skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's where knowing if the person is a $100k employee or a $40k employee matters.

If you are a manager at a Fortune 500 company and looking to moonlight, yeah you start out as a Manager/Key holder.

If you are a peon at a mom and pop shop you won't.
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Sorry about that." :)
For what it's worth, this isn't the case at SurveyMonkey.
> Google's character was obvious to me when they insisted their slogan was "don't be evil" and not "do no evil".

I thought the consensus was that "don't be evil" meant "don't be Microsoft" (of the 90s) which makes it a pretty easy slogan to be judged by.
> This woman is unreliable. She also accused Arrington of hacking into Robert Scoble's Facebook account and posting as him to defend Arrington. We should have seen through this at that point, that it had to come to this is an indictment of our culture and the willingness of a few to take advantage of an unstable woman to promote their own self interest.

Exactly, now Calacanis, Loren & Gawker all look silly having staked their reputation with, what is clearly now obvious, this crazy, gold digger.

> I can't imagine what else somebody in that situation could do. He is lucky he was able to track down all this information online, otherwise we could have seen an innocent man convicted.

I was thinking that the entire time....at first when I heard her story, even though I didn't know her I thought it kinda strange that Calacanis and company were just piling on. Given what I know of them, that made everything feel so fishy. But I gave her the benefit of the doubt - given the gravity of the accusations.

But now....there is no doubt in my mind that he was clearly the victim of extortion by a money-grubber.

Glad he aired her dirty laundry to dry - so hopefully no one else gets duped. She seems to be a serial psycho, so hopefully there will be no more victims.
Apple iPhone 4 sales outshine iPhone 5's in India
Kik ups the stakes in the consumer Web’s most important battle: mobile chat
Orignal Language..kind of like Orignal Gangster..imo
how else are you going to use the youtube comments as they are meant to be? I can't make half-witted, nonsensical, semi-racist comments if they are linked to my own name!
Yes, you are prompted to enable G+ in many "normal" activities. You are also prompted to "unify your accounts" and "use your real name" in youtube. You cannot even skip that "use your real name" prompt, I usually reload the link I wanted and hope the window disappears.

Not sure a new account helps, G+ could be enabled from the start.
I consider it like the 1980's cell phone. Way too expensive, not nearly capable enough, and you look really silly using it. But then let it evolve for a decade or two, and you might get something inevitable. Eventually i'm expecting something like the augmented reality in the TV show continuum, and that is something people would really be into.
That is not really how it works.
A geek commits his marriage invitation to github.
SlideShare engineer, Bubby Rayber, invites all geeks to his marriage by putting the invitation on github.
Interesting statistic- Bitcoin Days Destroyed skyrocketed during this crash.

http://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed

BDD measures how many "old" coins are being moved around, so it seems likely that a lot of early adopters cashed out this time. Will be interesting to see what that means for the future of the BTC itself.
Honest question, does this site not just drive home the fact that you can't change default apps on iOS? That is the number one thing I miss from my old android phone.
Mt. Gox hit by DDoS
No one's doubting that Google has a great of achievement or hasn't earned the success they have.

That doesn't mean that people don't have a right to criticize the google that exists today.
Your two examples are "get credit card" and "Nike shoes on sale"? Try "geomorphology" or "big o notation" or anything not consumer related. Quite frankly if I searched for "Nike shoes on sale" then those ads are exactly what I'd want to see.
yeah the instinct to panic sell is pretty amazing. at this point it seems pretty obvious that's the entire purpose of the DDOS, but it doesn't stop it from working. XD
Shouldn't there be a stagger for the ages so there aren't double counts?

I.e. 16-20, 21-25, 26-30, 31-35
As with most things Google nowadays, their vision of the future seems to be at odds with my desire to remain anonymous and maintain my privacy. As I swype this on my galaxy s3, Google search app remains un-updated because it wants all sorts of pervasive permissions that I just don't want to give it. Why does Google search app want access to my text messages and contacts? I'm sure there is some googly answer but it just doesn't sit well.
Most the time the average age cited for readers of this site seems to be 24. I don't know where that came from, but it seems to match what's stated or implied in a lot of comments.
Yeah, it's hardly a broken system just because you want to make money from the cool riffs that other people came up with, all without paying them a cent.

If you're sampling someone else, then you're effectively making them a co-author of your material - and they should be due royalties for that, just like if you covered their song. How many mixes have we heard where the signature is the sample and the chaff is the stuff surrounding it?

In any case, if the samples really were trivial and not worth kicking back money... then they wouldn't be sampled in the first place :)
Clearly so that you can search those items.
Not just recruiting, they are a hosting company, it gets the attention of people who might host with them. Much like you can follow tons of people on Twitter to trigger new follower messages to many, who may check out who you are.
I don't think you can. And more importantly I don't think you should.

