa/chuckt-node

The project is still very new, so I haven't finished the tests nor documentation, but the readmes on those repos have information about installation and usage.
Megaupload shutdown hurt box office revenues for non-blockbuster movies
Windows Phone 7.8 makes its video debut
More on printing replacement parts in space: http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Printed-in-Spac...
Feature rich is in the eye of the user. So yes, it can be.
Hope he's holding up as well as he can be. I worked in the same department as him at the UW and remember getting a geeky thrill every time I saw one of his emails. The man's contributions to life as we know it are tremendous.
> Ten years ago Microsoft was in trouble for bundling Internet Explorer, but now bundling applications laden with advertising is okay?

How are those two even correlated?

Adding ads to your product is not breaking anti-trust laws.
Why would this be built in Detroit of all places? Isn't the whole point of shipping container housing that it's cheaper and quicker to build? Detroit already has a large amount of extremely cheap housing all around it, with people leaving the city every day. There's no housing shortage.
Samsung Stops Making Apple Batteries
The Xbox music store serves as both a music player as well as a music store. I don't consider showing content from the store as advertising. Is iTunes also "a big advert"?
“Pretty First” Is Wrong: A Designer’s Take On App Development
Samsung stops making Apple batteries
Very sad. I've always loved to use IMAP instead of POP for e-mail. Though I have never met Mr. Crispin, I feel honored to be able to use his invention.
People get sick. Mark is 56. That's not an especially unusual age to become terminally ill.
People can opt to list their twitter (or app.net or whatever else they prefer) in their profile.
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GE's $1B bet on the Internet of things