skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a lot of people who go into banking and consulting expecting to cash out, retire young, and become novelists or philosophers. Very few of those actually do it.

There are lots of people who don't go into banking because they want to write a novel first. Very few of those people actually do it either.
Any particular fixed width is inherently stupid in some way. 78? 80? 132? 255? All crap. Still, having some fixed width is inherently useful. Encourages readability. Permits stodgy old guys like me to print and annotate code for reviews/debugging. And it encourages making people think when going from column N to column N+1 that maybe there's a better way to restructure the logic to make it more expressive.

That said, 80's been with us for awhile. Your question is like asking if it would make sense to increase automobile widths. We inherited those. And, from a more recent generation, we inherited 80 columns. Stick with it.
Okay, what sort of negative consequences? And why does having someone else make the mistakes on your behalf protect you from the consequences?
T-Mobile US is almost entirely independent from the larger company in it's services and day to day operations.

And the bar is pretty low in most regards when you're up against Verizon and AT&T's business practices...
You'll receive 71 microsieverts of radiation just flying to Tokyo (from Paris, the first number I could find), so I doubt the 0.484 you'll get per hour amounts to anything.
He might be having good connections
I don't know. My husband is 6'4" and is scrawny build but with a bit of extra around the middle and he can feels 'overweight' right around the same time he hits the BMI level. I'm 4'11" and definitely feel the that BMI is correct with how my body feels.
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Articles and blog posts are usually not worth reading, some are even poisonous, as they promote some fad or groupthink. Books, especially those that people whom you trust have recommended do worth the time to read, older books, even better.
More to the point, why does it matter whether the people being taken advantage of are the ones who originally lost the document? If the information has value to the OP other than satisfying personal curiosity, it's likely to be because they can exploit those who stand to lose from its disclosure, especially given the way the original post was worded.

If the OP has found information that will genuinely allow him to place stock trades at an advantage to the rest of the market then some people are going to lose something.
Manage a team of ten engineers.
So what's the contribution of Google, Sun and MS? It's you who should show example if you want to claim.

Do you have any access to Google Search API? Or BigTable source? How about Google Maps? Google Apps? What Google is releasing is "Chrome" which stole(as like your word) from WebKit, and Android. (which actually stolen from Sun, so still in lawsuit)

Well there's more. V8, Dart and Go. Maybe bunch of funny dead projects can be included. But I don't see much difference with LLVM/Clang case. Let's treat them just apart.

IMO, Google is worse than Facebook or Twitter in perspective of server-side software contribution.
UIKit Dynamics game using the case of the iPhone 5c
The article states $2000
T-Mobile in the US is a separate company. The German parent has tried to sell it in the past, and no doubt would gladly sell it in the future should a willing suitor come along and the regulators okay it (that caused the last sale to fail).
Did you ever try D2/Vodafone? Not that they are significantly better - after all and as you know they are the other big one - but their prices are more competitive in my opinion and more importantly in my experience their network/infrastructure is far ahead. I'm always surprised by the weak reception some of my friends that actually use t-mobile suffer from - and this is not limited to certain areas, but more of a general impression I got.
Definitely a matter of taste then. The other think I like about Python and why I find it more readable is the usage of snake_case instead of camelCase. I'd take

Door.open(1, times=3, close_after_ms=30)

over

Door open: 1 times: 3 andCloseAfterMilliseconds: 30

anytime :)
I recently wrote a piece on how I'm using T-Mobile and TalkaTone on my iPhone 5 and only paying $30 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data. That's why I love T-Mobile.

http://thetechblock.com/get-unlimited-talk-text-data-30-ipho...
I need data to back up my vague assertion that 'some' people but drugs rather than care for their children?
It all comes down to traffic ... you can probably research the success of android and non-humblebundle bundles on reddit pretty easily to figure out if there's room for this.
Tony Hsieh pitches Bluetooth-enabled Burrito
Last time I read on HN about the Bay Area developer salary, it seemed to me that consensus was that a $100-120k salary in the Bay Area is considered bang-on middle-income. BART technical jobs are well below that, and one can argue these are low-income. If $100-120k/year salary is middle income what's the exact issue with BART salaries?
The retaliation begins: Google profiles get Schmidt-faced
Am I the only one pissed off by disqualifying TED only because of a subset of it?

