skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CSV file is wonderful. Now I know (among numerous other things), how many people took the survey before me.

My line in the survey can be defined by surprisingly few fields.
Good stuff! I think the employed, no income might be startup types who aren't paying themselves (just a guess).
Hackers appear to have a startlingly low divorce rate.
That was a heavy article.
The Chasm Between the Value of Print and Web Readers
Whoa, what?!
With that kind of attitude, people will never understand each others differing viewpoints in a respectful way. :^)
I think they're just younger than the average divorcee.
In nyc 100K is a modest salary. Judging by cost of living calculators, it is roughly the same as teachers make where I live.
The biggest thing you can do to improve your chances is to look for work elsewhere. If someone else will pay more for the same work, then you have an obvious bargaining point at your current job. And frankly, it's much more likely that you'll get a significant raise by changing companies. You current employer probably doesn't have another 100-200% of your salary just lying around in a budget somewhere.
I think I'm more troubled by the unbridled speculation about the dangers of online information than I am by the information itself. So according to the examples in this article, if you google for cancer, that could lead to trouble getting employment. How? It's a big handwavy "information, bad guys, sharing, the man" argument that doesn't even attempt to connect the dots with so much as a bad scifi movie plot.
What's the extent of 'as far as I can tell?'
Thanks for posting the data/results. Only 2% of the respondents are female. Wow.
Raise your hand if you've written you own version of this at least once.

This looks quite slick (though it's sort of ironic that a non-GUI, text-based tool does not have a simple text-based description; I skipped most of the video).

I wrote my own CLI note taker (aliased to '@'), have a Ruby app that interacts with Todoist.com via the CLI; have CLI tools for setting reminders to ping me via Twitter; am starting on one to manage issues on GitHub repos via the CLI.

They're all fairly simple and designed around the principle of WFJ: Works for James. And I've always believed that I'm not alone in hacking out little helper tools like this.
I'm not in any web startup, nor selling ads to anyone. I am an ordinary Craigslist user. And spam has rendered many categories nearly unusable for me.

I want them to charge a one-time registration fee of $10 to post apartments for rent in the Bay Area. Might be a good idea to do it in cars, too. This would be revoked for people who posted the same ad more than once a week, and they'd have to pay another $10.

I want to be able to see a Google map of classifieds' locations.

I want feedback, eBay style.

I actually resent Craigslist for having a dominant market position and being so dedicated to simplicity, because it means that there aren't Hacker News types to try out different things and maybe give me some of the features I want. This is a user speaking, Craig! If you won't complicate things yourself, then please put up an API so that other people can do it!
Correct.. I just realized after typing all that in, that if I ask for 5-10%, any number I use as market rate is gonna be much bigger that it doesn't matter.

There doesn't seem to be much of anything in my area for decent paying tech jobs. But I'm looking.. and working on my own start-up, that thanks to HN is making me realize to just get it out the door.
Federal Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin
I didn't do the survey. If I had, I would have said I was "employed" as I'm working on two startups. But have income of zero.
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I outline some more typical sales stats here:
Tales of App Store Failure
http://deadpanic.com/failure
Porn mode has everything to do with this - yes, they're separate features, but they relate strongly to each other. Private Browsing avoids saving visited sites to history, which includes stopping them from appearing in the Awesomebar.

Between 3.0 and 3.5, there was Awesomebar but no Private Browsing. So when you typed 'g' to start 'gmail.com', it might have shown 'Naked Black Girls', which appeared in your history because there was no private browsing and you forgot to manually clear the cache.

The ideal would have been to introduce Private Browsing and Awesomebar at the same time, to handle this situations.
I don't buy it for a simple reason. It is easy to look around the macro environment and see plenty of reasons why entropy has a long way to increase. For instance for several billion more years the Earth should be receiving energy from the Sun and radiating it off into outer space, which creates a sustained low entropy situation enabling something we call "life" to exist. Therefore the question of the arrow of time seems to me to be explaining why the macro environment looks that way.

I'm not sure where I heard it, but one idea that I like is that it ties to the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe. Most people don't realize how complicated conservation laws get in general relativity. For instance it is a matter of opinion whether or not energy is conserved! (See http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/ener... for details.) In particular suppose a photon sets out on a long journey, gets red shifted by the expansion of the universe, and consequently loses energy. What happened to the energy of the photon?

This question is highly relevant to the issue of entropy. Current theory says that we had a very hot and almost uniform universe, which then expanded rapidly. As it expanded any clumps that formed stayed hot, while the space between them cooled off, thereby leading to an increased thermodynamic non-equilibrium. Worse yet, local gravity pulled the clumps together resulting in interesting things like stars, which further increased the amount of non-equilibrium stuff going on.

