skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo.

Bill Gate entered the upper class based on birth. His own efforts brought him yet higher. But Bill Gates proves exactly nothing about how hard working people move into the upper class, because he never ever did so himself.
Sundeep was almost immediately hostile to the support people. While DO clearly could do a better job communicating to him, he's not helping himself with his attitude. Support folks often do not have the privilege to go off-script and make a positive difference for a customer, but they can always stick closely to the script and "regret any inconvenience" while being unhelpful, which is what I see here.
You're being an ass: If you are in an elevator, there is a button to call the agent. This is THE ONLY BUTTON to all the agent. When you are in a confined room with an infant and a 2 year old and the space is covered in piss and god-knows what else - it is perfectly appropriate to us that button to complain about the hygiene, cleanliness and SAFTEY of that space.

In the event of an overdosing homeless person outside the elevator upon arriving to the platform level, it is again appropriate - and to demand that BART keep these services not only functional - but at a level of accepted cleanliness should not be some ridiculous request.

>It's a public transportation service, not your personal train. Hop off your horse, get in line with the rest of us and shut up, or go on Craigslist and buy a car, for crying out loud. You're a technologist. You can afford one.
And you thought Zuckerberg was bad.

The cavalier attitude towards privacy that pervades the field of genomics is deeply troubling to me. From the article: "23andMe's privacy statement clearly states that it collects a person's genetic, registration, web browsing, and self-reported information. The company can share its data with third parties '[after] it has been stripped of Registration Information and combined with data from a number of other users sufficient to minimize the possibility of exposing individual-level information while still providing scientific evidence.'"

Having read that, consider that "a team of geneticists reported Thursday in the journal Science that it was able to figure out the names of people who had donated their DNA to research -- even though test subjects' identities were stripped from their genomic data." (Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/18/science/la-sci-sn-ge...)

Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andme, is married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. It doesn't seem entirely implausible that the two companies could have joint business ventures down the road. I wonder how valuable "anonymized" genomic sequences would be to advertisers.
For Samsung, all roads lead away from Android
We're wasting time trying to convince hacker789 of anything. Check his comment history - it's like a work of art. He just repeats the same drivel on this topic.
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Awakening the Fire of The Soul
I booked tickets to Hong Kong for $40
This is great news. Although I doubt they would crack down on people running some low traffic servers for personal use either way, it's good that it is officially clarified.
The website looks like amateur hour. The service relates somehow to health AND ancestry, AND to keep updated on DNA science.

Spaghetti on the wall, with poor execution. People invested $126 million in this? The emperor has no clothes.
We just implemented perfect forward secrecy for https://commando.io this weekend on all of our nginx web servers (https://medium.com/devops-programming/78e1acd80228). The only thing we don't implement is OCSP stapling. How much of a security and performance increase is there to gain with it?
Very possible. I was in the same boat as parent - I set up my all of my school's lab computers to mine. Ended up with quite a lot of BTC, which I didn't bother backing up since they weren't worth anything at the time. Needless to say when BTC bubbled I was kicking myself.
So are Google, Apple, Microsoft and Wolfram Labs.
That makes me wonder if they'll come up with names for fractional bitcoins just because people hate dealing with decimals.
Director of ‘The Fifth Estate’ responds to Julian Assange's attacks
Of course, "daily exercise" may have simply included what amounts to a long walk, no? Not everything was heavily labor based. Certainly not year long.

More, if you go far enough back (not actually that far, frighteningly) and things like "respect for the life of others" drops out rather sharply.

So.... what, exactly, is the lesson here? My takeaway is that rose colored glasses can make even some of the most horrid of conditions (human history), somehow look good. Me? I'll take the present where I have a reasonable expectation that my kids will not die before me. By a long shot.
> You're being an ass:

Call someone a pretentious jerk but get it back and suddenly that person's an ass. Got it.

> This is THE ONLY BUTTON to all the agent.

That button contacts BART police dispatch in some cases because stations do not always have operators. Particularly in my old home station, I've seen people use it and communicate with someone while the station agent was not in the kiosk. That's the expectation around something labeled "emergency." Give me your pager number so I can page you at 2am to complain about reading your comment.

Do you ever listen to yourself? Seriously, I was being brutally honest. Your comment ranks among the most pretentious and awful I've ever read on HN, and I received a link to it in an e-mail thread where the subject was you. There is no plane of existence where anything you have typed in this thread is normal, rational human behavior.

