skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minor point, but I think Box Plots usually show the median rather than the mean at the centre.

It would make sense perhaps to use standard deviations and means for some data, but in cases like this I think quartiles and medians make more sense.
I can tell you that you live really well for quite few Euro after tax in Transylvania (as long as you don't go to West Europe for vacation).

This is quite easy to check, Google: living costs Cluj London

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/c...

(Don't trust information about cities with too few data points.)
The range is probably not small, but the range between the highest and the lowest average is.
> This is not, and never will be, about wholesale spying on New Zealanders,

Indeed, just like how Americans couldn't be "targeted" by XKeyscore, all of the foreigners that they communicate with can be targeted. It's like encircling the outer bounds of a house and then claiming you're protecting it from outsiders by tracking everybody's movements in and out of it, but it's well within your ability to exert your powers inside the house.

Domestic spying isn't a priority of the current administration, but the next one may not be so benevolent. Look at the IRS and DEA in the US, for example.
I believe he can only upload a picture to Gravatar which then is used by lots of apps. Even Gmail if I'm not mistaken. So it's either the middle finger or a selected Gravatar everywhere. I still prefer my suggestion.
Same on HTC Sensation with 4.0.3 on board
> What kind of silly propaganda made you read where biking causes more pollution than driving?

Do the math. It's quite clear. You don't realize just how much fuel (diesel) farms use to grow that food, and then your body is not as efficient at converting the food into motion. It's a double whammy and you end up with cars being more efficient than bicycles.

> Obviously, emission pro-capita is quite different.

Yes. Obviously. And since this article is talking about pollution why would you even look at CO2 numbers?
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So where are the animal tests?
Being a very versatile web developper, I never understood why (good) PHP programming gets so little credit in the profession, whereas to me it appears to be much more demanding to write a decent piece of software using PHP rather than with Ruby, Python, or even ASP/.NET. These other languages have so many easy tools, great debugging and all that, with the natural counterpart of offering less performance. PHP strikes me more as the C Language of web development : easy to learn, but harder to decently apply on a day-to-day basis. So I wonder if the companies out there just value other languages more because they tend to misinterpret the "simplicity" of a language for the quality of the developer using it. To me, making a good website using Rails is child's play compared to making one using PHP, framework or not...
Intel have their gate delay graphed with 22nm vs. 32nm (and also the switch to 3D gates)... but I'm not sure what the units used here are. It's on page 21 of this PDF: http://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/www/public/us/en/document...

picoseconds maybe?

Edit: Yea, pico, I think.
From another PDF on Intel tech: "At 15nm, the
gate delay is 0.39psec, and for 10nm gate length, the gate
delay has dropped to 0.11psec"
There are two factors that determine how much money you can make in a job such as programming:

- How much money are you making for your employer
- What are the costs your employer needs to make to allow you to make that money for him

If there's a large and growing gap between the two, you can expect a raise, event if the company as a whole isn't doing too well. If there's a small or shrinking gap, you'll be looking for another job soon. If the gap is negative, you're probably the owner.
This could be a trial balloon to see whether people would want to use Google Glass for something like this.
yeah that's why I mentioned it. Back in college, right before the year 2k, we had a special Cobol course they added just to get people some 2k jobs. I recall one guy who's still doing Cobol most of his time, working on old software like traffic lights systems (!)
The Guardian and Greenwald are omitting things or at least giving misleading impressions...

Rushbridger's editorial of the other day leaves the impression that the British security services destroyed the computers but then a day later we find out that actually The Guardian destroyed them as part of a compromise with the security services rather then handing them over, and the chief reason the security services wanted them destroyed is in case they fell into the wrong hands.

We also find out the Guardian's lawyer did get access to him after 8 hours (which is admittedly too long)

So it appears we can't trust those who are supposed to be exposing wrong doing by the state to be truthful with us either.
Simulacra.. not simulacrums.. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
Is anyone really surprised? Congress and the President haven't cared about the constitution thus far, why would it be any different now?
Eighth Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted

A bit excessive? Throw the streamers in with the murderers and rapist, they'll come out better people.
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How does this question get so much more publicity than "Are you a brain in a vat?"? It's the exact same question!
Hey everyone!

I liked this idea but I didn't like the dependency on jQuery and I'm into AngularJS at the moment. So I've created a AngularJS Provider for basically the same thing. Check it out if you have time.

http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/ngProgress/
tax evasion is an felony because its a crime against the state. All crimes against the state is considered serious by the state.

Fraud is about money, and money is issued by the state. As such, fraud is a crime against the state and thus considered as serious by the state.

