skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Did I pick the right career path?
I just recently attended a wedding. A number of old school friends were there. As usual there were a number of people who wanted to discuss what they were doing, and more importantly (to them), what they were earning. I couldn't help but notice that a number of people in other fields who did not take the university route, but rather the apprenticeship route, earn significantly more than those in jobs relevant to the degree they did. I also know some people who work in this industry that only possess college level qualifications and earn more than me, but are certainly less effective, less knowledgeable and more narrow-minded. I am not by any means suggesting that all people who possess degree level qualifications are better than those who do not, or that they should earn more. I just can't help but wonder if a degree was the right choice. I certainly feel it has made me much more open-minded and well-rounded and has opened up avenues to areas of CS which I do not feel I would have been exposed to unless I did a degree. What are peoples thoughts on this? Should I be bothered by what I earn? I am happy in my job but would really like to increase my salary. Is this just a whole lot of whining/boasting?
I want one that's about a hundred times this size.
Solidarity!

Live stream from Occupy (they often stream from Taksim and Gezi):

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution?utm_source=lsplay...
"Mature adults" don't make allegations without evidence, like Swept under the rug: the hidden sexism in CS departments

why would I want

The hell with your feelings, this is about true and false.
Back up what you say or shut the hell up.
Mobile site could be a heck of a lot better. So far it's the same desktop site to me.
"Whistle lets you know who's spending time with your dog while you're away, be it family or friends."

How the hell does it do that? Before I saw the founders comment here on HN I thought this was an elaborate ruse because of this "feature."
Poll: What is your religious affiliation?
There have been some religious-sensitive articles recently, so I thought it would be nice to update what are Hacker Newser's religious affiliations :) .

I used an old poll as a basis, but separated major groups (sorry if it's not discrete enough):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486594
Christian Protestant
Christian Catholic
Christian Mormon
Islam Sunni
Islam Shia
Islam Sufi
Jewish Modern
Jewish Orthodox
Jewish Conservative
Jewish Reform
Hinduist (all)
Buddhist Theravada
Buddhist Mahayana
Shinto (all)
Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese traditional
Other Faith
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Pedophiles are lurking around every corner. Check out a sex offender registry and look at a map. Those are just the ones that got caught. They're like cockroaches that we as a society tolerate because there are so damn many of them and there are enough sympathetic people in power to allow this atrocity to continue.

If we as a culture were to truly value and care for children, this wouldn't be a problem because we'd stamp the fuckers out of existence. But we are a sick society, unfortunately.
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It's in cents, so she'll only get $30. But it all adds up :)
Also, most (if not all) car user manuals come with a diagram of the fuse box.
There's been a lot. Amazon generally avoids press, but they launch stuff that fails all the time. I'd say only 1/3 things they launch (or get really close to launching internally) is actually successful. Since they avoid press, people don't hear about things that fail. Their success rate has been higher with some AWS services, but if you could see their track record internally (basically things that make it to beta) vs. success 5 years later, it's probably under 30%.
I would assume that they use the passenger side front door because that is where the storage compartment is located.
Actually, Feedly said that they would make apps for both Windows and Windows Phone: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/06/04/feedly-is-listening-the-ro...
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You can never be defeated in non-violence! Solidarity from the USA!
Just so you all know, the import queue is currently building up rather quickly, so imports might take a little while.
I would probably start with removing the red from the titles first. Removing the red completely would take away from the overall design which is too nice to mess up.

I always think a straight forward headline/copy relationship should be achievable with spacing, and maybe font-size before adding bold or a color.

If it's still too much (remember, this is an every day kind of app!) maybe the active links on the right could go non-red, then if it's still too much the border-left on the active links on the right.

Again, grats on shipping something that looks good.
It's a test-mode API call, so I'm sadly not getting any money from this. (:
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> If you haven't actually looked at the block allocation patterns of common filesystems

I have.

> you can't say conclusively that fuzzbang is incorrect

And I can.

I'm aware of the degree of difference in speed. It is sufficient that it is standard practice for filesystems to be restricted to the first 1/4-1/2 of a spinning disk in performance-sensitive applications. Or at least it was, in the last few years we've become more likely to just use SSDs or keep everything in RAM.

