skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to put myself in a poor Republican voter's shoes, maybe I vote Republican because I'm too proud to admit that I need help lifting myself out of the shithole of my life. Maybe I don't want to be pandered too by the Democrats because I am working my ass off and I can't seem to catch a break. Maybe I don't want to be where I am today, but I don't know how to be somewhere else tommorrow.

I've known a lot of people in bad situations and most of them where hard working men and women that take nothing for granted.

The ones that do...well when you reduce the budget of a welfare system to the point where every dollar HAS to go to those in need, you don't leave a whole lot to oversight and investigation of fraud.
http://www.artima.com/shop/overview_of_the_new_cpp
Yeah, that probably came off a little harsher than I meant it.
"Lower-income and less educated whites also have shifted substantially toward the Republican Party since 2008. The GOP has largely erased the wide lead Democrats had among white voters with family incomes less than $30,000." [0]

Although the graphs on [1] tell a slightly different story.

[0] - http://www.people-press.org/2012/08/23/a-closer-look-at-the-...
[1] - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/09/26/161841771/how-inco...
Framework Benchmarks Round 7
Ask HN: Do YC partners reread an application?
My YC application was submitted about a month before the deadline. I then updated the intro video and most of the copy right before the deadline after receiving some YC alumni's advice.

So I'm just wondering do YC partners ever reread an application? Thanks.
NFC compatible implant in your hand
#3 In his foot, I'd be paranoid against a governemnt declaring me some kind of enemy or terrorist.
>Allowing journalism to be criminalized is in nobody's interest other than the states which are trying to achieve that.

Many multinational corporations also seem to find it in their interests to criminalize journalism - more evidence that we are in a "post-state" world, or simply the just desserts of capitalism?
Tea-time Britain [video]
I can't imagine why using the name of a group in a negative way would imply anything negative about that group.

Why, just the other day I told my brother "Stop being such a Mexican and hurry up,"* and he called me a racist! Some people, huh?

*(I didn't, obviously)
It was explained the speakers were used. How is that implausible? The computers were laptops with batteries.
Hey- I haven't accidentally set off any nuclear bombs yet, either! Am I awesome, or what?

I should add that as a bullet on my resume:

- Hasn't accidentally set off any nuclear bombs.
The best part is that the immigration officer assigned to your "case" can repeatedly ask for additional evidence (called RFE - request for evidence), and ultimately reject it for the most ridiculously superficial reasons.

The way my lawyer explained it to me made perfect sense: USCIS's job is to reject visa applicants, not to accept them. The more visas they reject, the better they look in the eyes of an electorate who by and large hates foreigners "stealing" jobs from Americans.
This is controversial but it is my personal experience: As a non-white, living in Germany is hard; the level of bigotry and racism in my opinion makes the nuisance of the US visa system negligible. Most tech immigrants are non-whites so I think a debate over immigration should take into account the quality of life for the techies and their family. Sure the US still have a lot to do to improve its visa system, but the American way of life and its people, makes the US the most attractive place to go for non-whites techies.
Paypal has one of the most broken UIs I've ever seen. Not only is it horribly dated it is completely inconsistent across all of their portals. As a web payments pro member, developer, standard user there is a huge break down in consistency. The developer portal, paypal manager, standard portal, and home page all look totally different. The standard portal I can rarely find the setting I need without searching online.

Having relied on paypal to ship packages (do you sell on ebay?) it is amazing there is no button to just make a shipping label (without getting money from a specific person). You can do it, you just need to know the hidden URL (why is it hidden?).
From TA (emphasis added):

Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an infected laptop that had no obvious network connection with—but was in close proximity to—another badBIOS-infected computer. The packets were transmitted even when the laptop had its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards removed. Ruiu also disconnected the machine's power cord so it ran only on battery to rule out the possibility it was receiving signals over the electrical connection. Even then, forensic tools showed the packets continued to flow over the airgapped machine. Then, when Ruiu removed the internal speaker and microphone connected to the airgapped machine, the packets suddenly stopped.
The only consistent definition of "hipster" is "someone who is very concerned with not appearing to be a hipster."
Unfortunately as far as I understand it you're only "licensed" to use the codec if you receive the binary directly from Cisco... even if you manage to compile a bit-for-bit identical equivalent. You'd surely get away with it as a personal-use thing but I doubt distros would automate it for you.
Thank you, not sure where all this projecting is coming from
I spent a large part of my career working for a small company in Silicon Valley that became a Very Big Company.

One of the things that the CEO liked to do for a while is have a "lunch with the interns” during the summer. He’d chat with them and give them an opportunity to ask questions. As the manager of a lot of interns, I was also invited, and I often went. I was (and still am) on a first-name basis with the CEO.

