skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the jobs that tick ~2's boxes are more likely to be jobs where managers see programmers as cogs in a machine. You don't have leverage if they don't believe they can't replace you, even if they can't. And in that sort of job, I think it's quite a bit more likely that they can.
How Not to name your product.
Is Jelly a bad name?
That's too bad. You missed out on some good points. Avoiding something because of the programming language can be a very reasonable decision. Personally, I could probably hack on some PHP if I really needed to, but I want to avoid putting myself in a position to need to do that. There are other options available that are better for me.
I have yet to see a solid discussion of wealth inequality that removes the outliers. Given that 85 people have half the worlds wealth, it would appear to me that a study which looks at the numbers without those people would be more interesting in helping us understand how our systems and markets are moving wealth for 99.999% of us.

Even still, the goal should not be balanced wealth but continual upward mobility for all people - or more aptly distance from poverty. There will always be rich and poor but the standard of living and equity of opportunity for the poor is what we should focus on. It is more important that a poor kid have good education, healthcare and living standards than it is to rebuke the rich guy for having a yacht. It seems we are in this stage where we recognize something isn't right but we are immaturely blaming the rich guy and saying he should give his money to the poor kid rather than finding real solutions to the plight of the poor kid.
Nostalgia. Just realized I have graduated from college for 10 years now. fb was the hottest thing my senior year. good old days of writing stuff on ppl's wall. The "relationship status" thing was so cool specially when selecting "It's complicated". The best part was feeling part of a special group because we all had to use .edu email to register. I remember I graduated and immediately asked my friend who was still in college for his .edu email because I obviously didn't want to give up my account. How far have we come since then.
Beautiful growth and retention metrics for your SaaS application.
So similar to Soda (https://github.com/LearnBoost/soda) by the looks of it, but with Selenium server management and CI support.
Because we want to move towards a world of smaller dependencies, and libraries depending on jQuery slows that down.
I'm not entirely convinced that money laundering is unethical in its own right. Certainly, profiting from unethical activity is only once removed from unethical. That would make obfuscating the taint on unethical-once-removed funds an act that is unethical-twice-removed.

Clearly, there has to be some point at which we can no longer care, because I'm not certain that (metaphorically) there is a coin circulating that hasn't been dipped in blood at least once. Otherwise, the farmer who sells a hog to the butcher that sells sliced ham to the mafia capo's wife also shares the taint.

And even that presumes that the money to be laundered is profit from an unethical act, rather than one merely prohibited by government edict. I personally do not find marijuana-based commerce to be unethical. Therefore, I don't particularly feel as though a seller of sinsemilla on Silk Road should feel bad about wanting to be able to spend his profits without getting pinched, even if it means a murderer-for-hire could theoretically also prevent someone from following his money.

It isn't the money that's dirty or clean. It's the person holding it. Thus, I believe the criminalization of money laundering practices is simply an effort by the governments to solidify their control over the financial sectors, and to make their efforts at fighting crime less labor-intensive.

Even if all money were perfectly untraceable, police could still solve crimes by examining the evidence of the crime, rather than the evidence that someone got paid for it.

Of course, states seem to think that is rather a useful tool to have, so I expect that this business will be raided and shut down sooner or later. My advice is to cash out (in actual cash, no less) on the unexpected success as soon as possible, and then exit the business entirely before someone decides to make an example of it.
I didn't see anything surprising.
Map: 'How Much Snow It Typically Takes to Cancel School in the U.S.'
Given how integrated the economy and land use is, it is not a reasonable idea in the near term. If you actually were going to divide the US on a red / blue split then it would be more appropriate at a county level[1] and would result in a bunch of city-states and one big land area[2].

1) states are not really granular enough given the existence of "battleground states" and what that means for election divisions

2) LA and SF might want to buy a desalination plant fairly quickly
That's a different issue. This one is instances that are launched into an sg that is then left unmodified. If there are a moderate to large number of instances in that sg, intermittent network connectivity problems will ensue.

The issue you mention (where you have to treat sg's as being immutable if you want them to work reliably) is another problem with the sg's.
I thought -- and I could be wrong -- that Logo in its more modernish forms had been used in some fairly large simulation systems (even distributed ones).
ha! that's awesome!
There’s a giant robot directing traffic in Congo
That link is for "virtual currencies" and here's one for "prepaid access".

http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/frn/pdf/Prepaid_Final_7-...

In summary, in the US you must know your customer, have anti-money-laundering procedures, file suspicious activity reports, keep records for law enforcement, etc. Highly regulated.
I get the desire to not want clock-punchers. But I've seen all variety of teams bust their collective ass to get a product working as good as it could. (And then grind to a stop in 5 minutes when management sends an email saying they have to work overtime.) This was without trying to only hire people willing to dump in massive overtime.

