skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also from the NCCP:

65% (59,253) of children whose parents do not have a high school degree live in poor families.

42% (72,939) of children whose parents have a high school degree, but no college education live in poor families. [1]

There are a number of factors that contribute to child poverty and upward mobility, but it may be a bit hasty to suggest that the primary hindrance to upward mobility is single parenting per se. The study states that they are strong predictors, but that does not preclude other factors that may be correlated with single parenting.

This is hinted in the final sentence of your quote. If children of married parents have lower rates of mobility in communities with more single parents, this would suggest that the effect may be not the sole result of the parental structure, and instead associated factors such as socioeconomic status, social norms, education, etc.

[1]http://www.nccp.org/profiles/MS_profile_7.html
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Huh? Those people are contractors.
Apparently in the UK almost every inevitable crash will end with the driver swerving right, usually putting his passenger in harm (driver sits on the right). I'm told that's a natural and unavoidable reaction, so if it's true I assume the opposite holds for America and etc. I guess that's another decision the car has to make, do you hit an unavoidable obstacle head on or swerve, presumably drastically changing the survival chances of each passenger. The baseline human panic reaction is almost certainly easy to 'beat' but it's a horrifying though that a car would have to make that decision.
I agree that statistical correlations of marriage with various outcomes are very weak evidence of a causal effect.

However, I hope that people will apply this logic to ideas that come from both the left and right, e.g. the NYC ad campaign against teen pregnancy.

The same applies to the general principal that the government should not promote particular lifestyle. If girls want to get pregnant at 18, how is that any more the government's business than if they want to not get married?
Rackspace, cloud server company.

https://github.com/rackspace
https://github.com/rackerlabs

- 401K is available. Salary is competitive market rate for SF tech even if you're not a particularly strong salary negotiator. Quarterly bonuses, shows up as another ACH deposit to your bank account besides your regular bi-weekly(Fridays) deposit. Commuter-card, currently $125 free a month. If you want more than that, it's deducted pre-tax from your paycheck. Currently healthcare is Humana & Kaiser.

- Opensource is the name of the game. Built on Openstack, so python is big here but we do have Ruby and nodejs too; and probably other languages I'm not remembering right nwo. Challenging problems exist to work on and still given room to develop new ideas and pitch them to upper-management. Also allows at least 1 day a month for hack-a-thon to work on anything you want(ya know, as long as it's legal and not NSFW). I saw the beginnings of floobits.com when it was alpha-ware that crashed. They ended up being accepted into YCombinator.

- Life balance focused. There isn't the attitude that burning beyond 40hr/weeks is expected at all.

- Stable. I don't see Rackspace disappearing anytime soon.

- We have several people who work from home at least twice a week.

- Main HQ is actually in Texas, but the SF office isn't bad. No cubicles, open plan. Big eating area, foosball, table-tennis, plenty of space to bring your bike into the office and a machine that makes bubbly water. Free drinks like ice tea and diet soda. The soda is kept out of site though because people are trying to be healthy. Out of side, out of mind ;) ...But if you know where to look, you can get it. There's an Xbox on a big screen TV that people sometimes play football(as in soccer) on too.
Do you have an example of a language with arbitrary-precision overflow by default and comparable performance?
Funnily enough, no! I started working on LiberWriter as a way to produce eBooks after I started investigating the possibility of writing some books about life in Italy ( still in the works: http://www.therealitaly.com/ ) and got sidetracked when I noticed how involved eBook production is. I figured if it was a bit tough for me, for the average person it must be impossible. I still keep meaning to make more time for the Italy books, as I'd like to write up my experiences here.
When I was young, I was a dedicated athlete. To the point that I missed weeks of school every year to travel and compete in the championships. I would spend all of my down-time (including between matches) with index cards and graph-paper, designing campaigns.

Unfortunately, the sports meant I never had an opportunity to find anyone to play the campaigns with. To this day - in my thirties - I've only played for a few weeks with other people and that was fifteen years ago.

It's probably the one thing I really regret. That I didn't find people that were also into it and, as an adult, find a way to regularly group together with them. It seems like it would be an incredible blast. Especially since being an adult means having all the money for the fancy custom maps and all the guides and everything.

Long live the memory of Gary Gygax.
I've built a site that's like Goodreads but for video games (http://www.grouvee.com). It lets users catalog, rate, and share their video game collections. I'm on it every day almost because I play a lot of video games, and I love looking through people's reviews and collections.
I've been building Soulmix [1], an online tool for organizing and sharing great stuff on the web.

I use it every day. Most content isn't notable enough that I would want to come back to it, or keep notes on it. However, a few times a day, I stumble across something that I really like, and then post it to on Soulmix [2].

If you want to give the beta a spin, just request an invite, and I'll send one to your email.

