skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of larger cities away from the Northeast and West Coast that have similarly cheap rents. You could live in Minneapolis for about the same amount of money, Milwaukee for similar or less money, Pittsburgh for similar money, and Denver for similar money.

Chicago and Portland would both be not much more.

All of these are relatively large cities (~1.5M+ in the metro area) with a lot of cultural institutions, and many have pretty decent economies (especially considering that high housing costs aren't driving away lower-income folks, artificially raising the average). Minneapolis, for example, has a median income for a family of very nearly $60k, versus $42k in Amarillo.

There's a large middle ground in this country between small, remote Texas cities, and hugely expensive coastal megalopolises.
Because it affects earning estimates going forward, if they "beat", analyst can raise estimates looking out 5 years [so the results look like they are on track to be way better than estimated], or vice-versa, when you miss you have to take down your future estimates of growth. Then its discounted to the present. Thats why it moves, its not about this quarter, its about adjusting all the expectations of the future down and to the present, all wrapped up nicely in a stock price.
Aggregating, processing and making sense of high-velocity, high-volume application log data from tens, hundreds or sometimes thousands of sources can be very inefficient, expensive, intimidating, stressful and frustrating.

This course talks about how to use logstash to aggregate log data.

http://kck.st/1bbyDdv
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This is hard to believe. My non-technical wife can set up a second monitor on my ThinkPad running SUSE (she'll hook it up to our Plasma TV to watch XBMC). It's as easy as plugging it in... The first time you may need to change some settings under 'Displays', but maybe not.
Not all of us drank the GNU koolaid. I for one tend to chose other opensource alternatives where possible. Not that I'm advocating for Apple. I've been perfectly content for years using FreeBSD as my primary server and desktop OS. IMO it works better than Linux too. For example, at $WORK we run SLES 11 w/ your choice of DE. I use KDE4as I do w/ FreeBSD. KDE4 on FreeBSD has been far more stable for me than SLES(though in SLES's partial defense, it's packages are quite far behind). Anyways, I'm glad to see FreeBSD leaving the GNU toolchain and userland behind.

PS -- Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has it backwards. A FreeBSD userland w/ a linux kernel might actually be interesting to me.
This is really useful, thanks for posting!
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This is sort of beside the point, but I've realized who Steve Ballmer reminds me of; it's Gru in Despicable Me.

I feel like this might be part of Microsoft's problem; I definitely do not want to buy anything from that angry guy in the photo, even though I consider myself something of an MS fanboy.
When was it shameful to work there?
Agreed. New users should almost certainly get a free private repo or two.
How's the battery life? How do you live without multitouch gestures? Any hardware incompatibilities?
There is, to some extent.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/goog/ownership-summary

FMR LLC owns 18 million shares, Vanguard owns 12 million, Barclays owns 7 million, etc.
That's exactly what Apple has tried to do, and although it hasn't completed the job yet, is much further along than anyone else.

Google on the other hand makes it's money out of analyzing people's communication and online behavior. Why would you expect it to protect people's privacy from itself?
Lean startups should "pivot" on product and strategy, but not on passion
Sometimes I leave my primary laptop at work.

Sometimes my girlfriend may want to play a SNES game while I'm using my laptop.

Sometimes I want to reinstall my laptop and don't want that to impact my gaming console.

Sometimes I may not want to bother with having to plug in my laptop in the TV and find the controller, to play 20 minutes of Dr. Mario. (I'm very lazy)

I'd rather have several cheap, interchangeable devices rather than everything from a single one :) (that applies to my laptop too; I did all of my programming and work from a 300$ netbook for a couple years, that was nice and I wasn't too heartbroken when my gf at the time spilled water on it and killed it)
I thought academia couldn't get any more childish, and then here we are. Wow.
Jitsi is the most obvious open source Skype clone, but it isn't very obvious: few know about it. I wish folks complaining about products and stating others are available (“tools that include privacy and security features”) would name and link to those.

More mumbling about this http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/07/18/exit-skype-loyalty/
That's a reasonable explanation, but "we have scientific knowledge that we'd like to hide, an we're asking the government for more money to further our understanding of the subject" isn't much of an excuse. Isn't the entire rationale for providing government funding for academic research premised on the idea that scientific knowledge is a public good, to be shared freely?
How about getting all solo cars off of 101 during b-ness hours. Create exclusive bike/motorcycle/bus lanes. 101 is the problem and the solution!
But MIT didn't get where it is by being careless about its public image. Association with that image is a nonzero part of the value of a degree from MIT. If they go about acting like bozos it affects current and future students as well as alumni.
I like this idea. We should support an educational option to get people onto the platform. While 1.5K to basically replace an office is a no-brainer, its far too much for students.
For havenco.com we are thinking that a cooperating group of privacy-concerned service operators could audit each others' assertions. The specific concern is that it's really untested whether one could be compelled legally to keep updating warrant canaries. However, external auditing if it can be done without compromising the security or privacy of the systems at hand could give an extra level of certainty that the provider is trustworthy the claims that they are certifying.