I don't think getting developers to bust their ass is something you can recruit. I think it's something you can cultivate by making it clear that the developers' product is valued.
Are welfare payments included in income of an individual or not?
Sense and sensorbility: the book that lets you feel your protagonist's pain
[edit: the author has since corrected the Gini definition in the article]

I've never encountered the Gini coefficient before, but reading up on it on Wikipedia, the author appears to have the measure flat backward.

"A score of "0" on the Gini coefficient represents complete equality, i.e., every person has the same income. A score of 1 would represent complete inequality, i.e., where one person has all the income and others have none."

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_coe...

Also see the chart here, with the US rising toward inequality ever since the 60's. Again, the caption says "where 0 is perfect equality, and 100 is perfect inequality."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#Gini_coefficie...
The short answer is (in California at least) it's a huge pain in the ass to comply with money transmission laws. You definitely need a lawyer. You might need a large amount of capital to backstop the business. You should also keep in mind that there is some uncertainty over what the law entails right now (hence the need for a lawyer), especially with respect to bitcoin. There is at least one ongoing lawsuit over California's money transmission laws.

California info: http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Licensees/money_transmitters/

Other states will have their own requirements. Depending on the nature of the business, you may have to interact with the SEC and FINRA. Again, get a lawyer.
Huh? NSL? US papers obviously did cover this story and, as far as I know, no US hard drives were required to be destroyed.
Just a bit of a counterpoint (taken from a comment on the Data Tau site):

"Data kiddies like me are coming.
I just ran multiple passes of the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm with a 100-layer neural network on a tfidf-vectorized dataset. I have no clue what that all exactly means, all I know is that it took under an hour and it gives a higher (top 10%) AUC score.
Kaggler amateurs are beating the academics by brute force or smarter use of the many tools that are currently freely available.
Show a regular Python dev some examples and library docs and she can compete in ML competitions.
I was getting good results with LibSVM before I even understood how SVM's work on the surface. Feed the correct input format and some parameters and you are good to go. Random Forests can be applied to nearly anything and get you 75%+ accuracy.
Maybe I am just a engineer looking for pragmatic and practical use of techniques from ML and data science. Hard data scientists will be the statisticians, the algorithmic theory experts, the experimental physicists. It takes me 7 years to understand a complex mathematical paper. It takes me 7 minutes to train a model and predict a 1 million test set with Vowpal Wabbit."

The point is that a Data Scientist is really a person who is a blend of statistician and software engineer. Sure, there are brilliant people who will invent new ML algorithms, but you don't need to invent that stuff to be of tremendous value to a business who has data that they aren't currently getting much value out of. Just as a software engineer at a small business doesn't need to write a database, she just needs to be able to implement one somebody else wrote to add tremendous value.
It does appear that he got that backwards.
Interesting that you bring this up the day after Microsoft donates a bunch of server designs to the Open Compute Project. I definitely think that hybrid cloud approaches will squeeze out middlemen like HP and Dell. OEMs and customers are going to be the big winners here.
Are Experienced Founders Better?
I walked by Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book" for years before I realized it was gold. It's discussed in this post and it's well worth reading.
Why would you remove the outliers? There is information in the sample distribution, and if you are removing everything outside 3sigma (or even 6sigma) you are squashing the data.

A high level of wealth comes with disproportionate political power. One shouldn't disregard this aspect and confine the discussion to most people having a fairly comfortable life.
Maybe, but 99% of the time it's because the proprietors can't pay their bills when people occupy their limited seating area for hours and hours on end without spending any money. Take the hint and find a Starbucks.
Yes, that is another application of word power tools... although if I wanted to make it even more arm-twisting I would say "Because you read this far, you should follow..."

"Because" is another well-known power word.
The split is not red-blue. There are distinct regional cultures in America that might be called nations. Scroll down and look at the county map in the link. Read "American Nations".
Bare javascript will be a part of every project. You can learn another arbitrary API, but at the end of the day, bare js is what we all need to speak.
Sharefest – WebRTC Torrent-like Filesharing
Orange or gold will complement against the blue/green background, especially when you are popping/zooming out. They get lost in the background when the view pulls out.
The problem is that poverty is continually redefined as standard of living and opportunities increase.

