skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you look at the original link (http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/pensions), you'll see these "3% @ 60 Formula for Local Miscellaneous Members", "2% @ 55 State and School Miscellaneous" and "3% @ 55 Formula for State Peace Officer/Firefighter or Local Safety Member" - these formulas are mainly from union contracts.
After all the other 'realm of conspiracy theory' stuff that's come out, maybe the NSA just has their own agenda entirely.
Just a FYI for the submitter: that's a bannable offense, and enforced. Wouldn't want you to lose your account.
Yep. I only wish my brain had the bandwidth to produce code at the rate my fingers consume it.
Can't agree more.
I actually have a stutter and avoided any public speaking until a pretty ripe age.

At some point I just had to do it. I had nightmares, nightsweats, couldn't sleep or eat. But that is not what mattered. What mattered was that I did it anyway. I was nervous, wanted to run away, but I did it.

It was for small groups first, giving status updates to a few colleagues - even those used to stress me.

Then after some speaking at conferences, I was surprised that these status updates ever caused me any stress.

From there I went to a key note in front of 800 or more people (a few years back I would quite literally preferred to die rather than doing that). Suddenly the conference engagement became less daunting.

The funny thing is: On stage I do not stutter. I guess I'm too busy delivering the message.

And what if I do? It doesn't really matter. Some people might find it funny (I certainly had my share of that when I was younger, but those folks are typically inferior on an intellectual level and are just looking for compensation.)

And, yes, I am still extremely nervous before each public engagement and I still not like it per se, but you know what? That's part of it.
Any good machine intelligence integrated with IDE? I'd love some AI autocompleting things.
Also relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NF...
Because it's per unit of time. The faster you go, the higher throughput you'll have.
And if it's worth its salt will disconnect you once it sees the routing change.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingstone. Its not technical however it is full of interviews from a good selection of the most famous startup founders of this generation.

There are a lot of Y combinator interviews and even one with our very own Paul Graham.
The statistics tell a different story. The plural of anecdote is not data.
the problem is that to encourage native app development, they've made it needlessly difficult to get those Android apps over. Either they have to convince the developer to convert the .apk to a BB10 .bar file and submit to BlackBerry World, or the use has to find an .apk (a legal gray area and logistical hassle) and sideload it to the device through a process that involves no official BlackBerry tools.
Why? You've given no explanation.
I find that the weekend coding project can become very good fodder for a blog. http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/analytics/oss is such an example of some hands on exploration of map reduce and is currently my top blog post.
Really nice site that could get out into social media and spread quite easily! I mean, that combination of animations and potent yet minimalistic text really gets the point through in a small package.
James Bond used Hyperloop prototype, a modified pig, in "Living Daylights" back in 1987. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzJ5_8Cqdc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging
Really? What upside is there to having US citizens living outside the US and not paying taxes? They enjoy the benefits of being a US citizen without any of the shared sacrifice.

I say, let them renounce.
Your name and address are already matters of public record, anyway. This is hardly the kind of data that we're talking about.

For important, sensitive data - the kind of stuff that could someone could use to blackmail or manipulate you - the relevant technology is cryptography.

The bureaucratic solution will inevitably end in anyone you send any data to being required by law to transfer the data itself to a central government-run data store which will make PRISM look trivial in comparison.
China seems set on a different path, but I guess you never know. Korea seems too small to benefit. And Japan perhaps too mountainous?

Looking at California: http://bit.ly/1eFevxA
And Japan: http://bit.ly/19ZXwbJ
I don't see any roads in Japan that are nearly as straight as I-5.

The places where this would make sense have destinations fairly far apart, but not too far apart, with somewhat amenable landscape between them. The Midwest would work, Australia, Russia. Probably Brazil, Argentina? Probably a bunch of connections in Africa or maybe the Mideast... but that wouldn't work for other reasons. East coast seems a bit cramped.
at least they can build proof of concept for us
The right arm doesn't know what the left is doing.
I suspect lots of people are considering these kinds of designs these days. :) There's been some discussion on various mailing lists, usually assinine, but once in a while clever folk join in.

> Another thing to do is limit how much email is kept, so old mail is automatically purged.

Makes sense.

I'm also not sure how easy it would be to provide an option for the user to choose, for example, whether to accept incoming mail over a plaintext channel. SMTP TLS handshake takes place immediately after the initial "hello". Ideally there could be two servers listening (the user would have to decide which server to use, each of which would imply a different email suffix), one with a forced TLS mode, and each user could choose which mode to use. Maybe I'm overthinking things over a problem that is unsolvable in the framework of the email protocol (which does suck in this regard).
The weight is there in the PDF; there's no need to assume.
Can you take your political opinions and shove them down a dark hole somewhere? Most people are here for a discussion of the technology, not your rhetoric.
Bitcoin ATM Machine
I don't know why the parent got downcoted. US rail freight is the envy of the world. You didn't get the European passenger rail experience without some trade offs. Here's a briefing on the subject from the Economist.

http://www.economist.com/node/16636101
reposting content is bannable?

