skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't in any way think the antagonism towards tech workers make sense, I don't think you're quite on target with your numbers.

A) income tax is progressive and continuous, you can't say $28k in taxes for the 28% bracket (however, FICA and CA income taxes mean that number is in the right ball park)

B) a couple living on one income in a 2-bedroom isn't considered a birthright in dense cities like SF

C) $100k would be an unusually low salary even for someone just out of school taking the megacorp buses, and this is before bonuses and RSUs

So I disagree with the thesis that Bay Area tech workers are by any measure living a spartan life.
I like these: http://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Beans-Variety-Single-cup-Brew...
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Doesn't seem like hubiC exposes a truly S3-compatible API, which is sad given that it seems to be based on OpenStack Swift.
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I've heard the p2p stuff is going away on the desktop app, but you could easily get around it by using the webplayer or mobile app. AFAIK, there's no way to limit the upload speed in the current desktop implementation (in the app).

The content is generally pretty good but they depend on the artists/labels getting it into aggregators or making it available. Bootlegs won't be there because that would probably piss the bands off.
I live in SF, and I can confirm that I'll walk past people and overhear the same fragments of conversation, talking about the buses and gentrification. The tone varies, but just because not everyone is protesting doesn't mean the ideas aren't out there.
One of the major issues in academia is the total abuse of the postdoc system. Instead of doing a postdoc for a 1-2 years, you can now see people in postdocs for 5+ years. It's a horrible half-way existence. You have your PhD, but you don't have your own lab so you get paid like crap. Instead of PIs paying staff scientists (which would demand 2X higher salaries), they just load up on postdocs because they are available and cheap.

Unfortunately, we have way too many highly trained scientists and not enough research funding. Realistically, the only way out of this is increased government funding, and that's not happening anytime soon.
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There's a large body of work on variations of the secretary problem. The one I know of which is most relevant to your question is section 4 of the following:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~rdk/papers/secArt4.pdf

Section 6 is particularly interesting, where you're further restricted - you want to choose multiple secretaries, but there's certain constraints on the sets you can choose. For example, the secretaries might be edges in a graph, and you can't pick a subset of edges which would result in a cycle (this is a "graphic matroid," which is an example of a mathematical object known as a matroid). The reason why this formulation of the problem is interesting is because the best known algorithm is O(sqrt(log k))-competitive (where k is the rank of the matroid), whereas it is conjectured that an O(1)-competitive algorithm exists.
Agreed (I'm not a C.S. person, I'm a computational epidemiologist). This was mostly addressing the notion that because you don't need the LHC, or banks of PCR machines, or to enroll a couple thousand patients, that C.S. is somehow cheap, has zero costs, and zero pressure to get grant money.

Postdocs, and computing time, and grad students, and your salary are all things that need to be supported by grant money.

It might be easier, but to assert it's easy is flawed.
If by Linux you mean iPads and Chromebooks.
I'm Russian, I hate Putin, I support our troops in Crimea, and the article is right that Nato just doesn't want to lose influence right under the Russian border, that's all western hysteria is about.

However I think news like this probably should be posted on reddit than here.
Unless you view Nest as the source of data (which many believe it is)
I don't think it's possible to over-dramatize a sovereign nation's cities and airports being occupied by its neighbor. This isn't a little misunderstanding or an "oops, somebody flew a few miles off course and wound up in your airspace."
I agree that estimation is important. But so important that we start children with it? That smells wrong to me. Estimation is about intuitive thinking. Mathematics is usually a child's first introduction to formal, rigorous thought. Don't go soft on it.
Just as long as we get to call google neighborhoods the burbclaves
The thought that Russia would do this was raised during the 2012 US Presidential campaign and was mocked in the press and by the current administration. I think we are seeing the effects of that attitude in the response. I am not confident that the US has a good answer or one Putin would believe.
It's stressful because I really don't enjoy the type of work that I do (I don't like the business domain/industry I've found). I actually work from home quite a bit, but that really isn't the cause of my misery.

