skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you get the 'tradeoff' part. At least I don't seem to be clearly communicating my thoughts on the matter.

You are suggesting that the configuration that is best for you is best for everyone and therefore is the best for Apple. But that isn't necessarily true. I don't doubt that it would be the best for you -- that is what you want. But don't assume that your preference is best for everyone or for Apple itself.

It is the nature of tradeoffs that you can't satisfy everyone 100% with a single configuration or even several configurations.

You think that additional memory is the better tradeoff. OK, some quick googling shows 1GB of DDR3 memory might be about $10 wholesale (I found $16 retail). So if you are going to sell 70 million tablets (that is the number of iPads sold in the past year), going from 1Gb to 2Gb is roughly a $700 million decision (per/year) and that assumes stable memory prices (they aren't) so your decision might cost more than that (or less). And you've now cut into your power budget for all future products.
I am the author - this is a detailed analysis of the gems used in the 2013 Rails Rumble. It ends up being a snapshot of gem popularity and trends. A lot of surprises in here, at least for me.
$400 interest on a $600, 2-year loan is not a rate you want to be paying.
Breaking The Code: Android
First results from the LUX Dark Matter Detector rule out low mass candidates
This highlights a major function of the mobile operators: retail store support.

I know people want to think of the carrier network as a dumb pipe, but the carriers have major investments in customer support. This means creating training for their sales reps only on the devices they're selling

Occasionally you'll find some rockstar in a retail store that can help you troubleshoot your non-carrier phone, but those people tend are the exception. Many of the retail reps do cargo-cult support. They try to stay within the boundaries of their training. This isn't terribly surprising- It's all downside if they try to fix your problem and accidentally break your phone. There isn't going to be much sympathy from either the customer or management if they screw up.

This results in little to no support for off-carrier mobiles.
The Tesla S display certainly violates that law.
I would really like to see an aggregate app that only handles the buy side of the market and let Uber, Sidecar, Lyft, taxis and others handle the sell side of the market. This way, you could have an app that shows you the rating of the companies relative to one another. Every vote for a driver would also be a vote for the company as well. If a company wasn't great, you can opt to stop seeing drivers from them.
If you take this task you have to do an incredibly deep dive of China vs USA. The US is the global leader primarily because of this focus on the individual and individual achievement. European countries compare somewhat poorly as they're sort of focused on the individual but with huge dollops of government support/intervention. China however is completely unapologetic in its team driven focus and now has significant success to back up that this method can work. I'd be interested in someone who can contrast/compare there.
Yes. On the other hand, I'm quite enjoying my existence as a zombie...
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I've heard this before about exercise. But exercise really tires my brain out - it feels like I can't think at all, like all my effort has gone and I'm just lathargic.

I'm not saying exercise is bad, and I do try and keep up with it, but am I the only one that has to think, "I can't exercise now or else I'll be too tired to code later."?
Have Apple media events become boring and all too predictable?
This would be a great time to plug Gas Mask for OSX

https://code.google.com/p/gmask/
I graduated with a degree in CS from Columbia in 2007, at the peak of the finance boom. Most of my classmates at least considered a job at an i-bank; a lot of us had internships. I had a sweet job offer from Morgan Stanley waiting for me that I turned down to leave NYC for good (good riddance!). It was such a crazy time then, but it was all we knew. There was a constant stream of crazy, lavish recruiting events on campus from all the banks; it seemed like everyone was going to go work for them and that was normal.

Three years later, and the only people in my cohort who still work at the banks are those who seemed to be in the lower tier of students. Everyone else had either moved to GOOG, a start up, or San Francisco. I'd love to see what the on-campus culture is now.
Is there any way you get me a report that combines data from multiple analytics profiles?

I have a dozen sites with a dozen profiles (and I think that's the correct set up -- they are discrete) but a lot of the time I want to track aggregate traffic to all of them or see trends about what's popular across all of them. I have scripts I hacked together using the API... but it's really pretty hacky.

If you could get me reports (also real-time data views!) that lets me slice and dice across a bunch of GA profiles, I would gladly pay for it.
I'm pretty certain I don't have a soul, either.
Bankers do their best to make sure average people can't participate in IPOs, it's not surprising that average people aren't too interested in news stories about them. Once Goldman and company give out shares to their friends and the rest of us can buy them, TWTR will be interesting.
Well, I doubt a certain Japanese-American political theorist would look too kindly upon his characterisation of medieval political development...
I'm working with a senior person off late. I'm in my late 20's. One of the things that he warned me against is hipster trends. These can really derail a good technically intensive career.

