skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
congrats to all the finalists! It's amazing what has been done in 48 hours.
SAT Scores and Family Income: The least surprising correlation of all time
The income histogram has zeroes cut off on the horizontal axis. Or is it just me?
That's walking a very tight rope as the way you put it sounds very much like monopolistic behavior. I would suggest that it does not make business sense to have the government looking over you as being an evil monster, which, is most probably what will occur if the horror stories continue.
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta...
I've been an adsense user for the past 4 years. Total income: $168.34

After last payment (of my first 100 dollars):

impressions clicks ctr ecpm total pay
75,604	311	0.41%	$0.85	$64.57

BTW this is the data for the past 6 months or so. Pretty bad. huh? :)
What do you want to do next?

Grad school? Stick in school, take some advanced math or CS, work on building your references/recommenders?

Get a job? If you've think you can pick something up easily, leave early. You'll start earning and learning. In the real world learning is usually more fun than undergrad. I don't know what the market is like for new grads here in the US right now.

I guess that for the most part, nobody really cares whether it took you 3 1/2 or 4 years (or 2 or 6 . . . whatever). What most people will want to know about is what your real CS hacking experience is. If you've already got good projects (something with a little depth, not the eight sorting algorithms you implemented in Java), that's what you'll be talking about with potential employers the most.

Plus, you're posting to the startup/hacker friendlies - if you have "funding" for the last semester, setup an independent study to stay in school and use that as a vehicle to do your own startup. Get a smart co-founder and have at it.

Good luck - congrats on getting to the end of school.
It's too bad these data aren't reported each year by the College Board as a scatterplot, to show the large variance in SAT scores at all self-reported income levels.

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1995-SAT-Income2.png

(which appears to be based on genuine data from the College Board, the one year it released such data) for another view of what might be going on.

After edit: See the other thread just opened here on HN also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791381
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The stereotype is not wrong at all. Women are attracted to resources, and this is well established both in humans and in non-human animals. The reason is because women bear most of the inherent costs of child rearing (9 months gestation, breastfeeding, etc). However, providing sperm is not a very costly endeavor. Since females can afford to be choosy (that is, there are many males willing to spend the low cost of a load of sperm or two) they'll choose males with resources, all things being equal. Theoretically this male will lessen the inherent cost to the female by perhaps providing her with food during pregnancy and breastfeeding as well as for the child after it's weaned.

In some birds and mammals, females will choose males that have a bigger or better territory. In some cases, if a male has an especially big territory, the male will attract more than one female. (Emlen S. & Oring, L. 1977. Science 197 , 215-222)

In insects, which tend to not have bi-parental care, this is usually in the form of a "nuptial gift" which is basically a nutritious package that comes along with the sperm (Vahed, K. 1998. The function of nuptial feeding in insects: A review of empirical studies. Biol. Rev, 73:43-78.)
I left the U.S. for 2 years, visited shady places, had extra pages added to my passport after clocking 80 stamps on it to 22 countries. Was anxious to be harassed by the fat, ex-soldier redneck at the immigration desk. He took my passport, scanned it, and told me "welcome back home, son".
I think you pretty much have to go back to school for that. That's my plan for when I have enough money to not have to work for a living, I can then go and be a professional life long student.
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My understanding is that older schools actually did something different, all students were in the same room with one teacher. So you didn't group kids at all, and older kids helped younger kids.

I know a lot of alumni of such schools, for example one-room schools in rural areas of the United States. The pupils weren't slowed down by lock-step age-grading and have often advanced to very challenging careers in adult life.
... Or the hand of Spotify PR working to try and make it really hard for Apple to remove their app.
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for an "internet brand consulting" group, these guys sure picked a crappy tag to promote. I mean, #J_E_T_S_JETS_JETS_JETS .....is just plain stupid.

a) It's too long, Vaynerchuk is supposed to know twitter...why is he using a hashtag that takes up so much space? The same thing could have been done with #GOJETS or something along those lines.

b) It's too long to remember to spell properly. Is it 3 jets or 2 jets at the end. Is the first one jets with underscores or is it some other position.
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What kind of percentage (order of magnitude) could one expect in post-series-A startup?

I understand that it's hard to say because it depends on a lot of parameters, but I did ask what percentage of the company I was getting and I have a hard time knowing if it was actually good or not. Should I get around 1%, 0.1%, 0.01%? I don't know and it makes it hard to argue I deserve more options.

It'd be interesting to have a service like Glassdoor for the stock options part.
I don't understand the question.

Do you mean that the energy that carries each photon is quantized (when the energy state of the excited atom is quantized in orbitals) and is inverse proportional to the wave length?

