skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All else being equal, I would say No deal. reduction in base salary is a huge thing. Let me tell you why. Lets say you do take that new job with the salary reduction, best case you get that 20K bonus. Now, if you want to switch jobs, most employers will consider your base salary first and bonus second because bonus is not guaranteed. Your leverage or power to negotiate goes down with a lesser base salary. Worst case, you don't even get the bonus (oh we had a bad year u know) and there u r. 20K reduced base with 0 bonus. Your next potential employer wont care less why u took a reduction. They see reduction, period.

I know i m sounding harsh here but thats the reality of salaries these days. I understand that startups might have a little more flexibility but as a professional with 10 years of work experience, I would never ever suggest to take a salary reduction. You just don't know where you will end up next.
Rails Security is apparently "omakase" - meaning 'leave it to someone else', apparently.
William Janeway’s Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, reviewed
> there's no semantic distinction between code and data

I struggle to understand how this can be true, and I say that as a Lisper (spiritually if not currently), because 'this data does something meaningful when interpreted by a computer' is exactly a semantic distinction from 'this other data doesn't'
What?! When?! Wow!! And you dare calling yourself a data analyst?!? Why would you restrict your tools to 3 charts?!? What about the X-Y scatter plot chart? Ain't that somewhat useful? Have you never used a pivot table? A cluster tree? Really, never? WOW! How about heatmaps? Sparklines? Isolevel surfaces? Bubble charts? Gantt diagrams?
I wouldn't recommend webapps as step one for a new developer. Remove all these frameworks and toolkits and just get comfortable with JavaScript first. Do problems like these: http://projecteuler.net/problems
List of NZB indexers
If this is real, it certainly answers the "how could this app get someone laid" question rather well.
That's not true. Root access can be permitted to the user. It just should not be permitted to apps without specific permissions and it should not be required to install an app. Apps should not have to vomit all over the filesystem. They should be self-contained and run in isolation.
I am in awe of this book's online design and pricing. Well done.
I think that's a fair reading of it, and I'm not sure why you've been downvoted so.

An alternate reading could be that the statement is meant to be obviously opinion; one school of thought on writing is that it should be obvious which statements are fact and which are opinion by the very nature of the statement, and it is superfluous to preface them with phrases like "in my opinion".
I judge it on the merit exclusively; that's what you should do with any laws.

By its results. And the results are not pretty: we are now growing a generation of liars who learned to lie by default, as a pre-requisite to everything.
There are some things you can do for the environment. The main thing is creating boundaries so that your home life separates from your work life. So for example:

(1) Spatial boundaries. If you can, dedicate an entire work for just working from home. In some places I can't do that, what I do is set up the laptop at the kitchen table and take it down again at the end of the work day. This includes cords. It might seem like a pain in the ass to put the laptop together every morning, but it is no different than if you had gone to a coffee shop. If you have a family with kids, you'll want to set up space that has a door. In return, when the computer is shut down (and you always shut it down or put it to sleep) or the laptop lid is closed, it's now family time.

(2) Temporal boundaries. You want some accountable way of starting the clock, so to speak. Standup is a good method for this. There needs to be something to end it, so you know when to stop and put things away. You will want to announce when you go on lunch or bio breaks. You can also type a quick end-of-day standup on what you accomplished that day. This provides temporal cues on when things are beginning and ending. This way, not only does work not bleed into your home life, your home life does not bleed into your work life.

(3) Social cues. I don't like pair programming much, but in a remote situation, you need to pair more often even if you don't normally pair. "Pairing" can be sharing a Hangout conversation to consult on something or tmux-shared-screen. This way, you don't go off shaving a yak. If you are in a group of peers (for example, some founders), then it is helpful to have everyone check in on each other occasionally. "What can I do to help?"

By setting up boundaries, you keep these things from bleeding into each other and help you concentrate while at work ... and enjoy your home life when you're not working.

