skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's worked through the dot-com boom and crash of the 1990's, I can offer some perspective.

- Everything is relative: My salary is just now what it was at the top of the dot-com bubble about 14 years ago, and I've been promoted twice. That $150,000 offer the author mentions would be $250,000 if we used the wages for 1999, adjusted for inflation.

- Like all things, this is cyclical. In 1999, my email was jammed with messages from recruiters. In 2002, I could hardly get one to return my call. The same will happen with this latest enthusiasm for coders. In a couple of years, the startup scene may cool off considerably. You could end up grateful for a job that pays 1/2 the salary at a bank. Enjoy the free Red Bull and flexible hours while they last.

- You will be replaced. By someone younger, someone offshore, someone with newer skills. You can't change your age or nation of birth, so keep your skills sharp. I've gone from Pascal to Python in my career and will keep going. If you want money, look for the skills people will pay for. Lisp is a great language, but Java has had this great feature of paying my bills and then some.

- Make something people want. If they want you to make a micro social network for an apartment building, do it. Some of my best jobs (and money) have come from the mundane, like software help track toilet paper production costs. One of the wealthiest people I know started as an electrician. He now runs and a company of electricians and has the kind of money us start up folks dream of because he runs wires in houses in a city that went on a building boom.

- Realize that how much money people make doesn't relate to the value their job provides to society. Athletes can make incredible money, while people disarming bombs, fighting fires and repairing power lines make little. It's just a fact of life and it isn't fair. Left handed baseball pitchers have inherent value simply due to the fact that they are left handed on top of their ability to throw a ball. Coders make money right now because of the internet and the information age. Make the most of it and make the impact you want to make in the world.
The Obama administration has been much more forward and harsh against leaks that past administrations. At least, it appears that way to people looking in from the outside.
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I'd be interested to see the I/O with the same disk system. Right now the comparison is between a 500GB HD and an SSD. I would assume this would skew results quite a bit.
They also have toxic fog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106783
Please define radical, post-modern feminist. Thanks.
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Okay so to review: you do admit that you're sexist because you exist in society but don't want to be accused of being sexist?

Also zorpner was not asking for forgiveness, that was a rhetorical flourish.

Which is actually a big part of what the article is talking about: the apparent inability of some people to accept that humans don't speak in Z-notation or something.
And just in case you weren't perfectly satisfied with the level of mathematical rigor of the article, here is a complete, formal, machine-verified and hyperlinked version of the proof: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/eulerid.html
That is certainly innovative. It would get you noticed for sure, especially for positions that require presentation skills/communication/sales/publicity.

I didn't quite understand the woman logo in your interests section and I wonder if that should be taken out in a professional context.
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Way too much mork. If you have a way of infecting computers by simply visiting a webpage, just tag it some kind of porn and post on reddit & other forums.
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I'm surprised there are not more Indians, there are a lot of Indians in IT and development. Perhaps they just start them companies in India where it is cheaper?
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I presume DF is blacklisted. But why Vesper?
Why default off? Are today's bloggers afraid of feedback beyond "n people liked this"?
My point is that it is only fundamental because it leads to this equation!
it is.

I read that link already, in fact used it as a reference when I did convert from Matlab to python. I converted back when I realized that in spite of the apparent syntactic similarities, matlab is still very different to scipy.

In matlab, everything is a matrix. The only "gotchas" when it comes to types, is that

f = X(X > 0)

and

f = X(double(X > 0))

give different answers because logical indexing requires actual logical type. Apart from this, you will almost never have to do type conversions in matlab.

Python arrays are not scipy matrices or arrays. And a scipy 1 x n array is not a matrix.

All these little things add up to more time spent thinking about programming and less about mathematics.

Don't think of me as some biased matlab fanatic.

I am a grad student, and I found the appeal of python as strong as those who advocate it as a substitute for matlab. The difference is that when it came down to doing my actual work, I just couldn't do it as easily in python. I am the student whose interests you claim to be advocating, and I'm explaining why I, and so many others, make the choice of matlab.
Yeah, I'm on Firefox.
Please look at the graphs again. Each comparison is done twice: once on hdd and once on ssd. This gives an apples-to-apples comparison for each platform.
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I have an amazing idea that nobody has thought of - in hindsight it would be as obvious as putting wheels on a suitcase. But I have no background in programming. Do you suggest I learn to code so I can create a prototype myself or find someone to partner with?
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> But I don't run screen in every terminal because native scrollback buffer is too valuable.