If we view copyright as an granted monopoly by the state, then declaring it as a felony would follow a historical pattern. As a property hover, it does not.
I truely hope a virus mutates the DNA of human sperm, or eggs; making the world population decline.
Directive wouldn't be the best I'm afraid. I've created a provider for it that can be viewed here: http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/ngProgress/
I think it makes as much sense for us to call a device capable of simulating the universe a "computer" as it would be to think of a being who could create a universe a "person."
> The push to change the law came after it emerged last year that the GCSB illegally spied on Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom before armed police raided his Auckland mansion as part of a US-led probe into online piracy.

> At the time Key publicly apologized to Dotcom, who is a New Zealand resident and should have been off-limits to the GCSB under legislation preventing it from snooping on locals.

> However, an official report found that Dotcom's case was only one of dozens in which the GCSB had overstepped its bounds.

So, the New Zealand government has responded to the abuses of its spy agency by ... giving the agency more spying powers.

The mind utterly boggles.
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Is this a plausible method of extracting useful amounts of energy, or are we talking about yoctowatts per cubic yottametre?
The vat handlers wrote that into the sim to mentally torture you.
I feel the opposite. I can't get anyone that knows puppet for under $110k in the Boston area. All these salaries seem low for Boston, and probably the bay area as well.
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Oops! Good catch :)
How so? It's not so clear to me.
Not for the public - http://gawker.com/5604846/google-wave-dead-after-two-months
Who cares about CO2? (There is a serious obsession with CO2 in the world right now.)

Pollution is the problem here. And it's a real bad problem.

> And especially air travel. Huge contributor there.

Sigh. OK, lets talk about CO2: http://www.travelmatters.org/calculator/individual/methodolo...

Airplanes produce less CO2 per passenger mile than buses. And far less than cars.

And if you do want to talk about CO2, how about CO2 per GDP? After all we can't keep the entire world in poverty in order to reduce CO2. In that measure the US is much better than China.

As I've said elsewhere, the only reason China has low numbers is because of the human misery of their poor population.
> silenced the mouth of the conspiracy mockers once and for all

Before the Snowden leaks, you'd be hard pressed to find a technically-minded person arguing that the NSA doesn't have, at the least, the potential to have their fingers in every pie.
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Gotta fight the lowering user numbers somehow
Looks great. But how does one comment?
The Best and Worst Jobs in the U.S. (2009)
You are not forced to use hjkl to move around. The arrows work just fine, too, and you can't beat them on the expressivity front.

Anyway, Vim has far more useful ways to move around than char-by-char. If you are curious, read `:help motion.txt`: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html#motion.txt
Your graphic representation is highly misleading.
va" and vi" are now supported in IdeaVim, as well as other i/a commands for ",{,(,[,<.
However, tags (vit, vat) are not supported, which is disappointing.
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I'd argue that Google-sponsored Internet is better than no Internet. Also I don't see any "digital enslavement" plans embedded in Google or Facebook initiative. Just giving those people Internet will be enough to benefit Google and Facebook hugely, as probably significant percent of newly connected will start using their services. They don't need to capture every single person, therefore they don't need to conspire to "enslave" anyone.
Is Bytemark operating at a scale where a govt would want a site-wide tap?
Well, sooner or later the people of New Zealand can vote for their government. Then we get to see how much they really care. Whats the betting that spying and privacy are not issues?
Nope. China.

The only reason China has reasonably good numbers is that most of their population lives in miserable poverty.
Isn't the real news here that programmers are making $100K on average?

Language doesn't really seem to be too big a variable, it affects the income level by typically less than 10%

Are people really making that much around here? Why are you on HN then?
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I would say location weighs heavily on average income as a programmer. For example, the average dev salary in the midwest might be more like $50,000 and anything approaching $100,000 being very high end.
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How does scoring works?
ability to use computer code as leverage to accomplish things that capitalism cares about

For the people that ultimately pay the bills, this is the only thing that matters. They don't give a shit what technology you know or what a nice guy you are. They just want it done. To them, the ability to understand their domain, communicate effectively, and get things done is far more important that how you do it. I regularly hear from people who say, "I need x fixed/working/solved. We use y. If you don't know y, then figure it out."

Languages and technologies are only important to CTOs and recruiters. The point when you get beyond them and start talking to their bosses is when your career will really take off, not when you learn a "better language".
If it's the same question, then what does it matter? It makes sense the the question which sounds 'coolest' is the one that get repeated.
Scrollbars are hidden by default if OSX detects a Magic mouse/trackpad but there's nothing stopping anyone from changing that to always shown (or always hidden!), as well as the scroll direction.