So many times I have spent longs hours working on a very simple task but those long hours went in trying to find out the best, most elegant, most efficient, yet all inclusive (for cases), and still requires the minimum amount of code.

And once you get there, you get the feeling of eureka. You know that tini-tiny little piece of code can take anything you throw at it.

How in the world would you quantify that :).
For those also interested in Male to Female ratio (data courtesy of user 'pdx'):

1309/89 == 15 to 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571216

1377/72 == 19 to 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309

506/31 16 to 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175603

466/35 == 13 to 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617
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Looks like another DDoS
https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=MtGox&tw_i=3...
What's especially frustrating is that for a while, it seemed like this was the direction Google might go; mash together google reader + gmail/contacts + (optionally) blogger and you have a pretty good open-web social network.
In DS9/Voyager, the shuttlecraft have talking computers. On occasion, they use comm badges to execute remote commands like having the computer use the shuttle's short range transporter to beam them back into the shuttle.
Report from KDE PIM hacking sprint in Berlin
http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Crazy, huh?
Go back later and see if it sticks :)
MOxie: polyfills for XHR and HTML5 File API
I mean, if all you have is the output hash and you have no idea what the input text was.
> Nailed it

Can you point to a specific event in history where this actually occurred? Because so far all I've seen are people theorizing what will happen in this situation. Your argument would carry more weight if you backed it up.
For me, they killed (are killing) the two products I use most... iGoogle, and Reader. That's it.. I've bought into the android ecosystem and what I use most there is reader.

Without those two products, I have far less reason to use google for anything.
I'm all for this. You can talk much faster then you can type and that is at a normal human speaking pace. We can actually talk much faster then that and still be pretty understandable to us, and there is no reason a computer couldn't understand us talking faster then that.

I've recently been testing this theory out by talking to computers as fast as possible to see if they can understand, usually through customer service lines, but some with Siri. The last time was when I activated my credit card and had to read off the numbers. It had no trouble understanding me at a pretty ridiculous speed, something much faster then a person could write down or remember.

In the interest of science: I tested out Siri just now, talking as fast as I can. I asked for: "directions to a violin", "make an appointment for 2:15 am", "what is the temperature". 3 for 3. That thing can handle some pretty fast input!

Interesting data I found surfing around:

Typing speed: 40 wpm
Talking speed: 150 wpm
Reading speed: 250 wpm
(up to 1000 wpm with 50% reading comprehension if you believe speed reading websites)

Clearly pictures are worth a thousand words, so words per minute don't hold a candle to maps, charts and other visualizations. This makes me think reading will still be a big part of interfaces of the future. Perhaps we input with voice and but will have to receive results "on screen." Haha. Ok, maybe Star Trek jokes still aren't mainstream yet. When this is all a reality, will they be funny then? =)
I wish Google would charge me for Reader. I'd be willing to pay up to $50/year.
It's not a zero-sum game. Even if the American school system miraculously stopped failing overnight, and we solve the trifecta that is American poverty-race-criminality instantaneously, it will be decades before the labor force sees the full benefit.

We can, and should, be improving the domestic situation - but even going full-bore on that front there is still a gap in labor supply that won't solve itself for decades to come.

There is also a national competitive angle here, which is that every talented, highly-paid individual not working in the US is working somewhere else, enriching another economy, paying (copious) taxes to someone else, and nudging the American trade deficit just a bit in the wrong direction. Worst case scenario they're working on things that directly threaten the US (see: space programs, military tech, economically disruptive tech, etc) when they instead could be working for you threatening some other poor country.

The most prime example of this at work is the entire history of the US space program.
Maybe it's because I'm from Minnesota, but I can type faster than I can talk.
Also this one from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520342

1207 M / 73 F / 30 other
Om misses the biggest problem with the way immigration reform is seen in the Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley talks about start-up visa and visa for American college graduates but doesn't touch on the lives of the immigrant kids who came here illegally when they were really young.

These kids have the first right to immigration reforms before us entrepreneur engineers who went to school here in the US. I tried to make this point in an interview I gave to a San Jose newspaper but the journalist conveniently forgot to mention it since it didn't fit well with the story.

I know that Mark, Ron, Merissa or Drew are not responsible for these kids and it doesn't affect their business while a start-up visa definitely does but I think the immigration reforms needs to be looked from both the perspectives.

Of course, as an immigrant, start-up founder who went to Berkeley I am all for making it easier for me to stay in this country. But I am ok with playing second fiddle to kids who are as American as anyone but don't have an American passport just because they spent the first few years of their life in a foreign country.