For modern devops-y infrastructure deployed from repositories of code and configs, it should be doable to have some level of auditing that the infrastructure as deployed represents the desired config state.

That is how Akamai, for example, ran/runs its ESSL network - auditing that the deployed machines are per config, no local disk logging or core dumping, auditing before keys are deployed to let machines come into the system. Yes, there are also cameras and intrusion detection on the cabinets but it's really the software layer that provides the security.

And now with chef, puppet, salf, cfengine, etc it is probably possible to build something to bring this level of auditing to almost any modern web service.
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They should have launched Surface as it sown OS instead of trying to be Windows. I actually want an Intel Windows tablet because there's a bunch of audio software I'd use that will never be available on the iPad and it would be great to have a touch interface for my-obscure-applications. but Windows RT was the worst of both worlds - since it doesn't do anything in particular, I might as well just buy an iPad (if I want groovy, albeit somewhat limited, apps) or a Kindle Fire (if I just want to surf the web and consume content).
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If this was on nvidia back before nouveau, I can believe it. nvidia's drivers have never supported xrandr, so you need to do everything through their proprietary tools. My thinkpad hotplugs displays with no trouble at all these days, but I vaguely recall having trouble with nvidia's drivers about five years ago.
He could use something like Twitter for his reset messages. I don't think there's any way someone could find a PC somewhere listening to Twitter among all the others... Or he could post comments on HN :-)
In Google's case, it's because Google advocates (and often incentivizes) the disclosure into its care. Since Google has been participating in this spy program for at least 5 years, while continuing to encourage people to give it their data, it is directly complicit.
Try openSUSE. It's compatible with even more hardware than Ubuntu, and apparently runs on Apple hardware better than Ubuntu.
Your goals are a mess. You know what you don't want to do (whatever it is you're doing), and you want to be "very wealthy".

That's probably not what you really want.

Wealth, by itself, doesn't mean much. Wealth can buy other, meaningful things, and it can serve as proof of accomplishment, but it's not an end in itself - only a means to an end.

Why do you dream of being very wealthy? Have you ever been very poor? Have you felt trapped?

Why do you want to leave engineering? What don't you like about it? Is it the work that makes you unhappy?

As Mr Morden asked in Babylon 5, "What do you want?" Figure out what you really want. You have some money. Quit working on anything for a while. Go sit on a beach and stare at the sunset for a few months. Walk to Peru. Read War and Peace. Get your mind in order, and figure out what you want, rather than just what you don't want, and means-to-undefined end fantasies.
havenco.com just released a web site for its relaunch. First services (coupon codes going out starting next week) will be VPN with web proxy today and then adding a ToR-like but commercially supported option, and storage with plans that include combined storage in S3-compatible buckets as well as private LAFS clusters. Distributed hosting in a secure way to support private mail, IM, rss, discussion, and other apps is on the table after that.
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Have you heard about Ting.com? Pretty cheap mobile service.
The way the truecrypt hidden volume works, the defendant WOULD give up the key (it would just be the key for the REGULAR encrypted volume, not the hidden one) The prosecution would get the key, use it to decrypt the drive, see a bunch of files, and assume the defendant had complied and given them the correct key.

What they wouldn't know is that there is also a SECOND encrypted volume inside the one they decrypted. There is actually no way for them to know if there is this second volume or not.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume

If there were any news reports on it, the reports would just say "Defendant X gives up encryption key; no incriminating data found"
Is that really the relevant issue here? How actual criminals are treated, or the degree to which I personally understand it?
The raw socket thing is a bit annoying, but it only applies to TCP/UDP and you can bypass the restrictions with winpcap. Is it really a problem in practice?
A physicist chiming in on matters outside of the field of physics? Why am I not surprised.

Relevant SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556
Yep, as you point out the figures are all over the place.

The last error is a real clanger:

> Revenue grew 10 per cent to $19.90 billion, also below the $20.72 million expected.

Based on those figures revenue was in fact up by about 20,000 per cent.
Their lawyers probably advised against it.
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I guess I'm blind for not noticing it.
GarageBand? Logic Pro X? Reason? Cubase? Ableton Live? My personal favorite is Renoise, since it's cross-platform. Any number of DAWs are available on OS X — you just have to pay for them, sometimes.
6 hours being good depends on your frame of reference. It's half the battery life of the Macbook (12 hours for the current model).

The zenbook looks like a competitor, but I'd need to be sure that it's built as solidly as the MBA. The MBA is even thinner and for about the same price you get hardware that is incredibly well designed and manufactured.