Maybe the solution is a prompt for a decision the first time OSX starts up, at the same time as the user is creating their account?
Um, wait-Windows 8 will allow you to install any old x86 Windows program. Only Windows RT is locked down to such an extent. I hope HN doesn't have Slashdot levels of ignorance concerning Windows.
HTC's biggest problem is their CEO
Some languages heavily used in finance (and not much else) haven't been mentioned, and would likely fair pretty well. I'm thinking about K, and in Ocaml. Ocaml in particular is used at Jane Street which is known for paying extremely well.
> What Facebook and Google have done is discovered a village with no water and they plan to bring them cheap Coke to buy when—if their motives were truly honorable—there is another glaringly obvious option: you could teach them to build a well.

Funny you should mention Coke. It turns out that these businesses desiring profits can pretty efficiently solve or make improvement to problems, like distribution, in places like Africa.[1]

Regardless of their motivation, either with balloons or wires, the deep pockets and ingenuity of Google and Facebook will connect people who aren't. And, they'll do it faster and more efficiently then government, charity.

Their "evil" desire for profits will benefit us, as Coke has, apparently.[2]

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/25/coke-applie... (2012)

[2] It's obviously not all roses, with the health concerns, etc. Point is that they solved a problem motivated by profit, and now health organizations, etc. are able to learn from that, directly or just by watching. They're moving us in generally the right direction.
Koding: Helping developers code together
async/await are just sugar over the much older asynchronous delegate pattern that has been in the language since day one. So yes, they were.
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That's not a valid argument against scrollbars, it's a valid argument for magic pad.
Hacker News should be an API.
I had Windows 8 RTM installed on an old ThinkPad that I eventually wiped clean and put Ubuntu on. Granted its not a new laptop with Windows 8, but still, its not impossible to install Linux on a Win 8 laptop.
Tell me where these mythical laptops are, other than the Dell XPS 13?
When anyone makes unverifiable marketing claims in an area that you don't know much about, you're probably getting taken. There are so many ways to get taken advantage of by introducing an affiliate program too early. I think you should have your own conversion data or having in house affiliates before you start an affiliate program so you know how much conversions really cost on some channels, the conversion rates, and the converting keywords.

A JV is a term used when you sell your product to someone else's audience (or visa versa). With this arrangement, both of you benefit by profiting from your existing audience, and reaching a new audience cost effectively.

The JV Broker puts these two parties together.

To do this well, you need to either be buddies with someone that has a massive list or have a product and landing page with a proven track record. When someone with an audience is looking around for new products / offers to test out, they're looking for cues on how that product will do with their audience. People with massive lists do not freely offer up their list to anyone. They are usually inundated with offers, so you need to prove your offer will perform first.
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I think this "ugly design" as you say is resistant because it is a good design. It's functionnal and as such, I don't see any reason why it should change.
A good design is a design we can read easily and use easily. For instance, I find Designer News far less easy to read than HN. HN's design might be ugly but it's convenient and it's all what matters.
I agree that HN could have a better mobile experience. But the current design works particularly well on desktop.
Can't believe we're still discussing this.

Are there great developers who just code 9 - 5? Yes.
Are there great developers who code in their own time? Yes.
Are there terrible developers who just code 9 - 5? Yes.
Are there terrible developers who code in their own time? Yes.

Doing stuff in one's own time - or not - isn't any substantive determinant and we shouldn't try to make it so.
We did ours with Linux and C.
> first-past-the-post systems of the UK and US

Also known as the 'choose between two dictators every couple of years' style of democracy.
1) Where on Earth did you get the idea that the job of the Home Office is police oversight? That would be the IPCC. The Home Office has been the home of Big Brother in the UK for some time now.

2) It's doubtful whether they broke the law. That's part of the issue, the law has been badly mutilated to the point where it is legal to harass people without any suspicion of wrongdoing. It's lovely and considerate of Lord Falconer to condemn what he has enabled, but unfortunately it accomplishes bugger all. It's not as if this wasn't foreseen and protested at the time, so such cries of "oh but THAT's not what we had in mind at all!" are at best disingenuous.
How about a distress code password that you can give them which when used triggers a self-destruct mechanism.
Where is the Universe's bug tracker. I have a few bugs I would like to report.
You don't. The author doesn't want to handle user data.
As an impartial outsider, unaffected by the simulation, I say no. I mean yes.
Minor correction: on an iPad, you can also scroll that text with one finger.
You can make money writing Emacs Lisp?
There's no way losing a couple NSA contacts sends a RBOC generating $4B of cash a year into a $2 stock and near bankruptcy. The way you do that, is you merge a massively unprofitable business into a blue chip one and pay the latter with massively inflated stock (viz: '99 internet bubble). After the bubble bursts, market wakes up, and the assets are found to be dogs. The $4B cash is now going to pay down the massive debts the combined entity took to finance the operating losses of the crappy side of the merger, but there is no growth in the supposedly high-growth part. The high-growth part was not a NSA/gov't driven biz plan, though. That would not have made sense or been credible plan on which to merge or raise capital (before 9/11 in particular).