Yes, there is a lot of trash in TED (as well as in any place that become popular), we already know about scams, e.g. the dude of the vortex mathematics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oRnhrOf0r0

Without thinking that much, two talks that had nothing to do with this "pop insight porn" come to my mind:
Richard Dawkins on "Militant atheism"
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism...
and
Benjamin Zander on "The transformative power of classical music".
http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passio...
If you like to make ui widgets to knock your users out then jQuery is where it is. A host of tools come with the basic library but jQuery UI delivers the sort of capability you need to delight your users.
I think he was arguing is that being a "jerk" is not okay period. You don't need to appeal to sexism or racism to make the point that someone is being a jerk. Being a jerk is sufficiently bad that it should be enough to point that out.
I am so tired of two year contracts, but I have a list of 'approved' carriers I can choose from and have my phone partially paid for. Until recently T-Mobile was not on the list. Now all I need to do if wait out my current two year with the other guys.

There is certainly nothing smart about paying seventy, eighty, or more, per month for a smart phone. If anyone is smart its the guys charging for it and getting it.
>> terrorist organizations reflexively reject compromise proposals offering significant policy concessions by the target government1;

> This is just game theory. You have the game "Chicken"

I think it's often more subtle then that, there seems to be a psychosis in small, radical, groups where people get more respect in the group by being (or at least sounding) more radical which then feeds back on itself until any hint of compromise becomes heresy and can literally get you killed.

I suspect the most politically successful terrorist groups are the ones where the leadership manage to break out of the cycle and compromise some demands to achieve the rest without their followers killing them.

But yeah, the People's Front of Judea are the real enemy. Splitters! :)
Ting, Ting, Ting. A thousand times Ting.

A customer, not an employee. I won't gush, see ting.com, it's an MVNO on the Sprint network.

EDIT: It kind of bothers me that someone downvoted this. It's not like I used an affiliate link or stand to benefit from this. Sorry for sharing :P
T-Mobile is the worst operator I've had. Expensive, shitty customer service, dick policies, retarded user plans and contracts.

Who knows about what country I'm talking about though...
Overtaxed and over there
The Ten Best Ideas in Statistics
you can see the "Total Cost of Employment" for every employee here:
http://enjalot.github.io/bart/#chapter-03
or a aggregated view here:
http://enjalot.github.io/bart/#chapter-035

As sxywu mentions, this is relevant to managements perspective not necessarily the employee.
Not in my experience.

I've worked both as a research mathematician and as a programmer working on production software.

Even applied to the "same" types of problems, I've found them to be very different in day to day activities, goals, incentives ... really they are quite far apart.
They are spending $26,982,431 in base salary to management. Almost $27M for 2013 and that is base salary alone. I can't find it acceptable either. They need to start letting people go in the management.
So, shitty real answer:

It's not profitable for T-Mobile to sell you that device at $404 if they can get someone else to pay $1200. Yes, that's shitty, but from an economic perspective it doesn't make sense for them to sell that equipment to you. The equipment, even unsubsidized, is a loss leader for the service.

In short, it would be a good customer experience if they should you the phone, but it doesn't make economic sense.

Also, sort of unrelated, but I really don't understand all this T-Mobile love. The carriers went from eating a $400+ subsidy on every phone to eating $50 or less to acquire a new subscriber. The plans aren't THAT much cheaper, and they're still a joke compared to the cost of delivery (but I digress!).

