skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by default?
> But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours... but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, ... We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence... Western economies, particularly that of the United States, have been built in a very calculated manner on gratification, addiction...

This makes it sound like there's some kind of a conspiracy, like robber barons or The Man all got together to plan this out. It's a lot easier to invent scapegoats like this, but that doesn't make it true.

> Can you imagine what would happen if all of America stopped buying so much unnecessary fluff that doesn’t add a lot of lasting value to our lives? The economy would collapse and never recover.

Again, any kind of research to back up such a bold and incredibly controversial statement? That's just unsubstantiated fluff, without demonstrating any knowledge of actual economics.

The truth is much more prosaic. People buy what they want, and companies make money doing their best to give it to them. In fact, we celebrate companies that do a better job at this, like Apple inventing the iPhone. People like buying things, and decide on their own that they want to work harder to buy those things.

Of course, most people don't have the degree of self-awareness or reflection to realize what really makes them happy in the long-term -- but companies that provide short-term gratification are under no obligation to educate their consumers, and it's not like they have any better idea what makes you happier long-term either, since everyone's different.

We have a 40-hour workweek because most people prefer work twice as much and be paid twice as much as a 20-hour workweek. Sure, there are people who would prefer 20 hours and half (or less) salary, but they're in the vast minority, so that's not what companies build their workforces around.

To rebut the title: yes, your lifestyle has already been "designed", but it isn't intelligent design. No person designed it. It's just what cultural evolution has arrived at so far.
Can't speak to Washington, but he had a pretty extensive military/government background.
Agreed. I loved the methodical, organized view of the issue, but that sentence bugged me too.

Specifically: I think it completely reasonable (possibly, recommended) to decide "I'm going to prioritize work over having a family until age (30, 35, 40)".

The article completely misses the dimension of calendar time.
Just like Tom Clancy's Threat Vector book. Eventually cybercrime will lead to sino-us warfare
Anyone get the binary? Review perhaps?
So, actually the tax payers are paying for the "free" ride :)
Yeah, I can't find any evidence of this deal, I'm guessing it was publishing only. The Heist debuted at #2 without any help from anyone. It's not like Macklemore is totally unknown, he was in the XXL Freshman Class in 2012 and had success on iTunes going back to 2011.

It goes to show you how desperate the industry is that they would do something like this if they did sign a distro-only deal. It's happening more and more. Tyler the Creator had a similar deal for Goblin, it was a one-album deal with XL, almost no strings attached and a lot of conditionals for the label in regards to their rights. I'm not sure if he's self publishing Wolf but what need does he have for a major now? He has a freaking TV show and Williams Street is going to pimp the hell out of it. I wouldn't be suprised if Williams is putting it out, they put out Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music last year and that album both sold pretty well and was almost universally considered one of the top albums of last year.

There's plenty of indies out there who are willing to come to incredibly favorable terms with artists and have just as much pull in 2013 as a major does.
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It's actually a wonderful place. Nice and calm. There is one grocery store, one small pub (or as you want to call it) and an avenue centre. A lot of lawns.

Whenever you want the busy mood of the city in 15-25 minutes you are the Transbay terminal by bus (24/7).
Haha. no problem. I've seen it various ways and I guess I gravitated towards BitCoin instead of bitcoin.
Because your sample is so small, the results are easily skewed by a few people. As the sample size increases you'll get a more representative picture of what is happening.

It doesn't invalidate what you've found, but does mean you should now continue on with your experiment to increase the sample size - and help ensure your data wasn't impacted by something else - e.g. vacations / a conference that was attended by many of your subscribers / etc etc.
Wait, what? Game development seemed like the most stressful/worst thing you can do in software, i'd never expect game developers to make less than average developer.
It's a bunch if low income housing with a hideous commute anywhere getting onto the bay bridge in either direction is a time consuming venture. There's practically no infrastructure on the island. Hence being inexpensive to live there. Great place to get in with the red mafia though, if that's your thing.
Your margin of error is 4.38% [1], which makes the comparison between all non-Saturday meaningless. However, it seems like the numbers for Saturday vs other days are useful.

To answer your specific question, if you had 10x more data, your margin of error (with 95% confidence) would drop to 1.39%, so yes, you could reasonably get fairly different results.

I was disappointed to read that you skipped Thursday and Friday. In my domain, Mondays are the peak of activity, slowly sliding down to a bottom on Friday/Saturday. I would have liked to see your numbers for every day. Next time! (In that case, your MoE would have been 5.37%, btw.)

