skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CEO earnings are generally much more extensive than just the salary (I'm not judging, just saying). This link seems to indicate that the compensation was maybe $4.8 million (basic compensation fiscal year 2012) to over $10 million (options, WARNING I'm not sure how to read these so just addding all of them together)

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=...
I have debates about evolution with my Christian friends (who believe in the creation story of Adam and Eve) often. Whenever I mention evidence of evolution documented by scientists, they always reference the Bible as evidence of the creation story. That then turns into a debate about the writing processes of peer reviewed scientific papers vs the method of those who wrote the bible. It usually ends with them stating the bible was written by god "himself", so it couldn't be wrong, and me realizing I cant change their minds.

Needles to say, we live in a society where many base there beliefs on blind faith, and those who do are almost impossible to convince of something that goes against their faith. Even if simple life was found on the moon, they wouldn't believe it unless it was the kind of alien life from movies that invades earth with spaceships.
Anyone know what Apple's timeline on patches for bugs like this are? TFA says that they've known about this for 6 months now.
Except that's not true. Monkeys are supposed to give the eggs or other food items that they find to the senior members of their group. But sometimes they'll eat them when nobody is looking, or if they create a diversion (like they'll call like a predator is coming)

so theft can be done in group, especially when there's scarcity
Ask HN: Pace of life post startup
It's been about 5 or 6 months (unbelievably) since I moved on as a startup founder. I've found that the pace of life in a semi-normal non-tech, non-startup job is quite slower and less stressful. I also find that I'm afraid to embrace it, even though I think it's done me good. A big part may be the move from the "big city" back to rural/suburban life.

How have you coped with the transition from the frenetic pace of startups to normal life? How do you keep your startup chops up? (because, you know, who knows...)
That is a great response, and it really puts things into perspective.

If you're born a millionaire like Paris Hilton, and you capriciously decide to become a large shareholder of Walmart's stocks one day, you... well, you just sit back and watch the money roll in without doing anything. Even though you're providing zero value to society you make a very large amount of money. In this way, not only is clarky07's profoundly and bizarrely misinformed, it is also selfish and offensive.
Sure, but it provides similar concurrency semantics (putting things on and taking things off of channels), which is what I think David is really trying to emphasize.
Template metaprogramming seemed like a good idea initially, but in production it is a horrible construct that should be buried with nuclear waste.
It's interesting to know. I haven't had that experience myself.
Yeah, LD is a tonic! How many HNers are also LDers?

Here's my entry this time, trying to inject a little current affairs into LD:

The NSA's Where's Snowden?
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
I highly recommend the audio edition of the Economist, available to subscribers. It's the whole damn thing, 6h+ of mp3 each week. Made my bike commute into a politics and business briefing.
But then you're subsidizing the labor costs of employers who pay low wages...
8 bytes at a time.

Wouldn't that mean 100's, 1000's or 10's of thousands of requests for nonsensical subdomains of the same domain name (and that domain name is probably a silly one if you got it recently for 10 bucks).

This is not anomalous DNS traffic? My imagination just does not stretch this far. If the title was just "Transfer a file via DNS", maybe I could play along.

I think nstx preceded iodine.

Here's another one no one has mentioned yet:

http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Dnscat

What I'd really like to see is an implementation of lcamtuf's old, pre-cloud/dropbox idea: daemon caches, specifically recursive DNS caches, as free, (temporary) distributed storage. Anyone can store data for free on 100's of 1000's of networked computers worldwide, otherwise known as recursive DNS caches. Currently we only store "domain names" on these servers, but as the OP shows, it's possible to encode more information into requests than just domain names.

Imagine if the encoded data was an image. With most recursive DNS servers, the data expires upon the TTL expiry. Snapchat via DNS.
Interesting. I think this is a good idea seeing as how I kind of do this already except with voice transcribe on the keyboard.

Unlike a text report though where users can edit or take a moment to collect their thoughts, I think voice feedback will create alot of recordings where people are unprepared and thus unable to structure deeper more meaningful feedback.

