skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be a nurse, be a dentist. 4 years of schooling beyond BS, no residency, $146,920 per year median (BLS, 2010). In several states "dental culture" is to only work 4 days a week.

In cities around the size of Raleigh, NC a practice with one experienced dentist can generate 800k-1.2m in revenue and end up with a 250k-300k take home. Of course it takes a few years to build up the patient base. Starting salaries for dentist in Raleigh working for a larger practice is 150k-170k. (Source: My wife is a fourth year dental student).
Early-life stress and poverty aren’t a problem of only the poor.
That Samsung beats Apple in profits story? Pure bullshit.
I get a 404. ?
>There are two (maybe three) articles on the front page right now unrelated to technology or "hacking."

I don't see them. I do see the following:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6115088

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6113296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6113582

All have a technology angle.

And, in any case, I was referring to the bad analogies you'd used: No, I don't expect a lot of discussion about women's reproductive rights here. I do expect discussions about search engine privacy.

>You guys are bouncing around in your own little bubble

Who is "you guys"?

>Meanwhile, you stay ignorant to the rest of the country and what it actually cares about

No. I just don't discuss everything here. I'm curious though: what do you think the rest of the country cares about?

>People here are literally saying that we're in a dictatorship or a tyranny because the FBI asked for the use of unmanned drones 10 times in the past 10 years.

No. It's also the NSA surveillance, Patriot Act, Guantanemo, torture, and a ton of other erosions of trust. I am curious to know at what point you think it will be appropriate to have some concern.

>and using it as proof that the government is spying on civilians with absolutely no evidence

But, the evidence is that the FBI admitted to doing just that. You may argue that the number of cases to which they admitted don't bother you, but you can't really argue that there's no evidence that they are doing it, can you?

Listen, if you disagree because you're not concerned, then that's your prerogative. But, please argue your point instead of pretending that these factual things aren't happening and calling everyone who acknowledges them "conspiracy theorists".

Because for me, there need not be anything "deeper" going on to be greatly concerned. The admitted facts are by far enough to make me worry about the future of our nation. And, really, with everything we know, the biggest question in my mind is when do people like you grow concerned?
He did not say that the thought everyone was american. He said that if you're reading it, you're probably an American. This assertion is well-supported by the server logs of many similar websites.
For completeness' sake: you'd get a company iPhone except for the fact that Blackberry/Android devices are cheaper.

The point is to avoid the intersection of "work's phone"/"my phone", not to avoid iOS.
Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages
Out of curiosity, have you used Lua's FFI? I found it fairly nice, so anything better would be worth studying.
Calories in - calories out is often substituted for calories on food label - calories on treadmill display.

This is a categorical error that leads to people thinking that thermodynamics and the conservation of matter and energy are wrong.

The labels on food are estimates. The exercise databases are estimates. Therefore when you perform the equation with those inputs, it is approximate only.
Wouldn't the right thing to do be this: Go back the next day and say that you don't accept these terms and demand a refund of any payment made?

I would assume that the continued use of said storage unit makes acceptance of contract implicit.
I'm glad to see NASA astrophysicists are finally catching up with what plasma physicists have known since 1903 when Kristian Birkeland predicted exactly this. This phenomenon is known as "Birkeland Currents" (http://www.plasma-universe.com/Birkeland_current). Now if they would only stop using improper terminology such as "solar wind", "magnetic reconnection" and "frozen magnetic fields" and maybe even read actual plasma physics papers about the many years of real-life lab experiments that have shown the existence of this exact phenomenon.
> it looks complicated, but it doesn't tell us anything

That's because the vast majority of the detail has been omitted in order to make it look pretty. Here is a slightly more detailed version: http://primalmeded.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/metabolism.jp...

And another: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MJisxWVfZPA/UEF_-1krN-I/AAAAAAAAr9...

For more info, read Principles of Biochemistry: http://www.amazon.com/Lehninger-Principles-Biochemistry-Davi... (and if you aren't familiar with organic chemistry: http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-1st-Edition-ebook/dp...)
In the bellies of all the people you share it with! Cooking in bulk makes the most sense when you've got a big group of people sharing food.
Of course, it depends on your location and user base. The US has a slightly higher percentage of IE users, and countries like Korea, Japan and China still have IE as the #1 browser. Check your stats before making any decisions.

note: IE8 is only beating IE9 right now because of automatic updates moving people to IE10 (finally!).
I see labels.

Of course context plays a huge part, but it's a gamble whether this trend will survive for long.
TL; DR: I took 'shrooms and listened to Enya
Thanks for this context -- these were all new to me.
A friend of mine was doing a video shoot for some church organization. They needed a new web host and some changes on their website, so he referred them to me. Through them, I picked up another client or two with which they were associated.