¿That is not radiation because it bounces a lot and don't penetrate?

If you use a lot more photons, you will have a very different effect that a single one.

Also, if you start making this devices, you will make it smaller and smaller and use less L on the inductances because it's more efficient, and that means use bigger frequencies, even microwaves( I heard they were using far radio in the first experiment), that are going to resonate with molecules bonds like ADN and stuff.
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In that scenario wouldn't induction heating ovens qualify as remote transmissions of power?
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data-fullpath ???

Who picks these horrible definitions?

How about just data? or path? datasrc? datapath?

Just as bad as itemprop in microdata, sheesh!

Hairy warts on the soft skin of HTML5.
Still, even in your comment, you're suggesting that there are two arguments. I guess what I'm saying is that there aren't any arguments here at all.
I think there is something terribly wrong with the way AdSense calculates impressions. And if that number is wrong, it's also entirely possible that the clicks number is wrong, too. I recently posed my question to their help forum, but got no response. Anyway.

According to my webhost & logs; 2009 Page Views: 843,398

http://www.zentu.net/snaps/2009stats.png

According to Google Adsense:

http://www.zentu.net/snaps/googlebaloney.png

Yeah. That's what google has recorded for "all time", while the first link shows just this year alone. It is baloney.
I'm so tired of big companies pointing to their huge userbase as a reason for bad customer support. I've heard it from Google, Skype, and HostGator.

I've also specifically tried to contact AdSense via the contact form, email, and the forum about a missing payment. Never heard a peep back, so I stopped running AdSense.

I'm happy to read the FAQs, search a knowledgebase, and communicate via email or a ticket system, because I know its not feasible to talk to all customers on the phone. But you can't just leave people in the lurch when you want to be their business partner.

Successful companies see customer service as an opportunity to right a wrong and impress their customers, not as a nuisance.
Google and PayPal both fall into the category of not putting enough profits into customer support.

This is what most fear from market consolidation and extremely large companies. They squeeze more profits from doing things that a company without monopoly-like characteristics could not get away with. To me, when you cross this line, you have become evil.

fyi, I spent more than 2 hours last night getting my PayPal personal account unlocked. It was an awful web and phone customer support and terrible security practices.
Funny, you could replace "Python" with "Java" and it would still make sense. I guess idiots will be idiots regardless of the language.
Hey, they were the pioneers and they wanted to build a real flaying car not just a plane with foldable wings. It's almost done. It's already flying in contrast to the Jetpod that plummets.
That's why it took so long.
Me too. Seems to be increasing. :-P
I have you beat (in badness):

Impressions Clicks CTR ECPM Total Pay

116,068	227	0.20%	$0.46	$53.76
I like the way you think! I tweeted to you to prove this account is really me: http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/3603379916
That's an extremely interesting choice of style settings. The combination of black background with small, dark gray text forces the reader to focus very hard to read it.

This is one of the few times I've noticed some sort of contrast optical illusion after viewing a web site (ie when I clicked the back button to return to HN after reading the post).
Wasn't it that HN prohibits top 10 lists in headlines and besides politics is not welcome here? Are some publications exempt from that rule?
yet another css framework... What I want is a UI framework for web apps (forms, menus, modal windows, etc.) such as the ones for iPhone development
Shame that so many of those hard-working thoughtful journalists who provide such an essential service to the community by reporting this sort of thing are being put out of work by the internet and IT. If only they'd just unplug those big nasty computers and we could go back to the way things were.
> the single most difficult thing I ever have to do is to get fed.

If you ever have kids you are in for a real shock if the most difficult thing you ever have to do is get fed:)
Outstanding work! I'm glad to see other people making something interesting out of the data gathered.
I cannot agree enough with you on that. Mostly it felt to me when I was in high school that it was such a repetitive rote/forced way of learning.

Which disgusts me these days especially when I am insanely passionate about learning new things and ideas.
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I thought the new iPhone allowed background applications...? Why can't they play music all the time?

Edit: No really, I'm just asking. Why can't they? Is it banned? I honestly remember hearing the hoopla around background applications a few months ago.
I've always wondered why this wasn't already the case. I mean, getting a unique domain for your band and using that as the storefront for your music, concerts, and merchandise would make things so much easier. As it stands, half the time the whole thing is in Flash (which is cool, but barely functional as an informative medium).
If they did it right you can still listen to it while it's locked.
calambrac, I personally agree with you about the wording/tone of the current letter. I would like them to take a look at changing that, although no one will ever be delighted to get that letter.
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Well, you gotta break eggs to make an omelette.
The jetpod was actually flying, the skycar has never done anything other then 'tethered' flight, which means as much as flying at the end of a chunk of chain in case something goes wrong.