Do you have any idea what would happen if you pulled this stunt on the New York subway? NYPD would probably paralyze you with a night stick for abusing resources while New Yorkers recorded it with their cell phones. And I've stepped around human shit in the stairwell in New York. And you know what? I don't care! I didn't rage! I didn't vent on HN! I accepted that bad things happen in the world and who gives a flying fuck, and went on my day without sparing two brain cycles except laughing about it later. Who cares? Keep on clenching and frothing at the mouth over every little inconvenience and you're going to die by 50. Relax.

It's public transportation. It's going to be bad. Universally. That's the rule. Wake up into reality, carry hand sanitizer, and focus on things that actually matter. If you're worried about your kids seeing a homeless person because oh no think of their precious beliefs and ideals, drive them where they need to go. Come on. You're better than this.
Agree, for me is easier to quickly find answers going directly to chrome's url/search bar, type my query and find the answer either in SO or Wikipedia. Even though SO and Wikipedia's search engine are good, they certainly aren't better than Google's, and yes, they're great information resources but they are not the whole Internet, maybe 15-20% of the time I find answers somewhere else.
Ask HN: How should I learn about cybersecurity?
Beyond knowing how to implement SSL on my websites, my knowledge of cybersecurity is extremely shallow ... I feel worse than ever about this lack in wake of the Snowden leaks.

Where should I start and how should I proceed? In particular, what are some programming exercises I should do to understand cybersec better?
The world is different and has been for years. Nobody gives a shit about your family or community... That's a quaint notions hat died with ethnic/religious neighborhood blocs.

NYC is a great example -- millions of people fled the high costs and hassles of living in the city to Long Island, New Jersey and upstate. Companies did too -- there were 10,000 factories in NYC in 1969 and something like 500 in 1999. My family moved from Queens to a town 100 miles north in the bad old days (late 80s) when the principal of the middle school that I was heading to had his car firebombed.

San Francisco's situation is more nimby than NYC. People discover it and love it, but want to close the door for the next guy. As long as times are good, it's a winning strategy. When times turn bad, it will get really bad, just as it did in the 80s in NYC.
"A good directive is not application specific" is a very generalist statement. You should encapsulate DOM manipulation in a directive, so even if it's not as reusable as ng-repeat, if you have to manipulate the DOM it's the way to go as well.
I can see the attraction. Actually, I think it is a good idea. We should do it in the UK too ... although people are traditionally a bit weird about money here, so I can't see it happening.
this'll be useful for people who do not have their own site,
where they can put files in a password-protected directory.

-bowerbird
Getting Your SMS Apps Ready for KitKat
Oh man, you'll hate this: http://salary.sanjoseca.gov/salary/
> If you are in an elevator, there is a button to call the agent. This is THE ONLY BUTTON to all the agent.

The emergency call button is the only button to call the agent because the only reason to call the agent is to report an emergency.

> it is perfectly appropriate to us that button to complain about the hygiene, cleanliness and SAFTEY of that space.

No, its not. It is appropriate (and more likely to be effective) to complain about non-emergency problems of this type by other mechanisms, but it is neither appropriate nor effective to use the emergency call button to complain about it.

> In the event of an overdosing homeless person outside the elevator upon arriving to the platform level, it is again appropriate

Well, yes, that is an emergency.

> and to demand that BART keep these services not only functional - but at a level of accepted cleanliness should not be some ridiculous request.

The demand is not ridiculous. The use of the emergency call button to make the demand is.
As someone who owns {commonFirstName}{commonLastName}@gmail.com, I _hate_ services that don't require you to validate the e-mail address you sign up with. And there's a special place in hell reserved for people who write services which don't validate the e-mail you sign up with, but do require you to sign in with your credentials in order to unsubscribe.
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Take lisp, remove s-expressions.... what are the remaining lisp-like parts?

Ruby's smalltalk influence is pretty clear, and I guess smalltalk says it's lisp-influenced... I dunno. I am dubious that Matz started with lisp rather than smalltalk.
Scientology Has Its Own Prison Named ‘The Hole’
While reading the part where he gets into details about passion, I felt like the author uses "passion" as a substitute for "excitement".

For instance:

"I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.

The ones that didn't work out—and that would be most of them—slowly drained my passion as they failed."

I believe passion just exists. It cannot be drained. You either have or you don't. Now of course, you can discover it, after all you cannot be passionate about things you haven't experienced, but once discovered I don't believe passion can be lost. Granted though, "passion" and "enthusiasm" are synonyms, so the distinction is slightly tricky.
There are a few things I could use bitcoin for, but not enough for me to bother using bitcoin instead of other currencies right now. I hope that changes soon though.
> being poor impacts IQ simply because it becomes the mind's obsession of finding means to survive.