Every week I see posts reposted daily - for example Bootstrap was posted multiple times over a time period.
You're probably not the maintainer, but Impromptu's README really should do a better job of explaining what it does and why I'd want to use it.

It sounds interesting, or at least I can imagine something interesting based on that description, but the only concrete information readily available seems to be that Impromptu requires Node.js and Redis. Those are fairly onerous requirements for a shell prompt, so some description of the actual features is probably warranted.
Lots of inaccuracies and fallacies.

The NSA Spying is not against the fourth amendment. If you're a lawyer feel free to correct me but the supreme court has made it very clear that they believe the framers were being literal when they said "persons, houses, papers, and effects." and they have said they believe this cannot be extended to non-tangible things like data.

And whether I'm right or wrong it's better to say 'We Believe' it is a violation... because if it was then the NSA would have been forced to stop

The big problem is that the NSA can do this without breaking the law...
Thank you.

I've been interested in going off-grid for a while, but never could find the appropriate time (or the location, since land here is pricey as well). If you do find those pictures, I'd love to see how you've setup everything. There's a big demand these days for off-grid and sustainable living so if you happen to document your experiences, a la blog or similar, that could be invaluable for a lot of folks. Nothing really beats getting the details from someone who actually walks the walk.

How do you like living off-grid? I imagine you've had more than your fair share of hiccups on the way.
Ways for non-tech founders to build a startup
Personally, I don't give a shit about a politican adultering. How did they vote when it came to my rights?
I can tell you where not to go. Elance and GAC are two marketplaces where the technologically challenged hope to pay the least amount of money for unrealistic expectations so it's a race to the bottom both in terms of price and quality.
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll make sure not to have anything to do with those two.
I don't think Elon Musk is being irrational about the Hyperloop. I think he understands the constraints on his time. SpaceX had 3 failures before successfully reaching orbit.

If theres one about Elon Musk is that believes not only that he can fail, but that that failure is the most likely outcome. He has said this in interviews before.
> You've since added $1 minimum contributions.

Those were always there. They are always there. The top-level commenter was complaining about reward tiers. Apparently he thinks developers aren't incentivized enough by the work getting done on the platform they want to use. I think that's pretty bizarre.

> How does Johnny MacBook benefit from all of your hard work?

He doesn't in any way you could successfully communicate to "Johnny MacBook". The drive is squarely aimed at exactly the people who would most directly benefit from the work being done, and be the most likely to contribute: Developers.
No, it certainly wouldn't be worth posting in either place, but a link would be cool, even if it was to a mailing list archive where it was previously placed.
As an (fire-)armed citizen, so called "less lethal" weapons are not particularly practical to cart around, or wield while checking out a bump in the night while also carrying a flashlight, so I have not seriously studied them and e.g. the way they're deployed and used by police.

The C2 TASER is a flashlight.

I would not go around my house searching for the bad guys, in any case. You hole up in your safe room and dial 911 from behind cover. Massad Ayoob recommends against going on the prowl to search out the bad guys. The pros don't even do that alone without backup. He notes that it's also a good way to get yourself shot when the cops do arrive on the scene.
"America's freight railways are... universally recognised in the industry as the best in the world":

http://www.economist.com/node/16636101
I think the go is trying to distinguish between wallets associated with a known identity through exchanges/services and ones that are not.
I've never heard the argument you're making -- that it doesn't apple because it's data. The NSA/gov has said repeatedly what their argument is.. it's because you've entrusted a third-party with it, and therefore there was no expectation of privacy.
Except you can get first aid assistance in a plane (they ask if a doctor is here, and they have a number of drugs on board). Keeping the person alive until paramedics arrive is key to handling emergency situations, and I don't see how you do it with the Hyperloop.
Landing a plane will guaranteed take more than 35 minutes. With the hyperloop, it's simpler and more efficient to just have EMTs called and on station when the car arrives.
The numbers don't seem to be that concerning--1000 people/quarter or let's say 5000 people renouncing per year. Out of 6 million citizens living abroad that's less than 0.1% renouncing their citizenship. Can you really draw any conclusions from such a small group?
Re-posting your own post, not happening to post the same link as someone else.
Whilst way you say may technically be true, the government could just declare this:

Each person must publicly declare the bitcoin addresses that they hold. Any legitimate business accepting payment in bitcoins can only receive bitcoins from other registered addresses, else they are black flagged and no longer a registered address.

