skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It IS incredibly expensive to perform these integrations on an ad hoc basis. That's the advantage of having a standard.

I personally find this entire thread extremely interesting, and enjo's comment gets to the heart of it. <Reader alert - I work for SIF>

Now here's my source of confusion. We are an non-profit standards organization with an open standard (written and approved by our members) that can be used without cost by all K-12 end users and vendors (members or not), and with no IP agreement to sign. True there is an optional product certification program, but that involves only a nominal fee to cover our costs. The SIF Certification program was created to support our end users who often demand products undergo SIF certification to ensure they will seamlessly interoperate (ideally out of the box - but there are a LOT of reasons including optional data elements, why things are often not that simple). The Clever folks know what I’m talking about ... or they will soon.

In earlier SIF releases, when the infrastructure was basically home grown, several integrators wrote what we call “agents” which allowed vendors (including vendors of SIS, Library, Transportation and more recently Assessment and LMS related systems) to essentially enable their applications run in SIF interoperability Zones without changing a line of code. For example some agents use internal application database triggers to detect data changes the application publishes. There are several free open source SIF Agent toolkits available today for SIF 2 and we expect the same for SIF 3 where the fact that the infrastructure is now based on REST will make things a lot easier.

So we finally reach my question. Some very smart people have invested $10 million dollars in Clever, but the stated business model seems (in SIF terms) to be to:

•	Create and establish an API to retrieve data from SIS applications and

•	Sell SIS vendors the agent software to allow them to utilize that API.

If that’s essentially correct (and if not, I would ask a Clever representative to correct me) than given our own experiences I just don’t understand how such a strategy can be effectively monetized to provide an acceptable return on such a large initial investment. And I’m particularly interested, because if I knew how to do that, I’d try and get my employers to do that too! :-)
Unless I'm missing something important, it's locking so the same page can only be rendering once at a time; if another request that would cause a rebuild comes in while a previous rebuild is still in progress, it gets bounced.
That was published in 1999 and we still don't have pre-crime reporting security cameras flagging me everywhere I go.

Just saying.
This is why basing tax brackets on yearly income has always struck me as flawed. Imagine you're an author that spends a couple years writing a book. For the first three years you make no money, but the forth you make a million. You'll be taxed at a much higher rate than if you had made a consistent 250k a year.

This might be a simplistic model, and the outcome may be avoidable by sufficient tax planning, but I'm sure some entrepreneurs have lost money this way.
It's illustrative of the wealth divide in our society that engineers think 96th percentile wages are middle class.
For people earning over $350k yes you're right. But no sir, even by the link you posted, those in the $100-350k range are certainly hit the hardest.

First, based just on the data, you see that at these income levels, many many credits and deductions are fully phased-out. AMT becomes a real issue. Etc.

But in an anecdotal sense, my experience of people (like myself and my wife, 2 professionals living in a high CoL area) earning in this $100-350k range, this is often the product of 2 people with "normal" jobs. So most of my income is earned income. But those out in the stratosphere above $350k earn more and more of their income from capital gains and receive favorable tax treatments.
>As for following up after conferences and such, the proper protocol is an email.

Oh it is? Cool! Okay guys, morgante solved all our communication problems. All you have to do is go on the internet and tell people what the proper protocol is for communicating and everything else will work itself out.

Guess what. I don't want people emailing me after a conference. I'd much rather they get a hold of me in other ways, like twitter, or facebook or linkedin. And what a surprise, your preferred method of communication is different from mine. It's almost like different people have different preferences and something that works for you may not work for other people. And maybe you shouldn't go around making arrogant proclamations about what the proper way to do something is cause people are probably going to disagree with you. What a concept!
Is it common for people to "meet" new friends on facebook? I have no experience of people doing so. If someone I had never met contacted me on facebook to try and forge a social relationship, I would find it inappropriate.
You can generally exempt $250,000 of profit from a house, $500,000 if you're married
Android 4.4 KitKat to run "comfortably" on 512MB RAM devices, here's how
Forget Google buses: Private transportation Largess is everywhere
Citation needed but it is hardly the same thing ... unless this is false equivocation day or something ...
turn 'showdead' on in your profile.
Announcing the Redesigned Bugsnag Dashboard
Finishing the job Kickstarter started.
We listened to the world's designers that cried out when Kickstarter famously said they were not a store. Designers need a crowdfunding platform that acts like a store. Allows for shipping, variable products, order sheets and handles different payments. Welcome to CrowdyHouse - we're stimulating unique design through crowdfunding.
Efficient Promotion Strategies in Hierarchical Organizations
Employ rolling averages above historical inflation?
I think the data's being presented in a strange way.

