skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first .info domain on that list is terere.info at position #1833, and which doesn't appear to even have anything on it. (Possibly it's an ad server or analytics domain.) Next one past that is helprx.info at #1926.

Point is, .info is a very distant fourth to .com, .net, and .org.
The last sentence is the most important point of the article and probably should have been a separate article on its own:

> America’s .0001% is becoming more meritocratic, but the means of a middle class background remain a necessary launching board.

So in other words the most important aspect is to be from the middle class to be successful otherwise your chances are much less. Makes sense on many levels such as chances of personal development due to financial and psychological stability. Poverty has been in the news lately and I read an article on how being poor impacts IQ simply because it becomes the mind's obsession of finding means to survive.
Might want to go so far as to consider a treadmill when you're on your headset when you're doing your walk n talk.
I'd assume that the bad guys with guns would have attempted to spin that into a "destruction of evidence" charge or similar too.
Perhaps you don't understand the terms in context. If you looked at the distribution of your example, it would have two big spikes in it, at numbers one and two.
We do have safeguards for that sort of thing. Like there's a deadman's switch for if you disappear completely. Similar to our auto-canceling subscriptions for our premium plans: http://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel

When people derail at higher amounts we always ask them if they feel like they got that much value out of Beeminder up until the point they derailed and pretty much invariably the answer is an emphatic yes.

We totally understand that this kind of crazy lifehackery is not for everyone though. For one thing, not everyone even has the problem that we're solving, known as akrasia, or acting against one's own better judgment. We also agree that there are many better ways to hack one's habits -- if they work. Beeminder is kind of like the nuclear option if other lifehacks (like the Seinfeld calendar) don't work and you really need to just force yourself to toe the line.
If you perform civil disobedience you can and probably will get arrested. It happens all the time.

Choosing to break an unjust law doesn't mean that a judge will understand the injustice of it and let you go free, nor is there any assurance that jury would acquit you. That's what I mean when I say "there's no negotiation"

Once a police officers decides to arrest you all negotiations have ceased and they may do whatever the law tells them to, or whatever the law lets them get away with, or perhaps a bit more.
All that says is that 1,2,1,2,1,2... is a possible uniform random sequence. It is not the only such sequence, and it is a very unlikely sequence.

The notion of "distinguishible" here refers to an experiment where an algorithm can receive one of two possible inputs, with equal probability: a sequence of uniformly sampled numbers, or a sequence generated by a PRNG. If the PRNG is secure, the algorithm should output "1" when it receives the uniform sequence with (very nearly i.e. different by a negligible amount) equal probability as when it receives the PRNG's sequence. So, for example, if you test if even indexed elements are 1 and odd indexed elements are 2, and output 1 if both tests pass, then you will almost never output 1 for a uniform sequence; on the other hand, if the PRNG always and very frequently outputs 1,2,1,2,1,2... then you will always or very frequently output 1 when you get the PRNG's sequence as input, and thus your probability of outputting a 1 is greater in that case.
> One can only wish The EB will take crime more seriously.

'wish' is a good term to use here, since I don't see any other way of reducing crime in Oakland since they have no money to provide nearly enough police services, and can't really tax their residents any more since they're already financially overburdened.
I've found starting strength to be a lot of fun and very beginner friendly (apart from the overhead press anyway). I'd suggest anyone who wants to get into lifting follow it, nothing feels better than going from squatting 0 to 200 lbs in the course of a few months.
Mailgun's Shipper is like Python's Fabric for Docker Containers
But when they redirect back, isn't easy to verify the transaction?
The fact that ISPs have oversold their services and painted themselves into a corner with misleading, if not downright false advertising is entirely their problem. Get a law passed and let them whine about it and then deal with it.
I do think that Google becomes paradoxically less useful as it gets more effective, but not because other websites are displacing it. I'll use a personal anecdote to explain what I mean, though I acknowledge that not everyone shares my situation.

In college, I used Google for 90% of my assigned research papers. I would rattle off questions, fetch some quotes and start synthesizing them into my writing. The other 10% of the time, I had professors who required book sources and sometimes ask me to bring the books to class.

Retrieving book sources always seemed like a pain in the ass. It required the labor of traveling to the campus library, finding a call #, etc. But a certain perk went along with all that labor: I was much more strategic and deliberate in my research. When you don't have an instant answer machine at your finger tips, you have to plot your course more carefully.

Interestingly, in my case, I spent about the same amount of time doing library research as I did using Google, even though Google should have been much faster in theory.