From there, someone familiar with that church group learned about me via them and asked me to help with a project he was doing.

From my work there, that client ended up funneling several clients to me.

As far as money goes, I think I started at around $20/hr and began raising my rates to $30, $50, and now $75-$100/hr depending on the project. For a while there, I had too many smaller paying clients coming to me but no real way to scale it other than just funneling them off to someone else and losing out on the potential income. Raising rates helped with that filter that out. Now if I get overwhelmed, I can actually afford to subcontract out to other folks that I trust without taking a big hit. I have collected a small list of people that I trust (a programmer or two and a graphic designer guy) that I use when I need them.

I still work a full time job, so I just try to balance my freelance gigs as best I can. My hope with raising my rates is that I can plan an eventual transition into full time freelancing.

I had a previous venture into freelancing many years ago, but only had one or two clients. I had worked out a residual payment sort of deal with them based on the amount of users they had paying each month. This was my full time job for a year or two until they lost their main source of users.

This ended up being much more of a rambling session that I intended. I guess my main point is, "by talking to people." Talk to your friends. Talk to colleagues. Talk to folks at your social gathering place of choice. It seems that someone always knows someone who needs some sort of work done. They may not be willing to pay top dollar, but to get your foot in the door I think that's okay.
Unless you're one of the asshats at Prenda Law:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/identity-theft-la...
I would hardly describe requiring people to spam as cool. More like fucking annoying. Also you have no idea what the content will be until you have propagated the spam, it could just be penis pills.
He has been worst of US presidents.

PS: I am calculating worst as "Mahalanobis distance" between promises and actions.
The audio version is better than the text. The text version muddles the continuity, skips parts, and inserts bullshit like "The passage of time played a role" as an explanation for why a long-term trend happened.
Yeah, there might not be a real purpose to it. But this license looks way cooler!
The judgement in Riley was very fact-specific and was reached only because O'Connor felt the respondent failed to meet what she viewed as the proper burden of proof. There was no majority opinion, and no support by a majority of justices for the sweeping conclusion you draw from it.
> these kind of edge-case gotchas will getcha day-in, day-out

Not my experience in 3 years writing CS; can't even remember last time I blamed something on the language. There are very little rough edges if you use a consistent, good coding style.

I'm waiting for ES6 to abandon ship, might take a while.
I'm not condoning this, but if your website can be taken down by one machine with ab, you're doing it wrong.
Maybe 20 years ago. Now those large corporations are likely to find a way to let you go sometime before retirement.
He's doing it via video feed and he's been asked by Justin Amash, so it's unlikely to be a trap.

He knows a lot of the same information as the NSA, but he'll be willing to volunteer the information that the NSA will try to hide via doublespeak.
There are most definitely "bad trips" which can be deeply frightening, scarring experiences. The worst effects though seem to come to those who become somewhat psychologically addicted to the thrill of the experience, and take repeated doses every few days or weeks over a period of years.

The closest analogy I can make is to PTSD; they have trouble dealing with the banality and slow pace of normal life, and seem somehow "burnt out" (cliche, but a very apt term for someone who took one trip too many.)
Why are you so worried about "much bigger impact on society"? I like the quote from Star trek first contact: "don't try to be a great man, just be a man and let history decide".
Efficient use of tablets could make them an invaluable educational tool but something tells me they wouldn't bother going through the tedious process of acquiring digital versions of textbooks, assignments, reports, etc.
The key is to relax your eyes, let them get lazy like you stayed up all night and cross them just a bit. Focus on just one spot and it should come into focus - eventually :)
while it is good, i am wondering what it can do which google can not? For example i searched for android accountmanager and results i got were far less productive than what google returns me back. If you want to build it, build it the way it perceives user perspective well
>Those things are not related. So what if you get paid less than the value you add? That doesn't mean that suddenly its not a job that you love.

For some the cognitive dissonance that comes with such alienation doesn't sit well.

>Why not? Large corporations - music producers, book publishers, movie producers, pharma companies, manufacturers, etc all run on the assumption that they will find enough people with passive income on their brains...

Forbes has vested interest in maintaining a populace that ultimately doesn't have a choice in whether they have to undersell their labor to survive, nor question their employer-employee relations. Again, this comes back to the cognitive dissonance that being forced into an unequal relationship elicits.
Don't you work for JetBrains? Couldn't the same thing be said for your tools? I love them but they're not cheap.
In this specific case it's not exactly the same as running a generic load test against some website, given the advertised feature of this specific website.

You're intentionally making it too generic to portray the guy as an asshole, when that's not how things went down. Very politician-like. Yuck.
Seems to be GNU/Linux only.
Computer Science: SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-c...)

Artificial Intelligence: AIMA (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/)
> It is clearly not the case that the NSA, in it's current form, is the lynchpin keeping global warfare at bay.