With coffee shops: the best approach I have found is to establish a co-working group. You don't need a formal co-working facility if you convince some of your locally-based remote friends (or acquaintances you have met at the local User's Group for your technology niche) to co-work at a coffee shop. Small, family-owned coffee shops, pizza places, even bars, tend to be very friendly for this sort of a thing. You're treated as a regular and you tend to start camping out at a particular corner during the non-rush hours. Once a week can be enough.
It's feasible, but I personally think the hypervisor overhead stinks. Better to fix to OS permission model.
How to master your time - Leading a better life (Star Wars)
Hacking the player would be useless. DVDs are programmed and any (and all) limitations that are there are because a programmer put them there.

Same with Blu-rays.
"it's an unprecedented variety of embedded computers."

... at the expense (decreased availability, and public tolerance) of the general ones. Possessing or promoting general purpose computing might well wind up on the FBI's list of suspicious behaviors, along side such threatening habits as paying cash for gum; "normal" people are still basically terrified of magic/the unknown. Hackers are the new witches. A plethora of embedded devices, where one general purpose computer could have done the same, would be tragic.

Of course, all of this is just my humble opinion.
Is this even legal? Aren't the frequencies used by wi-fi explicitly set up to be unregulated by the FCC? Can a private company force you to turn off a device legally operating on those frequencies?
Firefox Implements Three-States of DNT in Nightly Builds
I actually feel the opposite about this whole phone size thing. I wish Apple would go back to the previous size. Also I've tried out other, larger, phones and they're just not as convenient for me to use.
> What is the positive feedback loop for schools that rank highly on "produces the most improved students"? Would they receive extra government funding? Attract better students? I see neither of these as likely. Try again Mr. Gates.

If nothing else, colleges that are publicly known for effectiveness will have an easier time recruiting and retaining talented employees. They would presumably also be a magnet for results-driven philanthropists, either through direct donations or being somehow accredited for scholarships.
Ask HN:  Is 'bundle update' working for your rails project?
I can't seem to get it to work after the security meltdown in the Rails ecosystem - is anyone else facing this? Any workarounds?
Histograms are great for visualizing relative density, but they have problems when items don't sort neatly into bins. They also make it hard for viewers to accurately estimate the portion of the distribution that falls within arbitrary ranges, say the percentage of smokers aged 24 thru 35. Plotting the empirical cumulative distribution function solves these problems.

For a numeric random variable X, its CDF F(x) gives P(X <= x). So if X gives the age of smokers, the answer to our earlier question is just F(35) less F(23). Plotting F over all values of X, then, lets us not only "see" the shape of the distribution but also answer range questions: just lookup two points on the graph and subtract.

Some examples:

http://docs.ggplot2.org/0.9.2.1/stat_ecdf.html
You mentioned "internal programs", I just assumed.

By the way, I worked at Google for 5+ years, then quit to do a startup. It's hard, but you're in good company. Word of advice: come up with a clever/funny answer ahead of time, because you're going to get a lot of "Wait, why would you quit Google?!?"
Single location to aggregate a list of all vulnerable apps.
i would move too.
but i technically cant get h1b.
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Great example, let's run with it...

By your analogy, COPPA would be the law that prevents people from collecting and selling children's organs. Because kids are gullible and and it's easy to convince them out of a kidney or two.

Except replace "organs" with "personally identifiable information companies want in order to market shit to you."
Implicitly stated in this is the idea that all sectors of society want, and feel they would benefit, from this better education of everyone.

We could posit a counter-point to that assumption. The counter-point being the posited, hypothetical idea that not all sectors of society think that "a rising tide lifts all boats". We could hypothesize that there are sectors of society who would be opposed to the working poor getting good educations.