I was very impulsive and non-strategic in how I used Google to gather information. This is my shortcoming, of course, but I think Google enables it - more so as it becomes faster and more effective in returning information.
People are talking about this because previously the problem didn't directly affect them. When you make $120k/year and all of a sudden the guys making $60k/year are priced out of the market you feel bad but you can't directly relate. When in turn you get priced out of the market (as is happening in many SF neighborhoods), all of a sudden you feel treated unfairly, and start complaining about how you were once part of the fabric of the neighborhood:)

I can actually see it both ways, but you have to accept or reject the argument in it's entirety instead of setting some artificial cap for how much you have to earn to be able to live in SF, which is essentially what's happening today.

And by the way this is a poor free-market argument. If this was a free-market, regulatory actors would act rationally from an economic perspective and allow construction of as many new units as the market can bare.
There are trillions of satoshis total, so even if most of them are lost there should still be billions left for people to use. By analogy, a certain amount of the world's gold has been lost but people still use it as a store of value.
I do google search to find SO and wiki links and don't understand what this fellow is talking about.
As I said, I am not even saying remove the "Profession, Salary" fields. Just the names for most people.

When someone digs through the data and sees the cook being paid that much, perhaps they start to ask their government some questions.

Or come up with any other criteria for whose name gets released. Just don't make everybody's name visible by default because you're fearful of the nepotistic chef scenario...
I heard speculation that some ATMs were technically capable of recording the serial numbers of bills that they dispense to a particular customer (via OCR) and that some bill accepters used by banks or currency exchangers were capable of doing the same. Since modern ATMs already have quite sophisticated OTR on the input side -- I've found them very accurate lately at recognizing even sloppy handwriting on checks -- this is quite plausible technologically. It's not clear to me whether governments would ask cash-handling businesses to do this kind of bill-tracking today, and whether they'd expect to learn interesting things from it. (I'd imagine most bills participate in several cash transactions in between bank deposits.)
Surprised this didn't already exist.
The thing is that anywhere in your code where you are doing something which involves hashing data to create a digest for some purpose you are almost certainly attempting to do something a bit clever (I'm going to map the problem from the domain of entities to a domain of proxies for entities that are smaller and easier to deal with. I'll just deal with the special cases...). And if you're making a decision to use Murmur2 in that role, you're probably trying to be very clever. Whenever a programmer tries to do something clever, in my experience, there is something they haven't thought about. Often the something they haven't thought about leads to a security vulnerability.

The fact is it's often difficult to tell the difference between a place where the security properties of the digest algorithm you use are irrelevant, and a place where it might be critical. For example, a zip file uses a CRC32 checksum to validate each file; git uses SHA1 to uniquely identify objects; CouchDB shard mapping uses a strategy based on CRC32... if git had used murmur, would that cause problems for it? Is CouchDB being clever by using a fast hash for sharding at the expense of being secure?

Now, quick, make a decision which algorithm to use to generate Etag headers for your web API HTTP response entities: are you going to go with SHA256 or Murmur2? Murmur2 is much faster, and it's certainly a clever solution... but are you sure you didn't create a security hole?

I'm not saying "nobody ever got fired for choosing SHA256," but I am kind of saying that you have to be very sure you know the security model you're operating in before you build on a hash algorithm that doesn't provide strong extension and preimage resistance.
In the same way that Olive Garden falsely advertises Unlimited Soup Salad and Bread Sticks when they prevent you from stocking your food truck with their "unlimited" items.
But urban centers are where everyone IS. Its where connections happen and where people are mutually drawn, even if their address doesn't say they live there. The opportunities for a wider range of connections and possibilities are what breathe life into a city--what has allowed San Francisco to make the transition away from industry as gracefully as it has.
Manhattan is the nucleus of New York. San Francisco is the nucleus of the Bay Area. If you lose that center, you end up with the nonsense sprawl that is LA. No common place for people to meet and come together. No way to rationalize or prioritize transit and other public needs.
The solution doesn't have to be subsidized housing. Better public transit allows people to reside further away and still have access to the city's opportunities, and gives everyone more mobility. But if it is becomes impossible for new people and young people to access the city because of pricing or traffic, how can San Francisco continue to flourish? Places change, but ensuring they change in a positive direction takes hard work and intention.
Here's an experiment: Get a random set of pie charts without labels on them. Get a large group of people. Now get those people to go through the pie charts and add what % of the pie chart they think each slice represents.

Now, get a set of bar charts and do the same thing.

In both experiments time the participants. You'll need two groups, a group that knows they're being timed and one that doesn't know.

What group was more accurate? What group was able to complete the exercise faster?

Here's a side by side of the same information in these two different forms: http://speakingppt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/stephen-fe...

