skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are living in California, working for startups and can even _consider_ daycare then you are in a vastly different situation from where I live, where teen moms and being poor are the norm.

In which, depending on the state, they probably qualify for subsidized daycare.

Over here, often it's grandma taking care of the kids and the $3000 refund check the typically-single mother gets go to drugs and tattoos.

If you are going to say stuff like that, make a real assertion and back it up, or leave it out. I have no idea what "often" means to you, and I have no clue the veracity of your claim.

I'm working class and marriage and raising kids aren't even a reasonable thing to consider. I'd love more than anything to have a family. My only solution is to find a way to earn more money.

Didn't you earlier say it saved money?

I wish it could be properly explained to white middle-class folks that in most cases "born poor stays poor"

I agree with you wholeheartedly here. But what does that have to do with what we are talking about?
I had speculated about something like this with friends when it was announced that Google was getting into autonomous driving cars. The combination of G+, Maps, Zagats and a Google car that drives itself would give possible scenarios like the car doing things like asking you:

"You haven't had lunch yet today. There's a highly-rated Italian place just two minutes from here, would you me to take you there?" then afterwards, "what did you think of your meal, on a scale of one to five? I'll share it with your G+ circles."

The only thing that bothers me about this (besides the obvious data privacy issue) is how much power it gives one entity Google, to subtly manipulate nearly anything.
Right now the prevailing attitude is that it's legal and nobody will get prosecuted for it. It's certainly possible for this to change, but premined altcoins (creators mine a % before making it public) and other alleged scams such as Quarkcoin (Max Keiser & Bill Still) have happened repeatedly.

My statement was from the angle that if you get ripped off in a situation like this, there is no recourse for you, and not legal advice that you cannot get in trouble for participating in these activities.
Careful, your account can be made hidden for pasting spam emails to github.
I also received this email, and there have been a number of similar emails in the past that seem to be from the same person/group that advocate various conspiracy theories. You can probably find copies of those emails on forums or other places on the web.
not much has changed, frankly, except the destruction of the family unit and social fabric in poor families

Are those things not big deals?
> IRC is gender neutral.

So you read about someone's experience proving otherwise (I have had similar experiences on IRC, getting treated shitty for being a woman) and you stated something else in an authoritarian fashion, without feeling the slightest need to prove your point. How... interesting.
Phrase it the opposite way to get the truth: paying people to do something won't necessarily have a significant impact on the number of people who choose to do it. Why? Because money is not the only factor people take into account when making decisions.
As a perspective from a biologist who was a student and took calc I'll give my impressions. First jkimmel's comment about keeping track of pages I never found to be the case. I can keep track of all of my course pages, that's easy.

Okay, page impressions:

- Homework downloadable, awesome.
- practice exams, awesome
- I'd grab both of the above a year/semester ahead of time or from a different professor, in case you were to remove them and then dole them out throughout the course

- no downloadable notes, boo. But it's calc and I actually enjoyed the worked problems in the lectures so it's okay.

- not on Blackboard, yay!
- this means I can easily use DownThemAll! to grab all the links you have
- also, I can check out your page, so I know what to expect

- "[the text] has not changed since last year, so please feel free to buy a used version from an upperclassman."
- Awesome

- "We will use a custom edition of this book, available in the campus bookstore"
- Not cool.
- on Amazon.com that used text is available for $10
- The campus bookstore has it available starting at $173
- Especially since that text is 90% problems which could be randomly generated by a CAS given appropriate parameters for each section. The remaining 10% is good, but your lectures and math tutors are probably better.

tl;dr:, I like your stand alone page, but I would be pretty upset about the textbook.
More lies from Siri
The incentives are wrong. Each taxpayer would like to reduce his own burden specifically, but everyone shares the cost of riots and revolution (which is mostly harder on the poor, anyway). Not having riots and revolution is a common good.
Yep divide and rule - instead of actually addressing the real issues in SF poor planing at a to low minimum wage.

Being cynical I wonder if the influx of techies has also interrupted some ones nice political machine.
There was a Dogecoin thread on here the other day that reeked of trying to inflate the prices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114813.

There's so many people trying to pump these different coins that I can't see any efforts being too successful.

Sounds from the pastebin content that they weren't really managing to coordinate even a small group?
Why, so they can give him his own radio talk show?
This is a lot of verbiage that doesn't address the basic point I made that you're trying to rebut: the Constitution doesn't proscribe foreign surveillance of any sort, including industrial espionage, and the American people don't broadly oppose industrial espionage, because to the extent that Boeing outperforms Airbus in the global marketplace, they benefit, if only marginally.
Hey cool, not having Rikaichan on android has been a huge pain, thanks!
Looks great. Now if only HN would have a responsive design too so I can read properly on my phone.
Why New York Is a Good Place for Women Tech Entrepreneurs
> What if...?