For me, I've learned the hard way that going by raw specs alone is a poor way to judge a laptop (desktops are another beast) -- it's the build quality and the little things that make or break the pleasantness of the experience.
The government has purposely set up the process in an adversarial manner (you must prove why you uniquely are positioned to make scientific advances here, better than anyone else), so it's not surprising that the process plays out in an adversarial manner. The government also encourages institutions to be entrepreneurial by doing things like patenting their results, or keeping them as trade secrets to hand to spinoff companies, so academia can prove its worth in the startup economy.

Is this the best way to make scientific advances? Probably not. But it's a systemic problem. There is at least one study (I believe Canadian, can't find a link currently) which found that it would be more efficient just to give every researcher in Canada some baseline funding, rather than spending all the money they currently do on the adversarial funding process.

That was actually somewhat closer to the traditional CS funding model in the U.S., though largely accidentally, through military funding. Why did someone like Richard Stallman (not an academic) get employed for decades in the MIT AI Lab? Because DARPA gave non-micromanaged block grants to the MIT AI Lab to fund a "center of excellence" for years at a time, which they were free to use to employ staff as they saw fit. Nowadays most grants are 3 years long and very specific, so it's all about positioning yourself for the next 3-year grant, if you want to keep the lights on and your staff paid.
> Suffice it to say, I do understand a bit about markets

> so I'm assuming this is 'market makers' that are selling off shares and pushing the price down.

No. That is not what a "market maker" does.

A market maker does not take directional positions on a stock -- either long or short. Their goal is to make money on the bid-ask spread, and they try to maintain a net-zero position, so far as is practical.

The purpose of a market maker is to provide liquidity, by ensuring a sufficient tight bid-ask spread. By definition, this means that they are buying when others are selling, and selling when others are buying. Thus, if Google shares are going down due to selling pressure, then market makers would be buying.
Worth noting that those names highly likely point at index funds. In other words, a lot of those shares are economically in the hands of small investors.

(I'm sure some of them are in my 401K.)
AzureWebsites, as contrasted to Azure VM's, are not VM-seperated, but just process separated apparently?

So this is like having a shared web host at any other web hosting company?
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Shameless plug: If you'd like an actively developed, cross platform alternative C++ standard library (with Lakos allocators), come check out BSL: https://github.com/bloomberg/bsl

Sadly right now C++11 library features will lag a bit because not all compilers support them.
no, it's not like that at all. It's like he bought the xbox one devkit & returned it because the OS was crap and the controls were fundamentally flawed and he didn't think there was going to be a way to make good games for it.
No, this is what computers are for. There's no reason a user should have to check if a link is a duplicate.
That kind of diversion is very common for a new type entering service. The crew doesn't have a lot of time in the type, they know MX doesn't have a ton of time working on the type, and so their default when anything seems amiss is to get the plane on the ground and have it looked at.

The diversion rate right now for the 787 is enormous, but nearly all the diversions are "abundance of caution" calls by the crew.
Ask HN: What weekend Project to show off ability to develop in other languages?
My job has me in OO PHP, Javascript, and Actionscript, I used to program in C++, Java, ASP.net, I haven't in 5+ years and I want to apply to jobs that use those languages and perhaps others, what kind of project can I do to show potential employers that I can still program in other languages? Are tutorial projects enough?
Personally I don't mind about duplicates. Quite frequently stories make it to the TOP20 where (I believe) that I had submitted these previously (from another news outlet).

Hackernews is a lot about timing, and I really don't mind it if some stories need a few attempts until they break through. This randomness is part of the fun in submitting stories to hn.
Yeah, this market, back then was the handheld market. If I remember correctly the Gameboy Advance SP was around that price. Really, as processors go up and decent tablets become cheap, a mini 7 inch with a DualShock will suffice.
Lynx does colour and images IIRC.
The founding dates for those companies are something like 2006, 2008, 2009? Rent in SF was probably half of what it is now.
And steel toed boots. And hard hats are the latest rage
I'll wait to see the actual motion, but it seems reasonable that they would want the names of staff redacted to prevent them from getting death threats from people that equate them to leaders of the hitler youth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5050412
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I've bought eBooks/read valuable insight from tons of people with "questionable" success.

That doesn't make the information not useful/inspiring. Most of what I do, I learned from other people who chose to share that info.

And most of the people I follow...I originally discovered thanks to them sharing/selling content based on their learnings. I see nothing wrong with the way the industry works.
Can someone actually explain to me what Cygwin does internally? Doesn't Windows already implement POSIX?
Nit-picking but: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms74...

Raw sockets in Windows (I've used them a couple of years back...)
I have created a script to run tree.io in docker with a lightweight (25MB) postgresql instance. Simply install Docker then run this script https://gist.github.com/funkotron/6025664
He could use a rotating hash based on a private key, and so no way to predict the next hash.
I feel like this is what everyone is saying except for the media.
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Life west of divis, southwest of Glen Park, South of Bernal and Dog Patch.