Now, your average business and the banks are not going to circumvent these rules. The Banks will probably give their business customers payment gateways that enforce these rules without the business having any choice. Black market bitcoins will still exist, they will just be useless as "normal" currency and will be completely separate, with no way to cross over. Since all transactions are public it is trivial for the government to enforce these rules.

You'll still be able to run your exchange in some other political jurisdiction, but unless the Government white lists your addresses, nobody will be able to spend those coins on legitimate businesses in your country.
Yes this is a reason too. Katz v US.

People need to think "Who really owns my facebook account, my twitter account, my dropbox, etc..."
If it isnt you (it isnt... trust me) then you're out of luck
Not to mention that these affiliates and networks are responsible for a wide variety of credit card rebill scams and other shady stuff. Frankly I'm surprised the FTC hasn't come down on the entire industry.
So it sounds like there's an opportunity for someone here. If you read to the end of the article, you'll note that the actual scam is in spinning up discount code sites.

We need a Rapgenius for online discount codes. Right now, it's full of scummy, crappy sites (just like lyric sites), but could be easily improved with a simple interface, minimal advertising, and collaboratively sourced content.
A core analogy here is the distinguishment between say a letter, which when you hand it to the government to convey to an associate is protected, versus an e-mail, which handed to Google or a private channel via the web at-large, is not protected. There are federal courts[1] which would agree that e-mail should be protected by the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court has recently been skeptical of the government in decisions on Search and Seizure (c.f. Jones[2] and Florida v. Jardines[3]). The government has generally avoided scrutiny from the Court by generating laws that do not grant clear standing. The recent accusation of "evidence laundering" shows the governments out-right reluctance to let the collection tactics stand up to judicial scrutiny. I want the law changed, but while these are laws, I would hope we can push for proper judicial overview.

[1] http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/10a0377p-06.pdf

[2] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf

[3] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/florida-v-jardine...
I like it a lot. I wish there would be solution to tie this with say Google Glass, and be able to go on a walk or sit in the woods and code or make notes with it, hands free. Or while doing cooking or laundry, etc.

It's unfortunate he couldn't get the OSS speech recognition to work, though.
I was expecting to read about click fraud, but it was just a newbie's experience with running an affiliate program.

Kogan had some wild expectation that the majority of affiliate traffic would be first-time visitors to his site. When he uses google analytics to estimate that only 1.6% of referrals were new customers, he trashes affiliate marketing as a business.

Unfortunately, he spent no time thinking about how to optimize his campaign to reward affiliates for first-time customers, among other things.
This is a fascination article by Roger Penrose where he argues well (imho) that there must really be a reality. http://www.mintinnovation.com/links/docs/Mind_and_consciousn...
Musk put $40m into Tesla and his stake is worth billions. The people put $465m into Tesla and their stake is worth nothing, after making a paltry $12m in interest. In addition, while Tesla was paying the government 3% on that loan, they were paying Musk 10% on his loans, in effect shoveling government money directly into Musk's account.

This is a classic example of socializing the risk while privatizing the profits. Yes, Musk is a smart guy with plenty of great ideas and good execution. But he's also plenty good at funneling government money to himself.
A startup is only one option .. you could go to grad school, you could write a book, start a band .. you could travel etc.

Where are you getting the $240k? If you could easily get a loan for that amount to do "whatever you want" instead of for higher education, a lot more people would be doing it.
No shit. This is why you create a page on your site called "Discount Codes". You put in an email signup and offer a small discount coupon. You get the email address in case they abandon and you can re-market to them, and the discount so that they won't abandon, because they found what they were looking for and will complete the transaction. Google will rank you high because its your page and you catch at least some of the search traffic, and you give them what they want with the discount code and they will shop with you. Any retailer worth their salt knows this. Just because coupon sites can game SEO doesn't mean its a scam, it means they're just capitalizing on the fact that you're blind to your customers' behavior
I think it's pretty easy to abstract papers to the internet and personal files.

Paper was used for storing personal information and for transmitting that information to others. Security was achieved through wax seals and other markings that would show tampering.

data = papers.
Err, how do they enjoy benefits if they are living abroad?
Can we not be thinking about adding the inefficiency of the TSA to such a nice system? The security theatre needs to end.
You mean http://www.retailmenot.com/?
(For Americans) If you earn income in bitcoins, you still have to pay tax in USD. If you earn income in Euros, you still have to pay tax in USD. Bitcoin does not absolve you of your tax obligations, even thought it might help you to evade them.
Yes I'd rather have a politician who regularly attended brothels than voted for SOPA. Raising alarm over OMG sex is a great way for media to control the dialog away from actual issues.
According to the New York Times style guide, official NYT style is to write 1960's for the plural. The motivation is that in all-caps headlines, 1960S is hard to read, so they used an apostrophe. For consistency, they used this in body text too. (They may have changed the style guide away from this recently, though.)