Since it's "people who make over $100k at least one year of their life", it makes sense that older people would have higher numbers.

They've been working more years, and because of that they usually have higher paying jobs due to having more experience or moving up to management positions.
Just launched and we're seeing positive reactions.
One of the problems people face is that those with weaker employment prospects in the first place often have other issues which screw them out of reasonable employment and leave them worse off in terms of pursuing anything better. Anyone who has been subject to factory life (or equivalent employment) knows that no sane person could work a job like that for their entire life.

You're not completely wrong: many of these people have made mistakes, but the nature of how those mistakes get compounded can pretty thoroughly screw someone who was born with a bit of a handicap and who got off to a bad start.

So while it is possible to overcome these setbacks (and people should be encouraged to do so), it's not something one should be glib about.
This article makes the critical mistake of implying that affluence has anything to do with salaried income.

The people who are actually wealthy are too busy laughing to rebuke this notion.
These are also known as HENRYs.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/high-earners-not-yet-ric...

Investment firms and luxury brands are well aware of this phenomena.

Notice that they are not-yet-rich :)
* Bombing of the golden mosque

* Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists

* Stuxnet

* Smuggling rocket launchers into Gaza

* Gulf of Tonkin

* Assassination of JFK

* Oil Embargo on Japan

* Selling arms to Iraq

* Iran-contra

* 9/11

Tip of the iceberg.
Well, the protest holding up a bus was real. Only the google employee doing the yelling was fake.
I was curious because I recently finished my two analyst years in ibd (@ a bb), but switched into PE instead of a startup, which I was considering. Always interesting to hear the other side.
Ask HN: Are my saved passwords safe in Google chrome?
Can google or someone else retrieve them remotely?
I think it's possible it might've happened although I don't know a specific case. I have read about several instances of gamers having died as a result of prolonged sitting and developing deep vein thrombosis though. Here is an example: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/xbox-addict-chris-stan...
Maybe one could benefit from a sort of blinding procedure, where the person designing the learner is never allowed to even look at the validation data.
What do you mean by "be toxic"? And how do you expect people to work against income inequality without calling it what it is?

Your comment ("lol income inequality") is dripping in upper-class privilege, as if you're the one suffering when poor people bring up things like the disappearing middle class & tax breaks for the wealthy -- because they're being "toxic".
Thanks. We hope it takes off too!
For better or worse, our educational system is centered around the idea of exposure to potentially worthless experiences. Everyone knows people who haven't had to think about concepts from trigonometry or algebra 2 since school. Children are required to take music classes, art classes, physed. We don't teach these things because they are practically useful in any way, but because 1 out of every N kids discovers that they are really good at something.

I hated all of the effort wasted in the modern educational system. But when you see a kid's eyes light up when they blow into a recorder for the first time, or see how they respond to praise of their art class drawing, or see their face when they score the winning touchdown, you can see the value and importance. We can't take that away from people. So we study things that might not matter. I don't see any reason why computer programming shouldn't be that list of experiences. There are people in the world who would be rock star hackers if only they'd been given an early opportunity. Even a modest increase in the number of technically literate people can have great benefits to society.

There is a clear trend toward automation. We all know people who wouldn't benefit at all from computer programming experience. But that might not be true in twenty or thirty years. Even lawyers might need to learn more about data structures and server management in the coming decades. The ideal case is that we end up in an automated world in which everyone can pitch in a little programming to make things better. Making some technical knowledge universal might be the first step.
Kind of sickening that this misleading headline gets more attention than "1 in 5 American children live in poverty."

Now that's something to chew on.
I think the US government is partly such a big target for criticism (constructive and otherwise) exactly because Americans are such navel gazers.

Conspiracy theories, and flat-out badmouthing the government happens in every country I've been in (and generally the government is far worse than the US one in at least some ways), but they never get traction. It's different in the US. The cynic in me would say that it's quite exceptional for the US to not have the "main" news organization to be state-controlled. And not conspiracy-theorist-style state controlled, actually state controlled. It is blatantly obvious that the BBC asks for permission before running government corruption stories for example. Hell, they even ask for permission before running corruption stories about the US government.

But in nearly all of Europe, there is zero doubt that the main news providers are 100% state controlled : the BBC, Nederland 1/2/3 (the Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), France 1/2/3 (France), ... Nobody's even trying to hide that fact.
I'm curious of the title of the thread. What do you mean by the job Kickstarter started?
> For the first three years you make no money, but the forth you make a million. You'll be taxed at a much higher rate than if you had made a consistent 250k a year.

