skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But when you look at full work weeks of time, plus the costs of training the job, multiplied by all of the employees the company will hire, the difference in hourly wages emerges.

Not really. You won't train them with a $3 / hour worker. Their timesheet won't be done by a $3 / hour worker. Their workspace and equipment will cost more than $3 / hour. If they piss off a customer, or steal from the till, or break stuff, or bully other employees, or get you sued, the cost will be the same.

People in non-tech fields have to practically beg to get an internship which pays nothing. OK, internships should be about training, not work (it's the law), but we all know that's often a load of crap. That's because all staff have overhead, so even a free worker costs quite a bit.
Hmm. But it's hard to tell what's fake and what's "good" :)
I mostly agree, but many of these stories are relevant to an international audience. Non-U.S. citizens should care what's going on, too.
I should amend my previous post to note that Hacker News has provided a bit of support. There are a surprising number of stay-at-home dads here, and being able to converse with people who both understand my situation and have some technical chops is really refreshing.
Nope, no you don't. Have you worked in a place with more than one sys/net admin?
It actually has to be one of the first circles you can draw (a point on the edge and a point on the radius). Not just the same radius.
Outside the obvious use case of sexting, Snapchat's value proposition might seem unclear. Until you consider the suburban teenager whose parents gave her an iPhone but might at any point demand to read her texts and Facebook messages.

The parenting styles, social mores, and politics of the people who use the things hackers make determine how that technology will affect people's lives, and is pretty important to consider.

Marwa demonstrates the symbolism of having keys to your home. I think I first got keys when I was 12. Let's say Lockitron becomes mainstream. Will you buy your 12-year-old an iPhone? If not, will it affect his identity to be unable to enter his own house without your permission/intervention? It did for Marwa.

I understand that it seems purely political at first glance, but there is some interesting technology->politics interaction in that article.
yep, as they say - being black is a probable cause.
Very much agreed. I don't go along with all of what Marx wrote but there are some insights in his work that are ignored by a lot of people because they have a knee-jerk reaction about anything or anyone related to "communism". If one does not agree with a school of thought, it is still childish to ignore or misrepresent its ideas.
Same reason why one might use SQLite over MySQL. Ease of configuration, no need to have a full blown DB server, lighter weight which makes it great for things like Raspberry Pi type hardware. For hackathons I've found it simpler to just use SQLite so I don't have to deal with MySQL configuration headaches that come up when IP addresses inevitably change.

Outside of NodeJS, I can see this being pretty handy for iOS development. I'm not a huge fan of taking JSON from an API, converting it into an NSDictionary, and then placing it into Core Data and RESTKit doesn't always fit my needs. I think this might work well for local persistence of API data for an offline mode.
Well kind-of but not exactly... there is job corps: http://www.jobcorps.gov/home.aspx

Basic trade skills, pays you for earning a GED, most of the centres are rual so it's hard to fall into 'temptation'. Overall a great program.
I'm not American. I believe that we should be taking notice as an international community about American (Tech & privacy related) politics.

Why? Because it impacts us too. There is no doubt that a majority of today's web innovation comes straight out of Silicon Valley with names like Apple, Facebook, Google being based there. Because they have global reach, data from all around the world is held by them. Even if I am not a US citizen, it affects me because if it is all true, then the US intelligence service has a wealth of information about me at the click of a button. My local government (and yours too) can't do anything to protect you from them.

I agree with you that this may sway from the original intention for Hacker News but I still think it is a very important issue that should have visibility here.
I agree with your first two points and if the complexity of using pgp were reduced to that of simply using email then I think it'd become more widely used.

I didn't mean to imply that cryptocat itself is a reasonable compromise (I don't know enough), but that a centralized system that implements encryption for its users might be which leads into your fourth point.

Yes javascript client-side encryption is fundamentally flawed in its current form from targeted attacks, but I'm thinking of untargeted and immediate wide spread adoption.

If you're collecting everything from everyone in perpetuity the risk for abuse I see is when someone becomes interesting to the government they can query their data set and use it against them.

I'd think there would be a way to use client side encryption by these companies to protect a user's data until they become 'interesting' at which point they'd have to use more fundamentally secure methods (which is how it currently is anyway).

Seems like the easiest way to get the most people generally protected from abuse.

Is using https enough? If that's the case then it seems like most communication would be protected anyway. I got the impression that this wasn't true - not because I don't trust google, but because of something else (it seemed google genuinely didn't give access to everything yet people made comments about no digital communication being secure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9kRLrmrjc).
All-in-one pdf: http://aws.thiagoc.net/HoAC.pdf
I saw at least eight products being used in as many different settings. Seems to be a product ad to me.