The larger point is that many grammar things I thought were matters of right and wrong are actually matters of style.

(Just sharing a random factoid stuck in my brain, not trying to start a grammar flame war.)
I carry a Preon penlight with 2AAAs. It is a pain in the butt with the switch being too easy, but I also stick a pepper spray pen next to it in my pocket, and that's enough to keep it from getting pressed accidentally.

For a knife, I most often carry a Kershaw Cryo or a Ken Onion Ripple. I have no illusion about using either for self defense.

See this page: http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/knifelies.html

A lot of that applies to guns as well.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204187.

It's pretty straightforward for the Government to come up with a scheme to defeat tumbling services. Just make it mandatory to only accept payments from whitelisted addresses. Banks and your average business are not going to go all cypherpunk and circumvent such laws.
There's a lot wrong with this article and it stinks that this person paints the entire affiliate canvas with a poop-colored brush. The fact that they continuously pushed the commission all the way down to 0% is also terrible for affiliates. As people in the comments stated, this was a poorly run affiliate campaign and is no fault but their own. There's "shysters" in every business, and the fact that they pushed down the commission to 0% for all of their affiliates and not just ones taking advantage the coupon code entry field to base their affiliate site on makes me label Kogan.com as "shysters" moreso than all of the affiliates they tried to portary in that light.

Manually approve affiliates that will add value, remove affiliates or don't approve affiliates who are going to advertise non-existent coupon codes. The end, don't treat an affiliate campaign as an easy money button.

edit: And they also seem perplexed that affiliates kept sending $200,000 in sales no matter the commission. True evidence they had no knowledge of how affiliate sites work. If they're performing well, webmasters can essentially set them and forget them. It's not like they're actively working 8 hours a day pushing sales, it can be a static website that never changes as long as the revenue is steady for the affiliate.
Why Ubuntu’s creator still invests his fortune in an unprofitable company
What SF's come to: 900ft² apartment, 700ft² of which is outside
Why Are Swimsuits So Expensive?
As a victim of the HP/Palm fiasco, I would give Dell the benefit of the doubt only because it is hard to imagine that they could match HP in the colossal screwup and destruction of a great product.
The Fed controls reserves, not net financial assets. The net result from a fiscal injection and a financial composition shift is not the same at all.
This might be a good place to start.
http://matt.might.net/articles/preventing-and-managing-rsi/

Basically review your work environment, keyboard, chair, table and posture.
Being a US citizen abroad may even come at a "social" price, given the negative PR campaign the US has been running for a very, very long time now.
To be fair, Oakland is a much more sensible location of the initial terminal for any rail system. It's very well-connected to SF, has a complete lack of powerful, moneyed NIMBYs, and it would be easy to punch the line through to SF once it's proven.
That's probably true. I could see far more impact in places like that, say, Santa Monica or Irvine.
Microsoft to open source a big data framework called REEF
The pdf mentioned something like tsa, only streamlined.
A potential upside would be: They may come back one day. Which they almost certainly won't without their US passport/citizenship.
That's the retail price. Apple would probably get a relatively good discount.
The C2 Taser is not huge, and it has a flashlight form factor.
We launched our site SideProjectors (http://sideprojectors.com).

It's a market place for side projects (pretty obvious).

An interesting thing we have found so far, is that many of non-technical people are visiting and checking out what projects have been attempted.

Many of our users are trying to see if they can buy side projects without having to program from scratch.

Of course there is Flippa, but we launched our site aiming at a lower level side projects which might have stopped or been "killed" due to varying reasons (e.g. busy, no time to market) and allow developers to find someone else to take over.

I wanted to raise it here to let other non-technical people know about it as another way to explore their startup options!
What does the narrative fallacy mean?
By this insane logic we should eliminate citizenship for over half the US population, and close our borders to tourists as well.

I find your comment supremely hilarious given that our current president lived as an expat in Indonesia for 4 years as a child.
Just because you're too ignorant and lazy to walk around looking at all the construction doesn't mean it's not there. There are over 4000 units actively under construction right now. That is a fact beyond argument.
Retailmenot has gotten much more scammy over the last few years.
Statistics you say?

Produce them. Please.
Status updates via voice? Facebook buys speech recognition app
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I think that's just inevitable. Do I mind? Yes. Can I personally do anything about it? Probably not a whole hell of a lot.

There are no guarantees that my information is safe from prying eyes. However, I think I'd be much happier if I felt like I could at least trust the people who purport to be on my side. Right now, I do not trust them.
Oh no... 80% is my own estimate. I even had pictures of me in the gallery.
looking at your comments you also want to play. so you need to get shared hosting that allows python or a vps where you can do what you want.