Why not present the user with the option before their trip begins so that you're not wasting a lot of fuel and so on? I can't see people being too happy with you if you start routing their lives around your convenience. Advertising currently costs the end user very little - but there's certainly a transaction cost involved. If you start doing this to people, there'll be a significant incentive for them to disable the system in some way, or opt for a different one.

"Our cars only take you where you want to go." Would be a pretty good advertising message. "Average 10% faster journey times from A to B. You're in control. Take back your life." Etc.
Did this Tor developer become a victim of NSA's laptop interception program?
I don't get it. What does "Teen 420" mean? How can it be equal to 2014 if it's the reverse of saying 2014?
Adblock on Chrome is blocking the command prompt by default. At least on my system...
To my understanding, getting married does not automatically save you a lot on taxes. It depends on your financial situation. If, for example, you make $360k and your spouse makes $40k, it's going to be a win, because it works out to reducing your tax rate and increasing your spouse's. If you make $200k and your spouse makes $200k, it will be a wash because your tax rates are the same.
I use my own tennis ladder management system for a league in which I'm playing: laddero.com
It doesn't have the same aim as Martini, which provides more of a full middleware manager.

Sleepy is a simple wrapper for RESTful resources that takes a few steps out of the handler work, e.g. internally handles the work of encoding a response to JSON and then sending it.

Nice to see new developers delving in, albeit a little clumsy at first :P
To write an entire article using historical textile production as an example and not mention the impacts of contemporary globalization on the same industry is confusing at best and hopelessly optimistic at worst.
Yes, this works in Julia without any changes.
I use it everyday to assign task automate my processes and workflows. In fact I'm using my own product to build my product . Collaborate cloud helps u in automating your business processes and workflow and helps to increase your productivity by saving tons of time.
Which country are you from? Maybe it'd be helpful for us to take a close look at how they've conducted themselves in the state of nature, which is where/how countries interact.
Good question. I'm 35 now, but I honestly don't know what the local ageism factor is. This was also my first job in Germany (previously UK), so I've not got much to compare it too. It's a factor I previously hadn't considered, so thanks for bringing it up.

I guess a startup would be more likely to be ageist, and hence that move should be sooner rather than later.
can you explain why almost a million dollars needs to be injected into the market to keep the price stable?
As much as I hate bloatware, this is another example of unwarranted regulation. Encourage more competition in the mobile carrier space and the free market will solve this better than any government can.
I didn't like the design of the new Mac Pro initially, but
the circular design makes sense in terms of air flow. The only problems I have personally experienced with computer hardware is the failure of video chips. I had a HP laptop
that christened my dive into cooling fans, Artic paste, thermal bars, heat transfer, and frustration.

I hope we go back to putting our own computers together using only the components we desire; bought from companies
we admire--not just because they work the best, but for
altruistic reasons (employee treatment, environmental friendliness, etc).
oh awesome resource, thanks for the link! (looks down from overuse right now but still, cool!)

julia++, i started playing with it this weekend and i'm super pleased. i concur with another comment in this discussion that this is what i wish python had been evolving into. it gets me wondering if python is maybe being left behind compared to other dynamic languages or if it's just fad-ism at work (or me just learning more about languages and features).
Funny that you mention Google's low offer, there was an interesting article about salary at the big companies around here: http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valley...
You are being overly cynic. It is a new discovery.
> Acquired by the current owner's father in Egypt in the 1920s

I think the ethics of trading such goods (at high prices) are bit questionable. It is a piece of local cultural heritage which more than likely was acquired in a more or less exploitative way.
The number has somehow become significant in marijuana subculture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
Internet technology has stabilized already: we're still using HTML, HTTP, javascript, etc. The Space Jam website from 1996 still loads in a browser. Most servers and clients still use IPv4. Etc.
> Any reasoning behind such a generically bold statement?

If and when they're right, they can smugly point out how forward thinking they were.
I've been a happy earthclassmail customer for years; a few other mom and pop forwarding services since 1998.
Nearly exactly this happens in Stross's Halting State
There are similar dice on display at the Met in New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/...

Description: "A number of polyhedra made in various materials are known from the Roman world. They may have been used in conjunction with an oracle inscribed on a pillar set up in a public place. The polyhedron was thrown in order to choose a letter at random. One consulted the inscription to find the matching letter and read the oracle's response. There would be twenty oracular messages, each beginning with a letter of the alphabet that corresponded to one side of the dice."
The word robot means slave.
Pointing at a bigger gang of crooks and saying, "see, they're doing it too" doesn't make anybody involved less of a crook...