But with such a non-mainstream contrarian hypothesis being posited, we'd have to think of a reason for this. Why would some sectors of society be opposed to this? Well, perhaps they would have a desire for a "reserve army of labor" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour ). Perhaps if they had a company, like say Microsoft, their company would pay dividends. Part of the money the company doesn't reinvest in continuing costs or re-investment, would not go to wages, but stock holders. Of course, with the small amount of stock options most Microsoft employees have relative to their wages (not to mention permatemping), in game theory it would be better for these workers, if money was to go to their wage or the dividend, for the money to go the worker. Perhaps for large MSFT shareholders like Gates, it would be better for the money to go to the dividends, and not to wages.

How can you stop the workers from demanding higher wages? Perhaps having a reserve army of labor, an inflated unemployment rate etc. would help. Perhaps a worker knowing other people as skilled or almost as skilled as him are lining up to try to get work at MSFT to get the wages he is getting, and are being rejected in interviews, keeps him being happy with his wage.

Of course this is all just wild, non-mainstream, out there conjecture. Obviously the world's richest billionaires like Bill Gates only have feelings of benevolence, and aligned interests with the rest of us. You can see how lauded he is for his charity and such in the press.
How long would it take for a Foxxcon worker to buy an iPad?
They don't make you turn off anything. You simply can't bring it in. Just like you can't bring in your own food or drink. The FCC and radio spectrum legalities don't enter into it.
When I was at Broderbund I got a rep for walking around a lot. My boss wrote me up saying that there was no way I could solve a problem when not sitting at my computer.

When I quit he hinted that with his contacts I'd never get another job in games, I was working 5 days later.

Myopic views, such as "must be sitting at a desk in an office", will never be the path to creative solutions to problems.
"I'd say the problem is treating people as the means to an end - whether as sex toys, problem-solving machines or plain old cannon fodder."

I don't know if I can speak for all men, but personally, having someone to want you to do something for them is where self-worth is derived. Whether someone wants to have sex, or a business wants to hire you for you services, it feels good to be wanted. That seems like the exact opposite of a problem, from my unique perspective. And maybe it is foolish to have those feelings, but it largely outside of my control. Assuming you represent the prevailing views of most women, and the gender divide on this is real, it is clear to see how we got here.

Interestingly, I've noticed this pattern even outside of gender differences. People generally push on other people what they want for themselves, male and female. Even my aforementioned college example is a great one here. Someone who wants to go to college will think everyone should go to college and push that idea upon them, even if it is not the wishes of someone else. I don't know where you even begin to fix that; it seems to be the human condition.
I think it depends on the instructor, and the instructor's assessment of the student. My instructor put us in a spin and said "your plane"! The 2nd time she did that I knew exactly what to do.
ILS is amazing, it can really land by itself depending on the condition.
Take 1965 and 2006 as comparison points: http://federal-budget.findthedata.org/compare/67-109/1965-vs...

See also:
http://useconomy.about.com/od/usfederalbudget/p/FY-2006-Fede...
http://www.ssa.gov/history/percent.html

Expenditures in 2006 were about 20% of GDP versus 17% of GDP in 1965. In 2006, social security accounted for 20.5% of the budget, versus 14.8% in 1965. That's 4.1% of GDP versus 2.5% of GDP. In 2006, medicare was 12.2% of the budget. In 1965, Medicare didn't exist (it was created that year). That's 2.5% of GDP versus 0% of GDP.

Net of social security and medicare, total federal expenditures in 1965 were 14.5% of GDP, and in 2006 they were 13.4% of GDP. At least at the federal level, the proportion of GDP spent on things other than the care of the elderly shrunk slightly over 40 years. Indeed, this is probably an under-estimate, when you allocate the percentage of medicaid, the NHS budget, the DHHS budget, etc, spent providing care for the elderly, researching diseases that primarily effect the elderly, etc.
However, if I want to own a pony I certainly have the option of purchasing one.