While that's poetic, I'm very skeptical that you could even prove that empirically.

It's much more likely (because it is empirically demonstrable) that IQ is more strongly impacted by genetics (IQ of the parents), prenatal care (especially with respect to smoking and binge drinking), and childhood (mal)nutrition. I'm not sure how you would even test "obsession with survival" controlling for those things, all of which are much more common in poverty-stricken households.

I'm not saying that worrying about the next meal isn't terrible, but I am saying that we need to make sure we're not getting our causes and effects mixed up here. We can't just emulate "middle class" advantages for poor kids and expect the playing field to be level.

In other words, it's not as simple as saying being middle class is necessary to be successful, because to some degree, having minimally successful parents is necessary to be middle class in the first place. And why are parents successful? Probably things like good impulse control, general responsibility, mental health, and innate intelligence. Many of those things have certain genetic components.

So how do we make sure every kid has a fair shake at being rich? I'm not sure there's a good answer to that since it seems like so many of your cards are dealt in who your parents are. If you're really worried about it, I suggest you support substance-abuse recovery programs and food banks. Keeping kids healthy, well-fed, and free of birth defects are things we should be doing anyway.
Well, Gates' mother and father may not have gotten together at all were it not for his father making something of himself with the help of the GI bill, so it's definitely somewhat involved. It's not clear from internet searching if William Gates I was wealthy or just had a pretentious approach to naming his kids, so it could be that he'd have gone to university anyway.

That said I wasn't trying to point to it as the sole contributing factor for Bill Gates, just one of many that may play a part in the overall trend and noting that one of the most obvious has it in his family's history.
>It's nice to get so much loan and grant money for a few years of dossing.

Blanket statements like this make my blood boil. I worked incredibly hard for my education. And, when I did it I thought it was expensive. Since I graduated the UK government tripled tuition twice in four years. To be precise, the UK government allowed universities to triple tuition twice in four years. And believe me, most if not all of the universities in the Russell Group did indeed triple their tuition fees. The students that get the student loan help from the government now may be potentially facing a lifetime of debt, unable to pay off their loans before they retire. "Great," I hear you say, "When you retire, your student loan is written off." While at first glance this may seem appealing, it's bad for the economy. The UK government made a move that works well for them in the short-term but works out extremely poorly in the long-term. And this is not accounting for the fact that the average student graduating nowadays with about 9 times more debt. I don't know which country you are from or where you were educated, but in the UK where there are almost no scholarships for higher education, graduating with £30,000 of debt must feel pretty debilitating.

Oh, and by the way, there is no 'grant' money for students. Grants where for the education of yesteryear, when students didn't have to pay back the help they received from the government. It's depressing to think that the mere accident of the year of one's birth provides an entire lifetime of debt.
Ideally you would use port 587, which is the designated port for mail submission. See RFC 2476 [1].

This requires that your mail provider supports that port, of course, which is unfortunately not always the case.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt
I would prefer truthful advertisement. If they must cut down on minimum transfer rates, then that’s what the advertisement should say.

I have a general rule: Buy 250KB/s, and you get 100% of the bought speed.

Buy 1MB/s, and get 95% of the bought speed.

Buy 10MB/s, and get 80% of the bought speed.

Buy 100MB/s, and get in average around 50% of the bought speed. 25 at prime time, and 90 around 4am.

In the end, more expensive connection give you more, but each level give less proportionally bandwidth than advertised. This should be illegal. If they want to sell me 25MB/s, but at strange hours up to 100MB/s, than the advertisement should say so, plain and simple.

If you went to the gas station and only got 50% from paying for a full tank, you, me and everyone would be angry. It wouldn't matter if the gas station was "low" on gas, or if it meant that the gas station might end up with no gas left for the next customer.
On Skipping College
Agreed, pay per performance. Heck, I'd consider this as a freelancer with a scout that has high enough quality/paying connections. Most of what is suggested isn't of too much interest, but top-notch connections that are intelligently matched... well I'd pay a lot. I very much doubt too many have these niche connections, that it would scale very well, etc.
Why would you sue? You signed the lease.

