skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I specifically called it out as "white-collar" income, not overall median income.

It's household income, not per capita. The median household income for SF is $73. I don't think it's out of bounds to assume that for a white collar worker (call it a 75th percentile income) that number is well over $120.

(The median household income for a number of cities in this area exceeds $110K. They're not all execs. http://citylab.news21.com/data/types/19/)

About 30% of the US gets a bachelor's degree, which seems like a reasonable proxy for the number of people working in white collar office jobs. So a median white collar worker is probably about 80th percentile income. For the overall US, that works out to $105K to $110K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
Don't you mean: "Google would never add encryption for stored messages to unpaid Gmail accounts." Why would it necessarily be an "atrocious" business decision to charge extra for encrypted accounts?

Google's happy to charge when the market demand exists for a paid service (GAE and GAB come to mind). It's true that the market demand may be insufficient here to make it worthwhile, but on the other hand privacy-sensitive companies and agencies might be more willing to switch to paid Gmail if their email were seen as more private than it is today.
I don't look to the Constitution to determine what is right and wrong.
so they can log it correctly :)
I pay about $350/month for one room in a 2br in Pittsburgh, PA.
I actually thought this post was about pressureNET at first :)
I like DigiKam. It works well with the KDE desktop and it's software libre licensed GPL Version 2.
The fact that you have to qualify your comment with your links to farmers puzzles me. I mean, I understand why you did it, but it's puzzling to me that attitudes are such that you need to. The Brave New Antibiotic-Resistant Apocalypse will hurt farmers just as much as the rest of us, after all.

The way I see it, farmers should be leading the charge to ban non-medicinal antibiotics use in farm animals. The current situation is causing a tragedy of the commons. The commons in this case is antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Every individual farmer is better off if they use non-medicinal antibiotics than if they don't, but they're all collectively better off (along with the rest of us) if none of them do. In short, the current market is forcing them to act in ways that are bad for humanity. If I were a farmer, I'd seriously dislike that, and lobby for laws that made it possible to do the right thing.
That would be the ideal addition to iOS 7. The URL based one I mentioned would go someway to give you this functionality although it requires the app getting the data to implement the functionality. Fingers crossed are crossed for Apple to announce something to improve this in June.
>Who was making that point?

Lots of people. Including the EasyDNS post, implicitly.

>How do you know? Would countries that employ child labor be slingshotted into the first-world because they adopted effective regulations? I speculate they'd be unemployed and go hungry.

Only I made the reverse argument: that countries without child labour should not introduce it to compete with those countries.

And in general, that countries with higher working standards should not lower them to compete with third world countries, dictatorships etc, in a race to the bottom.

But, to also answer your question, I'd rather they go hungry than they use child labor, if that were the two options. Would you be OK with forced labor, ie slavery, if that was their only way to be competitive and not "go hungry"?

All this is a false dichotomy you set up anyway. It's not "child labor" vs "hungry". Child labor is not employed because it's their only hope to compete, it's merely employed because they lack the regulations to enforce otherwise. If the employers in that country (and the huge multinationals that contract them) could not take advantage of 12 year old children in sweatshops, they'd pay a little more and employ their parents.

It's not a case of "we can compete any other way". It's a case, "Hey, the laws here allow me to fuck over these people for an increased profit, so why not do it?".

>Again, how do you know? Did Michael Moore tell you?

Well, for one I'm not an American, and I have far wider horizons than Michael Moore. Should I also assume a caricature of you as some Fox News watching foaming at the mouth republican? It would be of similar quality and subtlety to your Michael Moore thing. Quite provincial, are we?

Anyway, no Michael didn't tell me. Not being provincial, following world economy news, a quite extensive reading on the matter, and travelling (but not as some naive first world tourist), "told me".

> It means that the "benefits of a globalised economy" are mainly for company owners, moguls, managers, golden boys and the like, and more often praised than seen in reality.
Again, how do you know? Did Michael Moore tell you?
> Samsung (or Apple) can make billions in the US market, but that doesn't mean you get to add those to the GDP and be happy about it.
What? How does Apple not affect the GDP? What aren't you happy about?
And if, as they say, "PLEASE DO NOT ENTER YOUR REAL PASSWORD", why do they need to use a silly password entry field?

EDIT: This video explains it: 10 hidden cameras.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/passwordwin-...
There are a few functions that are not available on Windows.

If you hard-code paths in the code that refer to Linux-specific things, it won't work in Windows.