I think the only way I'll ever be happy in a coding career is if I get to work on my own projects or if I work for a startup that I'm deeply passionate about.
Ever since I took Discrete Math in College, I have thought it would be a great way to introduce school kids to Math.
Better: has been used already for decades. Phone tapping and GPS.
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I always feel bad when I see these posts. I'm 26 and in a major city, but finding dates is a serious problem for me. My looks are only slightly below average (4/10) but my personality is probably the deal breaker.
I would say moreover the fear of Google.
I don't think that was exactly a lay explanation. Was interested myself.
You don't have to use them for that, you can use them for composing models out of shared bits of functionality, for example 5 of your models have a status - put all the code about statuses in one place in a concern and include Status in your models, and possibly similar for controllers - this cuts code duplication.

There is also an argument for making models smaller by splitting some of their functionality into modules too (what you're talking about), but I think that's a weaker case - better to use concerns for shared code.
I was wondering if this was serving as some kind of rebuttal to the occupy wallstreet stuff. As in - "don't pay attention to the actual wealth inequality that is choking the economy in many places, these recent grads who work in the Valley but live in SF are the bad guys"

Sure conjecture and conspiracy-theoryish but why the fuck else would any part of the media be paying attention to 10 protesters and a staged, crass fake "nerd" pretending to be a Google employee?
I'm curious, what makes you support the invasion?

I think it's obvious to everyone that NATO would love to have influence on the Russian border, and that Russia would prefer if that didn't happen, but that doesn't make a military invasion okay. The "Western hysteria," at least what I've seen from over here in the good old US of A, is about the possibility of a significant (which it would be even if nobody else gets involved) war in Europe.
You may buy uniforms and any attributes in near by shops. It's simple as that and doesn't go father than a lot of Hollywood movies with fake cops. We will never know for sure who did what, why and when.
Although I would never call that a model, I think that we're doing similar things for similar reasons.

Command, Virtual Model, Verb Model, Interaction. If I were working on your team I am sure we could agree that one of those would do for a name.
A = 48% of the debt

!A = 52% of the debt

q = not owned by the wealthy or foreigners

!q = owned by wealthy or foreigners

I believe the data shows A && q, but !A && !q is much less clear and A && q is larger than many people might expect, that's all. A && q does not mean !(!A && !q) as you point out.

Around half of !q is owned by foreigners, mostly foreign central banks, so there's that. The distribution of the remainder of !q is unclear.

Also, note the difference between "benefits" vs. "own" which are not the same. Buying bonds has a variety of effects. Buying a bond from someone benefits the former owner immediately but raising the price of bonds lowers bond yields making buying all new bonds less profitable. It also lowers the cost of financing all government debt, benefiting all taxpayers. But reducing bond yields tends to increase the demand for other assets, such as stocks, increasing the paper value of stocks. Similar story for pushing dollars abroad to foreign bond holders, sending dollars abroad makes the dollar cheaper, boosting exports and hurting imports but reducing market bond yields should do the opposite. But if the market expects inflation from quantitative easing it should reduce the future value of money, increasing bond yields again, but tends to depress stocks but not value stocks as much...

Simply put, the claim that buying bonds helps the wealthy is an idea that needs a lot more support than thoughtless one-liners that twang the emotional strings of power and betrayal.
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DragonBox on iOS is pretty good at teaching algebra. http://dragonboxapp.com
This only works if you stick with every partner long enough to get a perfectly accurate assessment of them as a long term mate, that your assements are perfectly objective, independent, and stable, and that you know n.

The amount of ifs, ands, and buts in this caveat means it's time to defer to one of my favorite xkcd's of all time. [0]

[0] http://xkcd.com/55/
Funny, I don't remember that "you must install flash player" from the movie.
You copied half of my paragraph. I was specifically referring to Microsoft refusing to support DirectX and new Browsers on older operating systems.