To me, the whole situation is an incredible demonstration of why "free markets solve everything correctly" is only (even potentially) true as N_participants -> infinity - and even more so a direct lesson in how thoroughly a "market" can fail when it's too small...
Why is this unwarranted?

The free market is there but we still have bloatware.
That actually sounds like a brilliant angle for selling an automated car service.

"Our cars will take you wherever for a dime! To make up the difference we will be playing ads and/or having you partake in surveys during the ride."

Sounds cool if you live in a city particularly.
Ask HN: Best "undiscovered" startup?
Have you found a company that you think is awesome, yet doesn't seem to have been picked up by the mainstream outlets yet? If so, what is it? And what makes them awesome?
My phone already does this with Google Now.
Some of these altcoins are the epitome of the greater fool theory, where most participants are perfectly aware that it is a rationally poor decision to invest in them but do it anyway because they think someone will buy it for more later.

It turns out people can make huge returns even from investing in known scams - certainly not guaranteed, but it's better odds than gambling.
Nope. Most of the personal benefit of not having to drive would be that I could do other things with my time. If I've got to be doing something I don't like anyway, then that defeats much of the point.
I don't think anyone expects that industrial espionage does not happen, but I think most people don't think that's an appropriate use of our intelligence services.
Every day of the year is a holiday in the calendar of some religion. You can't pander to them all and you shouldn't pander to any of them.
Right, Google was also recently granted a patent for something like this: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Had an interesting match for a vanity search: "peter cooper" matched "et cetera" .. combining both a first character typo and prefixing :-)

Also, one bug. If text in a URL gets highlighted and it's linked, the link URL itself picks up the EM tags.
And not a word about FEMA death camps.
Why have all the crazies forgotten about the FEMA death camps?
I was hardly very well paid - I was constantly paid late and should have been charging the assholes I was working for double my rate. Perhaps a good way to explain the problem is a) let's say I got paid $50/hr. Task A takes me 1 hour and I go and generate some work product that fulfills a customer's request. B) this customer is paying $2000 a month for their problem to be solved. You have to take into account as well the cost of the system that I built that task A is built upon, so let's say that cost $5000.

So in 3 months, the cost as paid by the capitalist pig has been fully paid for, and from then on, in perpetuity, there is nothing but $2000/month in profit that goes strictly into the piggy bank of the greedy capitalist pig. Meanwhile, I don't even get paid the $50 he owes me on time.

As a white collar professional who is doing _all_ the work, while capitalist pig goes on skiing vacations, this is really galling. Ok, I can quit or go work for someone else, or build my competing system (then get sued by the sociopath)... I think this shows how the pay of CEOs etc over the past 20 years has risen to astronomically insulting levels while everyone else who literally enables that is getting shafted. If the CEO does a whole lot of work, then I won't begrudge them some difference in pay. But such a difference compared to what they actually do in terms of effort? No, not when CEOs etc in general seem to be able to avoid responsibility for their screwups so easily.

The system is out of balance. It really has nothing to do with the amount of money involved.
Worked or did you mean it works? If you meant worked can you further expand on why it no longer works well today?
Well sure, removing the war on drugs doesn't solve 100% of the problem instantaneously. But it solves 80% of it over a relatively short period of time. You still have to stop the bleeding, but you at least move the problem to "stop the bleeding" from "prevent additional stab wounds." And properly ending the war on drugs should imply "bringing the troops home" so to speak: Dissolving the paramilitary police units and separating their members from one another, and putting them on desk jobs or into community outreach programs that don't involve making arrests or serving warrants. (Or making it attractive for them to take early retirement.)
This is why I sold my wife's Samsung and got her an iPhone again. I rather pay 700 for something made to delight me then 300 for something that can be used to show me crap apps
It's interesting that this could all be 'fake'. You don't actually need 'followers' to do this. If you lead the public to think that there's a massive pump/dump going on, you can make the public follow your orders. Obviously you need to discuss on public forums, or 'leak by accident'.
To bad there isn't this kind of transparency in the real supposedly regulated markets. There is manipulation there all the time only we never hear about it because it isn't being done by some guy in a public IRC channel.
USV's Albert Wenger's DLD Introduction: World in Transition [video]
Could the inventors of the loom, at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, have imagined the types of jobs most of have today, in the morning of the Information Revolution? I doubt it.

There will be industries and jobs enabled by today's technologies, that we can't picture today. My bet is on biotechnology. We know only a very small amount about the systems of life.
Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC
The problem is the the USA never developed a proper center left party in the European or UK model.