That said, I am curious on how many users accidentally release their hold or submit multiple feedbacks as they add more info?
a state has to:
1) tax people who live there
2) threaten people who don't pay with force

otherwise, it has no resources of its own, so it doesn't exist as an entity
By that heuristic "free-beer.com" is a great startup! :)
I've implemented a new rule some time ago. If my first contact is an HR person or recruiter, I give it up. They can't even spell my name right most of the time so I don't really hesitate.
> Without his job at Walmart, he'd be eligible for even more benefits

This is false. The biggest government benefit that someone employed at Walmart gets is the EITC, the _Earned_ income tax credit. For a person earning 20k with family of 4, the EITC would be near 5k, or a quarter of the salary. If the person was not working, the government (usually) does not pays anyone 25k for non working. Moreover, without the $5k EITC, it would not be economically feasible for this person to work at Walmart, and Walmart would have to simply pay its worker more to at least find people who can eat enough. The government is absolutely subsidizing Walmart in tune of $3-4k per worker.
I'm getting a 404 - Page not found
She uses the term "department store" incorrectly.

She means "hypermarket," where groceries are sold alongside general merchandise.
For connecting flights you usually have another boarding pass, so you can look at that. Arrival times can vary a lot (because of runway and gate schedules, weather conditions) so you cannot really say "you have 48 minutes before your next flight", but something like "you probably have between 10 and 160 minutes before your next flight", and this is not helpful.

Also, gates and terminals can change at any time.
Of course they can fire you. They can stop paying you. You can stay in the building all you want.
Operating from respect
I'm not sure about your comparison to per-capita GDP there.

What you just described is a family of 4 with a total income of $30k+.

Per capita GDP of $45k means that GDP per 4 people is $180k. That $45k number is per person, not per worker.

So either the claim is that $30k is not that bad compared to $180k (unclear, a priori) or ... something?
Being a single-earner household is a luxury and a 20k/year household cannot afford it.

There are always going to be shit jobs meant for teenagers that pay wages good for teenagers (cashiers, part-time lifeguards, sandwich assemblers, etc). If an adult tries to support 3 other people with such a job, they are going to have a very difficult time and that should not surprise or disturb us.

You aren't going to get companies to scale their pay based on what the individual employee needs. If you did, would McDonalds have to pay the fry chef with 7 kids more than the fry chef with 3 kids, who is in turn paid more than the 19 year old fry chef who is trying to pay for community college and car insurance? That would be absurd. If you think that somebody needs to take up the slack, you need to look to government, not corporations.
> [...] same economies of scale by splitting bulk purchases somehow.

That's what Wal-Mart is doing, and they take a cut..
Hm Persona (or browserid) is advertised as a decentralized solution to replace passwords with a centralized backup running on mozillas servers. To avoid exactly what happens to me now when I click on the "Sign in with email" button:

----------------------

Error
We are very sorry. The server is under extreme load!

Please close this window and try again.

Action: Checking if Cookies are Enabled
Now: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:03:47 GMT
Network Info: GET: /wsapi/session_context

Response Code - 503

Response Text: server is too busy

Error Type: server is too busy

----------------------

just two days ago I tried to install everything so I could be my own browserid provider. Turns out that is not really easy (yet). Even if I got quite a bit and was able to run https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-certifier on my server, I never was able to talk to it via curl (the example they have just crashes it) or from a PHP script (I always got a 400 Bad Request). That is mostly because I didn't get how "pubkey - Object compatible with JWT public keys." should look like.

In the end, after a days work I gave up because it was already way after midnight. I hope in the future there will be single file-php-script which I could call from the HTML pages I need to provide which would do all the signing, etc. for one-person browserid providers like I want to become.
Uh, I just take whatever they print out, stick it in the wallet, and make sure the itinerary is sent to TripIt which works with FlightTrack Pro [1] and Flight+ [2], which will both let me know about the gates…

[1] http://www.mobiata.com/apps/flighttrackpro-iphone
[2] http://flight-plus.com/
I'm part of the small but growing crowd that thinks Javascript is a good way forward, at least for small Indie developers and Ludum Dare entries.

There is nothing worse in LD than seeing the voting screen filled with Windows binaries you don't want to download.

Here my entry this time if anyone's interested ;)

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
I mean Scala vars can be changed during the program, while Scala vals can't.

val y = Console.readInt
var x = y + 1
x = y + 2 //valid
y = 5 //error, vals can't be changed in the same block
When you're using zenirc and Gnus all day as well as editing, network issues also block emacs. Which is why I stopped doing that.
Oh, but you still have to pay interest on that tied up capital. (I.e. the faster you move your inventory, the cheaper it gets.)
Java style classes in C++
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Its not in their DNA to be together...
All good points, thanks! I hope you keep us all posted on your progress, it really is cool to hear that someone with a biz background can get shit done!
For me it's very clear. The approximate list of countries that use AM/PM[1] is short.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Computer_support
The difference between legal rights and natural rights is that legal rights are guaranteed by force. As soon as you guarantee a natural right by force it becomes a legal right: you make the law.
So they "go HD" by switching to a format with worse compression quality. Sounds like a recipe for victory! (I can certainly understand switching to a royalty-free format, but I still found this funny nevertheless.)