One time an intern asked, “what do I need to become the CEO of a company like this?” The question made me laugh, because I already knew the answer. The answer is that there is no answer. You must have a vision about what you can do, and you must believe it. If you allow every idiot in the world to draw a box around your behavior, you won’t accomplish anything.

I know that the Kindle (with wifi off) isn't going to crash the airplane. Amazon knows that the Kindle isn't going to crash the airplane. So why should I respect the opinion of the flight attendant? The flight attendant is, after all, a flight attendant because they would have never had make it through differential equations without sleeping with the professor. So why should I give that ditz any respect?

This isn’t about ‘entitlement’. Take all that crap your professors at the university told you and put it in /dev/null where it belongs. Reframe the issue in terms of what is right and what is possible.

If you want to be truly successful, you must learn about breaking the rules. (And by “truly” successful, I mean truly successful. If your goal is to accumulate $800K in your 401K and own a house in Sunnyvale, California outright… well you can do that by following all the rules and following Company Policies.)
Write your own rules in life.

Perhaps I already answered your question, “And what's so difficult about following the rules and being inconvenienced for 20 minutes.” And if you don’t feel that I did, it means that you’ll never find the answer.

Maybe you’ll find success. Or maybe you won’t. But the feeling will be liberating. There is no man like a free man.
And the whole "it has never worked anywhere else" thing. That might factor into it.
Going out on a limb for a moment and assuming that Dragos Ruiu's story is legit, then it seems likely that someone at a gov't agency decided to leak the existence of this malware by intentionally infecting a security researcher.

In that scenario, can this be related to Stuxnet? Would the audio signaling be used to report back successful infection of non-networked machinery?
> then you should realize averages exist because half of the people are below it.

Only true of median.
A device that big might make me want to put it on my belt. But, alas, I'm not Batman so I won't do that.
Startup School Notes: The Book – Profits go to Watsi
So tempted to go meta on how your comment seems like a lot of comments ever since the recent re-discussion of the "Show HN: Dropbox"... where were the nay-nay-sayers before 2 weeks ago?

Feedback such as the OP is beneficial to product development as a reminder to cover every aspect of potential improvement and protection from liability.
I built a system where our developers can do instant deployments of any of our software packages (and instant point-in-time rollbacks), and then do zero-downtime restarts of services.

Now we deploy dozens of times a day and I never get called on a Friday night because someone did something stupid.

Edit: I do get called when I did something stupid and it broke the deployment system. But that's gotten much rarer lately.
Tech is a weird culture, where the status symbols are totally different. Knowing weird programming languages, having open source contributions, and appreciating nerdy humor are all more important than clothing choice. (Though someone who accidentally wears something too "fancy" might not get taken seriously.)

But for pretty much anything other than "getting a programming job", this essay is pretty much spot on.
I'm not sure 30% content vs vote now is the fairest trade-off, but kudos for holding off a little :)

Just noticed your family name is Tuite. Even if you don't pronounce it as 'Tweet' IRL you really could have fun with that online. Tuite by name... (etc.). I'm sure you might have noticed.
It switches itself "off" to avoid unintentional page turns and other undesired user input. In addition, the mechanism you describe must still be active when "off" to listen to the power switch anyways.
Trick or Dog Treat Cartoon
Partially right.

We live in a culture where Fergie can get up and talk about living a jet set mentality and there are songs on the radio today talking about Maybachs, etc.

Couple that with a lack of education on financial well being, and suddenly you have people making unwise choices.
For my use case, I see Pushpin or something like it being more of a server that handles client connections, auth, and routing. Kinda like a super load balancer. Then you could have a normal load balancer in the front to give clients a single IP to connect to. The whole point being to reduce load on the app server, DB, etc by performing logic (auth, basic validation) that must be performed on every request.

I can understand if that is not the goal of the project since the main focus seems to be realtime over HTTP.
There is no audio in the link you provided.
Beautiful analysis of privilege, class signifiers and race.

Technology culture and employment in the United States is dominated by straight white males, usually with some form of class and economic privilege--people who haven't had to navigate within their society with an extreme outsider status--but there are welcome signs of a growing critical self awareness.

Over the years on HN, I've seen many posts questioning the economic value of a four year college education, particularly an education in the humanities. This right here is a great post to keep in your pocket the next time someone says something like that.
That is really cool that they can use it as a sort of fingerprint!
I know! Why can't poor people just vote themselves more and more unaffordable benefits like in Greece. What could possibly go wrong?
This article is unconvincing at best. She claims that you can only look presentable on a tight budget, which is patently false. You can look classy with affordable items: it only takes a tiny bit of basic fashion knowledge and a little more money than for the K-Mart option.