This video has been used to claim that the skycar is nearly operational:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElS9BKSsezw

But in fact there is a large crane in the background that the skycar is tethered to.

The jetpod, in contrast went up to about 500-700 feet, then crashed according to reports. So, it was actually flying and unfortunately suffered an engine issue in the left hand side engine.

The SkyCar has been 'almost done' for as long as I can remember.
I currently work for a big internet company (to remain nameless) that makes most of its money from online ads. I can't share specific numbers, but I can give some feedback on yours.

I'd have to know more about the sites to say for sure, but that eCPM looks too low to even bother with ads. I personally don't have a site with a eCPM under $5, and the company I work for is WAY over that (in the rare occasion they use AdSense, and not direct ad sales).

Your CTR is also low, which is evidence that your ads are definitely not targeted enough. Many of the same factors that improve SEO improve AdSense targeting, so look into those.

Also, if the ads are on a forum or blog, you should turn off most if not all ads for logged-in users, because they never click on ads, so they hurt your CTR. You can even experiment with plugins that increase the number or frequency of ads for people who get to your site by clicking search ads (based on referral string), because they are proven ad-clickers.
Better titled as "Don't start a start-up. Start a company."

(Also, nearly unreadable as grey text on black background. Thank goodness for http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/)
The one issue I have is with the PEP 8 camel case reference. I can see the value of everyone keeping the same style while coding, but at the same time who says that style is the best? In terms of "expecting" that style when using other's libraries, you still have to read the docs for library to understand how to use it, so I don't see the ultimate value.
There must be a reason for this.

Maybe they run some spyware in the background you could suspect to exist once you compared the memory you use yourself with the memory still available?

It's easy to spy on others using their iPhones and there are several ways the iPhone calls home or can be remotely run by Apple (for instance to delete prohibited apps) so that would be no wonder.
Good points, thank you very much!
that's not the case, the physics in fact is very different for a single atom than for a lump of metal.

A single atom has very specific set of electron energies as a consequence of the electrons being confined to the area around the nucleus. This means that it can only absorb or emit photons with energies corresponding to the spacings between any two energy levels (and the absorption/emission must be accompanied by a jump/fall of an electron between corresponding energy levels. Any type of atom will thus have a secific pattern of absorption/emission peaks, this is incidentally how we can tell the composition of stars and dust clouds in distant galaxies.

For a lump of metal, a good approximation is to consider the electrons as being able to freely roam throughout the entire crystal. As a consequence, when they are excited by an incoming photon (of any energy), they immediately relax back to their original state, emitting the photon again at the same energy. This is why metal films act as mirrors and why metals in general are shiny. As for the goldish color of Gold, that has to do with some relativistic effects which I don't understand (yet ;-) ). I believe the same is true for Copper.
I saw an article recently about projectors that shine light directly into your eye. Mix that tech with a camera to track the location of your eyes and align the projector and you wouldn't need any monitors. You just stick your phone on a desk and get instant augmented reality.
We've tried to get that going with http://daz.com/ but unfortunately it seems they can't be bothered. So we ended up turning it loose and now the fans take care of it, seems to work ok so far.
I don't think it's just the histogram. Check out the Age vs Income plot. There's no way people aren't making over 100k.
Back in the eighties, my mother had a job as a programmer on a maintenance contract. 'In order to reduce risk', the contract specified that bug fixes should change the minimum number of lines of code. Really.

I remember her bringing home a listing (remember listings?) and trying to figure out how to change some loop. It had already been 'fixed' a number of times using this methodology, so it was a mess of nested if statements. I suggested that it needed rewriting. (Although this was the right answer, I didn't actually have the programming experience to know this at the time). Unfortunately, she thought that was too large a change to be acceptable to the client.
The revised syntax (camlp4) is much more regular, that's the only one I use.
I was asking the question, not making the statement.

I agree, $100k is a small income to live comfortably in Manhattan. It's also a small income to live comfortably in Palo Alto.

The inbuilt assumption by those who decry such salaries,is that it is more than plenty to live comfortably somewhere else and commute to a job in a place with expensive housing.

If a 40 mile (one way) commute costs under $1k monthly, the assumption strikes me as quite reasonable.
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I wondered about this too...the impressions are the number of times each ad is seen, so if you have 3 image banners on a page, and the page gets 1000 impressions, you would get 3000 adsense impressions.