Anyone who is glamorizing hipster practices over genuine experience should go out and build a few embedded systems, a car, or a pacemaker, or a dialysis machine, control system for a nuclear reactor, or a better routing algorithm etc. If you are busy building <insert yet another MVC site here> and refusing to look and learn from other software domains, you will likely never work on any technically meaty projects ever and soon fall victim to age related discrimination.

Building great things requires experience. Its not about impatience, and that thing about 'fail quick, fail fast' - 'quick iterations'. Some of the most significant work happens only at a slow steady pace. With proper planning, fore though about quality/stability of systems you are trying to build. Most importantly its about the seriousness and the impact of the problems you are trying to solve.

This takes time and with it you will age.
Aiming to release multiple site support in a few weeks.

I'm planning to stick to email for delivery though, so real-time won't really work. :/
Poll: Are you a millionaire (in USD)?
HN readers tend to make above average salaries and there are always stories of 20 somethings selling to Facebook for tens of millions. I'd like to find out what percentage of HN readers are actually millionaires.
Yes, I have $1M+ in USD assets
Yes, on paper only (company stock value)
When you say "playable by humans," what do you mean?

If you mean "physically capable of being played by a human" then I'd say that a large majority of popular music right now is unplayable by humans, simply due to the sheer amount of digital production that goes into them. Many genres of electronic music fit in this category, but while being "unplayable," all clearly have an author (the composer/producer) and an intent (no matter how shallow or profound).

But if you meant "playable by humans" on a subtler level, I then ask:

Is music coming from a radio playable by humans? Is music written on a sheet playable by humans? Both lack an immediate human operator that is "playing" them, yet despite this difference of media, both are valid forms of music that clearly communicate the intent of a human soul (the former through the radio device, the latter through symbols).

I'd argue that using the computer/algorithm used to generate the black MIDI is an instrument like any other. Maybe you were asking something more along the lines of: how valuable is music that is generated arbitrarily or randomly by a computer algorithm, and does it contain "soul" like music produced explicitly by humans? That is a philosophical question about the nature of art and computational creativity, perhaps without an answer.
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As an internet commenter I do not understand the purpose of Wifi signals that are not visible to humans. In my understanding discussion is a communication method between human souls. A computer has no soul, likewise Internet "comments".
So you're making the point even stronger. Tech pays better. IB is making concessions to make it more appealing.
As I move towards 30 at a somewhat surprisingly fast rate, I find that my life has changed. I don't do stupid stuff like all-night coding sessions, because it produces bad work and a lousy morning. It always did, but previously the glory of the late night hack outweighed the lousyness of what I made. I've seen things again and again. I'm also fairly positive I am getting smarter, or at mentally more capable. I can conceptualize things today that simply were mentally out of reach for the 20 y/o me. I have a tremendous focus on self-improvement and learning, so I don't expect this to change a great deal in the metanarrative, but I expect to learn new types of things as I move forward with life and move away from learning certain kinds of details.
TMo will (or at least used to) give you a range extender for free if you wouldn't get service in your residence. Probably not for prepaid though.
> JAVA

Why did you spell it in all-caps here?
Hm. Will keep that in mind / watch for it, since I just started using it for a project. I have to say I was less than pleased when I added a site to my (paid) account and had to opt-out of having my error pages redirected to Cloudflare ones, but aside from that I haven't had a problem.
StrongLoop | Using a Digital Ocean Droplet for On Demand Node.js Mobile Backend
My new book, "Linux is Badass", comes out tomorrow
The key word there is "potential." You have to account for the fact that due to the "up or out" system, most people will never be there long enough to earn $1m+. Now that Google and similar companies are breaking through the "low $100k" salary ceiling that used to be common in tech, you really have to compensate for the probability of lasting long enough in a bank (or being able to exit to PE/VC/HF) in order to earn those really high salaries.
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this is like saying books must be spoken aloud, never written down.
Nope. 120-130K all in for top bucket in 2013, with some firms paying 140-160K (see BAML and Moelis).

Also not true is the 2 year contract, as GS is moving towards a career model and away from a 2 year analyst model.

http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/2013-investment-bankin...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-13/goldman-sachs-st...
It's maddening that their default position offers no real amends for their 38 million impacted customers, save for a free year of credit monitoring. Canceling my card and getting it reissued is not trivial.

It's not so much the breach as it is the lackluster response and lack of ownership of the problem that has me ready to cancel the service. Even the original blog post, which reported only 1/10th of the real information leak, started with: "Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today. Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers."

Sure those are valid statements, but they don't really help me feel good about the Adobe platform going forward, and they do more to pass responsibility than to claim ownership.
TL;DR

Top-down control and decent pay.