[1] http://americanresearchgroup.com/moe.html
Love the idea, but I miss Indonesian in the list of languages. :-)

Oh, and other have pointed out already: the gender symbols make very little sense.
The point was not to establish whether "white collar crime" existed already but rather to emphasize how little attention was being paid to it at that point in time.

For example, since then inter-agency task forces have been established, media has begun covering the topics, books have been written and movies produced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(film)

The general awareness is much higher (despite little action taken).
If you look at the list above you'll notice that there are plenty of well-funded companies as well as bootstrapped companies. Zendesk has raised $85M. On the other end of the spectrum, you have Tender and Lighthouse from ENTP, which are not funded at all.

Unlike consumer internet startups, I think there's only one criterion for whether or not a SaaS product will be around in 5 years: Does the product work well?

Most of these companies don't/can't rely on network effects to grow, so there's very little winner-takes-all action. That's why you'll see plenty of breathing room for big players and small players alike in any given category.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of a bootstrapped, profitable company, so I'm probably biased toward bootstrappers.
Sure thing! In a bit it will be there!
To me using income as social scale is insane. It would give a very high position to cartel bosses, and these guys should be on the bottom.

If you'd need a social scale for some l practical reason, I suppose the only workable one is education level. it ids not fair to everyone but I think it is the last horrible.
i figured much of this out years ago. the biggest piece of advice i can wholeheartedly recommend is be explicit about your priorities. once you do that, everything falls into place, decisions become easy.

my wife is sometimes confused as to why i haven't taken certain jobs or career paths but when i explain to her the impact it would have on things that are more important to me, she seems to understand. about a year ago, i was reminded of this in reading william whyte's "the organization man", in particular the chapters about family. right then and there i made a decision, i backed out of some job offers and have been pleased.

take care of yourself, that's the most basic lesson of all, and that doesn't mean focusing strictly on finances (real or anticipated) or your career.
This is so thoroughly inappropriate. Sexism, like any form of prejudice, has no place in the tech world.
Oooh, integrated with your authentication system. What kind of stack are you working with?

And, are you open to considering some IRC-based chatroom? Implementing a chatroom with socket.io can be a pretty big pain by the way, and very possible not worth the time you'll have to invest writing something like that.
They could offer bitcoin acceptance for their Amazon Marketplace merchants. This would be a small step that offloads the risk to only those merchants that opt-in. This would make Amazon acceptance gradual and a much lower risk proposition.
Bungie is not your average studio though. I suspect that their developer salaries are at least on par with the software industry average.
Wat?

God says

enquiring disagreeing produced failure_is_not_an_option
intercession lo revenge INDEMNITY nay United_States suppressed
observation straighten_up undertake quiet ambition yields
flashes -anger

C:\Text\PILGRIM.TXT

out against her child in her lap, when she calleth
it slut and naughty girl, and then falls to hugging and kissing
it.

TALK. You lie at the catch, I perceive.

{200} FAITH. No, not I; I am only for setting things right. But
what is the second thing whereby you would prove a discovery of a
work of grace in the heart?

TALK. Great knowledge of gospel mysteries.

FAITH. This sign should have been first; but first or last, it is
also false; for knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the
The iPad gets a 2 out of 10: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+4+Teardown/11462/2#s4124...

The iPhone 5 gets a 7 out of 10:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+5+Teardown/10525/5#s38...
True but you have to pay the price when caught as Russia did when the uk expelled 140 or so KGB and GRU officers.
A quote from a philosophy professor: "And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse."

A reliance on experts -- clearly not science, which rejects experts and expertise in favor of evidence. Even philosophers should know this.

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman
While at Bronto software (http://bronto.com/), one of the features I worked on was just that. We called it Send Time Optimization, and from what I understand, it's not an unheard-of feature amongst email software providers.
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In NYC, I pay a total of 41 cents per kilowatt hour (including supply charges, delivery charges, fees and taxes) for my electricity. (Source: my latest electric bill. Total of $56.36 for 137 kWh.)

Using that cost in your calculation would yield 8.2 miles per dollar, or .12 dollars per mile.
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I just looked at EA salaries, and their level III engineers make $98K on average. It's very sad, considering game dev not only requires good programming skills, but also all kinds of math, graphics, sound knowledge.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/electronic-arts-salary-SRC...
1) different things get to the front page on the weekends

2) this covers a bunch of stuff that is deeply interesting to hackers. Anonymous information sharing; secret information sharing; some way of having signed but anonymous information sent from the field to an office.
That would be much more useful if we had some names to go with that story.
It's very common in microscopy, to check your resolution.
I played the beta. It was Unreal with matchmaking, a little bit of PvE, and character development.
I've never been impressed with Trader Joe's fresh produce, though, and almost everything I buy is produce or bulk staples (rice, lentils, beans, oats). TJ's seems to specialize in frozen and snack foods.
Not related to the project itself but with Eligible. Not sure if the author is related to them.