I've seen plenty of people who bought brand items but used them in a vulgar or trashy way: the result was that you could immediately identify them as poor, defeating the whole purpose of the "investment".

Some researchers have outlined that poverty is debilitating and impairs decision making, but there clearly are some poor people who contribute to their own fate. Advertising is partly to blame, but most of the responsibility rests with them not to buy ludicrous products in the hope of some inchoate recognition from others. Simply accusing the "white male privileged life of the mind" doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
great list, and thank you!

how would you recommend printing these out and binding them for my own personal copy in dead tree form? i ask because i like having these sorts of things on the shelf for reading and referencing, and taking notes in. i also want to do this with the "Great Works in Programming Languages" [1]. i've been wondering if something like Kinkos' "Book Binding" [2] would be usful here, but then i worry about the fact that they may not print it for me because the papers are copyright someone else.

thoughts? suggestions?

1. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWo...

2. http://www.fedex.com/us/office/binding-finishing-laminating....
Silicon Valley is still somewhat an exception to the rule about appearances. In what other area do the rich people dress exactly like the poorest? Remember the hubbub when Zuckerberg wore a hoodie to a meeting regarding the Facebook IPO. That might be laughed off in Silicon Valley but I know many people in other parts of the country that would view it as insulting for someone to show up to a business meeting wearing something like that.
As someone who loves Twitter gimmick accounts, I would love to hear some strategies for keeping them in the clear. Cute project!
The audio system is not the attack vector. It is a means of staying in contact with command-and-control by communicating with other already-infected machines.
And of course if you look at the economic performance of the US under R administrations, vs D administrations, the Rs win by a hundred miles.

/s
Pixelstick
I think that the colloquial use of the term "average" actually means the median. That's how I have seen it used, anyway.
> If really wanted to work in Berlin or elsewhere, you'd do it, and it wouldn't be a big deal.

This is simply getting at the notion of the premium - how much I value working abroad.

A more formal way of asking this question, assuming for simplicity a $100K/year salary:

"How attractive (measured in dollars) is the idea of working in Berlin?"

If it's worth $30,000/year, you'll do it as long as you can make 70% of your US salary or more. Otherwise, it's not worth it.

It's not a matter of "not wanting to do something" - it's a matter of the opportunity cost. In this case, the opportunity cost of working abroad for US citizens is high (see philiphogden's comments), so the only people who will do it are the people who can rationalize taking a financial hit.

So yes, the answer is "you want it, just not enough". But the following question is, "how much should someone have to want to work abroad in order to do it?"
To be featured on ESPN 8 - The Ocho.
I don't mean to be a pedantic jerk, and I'm only mentioning it because I would want to be corrected similarly: I think the word you meant to use was 'populace', not 'populous'.
1 hour pass is usually "only" $4.95, but I get your point.

I just pay $40 for a monthly pass.
Haha hadn't thought of that actually.

Only added the banner recently. I'll experiment with only showing it further into the content.
You need to keep reading the ballot! There are usually at least one "alternative" candidate who doesn't represent the Democrats or Republicans.

I didn't even agree with the Libertarian candidate on many things but I voted for them to satisfy my right and responsibility to vote while not endorsing the Single Party we have here in the US.
You're certainly right that it can be a fine line. I personally would respond better if there would be simple, static, highlighted boxes at the top and bottom of the article, that scrolled with the article.
I think this was a great little analysis and I will try to keep it in mind for future emails to subscribers.
Gosh dang it. I knew one day I would make this mistake and be embarrassed by it... Oh well, I guess I'll just own it. I already know I am below average.. haha...
What's insulting here is that Zuck is trying to keep the "hoodie-guy" image despite his unimaginable wealth. You can't have the cake and eat it.
Not difficult. Wireshark running on either PC will tell you this.
Because it doesn't explain that the system was a laptop until toward the end of the article:

> Ruiu also disconnected the machine's power cord so it ran only on battery to rule out the possibility it was receiving signals over the electrical connection.

To be fair, the Ars piece is poorly written IMO and makes some very outrageous claims throughout the first half. And I personally find the speaker-microphone route implausible given how difficult that would be. Even the article stakes a claim that it's very difficult to prove:

> It's even harder to know for sure that infected systems are using high-frequency sounds to communicate with isolated machines

Given the variable quality of speakers and microphones on laptops and other devices, it doesn't seem like a viable route to me, and this is resting far too much on speculation and conjecture to be of any use.

Worse, I haven't yet found anything in the article that suggests every infected machine had a speaker/microphone combination. There's just not that much useful information, hence why this sounds more like a scare piece.