Here's a better example of a "Brand" ad.

http://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

(though some pundits have suggested that what we're really seeing are "mission" ads targeted to Apple employees, and being shared with the general populace)

For a truly strange approach to advertising, we need to look at the Samsung Goat/Ninja/Crunk/Windows-Surface Homage ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhM-DuM2WgE

I really don't know what the message there was.
If this is what really happened, I'll say the same thing I said then - it shocks me that airline pilots with thousands of flight hours can make the most elementary piloting mistake possible.

But I've read accident reports before, and it's rarely a good idea to speculate. I won't have an opinion about this until the official report is published.
I don't dispute that there's a way to connect this story back to HN, I simply think you can do that with virtually any story.
Most here are probably already aware of it, but for those who have somehow managed not to find this treasure trove:

A great place to study the art of human rationality is LessWrong.com. The 'sequences' are the place to start:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
Liberty is required for innovation.
The marginal value of money decreases as income goes up. So a crime that has an expected positive return when you have no money becomes less and less worth it as you become richer.
This peice, and the comments there, seem really out there to me.

"[apple] haven't produced anything of major interest to consumers in a long time."
"Apple has been taking a beating from Samsung who have come at them aggressively."

Weird. Does "taking a beating" refer to market share? Certainly not mobile net-profits.

head scratching
well, the America has definitely changed during last decade+. Yet, still it is somewhat surprising that there is a place you found you think is more free.
Not the parent poster, but I also live in an medium-density urban setting and obsess slightly over commute length. I'm in my mid-20s, which is probably the stereotypical age for someone in that living situation, but my neighborhood is age-diverse, and the lady next door to me is in her sixties and retired, and has less of a back yard than I do. I certainly think different people will have different lifestyles with different needs, but I'm generally skeptical of the idea that there's an age in which people need, for example, yard space, that they didn't need before... people can choose their own priorities regardless of age, and figure out how to make due without the lower-priority ones (maybe by learning to make better use of public green space instead of depending on a private yard).

My commute is ~15 minutes each direction on a bike. It's not uncommon for many of my suburb-dwelling coworkers to commute 45 minutes each way, which adds up to about two weeks' worth of waking-time days over the course of a year. Personally I don't think I'd see the value in having more outdoor space around my house if it meant having so much less time to spend there, and I don't see that attitude changing as I age.
Well to be honest, I don't think anyone needs an article to understand that an analyst/admin/whatever working at NSA, has knowledge of computer security. It's kinda mandatory for people in these positions, even if they work for a small company.
SFO Crash Victim May Have Been Killed By Rescue Vehicles
Oh yeah, definitely. I went deep into interviews with a big oil company, and when it came time to sit down with the Sr. managers, they did not like my philosophy on overtime at all (I have a family I like to see on the weekdays... Overtime is sometimes necessary, but if it's SOP then there's a problem).
Not all of us are born knowing people who can get us jobs. Fresno had one of the densest populations of poverty in America, and as someone with no college, finding minimum-wage work was near impossible- 4,000 people show up for jobs at grocery stores. And no, that isn't an exaggeration.

Combine that with not knowing where to look or who to ask when it comes to getting remote programming work, you don't really have a lot in the way of recourse.
"Thus, the public investors in Microsoft have had the opportunity to realize $233.5 billion in market cap appreciation; the private investors had only a $500 million head-start. From IPO, a single share of Microsoft stock has appreciated close to 500x."

That's an ok point, but it ignores the extreme multiplier benefits from participating in that first $500 million. That is to say, very few (likely none) of the private investors would pay at a $500m valuation on a $500m IPO.

If you got in at $50m your return was upwards of 5,000 (4,680) fold vs. 500 fold at $500m. And of course this is all theoretical as Microsoft didn't take meaningful outside money.

Scott tries to say that private investors only had a $500m head start, and compares that to the total $234b market cap. $500m vs $234b is not the important stat line, rather it's the way the returns massively increase if you got in with the private money early. It's the difference between being perhaps being a billionaire versus having $25 or $50 million. Both are great outcomes, but there's no sense in pretending the first $500m shares much in common with the last $234 billion.

