skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Income inequality is not the disease. It's a symptom of other issues.

A better indicator of economic health is to look at changes in the individuals with highest net worth. In countries with government-granted monopolies, the list remains relatively constant year upon year. In more competitive countries, the list churns new wealth in with the old.

I do wish we could get over this "1% vs 99%" meme though. Incomes are mostly continuous as you go up the scale. The change in annual income / net worth of the bottom guy in "the 1%" and the top guy in the "the 99%" is immaterial.

If the article is warning us that we're on the brink of a Depression, mentioning the 1927 stats, I would like to see some sort of charts showing this 1% slice over time[1].

And for "the rest of us," it isn't the fault of "the 1%" that median incomes haven't matched productivity gains over the last 40 years[2]. This is where more scholarly work should be focused, in my opinion. Basically, it doesn't matter how much wealth the top earners have, as long as the median income is growing. The headline and article are simply engendering class warfare instead of examining the deeper causes of median income stagnation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_Top1percentUSA.png

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Productiv...
I was with you until you mentioned it would be OSS with trust webs like Persona… not that I wouldn't prefer it, but even Google is more about proprietary, cloud-based these days.
>>So use a passcode - the fingerprint feature is optional.

It may be optional, but that doesn't mean the device cannot acquire it without your knowledge. It is built into the home button after all.
Obviously I think tmux/screen is the better option, but bash's builtin 'disown' may have you covered for that specific usecase.
Good luck brute forcing an iPhone without it locking up forever though - regardless of your semantic considerations here.
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One thing to note is that he was hired by one of the co-founders. He would have never made it through HR or a middle manager.

Over the 7 years I've been working as a software developer, I've had many similar experiences. Not once have I been even close to get a project when talking to HR or middle managers. Every project I've landed was because I talked to the technical people in charge or to the owner of the company, even without the necessary credentials.

Middle managers and HR will always apply the "no one got fired for buying IBM" technique to people. CEOs and owners are far more likely to take a chance on you.
New iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner Prompts Concern and Nervous Laughter Online
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 released
3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo [video]
People can do with their money as they want, but one picture from the article reminds me that we as a society would be far better of if our social consensus for young families valued investments in housing quality (and also pretty much everything else) as much more important than a marketing-manufactured tradition of buying&gifting compressed carbon. Just saying.
Who can get who fired is a flawed measure of power, but a good first approximation.

Which groups can say racist statements about which other groups and still keep their jobs? Also a good question for measuring relative power. We'll ask Anil Dash[1]

If your HR department toes the official feminist line, feminism has power. If someone can get you fired for making a dongle joke to your friend, that is power.

The myth that white males all hold positions of power is itself evidence of the power that cultural Marxists hold.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361167
Umm, Spice[1]? I don't have a good model for a rusty piece of tin, but maybe someone does.

[1] Like all cheapskates, I use LTSpice.
My favorite is the parallel jobs feature of xargs. For example, say you want to run a script you wrote called process-video.sh to do some processing on all the video files in a directory (extracting audio to MP3, converting format, etc.). You want to use all 8 of your cores. You could write a Makefile and run it with -j9, or you can do this:

find . -name "*.flv" | xargs -n 1 -P 9 ./process-video.sh

This immediately forks 9 instances of process-video.sh on the first 9 .flv files in the current directory, then starts a new instance whenever a running instance completes, so 9 instances are always in flight. (I usually set to number of cores plus one for CPU-bound tasks, hence 9 for my i7 with eight cores [1].)

If you add -print0 to the find command and -0 to the xargs command, it uses null-terminated filenames (which does the right thing when filenames contain whitespace).

[1] Logical cores. Most i7's have four physical cores which become eight logical cores through the magic of hyperthreading.
Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording tech layers tracks to boost bit densities
When speaking of encryption and "systematic undermining of encryption standards" you have to be aware of what that means.

What people fear is the deliberate weakening of the algorithm such that it can be broken (implementations can be fixed, the real nightmare being subverted algorithms), where broken doesn't mean what many people think it means.

Say you've got a 256 bits key, to brute force it you'd normally need to try 2^256 combinations of bits, right? Well, if you found a flaw that permitted you to brute force it in 2^200 attempts, then that's a massive improvement and you can consider the algorithm broken, but guess what - that's still exponential complexity with the issue being solvable by simply making the key bigger. And there are people working on these standards that are not on NSA's payroll and outside the US jurisdiction, people that aren't idiots, so bigger flaws than this aren't feasible.

This is why, even if they've introduced subtle flaws in current standards, that doesn't mean they have the capability of breaking the encryption - e.g. it is possible that they are able to break RSA-1024 keys, but RSA-2048 is an entirely different problem. And RSA-4096 keys will likely stay unbreakable, unless a huge breakthrough happens.

