skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patience is a Virtue - Ping Identity’s Andre Durand
From a broadly macroscopic point-of-view, it most definitely is. A child in Nigeria born to dirt poverty has near zero chance of, for example, having a stable, respectable salary (of our definition) in his or her future. I think microscopically it might be a little controversial to call it deterministic, but my personal anecdotes certainly point that way. I attended a public school in the inner city when I was young, and later moved out of there to a suburbun school. Looking at where the two sets of folks are now with a little Googling and a little Facebooking, the former are not doing well at all; the latter are doing very well. What's more, the folks I expected to be doing well from the inner city crowd are not doing well, and conversely a lot of the slackers from the suburban school are actually doing remarkably, surprisingly well in some cases.
Breaking! Blogger claims search is dead because he isn't using it.
There's one that's expired for salsa20, and one by AGL for chacha20 + poly1305.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-0...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-salsa20-tls-02
Pretty ridiculous that they don't subsidise essential things like these more, for students, as the cost of living here is already so stupidly high.

Maybe they'd prefer to have students living somewhere else?
In Norway and Sweden this data is available for all people, not just public employees. The US is a bastion of sensibility in comparison.
Interesting. The same thing tends to happen to web communities.
Something I think often is left out of success accounting is an advantage almost everyone born in a large, well-functioning society enjoys: access to a large, well-functioning society.

If the civilization into which Bill Gates sold software were 1/10th the size, it would have generated 1/10th the value with almost the identical amount of work on his part. There's an enormous lift given to fortunes just by the fact that they are built in the context of a civilization which is large enough to support them.

None of that is to say that either specific inherited status or personal hard work aren't huge contributors to success as well, but it takes an enormous amount of work and attention to make sure that a large, well-functioning civilization remains large and well-functioning, and that's an oft-neglected factor in how big these large fortunes become.
Thanks! Hop on here, the author is around: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l3h5pg$1ol$1@digitalmars.com
Using a privacy prompt for access to any sort of sensor seems like a reasonable policy to me, keyboard/mouse/touchscreen excluded.
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> he grew up in a privileged environment

Sure, as did you when compared with 99% of the worlds' population.
thanks for the tip. Looks _much_ more reasonable now; still a bit higher than what I would have guessed. I kinda think this website should default to base-pay. In my mind, when someone tells me their salary I assume they're talking base-pay. If I wanted other info, I'd specifically ask for it. But that's just me.
To this day, netflix keeps asking me to confirm my email address and it keeps failing because it has a "." in it.

I've had the netflix account for years.
I write a couple of python c extensions - it would be nice if you could assume your users would be able to compile the extensions out of the box without expecting them to go install another piece of software.
I don't think ad tracking is the scary application...
> People use Gmail's tag-syntax (i.e. matt+whatever@gmail.com) to sign up for stuff all the time. Are you allowing those?

Minor nit: this is not anything Gmail invented. This is RFC 5233 -- subaddressing:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233
I guess he is restricting the domain to [1,2] in which case 1,2,1,2,1,2... is as "random" as 1,2,2,2,1,2,1,1 ...

I guess what is bothering him is the lack of entropy in the sequence.
Really? Comparing a currency exchange to murder? Do I really need to explain why that's an utterly moronic thing to say?
Expected value and millionaire's math
A link from the project's homepage to the source code in github would be great.
Having written all my simulation code in Python, and having done all the visualization for said simulations in R mainly for ggplot2 graphs, this is very exciting.
But isn't it true for a certain segment of the population. People are searching on Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, etc... These social search results have more credibility and relevance to me than vanilla results on search engines. If I use FB connect Bing does a good job of displaying results from my friends. We're still a farcry away from a unified search engine of all this data because rightfully each of these technologies want to own and monetize this data.
I agree, and I particularly agree with the point that your music is a subset of the world, and this back one more is the music store. My original thought on it was that you've reached the top of the hierarchy, so that button becomes free game for doing something else. If it were truly a dark pattern, it would have a back arrow and not just be a button.
Reminds me of a story I heard from a guy in mining. Some sort of furnace they used took $1m of power to heat from a cold start. So they were reluctant to ever power down.
I honestly cannot remember the brand right now, I'll try to remember to look it up when I get home, but that is many hours away!
That depends entirely on the child - my eldest is a perfectionist and hates being bad at something, the youngest is quite happy doing the activity, even if she isn't very good at it.
Or in other words, SOA is back, we just call it now "API".

Loosely coupled APIs and services is an old idea, Amazon live by it, even internally. However it is true that most enterprises failed to adopt it. And I agree with the article that companies that write every piece of functionality with API in mind, will have the upper hand in the long run. And those stuck with monolith closed systems will eventually pay a price due to inability to adapt to rapid changes.