I feel the exact same way. Scrolling inside screen is just a pain :(
What would you say are the skills required to fully understand this?
So, if I understand correctly, the "challenge" for the NSA is to route everything through routers in a foreign country. There the NSA is allowed to do whatever it wants.
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Feinstein is a long-time advocate for the national security state. She is up for reelection in 2018 in a state where she will not have a credible challenger from another party in a general election or her own party in the primaries.

You can contact her if you feel better. As for me, I have a folder full of form letter responses from her office explaining why it's so important that our civil liberties and privacy be curtailed to ensure our security. I don't think adding another letter to my collection will help anything. And I doubt her responses will do anything other than enrage you further.

The only sensible response at this point is to work to get her out of office in 2018. But I don't have hope for that, either.
"I have no problem with any amount of recording equipment in public spaces."

I do, because it increases the power of an already too-powerful police force. America is the world leader in throwing people in prison, we really do not need to give the police any more tools.
We're having an informative one, because you said:

> The data in my drafts folder is exactly the same as data in a paper journal that I have in my house, and is protected by exactly the same law, the 4th amendment.

The use of "is protected" versus "should be protected" seems to me to be inviting an informative discussion, not a normative one.

As an aside, I'm always surprised by how often people on HN talk about "should" versus "is." That's very weird for the engineer in me. You can never make progress in a normative discussion, at best you can boil the disagreement down to a disagreement in principle and leave it at that. E.g. I don't trust the government less than I do Google, Facebook, etc. If I'm willing to write something in my gmail, where a Googler can see it, I'm okay with the government seeing it. You almost certainly have a different perception of privacy and trust. A normative discussion on the subject is thus futile--who is "right" about what who and how much to trust private companies versus the government?
I firmly feel there's nothing wrong with asking someone in an elevator whether they'd like to get coffee.

That said, to answer your question, my answer is no. Someone responding to "guys, elevator come-ons are not such a good idea" with "fair enough" doesn't remotely make someone a radical, post-modern feminist.

Why do you ask?
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Tell us what the idea is and maybe you'll get an answer. Nobody cares otherwise.
Absolutely!

The petition site is just the White House's way of trolling the internet into thinking they care about "internet problems".
Not at all but I think users should rather enable features on purpose since comments might turn into work.
I'm sorry, but can you elaborate? It kind of went over my head, and I would love to learn something new. What do you mean by the number theory/no accident comment?
There are liberal programmers and conservative programmers.

The liberals like to bring the conservatives to Starbucks and buy a $4.00 latte and finish half, because it's cold.
Grow up / go to school in Maryland or Virginia (probably most of Pennsylvania and New England too.) Personal experience suggests that most of the brightest CS/CE/EE/math majors there wind up either in three-letter agencies or (more likely) doing similar work as defense contractors.

I probably would have wound up as a defense contractor too, had the companies I applied to not been strict on their GPA requirements (or if I had taken college more seriously...)

A large reason is because these defense jobs are among the most interesting jobs in the area, and there's always openings. If your bubble is California, Texas, or New York, I'd imagine there's a significantly wider range of interesting non-defense jobs.

Speaking as a programmer, that is.
I imagine Indian gets counted as Asian.
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I honestly had no idea what he meant by "gumment" and thought it was similar to a gauntlet or something. Had to say it out loud before I finally got it. Whats the fucking point of abbreviating something like government to gumment? It just makes you look unintelligent...
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Seriously, so you aren't aware of that from the beginning?

I'll try to give you a scaled perspective:

1. Announce in your site that you are going to give a speech.

2. Obama announces that he is going to give a speech.

There is high probability that your speech is going to be more interesting, entertaining and informing. However, your viewers are going to be close to 0, and Obama is watched by the entire world and covered by major medias.
Not to mention the Inverse Galois Problem is one of the long unsolved problems in Mathematics. In the league of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Yep, that makes sense.

So I guess the real lack is black/hispanic founders.
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hacker789 previous comments have an anti-feminist bent (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5573103) so I would suggest that it is coloring hacker789's judgement of this piece. This is probably why hacker789 talks about the authors motivations or secret intentions (similar to what I am doing to hacker789 now).
"we don't - our contractors do"

"we don't - our interception devices do"

:(
Why should it have been open source? Is quality software not worth paying for?

If you are thinking something along the lines of the "purity" of mathematics, and how mathematics "want to be free"- mathematics is free, as evidenced by your use of BigNum, or even pencil-and-paper. Mathematica is just one of the many calculators, and people have happily paid money for calculators for many years.
It's a pretty fast paced intro to a lot of functional programming concepts. You can read a guide like learnyouahaskell.com, which will take you on a gentler ride.
Mother Jones' Awful Data Interpretation Problem, in One Article: talking about correlation without examining causation.