On another note, I find it really annoying how people equate video resolution with video quality, when the only thing the resolution really tells is how much detail the video could potentially have. Bitrate and encoding settings will matter much more - if you're using low bitrates (like what you'd tend to see in real-time video calls) a HD video can easily end up looking worse than a lower-resolution video at the same bitrate. This dual move to HD and the switch to a worse format (compression-wise) might just end up doing exactly that (though I haven't actually used Hangouts myself so I can't speak for its current video quality).
Just silly examples. If you want some more conventional, donate to Doctors Without Borders.
You can change an action of the form using Javascript (ie. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2701041/how-to-set-form-a...). Spam robots don't emulate Javascript. Users with no Javascript will see the message "This action requires Javascript".
CVE # on this?
Ask HN: How to find a hardware platform or partner?
Is it crazy to suggest writing software which requires
actually shipping your customer a piece of hardware?

Call it the 'Chromecast' effect, but writing an app for
someone else's platform is just too risky. But trying to
go it alone, probably it's just more risky.

What if you can find a good partner or existing platform
out there for which you can jump on as a reseller? That's a
big part of operations, not to mention IP, which you would be leaving off the table.

In the end, it makes me think it would be best just find
a way to make the whole thing P2P and forget shipping hardware.
> You can't not have them there, or you'll get customer complaints when they can't find someone to help them, there's too few lanes, etc.

Aldi (in Germany) operates on a system were they don't have that insurance, and trained the customer to accept it. But that low level of customer service would only ever fly in Germany.
Don't knock paper too hard. While it's not so good for networked communications, it's awesome for displaying static information, tearing apart, and drawing on with incredible ease (e.g. when you need a picture, text, or information circled in addition to what's printed). It's also very cheap even if it's not free. Paper is also extremely high bandwidth - no waiting to view it. Flipping through a book yields a higher dpi and throughput than the fastest computer displays.

This is not to say that paper is superior for all the uses of a boarding pass, but it's very hard to displace something so usable and accessible to people without smartphones.
Licensing of the Android software.
>> Currently it feels they're only focused on things that can bring them more revenue.

That makes a whole lot of sense to me, and would be the only acceptable path to take in the eyes of their shareholders.
How is this not the case in the residential pride of lions where the 5-6 lionesses do the hunting for the 1-2 male lion leaders?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Group_organization
Supply-and-demand.

As women entered the workforce, this created more supply, which drove wages down, which forced more women to enter the workforce. Similarly, two-earner households could outbid single-earner households when purchasing real estate, which also drove the need for a two-earner household.

This transition is not reversible. However, it only happens once (excepting polygamy).
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I am guessing you meant to reply to a different comment than mine? I'm referring to following software licenses (such as the GPL and the Linux Kernel) and Xiaomi has always ignored them comes to MIUI.

I could care less what phone looks like what and not even sure why it's getting so much focus. The more important issue is Xiaomi and their scoffing at the GPL when it comes to the Linux Kernel.
It's gotten pretty bad now but it wasn't always that way. I think I've had an account for 10? years. It used to be the professional Facebook, so everyone joined. It wasn't as spammy as it was now and I definitely used it to keep in touch with people that I used to work with and to research jobs. I guess they are trying to be the actual Facebook now... I really only check it once every month or two in order to delete invites from recruiters. It's not a social destination, but it seems like they want people to log in every day. Bleah.

I already maintain a personal and a work facebook account (for example to add someone as a facebook app developer on an app you own you have to be friends with them, but I don't want to be "friends" with all my co-workers). There's not much you can do about linked in at this point since it's ubiquitous. I just try to avoid the spammy bits.
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I'd be interested in seeing these results with SVG.

There's a lot of commonality between the images, http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/common/sprites/sp...

Even with Base64 encoding, much of that commonality would remain and thus I'd think that if you had all these sprites as SVG in a single file, as Data URIs, gzip would do a very good job indeed on the CSS file.