The limitation was definitely not technical - Chrome and Firefox supported 2000 and XP years after Microsoft stopped.

> > Your interest is to keep an OS supported.

> That's not true.

That's basically always true (even if you quoted me out of context) - it is always your interest to upgrade at your leisure. Unless you are of the general belief that you should be forced to do things that are considered good for you (e.g. forced physical exercise, forced removal of sugar or salt from dishes, etc)
Australians despise the U.S. and The Age is simply airing the rank and fetid feelings of the people that read their newspaper.

Trust me, I know - I was born and raised in Australia, and because of the country's heavy Socialist/British background and identity, we were taught to hate everything about America. My wife and I lived in Melbourne from 2009-2012, and she suffered horrible discrimination for being from the US.

Silicon Valley is one of the great monuments to American individualism and entrepreneurial spirit, and it sickens most Aussies to see the success and fortune that has come of it.

The Age is ensuring that the anti-American sentiment is kept at a poisonous and noxious level.
Along the same lines, I've seen a lot of touring light & sound techs put a coffee pod machine in their tool roadcase, so they can have good coffee right by the stage / mix position.
140k is about 1/3 of 400k, but about 4x 30k. Perceptually, you're closer to the 1% than to the baristas.
Working at Facebook is what determines compensation at Facebook. Facebook is forced to pay its employees a high salary because they work at Facebook. If they did not, other companies would simply hire all their new employees away within a year of their start date. It doesn't have a whole lot to do with the individual.
Actually a free Windows OS would actually be great. Here in India, Pirated Windows OS are like as common as mosquitoes. No one but Microsoft was losing in all this. The price of Windows is generally prohibitively high and was by no way affordable to home and even small business users. The only option was to pirate them or use Ubuntu.

People walk in to buy a laptop, check the difference in price for Laptops with Windows OS and Laptops without them. Often the difference is in the range 7 to 8 thousand rupees. The obvious option is Pirate Windows OS or Ubuntu.

Instead of making it totally free. Microsoft can even charge a reasonable price and I can assure you people will pay it. The problem was never with Microsoft or Windows. The problem was always affordability.

If only Microsoft can make Windows affordable, they can kill all competitors instantly.
Ahh that may be it. Their iOS app is pretty bad. I've only had them for a month and I just didn't have time to experiment. I just wanted them to work.

I've actually had a lot of problems connecting them to WiFi, since before the firmware update they don't allow most special characters, and for some reason they can't hit my router due to range. I had to actually get a WiFi repeater to get everything up and running. Hmm it could have been the amount of UPnP traffic as well. I got about four switches, four plugs, and four motion sensors. Even when I didn't poll them with the iOS app, they would just randomly fail to follow their rules or maybe the motion sensors would fail to send messages.

Yeah I'm not keen on spending money for a hub with different radios but I literally just finished packing up all my WeMos today for a return. Too bad. I got them at a pretty decent discount too. I guess I'm willing to pay a little more for something that just works. I probably should have just kept them and got a Smartthings hub.
Saying "and deal with the girls" would get a lot of guys in trouble these days. Women too if you're on the internet where your gender is indeterminate, since feminists will get mad at you and assume you're an Oppressive Male.
Well you did a good job by saying "tends to" :)
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Given Facebook's predilection for collaborating with the NSA, perhaps this is a government program to civilianize the image of drones. The military industrial complex really needs someone from the commercial sector to step up and rinse out a the bad aftertaste of all those funeral and wedding attendees that were blasted limb from limb by hellfire missiles.

Jeff Bezos tried his damnedest to make them seem like santa clause just in time for christmas, but we need some real megawatt tech celebrities to work their magic. Bezos is balding, for christ's sake.

I mean Mark Zuckerberg with all his cute, cuddly animal-loving vegetarian tendencies wouldn't harm a fly.