> if that 200MB file is stored in 100 2MB fragments

Thank you for assuming I don't even have the knowledge of a typical computer user, it greatly increases the likelihood I'll not waste further time with you. Raises it, in fact, to 100%.
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Why is this so baffling a shocking?
I think we all knew this was possible before anybody actually did it. It's not like their using proper crypto.
It's the equivalent of a bad house lock give me some good lock picks and 60 seconds and I'm in so why is this so surprising?
From my understanding it takes 7 days for the funds charged with a credit card to be available? In this case, is there an api to show how much is actually available to payout to 3rd party?
This is a neat device, but GPS would seal the deal for me. I've looked at Tagg (http://www.pettracker.com/) which has it, but it isn't waterproof which a must for my Lab who loves to swim.
There is a contrasting chrome bezel framing the glossy black front elevation of the device.

LG Prada.

On this elevation, the ear piece is positioned a few millimetres down from the top edge.

LG Prada.

At the bottom of the elevation their is a single large button that returns the user back to the principal screen.

Ok you got me there, the LG Prada has two large buttons at the bottom of the elevation.
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I was intrigued by their mention of this "Jim Stickley" who was cited as a top security expert. I had never heard of him before, so did a quick search to find out a little more about him. He seems to be a pretty legit and well known security guy[1], but it surprises me that he said:

This is really frustrating because clearly they've figured out something that looks really simple and whatever it is they're doing, it takes just seconds to do," Stickley said. "And you look and you go, 'That should not be possible.

Considering, again, that there has been published research on this topic, and a presentation at Black Hat, revealing that (at least some) cars are vulnerable.

Honestly, I feel like the reporter on this article should have done a bit more background research and interviewed a few more people. Not that it changes the fundamental issue (don't leave valuables in your car, etc.) but it would have been a stronger article with some more context, IMO.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Stickley
It actually reminds me a lot of Richard Branson's Virgin group. Started in the recording industry, then compulsively reinvested profits to get into airlines, hotels, cell phones, retail, spaceflight, and various other industries. And like Amazon, Virgin tends to hold investors by the balls, bleeding them dry to finance risky new ventures by the force of Branson's personality.
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I hate Objective-C and I'm not in fond of iOS, so clearly JavaScript. Moreover, it'll probably become (if it's not already) a general purposes language soon, so it wouldn't be wasted time.
Yep! https://stripe.com/docs/api#balance
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> 37 Signals sells good to techies (and where techies are in charge of the order) but this particular product was specially geared towards non-techies, hence it would be really hard to make it work.

Based on what? I've always assumed they focused on non-techies as a target market, based on they way they sell simplicity and fewer features.
I think that's exactly right, the transaction pitched to customers is not what it turned out to be, and that's never good, no matter how it's communicated.

I think people are choosing to see this from 37S (or any other software co's) perspective. Fine, whatever 37S's expectations were to begin with didn't work out, so 37S is closing the service. Makes perfect sense, and godspeed, 37S. But the other side of a transaction is a customer that put money, time and effort into this product. Even if 37S gives back the money, the customer isn't made completely whole; I don't think it's illogical to think folks wouldn't be completely happy with this outcome, no matter how great of a job 37S did communicating the closing.
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If I was a thief then I'd always hit the passenger side front door as it gives me the quickest access to the glove compartment, where valuables are likely to be stored. Not sure what the mystery is here.
I think Dwolla offers what you want, don't they?
Yeah, come hassle me about it. (I haven't seen this or heard other reports about it, so it might be something environmental.)
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I'm not sure there is any animal less concerned with privacy than a dog :)
Unless you are trying to argue that we are incorrectly using the word pedophile, I don't think that study[1] is relevant to this discussion. It is a comparison of recidivism between child molesters, some of whom meet certain criteria for 'pedophile' and some of whom do not. I think informally they would all be considered pedophiles.

1: http://www.courseweb.uottawa.ca/PSY3171/personalwp/P38%20Rec...
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i think we're forgetting the bad side of amazon. these few article were just brought to my attention recently, which has given me pause on where i shop, etc. i have not stopped using amazon, but i'm def more aware and hope they treat employees better.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-amazon-complain...

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/668688/is_amazo...

http://blog.seattlepi.com/trevorgriffey/2011/04/03/top-10-re...

my gf is the one who has been telling me about amazon and their labor practices. she tells me about jeff not giving back to the community (she is from seattle), tax issues, labor issues. i'm not educated on the whole ordeeal but she has def sparked my interest. does anyone have any feedback? is amazon different from any other warehouse job?