Going against the law that all news comments are awful, the top commenter wrote:

"How is it a problem? If it is a problem, how did it happen? What do you propose we do to fix it?

Random statistics accompanied by weak implications does not equal good journalism."
This! Over and over again. Whenever I see one of those petition discussion I am just baffled by the naiveté of people.
These sorts of problems are rampant in the higher ranks of almost all industries; startups are not special in their preference towards upper middle class males that happen to be "White non-hispanic" or "Asian non-hispanic".
There is pretty good countrywide 3G coverage in all Nordic countries. I remember uploading images to Flickr from tens of kilometres from human habitations about six years ago.

Also, these countries are very safe. Hard to imagine somebody coming to your camp to take away a laptop.
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Considering that journalists are not advising their sources to use Tor or anonymous remailers, not publishing PGP or S/MIME public keys as part of their contact information, and continuing to base their assumptions about technology on the reality of the 1960s, I am not sure why you would be surprised. Most journalists are as clueless about computing as the rest of the general population. The education system is doing an absolutely terrible job of educating people about technology, and journalism majors are not taught much about how computers work or how they can be attacked.
> The very context that you should never use, in other words

No, that's not other words for what I said.

> which was exactly my point!

Yes, that you should never use deductive reasoning was one of your points (and a ludicrous one). No, that point isn't an "in other words" of anything in my response.

> If you're going to require all evidence deductively imply a conclusion

Having some contexts within which deductive reasoning is used (what you are arguing against categorically) is not equivalent to requiring all evidence to deductively imply a conclusion. This is the fallacy of the excluded middle, arguing that if you aren't exclusively using inductive reasoning, then you must be exclusively using deductive reasoning.

> (i.e. have an infinite likelihood ratio)

Deductive implication isn't equivalent to having an "infinite likelihood ratio". First, because deductive reasoning is about necessary (logical) rather than probabilistic implication, so talking about likelihood ratios for it is misplaced, and second, because, insofar as it might make sense to talk about a "likelihood ratio" for deductive logic, the ratio would be 1, which is very much finite.

> then you're excluding all real-world evidence

Well, yeah, real world evidence is prior to a deductive argument, not part of it; insofar as it contributes to a deductive argument, it does so as part of an inductive justification for the premises of a deductive argument.

> and making the very fallacy I described (which I didn't realize was claimed for something else).

The thing you described is not a fallacy.

> So it seems you essentially agree with using the "appeal to authority" fallacy in exactly the way I warned against.

You didn't warn against using the appeal to authority fallacy, you endorsed (not "warned against) using something you called the "the appeal to authority fallacy", and then defined that as something that is not what the "appeal to authority fallacy" actually refers to.

> And that you generally endorse (the genuine fallacy of) rejecting evidence simply because it doesn't guarantee a conclusion.

No, I don't, and nothing in my post stated that, or supports your claim that I endorse that. That's just something you invented.
Awesome suggestions, thanks.
> The big winners were whites and Asian Americans.

If racial bias has anything to do with blacks/hispanics fairing worse, then it begs the question why racial bias has changed as 50-60 years ago asians, blacks, hispanics were biased against pretty much the same, isn't it? If it is the case, can studying of such a racial bias evolution show the ways to the improvement of the situation with blacks/hispanics?
People who complain about the $5 price tag: How many coffees do you buy per day?

Now, I don't drink coffee (dry eyes issues) and I'm not an app store shopaholic. However, if there is something of interest, I'm not going to complain about the lack of x and y and the high price.

The price is already too low.
Hmm... when I run colout -r, I get:

% colout -r
usage: colout.py [-h] [-g] [-c] [-l SCALE] [-a] [-t] [-s]
REGEX [COLOR] [STYLE]
colout.py: error: too few arguments
This article is a year old, guys.
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm just not sure...
The ever-increasing belligerent mangina-weeping for the tech industry to increase its ranks with more women is sickening. If it bothers you so much. Start a company and hire them yourself. You'll be shutting down within twelve months or less.
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Or, perhaps, the individual asking the questions phrased them in a manner that would set the public at ease. The words seemed to have been deliberately chosen to cover the government's ass if/when the truth comes out.

see: "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is."
Possibly not too high. Try using map, filter, and reduce on some example problems and you'll pick it up fairly quickly. Project Euler makes for decent fodder. When you've successfully managed to apply them then try rewriting the functions (delete the implementation you are using - such as the library above - and rewrite it from scratch).
The NSA still employs some of the smartest linguists, mathematicians, and computer scientists in the world.