But what if instead of 3 image banners, they serve up three 4 text ad units. Does each ad in the unit get an impression, or does each ad unit get an impression. That would be the difference between 12000 impressions and 3000 impressions.
...I think running ZFS on FreeBSD is itself an issue that should be resolved. I don't want to be an OS troll (I love all the BSDs), but the toolchain support on FreeBSD for ZFS is significantly weaker than that of OpenSolaris.
I disagree. Google is just being Google. They've always been a company that does very cool (and non-evil) projects, but doesn't really bend over backwards to listen to customers. I always get the impression that they're too busy working on their latest game-changing scheme to be bothered with little details like keeping customers happy.
I made Reddit, Digg, and Lifehacker in one day and Google didn't disable mine. Apparently YMMV.
It depends, but in terms of the ranges, you should probably expect something around the .1% order of magnitude for an engineer - could be higher or lower depending on how close you are to the funding round, how many employees there are total, and how senior you are.
TC link if you prefer that : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/branchr-advertising-acq...
From PEP 8:

But most importantly: know when to be inconsistent -- sometimes the style guide just doesn't apply. When in doubt, use your best judgment.
And pressing tab with exposé engaged will now highlight the icon of the application whose windows are being shown.
Make up excuses like, "I am used to other people testing my code" (This one sounds especially good if your a former .NET developer.)

Why single out .NET? Am I missing something?
I disagree, as a rubyist I find it really useful that everyone uses underscores.

Language-wide style conventions make it easier to remember methods and classes since remembering a method like each_with_index as a phrase is easy, attaching a piece of useless data unrelated to what it does like Camel Case vs underscore is harder.
Just to point him out to people and embarrass him, pquerna is one of the guys who works on Apache httpd:-)
Already provide these, when you signup to an event the iCal file is include in the email, an should auto add to your calender.
I keep postponing a switch to [Free,Open]BSD just because Slackware is so warm and fuzzy and cozy...
I'd really encourage people (obviously) to try this out. I'd personally like to use Python 3 in the next few years for my day job, and a tool like this obviously helps adoption.
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If you said that about a topic you're familiar with, it sounds silly: it seems that the vast vast majority of possible computer programs would have goals directly harmful to human goals (even modest ones).
The vast majority of possible medical treatments, proteins, DNAs, etc. would be directly harmful to human goals, and yet we keep on trying, cognizant and wary of these ramifications.

Granted, there are "irresponsible" researchers who don't understand that an AI might not have "gratitude" that prevents it from rm -rfing humanity like a bad shell script, but others work on 'Friendly AI' to mitigate or eliminate this concern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...
"You'd never see an Apple employee posting on a thread about someone whose iPhone app had been sitting in the pipeline for months"

No, but you might get a call from Phil Schiller.
Maybe qooxdoo is what you are looking for? It looks a little bit desktopy for me, but I haven't taken a close look at it.

http://qooxdoo.org
Age vs. Income as a density plot... the points are too close together to be meaningful.
These are speedbumps compared to the larger issues that Spotify has faced. For example, Spotify is bigger than iTunes in Sweden, now: http://www.swedishwire.com/business/687-spotify-overtakes-ap...
The earth magnetism is static, it doesn't change in practical terms(in a window of a second), neither periodic or not.

To hear someone tell: this is like the earth magnetism, this is not radiation, is trying to fool people, I'm sorry but I feel very upset about it. If they use let's say 50Herzs, they are emiting photons, not in the visible range, but they are photons anyway, but they are not going to use 50Hz, they will use MHz and more, and that could resonate with proteins and destroy it.

There are millions of proteins out there with different sizes, and shapes, to probe that one of them is destroyed by this this is impossible, but given the right size and the right frequency it will happen because everything has their characteristic frequency.

The same way when you put water in the microwave oven it heats up because it has absorbed the energy and translated it to mechanical energy because of the characteristic frequency of the water. With lower frequencies than mw oven you are going to resonate with bigger structures than water, water is small compared with proteins that could be thousands or millions of times bigger.
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If you have any visualisation techniques that are surprising or especially revealing I would be very interested both to look at the data and to learn about data visualisation.
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Your last sentence is dead-on. Microsoft ascribes to the traditional enterprise-y business model. The products work okay but often need support, and if you pay enough you get great support (and if you don't pay enough you get passable support). This has made them (and many other companies) a ton of money, but Google is absolutely killing all competition by following a very different path. It's hard to say how much of Google's success is due to their aversion to acting like a regular enterprise company, but I think it's safe to say they won't be drastically changing tack any time soon. The stories like this of people getting screwed are unfortunate - it's collateral damage.
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Thanks for doing that.

Maybe also: Income vs Education. Income vs Location (maybe aggregated by country, state or city). And basically every other possible combination :)
I envy those in UK and Europe.