I think T-Mobile is pro-consumer the same way AT&T is pro-consumer. They just happen to do a better job marketing it.
I don't have to pay for medical insurance until I have an emergency?
I'm also reminded of the dynamic between the Native Americans and the European colonist-settlers, in particular Scott's review [1] of the book Empire of the Summer Moon [2].

And throughout the book's description of these events,
there was one constant:

All of the white people who joined Indian tribes loved it
and refused to go back to white civilization. All the
Indians who joined white civilization hated it and did
everything they could to go back to their previous tribal
lives.

[1] http://squid314.livejournal.com/340809.html

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/...
This is a good lesson for those of us making programs who "need" to charge a certain price in order to make a living. There is something in the human psyche that really wants to make a connection between the price of an item and the living conditions of the seller or the buyer.

The lesson is this: the Law of Supply and Demand is not interested in your rationalizations or ad-hoc reasoning about "fair" pricing. In this case, the cost of living for BART employees has nothing to do with what BART should pay the employees, unless those costs cause enough employees and potential employees to quit and reduce the supply of labor.

For those of us in tech, the lesson again is that pricing has nothing to do with your costs in making a good or service. If the return is insufficient, you may either choose not to make the good in the first place, or cease making the good. It has no effect on pricing.
It's about the precise kind of jerk this person was being. And I agree with the GP, it seemed more like he meant whore in the sense of doing things for money that should be done for free. I'm not defending it, obviously it's uncalled for, but it strikes me that people looking for something will find it, if you know what I mean. I could be wrong, I'm just saying it doesn't seem clear-cut to me.
> For one thing, the class fulfills one of Harvard's more challenging core requirements, Ethical Reasoning.

According to http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/courses-exams/courses-i... so does Michael Sandel's Justice course, which can be viewed here: http://www.justiceharvard.org/

It's one of the most amazing lecture series I've seen. I can't see how the one given by Puett could possibly be any better... But then again, Harvard is supposed to be one of the best schools in the world, maybe Puett really offers a better course...
Good point. I've been trumpeting T-mobile lately for all the reasons cited in the article, but you're correct the real problem is a lack of regulation. T-mobile is the underdog only because they haven't had the benefit of decades of scheming and lobbying.
I understand why maintenance staff might have surprise OT, but isn't a station agent or a conductor the very model of a job with predictable hours? It seems like BART should have no trouble correctly lining up workers and work without needing to resort to overtime.

Clarification: I'm surprised that overtime would be a "major" part of the average station agent's salary. Obviously there's going to be some mismatch, but (assuming there isn't crazy turnover or long training required) it should be fairly easy to predict the number of hours required and hire hours/2000 employees. The schedule is decided months in advance.
I agree that "whore yourself out" etc are very common, and are not gendered insults.

I agree that people who are jerks need to be called out on it, even if they are jerks to straight white males and even if they don't use protected class information to be a jerk.

Still, here's a woman doing work to promote science, and she politely rejects a request to work for free (See also Fuck You. Pay Me.) and who not only gets called a whore in return, but has her blog discussing it pulled by Scientific American.

I don't know SciAm's side, but it's pretty lousy and that's a shame because collected back issues of that magazine at car boots at jumble sales got people interested in math or computing. (Martin Gardner).
I was blown away by that number as well.
I have Virgin and agree with the points here. Basically roaming on the $35/mo plan is non-existent but I have never had an issue with my phone not working in the areas I live and visit (unless there was a tower down). Sprint's 4G coverage is very poor so if you expect that then good luck but my phone is not so I don't mind yet and can easily switch to another carrier like T-Mobile when I do.
And does it day-in and day-out consistently.
Python has good multiple inheritance and as far as I've seen most sane people just use it to "emulate" mixins and even name their secondary parent classes like Feature1Mixin or DoesYTrait.

Traits seem like a great idea, but the only other language where I've seen it under the Smalltalk name of "trait" is... brace yourself :) ...PHP 5.4+.
To view this kind of thing in vimperator, press insert or shift-esc to ignore all keys.