Poverty used to be living in a shanty town during the dust bowl where you could possibly die of dehydration any day. Poverty now is living in a house where you only get basic cable and don't have the money to buy a nice steak dinner.
"The solution to worrying about JS lib/framework size: include one less .jpg on your site." - https://twitter.com/paul_irish/status/227203681462927361

also, https://twitter.com/trek/status/227082154109186049 and http://fourkitchens.com/blog/2013/04/24/one-less-jpg/
IANAL, but these are two different issues. We are discussing a trademark, not a mechanic. TTC never got any of their cases regarding trademark, precisely because no one called it tetris (which is not even a real word). King hasn't copyrighted match-3, and probably won't ever be able to (what with prior art with at least Bejeweled, and I'm sure others before that)

Even aside from all that, I think #candyjam is protected under fair use. The intent is very obviously parody.
In fact, it'll probably end up with someone participating in the jam that has a sizable legal team, and they could probably string up a class-action lawsuit for everyone in the jam, which would probably amount to huge settlement costs if King tried to pay their way out of court. Lose-lose situation for them; they shell out massive amounts or lose their trademark for not protecting it.
I would argue that the Circles system was fairly innovative when it launched, but needed polishing and a better UI so as to be less confusing for users.
Wealth inequality is actually not all that interesting, income inequality is all that really matters.

Most of the US doesn't save a significant percentage of their income. And while that may prove a problem when they go to retire, it doesn't mean they aren't receiving their fair share.
Or you know, they could not care less.
Reasons to use jquery

- Other devs in the team are using it

- Unless it's a small pet project, you will probably need it down the road even if you don't need it now

- Minified jquery is like 32kb. That means literally nothing in modern web. Unless you are from 1995 using 2G connection, this doesn't matter.

- Modern browsers are good. It's going to handle jquery like a champ. Don't worry.

- jQuery code is probably better than yours.

- Lots of 3rd party libraries have jquery as a dependancy.

Reasons not to use jquery and use just javascript

- Want to learn javascript

- Writing a library or framework and you don't want jquery dependancy

- Working on a very small website
This is a side show. Whether or not the statistics show rising or falling income inequality is irrelevant.

There is massive income inequality. Its trajectory isn't nearly as large of an issue as the status quo, which is pretty dismal.

Until that gini coefficient is much better, and we have no one living below the poverty line, we still have a ton of work to do.

This article seems to be making a shallow point only to encourage inaction on the core problem. The trajectory of income inequality is a red herring trying to distract us from the harsh reality of our present wealth, opportunity, and income inequality.

The right thing to do is to keep working to solve the core problem. Restore the US to a progressive tax system instead of regressive. Pass living wage laws. Improve the social safety net. Maybe even consider doing what Switzerland is considering, and give everyone (rich and poor) a reasonable guaranteed income as an alternative to expensive and sometimes ineffective welfare programs.

At the small scale, volunteer locally, especially anything having to do children and improving their education.

Unfortunately, along the way we will be fed a constant stream of garbage articles like this, held up with straight faces by a chorus of onlookers telling us there is no problem to fix. Look outside. There are poor and hard working people out there who aren't being rewarded for their hard work and are severely struggling. No amount of fancy statistics bending will justify inaction.
This seems to solve one problem, but does it create another? Does it diminish the incentive for partners? Or wind up penalizing the winners (better firms coming out of demo day) by reducing their exposure to firms most likely to invest in them?

My sense is net this is positive.
Nerds Are Taking Your Lunch Money
Ah I knew I could not be the first one to come up with this idea. Nice to see an alternative as well! I love the sounds you added.

I like the fact that I provide all data for the website myself, though I'm not in a position to buy a lot of servers. So let's hope this one will hold :)

FYI: Your normal globe wasn't loading for me, I am seeing the same error that bothered my version as well. That is until @mrdoob pointed me to the error: https://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/429292386611511296
Interesting snippet: "... a startup's fundraising trajectory is almost always established, one way or another, by 3 weeks after Demo Day..."

I never knew fund raising worked so quickly.
So I'm about to get into building a large scale browser-based app testing solution, but the testing I'm doing isn't one of correctness, but of performance. This is a particularly persnickety problem since I need a solution where the probing itself doesn't introduce side effects that invalidate the test results. For example, many of the solutions I've seen use iFrames to isolate the test environment, but that introduces an entirely new and significant layer of redirection, especially when your results rely on GPU-related functions like CSS transforms.

Can anyone who has done lots of browser based testing shed light on what solutions out there introduce the fewest or no side effects when probing?
Breaking Madden – Integer Overflow in video game
Am I the only one that thinks 15% could be too low? Unless they are rapidly investing in new games, it seems like they're on a "Milk what you have, and buy what you don't" strategy.
Do you guys consider federalisation as an option? Ukraine seems like a sufficiently big and diverse country for that.
It sure as hell won't resolve the problem of which trade block to join though.
Well, given that thousands of big companies use AWS, and millions of users rely on them, this doesn't seem to be the case.
I've been trying for days to get OwnCloud working properly with for my 30 person startup. I wish I could say it was going great but I'm a couple hours away from trying out DropBox for business.