2-5 are perfectly reasonable offerings and the corporations that control the data pipes have all accepted our tax breaks which contribute to them being able to maintain their virtual monopolies. My point is that the rent analogy does not work at all. It's too simple.
Just go out and buy one:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hubsan%20x4
http://www.google.com/search?q=walkera%20ladybird
http://www.google.com/search?q=wltoys%20v929

To name just a few of the better known / more flyable ones.
San Francisco's end of cool? Nonsense.
Why not use filesystem permissions/ACLs on named pipes to access native interfaces (as a poor-man's microkernel)?
Having spent time in both cities I find Honolulu to be quite similar to Auckland in New Zealand. YMMV. If I had to come up with two unique American cities I would have gone for New Orleans and Las Vegas.
> not when jobs need you more than you need the jobs.

THIS!!!!
The problem with this sort of forced "protection" is that it ruins my social life. That's what happens to children actually. Or I am forced to shrug off your "protection" (entering into the legal grey zone), that's what happens too.
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Assuming you somehow learned that they actually died... and you didn't die for the same reason... and you could open the cabin door...
I'm not a pilot either, but I'm fairly sure it is the former. I believe "attitude" refers to the angle of the plan with respect to horizontal (so pointing up or down very steeply is an "unusual attitude").
You can learn anything from books. Even sex.
The hands on approach is good only after you have some basic knowledge.
I use my spare time at work on full-flight military aircraft simulators to fly around and try things like taking off, landing, etc...it was loads of fun, and once you were competent at landing a functional aircraft, you could try doing it with any combination of aircraft faults. I'm fairly confident I could land a [fully functional] C-130 if my life depended on it. My new challenge is trying to hook up with a tanker, during which I've caused many a catastrophic accident.
20 hours a week? I think your math is wrong (1 hour * 2 ways * 5 weekdays = 10 hours).
Lisps are awesome! But to be fair, the Java code can be a lot more compact by using Guava:

import com.google.common.base.Functions;
import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
import com.google.common.collect.FluentIterable;
import com.google.common.collect.Ordering;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Collection;

public class MapUtils {
public static String sortedKeyList(Map<?, ?> map1, Map<?, ?> map2) {
Collection<String> sortedKeys = FluentIterable
.from(Sets.union(map1.keySet(), map2.keySet()))
.transform(Functions.toStringFunction())
.toSortedSet(Ordering.natural());

return sortedKeys.isEmpty()
? "<none>"
: Joiner.on(", ").join(sortedKeys);
}
}

Not nearly as pretty as the Clojure code, but a lot nicer than without Guava.
Apple May be Reluctant to Revitalize the Mac
Cheaper than paying $1B after an anti-trust (see Microsoft), so just pay the bribe as a cost of business and move on.
Interesting site! I know next to nothing about wines so I think I may be using this next time I go to pick one out.

I do have a suggestion however: avoid using so much purple. As you already know, purple is a mixture of red and blue. The problem is that red and blue are the opposite ends of the color spectrum - this makes it very difficult for your eye to focus on this color - similar to trying to read red writing on a blue background, or blue writing on a red background.

Anyway - just a thought as I struggle reading the purple font (it strains my eyes ever so slightly).
Hiring a salesperson on their ability to describe pipelines in abstract terms and relate it to a CRM is a bit like hiring a programmer based on their ability to describe a particular software pattern and relate it to an application.(1) Sure, most worthwhile candidates will give broadly similar answers showing they understand the theory behind what they're doing and had formal training in it, but can they actually write the code?

If you want to see them "code" get them to sell to you. Do they ask good questions? Can they relate answers you've given to an actual proposition? Are they so thorough and accurate they've ended up with a watertight business case for that proposition? Have they identified other hypothetical stakeholders they're going to need to ask similar questions to present similar cases to, and how far you'll help them with that? How do they respond to your 11th hour attempt to reduce the price? That's "coding". The other stuff is architecture: important but pretty useless without the fundamentals unless you're looking for a pointy haired guy.

Plus the really good sales guys often intuitively breeze through a lot of those official "stages" in one call or meeting, whilst appearing "stuck" at another stage for ages, and are completely comfortable with that because they know what aspects of the sales cycle they can and can't control, and why they'll be waiting. This probably sounds less impressive than the textbook example of steady progress a good bullshitter should be able to come up with.