In a PNG sprite I wouldn't be so sure.
That mostly works, but you do still run into the issue of the memory hanging around until collection - so if your JVM doesn't choose to collect (because it has a high Xmx set), it keeps a bunch of ram.
Look I'm not saying people don't get discriminated or harassed for their identity. People face this issues all the time, some one because of their gender, some because of their skin color, religion, or ethnicity or anything.

But if you keep justifying all your failures and problems by saying 'Bad things happen to you because your are X'. Replace X by black, women, muslim etc. The problem is very likely with your and not the world.

Having said this I still insist, men are constantly judged by very different standards compared to women.

I strictly believe by repeatedly playing the victim card and asking more benefits based on that, women are actually doing disservice to their original cause.
That's good approach and it just works.
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I don't know why, but I realized that CoreText is crashing with this combination of three Unicode characters

http://tny.cz/87a09a7c
Fictional entertainment consumption?
I'd argue that the main navigation should be a static navbar that floats over the content. Rather than a scrollbar, a set of options (back, top, next page, etc) should always be accessible. With that, the scrollbar as it is should be fine.
The stub is really only needed to find your seat. It is far easier to deal with than people having to dig out phones, works for all passengers and countries etc. Whenever I am on a plane several passengers end up in the wrong seats and the stubs are used to resolve the issue quickly.

On the identity side you already have to travel with identification and that can be used a lot of the time. Things can get complicated (eg being rebooked by another airline), lots of queues, many flights leaving at similar times where the stubs are helpful because people can be helped and processed a lot quicker. The stub is something that can be consistent between passengers whereas passports, drivers licenses and other forms of identification are all over the place.
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If you accept Evernote in the atom category, you pretty much have to accept anything. Evernote notes are just bytes, and the way you interact with the app doesn't depend on whether the notes are about the real world, imagined worlds, future plans, or lunatic ravings. It's just bytes.

Bringing "physical devices" into the description of Dropbox doesn't actually imply anything; what else are you supposed to store files on? What else is any app supposed to run on? "Look at your friends' pictures on a physical device". Welp, I guess instagram is an atom company too. You've extended a useful, incomplete heuristic into a perfect, useless tautology.

I think the more useful definition of an "atoms company" is one that directly tells you which atoms to move and where to move them. This handily covers Uber, Amazon, Airbnb and very faintly Facebook, as expected, while mostly excluding Dropbox, Evernote, Google (search), etc.
Arkanosis, your comment is shown.as dead. no idea why, maybe you tripped into a spam filter? If you were hellbanned, I don't see why, that's why this comment.

this story was discussed already a week ago or so I believe.
Amazing stuff, I think this was more of an art than anything else, for me art is also always social experiment, you can observe how people react to things. That is why internet is great you can engage people in ways you did not thought about before.
If you were to read my profile and see my endorsements, you would think I am the master of all that is, ever was and ever will be in software configuration management using IBM ClearCase. I half-jokingly thought that my former workplace mandated everyone to endorse someone they worked with in the past for this particular skill.
For learning probability the hard way, I recommend you start with measure and integration theory. (Something like http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Measure-Theory-Second-Edit... might work.)
A shiny finish on a keyboard is just.. evil and wrong.
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> I wonder if it's because the jobs at TJ are so coveted that employees know if they don't bust their ass, someone will happily take their position?

Yes, it's known as paying "efficiency wages." Which is mentioned in the article.

The article suggests that TJ's limited SKU count and upscale clientele allows it to pay efficiency wages. Whereas Wal-mart has a massive SKU count and a lower-end customer base.
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As a cartographer, this absolutely is a map. A map showing a simulation. "Map" just means there is a spatial component to the visualization.
One can use Python, Lua, Ruby, and a bunch of other programming languages to write VIM scripts. At least on ArchLinux, the vim binary comes with support enabled for these scripting languages.
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Usually this sort of bug would fall under "next point release". No privilege escalation, no potential for leaking private data - i.e., no giant legal/PR disaster waiting to happen means they will likely defer a patch until the next scheduled point release.
I wouldn't move it into a config file unless you're also testing the code works correctly with different values. Otherwise it's just asking for trouble.
Off track, but I noticed the .in domain that's chosen. Any particular reason to have the India TLD? Or just that it sounds like a phrase "text it in" ...?
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