Most rentals have some agreement for the tenants , terms that forbid business use , redecorating or changing furniture are fairly standard. Also in houses with multiple tenants you have to agree to share communal facilities.
Travel search is one vertical in which Google has a serious interest. In 2011, they acquired ITA Software,† which developed QPX, a widely used, Lisp-based airfare search and pricing system. They have since rolled out Google Flights, which competes rather directly with Kayak and Expedia.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
I wouldn't dream of robbing Buffet of his success - I'm describing the lengthy period of his life that occurred prior to his irrational obsession of buying a small textile company by the name of Berkshire. :)
From what I've read, I think I'll gladly take the physiology forced upon me by what hunter-gatherers were used to, over what subsistence farmers were used to.
0.0001% of 316,856,000 is 317 (after rounding partial human beings caused by mathematical division), close enough to 400.
San Jose is a bit of a paradox; it's a larger, sprawling city, but it's basically a giant suburb to some extent. It has never been a place for startups, and even most of its resident tech giants are in office parks in suburban areas away from downtown.
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you now say that simply having income at all, is good enough to be considered "profitable"

No, that's not what I said. I said people pay the Red Cross to do what it does: but the amount paid in must be at least as large as the amount spent by the Red Cross or they won't be able to continue doing what they're doing. The likelihood that, averaged over time, the amount they take in is exactly the amount they spend is miniscule. So practically speaking, they must be making a profit, in the sense of taking in more money than they spend, in order to continue functioning. (As I said, the fact that they are called a "nonprofit" is a subterfuge; they have to be making a profit in the sense of total income minus expenditure.)

You know it is very dishonest to just go around changing the meaning of words mid conversation, sir.

I did no such thing. I didn't spell out all of the above because I assumed you would be able to figure it out for yourself. Apparently I assumed wrong.

RC: Sure thing. That will be $1200. Don't worry we'll send the bill to your family.

So you missed the part where I explicitly said that people pay the Red Cross to help other people. The Red Cross does not charge the people they are actually helping. That would also be true in the hypothetical sane world I was describing: people would pay the Red Cross to help others. They just wouldn't have to lie about the Red Cross being a "nonprofit": the Red Cross could openly admit that it was taking in more money than it spent, and investing the difference in finding ways to help people better.

You know that it is very dishonest to put words in other people's mouths and accuse them of taking positions they have not taken, sir.

like this sort of sane world?

Was the local fire department a for-profit corporation? Or even a "nonprofit" like the Red Cross? Or was it, as I strongly suspect, a governmental entity? (The reason I strongly suspect that is that the city's mayor defended the fire department's action.) If it's the latter, then you are misrepresenting what happened to make it seem like it supports your position, when it actually does not. You know that it is very dishonest to do that, sir.
Plus they make it pretty clear what the tickbox is, on top of the fact that an upsell of £20 for a physically made product on top of £30k for a license is the least useful upsell in the history of selling.
Power companies do the same thing.
> How much of a security and performance increase is there to gain with it?

The time it takes to establish a TCP connection to an OCSP responder, send a query, wait for a response, parse it and close the TCP connection.

I think it's fair to say a few hundred milliseconds at the very least.
Seriously. Google searches these sites better than each site's own native search. And Google search is readily available in my Chrome browser bar on my laptop and phone, why would I take the added step of going to each site for their own inferior search?

Here's a rule... if you want to title your blog with something sweeping like "The growing irrelevance of X," you need to provide real, cited data to substantiate that claim. Just because you use Google less, doesn't mean there's a trend of doing so.
Improving the light rail so that people will actually ride it and that it actually is faster than buses will go a long way towards bettering the situation.
Up-voted a few of the others below too.

I also found this which I thought was a high quality summary: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors-can-throw.html
Wait, don't public corporations have an fiduciary duty to their shareholders, debt duty to their bond holders and payroll obligation to their employees.

To be honest, if I was a shareholder of GOOG or more likely the via fund manager of my 401K who is managing a portfolio of thousands of publicly traded companies, I could care hardly less about the company and more about their bottom-line; because the fund manager has a moral responsibility to manage the assets of the little guys /working class/teachers/firefighters - cue the TIAA-CREF feel good commercial.

IMO, this is the true banality of evil that is not talked about. There is no invisible evil man pulling the strings behind the scene, only layers of our self-interest all conveniently shielded by complex layers of capital structures and financial incentives that no one wishes to really confront the conflicts and zero-sum nature involved in it all.

I could hardly care less about corporations trying to be 'not evil' because that's a marketing gimmick. I'd rather have a company tell me how they are screwing honestly their customers, employees and shareholders; there's no shame in that because it's a given and the company would instantly gain respect for their honesty.