(1)arguably worse: probably the best explanations of pipeline organization you'll hear are from underperformers in large companies who have to explain their activity to their line manager in more regular review meetings. The guy that sucks at writing code probably gets less regular invitations to meetings to decide on application architecture.
Edge Cache Expire TTL: Easiest way to override any existing headers
I can't explain why it exploded but I have an observation I've pieced together watching a few of my friends play after some leave and some stick around.

Generally, if you don't have an idea for a project, for example, making a tree house, the game can get quite boring if setting up automatic resource gathering stuff isn't your thing.
They don't want some rogue devices screwing it up for everyone else. The stadium is offering free WiFi, so there's no attempt to block communications and there is no need for kind souls to offer free WiFi.
Path promises fix for new privacy liberties taken by iOS app
That's correct. Gates would have been paying capital gains (rather than income taxes (except on his salary)), but has probably paid vast sums in taxes over time just due to the scale. He has shifted a lot of wealth from Microsoft stock holdings to his Cascade Investments. He holds roughly $20 billion in Microsoft, and $40 to $45 billion in Cascade. Gates would have paid a huge amount of capital gains taxes on that shift most likely (even if he managed to shield some or most of it; just 5% * $20 billion is still a billion in taxes).

Just as a side reference, the dividend and capital gains rate in Sweden is about 30%.
Reminds me of the reddit.tv project. Its a cool way to experience video content that is posted on HN. Would be cool if you could extract videos from submitted links that aren't from youtube/vimeo, but are like a The Verge link with a video embedded.
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Those are class heavy, not light :D
Thanks for the feedback! All three are good points. With respect to #2, what do you think about the "top x" wines for the landing page?
Some good information for the geek at home.
Not for encryption, for data interchange.
I'd like to see a European country openly invade Middle East ignoring the UN Charter and get away with it.

I'd also like to see a European country poison the markets with loads of toxic assets causing massive turmoil around the world and, again, get away with it (with a hefty bonus).

The kind of changes we see in social-oriented countries today are forced upon by American neoliberals who wish to expand their influence. They operate in the name of capital, not people.
Lies, Damned Lies and Big Data
Exemplary Code
Show HN: Header Headbutt - Removes "position: fixed" from site navbars
one thing should be there, and is simple enough : The "Previous" video button!

since there is no drop down or side menu, a previous button should have been there !
See, in a very circular way I was just reporting the typo. :)

(Looks good now that I have the right release deployed, by the way.)
Just a quick scan of your submissions shows a potential variety of reasons for dead submissions.

The Slate article was already submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5079680

Scripting.com has a unique relationship with HN - Dave Weiner often submits directly, and an article I submitted after him doesn't show up in my list of submissions. Discussions in which he joins sometimes take on their own flavor.

The "Windows Phone without Google" Editorial seems likely to foster partisan debate rather than foster discussion.

"Good News for Gmail users" is blogspam.

There may be a golden nugget in your links. But nothing really pops out. What I will say is that given your karma, people may be following you more closely because of the weight which it can give your posts - I have seen some evidence of this. What you submit may be getting quick attention, and at a certain karma threshold flagging a new submission may be sufficient to kill it - I have seen some evidence of this as well.

Find something really good to submit from an obscure corner of the web. Not the usual suspects. Not linkbait. Not blogspam. Then you can test your theory. Cringly or NY Magazine or Harpers aren't candidates.
I think Noah is echoing the work of W.S. Cleveland and Edward Tufte—both of whom advocate for using a small number of well-understood methods (e.g. tables, histograms, line plots, scatter plots, and so on).
Thanks for your feedback! Great idea! I will look into it.
Thanks for the input. I see your point with the red/blue. I'll play with some other colors this weekend. (Visual design isn't my strong suit).