That said, if it works on Windows, it will most likely work on Linux, but a VM should still be favored due to the probability of prod being Linux.
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And even if you do, it takes less then a day to learn it.
I think that you are right in that there is probably a disorder in that particular case, but seeing the lack of symmetry in general to be an indication of a problem seems off. As far as I can tell we don't expect such a symmetry in the rest of medicine. I don't think there is an opposite of lung cancer.
The usual reason is to allow c to be EOF, but I don't see why anyone would in this case.
I agree I need to be better at this. I actually reviewed a lot of my collection recently and felt that I should have been more discerning at the outset, but didn't actually reduce the number at all.

This doesn't fix the problem though. A tool to coalesce multiple sources and allow for easy sorting/editing with a way to them publish that result is really key here.
The problem is vastly easier with initial positions and velocities constrained to the plane. If they start that way, they can't ever leave. Even if you have a coulomb/newtonian potential, proving stability will be far more straightforward.

I'd love to be surprised, but I suspect closed and collisionless solutions with any out-of-plane components would be newsworthy and immediately publishable.
"A nice girl I met at a party" => add to my "want to-do" list. nice.
>I admit mentioning him alongside Linus was misleading

And quite insulting.
lung necrosis?
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Yes, but before those anti-wiretapping laws the phone company could theoretically do ad-hoc wiretapping of their own and voluntarily divulge that to the government. The only limit would have been that the phone company couldn't have wiretapped at the direct behest of the government since the Supreme Court had already ruled that the 4th Amendment applied [to the government] where the person had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The statute fixed that privacy issue and then put requirements on when wiretaps could be used by the government. Before this law and the Supreme Court decision the government was very... lax regarding warrants for wiretaps.

http://www.it.ojp.gov/default.aspx?area=privacy&page=128...
For this one:

4. Chlorine washes for poultry carcasses

the EU is currently looking at implementing something similar using substances such as ozone in solution or steam.
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Don't worry...we'll throw you in prison if you don't pasteurize your milk.
I use tadalist for this (I have my movies list, my books list, my restaurants list, and my travel list there) but I'll admit this looks pretty slick. I'll add it to my apps to try list. ;)
It's ridiculous how un-Apple-like Photo Streams are.

They solve one problem of sharing your photos across all your devices for VIEWING, but not for organizing/editing/deleting. It just creates copies of your photos everywhere. It's not a centralized place where you can keep your "good, sorted, organized, edited" photos with all the bad photos deleted.

Photo Streams actually adds problems. If you want to completely delete a photo you just took (it turned out bad), you have to delete it in TWO places instead of one.

Dropbox does a much better job at the latter (assuming you have enough space for your photos on it; I do).

To solve this problem, you need to create a good "home" for people's photos. Right now, the Camera Roll remains the only viable home, but it has many downsides (unable to be accessed or edited from other devices, can't manually add older photos).

Basically, with Photo Streams, Apple violate the DRY principle [1] and it creates more problems than it solves.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_repeat_yourself
And I guess that meant that the clients would find themselves unable to access things since the permissions were cached, so you were actually seeing issues outside of your script results. Yea I can see how that would be truly baffling, and provides good motivation for not modifying interaction with production on a Friday evening. Thanks :)
I agree to some degree but MMO games in general are serious business and a special breed, especially when real currency is involved. It was most definitely against the ToS and I am sure that most of the players who participated in the exploit knew that. Also there were people who were using this bug to make real life money through the real money auction house, those people in particular can't be surprised that they were banned.
Whilst I agree with you in theory, and on the principle that probably 90% of POST, PUT or other various schemes to upload data could probably be better solved (and more securely) by a simple setup of rsync+SSH, there is the issue of end user interface. I don't want to have to browse through an Apache file listing of thousands of files named similarly to "2013-01-02_09:33.jpeg". I want thumbnails, and possibly other context (location, tags, etc). I also don't necessarily want to upload every single photo I take.
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Charge? Isn't everything free on teh interwebs? haha

On a serious note: you're completely right! iPhoto should be the next product that works exactly like you describe.
Yes, I use Everpix and I've been really happy with it. However, I like the photo upload tools that come with Dropbox, so now I collect, sort, and edit photos in Dropbox, then I transfer them to a static(ish) Everpix library that distributes them back to my iPhone/iPad/browser. Seems kind of circular, but it works really well. And I have 170,000 photos in the cloud for less than the cost of a Dropbox upgrade.
Agreed. It's been described as the redditification of HN, and will only get worse as the site gains popularity
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Agreed. I live in Flint, MI (#1 in violent crime, 2 years running) and have yet to personally see any violent crime first hand, and I live just north of the worst part of the city.
Awesome, thanks for the tip! I've just opened up the page and if the technology looks at all workable, I'll sign-up/purchase.

EDIT: Ah no, no Chrome plugin! I may have to go back to Firefox. I've been using it lately for development and it's come a long way in 2-3 years.