It works quite nicely after that (Firefox on Linux).
Decreasing the API surface is a good goal, that's a fair point. However, in practice, the API surface will remain the same: IE will not remove ActiveX, Firefox (and a few other smaller browsers) will still have NPAPI, and Chrome has PPAPI. So this allows one use case to move to a smaller API, but that's pretty much it. A large API surface for proprietary blobs will remain.

Worse, things like iOS, Windows Phone, etc. have browsers that don't run plugins at all, but Apple and Microsoft may well add EME support there, which means an increase in their API surface that reaches proprietary blobs.
I took the cost of living from Economic Policy Institute's Family Budget Calculator, and their documentation [1] is particularly interesting to sift through.

In particular, the child care costs are apparently broken down like this:
One parent, one child = cost of 4-year-old care
One parent, two children = cost of 4-year-old care + cost of one school-age child
One parent, three children = cost of 4-year-old care + cost of two school-age children
Two parents, one child = cost of 4-year-old care
Two parents, two children = cost of 4-year-old care + cost of one school-age child
Two parents, three children = cost of 4-year-old care + cost of two school-age children

And they assume the school-age children to require both before-school and after-school care.

As for comparing a cost of living for a two-parent household with the income of a single worker, I could only make that assumption because...how would I be able to extrapolate the household income of a two-parent family from BART salaries? As imperfect a solution as it is, I still hope that it will give insight, since my hope was not to shove any particular opinions on anyone, but rather just a tool for exploration.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/wp297-2013-family-budget-calc...
Whore (and slut) is clearly gendered, even when used freely against either gender. It is "powerful" against women for all the obvious reasons, and it is "powerful" against men because it would also be meant to be/taken as emasculating.
Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent

He may be an engineer but he got the $10 Mil for being "The senior vice president of engineering"
probably more subversive to drop arXiv''s existing content into an instance of GitHub and conform the user interface to the existing arXiv U/I. Or, actually, just keep the colors and stick with Github's UI.
"$2000 a month for a family plan"
How is this possible? I've never heard of such an expensive monthly cost. Perhaps they're paying for several iPhones on contacts?
(b) Dataflow programming?

And the entire point of storing the "source" on-disk as an AST is to not have the programmer directly edit the file. Use an editor set up to handle it.

Sort of like JSON. Yes, you can read and edit it manually, but it's primarily meant for something else.
> This seems about right for a frugal life in the burbs.

More than these peasants deserve, right? I mean, why should people providing a vital service to a city feel entitled to live amongst the betters they serve?
My son was born very prematured (6 month), he was born at Port-Royal in Paris (APHP, French public hospital), the total cost of his birth was 320k€, I did not even issue my credit card ONCE. Paid by public money. Period.
it's actually an efficient way to communicate the nuances going on with the issue. "Reader friendly" would be the quote that the average BART employee makes 80k in pay and benefits. This chart shows you what those figures break down to, emphasizing the base salary while still making you aware of benefits (which are less concrete and uniform in meaning).
> The best way to help people is to get more diligent about policing those we do help

Would the cost of doing that exceed the savings? If so (and that seems rather likely; the vast majority of social welfare recipients do _not_ cheat), it seems rather impractical.

In practice, people cheat in all systems, and a certain amount of cheating is built into the assumptions for any well-designed system. For instance, tax authorities do not audit everybody, because it would be impractical; in not doing so they accept a certain amount of tax fraud. Shops don't watch everyone who comes in the door all the time, because it would be impractical; in not doing so they accept a certain amount of theft (most of what accountants call 'shrinkage' is employee and customer theft).
Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (1974)
So, here's the best bit from the BBC article:

"Arming the force would, say opponents, undermine the principle of policing by consent - the notion that the force owes its primary duty to the public, rather than to the state, as in other countries."