Much easier explanation. According to the SEC/Jury/SupremeCourt etc.

Hope that helps.
> We don't have a cold war any more

We absolutely have a cold war, except, rather than a continuously increasing stockpile of nuclear weapons, we have a continuously increasing stockpile of zero-day exploits.

Another hallmark of the cold war is escalation and regional hegemony, and consider that draconian spying legislation is disseminating from the USA to her vassal states -- Canada, UK, Australia, NZ. Similar technology and legislation is being deployed in other major world players under the guise of fighting "terrorism," but it stands to reason that it's in response to Chinese espionage/reconnaissance.

The USA has a very serious rivalry with China, and vice versa. We can expect to see the USA trying to further compete with China by trying to level the playing field across a variety of fields. The TPP and the F35 Joint Task Force are shining examples of attempts to curry favour with fellow nation states.
Is this so freedom loving American big business can use the government they paid for to extradite, render, kidnap and perhaps torture dirty, thieving, terrorist, pedophile, A-Rab foreigners for downloading Breaking Bad?
I can't answer for the GP, but my basic argument would be that you can probably expect any universe to produce multiple civilizations capable of creating universe simulators. As such the number of simulated universes will be a multiple of the number of universes, which means it's more likely that you find yourself in a simulation than in a real universe. It's worse than that of course because those simulated universes will end up simulating their own universes, and so on...
You can't even trust your server if it never goes down.

This 5-year marketing video for police demonstrates switching a computer over to another power source without powering down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erq4TO_a3z8
https://github.com/sydlawrence/jquery.videoBG

Found it when snooping around some New York Times webpage code ;).
This is definitely an interesting read, though I wouldn't be using this as someone just getting started with regard to programming.
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If it's a simulation, why haven't we found any major bugs?

I mean there are some very deep things in physics that we cannot explain yet but outright bugs in logic?

So if it's a simulation, it's the best code ever or someone is patching the historical logs when a bug is fixed.
Tell that to my mom. The only way she scrolls is to use the scroll bar itself as the interface, clicking the buttons. I try over and over again to convince her the scroll wheel is faster, and show her. She hates it, she strongly prefers the old way. She is old school. She can't get used to the scroll wheel. I'm not sure why. I'm not sure if it is just muscle memory or what.
How would you define a bug?
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Distress codes are an interesting idea. Although I'm sure that there are probably laws around supplying false information and/or destruction of evidence.
A cheaper iPhone would be huge in a lot of developing countries, China most definitely included. There's already so much cachet around Apple products in major cities, but despite it becoming Apple's biggest market there just aren't that many people (percentage-wise) that can afford them.
Given the sample size here I don't think this means anything.

I've seen real world programming jobs in the U.S.A. everywhere from $25,000 up to $250,000. Everything you get is closely clustered around $100,000k and when you consider the sample size I;m nit sure any of these mean anything.
I'm confused.

I was trying to say something along the lines of "once you've played with rapleaf, you won't care what the stdev is", because rapleaf's data isn't good.

The standard deviation here isn't going to be the standard deviation of programmer salaries -- it will be the standard deviation of rapleafs estimates. Which as I previously mentioned are horrible, and not particularly interesting.

I agree with the author that Haskell is estimated at a lower rate because it's academic. I think the reason we see higher salaries for older languages here is that rapleaf must be using age as an input (with makes sense in some fields).

> The only sort of data you can trust is the data itself.

Agree. Again, here there is no data. It's gibbs sampled noise from shitty models.

> Providing the mean of data is providing a sum value a person thinks is useful to convey the shape of the data, and the mean in particular is unsuitable at conveying shape on its own.

I don't think anyone here is confused about the question of the mean showing the shape of data.

> The easiest assumption about that data is that it follows a normal distribution

Salary most certainly does not follow a normal distribution. I don't understand how you came to write what you wrote without knowing that. It's a classic example of the exponential distribution.

(To be fair, salary estimates from rapleaf do seem to follow a normal distribution :p maybe you can guess why? [hint, it's a phrase I used earlier that starts with "gibbs sampled noise from" and ends with "shitty models"])
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I think it's slightly different. You being a brain in a vat is a more solitary issue. The Universe being a simulation is more of a collective issue. Besides, you are a brain in a vat being fed signals through tubes . . .
Wow! Huge improvement on my iPhone. No more vertical scrolling of comments. If only I could vote and it had a narrower title bar. Current current title bar takes up 20% of my screen. Any perminant feaure should use the minimum space possible to maximize content view.