i used to work at UPS and a document storage company a while back and i don't remember it being terrible on either accounts.
Yep, but it's not public yet.
thank you. missed it
Investors don't have a problem with long term strategies. They have a problem with strategies that involve losing money consistently or making no profits for many years, in the hope that you can magically start making obscene profits sometime in the distant future. Most companies that practice this kind of long term strategy end up going bankrupt before the profits materialise, so it makes sense for investors to be wary of them. Warren Buffett is a long term investor, and even he would not touch Amazon's stock with a 10 foot pole.
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theoldreader.com just chokes on my 100 feed list, and feedly has just been flaky for me. Here's to hoping this works well with a mobile interface!
Even after this explanation, I feel I'm just too dumb to understand the benefit. I'm not being negative, but until I see a real use case, I'm just don't see how this fits.
Nobody has yet pointed out that the specific example cited in the article, online grocery delivery, is a reaction to Google entering one of their core businesses with same-day delivery?

http://www.google.com/shopping/express/about/

It seems to invalidate the premise that nobody is competing with Amazon.
I'm writing this from a computer with two partitions: one HFS+ running OSX and one Ext4 running Linux. These are both the default options when installing OSX (Mountain Lion) and Ubuntu 12.04, respectively:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3cluigwaog8sad/gparted.png
Google To Keep CalDAV API Public, Releases CardDAV API
Thanks for the citation, but it doesn’t actually address my earlier statement. Nowhere in the text is it mentioned that was it believed that folk under 18 were not ready for marriage. The reason peasants got married in their twenties was a practical one, mostly financial. Ethics and mores are mentioned nowhere, on the contrary: the text mentions teen marriages did occur.
Sounds like a good deal, but happens when sprint decides to raise the whole sale prices?
That's what we're talking about when we say that market forces may lead to inefficiencies. Few people deny the existence of market failure, but too many people advocate for government regulation to fix market failure while denying that precisely the same phenomenon occurs with government. It's appropriately called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure.
Ghost Dog was doing this back in 2005.
There is potential to save a ton of money in vet bills via early warning of potential disease in pets[1]. Activity and food intake information is enough for many. Adding some sort of food logging component could make it really powerful. I also wonder if the USP for the product should shift to the savings in vet bills or the extension of life.

[1] Obviously the response cannot be to go to the vet for each alert, but instead to take some action at home.
37S already does the whitelist heavy lifting for their other services (esp basecamp) that push tons of emails out.
One day I hope to bridge law enforcement and the tech community over the massive CP problem. I know there are many talented people here that would contribute solutions if they only had access to the right information and knew they could build something to help.

For now you'll have to take my comment at face value, but you would be shocked at the number of major offenders in each community - and I'm not talking about the Sex Offender Registry. Too few sheriff's offices take advantage of funding for internet crimes against children, and just as few prosecutors pursue these cases. If your local law enforcement doesn't make it a priority, you won't hear about CP arrests in the paper. That doesn't make it any less of a problem.

I encourage tech companies on HN to send someone to http://www.cacconference.org in Dallas to join the likes of FB, Google, and Yahoo! for education on the topic, or contact me. In the future there will be more I can share.
The CP topic is not about teenagers, but about children less than 10 years (you might easily find a 18+ photo model that looks like 14 if that's your thing). Last time I checked, sexting was not a big issue around kindergartens...
If ads are introduced I would imagine they'd be a more ticker-tape styled version of GMail's adword ads and not image ads because

1) Serving images takes significantly more bandwidth

2) People are already used to that style ad if they use GMail (which presumably people with Glass do)

3) Nothing says effective advertisement like searing the words into your subconscious
How would you describe a challenge based authentication system that uses 128-bit AES? I find the reporter's description reasonable.
Guaranteeing my labrador would find a way to get it off and eat it... total punk, that one
The best explanation I've found of how it works (slides, PDF):

http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/36/How%20Toku...
I got a bit confused there until I realised that England need not be the only kingdom that had a Henry V!
Of course you are. And if you took a poll of HN users, you might even find OS X + Linux near a majority. That has nothing at all to do with what filesystems the vast majority of people are using, much less what they'd be using with TrueCrypt.
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So far, so good. But the importing from google reader is hella slow.
Guess a lot of people are trying it out right now.
Plex Releases Client for Non-Jailbroken Apple TVs
I follow activity monitors rather closely. The wifi connectivity is the most unusual part of this design.

There's never been a nice, simple way to setup wifi from a small device before.

The trick they are using here is to use the Bluetooth connection to setup the wifi. It's not a bad approach (in fact, they like it so much they're trying to patent it).

But TI recently came out with the CC3000, a wifi chip that can grab the setup information on its own (well, with the help of a smartphone app).

This avoids the hassles of managing two different 2.4GHz wireless systems on a small device.