People give them more credit than they deserve: yes, they have cash and authority and can coerce companies and individuals and they can also plan for the long term, etc, etc, but let's be realistic about their abilities.
No matter how good the story; GameMaker will always be remembered as the Microsoft Frontpage of game development due its drag-and-drop functionality and (mostly) imature userbase. Sure, you can do cool things with and use all sorts of advanced features but some impressions just stick.
Seagate to produce 5TB hard drive next year, 20TB by 2020
Still, this is a decision made by individuals who thought it was a smart move.
look at:
man utf8
man syscalls

... and the best hint imo to process malformed
filenames per 'find -print0' is:

find ... -print0 | { while read -d $'\0' fil
... # use variable fil
}

Regards
I've been watching this space like a hawk for years now.

How did I miss the iBeacon?
If you knew anything about trading in the first place, you'd know that you can always sell short.
It does have VIM/EMACS integration:

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/cmd/oracle/oracle...

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/cmd/oracle/oracle...
<queue 1million spam emails to Mark Cuban>

I've had some startup clients do this and it's not worked out well for them (of course, we're in Dallas, not SV, so the response/pace of business is different).

I think a lot of this sort of thing works "once in a blue moon" rather than "do this as a formula" as your email simply happened into someone's email box when they either felt that need and/or were receptive to something new.
All of which have an impression on the phone, that someone could duplicate.
How long before astronauts are blogging about how their space farm saves on transportation costs and stimulates their local economy?
I can imagine lots of reasons to use my partner's phone.

"Your dad sent a text, want me to read it to you while you're washing dishes? I know your mom's in the hospital."

"Mind if I use your phone to call our friends and tell them we're running late? I left mine at home and you're driving."

"Is it OK if I use your phone to put on some music? It's already paired with the reciever."

And so on. Checking a partner's phone doesn't have to include spying. Sometimes it's just the most convenient thing to do.
I would hope the eventual decision is that unencrypted wi-fi is like CB radio or even a loud conversation in a public place. Practically, it's trivial for others nearby to overhear, even incidentally to their own use of the same shared medium, so people should expect it. If you want privacy, add some level of scrambling... and then penalize effortful descrambling, that violates an effortful expectation-of-privacy.
The first point makes no sense... Universities should be motivated to recruit students with better test scores. Rewarding students based on merit seems like the logical approach. Not to mention, the difference in the two is a couple percent?
My company is listed as having many H1B's. As a previous holder of a TN visa (NAFTA, yay) we were highly encouraged to get an H1B. Why? because the US border patrol would harass TN holders, and try to trick us into saying the wrong thing so they could take away our work Visas.

Going home to visit family and friends became a real risk that we might lose our jobs. We were told "Do not cross at this crossing on these days of the week" because we'd had so many incidents of one guy who would just arbitrarily take away TN visas.

An H1B meant safety.
This doesn't seem to jive with anything about I've read H1-Bs.

First, according to the post, 26% of all H1-Bs go to California and New York, which are high cost of living states. 26% is a higher percent relative to either state's population of the USA, so they are getting proportionally more H1-B visas, not less. So no, they aren't going to Detroit.

Second, the story I've always read about H1-Bs is that they're for specialized positions which you cannot find people in the USA to fill. You present a different story, which is perhaps more true: that we want a workforce that we can pay less. This isn't what's being sold to the public though.
Yes, you can use something like AWR or ADS. Although they cost megabucks.
Changing jobs on a H1B is certainly an extra hurdle. I'm on an E3 and am pretty much only willing to consider Amazon/Facebook sized companies that I know will be able to handle visa issues for me. I do know people who've moved to a startup or smaller company but they spent a lot of their own time and money dealing with immigration, which I'm not very interested in. And if you are applying for a greencard while on the H1B then I believe* that changing jobs at the wrong point in the process can reset/invalidate your current application, setting you back years in the process.

I can't speak for shiven but I know I hate mornings and traffic too, yea.

*I'm not actually doing this myself, I'm basing this off of friends experiences
Amazing interactive table (Interactive Video)
It means that my mail archive (which is very useful to me) either (A) is vulnerable to risks such as theft/fire/flood that are orders of magnitude more likely than google losing my data; or (B) will cost me effort to make and maintain proper regular offsite backups, which is a rather significant chore that I'd want to outsource anyway to someone else.

Heck. I really could host everything at home but the mere thought of the periodic hassle when some hardware or software inevitably breaks... I'd rather simply send all my email archive to NSA, KGB and Chinese gov't, the hassle is really not worth it (for me).
Glad to hear you like FSet! (Not sure if you noticed: I am the author.)