Of course this pushes the question of the arrow of the time down to cosmology and general relativity. But given that physicists debate whether conservation of energy makes sense in general relativity, I'm fairly comfortable with accepting that the laws of thermodynamics are on even shakier ground there. Which makes the physical asymmetry seem not so bad to me.
Ah thanks, I thought it was some kind of bug.
Interesting. I've been reading Rapt[0] (an interesting but largely pop-sci book) and that experiment was mentioned.

I've believed that the key to a happy life was always having things to look forward to. The more time you spend dwelling on the past, the less you are really living, and the the less happy you'll be. And the less healthy, too.

The idea that such mental states might have a direct effect on physiology is amazing, though.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Rapt-Attention-Focused-Winifred-Gallag...
Overmighty finance is a tax on growth
Christ, you can BUY that kit:

http://www.lpepower.com/content/pushrod-v8-engine

This is an awful thing for me to know - I'm low on cash and have a TERRIBLE sense of what is appropriate to spend it on.
I agree with your sentiment, however, I'd like to pick an nit:

"I see a lot of parallels to this with teaching high school students C. We're going to teach them a nearly-40-year-old language (might as well be from the 1500s)"

The age of the language isn't so much the issue; Lisp is quite a few years older than C and ML came on the scene the same year C did. I think Smalltalk is just about as old as C. Yet teaching Lisp or Smalltalk (using Squeak) would be a much better idea than teaching C as a first language.

Teaching C as a first language would be akin to having only stick-shift cars in Driver's Ed. Now, I happen to think it's important to learn to drive a stick, but first you start the kiddies off with automatics so they get used to other, more important aspects of driving and then towards the end you teach them how to drive a stick.
When the American Dream Died
The whole idea of "Karma" is silly. It encourages conforming to majority views and rewards people who are talkative rather than insightful - often mutually exclusive groups, since insight is gained by thinking & doing rather than posting comments.

I think HN would do well to drop karma scores altogether, making this script a non-issue to begin with.
A few months ago I used a few psychological techniques with great success that helped me land a 10k raise.

Basically, I reminded my employer of my value to the market, my value to the company and introduced the suspicion that I was looking elsewhere.

A few recruiters had called the main office asking for my contact information. I replied back to the admin person and made a side comment/joke about my loyalty to the company. She responded with saying that she thought that she should mention my loyalty to the owners.

We had just gotten off a very successful project, and I sent an email to the owners asking if they'd write a recommendation for me on LinkedIn. I framed the request as wanting to get the recommendation now while the success of the project was fresh in their minds. Each one replied something like, "Woah! You aren't leaving, are you?"

These events did three things: reinforced my scarcity, reminded them of my value to the company and let them consider the possibility of me leaving.

Shortly thereafter, I got a 10k raise without even asking for it. :)

If you don't want to go through so much effort start looking for another job or start your own. As far as job title, put in the one that you would most enjoy and go for that.
Poker chips as well...
Giz Explains: Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
This parasite is indeed real and widespread, and the reason you don't notice its effects in others is because its effects are rather minor, resulting from small brain infections and increased dopamine at certain sites (I had no luck pinpointing the location of these, unfortunately).

The most agreed-upon effect appears to be that the parasite results in decreased neophilia. What a sensationalist story like this one will not tell you is that the observed effects are "rather low":

Our results showed that CMV infected subjects had lower scores in the personality dimension novelty seeking than the CMV-free subjects. Novelty seeking in infected subjects negatively correlated with levels of anti-CMV antibodies. Negative correlation was also found between novelty seeking and Toxoplasma-infection in Prague, while in villages and smaller cities the correlation was not significant. The effect of both infections, although highly significant, was rather low, explaining about 2 % of total variability of the novelty seeking in our experimental set.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/5/54

Further, while cats are this parasite's original host, it seems that you're as likely to become infected form undercooked meat as from water polluted with cat fecal matter. I guess that's not as much fun as saying "cats are bad, now everyone fight!" I love how every media outlet picked this up as soon ('06, granted) as possible but it took Reuters a month to report on conclusive findings that marijuana consumption results in lower incidence of head and neck cancer.
Why would they want to do it? It seems most successfully growing economies have high investment spending, not high consumer spending.
Come now. High School curriculum doesn't require much intelligence. Most of it is just completing brain dead assignments. It would be interesting to compare the results to something much more challenging.
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"I ate a popsicle, which was melting into a pot of cold soda."

It thought I was melting!
can you still login with django.contrib.auth?
This page seems to portray a very cost-inflated idea of what a startup is.
"We teach Shakespeare and Calculus in high school, though those are certainly not the easiest choices in their respective fields."

I think a better analogy is Driver's Ed. We don't throw kids into stick-shift cars in Driver's Ed (at least not at first) we have them drive automatics so they can learn the more important aspects of driving. Then, later on towards the end of the course (well they used to anyway) we have them learn to drive a stick after they've mastered the basics of driving.