If HE'S okay with drones, then they MUST be okay! (insert obligatory emoticon)

And, oh yeah...

CITIZEN ALERT NOTIFICATION: WITH THE PROCURMENT OF A FLEET
15 PANOPTICOID DRONES MANUFACTUED BY LOCKHEED, YOUR LOCAL
SHERRIF'S DEPARTMENT WILL BE ENFORCING ALL EVICTIONS IN
YOUR COUNTY BY NON-LETHAL PEPPER-STUN DRONE STRIKE. IN THE
EVENT THAT YOUR HOME IS FORECLOSED, YOU WILL BE ORDERED TO
VACATE UNDER THREAT OF NON-LETHAL FORCE.

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27 PROTOBEDIENT DRONES MANUFACTUED BY NORTHROP/GRUMMAN ALL
TRAFFIC STOPS ON STATE ROAD 902 WILL NOW BE CONDUCTED
AUTONOMOUSLY. DO NOT TAUNT THE PROTOBEDIENT DRONE.

***end citizen alert notification***
Yeah, it totally wasn't. I failed.

Okay, so one of the really interesting properties of mathematics is that complicated functions can sometimes be simplified by simple functions.

For example, the gamma function is an extension of the factorial function (4! = 432*1).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/c/5/ac57cb1b5db9b61155d86...

Amazingly, you are able to represent one idea in another, different way.

So, with the secretary problem, you are able to break down the optimal solution as this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/6/f/4/6f4d3a757d9efe51b8b17...

The | notation means "given". So x|b means "x, given b".

For these abstract formulations, they are reduced to already-existing calculations..

Finally, you get the big sigma symbol. This is called a Summation. Summations tend to be able to be approximated using integrals, since an integral is the area under the curve, which is also a summation of sorts.

Many integrals can be defined using the "log" function, which has base "e". In this case, when you add in "infinity" for the summation, it converges towards 1/e.

Hope this helps some. If it doesn't, well, I was fired from my job TA'ing calculus =B so..
Having been where you've been, may I suggest that the dealbreaker is that you're treating dating like a World of Warcraft inventory checklist? I wish someone had told me that when I was saying the same things.
"A = 48% of the debt

!A = 52% of the debt

q = not owned by the wealthy or foreigners

!q = owned by wealthy or foreigners"

None of those is really logical negation (it's set complement), hence my confusion.

"I believe the data shows A && q, but !A && !q is much less clear."

I agree. I don't believe the data shows the claim you label "!A && !q" - I do believe it admits it.

Your later point - that effects outside bonds probably dominate effects confined to bond prices - I think is correct.

"Simply put, the claim that buying bonds helps the wealthy is an idea that needs a lot more support than thoughtless one-liners that twang the emotional strings of power and betrayal."

Certainly the case.
HN has finally completed its metamorphosis into Reddit?

Yes the guidelines [1] say you can post "Anything that good hackers would find interesting", but it also says not to post "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

There are plenty of better outlets to talk about this stuff [2] if you really want to .

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/news

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I would use chocolatey nuget http://chocolatey.org. That's how I set up my last machine. Didn't think to a make it a .bat file, but I will next time I build a new machine.
Microsoft is a business. Their interests and your interests have never and will never be aligned. They may occasionally release products which can solve your needs - but their interest in this case is to extract the maximum amount of money from you in exchange for solving your need. Solving the need has never been an explicit interest in itself.

Moving to an advertising based pricing model doesn't change any alignment. They still need to fulfill your need or you won't use their software which means they won't get paid by advertisers. They still don't have your interests at heart, but will not do anything to directly lose you as a 'customer' if they believe there are methods of extracting revenue from you.

Microsoft's main customer base has never been the end user anyway, you were merely collateral to getting them inroads into the lucrative enterprise markets which requires that employees coming into enterprise positions are already familiar with Microsoft's technology.
Just looked at ninite again (after having not done so in years) and was pleasantly surprised - although it's still very pale compared to Debian's 20k strong packages.