I protest, though, that there's nothing about Common Lisp that makes FSet slower than Clojure. Rich Hickey used a very clever data structure called a Hash Array-Mapped Trie to implement Clojure sets and maps, and (I think) an Okasaki-style sequence implementation. FSet, in contrast, uses balanced binary trees for all these types. That's the source of the performance difference, not anything about CL.

What are your gripes about FSet?
They show it in that one graph.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_8908...

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_8907...
Why on earth would anyone combine PwC with Infosys and Wipro? Infosys and Wipro represent the lesser expensive labor band while PwC is a true accounting and consulting firm.

Consulting in this context is so muddled up.

True Consulting: McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, EY, etc.,

Off-shoring/Lesser expensive labor: Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant etc.,

Granted Infosys and Wipro may have some true consulting guys, but to put them in the same bucket as McKinsey or EY is a little ridiculous.
The poster characterized it as a joke, but did not say that that excused it. Your reading of the post as defending every aspect of the situation is what I object to.

And unfunny, bad-taste jokes are still jokes. I can talk about the KKK member's standup routine and call his words jokes without saying that I found them funny.
> It’s not all bad, though. The tools and platforms listed above have given way to a “personal revolution” that’s delivered unprecedented productivity and reach to small businesses and entrepreneurs. You don’t need nearly as much money to start a business anymore. Moritz gave a slew of examples of people who made small fortunes selling sleds on Amazon, becoming makeup spokeswomen on YouTube, becoming best-selling authors via Kindle, or earning huge real estate commissions through Trulia.

Its really too bad that this article lets slip a critical point here. Yes, you don't really need much money to start doing something these days; it doesn't take more than a computer and an internet connection to start making music, or writing books, or getting a youtube channel going, or selling stuff on eBay or Amazon or Etsy or whatever.

But in all of these things, the wealth distribution is crap. I've heard the stories about the spectacular success of this writer or that one that sold an ebook on Amazon after being rejected by publishers and made millions of dollars, and its naturally never mentioned how many thousands or tens of thousands of people have tried doing exactly that and walked away with a pittance or nothing. It's no different from the millions of people that want to become actors, or singers, or whatever; most of them fail. A 1% or 5% or 10% chance at a big success is not a replacement for a stable, decently paying job for the vast majority of people.

And things are only going to go farther in this direction. I honestly don't see a solution to this aside from basic income. More/free/better educational resources aren't going to change this problem. Teaching everyone programming (insert other currently stable/growing industry here) isn't going to change this problem. Heck, programmers already deal with this on the app markets; what percentage of apps/developers walk away with 90%/99%/99.9% of the revenue?
that was the first thing to go through my mind -the graphics look _extremely_ familiar.
Pretty much the same story as Kurt Varner from last year. Interesting what people will do to achieve their goals.

But... is it just me or does the "secret service" part of the interview seem way too insignificant to warrant being half the article title?
Given that 64 bit ARM instruction set is not an extension of 32 bit ARM, it seems to me that the iPhone A7 chip must include a chip which can implement both instruction sets at the same time.
zsh has AUTO_PUSHD, guess what it does.
Awesome story. I'm in a similar boat myself with trying to break into the QA field with no prior experience. I've been turned down from every position I've applied to so far despite teaching myself some Selenium and putting my tests on Github. I'm not going to give up my dream but damn if it doesn't get discouraging after having so many doors closed on you.
I wonder, are there some kind of hashes for fingerprints or one should store the whole fingerprint in order to reliably match it with another one?
Most things you're talking about are either end-of-life care type of stuff like cancer, or something rare like Cystic Fibrosis.

- Typical procedures used for common infections, broken bones, etc. don't require anything much that wasn't around 50 years ago.

- You might say: CT scanners, MRIs, etc, but the reason these are expensive is market structure (i.e. someone will pay for it...), not a fundamental engineering reason - i.e. the MRI isn't required to be made form gold.

Also note that this is one of the few (only?) industries where the same device w/ same features increases in price over time - because of monopolistic shit from patents, FDA barriers, etc.
Thanks for the input. I agree with this not being a sure fire way to get noticed. Again, it comes down to how you write the email, what your goal is and what your product is. But I don't agree that this is a 'once in a blue moon' type of thing.

We actually got quite a few responses from very influential people, not just Naval. The reality is, a lot of them spend hours on email a day. If you give them something worth responding to, they will respond!
Nope, just a non-free clone with a marketing budget.

I must say I'm not sure how to feel watching the maker and hacker culture I love so much having its open heart slowly ripped out.
Honestly, I had to take a look at in depth to respond, since it has been a while since I looked at the google api in depth. What I still notice is that Openlayers and the esri allow for a lot more service types. You have KML and GeoRSS, which are fine, but do not seem to support many other of the more common formats out of the box such as Arcserver services,WMS, or WFS (which are probably the 3 most common types in the GIS world). I have seen some workarounds for these, but they seem hacky and slow in the implementations I have seen. I do not have a big problem with KML, but I cannot always change what format a 3rd party serves a map as.