Long Version

Compartmentalizing access and control to important processes makes it hard for anyone at a lower level to take a bribe. For instance, you couldn't pay off somebody at your local DMV for a license or ID, since the clerk has to enter your provided values (SSN, forms of identification) into a system that is out of their control. It's not impossible, just difficult.

Paying employees enough (government employees are typically overpaid when comparing their salary / job duties to similar private sector positions) to keep the difficulty/risk:reward ratio moderately high reduces, using basic economics, the risk of corruption.

On the Contrary

Keeping controls at a high level, and removing discretion puts the power in the hands of the few. And, as we've all heard before, power corrupts. Worth noting, however, is that power doesn't so much corrupt as does the intrinsic problem solving skills of the human mind. The idea that power corrupts is a false attribution fallacy applied to something that is grossly noticeable (nobody notices when somebody speeds a little or steals a pen from work, but when it's something large (affected by somebody in power), it becomes noticeable). The point is that the lack of corruption at a lower level indicates a mathematical inevitability of corruption at a higher level (e.g., the cozy relationships between Fannie May and Freddy Mac and various Senators, namely our current president)).
It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.

That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making:

Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone on the whole Internet for the adoption of modern TLS with forward-secrecy; they are the world's foremost deployers of ephemeral-keyed elliptic curve cryptography and of certificate pinning, both of which ensure not only the security of the traffic running over the network cables into their data centers, but also minimize the impact of a compromised long-term encryption key or the compromise of the CA system by a state actor.

Not only that, but Google launched a high-profile effort to encrypt the communications inside and between their data centers.

I hope a couple years hindsight will put the importance of Adam Langley's work (and that of the rest of his team; he's just the best-known member of that team) at Google into sharper relief.
This series is one of the best introductions to compiler construction. It doesn't cover everything and it's 25 years old now, but it is the only guide I know of that will hold your hand as you build a working compiler from scratch.

If you have never built a compiler before, I cannot think of a better place to start.

Afterward, if you're curious about theory and advanced topics, I recommend heading to Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Sethi, and Ullman (which covers a lot of theory associated with front-ends) then proceeding to Modern Compiler Construction in ML by Appel (which covers some more advanced topics and back-end stuff). Then you can continue reading about more specific/advanced topics if you like.
Be careful with Google voice as your mobile number. Your texts won't be texts but will come in via an app. And it doesn't support MMS. You may not care about receiving photos but MMS is used to send multi-recipient text messages as well.

The net effect is that if anyone, ever tried to send a text message to you and several other people at the same time you will not receive it. You will not receive a notice or anything, it will just silently fail and the sender will assume you are ignore them.
Ever played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor? 4 well separated simultaneous note groups in a couple of places. That makes it theoretically impossible to play...
I know, I know. This is pretty self-promote-y. But I've got a sneaking feeling that this will be of interest.
"vice president for security engineering Eric Grosse announced that the company is racing to encrypt the links between its data centers. "

Isn't this useless?

They can serve Google NSL and the court can force the company to release the SSL keys for the encryptions - just like Lavabit. Google CEO/Board can not shutdown the company like Lavabit.

What can they do, get out of USA like how they got out of China?
The Net10/Straight Talk data cap on AT&T SIM cards has actually been lifted,[0] now it's just 2.5GB at full speed and then throttled until the month is over.

I find that the BYOP offerings of Net10 and Straight Talk don't differ that much: both offer LTE, similar APN settings, same throttling limits, etc., as both companies are owned by TracFone. The only difference is that Straight Talk costs $45/month while Net10 costs $50/month, although if one sets up recurring payments on Net10's website the cost will be reduced to $45/month as well.

[0]: http://androidforums.com/net10/763501-net10-t-sim-card-data-...
Normally I'd completely agree, however, to get accepted into the program you must be 'nominated by a Startup Blueprint partner (accelerator, incubator or VC) or are directly on-boarded by PayPal.' This makes me thinks program members might enjoy special treatment, hopefully perhaps less of the type that got PayPal its terrible reputation.
Evolutionary psychology is one of my pet peeves.

The notion that evolution determines complex human behaviors like corruption presupposes that humans are guided to a large extent by instinct. What else is a genetically-coded behavior, if not an instinct? You have to accept a world where people think they are selecting a course of action based on situations, but, actually, our orders come silently through instinct, whispering in our ear, calling all the shots, enlisting us to concoct situation-based fictions to cover the tracks.

Instinct exists in animals, for sure, but we aren't very close to working out the mechanisms for how genes code for proteins that code for behaviors. How to make a protein that encodes bribery is way beyond our knowledge. I don't think there's any doubt that humans can do things that are not literally written into DNA, so why create such a large role for instinct, which we have almost no understanding of?