I'm finding myself more and more in agreement with other comments here that have suggested it was probably a reckless use of an infected USB device that wasn't properly ruled out.

Edit: I should also note that if they're so suspicious that the systems are transmitting sound to other non-infected machines, it shouldn't be too difficult to prove/disprove this by recording sound in isolation. The problem is IMO given the variable manufacturers of sound devices, drivers, and so forth, the complexity of this would be such that it'd be nearly impossible. An infected USB device makes much more sense and is a simpler explanation.
White people only make up 72% of the population. You can't dismiss the other 28%.
"Finally, we excluded trials that were registered with ClinicalTrials.gov more than one month after beginning enrolment, in order to ensure that the decision to register a study occurred separately from the decision to publish the study results. This decision was made because it has been shown that in spite of guidelines endorsing prospective trial registration, trials are often not registered for many months after the initiation of participant enrollment. In some of these cases, the registration of the trial is performed in preparation for publication and after the decision is made to publish the results. To the extent that this occurs, the inclusion of trials with delayed registration would bias our results. We limited this source of bias by focusing on trials for which registration was not delayed."

I worry that the article is still examining a biased group. As it stands, over two thirds of the large trials (3710 out of 5427) were eliminated for registering after enrollment. It stands to reason, then, that this is standard industry practice. The remaining 10% that was studied is clearly bucking the common practice and I'd therefore suggest it's not a representative sample.

That said, I commend them for the study and can't suggest a better way to mitigate bias. I think it clearly shows a pervasive problem in the industry. I'd just be wary of citing the percentages too fervently.
There are still some good NNTP clients out there, but I think Google Groups is the primary interface these days:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.sysadmin.recover...
Being a citizen of Utah I have to say that this is a refreshing change for our dear Sen Hatch who, generally speaking, is often so ignorant and obtuse in tech related matters. I hope he's got someone waking him up generally to the tech sector and that this isn't just an anomaly.
What Every Founder Should Know When an Acquirer Comes Calling
"I am still working on the best way to access the data without disconnecting the drive from the Raspberry Pi every time I want to add/remove something."

It sounds like he's putting the data on the USB drives from other computers, not from the RPi.
Can copyright law actually allow PayPal or another company to sue people who try to post such "redesigns"?

I doubt it, but just wanted to make sure.
That's why there's no rational reason experienced developer who have a wife and kids will choose USA over Germany. In USA he would first need to wait at least one year until his family can arrive, then wait for 5 or more years to get permanent residency (Green Card) in which period his wife will not have permission to work, and he would be unable to plan his future in any significant way because he would live on the edge of deportation if his current employer decide he doesn't work (good/hard/long) enough. That's at least six years of limbo in someones' life. It might be ok for singles with no kids, but noone else.

Compare that to Germany where it takes at most 3 months to be completely settled with the family where wife also gets work permit, and children can start getting child benefits and going to state subsided kindergartens from the get go.

I would start thinking about moving to US if and only if I would get Green Card from the start, but even then I'm not sure I would change EU(ropean) way of life for 50+ work weeks, one week of vacation and no payed sick or parental leave, super expensive education and no universal health care.
Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Mil. Will Be Unable To Keep Plans Under Obamacare
Yes, as the load changes on the grid the frequency of the grid will slow down/speed up. So yes alarm clocks and other time keeping devices will be a little slow during those times the frequency itself is slow.
Arguably, if they had any common sense, they would have gotten out of the desktop market a decade ago and focused exclusively on mobile.
Block ciphers can be easily made quantum-safe by doubling the key size (see "Grover's Algorithm"). We might have to update everyone's browser to support extending AES to 512 bits, but it's doable.

The real problem is public key ciphers that rely on prime number factorization. Eliptic curves are one solution, but the only people who seem to have in-depth knowledge about them are in the NSA.
Let's say you knew someone who was granted an H1B1 visa based on a combination of some university education (but without getting a degree) and years of relevant experience in the field. Would this person stand a chance of being granted permanent residency?
It's a giant leap to go from this to what his claims are. Technically, and logically. Once you've solved the technical leap, logic handily defeats this as a possibility.
You're like a Canadian grammar Nazi: punctilious yet courteous.
Well, any character but 0x2f and 0x00. :P
Poor in urban areas = Black

Poor in rural areas = White
I see your point. Still, I believe the browser environment is different from a console since it is not supposed to monopolize system resources while being used. Managing memory in smaller short lived chunks is more fair for the system as a whole.
Er yeah, averages aren't made by half and half, they're made by dividing the sum by the count. It's quite possible to have 90% of the population be below average if the 10% is significantly above the average.
No, people usually have the arithmetic mean in mind.
Indeed many of the investment bankers were insulted. After all, that's where ego-driven people are.