I don't think it's all that clear.
Sorry, this explanation is almost surely incorrect. How long something is available on the bypass network is determined by how long the instruction that produces the value takes to "exit" the pipeline. I can't imagine any scenario where a consumer instruction causes a producer instruction (i.e., an instruction "ahead" of it) to stall. Note this would be a dangerous design point because of the risk of deadlocks.

What's the source for your claim that the Core uarch's register file is underdesigned in comparison to the dispatch width? I'd be extremely surprised if this were the case. Last time I looked at the data, about 50-70% of the reads go to the register file not the bypass network.
Guns and badges go a long way in enforcing something that is technically "impossible."
Caching django-tastypie API responses with django-cache-machine
In the Mercury program, food looked like this (mmm Soylent-y) : http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/apollo-to-the-moon/onl...

Problem was that it wasn't particularly enjoyable.

During Gemini/Apollo food looked like this: http://www.space1.com/Artifacts/Apollo_Artifacts/Apollo_Food...

Anyone up for Catfood? Probably tasted a lot better than Mercury Tube food but not quite the same as mom's.

Today food looks like this: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/presskits/spacefood/ga...

And well..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ast...

Kinds like it does on Earth.

Some other fun tidbits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_food#Apollo_program_.2819...

I think NASA and other space entities could come up with a super Soylent like substance for sustenance in space, but the trend towards normal food is apparent. I think it's safe to say that Astronauts are well disciplined and dedicated... and if they're not willing to put up with eating goop in a tube... Well I think it goes to show that people by large, even under extreme and alien circumstances, enjoy presentation and variety more than Mr. Rhinehart may believe (or like to suggest to us).
Node-fibers allows a similar thing with a pretty raw syntax. At least one clever programmer has painted over it and introduced await/defer in Node without any JS pre-processing [1].

If you enjoy CoffeeScript, Iced CoffeeScript does a great job of this too.

[1] http://alexeypetrushin.github.io/synchronize/docs/index.html
Except that it usually does. The system of justice is run by people, and a guy who kills his six year old daughter's rapist is not going to get the same treatment the murderer of a six year old girl will get.
Another helpful resource : http://howtoforge.com
Know your Airline Passenger Rights
What sweeping conclusion? That no law was broken? That's hardly a sweeping conclusion, considering that's exactly what happened.
Just because people have a framework doesn't mean they will write elegant code. The example you gave is indeed ugly, but there are a bunch of different ways (within the framework) to accomplish the same thing without being so lame. This is a fault of the developer, not the folks who created bootstrap.

People write terrible code in bootstrap, django, backbone, etc. Even within the confines of a framework, man will always find a way to write shit code. It is one of the constants of our universe.
This is not true, regarding Java.

The Java language specification does not require the use of OS threads for Java threads.

It all depends which JVM you refer to.

The JVMs that make use of green threads follow a similar threading model to Go.

Don't mix languages with implementations.
> The author's metaphor here assumes a world where a massively complex system, which is basically working but has some problems, can be "fixed" via replacement by a new system designed from scratch.
> In all of human history, how many times has this ever actually worked?

I think the most recent serious attempt at this was Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. I think that states it all.
Relevant is this blog post:

http://johnbender.us/2012/11/27/math-envy-and-coffeescripts-...

The gist of it is that Coffeescript's syntax is fragile, and a more careful design could avoid these issues.

Also, can we erase the word "transpile" from our vocabulary, please? It has no meaning beyond that of "compile" and so, like Coffescript's syntax, adds complexity and confusion where none is needed.
What worries me is that this is a largely untested area. If somebody could point me to some non-anecdotal evidence that iPads have a marked effect on student progress, then maybe the cost could be justified.
Crazy idea: if you don't want to be surveilled while doing something, don't do it in public or in the view of the public.
Even at chain stores in the US, one of the people behind the counter is a pharmacist who went to grad school for five years studying this stuff. (The person actually giving you your medication may only be a pharmacy tech, but they have to have a pharmacist behind the counter whenever they're open.)
UNIX and libc syscalls?
> The problem with the RT article is that it treats any instance of the DoJ using unmanned aircraft as a kind of constitutional crisis.

Their source is Rand Paul so this is not all that surprising. His 2012 anti-drone bill would have made it so improper use of a drone would exclude the evidence collected by drone, and authorized civil suits against operators of said drones. Sounds good...except it was extremely broad.

Here is an example of drone use that would be covered. An endangered species of bird has nested on a university campus. A bird researcher at the university is using a small drone with camera to periodically observe the nest. His research is partly funded by an NSF grant.

While flying the drone to the nest one evening, the researcher sees a man attempting to rape a woman in a public area of the university, and alerts the police.