[1] http://www.soulmix.com

[2] http://www.soulmix.com/alexshye
Laptop keyboards are directly connected to embedded controller primarily because they are completely passive switch matrices (and EC includes - often directly in hardware - logic for scanning keyboard matrix), so there is nothing meaningful to exploit on the EC side.

Also connecting EC directly to some PCI bus does not make much sense from both system design and cost perspectives. Usual place to connect EC to is LPC, which is explicitly designed for such devices (things on motherboard like serial/parallel/game ports, TPM, FDC, keyboard controller/EC, BIOS flash and various ). Random review of datasheets found by google seems to indicate that chips that are only embedded controllers and do not contain additional ISA based peripherals (like ISA DMA controller itself) tend to not even implement the pin required for LPC DMA/bus master transactions (as it is not required for anything in normal operation).
To give some context, several common math constants are use the MathConst type to provide multi-precision constants. This allows e.g. a*pi to be extremely accurate if a is, e.g. a BigInt.

This issue was also reported at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5561
As per my other post, the keyboard is most likely a PS2 keyboard interface (physical or emulated) connected to a simple PS2/LPC(ISA) bus interface inside the EC. It will literally deliver an IRQ to that bus (IRQ 1) at which point the EC has to suck down a character from the keyboard buffer and do something with it.

It's not clever, can't use DMA and generally is the dumbest thing in the entire machine.

If they somehow manage to work around it I'd eat a box of lightbulbs. It's hard enough to coerce it to work to start with.

Source: I used to design embedded PC kit from the board level.
"wev developer" wiki mentions every web framework except node.js
geoblocked in the US?
It suggests where to eat lunch if you haven't had it yet? Serious question, that would be an awesome feature, but I couldn't find anything on it. I don't regularly get lunch out but mine is always giving me "Places Nearby" which seem to have nothing to do with my interests.
Maybe you use it indirectly? Do you use chips & LEDs produced using your wafer stepper?
I previously did not use our app frequently as it only played one song and there was no play button. It plays audio in sync on multiple devices via the web and prior it did so without a play button.

Though after being on stage at a DC Tech event and hearing the organizer complain to the audience of the UX we added a play button & ability to play a bunch of songs. We now use it everyday and more people are too.

http://speakerblast.com (if interested)
> Will robots steal our jobs?

It's not stealing if I don't want it.
Seriously, think of techmeme as well... doing exactly the same - blogspam? http://www.techmeme.com/
BTW, the invalid numeric constants thing was fixed

julia> 55555555555555555555
55555555555555555555

julia> typeof(55555555555555555555)
Int128

julia> typeof(5555555555555555555555555555555555555555)
BigInt (constructor with 7 methods)
Bugs in software are so uncommon these days that I always assume any malfunctions are due to government interference. A human making a mistake while programming or using a computer? Not bloody likely. The government trying to infect my laptop with malware contained in a replacement keyboard? That's the only possible explanation!
Dropbox and Box are, for the moment, still startups.

Twitter isn't since they've IPOed.
Maybe (s)he expected positive changes for a change?
Only people in the US think the US is the market that counts. You need to open your eyes and realize there is a world full of people making money in and outside the US.

Think how your argument would apply to Xiaomi. They are absolutely killing it in China (I'm assuming they aren't in the US market), but one day they are going to turn their attention to the US and quite possibly dominate, like they have in China.

Also, don't forget, there was a time when Android was the 2nd platform to Apple in the US.
I'll have to be explicit since this seems hard to understand:

You're the NSA. Who do you trust more:
A) (Perhaps the) CTO of a defense contractor that only works for you that you've had a 20 year working relationship with?
B) The bright eyed young scientists working for that contractor in a building 3000 miles away?

Or put another way, despite the Snowden leak, I'll bet you any amount of money that the NSA is still in "really fucking tight" with Booz Allen Hamilton.

Or: duh OPSEC.
Assuming we change slowly to self-driving cars and they're operating for a while in an environment with human driven vehicles, no disaster scenario should be assumed out. They will have to deal with the situation that kill people right now, and them choices could easily reduce to "kill my passengers or those drunks in that car hurtling toward me" for example.

Better than humans is great, sophisticated AI is great, we can't expect perfect but I don't see a situation where they enter an environment much less dangerous than today's.
That's the kind of projects I think about in the shower or when I'm procrastinating.

I need to hack on X.
- Current editors suck, I should create an editor.
- Current languages suck, I should create a language, and I'll build my editor in it.
- Current OS suck, I'll write the OS in my editor using my language.

Meh, maybe another day, 2 hours later X is hacked in python using vim.
"Two eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup regular sugar, 2 sticks softened butter. Fold in 2 1/4 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and a couple tablespoons of vanilla. For an extra chocolate jag, toss in 3 tablespoons of cocoa. Oh, don't forget 2 cups of chocolate chips. Bake 'em at 375 degrees for 10 minutes."