The reason that using pie charts is, in and of itself, a dark pattern is because the results of this experiment support bar charts as a more concise, more easily understood way of communicating information. In other words, the only real reason you'd use a pie chart is to obfuscate information. Or, well... to lie. If you're just using it because you don't know better, then you're negligent and misleading people without even knowing it.
Ease of use is definitely one factor which looks important, but also remember that there is an added cost of the device as well as a possible recurring cost as someone is doing some work to make your device available on the internet. This added cost might be a deterrent for people who are concerned about privacy but still not too concerned. I am just wondering if a mass adoption is at all possible ? I understand that there will be people who understand the system well enough to need such thing.
That's b.s. There are YouTube videos I watch recreationally that I don't necessarily want to attach to my public identity.
I got the chance to meet Patrick Chung at Stanford once. If he says that's what 23andme can become, I honestly believe it. He showed incredible insight into startups and emerging markets when I met him.
For what it's worth, I'm desperately trying to switch to Duck Duck Go, and so annoyingly often I have to go back to google. In the end, that tells me google is still the most relevant search than the next best non creepy alternative.
A huge one that was omitted, questions of the class: how much does this thing cost? Is this thing any good? What's the best X I can buy?

Amazon.
Engineers: How much would you pay me to be your talent agent?
I'm a tech recruiter. The system is obviously broken, and many people have thrown around the idea of somebody representing them. A technical talent agent if you will.

So how much would you be willing to pay to get those services?

Here is what I would imagine doing:

Career advice: helping you make job choices based on your goals. Connecting you with more senior engineers to help you figure out what you want to do.

Presenting you with potential companies you may have overlooked.

Fielding all incoming recruiting emails/calls

Interview Prep. Walking your through each step.

Performing due diligence on company's financials

Interviewing past employees for reference checks. Check for crazy turnover or horrible bosses.

Negotiating your salary

Making sure you don't get screwed on equity

Follow up: make sure the job is what they said it would be.
Yep. I looked into Bitcoin when it first came out and I predicted that it would fail. Satoshi's paper never mentioned the emergent pyramid-scheme social dynamics...
I'm speaking from a perspective of working in the US which I should have clarified. Over here loyalty doesn't seem to matter much anymore. It's all about making money.
Computational Journalism on a Stick v1.5.0
Come to think of it, I've never looked at inbound stuff. You'd think outbound would be where all the spam problems come from, though.
I recently spent some time in SF for the first time, coming from Seattle, and I was amazed to find that the transit is barely on par with Seattle's (which is not a compliment) despite the fact that SF is a much denser, more urban city. Bart is a joke- there's a single line within the actual city.
Do some math. According to Wikipedia the population of the USA is 316,856,000. The 0.0001% of the population is 31685 after removing partial human beings caused by mathematical division. If the Forbes 400 list is used as a sample space for the rest of the 0.0001% then the numbers seem plausible. Note that I'm just playing "mathematician" and I haven't analyzed the 400 people in the list or did anything deeply scientific.
Imagine if cars were sold this way:

"Unlimited high-speed Italian sports-car, leases starting at only $250/mo! <ultra-fine-print>By the way, we're also giving keys to your neighbors, and if you drive the car too often we're going to deactivate your copy of the keys</ultra-fine-print>"
That is absolutely wrong. The middle class got richer.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q83NyGTLock/UekhmnoX4tI/AAAAAAAABc...
Kansas, Okie State tie atop Big 12 coaches' vote
<tin foil hat>
Is it plausible that the NSA chose to leak enough "hints" that lead to apparently-independent discovery of things like BEAST and M-t-E, making reverting to older and known-broken cyphers like RC4 seem to be "the correct pragmatic decision" (quite possibly seeding those discussions with ideas that lead even completely innocent open source developers to choose and justify why they've just baked crypto that's completely vulnerable to un(publicly)known NSA exploits)?

(It's a little hard these days to know what's a "paranoid fantasy", what's an "interesting cypherpunk plot", and what's "a realistic and/or confirmed NSA threat" - at least for me…)
This is very far from exercise but it might feel to you as exercise and an increase of movement because your perspective on the physical abilities of the average human is skewed. One astonishing thing I've learned while becoming more active is what a normal body is really capable of without going into the realm of professional athletes. Running a marathon with a slow pace is really feasible. So is lugging a 15-20kg backpack for 35-40km per day for about a month or rock climbing/bouldering in the lower difficulties. To achieve either of it you wont need a very hard exercise regimen either, rather persistence.

Please don't take this as personal criticism. I just find it important to point out that there is a huge gap between what people unfamiliar with sport perceive as achievements and what actually are achievements. Just put in 4 hours of running and 4 hours of climbing per week and you will see for yourself.

Edit: Or I just failed to see the sarcasm in your post. Entirely possible :)
Yes, and because of the rampant age and sex and racial discrimination in technology, they're history by the time they're 35 just like an athlete.
Any can fit
It was high enough to demotivate me from checking again.
why not 4, 4, 4, 4, 4,... ;)

obligatory: http://xkcd.com/221/
Wow. That's a really cool site.
It's certainly not a great solution, but I practice 'clean room' browsing, by using one browser where I log in to services like GMail, and one browser for anonymous stuff.
Wait, isn't this the service that encrypted all the user's data to a key encrypted with the user's passphrase?