The other thing that appears to be lacking is front end geoprocessing. With esri at least, you can do quite a bit of geometry manipulation out of the box. This can be extremely useful for realtime data visualizations, as starting up a new map service is often a bottleneck with any of the backend platforms. If you can just render the new layer on the client, you save loads of time.

My last issue might just be a lack of understanding, but from what I have seen of the backend offering that google maps enterprise offers, it is missing some major features. For one, the documentation is lacking, and it appears that the entire rest api is marked as experimental. Second, although it allows for some basic hosting and whatnot (easily replicated by a free server like geoserver, which is trivial to set up), it once again does not have any real processing engine, so you have to download all of the data to another server you own anyway to do any real work on the data.

That being said, I really do think it is a great product, and I definitely point people in your direction if they are looking for a quick an easy way to add a map to a site with some basic data. At the same time, I am not sure the enterprise plan really makes much sense, since the results can be so easily replicated with geoserver + openlayers and you already need a server solution anyway for running a processing engine like grass or pyqgis.

Also note: I am probably not your typical use case, and I realize that most people just need to throw preprocessed layers on a static map. All I can say is that I look forward to the day when I do not feel like I am the only one around doing dynamic big data GIS on the web, so I don't have to keep building all of this stuff from scratch ;)
Over ONE BILLION transistors!

...they're reaching new lows if that's a marketing point.
I didn't read carefully -- after I asked FOUR times, you really did touch (not answer) my single argument, similar to the Obama administration's position.

Just five days after I posted it...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6328506

I will answer to your comments on my point.

>>the so called 'evidence' is not to be taken seriously. Even the members of the US House Intelligence Committee that have seen the full classified version of it don't seem to consider the evidence compelling.

You still didn't really touch the content of my argument, the trivial game theoretical points.

Intelligence organisations in multiple countries, the EU and now HRW has claimed there was a chemical attack. Almost certainly from the junta (from signal intelligence -- and the rebels lack heavy delivery mechanisms in Damaskus).

So you, Putin, Iran and Assad claim it is a conspiracy between those disparate organisations...

I don't believe you are honest here.

>>First and foremost, if the good of the Syrian people is to be taken as the priority, before any strike there should be a plan that takes potential civilian death toll into consideration.

I posted the wikipedia links, which you read, so you only pretend you don't know this:

From a humanitarian perspective, the chemical attack was a rounding error -- the junta has systematically used artillery, bombs, torture, rape and indiscriminate murder of civilians, to break the population's resistance.

It would help the Syrian population to remove the military capabilities which are used to mass murder them.

>>really feel helpless to somehow protect the Syrian people from unnecessary deaths and their country from complete destruction by US and it's allies

Thanks for a good laugh! See above, you don't believe yourself that bombings of Syrian military units would "destroy Syria".

Enough. I have better things to do than to read dishonest propaganda. (You wouldn't write this much crazy and carefully written text if you just were a troll.)

Edit: I'll append my simple argument (see link above):

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

Some trivial points:

1. How much atrocities will the Assad regime do, Mr Neville Chamberlain, if they win the civil war and then "clean up"? It is a small minority that oppress a large majority; they must be f-cking brutal.

2. To let use of chemical weapons against civilians pass will lower the threshold for using WMD. A very, very bad precedent.

3. No reaction because of civilian damage makes the Assad method work of moving artillery etc into civilian areas... Another bad precedent.

4. Your argument about the risk of a spreading conflict implies the world should let the Assad mass murdering torturers keep the whole Middle East as hostage with WMD. A ridiculously bad precedent.
"Total traffic" and "people who gave us credit card info" are two very different things, and they are discussing the former. They would only be able to disambiguate in the (presumably small) portion of people that went on to log in/sign up.
This is the first article on HN I actually had fun reading. The puns were terribly hilarious.
For sure - this is my problem with Obamacare. It's reinforcing the cost structure, not trying to change it.
Can't believe they didn't make bigger screens. iPhones seem so tiny these days.

Also, just 33 votes on HN atm - made me realize that probasbly people are already using HN votes as input for their stock trading aslgorithms :-)
The prefix "epi" means above or on top. Perhaps you're thinking of "hypodermal," which means underneath the skin.
Maybe tokenadult will chime in here. But every time they have a how-to-hire thread he drops in a link to a meta-study outlining the most accurate predictors of hiring success[1].
The top two by far are general mental ability, and work task sample.

This guy did a work task sample and nailed it. Then he got the job. Kudos for him, and kudos to hireart for using statistically relevant hiring criteria.

[1] Schmit and Hunter 1998, Don't have a link handy.