This would have been forbidden drone use under Paul's bill unless the researcher had a warrant. The researcher would have been covered because he was partly funded by the Federal government, and that was sufficient to put one under the bill. The evidence stemming from the drone use would be inadmissible and the researcher could be sued by the attempted rapist.

There was an exigent circumstances provision in the bill that provided an exception when swift action was necessary to prevent danger to life. That would at first SEEM to apply to an attempted rape in progress. Alas, the exigent circumstances only applied to drones operated by a "law enforcement party", which the bill defined as authorized by law or funded by the Federal government to investigate or prosecute offenses against the United States. A university bird researcher is not a "law enforcement party", and so the exigent circumstances exception does not apply. (Heck, even state and local police would not be law enforcement parties, because they investigate offenses at the state and local level, not offenses against the United States).

Fortunately this bill died quickly. There is a 2013 version. The House version takes out the part about it covering anyone who is funded in whole or part by the Federal government, so would remove my hypothetical biologist from coverage. It would only apply to drones operated by entities acting under the authority of the Federal government.

The Senate version still covers anyone who is funded in whole or part by the Federal government.

Here's the 2013 House version: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr972

Here's the 2013 Senate version: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s1016
I had a windows 7.8 phone before this one (a Lumia 710). The entire core is wonderfully designed to the point that I only usually install 3-4 free apps on the device. These are currently Adobe Reader, Nokia Here Drive (which is the best app of any kind on any device), RPNCalc and YouTube. I'd go for a Nokia device if you do get one - they are superior simply due to the navigation provided and their build quality.

That problem with outlook.com is not related to the phone itself nor the mobile platform so that is moot. I don't use outlook.com - I have an IMAP Server and work exchange server and they bot work perfectly on the device.

WP8 does play well with Linux i.e. it doesn't require Zune any more to access the device. It doesn't however mount any disks on the device if you plug it in though, so I tend to yank out the SD card and poke it in my laptop. Apart from that it is an entirely self-supporting device that doesn't need machine connectivity at all so it's good enough for me.

As I said, I don't use Windows Live services at all. We have a Microsoft Exchange 2010 system at my company. It talks to that perfectly fine.

I did use it for a bit a while ago but SkyDrive has numerous problems where they delete your files so I can't rely on it.
I can believe that's true for Habitat For Humanity, but not all charities have the same bottlenecks. My mom co-runs a branch of Meals on Wheels, and the main thing they're constantly short on is volunteers.
WeChat is much bigger than that.
What concerns me the most about all of this is that it puts us on a slippery slope. If always on surveillance becomes the norm for people to just take as a fact of life, then it just gets worse from there. I have a couple friends who run a startup and have told me they have given up the fact that privacy is an illusion/out moded when discussing this with them. So if being recorded all the time is the new norm and letting those outside of your own self connect data points about you is okay... where does that lead? That's what I'm really worried about.

It spells out my worst fear of later generations of digital natives will actually live in a world best described as Orwellian or even post Orwellian... even more ridiculously pervasive. They wouldn't know any better.

Ultimately data can never tell the whole story, but yet we'll act on it as if it does.
The GPL is not about control, it's about freedom. It gives you all the rights necessary to preserve the four freedoms. The only thing the GPL limits is power; it does not give you the power to take those freedoms away from anyone else.
Slices aren't Go specific.
Haha sucker, I have 33!
I think the most minimalistic, food, product execution that has proven to sustain life, pass on immunities and provide superior nutrition is breast milk.

Of course we can't attach "vacuum suckers" to lactating women but the "old" 'soylent green' "....is made [by] people" and cow milk is probably a close second.
Get a bigger fridge. It'll be less than a year on soylent and you get to eat actual real healthy food.
Do you have a blog or something where you talk how to get started? I think many of us want exactly this but haven't been able to pull it off yet. At least that's my case. I have about $30/mo passive income but it would take an awful lot of those to gain any flexibility!
the first thing I thought about is paying my taxes in the US:

most of my money will end up in military programs [0], but I do have the option to opt a percentage of my money out of those military programs by donating to charity -- a tax break.

I agree, clean water should be a top priority, whether it's cleaning oil spills, rain water, pollution, or drinking water, whatever...

another controversial point of philanthropy: is it better to fund a program to solve an existing problem using money, or to instead invest that money instead into education? I just don't know...

[0] looking up military spending, I found multiple results. some sites claiming as low as 19% of income tax goes to military spending, and others claiming much higher numbers.. ~45% (https://www.warresisters.org/content/how-pie-chart-figures-w...) -- without a doubt though, and according to wikipedia, the USA definitely tops the charts by a long shot. it also appears (acc to wikipedia) that south korea spends more than it's northern counterpart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...) on military programs
Yes, they live on the rafts. Then they spend a month in the hospital when they get picked up.