Now, personally, I think it's important that the students learn how to drive a stick. But not at first. Same with choice of programming language: I think it's important that the student have some exposure to pointers, dereferencing and even some memory management, but not at first. Let them learn the more important aspects of programming first and when they've become comfortable with them then transition to that other stuff that I'll call "mechanics". Oh, and not every highschool student needs to learn the mechanics, just those who think they want to go onto software engineering.
I used to, but I got too nervous about all the plaintext passwords and sensitive information that could be sniffed out of the air by a bored teenager. Enabling WPA isn't perfect, but it provides at least a single layer of protection which is probably good enough for most environments, similar to locking the door to your house.
Compatibility between the iPhone App Store and the LGPL
The way i started hacking, was to thinker game config files, or mess with game mods and see what are they made off. I actually did dis with only one game(Lock on), because i am not much of a gamer. Lock on was a good choice because i was obsessed with russian war planes and aviation, and because it had an active modding community. I regret not actualy learning how to make mods(other than skins for the planes) but i used to thinker a lot with config files and some of the simple mods.

If you're 16, and the most advanced thing you've done with your computer is to reinstall windows, a moddable game and notepad can do you a lot of good.

Plus, the game is really cool, i learned all sorts of stuff about planes, physics, tactics and i got to blow up American tanks with the Su-25's impressive arsenal.
While we're on the topic of suggestions that aren't likely to be implemented ;)

I like to see the user name hidden on comments and submissions until after you vote and/or reply. Judge the content on the content alone, not on the author.
Come on. This is not HN material. What's next? Lolcats?
I can't answer for the author of the parent, but for my part I combine my own personal experiences dealing directly with employees of government agencies with the stories I hear from a friend of mine who works for a consulting firm and often deals with government employees, including a very long assignment working for FEMA as part of the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. A particularly interesting data point for me was the experience of registering a car at the Connecticut DMV vs. registering in Pennsylvania where the process is privatized.

Has anyone ever seen any scientific evidence comparing productivity of private sector vs. public sector employees?
This page has a blog post where some people pointed out the terms of use violation: http://devin.reams.me/free-google-voice-calls-with-t-mobile-...

Apparently the text that it violates is: "Your five numbers must be US domestic numbers and must not include ... customers' own numbers; and single numbers allowing access to 500 or more persons."

I think you can easily get away with having your own Google Voice number as a MyFave. That number is unique to you and shouldn't set off red flags. What I think may be a bit more sticky is the 347-234-5001 number, which, if GV continues to take off, might get noticed because a lot of people will be "fave-ing" that specific number.

Just something to think about. I'm not sure yet if that thought is going to deter me or not from doing it myself. I'm leaning towards "no". :)
Immortality Institute Members Debating Its Name Once More
yuml.me is exactly what I'm looking for. Very nice. Thank you.
I'm not sure I agree with you. Karma as a measure of personal worth is silly, but as a way of cutting down on trolls it works pretty well. That number at the top of the screen is something that I'd bet the Reddit and TechCrunch commentors would care deeply about, and as such, it keeps them from dumbing down the discussion here too much.

In any case, HN is by far the best self-moderated discussion forum I've ever seen, and I'd be leery of making any major change that might conceivably disrupt that.
But it's not true for all of us...

For someone, it could perfectly be the other way round:

"Hey, it's perfect, and it's light too! Wow! Now go to h*ll all of you too earth-bound children, while we will continue to fly high in the sky...".

;)
Did you read the article? The article mentions private browsing mode but doesn't provide any details.

No wonder Mozilla hastily introduce a Private Browsing mode in Firefox 3.5…

The above link simply provides more information on it.

The "porn mode" comes from the title of the link itself.
That's an excellent program. I downloaded it per your suggestion, but I really wanted a web based version. Thank you though, I will find many uses for this program as well.
sadly, yes.
I highly doubt that Maemo 5 would have default java support going by the history of Maemo.

But have a look at jalimo, https://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Main_Page. You may be able to get something working. That is the beauty of openness.
Has anyone actually used WriteRoom on the iPhone? I can't really see the use for it... The iPhone keyboard is far too small to do lengthy writing.
You're at a non-profit? OK, let me be clear: if you leave, your NP is fucked.

If market is more than the ED makes, and you want to make anywhere near market, you have to leave. They're dramatically underpaying market, and have to for structural reasons, so they won't be able to hire someone anywhere near as good as you. To retain you at market, they'd essentially have to go on a special fundraising binge to pay your salary. That's untenable in this fundraising environment.

Also, the title thing is hard because you're doing two very different jobs: software engineer and helpdesk.