If calling it API will convince the decision makers to provide budget for internal APIs even though no customer is paying for it directly, then I don't mind. But this is not a new idea. the problem is how to justify ROI for making your code API friendly (doesn't go without saying by the way, there is a price, of backward compatibility, documentation, decoupling etc). For most CEOs this is a waste of time unless there is a direct revenue path from it (e.g. a customer pays for it). It's hard to justify extra effort on the code to management when all you can say is: it will pay off in the long run (imagine the link to the relevant XKCD here)
Very troubling. I will not be signing up with DO.
That graph seems pretty clear to me. If anything, the way it's tilted maybe makes the Apple segment look a few percent larger than reality, but certainly not enough to get upset about. Not to mention that they clearly label the segments with actual percentages.

"I have a feeling, this is just the tip of the ice-berg." A little over-dramatic at the end there.
I'm actually about to shift my workflow in a major way to include more movement. Already use an adjustable desk, standing in the morning and sitting in the evening. And when I'm on calls, I always use a headset and walk-n-talk.
The startup that I work for is considering moving its office from SF to Oakland due to a rent increase. My boss asked how I would feel about that. I said, "That's fine, as long as the new office isn't in a sketchy neighborhood." His response? "There are no sketchy neighborhoods in Oakland." The denial that some (otherwise intelligent) people live with is amazing.
I guess I could see your interpretation, but it requires that you ignore all of the context of the paper. For instance, you take distribution to equal histogram. This may make sense in some contexts, but here it's absolutely not true; the values are supposed to be taken independently from some probability distribution.

Pro tip: if you think you've spotted a major problem in the first line of an abstract, maybe give the author the benefit of the doubt. Especially if you're not familiar with the field.
I just had my email address rejected by a validator, I expect because it was a user@thing.thing2.domain format - and yes, that company lost a customer, because it punted them into 'meh, can't be bothered'.
I think I am in the wrong profession...perhaps one with a Union can help increase my salary/benefits.
Users that send bug reports are your biggest fans. Cherish that
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Admittedly skimmed this once I saw it is a list of "remedies" that will, unfortunately, never happen.
Coming from Canada, I find it amazing that 30% of the top 25 salaries are related to athletics. Really goes to show how important sports are in the US.
Can somebody please comment on what the risks (security, legal or other) are for a service provider that prevent them from at least giving the customer his/her data back?
David Nolen on core.async
Previous submission (no comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6537381
I want to call particular attention to the author's point about Apple's pie chart.

Not only is Apple's pie chart used for telling lies here, I would argue that all pie charts are used for telling lies.

The only thing a pie chart gives you is it tells you that everything in a category adds up to 100%. It doesn't tell you what 100% is, or why 100% is good, or bad, or let you compare across charts, or set goals.

You can accomplish this same thing with a bullet graph, developed by Stephen Few. You make a bar chart, then put a line through it to represent your goal (or 100%). Then, it's simple to compare multiple categories and model very complex information in a simple to understand way.

So remember this: The next time you see a pie chart, know that someone is lying or trying to appear more impressive than they actually are.

The worst part about this particular way of graphing information is that it's so ingrained in our culture (it's taught in Kindergarden), that people don't even understand that they're lying, even when they are.
But if you use it for yourself and you pay a fair amount, say production+shipping+administration, you are not really making a benefit.
I think Google Search is quite relevant, because it aggregates information from all of these sources. You don't have to think about which site would give you the best search results for a given query; Google does that for you.
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I think that probably depends a lot on where you work, and your seniority - in Spain a senior developer or project manager that changed jobs yearly would have a harder time finding work than one who showed more loyalty to his/her company.
They work on razor thin margins so they shoot first and ask questions later. They don't have the resources to provide top notch customer service or investigate in depth, or prices would be much higher.

So you get what you pay for, I wouldn't move my money making sites to a service like that.
Why did healthcare.gov's source code mysteriously vanish from public view?
The idea of property as legitimate is pretty much arbitrary - others have indeed come out on the other side of the fence: Considering the enforcement of property rights to land akin to theft (e.g. Proudhon) or illegitimate use of force, on the simple premise that it deprives others of use of a shared resource.

The libertarian fetish for accepting the use of force to protect one arbitrary artificial construct as somehow critical to liberty, while rejecting the use of force to protect other artificial constructs strikes me at the same time as deeply comical, and ridiculously hypocritical on the other.
We should know where our tax dollars are going, but I don't really see the problem with anonomizing the data - at least for the bottom 95% of earners. There are also aspects of government spending which would be way more interesting to me (and way more likely to be evidence of corruption) than how much my neighbor the train mechanic makes.
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Their Acrylic plate upsell is using a pretty dark pattern.