But it's definitely a good start.

(It can be simpler than this - it is, on modern Linux)
However, John Kerry and other agressive imperialists must calm down. But as it's HN, we should talk about hackers responsibility to calm down media hysteria supporting aggresive politicians. Personally I would like to have following tools to prevent brain-washing:

1. Browser plugin(or at least web service)showing "yelowness" of an article and whole site as well. There are some semi-formal attributes of yellow article: exaggerating(e.g. "peaceful protesters" vs "provocateurs"), controversial sources, non-representative opinions(e.g. a crying woman with children speaks for the whole country) etc.

2. Some kind of facts graph. While the most yellow media has no links to sources at all, slightly better option is just quoting source w/out any links(and you have to spend a lot of time to check). Good media have links, but reader have to check them(and source could qoute some controversial and non-representative opinion). We should give users some kind of software able to find root sources for all facts in an article immediately and build linking/quoting graph.
In my experience it's impossible to know what "pattern" to use where in real life code into you've made and realized the mistake that the pattern solves.

sitting down and learning a bunch of patterns and then using them without a deep understanding of why they are useful is misguided, and you'll end up with dogmatic code. not that it won't help, it's just not the most important step. the most important step is to write at least medium sized code bases without putting your ego into them so that you can be savvy to your mistakes.
> Those projects are just too many steps away from advertising revenue to claim they're all part of a common vision.

But are they? Driverless cars means more people on the internet and more people on the internet means more searching.
Okay, so I definitely treat dating like a WoW inventory checklist... (not sure what the next step is)
It makes it easier to price discriminate between rich and poor customers.
Except we know that good free operating systems are possible because I am writing this comment from one.
>Your interest is an open ecosystem. Microsoft's interest is to have a closed garden. (They haven't been successful with that one, but they're trying).

I might get some heat for this but I must say Windows is still the OS with the least closed garden or heck even a garden. To get even the legitimate and popular x86 applications you still have to manually browse to websites and download it. You can install whatever you want whether it has a digital signature or not and yes it also includes the plentitude of crapwares and spywares.

>Your interest might be a usable Desktop OS like Win7. Microsoft's interest is to ram their touch interface down your throat so that you'd get used to it.

Or maybe some people like a touch OS with their touchscreen laptop and its just MS thinking forward? I don't know what other OS can you recommend that is touch friendly for my Surface pro?

>You already have NO control. You're already paying through other means. You might have had an illusion of control taken away from you - but that's a good thing.

No sure what you mean by this. I don't see MS cloud apps and ads preinstalled on my OS. I don't see it being sponsored by Amazon shopping experience either. The only crap that comes pre installed is done by the manufactures but MS can't even do anything about it, thanks to the anti-trust decisions.
I've been using it for a year or so. Yet another happy customer and would totally recommend it.
Fair enough—I was being a bit of an asshole. However, when you start your contribution to the thread by insinuating DHH is above reproach, I'm not filled with sympathy. Especially when his architectural hipsterism is IMHO responsible for ruining a couple microgenerations of developers who learned to code through rails.

I can't be the first guy who's put his head through a wall upon hearing you say persistence is part of the domain. The only time persistence is domain is when your domain is the data store. "But AR is the database"—totally correct. the domain of AR is the database. But that is almost never the same as your business domain, and trying to mix the two creates a great deal of incidental complexity.
I am not him and I'm not qualified to speak with any kind of authority about this particular event. However the use of the word 'invasion' is pretty loaded. Keep in mind that the entire area was once a larger whole - the USSR. Imagine if the US broke apart into its constituent states. Places like St. Louis would feel mighty strange. Again, I'm not defending this particular situation, but I can see how Missouri sending troops into Illinois might not need be termed quite as harsh as an invasion, though still an aggressive act. So far as I can tell, so far there has been more violence in Kiev during the protests than during this 'invasion'.