I'd recommend that you leave if the money is important, but you should (if you reasonably can) try to lock things down so that there won't be much in the way of maintenance of the website. The office computers and phone can be troubleshot with one-off contractors (again, helpdesk); there's no way to "bring in someone from the bullpen" to put out fires on a complex RoR app. (For one, NPs have no idea how to recruit or verify the credentials of someone like that.)
> note I'm the only tech guy

This is the #1 indicator that you are underpaid. Just ask for your desired salary and if you don't get it, quit. If you can't quit without being in financial trouble - that's your problem. You won't be getting a raise then.

Don't make this more complicated than it has to be.
I'm curious. How did you know your IQ? Did your parents have you tested?
I can't say this is necessarily a bad thing.
I like Karma, because it means that established members don't have to worry too much about how any particular post will be received, and can present unpopular points of view without too much penalty.
really? do you alias any shell commands? by your rationale, that's totally useless and 'meh.'

it's simple: if you have any shell aliases, you are a hypocrite if you complain about this being just that.
It depends tho. We've seen from other folks that unit sales drop off a cliff from those top spots on down. Which means that they're making $20,000 a week or so for the time they are at #2.

That's only a $1M a year or so (before Apple gets their cut). Which is obviously good money, but it's not a huge win by any means (It's less than your average hedge fund manager makes). That's before you divvy it up among your team.

It's also unlikely they'll see that full amount, as some other app is going to come along and displace them eventually. So your dealing with movie economics here: You have to make all of your money in a month or so. Something along those lines anyways. Given the way the app-store functions, building a sustainable income stream seems rather unlikely. Certainly not at those numbers.

I guess I'm actually a bit shocked by how low those numbers are. I guess it's really an indication of how difficult it is when your forced to price apps at a sub $1 price point.
There are other ways to look at this. The iPhone launched in Japan and is considered a success form numbers I've seen. As for China, you do not need to penetrate the entire market to be successful. Mercedes is expensive in China. Most cannot afford one. However, I'm certain Mercedes is very happy with its growth in China.
I agree that you shouldn't make the classes too easy, but you have to get something out of the extra difficulty. The reason that we should teach Python instead of C is the reason why we teach Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals. Roman numerals are more difficult, but you get no insight out of this time spent learning Roman numerals. It is extra human created tedious difficulty.

You get a much better understanding of pointers and memory from learning a machine language. In C you'd be spending your time on syntactic issues like & and * in expressions and in types. This is what makes pointers difficult. In assembly there's only STORE x INTO y and LOAD x FROM y.
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Would be interesting to see the breakdown of donators -- wedding attendees vs. non-attendees.
This does seem aimed more at heavy shell-users. I've heard of people finding little at-hand shell windows useful, but my workflow is all about the editor.

(Incidentally, I'd just recently started learning emacs and hadn't heard of org-mode before your comment. Thanks - seems useful so far.)
I recall seeing an ad on a non-facebook site that was somehow using my name. Not very surprising leakage though, since for some ad networks the publishers need to provide some user info. Personalized ads get higher CTR. Seems they then use this info outside of FB as well.
If you use DD-WRT you can set up a second virtual access point that can use your internet connection without having access to your local network.
I find new discoveries about incurable diseases which change human personalities on the scale of individuals and whole societies very HN-worthy, by the same standard as other science/medical discoveries.

Unfortunately, this is (1) old news; and (2) especially prone to obvious, knee-jerk LOLcats jokes -- there were already three before your comment. So I have mixed feelings about its topicality.
I think he was jokingly using the name of the 'Awesome Bar' in his response.
Let's see if you can spend a day without visiting HN... :->
Regulators open enquiry into wireless industry
As a Chess engine enthusiast I was aware of pico chess and the fact that nanochess (by the same author) uses winboard protocol is new to me.

Most people thinks that Deep Blue solved chess and as far as computer chess is concerned, the field is "finished". But it is far from the truth. The current top Chess engine (rybka) running on an off the self desktop computer could easily beat deepblue. Not because the current desktop hardware is equivalent or superior to deep blue (which it isn't) but because the chess knowledge of current top engine is much superior than deepblue running on a super computer.

Sorry for going a bit off-topic but I thought some of you might this interesting. Actually chess-engine field is a quite interesting field, as long as you are not trying to make money.
Compiling Ruby: From Text to Bytecode
Honestly I'm impressed that the app is so popular as a pay-for app. Definitely useful, has beautiful UI but I fail to see why people don't just do a Google query when you want to convert something.
May be you are a cat trying to keep us in the dark. Good try, but the cat is out of the bag.
There's another instance of this where flukes infect ants making them want to climb blades of grass where they are eaten by cows. Here's a diagram of the lifecycle of this odd creature:

http://workforce.cup.edu/Buckelew/dicrocoelium_dendriticum_i...
Chinese' success is an example: http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Americans-Achievement-Beyond-Iq/...

Note that Flynn (yes, that one) is no racist.
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