And now the NSA wants his users' keys, and presumably has the encrypted versions (and the data encrypted to them, too).

Now we're all going to log in and give them the missing puzzle piece so that they can decrypt the keys and then decrypt the messages?

That doesn't make much sense now, does it?
Think twice before you send: This app can save Snapchats forever
How The Ridiculous Government Shutdown Could Be A Boon To Startups
The Store button actually ignores touches for even longer than the animation delay, specifically to avoid accidental presses.
I'm not arguing that urban density is less efficient, but that the increased capacity would simply be filled with more high-paid workers. The city would have to throw up a ton of housing projects to have an effect on the median housing costs. IMHO it would be better to spend that money transforming the transportation and public education systems...
Operating in a larger infrastructure where various components are set in stone and/or not available to them? In a shared hosting esque environment (granted they almost all have PHP by default) it is not impossible to imagine a situation such as this.
Seriously, a train comes literally every 15 minutes and takes 15 minutes to get to the Mission. If you get stuck there after 12:30 it's only a $50 cab ride bike across the bridge.
One nit-pick, isolate scopes (that is where you do `scope: { 'property': '=' }) are not the only (or even the best) way to bind data to a directive. In fact if you look at the AngularJS internals it's pretty much never used and instead they just use the current scope (whatever scope that directive is declared in).

This can be done by calling `$scope.$watch(attrs.myBinding)` directly with expression values passed in through element attributes. If necessary `scope: true` can be used create a child scope that inherits from the current scope. This is a good idea if your directive uses it's own controller. However this isn't necessary for most simple directives.

An isolated scope does exactly that, creates a scope for the directive completely isolated from the prototype chain of the containing scope (and thus the application's scope). This is used for complex directives like ng-repeat that need to create and expose their own scopes with the templates that you put inside the repeat blocks.

I know I initially fell into the trap of using isolate scopes to solve this problem. After looking through Angular's own directives for examples I learned other approaches.

I'm not sure exactly what the considered best practices are here (because there is almost no detail on issues like this in the documentation) but at least basing it off how the Angular core team builds their own directives I would suggest avoiding isolate scopes unless scope isolation is specifically necessary.
Thoughts on doing agile well and how to spot when you're doing it badly
If you block 25 outbound, people's mail clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) could not deliver mail to servers that don't run SSL or TLS (465, 587)
The Tri-Valley is quite nice, but don't tell or everyone will want to move here.
Wow - I'm a lot less interested in the BART strike and more inspired about the idea that news stories and their source data will be published as github projects. This is an amazing concept. I can fork this "story" and edit it to my liking, add different analyses, commentary, etc. I could combine the data with other data - all without bothering the author. I can also verify the data, amend it, etc (which is a little risky).

But overall, the idea of an interactive news story in git is one of the best things I've seen so far this decade.
The Economy: Under New (Cooperative) Ownership
See also https://github.com/nixme/jazz_hands for a collection of these in one. :)
An Interesting iOS App Store Upgrade Example
All the points you make are excellent. I've always leaned to the 'greedy' regex, but never thought to articulate exactly why. http://www.radiumcrm.com
Could it be based on the hiring salary?

If structured as pay for performance, I can imagine it being quite popular.
Sounds Like Not Even Paul Graham Is Sure WTF to Do About Hacker News
Yeah, why don't they expose a way to download your encrypted data, along with source code to show how to decrypt it?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/computers-big-data...
Looks great - going to give it a try tomorrow.

I'd love to hear about how you made it, did you generate any of the elisp with another program?
Lots of ISPs does this. They require you to relay via their SMTP-server.
I'd summarize this as 'Some guy prefers to find answers on twitter'.

I, on the other hand, personally never use twitter. So I guess that evens things out for Google. Larry can sleep easy now.
Snapchat hands over some unopened messages to law enforcement
I find myself using reddit more for its search function rather than for general browsing. If I have a certain question I need answered or need advice about really anything, it's very likely that 5 other people already asked the same question before. Plus, it appears to be a much more effective way to cut out the junk results from Google and give more honest and straightforward answers.
That used to be true for me & DDG, but it's happening less & less. In fact, a couple of days ago, I found a situation where Google's search results were pretty much useless, while DDG got me what I wanted. I was looking for lyrics to a song. There was some site claiming to be a lyrics search engine that appeared to have SEO'd their way to the top of Google, so a Google search for lyrics got me to ... another search engine. But DDG got me the lyrics.

Also, we should note that DDG's "!g" syntax means you never have to deal with Google's search box.
For some it exists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JENdgiAPD6c