Ancient History Item: Before the tax reform act in 1987, you had the ability to do income averaging across tax years to address this situation. It was reformed away.
I wonder how much of that is due to "upgrades" that don't really improve quality of life all that much. Get top tier internet access, couple that with expensive vehicles and a gaudy house, and you've got no more real saving potential than the guy four neighborhoods over who makes half your salary.
>> Our tech agreement lets someone list a set of technologies they own that they are bringing with them, and explicitly renounces the company's ownership of them. It's also useful to understand and review any agreements you sign when accepting employment.

Totally. One thing to keep in mind though is that the exclusion applies only for work done before joining the company [1]. Even if you list something there, if you continue working on it, you may still have an issue.

Further, all IP agreements I have come across, put a legal requirement on you to disclose any new IP you generate while employed to the employer within the prescribed time-limit even if you think if belongs to you.

[1] In all cases I have come across. IANAL.
Apple Stores use iBeacons (and so can you)
u forgot the closing snark tag </snark> ;)

regardless, i agree that my preference can be different than others.
Count me among those who thought validation was a thing you just had to do when training ML algorithms. After all, the most beautiful theoretical model in the world is of no use if the predictions it delivers are terrible.

The real trick (for most algorithms) is to select the correct features to train against. This really is more of a black art than an exact science, so I think labeling it a trick is justified.
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That analogy is just a tiny bit more extreme then what actually happened.
We love bugsnag. Been using the new dashboard in test for a few days and it's been great.
9 Fun Facts That Are Total Lies
The Value-Added Education Conundrum
Ashland city council member Kelly Westlund to challenge Rep. Sean Duffy
Adding Django stacktraces to log messages
Every time someone lets LinkedIn look at their address book to "find contacts you already know in linkedin", LI takes it upon themselves to spam everyone in that address book. I guess there's an opt out somewhere. One time I had to add a woman's email to my account as a secondary address so it would stop spamming her, we couldn't find any other way to do it.
The thread seems to have gotten a bit mangled on the mailserver. Here's the full thread: https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/20...
The worst category for this is star professional athletes. They make huge amounts of money their first few years, but then they retire at age 30 and spend the rest of their lives earning far less.

In the author's case, you could imagine a fix; the author could somehow amortize the income over previous years and pay all the money at the appropriate rate. (Though I can imagine a number of fraud- and incentive-related issues there.) But you can't really do that with the pro athletes because a) you don't know when they'll actually stop making money and b) in the future they may not actually have it.
Well written article. I spend regularly on the cam sites and find the whole model fascinating. Very few models however actually give any meta details such as those provided in this article.
It depends, where I live, $200k a year is extremely affluent. I'd be interested to see the figures for those salaries adjusted for cost of living.
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I've lived in LA for ten years. Commuting anywhere can be a nightmare at any random hour of the day. Housing prices are amazing in comparison though -- a third as expensive as the Bay Area, I'd say (rental). They are building some new rail lines, but it's going to be a while... Great food too!
Maybe someone can explain this one to me ... about WMD in Iraq.

1) Iraq kills > 500 civilians using chemical weapons (google Ali Chemicali, Halabja, ...) (documented, amongst others, by the UN)

2) it is known that for at least a decade after that, Iraq was producing chemical weapons. (again, documented by the UN)

3) US invades

4) finds no weapons

Apparently the conclusion after this series of events is "there never were any chemical weapons", with a subtext of "Bush/CIA was not wrong, just lying".

I find it VERY hard to honestly draw that conclusion. The obvious conclusion is that those weapons were moved, the question is where.
That sounds like a good idea, actually. Why not? Generate and store each page each time it's edited, then serve from the static copies. There will be a lot more reads than there are writes anyway.
Who says they have to have kids? Earn a combined $250k a year, live frugally and invest the money early. Build a huge retirement nest egg in a decade! Then go travel the world and enjoy life.

What gets expensive is if you get caught up in the keeping up with the Joneses mentality. Why do people want to live in a suburban sprawl nursery and spend all their life raising kids?
No. Shut down NSA, then we'll talk.
>> "Vastly different"

This is not the case to the best of my knowledge.

See details in my older comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245810
I thought the basic idea was documented clearly in 1984
Seems scalable. If we can come up with a hypothetical where companies are actually taking some cars off the road, just let them do illegal stuff in return.
> people are not ready to be in continuous collaboration mode

What would be the first step in getting people ready?
Brit here.

Scepticism isn't the same as unwilling to believe. Usually just honesty, willingness to engage in dialogue, answer questions etc, will do it.