I just checked their pricing page.

Why the hell do they have this in a threatening wording:

* If you force us to apply pass-throughs we will contact you.

First, why use the * ? I scanned the damn page trying to find out where the * was on the text.

Second, 'if you FORCE us ... we WILL contact you'. I don't even know what pass-through is but honestly, I feel I'm already under scrutiny even before using them.

Save it for the FAQ or Terms of Service.
The barrier to entry is low, now, and getting lower.

Prototyping your custom instruction sets on FPGAs and then commissioning a run to stamp them to ASICs isn't prohibitively expensive, or hard.

In part, it's lack of imagination that has led us so far down the complicated, twisty path into x86 hell.

Just because your chip can do it doesn't mean it's good at it.
> What material have you covered?

The material sufficient for this discussion. I know the material well enough to point out contradictions in your thinking.

> If that's true, the the diagram that's shown cannot portray a steady state of Frame X, as it claims to do.

I don't see such claim made there. Presumably it's a snapshot of X at a single instant of time, the initial state of the thought experiment. The author should be clearer however.

> The horizon plane is moving to the right in the diagram at the speed of light, and none of the cloud particles can move at the speed of light, so the horizon plane will quickly overtake them and be to the right of the entire cloud.

GR allows particles above the horizon to be escaping to infinity (since the escape velocity there is less than c), in which case the horizon plane will never overtake them. GR allows the escaping particles to never be overtaken by the horizon even though GR also demands that those particles move slower than the horizon does. If all the particles above the horizon are escaping then the cloud is splitting along the horizon.

> Sure, but you won't be pointing to the singularity in the center of the black hole there.

That's a contradiction. You can't say it has no location in space and then refer to its location in space even in relative terms like "in the center of". The singularity has a location in both space and time (a location in spacetime, if we ignore the technicality that spacetime breaks down there), and I could validly point to it now, no matter its location in my future. I suspect you're getting your idea from a cosmic singularity, like for the big bang. In that case there would be no single location in space you could point to now; it has a specific location in time only.
Given that your average is below 4.0, this hypothesis seems questionable. Can you give a cite for this 4.0 rule?
They're currently Tesla only...
Well, the semantics of a lazy language are a bit different than usual. While I agree that pages of s-expressions are hard to feel, seeing the graph reduction algorithm on a few examples was quite refreshing.
Does anyone know of any of these charts at locations accessible to the public? They appear interesting to look at.
I like sweetjs which brings syntax macros to JavaScript. It hasn't got much traction yet, but I'm convinced someone will do something neat with it.

http://sweetjs.org/

An obvious use could be as a library building tool. i.e. All the macros could be restricted to the internal methods used to construct the library DSL. All the public methods could look like standard js, and the library users would be none the wiser to the magic used internally to make the library construction more efficient.
Nice work. Btw, I don't think you need to add node_modules to your repo, at least colors is already on npmjs.org and you can use package.json and NPM to distribute node.js 'env' enabled binaries, it should ease the configuration instructions. Hope this helps :)
Similar to this SnabbSwitch is a virtual Ethernet switch for Linux written mostly in Lua (using LuaJIT).

https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki
Who is this mystery wife that is such a hoarder and consumer? Why don't you discuss these things together like adults? Does she have limited mental faculties, and is incapable of rational, rather than emotional discussion? Is this the 1950's or something?
> Earlier this month they successfully tested a printed, plastic 30-round magazine for an AR-15, one of the most popular rifles in America ...

For those who may not understand this choice, one widely practiced regulatory restriction is to limit the size of ammunition magazines. If magazines of any practical size can be printed, it undermines the regulatory restriction.

Because 3D printers can't print gun barrels yet (no readily available metal printers), such secondary targets as large ammunition magazines might seem tempting.

I hope no one thinks this problem is getting smaller or will eventually be solved. Quite the contrary -- it's only a matter of time before a complete, operational weapon can be printed. That will spell the end of government regulation of guns by way of supply control.
Game Developer Magazine runs a salary survey every year. The average game programmer salary in 2012 was a little north of $90,000. There are game programmers who make much more than that, but it is not the norm.

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/1108/game_developer_...
What do you mean by "anonymous" exactly? Trying to parse what you're looking for...
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Yes, it does (except you have to look for it in %programfiles(x86)%, and then it opens in a graphical window that doesn't take your .vimrc/.gvimrc into account)
I didn't know that. I first read it here, in HN (not an English speaker) in two senses: "lifestyle business" and as a synonim for something a little less strong than "vice" or "crime": drinking, overeating, "soft" drugs, workaholism...