EDIT II: I found a very interesting open-source Chrome OpenPGP plugin built by a research team. http://gpg4browsers.recurity.com/ (Turns out project was merged to mymail-crypt project here: http://www.openpgpjs.org/) But I'll be sure to check back with Penango since they have said that a Chrome plugin in coming mid-2013.
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/apps/passw...

interesting toppasswords string. wasn't there a post a few weeks ago about how someone owns a patent on telling you your password is common?

edit: indeed there was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543393
7. Gestation crates

These were banned in the UK in 1999. The EU has just brought in a law banning them, but a lot of countries are still not fully compliant.
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No it wasn’t – horsemeat if meant for human consumption is edible, but meat from racing horses, for example, isn’t. Those having to dispose of such horses even have to pay the renderer for their service, and this was the real problem here, even though the media tended to get more concerned about ‘HORSE meat!!!!’.

But, as the GP said, this so far seems to be a singular incident of a single producer trying to make an extra profit, which I don’t really think justifies throwing the entire system overboard.
>How can that ever be purely expressed?

A loop is a recursive function. State is the arguments to the function. You pass an updated state to the next iteration of the loop. Haskell provides nice abstractions to make this seamless.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was just trying to say you were right.
Here's my blog post on our launch: http://spencerfry.com/introducing-uncover
Reminds me of a time a coworker at a previous job almost brought down a production server by opening a file in vi.

That file was a customer log that had grown to 100+gb in size due to an error that she was debugging. She failed to check the log size, instead assuming that it was a small file left over after that night's log rotation. When vi tried to load the file to memory, it almost crashed the box before we could kill it (we still got calls about degraded performance though).
There are plenty of instances where protests/gatherings in the United States were squashed brutally by police force, and people were either severely injured or killed.

The WBC, the Tea Party, and the birthers aren't squashed by the club only because the government doesn't consider them a serious enough threat.

Anyone who is considered a serious threat is brutally beaten, tortured, detained, etc. whether or not their actions were noble (i.e. PFC Manning), or likely cases of mistaken identity, false accusations (Guantanamo, etc.), or living in the wrong part of the world (Iraq, etc.).

Of course, you also don't have to be considered a "real threat" either to feel the weight of the club. Simply act out of line with the law, regardless of whether the law is just or not, and you will feel it smashing down upon you. Just because we have fancy formal proceedings before we hit you in the head doesn't mean the club has somehow disappeared. Its impact is just delayed, that's all.

Past uses of the club included having the wrong color of skin or being of the wrong nationality (blacks a few decades ago, Japanese during WW2). All of these happened during times when we supposedly lived in a "free, civil and open society". The big club is always there, just sometimes it doesn't care about you.

Watch yourself. http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/200H/f/2010/027/5/7/Obama__y...
An ideal route isn't best characterized as "flat" - I agree that "least work" (in a mechanical sense) is better. In reality it is as you say however - a personal trade off - some people just love hills too :)
I might be too late for anyone to see this, but I think it's an important point.

A lot of people assume the origin of wiretapping laws has to do with protecting citizens from the police. This isn't the case, at least not originally. Wiretapping laws were about protecting citizens from each other. Let me explain:

Once upon a time, it was too expensive to run a phone line to each house. AT&T had the brilliant idea of running one phone line and having many people on a street share the line (the rich, of course, enjoyed private communications). So if there were seven houses, and you were in house number 5, you would only answer calls that rang 5 times. The problem is that since all the houses on the block shared one phone line, any one nosy enough to but in could eavesdrop just by taking their phone off hook. The original wiretapping laws were setup to protect citizens from this, not the Government.

As a side note: before the North American Numbering plan, phone numbers were names followed by numbers. An example might be Oxford7 or OX7 on the number pad, which would ring the 7th house in the Oxford area (Oxford is a placeholder and doesn't refer to Oxford proper.)
Student data mined himself and is selling his privacy online
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Why the Recruiter Didn't Call You Back
The suicidal find a way. Where guns are not available, in at least one major comparable example, the suicide rate is different by being higher (by a lot). Sure, guns make it easy...but there are many other easy ways.
I am mystified by the idea that a middleman is entitled to 50% of someone's comp because "they possess key information". Literally: mystified. What could your comment possibly mean? I'm a hiring manager. Help me understand how a recruiter could possibly earn 50% of someone's comp.
Thanks. I'm not a physicist, I was merely drawing pretty pictures based on real physicists' work. The examples in the paper are all planar (and have zero angular momentum), but it would be easy to simulate arbitrary orbits if any are published.
We're back to administrations saying "stop us if you can".
Thinkpads have great battery life built in, or you can get extended batteries, or slice batteries. You can even stick a battery in the drive bay.