One thing is clear though. The immigration reform is an absolute need of the hour for America.
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Good practice,thanks
> (up to 1000 wpm with 50% reading comprehension if you believe speed reading websites)

My effective WPM (meaning take the reading comprehension as a coefficient and multiply it by the raw WPM) ranges between 800 and 950.

Why do I keep running into people doubting speed reading is a thing? I had to practice at it above and beyond a love of reading.
I know what Turing-complete means, but can you explain how the blockchain could become Turing-complete, and why that would be a bad thing?
I left work before I realized I left out the part about truth being Ms. Allen's burden because it is her defense to defamation. (In US law, once the plaintiff has made a prima facie showing of their case, the burden shifts back to the defendant to prove their defense.)

Common elements of defamation in US law:
1) a false statement purporting to be fact concerning another person or entity;
2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person;
3) fault on the part of the person making the statement amounting to intent or at least negligence; and
4) some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

Mr. Arrington has made a prima facie showing of the elements of defamation. (This doesn't mean that he's proven his case, since that is a factual determination by a judge or jury. It simply means that he appears to have shown sufficient evidence of each element that the factfinder could find for him.) I leave it to you to read the massive of wall of text to see how each element is met.

Truth is a defense to defamation, under American law. Thus, it is now Ms. Allen's job to prove the truth of the allegedly defamatory statements. In this regard, the photo is a significant obstacle to overcome in showing the truth of her statements, if, as suggested, she was several hundred miles away from the plaintiff at the time of the alleged incident.
Wild that at 38, I'm at the tail end.
Really good sampling takes just as much blood, sweat, and tears invested as the other skill sets you cite.

Oh, it's okay to leech off other people's work without compensating them, because I'm really good!

As for 'fair use', using the signature riff of a song is different from "10% of the prose" of an article. You're talking about the core identifiable part of a song, the hook itself.

In fact, many cultural icons are greatly reinforced by this kind of use.

If it's a fact, can you please cite a couple of examples that have been greatly reinforced by this kind of use? Because that really sounds like a throwaway weasel-word line to me.
Ah, thanks for the response.
A year-long contract at $200/hour is going to be very, very hard to land for most freelancers.
That's not exactly true. People don't get in such a hissy fit over microsoft's online applications, like hotmail or the office web apps. Microsoft isn't 'better' than google, though i would argue they're no worse either.
WHY THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION IS IN IDEAS, Not PRODUCTS
As mentioned, one should really be using a kernel density plot instead of a histogram, except when there are already classes in the data.

In R, one can simply do:

library("ggplot2")
library("datasets")
ggplot(faithful, aes(x=eruptions)) + geom_density() + geom_rug()

which gives a chart like this (http://jean-francois.im/temp/eruptions-kde.png). Contrast with:

ggplot(faithful, aes(x=eruptions)) + geom_histogram(binwidth=1)

which gives a chart like this (http://jean-francois.im/temp/eruptions-histogram.png).

Edit: Other plots mentioned in this discussion:

ggplot(faithful, aes(x = eruptions)) + stat_ecdf(geom = "step")

Cumulative distribution, as suggested by leot (http://jean-francois.im/temp/eruptions-ecdf.png)

qqnorm (faithful$eruptions)

Q-Q plot, as suggested by christopheraden (http://jean-francois.im/temp/eruptions-qq.png)
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I'm curious about these (5 as of the posting time) people that are over 90
I created HN Charts to visualize HN Poll data. Click the following link to see the result of this poll in an easy to read chart: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5536734
how do i compete against others in the ladder?

i have a team that seems to beat anyone i test against, but i can't figure out how to rank up.
Most samples are completely unrecognizable

Then it shouldn't change the character of the derived work to switch it for something else. This seems to be a self-defeating argument.
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over 90 !? noise?
I'm waiting anxiously for the "What is your quest?" poll.
The computer in TOS was almost horrifyingly robotic. It was used sparingly by the crew, and technology was generally seen as a necessary evil (there was even an episode where a new computer system threatened to take away Kirk and co.'s jobs).

It wasn't until TNG that the computer became a friendly, integral part of the Enterprise. The crew widely acknowledged and were comfortable with the fact that the computer could do all of their jobs, but that never became an issue.

This shift corresponds with the rise of the personal computer away from mainframes, and the replacement of blinking lights with GUIs for depictions of computers in film and television. I will now resist the urge to credit Apple for helping usher in such a shift in culture.
17, and a proud hacker.
Geocities, lycos, CompuServe, Excite@Home, so many others.

Those were all companies which sold at a billion dollars or many billions of dollars and have sense been shut down or are worth a tiny fraction of that amount today.

And those are just examples from the last 20 years, we could go back to nearly countless examples of other speculative bubbles going back centuries.
$100 on Virwox.
Google, like many companies, wants the biggest market share, therefore it goes mostly for idiots. The rest will just have to find a way to fit in into all that.
Awesome!