It's labeled "Uncheck this box if you DO NOT require a set of Acrylic Number Plates" and comes pre-checked.
Ask HN: Carpooling to Startup School 2013?
Is anyone carpooling to the event Saturday?

For riders, here's a Google form to submit your request:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r6LaI2snX-05mEIFSm8I9rurbOoXwpWrIoD919Cuklk/viewform

For drivers, here are responses from the form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak3Y-RxtxPHjdGZITzFCNnN1Y0RVTUJpOWlKZmwteFE&usp=sharing

Drivers can contact riders through the rider's HN profile (please put email there if you want to be contacted) via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=<username>.
>"(1) an abstract is just a sketch of the entire paper contents."

That is not an excuse for containing a bogus definition without a warning, especially in the abstract which is the first thing that you read to tell if the paper is interesting enough to look it in depth.
I think it's this facet of Bitcoin that's going to end up causing problems in the not too distant future. There will be an ever increasing number of "trapped" coins, BTC that belongs to someone who has abandoned it leaving it unused and thereby lowering the liquidity of the currency.

A potential solution would be to incorporate demurrage, which gradually reduces the value of currency the longer it's held, into the BTC algorithms. Essentially by encouraging the holders of a currency to use that currency you'd a) create a more fluid market and b) remove trapped value in some fixed amount of time. If you wanted to maintain a pool of BTC for a long time you'd simply cycle it between two addresses faster than the decay rate so that it's value wouldn't decay.
Why do their names have to be listed if they're just a mechanic or whatever? Why not strip the names unless they are in some kind of leadership role?
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> Don't these people want to grow? Aren't the curious as to what else is out there?

In the world of work? Not in the slightest.

I'd love to be a mathematician, or cryptographer, or pilot. But I don't have the mindset or qualifications and never will have. In that case, best to just slog away during the day and 'grow' outside work.
Perhaps she retired and was awarded the value of her accrued vacation time?
They print the money, we get the left overs! Trickle down!
This strikes me as likely to be just a delayed propagation of the increase in upward mobility seen in the post-war years. It seems entirely reasonable for that to take a couple of generations of people building on their parent's wealth accumulation to propagate upwards to the very top.

How many of those people's success could you trace back to the GI bill? Gates' father attended university because of it, for example.
I did my PhD in such a group and was able to put up with Igor Pro for a couple of years, before going over to python+matplotlib. Igor does contain some nice ideas, and can certainly produce great plots, but the scripting language is so arcane and inconsistent that I just couldn't take it. At least back then there was no way around it.
Some sites that use Paypal also have a form field for where to direct to upon successful purchase. Sometimes this page has a link to download the product you're meant to be purchasing.
This is a low res version of the original data, because of limitations of webgl.
If you want to see the making of, as well as the full res pointcloud (over 300 millions!!!), check out this video:

Mapping the impossible: http://youtu.be/jh4kRatBNkk
Just setting up my twttr
I don't think any laws were violated, and I understand the oversight justification in general. However, I find this salary data is fairly specific, when compared to other budget/spending data released by cities and school districts (at least my local ones). I'd actually prefer much more detail on non-payroll spending, particularly with public spending on sub-contracted companies.
I don't know, I think the point of the article was to show that the uber-wealthy of America is more of a meritocracy than most think.

While that's somewhat true, the fact remains that almost all of the people on that list might not be there if they weren't born into at least the upper middle class. They took advantage of the privileges given to them, so it's not like they don't deserve it. But there are likely those from poverty and the lower middle class who work their ass off setting up businesses in things they have access to, mainly restaurants/stores, and only ever move into the upper middle class as hard as they try and as gifted/intelligent as they may be.
To save people from looking, it has been changed to;

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To operate servers for commercial purposes. However, personal, non-commercial use of servers that complies with this AUP is acceptable, including using virtual private networks (VPN) to access services in your home and using hardware or applications that include server capabilities for uses like multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, and home security.
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wowsa. how does that 1 station agent make 42k more than any other?
It depends, the London transport network is priced according to which zones you want to travel within.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx
Can't wait to see where this goes. Looks like an excellent start. Actually, I hope Apple wanted this to happen. Hack on my man, Hack on!
How about both?

An engineer on the payroll of NSA, and then stupidity on the part of whoever signed off on the commit?
While I may not discount the search for "opinions" has passed Google by I think the search for information with Google is still quite relevant. Google does a pretty good job with indexing SO, Yelp, and Wikipedia that nearly always my top 3 results are a link to one of those site for a question that I would generally find on those sites.
Part of the argument here is that if government regulation has created artificial scarcity...