Honestly, the inner/outer richmond has better restaurants than SoMa.
Another theory: they are conspiring in some sort of quid-pro-quo in order to give the government another chance in court or at least delay.

MIT gets a lot of direct and indirect government money, or is in other ways susceptible to influence. I imagine a federal prosecutor's office can be quite persuasive.
The question was "are all suspensions fluids"?

My answer was "No, all suspensions are not fluids". The structure depended from the phrasing of the question.
If you make $130k in California as a programmer, plus maybe $10k in employer health insurance contribution and another $10k in 401k matching ($150k total comp), you're in the same overall pay bracket as a "sewers supervisor" in San Rafael or a BART train operator: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?appSession=8741....
I found this forum [0] that lists Android USB sticks, which are more portable than the Ouya, and cheaper. This "Tronsmart CX-919 Quad Core Google Android 4.2.2 OS Rockchip RK3188 Cortex A9 1.6GHz Mini TV BOX Dongle HDMI HDD Player 2G/8G BT/HDMI/External Wifi Antenna-Blackis" is $65 [1].

[0] http://forums.redflagdeals.com/android-tv-stick-convert-norm...
[1] http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Tronsmart-CX-919-Quad-Core-Go...
Seems to apply to the computer security field just as well.
Heard you like desktops in Linux Containers...
C++ has an ABI that almost all vendors actively work towards conformance to called the Itanium C++ ABI (yes, it applies to other architectures too):

This document was developed jointly by an informal
industry coalition consisting of (in alphabetical order)
CodeSourcery, Compaq, EDG, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, and
SGI. Additional contributions were provided by a variety of
individuals.
...
In general, this document is written as a generic
specification, to be usable by C++ implementations on a
variety of architectures.

http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/cxxabi-1.83.html
Certainly it's less shameful than working at Betabeat, judging by the writing in this article.
Does the researcher whose grant application is being sought need to do anything to discover the FOIA request, or does the filing automatically notify them in some manner?
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the decline in picketing

The government doesn't exactly encourage picketing, but I do belive it has traditionally been considered a valid, non-violent form of protest and not a criminal act.

Let us join together and mourn the loss of the multi-century tradition of picketing... from the old country.
Oh please. I want the public to know about the massive, invasive, and very likely unconstitutional programs the Executive, Legislative and Judicial systems of my government have signed off on. We need to Fight the Good Fight.

But let's not be intentionally naive or ignorant. Google should have prefaced their "Don't Be Evil" mantra with a small-print "Unless a secretive Total Information Awareness-esque system of massive surveillance of raw and curated data is demanded of us in the form of a secretive judicial court in FISC whose base intentions were corrupted, that we are totally unable to challenge because the consortium of all 3 major branches of government are preventing us from seeking legal recourse"????

Right. As you were saying about models of trust and all that nebulous nonsense... Carry on.
The surprising bit here is that dropping the requirement for a credit card had no effect on conversions or trial signups. I've only ever read the opposite, and my own testing at Improvely matched what I've read: the trial signup rate more than doubled when a credit card wasn't required.

At the same time, the extra people signing up were not good leads. These new users rarely completed the steps to start using their account, those that did submitted more support requests, and the conversion rate to paying customers at the end of the trial was more than halved.

I ended up putting the credit card requirement back in.
It's not an human organization, it's just a moniker. A couple of random people can get together and do whatever they feel like and say they are Anonymous, and they are. There's no membership, no initiation, no rules, no passwords, no mandatory places of meaning, and no real common goals or principles. It's free-for-all.
Is its 1080p performance perfect? It'd be an interesting option here, if so. The Pi isn't up to the job, which seems to leave something of a toss-up between this and an Apple TV, suitably jailbroken for Matroska support.
I mean you'd have 5 Apaches on different servers because one server couldn't handle the load. You want those servers to be identical, so your deployment needs to be repeatable.

I don't know any links offhand that are better than what you can probably find by searching, so I'll leave it at that.
Those are "institutional investors," not "market makers." Market makers try their best to hold 0 shares.

Note that some of Fidelity's shares, about 90% of Vanguard's shares, and 100% of BlackRock's [1] shares are held on behalf of index funds or index-linked ETFs. As passive holders, they do not trade on market news.

[1]: Barclays Global Investors is actually owned by BlackRock, not by Barclays.
I too am surprised by this. Another benefit of requiring a credit card is that you prevent abuse of the trial system. Obviously this applies more to some businesses than others. For instance, we are setting up a VPN business right now and considering a free trial option. In that case, it seems like it would be necessary to require a credit card so that users could not keep signing up for the free trial with different email addresses.
Breakthroughs are always in the last place you look.
Hacker posts email addresses, passwords of House and Senate staffers online