This is very similar to the Toll House cookie recipe, but with even more vanilla which I think is an excellent idea. And that extra cocoa powder looks good too!

Edit: For metric measures, 250 ml white sugar, 250 ml soft butter, 530 ml flour, 2.5 ml salt, 5 ml baking soda, 30 ml vanilla, (optional 45 ml cocoa), 250 ml chocolate chips.

I wonder if someone could do this in by-weight measures? Flour is too compressible to measure accurately by volume.
This might help you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995020
Financed with a withdrawal from the ATM machine, of course.
The idea that Bezos has already turned the WaPo into Amazon's personal PR factory seems highly unlikely. Esp. when you see articles like this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/16...
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I recently had to test compilation of a project for work on FreeBSD and feel like my eyes were opened.

I went into the task thinking "the BSDs are OLD" yet there must be something great about this operating system. It's beloved in certain communities and used at popular successful startups such as Netflix. There must be something I've been missing that those who cherish it have come to understand.

What I found was the perfect blend of modern and old school. It's not old feeling at all!

It had all of the newest GNU software (and otherwise) that I've come to know and love on other operating systems but also a sense of stability about the core that you don't get with Linux. There was a sense of underlying structure that had actually been planned out instead of discovered over time and it made the whole process of learning about how it worked a pleasure.

In addition, the FreeBSD manual was actually helpful and gave me a sense of completeness rather than "the text in this wiki is just scratching the surface of a complex wrapper for x that used to be y".

It's simple yet powerful, up to date but solid and I'd highly recommend FreeBSD as a result of the experience.
Good call!
Naturally, the prophet of the absolute, ultimate hypertext system puts out his ideas without even using ordinary text. We can assume that in Nelson's world, the system would transcribe and add to his words without him making the effort. (Edit: Despite the fact that Nelson is periodically looking off screen, there's reason to think he's reading from a prepared text. He quite possibly is reading from bullet points that he is used translating into statements - something I think many experienced public speakers do).

Nelson is a fascinating character for his idealism concerning what computer interfaces should do.

It's easy to see how that idealism might be serving as screen hiding the inherent barriers to such a system ever existing - especially, as technology allows one to give data more structures and inter-relations, there's actually no guarantee that the tools for dealing with those structures will keep with their complexity.
Looks like she posted it before... Either way I would cut her access to the Tor project.
Thanks for the clarification!

But one question remains: how does the EC control stuff like the bluetooth radio and webcams? They're USB devices to the OS, so in theory there should be a USB hub inside the EC?
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How is this a culture than women do not fit into? Are women not allowed to go into bars and "hit on" guys? Women are 1/2 of the equation here, if there were no women in bars, guys would have nobody to "hit on".

Btw, this is a phenomenon is certainly not any more common than in other professions .. watch any television show about cops, lawyers, bankers or doctors .. it's just our culture.
It's always seemed to me that places nearby is somewhat based on time, I'm more likely to get the cinema in the afternoon and a restaurant in the evening. It could just be coincidental but it'd make sense if it is influenced by time. That's not as clever as knowing I haven't had lunch yet, but since I often have it with me or buy it in a supermarket or something, they'd have no way of accurately knowing anyway.
(disclaimer, I work for a news agency) I would agree that anything that recaps a news article/press release without adding significant analysis would just be blogspam. By all means link to your blog if you're adding more than a paragraph of thought on the original subject, if not, link to the original article. But hey, HN is a democratic site, so y'know, whatevs.
It all depends.

I've had the privilege of working on some really amazing technical projects for a state government.
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I'm inclined to believe that this is a mistake - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and all that.

...However, since hypothetically this could happen, how could it be prevented? Would there be some unbreakable way for a manufacturer to tell you if the keyboard had been tampered with?

I was thinking of those silver foils that are now put over a lot of food items so that crazies can't put stuff in them in the supermarket. I appreciate wrapping it in plastic probably wouldn't be enough to defeat the security services, but you get the idea.
i built a few jobs boards (http://djangojobbers.com, http://railsjobbers.com). If I see any interesting django job published I apply to it (usually pointing out you are the system developer grants you some extra points).

Also I built a password manager (https://identee.com). I am finishing a pro version of it (with a Command Line Interface client, instead of browser based), which is the one I am using. Indeed I am the only one using it since its not live yet ;-)
Apart from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/slumping-intel-cu...
Yep my first thought as well.
I'm curious how you got all that from what sounds like a small task: getting something to compile on FreeBSD.
Makes perfect sense for selling outside north america, should help them with the court case over their marque in China as well. http://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-motors-tsla-china-zhan-baosheng...
"Yeah, like anyone cares what the Chronicle prints"

Seems like people do. Including yours truly.
I wouldn't be so dismissive.