Is NIMBY-ism "government regulation"?
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In iOS 7 ad tracking is at the first level of the Privacy section.
RC4 was first used as a mitigation for the BEAST blockwise-adaptive attack on CBC-with-chained-IVs from SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, and then again as a mitigation for the "Lucky 13" timing-based CBC padding oracle that remains a problem in TLS 1.2 when block ciphersuites are used.
Exactly. Always be looking around, networking, keeping up with trends in local companies and salaries. Be proactive and don't assume your current job will be there tomorrow.
Its actually fairly interesting technology. A while ago (years?) there was a post about a graphics engine which provided unlimited detail. You could literally zoom from 50,000 feet down to observe a single blade of grass. That technology is still to do anything but the demo's are impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/user/EuclideonOfficial
Specialized search is what it is, specialized. Google actually supports that, but it does involve a slight effort.

For example:

How was the finale of Breaking Bad?

Twitter:https://twitter.com/search?q=How%20was%20the%20finale%20of%2...

Google:https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Are+people+ab...

Are people able to finally login to GTA Online?

Twitter( had to shorten the string => more effort ):
https://twitter.com/search?q=login%20GTA%20Online&src=typd&f...

Google:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Are+people+ab...

Google seems to be doing just fine IMO.
I don't think Rails or Angular dev is "a niche".
As with so many other computer disaster stories, the moral of this one is, always keep backups. Even if your data lives in the cloud, you still need off-line backups.
Jeff Speck: The walkable city [video]
Systemic weight loss:

Find a thing you like doing that happens to involve a lot of body motion. Ideally, find multiple things, so that if one stops for whatever reason you're still doing the others. But it can be hard to find that kind of time and energy.

Walk/cycle whenever possible. (You may need to move if you live in the car-oriented suburbs.)

Start thinking of the entire world as a gym. See a low-hanging branch of a tree? Try doing some pull-ups.
By "illegal" do you mean "criminal"? Because a wrong that is redressable through civil rather than criminal process is still illegal under the normal definition of the word.
Had Google actually taken action against anyone hosting a server? I guess this is more of a T&C clarification than anything else, i.e they would of not actually taken action against non-commercial servers anyway.
Yes it's indeed visual. Is the visualization insightful? no.
Out of curiosity, why is there a prohibition on a particular type of activity and not just on bandwidth or similar? I understand that this is a fairly common provision, and not specific to Google Fiber at all.
Having gone up and down this problem a number of times it is my opinion that the only way to truly evaluate email address validity is with a fairly elaborate state-machine based approach that provides you with feedback as to what is wrong in order to decide how to deal with it (or not). Here's one example:

https://github.com/dominicsayers/isemail

The regex's floating around out there are horrible.

Validating email addresses doesn't necessarily mean that you affect the user's experience. I think of it as an opportunity to avoid losing a potential customer due to a silly mistake. One such example would be a one page sign-up site where you are trying to collect the email addresses of those interested in your offering. In this context it is important to try and catch errors. You have a visitor who wants to keep in touch with you. He or she mistypes the email address. If you don't detect it you might lose them forever.

Granted, all errors are not detectable. If someone types jeo@example.com vs. joe@example.com there's precious little you can do about it in terms of automated detection.

You can accept obviously bad email addresses, store them in your database and simply tag them as such. This is where ML or human intervention might be able to fix the problem or choose to discard it. Email list pollution can be dealt with in other ways, for example, if you use this list to reach out to prospective customers bad emails will simply bounce.

In the end what is important is to avoid losing real potential customers as much as possible. I think a little software-based verification along with giving the user the opportunity to catch the mistake is enough. All the junk easily falls though the cracks of a multi-stage filter after the fact.
That's exactly what happened. She had been employed for 21 years and accrued that much PTO over that period.

http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/07/24/barts-golden...
Point is, the more fulfilling job often requires much longer hours which certainly do cut into parent-child time. Remember, when highly successful people are asked "if you had it to do over, what would you do differently?" one of the most frequent answers is "spend more time with my children."
True, I guess in my case I don't care to search in a social context.

I just never found twitter results any more relevant than google.
Here's the list I think:
https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites
This is similar to Atlanta, which is considered a "car centric" city.

Our Public transportation system "MARTA" only operates fully throughout two counties in our metro area. The reason for this is that many citizens in the suburbs are afraid of what will happen if they provide easy access for urban "characters" that are presumed to be "bad or unsavory" because they cant afford a car. (I live in one such county)

Every time there are talks of expanding MARTA (train or bus lines) to other counties people come out in protest.