I think corruption comes from disorder, which is the form things take by default. Self-seeking doesn't need an explanation, because everyone needs to take care of themselves just to exist. People looking out for themselves is an invariant, what varies is how they go about it.
I realize Glassdoor is hardly the last word on this, but its figures don't seem to agree with this at all. In fact, for an analyst at Goldman Sachs, Glassdoor reports the average total compensation as $76k.
I turned 35 a few months back and I've thought the past couple of years were my best yet, with more best to come. I had kids early-ish (my daughter is about to turn 12) and people would always say I missed fun stuff in my 20s. The way I look at it is my kids will be out of the house in my mid-40s while everybody else is getting older _and_ dealing with kids. I'm living in my favorite city, doing kickass things at work, getting less afraid to do more interesting/scary things all the time. I laugh in the faces of kids who think life ends after 29.
We lived in a small apartment when we had our first. It was simply a choice we made, we wanted to be somewhat younger when our kids grew up. Now we have a house, and I think not starting right off with everything made me appreciate things more.

There's others that do it the other way too. It just depends upon your's and your other half's choice.
If you are interested in making a very stretched analogy, demonstrating dendritic information processing is like realizing that a CPU's transistor is actually itself a little CPU that is itself capable of quite sophisticated computation. In fact, most of a neuron's computation my be carried out by the dendrites. Don't get tied up in the over-simplified model of dendrite=antenna, soma=computer, axon=wires.

Active dendritic information processing has, for several decades, been theorized and modeled. The combination of two-photon microscopy and more "classical" electrophysiology techniques (like patch clamping used in this article) is finally opening the theories to experimentation.

[Not to be too critical, but this paper is far from the first to experimentally investigate dendritic information processing. I, personally, am glad some segment of HN is interested in neural computation.]
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> Not only is it trivially easy to host your own email

Perhaps for you, but average Joe does not know, nor care how to do this. I've worked with "technical people" who couldn't figure out how to use PGP to encrypt emails, imagine trying to explain to random people what a VPN is.

As long as signing up with gmail stays easier than hosting your own email, nobody will ever bother - and this is the danger schneier is talking about.
I agree. The best examples of third parties are the modern British Liberal party, and the insurgent Republican Party of 1860. But we can see that there were/are very strong regional factors in play, and that it never found a stable or quasi-stable situation where there were an obviously better menu of candidate choices.
I don't care about 2014. My long term plan is to continue caring and loving my family and go IPO with my startup. One of the things gonna be tough but who wants an easy life?
People have been doing this kind of thing with trackers for some time.

Here's Vache by Venetian Snares, from 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2f5gOo1VEM

And here's a webcam video of the sequencer data scrolling past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGK-EzEa45U

The techniques are much older. Here's a screengrab of the OctaMed tracker running on an amiga, playing back the original drum tracks from Aphrodite's jungle classic Beats Booyaa from 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVSe9DubE8

And here's the whole of Beats Booya to hear it in context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vts6rqJHMK8

Real producers chop their beats in hex ;)

EDIT: also, most music software includes something called an arpeggiator, into which you play chords, which it breaks up into little sequences of notes according to different parameters. Set the interval down to 20ms or so and you've got your black midi :)

That's also how you get those distinctive chord-like sounds out of monophonic soundchips in oldschool video games.
I created something similar some time ago.

https://github.com/szatkus/js2me

Although I targeted only J2ME subset.
Also I found few similar projects:

https://github.com/nurv/BicaVM

http://plasma-umass.github.io/doppio/about.html
I think its naive to say "I have mastered jQuery but I don't have any knowledge of JavaScript."
I can assume there are people who look at this for it's military application. I'm trying to imagine what kind of search and rescue situation this can handle.
I just graduated from Columbia CS last year and what you describe your friends doing now seems to be the norm for seniors looking for jobs. Google definitely had higher profile recruiting events than any of the banks. There are still a few looking at jobs in the finance sector but not nearly what I had heard about coming into Columbia.
In the past 24 hours, three companies had IPOs:

Brixmor Property Group ($BRX) sold 41.25m shares at $20.

Criteo ($CRTO) sold 8.1m shares at $31.

Surgical Care Affiliates ($SCAI) sold 9.8m shares at $24.

These three companies, in aggregate, likely received less than .5% of the media coverage that Twitter has received. I do not believe that means they will be .5% as successful.
Healthcare.gov had 'high' security risk four days before launch
True, except the financing is shockingly expensive and comes with unknown but substantial opportunity costs (i.e., negotiating for a better price when you're not on a contract).

Ultimately the best way to minimize your costs is retaining the ability to say "sod off, I'm going to [competitor]".
Or on a remote machine, just set it to that IP (assuming your project is the default/only vhost). Now that I mention it, I think I'll try that.