The Hamilton Project has found marriage rates are decreasing across the board, but far faster in lower-income groups [1]. The marriage rate of those in the lowest income percentile have dropped almost 30%, while the highest income percentile has dropped less than 10%.

Of course, these are not absolute values, but I think it's hardly a "garbage argument" that poverty results in fewer marriages. There a number of other sources that have similar conclusions.

[1]http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/jobs/posts/2012/02/03-jobs-gr...
This would be perfect for Kim Dotcom.
Are we talking push bikes? At least in the UK you don't need a license for that anyway. I guess it's possible you wouldn't need a license for a self-driving car, but while regulations demand a fit driver who can control the vehicle that won't be the case.
I would, but the commission on chocolate is so low that I don't think I would get a good ROI.

But I did sell 3 Chocolate bars with that link so it might work out better than I thought.

I'll promise in a week to do a follow up with stats from the link and Post it on HN "How I made 84 cents on a single Hacker News Post And So Can You"
I was prescribed 10 mg in the beginning but I requested the doc to increase it to 30 mg. I thought higher dose helps. Then the side effects started showing. I will ask for lower dosage.
I agree with your thinking, though I think we'd still have bloatware on phones even if there were more competition among wireless carriers.

PC market is quite competitive, yet most computers come with bloatware. The difference is, they can be uninstalled, but I suspect that may be due to OEM licensing agreement with Microsoft, than the competition among PC makers.

But at least with PCs, some of the revenue gained from bloatware is passed onto customers by the way of lower pricing.

In the end, this regulation is beneficial as long as the wireless market is competitive, so the carriers simply don't pass off the cost back onto the consumers. In that sense, I share with some other poster's sentiment that government regulations should focus on ensuring competitive landscape first.
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Very poorly. There's virtually nothing on the majors' home pages (e.g., only WSJ has it above the fold now), and blogs latch on to fiery pictures only. Much better coverage @ Reuters and BBC.
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I'm not asking YC anything. I'm asking the community of users.

Edit: Thanks for the info though ;p
Married are people are allowed to file separately, they are not allowed to file as Single, which is what the GP was suggesting happens.

MFS has much much much lower deductions and credits than Single does - so married people filing Single instead of MFS are committing tax fraud.
Julia is very fast, 0.12 second, 0.60 second for sbcl (lisp)

julia>function haz(n)
s = 0
for i in 1:n
if i % 2 == 0
s = s+1
else
s = s-1
end
end
s
end
haz (generic function with 1 method)

julia> @elapsed haz(10^8)
0.12459633

Compare with lisp sbcl on the same machine:

(defun haz(n)
(let ((s 0))
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0))
(fixnum n s))
(loop for i fixnum from 1 upto n
do (if (zerop (mod n 2)) (incf n) (decf n))
finally (return s))))
If "this for that" is the raison d'etre of the startup, that's a red flag.

Most of the time it's just the best way of describing a startup in 3 words or so. Our startup, http://clara.io/, is "google docs for 3D animation". It's not a great explanation of what we do or why, but it's about as good as you can get in a very short sentence.
I tried a German and Canadian IP address. Indeed, it is blocked. I didn't know. The website is from a german public TV channel. Other videos are working on their website.
> an objective like "reroute path to include Krispy Kreme, but only if it isn't too far out of the way" is going to have too many edge cases to do 100% reliably

Too many edge cases? I'm sure you would have said the same thing about self-driving cars not too long ago. In a world where cars drive themselves, choosing an alternate route based on traffic and waypoints is a relatively easy problem to solve.
It's going after low-hanging fruit to say this and while the link I'm providing is not the NSA, our government agencies seem to have a real hard time keeping secrets lately.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131220/10200525651/fbi-ag...

Apparently keeping secrets is hard. Human error and all.
It would be pretty stupid for a spy agency to give a target clear warning that their electronics were tampered with.

Isn't the whole point of this program to capture information that the target wouldn't otherwise broadcast publicly?
What do you mean exactly? Was there ever a time when Apple encouraged people to make unlicensed clones of their machines?
There's no reason to suspect it's a static system.

People have a history of rushing to start new businesses where there's lots of value being created at little cost.

For a couple examples: the 1849 gold rush, and the current internet startup rush.
Men currently hold most of the "worldly" power -- political offices, CEO positions, etc -- and, on average, make about 150% of the money women make in the U.S.*

* (These stats may be a bit out of date but I have no reason to believe that they have changed substantially. HN itself is a very male dominated forum and it is a place to meet and greet power brokers and god help you if you are a woman. It is not a very friendly place for a woman trying to make professional contacts, etc.)