Here is the chart fdrom my recent poll:

http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5522156

sans Winklevii
Are there really people over 80 and under 10 on this site, or are people just clicking shit for the hell of it?
Color is something that people take for granted or think of as trivial but it's actually rather complicated. There are some colors that can't be represented in print and some colors that can't be represented on a monitor. There are several different color spaces (RGB cube,  L ＊a ＊b ＊, etc.) It doesn't help that CSS3 and HTML4 color modules are terrible (the darkest octant of the sRGB cube is empty and most of the colors are too saturated or and too light). [1]

[1]http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Dictionaries#CSS3

EDIT: I used full width asterisks (U+FF0A) because I wanted to write  L ＊a ＊b ＊ without inserting white space after regular asterisks (U+002A).
Interesting extension of this exercise would be to replace your custom AST with the AST exposed by Python, then use the compile() builtin to compile said AST into a PyCodeObject ready for direct execution by the Python VM. :)

Something along these lines: https://github.com/thomaslee/viking-poc/blob/master/viking#L...

(Disclaimer: I wrote the Python-AST-to-PyObject transformation code for Python 2.6 that made this sort of stuff possible -- fun hack!)
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1) Contract law is meaningless without the power of the state to enforce contracts. Otherwise, it simply devolves into who has the most guns and is willing to use them. This is great for the violent, but not so great for everyone else. (See, e.g., the drug trade.)

2) Sobriety is not necessary to enter into a contract, but it is a factor that could be examined to determine if a person actually intended to enter into a contract. Coercion generally voids contracts.

3) Fraud is considered a form of coercion. Pre-nups are largely invalidated not by the failure to sign a pre-nup but because the wealthier spouse (usally the husband) has failed to diclose all their assets, which the courts generally deem fraud because the party represents that they have made a full and complete disclosure.

4) That's perfectly acceptable if you choose to do it in your will. It's just not acceptable for the state to mandate that only males may receive inheritances.

5) Agreed, but that's what you get when you let millionaires draft the tax code.
Don't forget the issue of "false light". The facts appear to speak for themselves, but even a truthful claim is actionable if it casts the plaintiff in a false light that results in reputation damage or public ridicule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_light
I'm Very Interesting
Old enough to know that this has been asked before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923
I agree with this wholeheartedly. And anyway it's not necessary. First you get the offer. Then you go to your boss and say "Look, I'm not really happy with my current situation. The market supports a larger salary than you're paying me."

That's a threat, sort of. But it's veiled enough that your boss can give you a raise without feeling like you forced his hand. He can give you a raise without it being step one in a two step plan to get rid of you.

If he doesn't... well, then you take the other offer.
Winklevoss twins revealed as Bitcoin moguls
Or how a game would make you answer a question that you would only know know if you had the manual to accompany the game.

"What is the fourth word from the second paragraph on page 13?"

Presumably you didn't have access to a copy machine if you were stealing software back then...
Update: https://twitter.com/MtGox/status/322584241902874625

It's back up.
You really don't think such a list could be created finding at least one subjective flaw in everything Microsoft has ever created? I'd do it myself if it wouldn't be such an absurd waste of time.

I'm not saying Microsoft products suck, just reiterating my earlier point that nothing done at scale is going to be perfect to everybody.
I guess Apple hoped that the dumb clones would come first, which would help set a precedent.
Bitcoin has certain core qualities: limited supply, fast transfer, pseudonymity, decentralized governance, self-managed credentials. (It also has some fringe/potential qualities: ability to represent software contracts, ability to represent fractional ownership/voting interests, support for micropayments.)

It's too early to determine what its primary function(s) will be, arising from these qualities. People are doing interesting, potentially valuable things with it, including a bunch of things that are also done with 'currency'.

If Bitcoin turns out to win a fraction of the market for international money transfer, or online purchases, or gray/black market purchases, the existing units could be worth a lot more than now.

If the combination of constitutional counterfeit/inflation resistance, plus consensus adoption for a few other things, makes it attractive as a rare store of value (like gold), it will also become much more valuable.

These are big ifs, but they're not impossibilities, and the way that Bitcoin is like equity is that it has aligned the interests of all its holders to try to create the systems/world where Bitcoin continues to be more valuable, as with founders' shares in any other startup. They start as mere paper, sold at negligible 'par value' under the idea that someday, others will want them too, because they will represent valuable claims on future capabilities. With the incentive-aligned work of the team, that future may come to pass, creating a lot of value. Or not.

So yes, in a sense, one of its purposes is: get all the people who hold Bitcoin working together towards increasing its value (and related things). Like equity shares.
I love this. I would like to hear your synopsis of the JavaScript/nodejs community as one of these characters.