You don't have to go too far to see things like Stuxnet which were using techniques so advanced, that it amazed a lot of the best 'open' security researchers around the world.
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Well, as I have read, Erdos didn't "use speed" the way one might think most people use speed. He took the same small dose -- 5mg, IIRC -- every morning. He quit to prove to a colleague that he could quit, but once that was established, as you say, he went back to his previous practice.

The point is, if everyone who used psychoactive drugs did so as responsibly as Paul Erdos, there would be little reason to make them illegal.
Realistically there is 0 chance an armed citizenry rising against the establishment would pose any threat to them -- the cards (and methods of control) are stacked wildly in their favor.

I think that is true only if you make certain assumptions - assumptions which I consider unfounded.

For example, if an armed revolution broke out, are we assuming that no military units would defect and join the rebellion? If so, I'd consider that questionable.

Also, are we assuming that the rebels are armed only with pistols, shotguns and semiautomatic rifles? No way... first, factor in IEDs and homemade weapons, and then factor in the likely capture of at least some military grade weaponry, and/or ilicit supply of those weapons to the rebels.

Nukes aren't even part of this equation, so no point bringing that up at all.

The thing I'd worry most about in a rebellion scenario, is the air superiority of the standing military. But if we're talking guerrilla warfare... well, it's hard to bomb an enemy when you don't know where they are.

Finally, consider sheer numbers: I forget the numbers now from last time I looked this up, but the number of members of the standing US military is fairly small relative to the population of the US. And there are a LOT of guns out there. And as somebody (possibly Stalin) once said "quantity has a quality all it's own". Get enough Americans to participate, and you'd have a chance.

Anyway... not to suggest that it's a given, nor do I hope this scenario ever unfolds. Just food for thought.
I'll look into Kailua, thank you.
You can set most, but not all, of the sounds to 'None'. There still seem to be a bunch of sounds that you can't control. And manually configuring the whole phone to be silent is quite time consuming, especially since you have to may have to do it for individual apps, which may or may not even support it.
The biggest tragedy of A Confederacy of Dunces is that it's author, John Kennedy Toole, did not live to see its publishing and success. I also love this book!
What's mind blowing is the assumption that there should be an even distribution of race and sex in different fields. The same logic could be used to expose "awful race or gender problems" in professional basketball, ice hockey or women's clothing companies.
"You'll be shutting down within twelve months or less."

Why?
wish they'd included age too.
Do we hear a lot about that? I don't have that impression at all. I think that many U.S. corporate networks are not sufficiently secure against dedicated, highly trained intruders like the Chinese military, but the NSA and other federal intelligence organizations are perceived as being overall very competent.
you do realize that the old story is important in today's context, right?
It's a troll account, these pop up in droves every times a gender/race issue pops up on HN.
Is this really a problem? Is anybody really preventing black/hispanic/female people from starting companies and asking for funding?

This would be more relevant if it were comparing the percentage of white founders who got funding versus the percentage of black/hispanic/female founders who got funding.
One of the biggest issues with this problem is how complex the causation seems to be. There is no one single factor that a person can point to and say "This right here is how it happened". I suspect the solution will be equally complex.

In regards to 'how is it a problem?', it's hard to tell if it is or isn't, since in Silicon Valley, it has always been skewed towards these demographics, and as such, we don't really have anything to compare to. I have a hunch though that a lack of diversity in an environment so dependent on innovation will almost always be a net negative.
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I don't care enough about some obvious troll with a three post account but I'm pretty peeved to watch this get upvotes.

We've got some good sexism and machoism right off the top, already know it's going to be a good one. That's where we get to the implication that women can't be coders and are all inferior in all tech roles to men.

Congratulations asshole and those upvoting him. You're the worthless pieces of shit that don't know what "privilege" means and when you hear it, all you can think is "what about us poor white straight men". People like y'all were born without the proper ability to empathize and fall into the same category as the Republicans that hate gays until their son comes out and then magically now they "get it". Jesus.
Mac specific, but hold option+command when selecting and you can select in block mode.
This site is terrible on smaller screens.
Yes that's how silence works on iOS. Mute mutes thing you have no control over calls,texts etc. why the hell would I fire up a video and not want the sound?
i really like it!

feature request: allow for a lock-code on this app please.
I think your comment doesn't account for the possibility that even getting to the point of asking for funding may not be ascertainable for certain demographics. The types of things this article alludes to are very much on a macro-social level.