That's what we're missing more of in the US.
T-mobile in the US has basically nothing to do with T-mobile in Europe. You can't even use a European T-mobile Wifi hotspot if you are a US T-mobile customer.
Laying in bed all day gives you zero MPG. It doesn't mean that your bed is the most efficient vehicle in the world, it only means you fail at basic logic.

"Finger distance travelled" is a proper metric. If you have a better one, write an article and see how it does.
Edward Snowden wins Sam Adams award [video]
I wouldn't mind if they didn't advertise it for 404 zl (ca. $130) in the shop, on TV, the radio and in newspapers.
> Why is it that when you go from 2 parents + 1 child -> 2 parents + 2 children, the cost goes up 6K, but when you go from 2 children -> 3 children, the cost goes up 18K? If anything it seems like per-child costs should diminish as you have more children?

If you look at the cost breakdown below, it's because rent does not change going from 1 child to 2 children, but it does from 2 children to 3 children, presumably because 3 kids won't share one bedroom. It'd be nice if they gave more info about what type of home is referenced (number of bedrooms and sq. ft).

> Also I think all these analyses that assume a BART employee is going to be a single income-earner for a family are a bit strange

Worse yet, this chart is misleading because it implies a single-income household, but the cost breakdown includes childcare. This is not a real situation for any 2-parent, single-income household: the non-working parent takes care of the kids.

> And honestly I find myself having trouble sympathizing with people who have a lot of kids without secure high-income employment

I do sympathize with these people because the cost of living in the Bay Area is really just unreal and entirely preventable. Having two kids shouldn't break the bank for people. If we raise salaries across the board, the stagnant housing supply will guarantee that prices will go up in accordance with more people affording higher rents. Higher wages for already-high income workers is the wrong political debate: more housing is what we need. The real difficulty here, which sadly seems less politically likely than higher BART wages, is convincing enough Bay Area cities to allow more or taller apartment complexes.
To be fair this seems to be a US-exclusive experience. Things like these were unheard of in Europe. I feel that some european carriers just rather recently learned a thing or two from the US-carrier playbook, like charging for tethering, approving/delaying software updates, etc.

Still, I'm glad that the invention carrier-approved and net-locked phones never/rarely made it across the ocean.
Don't forget the venerable arrow keys
I don't think the plugin APIs like NPAPI are the relevant attack surface, because in most cases, they are only accessible with explicit user permission, i.e. by installing a plugin. We should be primarily concerned with what an untrusted page can do without user action beyond visiting it. In that sense, getting rid of Flash is a big win.
Indeed, I've only taken a quick look, but I like what I see!

Speaking of benchmarks, we'd be very happy to receive a pull request [1] with a test implementation if anyone is interested.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/
still somewhat an issue of measuring against 'what?'. If most of the people on the team are already good, it's much harder for anyone to be 10x anyone else in terms of productivity. You almost have to have dead weight on the team to be a 10x developer.
The code example was already using highest_protocol, which is currently 2.
Talks like this are the reason I became a sysadmin
You're right, thanks @skrebbel. "Pigeons" were indeed a group of entrepreneurs fighting a new tax project of the newly elected socialist government in 2012. If they were right or wrong, I won't debate, I'm just thinking they did a terrible job in downgrading the image of France abroad.
Non-French-speaking entrepreneurs are welcome in Paris, I can help putting you in touch with good accelerators that can host you and provide guidance. The startup scene in France today is totally fluent in English, you should feel comfortale.
The security letters and whatnot kind of undermine your comment, you know?
The answer is not to get caught.
Based on my recruiter emails, every company wants to be appear to be the most fun place to work ever

while I'm working on exciting challenges, of course
Comments 'gloss over it' because that's not what this fight is about. EME does not allow disabling 'view source' (unless I've completely misunderstood it). It's a step down the DRM road, but assuming that taking one step that way means we'll inevitably go the rest of the way seems hyperbolic.