So now the only progressive's that get any air time are the raving fringe nutters - who chase after "castles in the air" and not real substantive issues that impact the average working stiff and include the shop worker on 30k and Googler's on 150k in the definition of working stiff

which damages everyone in the USA
Kapture: Always Recording
Hi HN. I'm the person who reported this bug to Pycon. I've volunteered and helped organize several PyCons and Djangocons. It's safe to say that I'm fully invested in the community and Give A Shit™.

In the interest of heading off some of the less productive discussion, here are some salient facts:

* Nobody involved is an antisemite

* Nobody involved is malicious

* The date oops was an honest mistake

* The fact that the incident wasn't owned and dealt with is the bigger mistake

* The fact that it's being dealt with now is a _good_ thing. I'm grateful that it's happening.

* I don't have any personal beef with the organizers, and neither should you

Mainly I'm sad to be excluded from pycon until 2016.
That's the value of the Dogecoins being mined every day:

Blocks per day: 60 * 24 = 1440 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.0)

Current block reward: ~500,000 doge (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.0)

Total block rewards per day: 1440 * 500,000 = 720,000,000 doge

Current exchange rate: 1 doge = US$0.0017 (http://dogecoin.com/)

Total block rewards in USD per day: 720,000,000 * 0.0017 = $1,224,000
Replacing the SSD and RAM is not "upgradable."

Being able to replace the PSU, GPGPU, 5.25" drives and 3.5" drives is upgradable. Expansion will have to be entirely done through external PCIe chassis, and TB2 is NOT as fast as PCIe3. It's such an inelegant solution and very half-assed.

I don't just want an engineering marvel on my desk. I want it to be pragmatic and easy to expand. Using the excuse that most machines are going the other way is not viable – this is a professional machine, and every professional has different standards.
Well, you seem determined to avoid actually addressing what I am saying. The Constitution harshly proscribes dishonest statements by officials to lawmakers. The surveillance policy was sold through lies and obfuscation to both Congresspeople and the general public. The American people may not broadly oppose espionage, but unless they broadly support it with actual foreknowledge of the specific policies, the lack of opposition is irrelevant. It is hardly surprising that no one is sure what to think in such an environment.

Snowden's leaks have changed that to some extent, and hopefully they will continue to shed light on these policies so that an informed decision can finally be made.

EDIT: And seriously you can't read a paragraph of text without getting snarky? You asked what the Constitution had to say and I responded in detail.
Hah. Electric cars have been a thing in China for awhile. Look up BYD... They develop batteries for electric cars too....
Did Romans play at D&D???
Bitcoin Atm Startup Race In Londan
In this case... he's also looking to build a system that will let him control multiple wallets.

The best part is that people are going to essentially hand wallets over to him to manage this, in both BTC and DOGE.

He's not going to come out behind, no matter how it goes .
For this person I would advise working against any company that isn't a software/tech company (or, at the very least, that doesn't have the development of software as a line of business or as the primary means of support for their revenue driving activities).

These organizations--governments, schools, and hospitals--aren't "tech companies". Their cultures are generally the opposite of what a person interested in technical challenges in software would want. They're places where "playing it safe" and "playing politics" are far more important than writing software.
Check out: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/

We work on WordPress.com and other cool services.
ECM is still a bit pricey for many individuals (although if you travel, or order a lot of stuff online and need it reshipped, it is a great deal.)

For a startup, especially a smaller one w/o an office manager or formal office, it is an amazing value. The SF office in particular is very helpful.
FWIW I get/understand the goal directed version (exemplar: I'm looking to pay off credit debts (student loans, CC) and save for down payment on a house.)

The fastest way to make money "now" is to sell something you already own.

The second fastest is to create a service business which pays for your labor.

The third fastest is to sell things for someone else, where they let you keep a commission on everything you sell.

The fourth fastest is to take a professional job (Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer) at a large firm, and work your way up to a senior position.

The slowest is start a company, build a product, make it successful, and then sell the company.

The tricky bit is navigating the path in a way that you enjoy or are fulfilled by. My observation is that not doing so puts you in a less useful place at the end of your life. But I by no means have a statistically valid sampling of that.
Yalo – Lisp OS running on bare metal x86-64 hardware
Jackhammer: new cross-platform level editor for Half-Life and Quake
Building habits at work - becoming more productive
But do those who were successful (and success requires luck, not just a motivation, even Warren Buffet says this), deserve to pay less than those who are mildly successful, or poor? Because that is a thing and was pointed out in the article specifically. Many of the highest earners pay less proportionately than those in the middle class (or poor in some cases).

Finally Successful does not necessarily mean it is earned success. Inheritance (or just being born into an upper class family and all of its benefits) is not earned and can in many cases lead to being 'successful'.