However, I have had experience working with Americans in the UK that sounds similar to what you might have experienced. In my experience, the "selling" of the mission has usually just been excessive enthusiasm on the American side with a hope that it will be contagious. To us, it all appears just a little fake.
There seems to be a lot of anger in your comment, but it all seems to boil down to "my reasons for living in San Francisco are more valid than others'".
It's such a relief we have not yet descended to these depths eh?
I disagree. Our police force having BLATANT double standards which favor corporations over people is EXACTLY what people should be protesting.
Riding bikes is super dangerous. I always slow down and give bikes a lot of space. I also think bike riders should ride on slower, non-busy roads whenever possible, but I'm not at all blaming bike riders.
Salvatore is admirably proactive at garnering criticism for his project. He's also incredibly gracious when accepting it.
Or, it's illustrative that what used to be truly middle class lifestyle can now be afforded only by people in top income percentiles, whereas the median income probably implies a lifestyle pretty close to poverty.
> They're just like the coworking spaces us devs/designers have available to us

This is one of the more out of touch bits of false equivalency I've seen on HN recently, and that's saying something. It's a bit of pop philosophy that says that sex workers are just like any other service provider. However, it totally ignores the psychology and power differentials in the industry. In America and especially in developing countries. The point 'LukeWalsh makes about child sex workers is relevant. The phat answer is: "well that's different, because children can't consent and nobody can consent on their behalf." Neat and clean. But the psychology that leads someone to push their child into sex work is not susceptible to a neat answer or pop philosophy. Whatever psychological phenomenon is at play, might a lesser but qualitatively similar sort of phenomenon be at play with less extreme examples of sex workers?
The average income is $60k. $100k IS rich, even if it doesn't feel like it in Silicon Valley.
Yup. There's balance sheet affluence and then there's income sheet affluence... two often orthogonal properties in most cases. On one extreme, is the cliché stock broker: always broke despite high income... high marginal propensity to consume (MPC) combined with income sheet affluence, which does not necessarily lead to balance sheet affluence. The other extreme is that are some folks lead thrifty lives and aren't income sheet affluent by any measure, but because of prudent investing, are easily characterized as balance sheet affluent. (Example: I know a guy that has investments exceeding 7 digits that makes 40k USD/year and spends no more on average than 2 USD/day.)
Wow, somebody who doesn't understand mining writes about bitcoin. No, you don't get the "majority vote" because you have more users. Complete nonsense.
Sure, but to say "wow this is totally ridiculous! what those people are doing is illegal" while never caring the least bit about the illegal thing they're taking part in is just so ridiculously self absorbed, which is kind of the root of the thing people are upset about.
...are you being serious?
But that's not really related to cam studios where people voluntarily decide to perform.
You don't choose Bitcoin to store value, but to greatly increase value. If you don't believe in USD, convert to EUR or CNY. Let's be honest here, guys. We choose Bitcoin as it's more profitable and hope its value to go somewhere in the $10K-100K, which is possible, but it's not 100% sure, not even 10% at this point. I was an active observer and I saw how BTC went out of steam when it exceeded $1K. It tried to break $1.2K several times and it failed. Trade volume dropped significantly above $1K - and this was before the negative news, plus, many get burned by stolen Bitcoins or losing money from speculation. This is hurting the longevity of Bitcoin. Pretty much its future isn't in the hands of governments, but in the hands of speculators, which right now drive the majority of transactions and look for short-term profit and don't care much about the vitality of cryptocurrencies.
Bingo. Companies should have (at least) two mechanisms for raising pay: a 1 to 3% (tied to some measure of inflation) increase everyone gets, and a variable rate tied to their performance/company success/etc.
When Kickstarter famously announced they were not a store we realised they had missed out on such an opportunity. We spoke with designers all around the world that we're looking for a crowdfunding platform that acted like a store. A platform that could process orders, list shipping prices, have variable products and accept different forms of payment. We launched CrowdyHouse as the next step in crowdfunding for designers.
Hmm, I didn't think about it that way. That is a valid point. Also, which ever party the president holds, doesn't he/she technically can use the NSA to their advantage?
MDN and MSDN. Ok, this is maybe just coincidence, but their portal pages do look similar.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ vs http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
Helping people stay in touch socially is important to humans. The engagement figures alone tell me that it's important (to them).

My parents and grandparents see more pics of my kids and feel more connected to their grandkids' random life experiences. That's important (to me and to them).

Jzw's point on narrowing your focus is worth mentioning here: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Facebook isn't helping me there, but it's helping others, and that's important to them.
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I'm talking about daily movements - with Bitcoin we see huge up and down movements, which are good for speculation, not for business.
Unless you opted in to an app to find new people. Seems like instead of building a site from the ground, the quicker technical approach is probably a Facebook app.