You can also easily turn off ports you aren't using, at least in linux.
We need more advanced Gardens and 100% recycling of everything we use, the system must have a working circular flow. No Genetic engineering, or processing of our food.

It took billions of years for the nature to create the foods that are perfect for us, we cannot create something better (in a few hundred years).

I wish that someday the entire Human race on Earth will be as enlightened as the people in Star Trek.
I run PHP on Windows but with the full LAMP static (Apache running on Windows) and deploy to Linux without modification. I suspect you could also do that with IIS (as PHP abstracts the server interface) but I have not tried it.
It's great that someone finally made an app focused on personal life things, rather than work or errand to-dos. Awesome.
This is not my experience. The app only takes square photos, and forces you to crop existing photos if you select them from the camera roll one at a time, regardless of whether you select a filter. Unless I'm missing a setting, which I've looked for.

The uploaded photos viewed on the web are indeed cropped/square.

EDIT: I see there is a separate upload/sync menu item, and that allows you to batch upload uncropped photos. However, if I want photos taken on my phone to be auto-uploaded to Trovebox, they need to be taken through the app, which forces me to take a square picture.

I'd respectfully request that you make cropping an option when taking a photo, not the rule, so I don't need to take photos in one app and upload them manually with another. Better yet, let me tell the app to just incrementally/periodically upload all the photos I take on my phone (ala Everpix)
You share your telephone conversations with the phone company, so why did they need permission to set up a wiretap in the past? You shared your personal and business possessions with your housekeeper, janitor, plumber and other maintenance staff, so why do they need a search warrant for your home or office? It's not a logical argument, it's a ludicrous argument that sounds logical because the Internet has only existed for most people for 15 years or so and social norms are still being worked out.
I feel like this app would just make me depressed at my lack of free time. There's nothing like a nice, colorful list of things you "could" be doing to make you feel horrible about yourself when you're in a cubicle on a Saturday morning.
That'd be the First Amendment.

Unless you think free speech and the right to bear arms are the same..
Ok I typed in my password, but nothing happened!
And yet if your arsenic comes from a "natural source", you can feed it to animals and still call them organic.
Well yes, but the same is true of any minified JavaScript, handwritten or compiled. For example look at the output of the closure compiler minifier.
"It might as well be bytecode."
After many years of taking photos, I find the best way to organize them for me is to only take few photos and keep them sorted by time. The way Camera Roll does already. It's perfect.

Now if my Camera Roll were synced across devices rather than having duplicate photos in Photo Stream, that would be much much better. And if I could add photos to that time-sorted stream from multiple devices (bonus points for SLRs)... That would be how it should've been from day 1.
Similar to BetterWorks? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/betterworks

I remember Paige Craig was working on something similar. There was a business there but then when they scaled up sales it didn't seem like the model worked (not enough demand). Maybe there's something different here or will be executed on better?

Either way, it looks nice and it's awesome you learned to code to start your startup! I'm only in the beginning stages of learning to code, but it's already helping me interact with the developers and designers I'm working with. It's hard to juggle learning with working.
>bad imitation (often with the wrong process and/or ingredients).

But who is to decide? Imagine if the same thing happened to hamburgers or endless other common things. although understandable the reasoning is already flimsy when it's a region but when it's applied to generic names which have been around for a very long time then who is to decide?

For example, I come from Melbourne in Australia where we have the world's third biggest Greek speaking population after Athens and Thessaloniki. Many came before Greece's entry into the European Communities. Feta means slice, "φέτα", so they can't sell a slice of cheese in the EU, made perfectly in the traditional manner, calling it a slice in their own language as they have always done? They are Greek citizens (as well as Australian), they speak Greek, they've been making that cheese since forever I can't see how you can retrospectively then say people can't call it that. As with the case of the Croatian wine, it's vandalizing history and existing linguistic practice.
Burst fire IS semi-auto, despite the other commenter. Automatic firing means that when you hold down the trigger it continues to fire until either the trigger is released or the ammunition supply is exhausted.
Which inexplicably gets 182,598,077,247 years. This thing clearly does not understand how to judge passphrases.

For comparison, here is the best password checker I've found:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.htm...
In the first paragraph is the little gem : authority needs to a) know b) be honest c) care for anti-authoritarians to accept it.

> I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities.

Yes! Wow. Just read the article - not a single idea I'd disagree with, except maybe the conclusion :

> Americans desperately need anti-authoritarians to question, challenge, and resist new illegitimate authorities and regain confidence in their own common sense

I don't know if anyone desperately needs anything.

However, the abc test to test how legitimate is the authority and how a diagnosis would be best explained by something this simple thing is something I'll keep.