Point being: no, the private investors did not just have a tiny head start in the grand scheme of things (ie compared to the market cap now), and that is almost always the reality. They had an extremely massive head start over the IPO money, no matter how you calculate it. Early money multipliers can almost never be touched by public investors.
New 2013 Backlinking Software Gets Higher Google Rankings
If it has it happened remarkably quickly...
So, just to make sure I don't misrepresent your position, you're saying that the people who built and programmed this hardware ( http://www.space.com/16878-mars-rover-landing-sky-crane-guid... ) couldn't safely land a 777 in SFO (or, for that matter, an A320 in the Hudson) any day of the week. Is this the case?
Before I can read this article, I think someone should explain the assumption that the middle class is "shackled" in the first place.
Are there issues with concurrency though when used in a web application?
Can the DHS even handle setting up and overseeing such a system? That is what scares me. This is just one big juicy target.
I wouldn't worry about it. Greenwald claims that the currently-released information is but a fraction of the total disclosures to come. I'm sure he and his editors meticulously played out every scenario of the different release order options.
It's highly unlikely he had access to "everything" at NSA -- not even sure what that could mean. But he was apparently a higher-level employee than the simple sysadmin he's been portrayed as. There has been persistent speculation from the NY Times[1] and elsewhere about his job title of "infrastructure analyst", specifically that it would have given him access to a significant amount of highly-compartmentalized information.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/us/job-title-key-to-inner...
Why is it that we as a society are so fucking fearful?

If you ask me? Because we are hard-wired for fear. Ten thousand years ago, it kept you alive. Today, there is not much left to fear- but we are built to fear, so we find something to fear.
Yeah. But if you're not publishing it to the entire world, you probably won't run into them. And there are many other applications where databases are useful, that aren't network servers of any kind.
Congratulations, Boston University, you’re now a patent troll
So the price of automation is eternal vigilance? Reminds me of the old argument that overuse of calculators means people have lost the ability to do mental arithmetic.
You're mistaken, the SCOTUS ruled that in order to invoke your right to not self incriminate, you must state directly that your are invoking the 5th amendment only in VOLUNTARY conversations.
Hi,

Why not look at ShareJS (http://sharejs.org/) and DerbyJS (http://derbyjs.com/)?

Cheers,
Victor
@wwhitman

>You should break your pills in half.

That's a content free ad hominem.

What he said is more or less correct, depending on where you draw the line.

For a lot of people massive warrentless wiretapping, against the constitution and the law, is what they'd call a police state.

You might be more forgiving, if you want (some people can justify anything), but you don't have to be rude about it.

Especially with a surname as thus. I doubt the original Whitman was in favor of extended government power abuse and mass surveillance.
Lowering the minimum wage isn't going to make an unskilled and lazy teenager useful.

Correct. They'll just be cheaper. If value > cost, then it's worth it for a business to pursue.

If something is only slightly useful, then it's still useful and still worth having at some cost.
He did speak specifically about BI. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
You can fix this without government intervention: Launch an a16z ETF. It could help you as well because you could secure more favorable terms if you so desired to offset the additional work.

This may yield higher returns to investors than they could otherwise receive but, if so, it's only because they underestimate you. If the return on funds invested with you is expected to be higher, the ETF's price will increase until the perceived risk-adjusted return is equal to that in the market. What causes the types of entities who receive above average returns through nontraditional vehicles to achieve them is some combination of the the higher cost of raising that money, more limited availability and social convention.
That sounds like dangerous intellectual territory.

I wish he would have remained anonymous the whole time, almost like a Banksy character through this all. I almost feel like we're seeing too much of his face and not enough (like the top comment suggests) about the actual problems with this all. The stories that need coverage are getting upvoted here but this site pales in comparison to the power of CNN on popular opinion. It's a reality show called "Find Snowden" now.
Isn't the answer to who wrote it kind of a "you don't say" thing in the first place?
Very nice. I'm writing a Python app where this would come in very handy. Can't wait to try it out.
What part of the skycrane experienced serious damage or malfunction that the software corrected for?

The whole point is we're not talking about when things go according to plan.

For that matter, how many times has the skycrane been used? What is its safety record? If you go ask the guys at JPL how many times out of 1000 they think it'll work perfectly, what will they say?

Incidentally, not cool moving goalposts.
I'm early 30s and still like the city, though that's still fairly young I suppose. I agree there are some lifestyle choices involved, though. I like outdoor space myself, but I don't personally feel a need for it to be my own private yard. It's more important to me to be near large parks, waterfront spaces, nice plazas, etc.

I'd say it's a fairly common preference here (Copenhagen) even for families, although some do prefer single-family homes with private yards. One difference in the urban architecture vs. NYC is that in the nicer neighborhoods, apartment buildings often have sizable private courtyards: the buildings are built on the edges of a large block, with a park left in the middle. That park may have playground equipment, BBQ equipment and picnic tables, etc., for the use of residents (also, off-street bike parking). I don't use it a lot, but families seem to.