I think that's where the future of wifi setup is heading.
Been using and loving python since last year. Can't wait for my first pycon.
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Good move. Now please clarify what will happen with XMPP in Hangouts!
I don't see why "not promising to keep services running forever" makes them less likely to offer them. I'm not asking anything but "don't overpromise". Doesn't seem particularly onerous to me.
Nice, work! One minor gripe though - every tag I've tried (Java, C, C++, Python, PHP, Haskell, Scala) has had a dropoff in the number of questions asked over the past couple of months. This suggests that there may be some seasonality in the number of questions asked (or at least, a more general dropoff in questions asked over the past couple of months).

I think the results would be more meaningful if they either corrected for the seasonality, or presented the results as relative to the total number of questions asked.
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Valid counterpoint.
Great point, it does look like a shift in how they're sunseting their products. I agree with David's approach to ta-da list, writeboard, backpack, but not with breeze.
Reforming laws & tactics are not the equivalent of "everything" being thrown out.
This is crazy ingenious. By using your computer as the Apple TV's DNS server, you can essentially replace the Trailers app with a Plex client.

More details here: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/69410-please-read-....

I've been using the iPhone Plex app and sending the video to my Apple TV via AirPlay so far, but I'm really looking forward to trying this.

If enough people start using this, I wonder if Plex will just integrate it into the main Plex Server software?
Yeah, because enforcement efforts against the consumers of an illegal product have been so effective against the producers in the War on (some) Drugs.

EDIT: And what about the kids charged with child porn possession, and potentially branded for life as sex offenders, for sexting with their boy-/girlfriend?
And notice they're also touching the door handle with their bare hands. There's probably some sort of exploit dealing with theses vehicles' touch-activated car unlocking feature.
Rack::Cache and running out of inodes.
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Seconded. I thought it was a joke at first, making fun of the "It's X, but for dogs!" meme.

Definitely seems like this is solving a non-problem
I continue to wish for a system whereby the different sources could all be quoted and rated within a single "item", and then the discussion would happen in a single place. As it stands, sometimes a less good "original" gets the attention, and a better source gets ignored.

Still, if wishes were horses we could all ride, etc.
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I hope you all like money.
The Balanced Payouts service has been available for some time. Our ACH Debit (pay with bank account) is in Beta however.
Your argument assumes that the majority of people who possess child pornography engaged in some kind of trade for it. I am not sure that is true anymore, given its prevalence on P2P networks and blogs, forums, etc.

"If prosecutors had to prove that the offender purchased the material in every case, it would create a very high burden for law enforcement"

You make this sound like a bad thing -- having a high burden of proof before we throw people in jail and restrict where they can live after their release from prison.
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I have a buddy that works at Garmin and from what I understand, GPS receivers are a huge battery drain and they are also pretty big/heavy in relation to other sensors. If you look at GPS running watches for instance, even the small ones are pretty beefy and they only last up to 8 hours while active.
Google+ has taken off. It's just not a booming social network for friends like Facebook is. In that regard, Twitter hasn't taken off either.

I'm not trying to build a strawman here, but people judge Plus and Twitter by the wrong metric. Facebook is not the only model of how to run a social network. Google+ is a website for professional connections with selectivity based on who will see what, precisely because there are so many different types of relationships available. Facebook is literally just for friends (and should be). They're doubling down on it because users are using it, it's showing itself to be a better product. And - it's gaining traction without Google having to resort to the sort of advertising that Microsoft is doing with Bing. It's much more organic.

But I digress - my comment here was specifically in response to the many comments I've read disparaging Google for its handling of Reader. I agree with you that Google has a tendency to merge products into semi-androgyny. But I also think this is a good thing. Google is slowly limiting its product selection while maximizing effort into each product. There may be some kinks to work out, but I believe that the basic philosophy of quality over quantity is there.

And, honestly, products like Reader and Feedburner are so multifarious and down the pipeline that without a solid base of paying customers Google could never hope to improve them substantially. In fact, they haven't really been improved substantially.

I believe that while Google could improve the way they're doing it, it will be a net win for them to consolidate services into more feature-rich products they can devote exponentially more attention to.
Why do you care what the backend to your newsreader is? You just need to access the UI, who cares what's driving it. If there are reliability issues it's because it's poorly built not because of the technology it's built on.
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Thanks for the feedback. My US geography isn't great. I've fixed it in the charts and spreadsheet and will keep note of it if I ever do this again.
We crate our lab mix during the work day -- he currently barks for about 2-3 minutes when we leave, chews on his toys (man he loves that kong full of peanut butter), falls asleep, wakes up for a few minutes, chews on his toys again, falls asleep; rinse and repeat.

I think we broke it down to like:

90% sleeping
5% chewing on stuff
5% sitting there doing nothing but awake
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