The funny thing is that it seems to conflate the same slight deviation from the average in the good direction: exercise, healthy food...
I am too very curious about Fridays, but I suspect it would require getting the time of the day right too. Send it too early, and it's pre-weekend morning stress. Too late - and everyone's already gone for the day.

PS. I don't know why I picked (mod 5). Makes zero sense now.
It is a bit of a shame when those in society that have been well educated, have invested heavily into themselves and have the most to pass on to their children choose not to breed. Yet those that many would consider have the least to pass on....
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The crucial difference here is they used the label, not the other way around.
When I was on a tight budget as a student in DC, I loved Whole Foods. Stuff like natural peanut butter and bread was actually cheaper than other grocery stores (for the same quality), and I had no problem resisting the expensive stuff. They also had a well-stocked bulk aisle for cook-at-home staples, and cheap bagels (69¢ as I recall) that you could take to the seating area and toast them yourself.

I think they might position themselves differently depending on the region, because in the midwest I had a totally different experience. There, prices were universally high at Whole Foods.
'the wife' - your experience is not universal. Also this is a bit objectifying. Why don't you say 'my wife'?

Believe it or not there are plenty of 'wives' out there that are less into consumption and waste than their husbands. Gender does not determine environmental consciousness and desire for simplicity.
yeah the wording is my fault. I'll update it now. What I should have wrote is: "if you're using us exclusively for medicaid transactions, we'll contact you"

the reason being is because we actually get charged some govt pass through fee for medicaid transactions right now. for all our other customers the volume is low enough where we just take the loss, but for those only planning to ping medicaid companies it would not be worth it to us.
"Ultimately my investor has never been paid back, and the individual I met as a possible board member is alive and well, wheeling and dealing in the San Francisco Bay Area."

So, who is he?
Strongly agree. If he names names, something good might come of this now that it has HN's attention for the day. And if he was going to journalists, he had a willingness to name names at some point in the past. I understand that these guys are organized crime, but without names no action can be taken. With the right push, Anonymous can/will dox the hell out of these guys given enough details. OP has to judge for himself whether (a) these are really bad guys and (b) he has the courage to call down the Internet upon them.

(To preempt: yes, Anonymous is not always good. No, I don't believe that Internet justice is always bad, or that it would be bad in this case, especially as all formal avenues appear to have been exhausted and the perpetrator is scot free.)
Exactly! I could feel my 16 year old self getting all excited again.
Carefully read the EFF link you posted. It does not say that CISPA gives law enforcement any new powers. Their objections to the bill center around the privacy implications of giving private companies liability protection if they choose to share data with the government.

The language of CISPA explicitly prohibits the government from using such protections to force companies to give up data. Again--read the EFF article. It does not even use the phrase "law enforcement" at all, nor the word "force". The only usage of the word "power" refers to the power of private companies to collect data related to cybersecurity (which of course they already do).

The EFF is right to raise questions about privacy in the context of cybersecurity coordination. Where I part ways with them is that they seem to have taken a maximalist approach that any and all sharing of data is wrong and should be prevented. I happen to think that there is a role for the federal government to help coordinate cyber threat information.
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I hate shooters, partially because your average 4 year can kick my ass at it. I'm still bitter at Mass Effect turning into more shooter than RPG, because that's what sells. Why oh why isn't there a persistent, space-based RPG for the single player that's awesome? Something like a KOTOR II, without the bugs.
We do this for Twitter at http://socialyzerhq.com, but rather than just limiting to historical data we try to predict when to send in the future.
How about a site to crowdsource side project ideas?

NineSights: http://www.ninesights.com/community/rfps
Innocentive: https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/browse
maybe it'll never break.
you sir, just won the interweb!
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Considering the time frame for WorldCom, Tyco, and Enron it was especially surprising, but the author states he was 20.

As for the focus on terrorist funding, notably Paul O'Neill credibly claimed to have achieved some of the most important early victories against Al Qaeda through Treasury Department investigations into their funding. In fact, pushing this approach in contrast to the preferred brute force methods of others in the administration lead to him being fired at the end of 2002.
Your site contains ridiculous TL;DR; "Legal" section but i cannot easily find "change your languages" options, there is a "reset password" link but it directs into webpage that doesn't contain any styles. Picking languages or gender is very unintuitive. I really love your idea, i would like to see this page going viral, but in current state it's hard to pass friend a link without wasting few minutes for explaining what it's actually about.
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