Some of the buildings have quite active local communities as well, which some people like: dinner clubs where people will take turns hosting a dinner party (in the courtyard when it's nice, otherwise in an apartment), your kids can play with other kids in the building, you can leave them playing in the courtyard and someone else will watch them if you need to go somewhere briefly, etc.

I grew up in a suburb myself (about an hour outside of Chicago), and it was okay all around. But I think I might've preferred something a bit denser. One downside I recall is that everything was so far that someone below driving age ends up being very hampered in movement. I would have to bike 15-20 minutes just to get the houses of some friends who lived in what was considered my neighborhood. And many of my friends weren't reachable at all without adult assistance.
related is pratchett's concept of "substition" (quote from 'jingo'):

71-hour Ahmed was not superstitious. He was substitious, which put him in a minority among humans. He didn’t believe in the things everyone believed in but which nevertheless weren’t true. He believed instead in the things that were true in which no one else believed. There are many such substitions, ranging from ‘It’ll get better if you don’t pick at it’ all the way up to ‘Sometimes things just happen.’
I was hoping that was all understood in my post since it's all obvious to anyone who has been in business. If a business cannot tolerate unskilled workers or has limited hiring spots due to a limited number of machines, etc., then they need to hire skilled workers immediately and so are not part of what we are considering.

As someone who has managed a variety of budgets, I assure you that the wage portion of an employee's total cost is still meaningful.
I've been thinking about the possibility of doing it under the hood via a browser extension on major social networks. Something akin to 1) you publish a photograph of yourself to Facebook that contains your PGP key in EXIF. 2) Your friends, who can see that photograph, encrypt messages for all friends with "public key" photographs. Finally, 3) The browser extension seamlessly decodes all PGP messages through page manipulation (e.g. walking all text nodes and looking for a specific sentinel, and then decrypting all messages that match the sentinel). This way, you would be able to communicate securely over a social network with nothing but a browser extension.

I have a very rudimentary prototype up on Github if anyone is interested. It has some throw away keys and allows you to encrypt for those via right-clicking text in a textarea. The code uses OpenPGP.js.

https://github.com/hayesgm/orangutan
SF is the Snobbiest City in America
When software becomes the more important factor in a technology product, you know the hardware is likely to take more of a back seat in years to come.

No, high demand for software drives hardware demand. So long as real innovation and advancement continues we will need more processing power & storage to keep up. Market saturation may be reached, but giving people a reason to upgrade ASAP keeps demand up.

It's when the apps settle down into stable patterns that the hardware will suffer. The PC market is stagnating because email, web, word processing, and casual games are not demanding more over time (save for what bells and whistles can be forced in), leaving us with a market where a $200 notebook is good enough for most users ... And tablets are eating into that.
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I also have a government job and I can tell you that the job titles don't mean anything really. I'm an IT Technical Specialist 2, but if we're using words that mean something I create iOS applications.
I'm not sure that's as strange... The text at 0:22 basically says "The Galaxy S4 understands Icelandic," which, presumably, iOS doesn't. Looks like a straight up ad playing toward better localization for the Icelandic market.
My point is that we can't keep loading them up with debt, both personal and institutional. I'm not sure what your point is.
The UK is covered by the Data Protection Act of 1998:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998

The first paragraph mentions:

it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the EU data protection directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data

Having said that, US privacy laws did not stop the NSA from snooping. I don't wanna think about how much control the MI5 or MI6 have over UK's network connectivity. Being a small island I cannot imagine it being hard to control.
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Sadly they stopped tweeting in April.
https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
The length of a game shouldn’t determine its quality
My experience with fire in an enclosed space is that you never want to introduce air. I am confident that the airport fire crews did not rip the fuselage open at the top. The photos I have seen look like burned aluminum. http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/i...
What is banking to you?

To me, at the least, banking is taking deposits and making loans, neither of which Simple does by itself. It might provide a great front-end for another Bank which does those things, but I don't understand how that makes it the positioned for "future of banking", whatever that means to you.
Component.fm -- shareable, reusable, interoperable web audio components
Also relevant -- an MD-80 losing it's tail during a test flight after a hard landing: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVmsm_pmUo
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Not sure - there's only a couple of cjdns nodes on the atlas
> Do you realize how many people would cease their socially indispensable work if they acted perfectly rational from an individual (meaning egotistical) perspective?

It is often in the interest of individuals to contribute to the group.
So does everyone.

But guess what cops are human too ergo they will on occasion make mistakes, lie, steal, cheat etc.
Got a link to any information? Sounds interesting - would love to read up.
Soliciting for a drone strike more like it.
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