I went with Ubuntu, 200GB EBS, M1X-large and the latest OwnCloud (6.0.1 stable)

Syncing has been brutal. We have a 100MB connection, and even the few test users I've put on it all are complaining of it not consistently syncing. Additionally there is no LAN Sync like Dropbox, so you're paying for all the bandwidth.

Since i't at somewhere between $250-300 for OwnCloud and it's been working so poorly, the $450/month for Dropbox isn't looking as bad.

It's a shame. There is good potential here, but as others mentioned the UI is really janky, and it doesn't consistently work as expected.
Circles was neat, but it solved the wrong problem. I gave a talk about it a few years ago: http://youtu.be/e3Zs74IH0mc
Glad someone else caught that. Another glaring issue with the Gini coefficient is that it tracks income inequality and not wealth inequality. It's well known that the rich don't make their money via income but rather through ownership.

TL;DR: The Gini coefficient is a shitty metric to make any conclusions, especially when taken in a vacuum.
As an ex resident of East London (Leyton) he's right about it being a shitty area and having a high muslim population. However these two facts are independent.

I would lock my doors too. Only because I know two people who got carjacked.
Taking the service offline was a good move. You can request an administrative ruling from FinCEN. It would be prudent to meet with an attorney first and have the attorney draft and send the letter (it may receive a quicker response on attorney letterhead).

As a side note attorneys can not contact you, they can send you advertisements or return your calls but they can not directly contact you, you must contact an attorney. Therefore any attorney who contacts you as a result of this post should immediately raise a red flag in you mind.

In the meantime here is FinCEN's guidance on virtual currencies: http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....

And FinCEN's final rule on prepaid access(aka gift cards): http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/html/20110726b.html
That's fair enough, but my last paragraph was directed at a very specific demographic. There are a lot of posters on HN who expect to make $200k+, at least, as a programmer. The typical job paying in that range tends to be fairly demanding. Do you disagree with that? I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but the vast majority of developers I know with incomes above and beyond the $200k mark have put in a huge amount of effort to get to that position. They're clearly passionate about something--either programming or, well, just money.

Also, for what it's worth, "lifestyle businesses" are often tied directly to having lower hours.
Stopped reading after his absolutely incorrect Gini definition.
Super Bowl Prostitution Digitally Mapped by Data Tracker
Lots of things are wrong with this article, not least of which is that the writing is so unclear that it's hard to make enough sense of his argument to point out what's wrong.

That said, the main takeaway here is that the author doesn't consider growing income disparity to be a problem. Perhaps a better way to look at it is this: growing income disparity is a symptom of the real problem, which is that the economy hasn't really done all that well since the end of the 90s.

A strong economy that's serving all individual participants well would result in shrinking income disparity over time. The fact that we don't see this is indicative of some major problems.
Are there any small companies that may superficially appear to be money transmitters but are not?
The most comprehensive currency API for your company
How do you mean? To me, this looks like the paper trying to protect itself, by keeping what exactly they read in those files secret. They weren't cooperating, but they also weren't willing to take the government to court.
Fixing corrupted Outlook PST files
"This should fix the problem. If it doesn't we'll try something else."

That's an interesting phrase. This should really be implicit in everything we say or do. It stands to reason, if something doesn't work, you try something different.

But when you're famous and have thousands of people who constantly try to undermine you or misquote you or take something out of context, you start to need to be explicit in calling this out. Otherwise next month's tech rag headline says "YC partner recants failed investment policy".
It's a weird criticism given that Dropbox is proprietary, you can't modify it even if it is pristine code.
Not finding mention of it in the wiki page - if you can find a source that seems like it would be a worthwhile addition. Very cool, if the case! I think my general point still stands that there are types of success that are not likely to lead to big projects written in the language, though it is certainly weakened.
A new blog post [1] from Ross Douthat addresses this in an interesting way.

Part of the inequality picture is that demographic changes in recent decades, with women becoming a significant part of the workforce, and the rise of single-parent households, has skewed family-based inequality significantly. In the referenced article, Douthat considers the underlying causes of that. Essentially, are the changing rules in society (taboos about sex, marriage, divorce, etc.) dooming those who already don't have a strong societal backdrop to guide them?

[1] http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/?module=BlogMain&action=Cli...
...and spending a few million on an advertising campaign is probably a waste to you too then huh..
I had never heard of this.

"In an effort to help cool the pile, the airflow was increased. This fed more oxygen to the fire and lifted radioactive materials up the chimney and into the filter galleries. It was then that workers in the control room realised that the radiation monitoring devices which measured activity at the top of the discharge stack were at full scale reading."
> It's deeply unfortunate.

No, it just means the system is broken.

And when things are broken, we fix them.