skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it is slightly unfair, but I think they are reasonable assumptions based on the information given.

1. Worked in tech for 30 years (which implies pretty good salary) along with actual number of 150k for at least some of those years.

2. We have a first-hand account from his step-son that says he was really bad with his money.

3. Then we have irrational behavior staying in a place that he most definitely can't afford and choosing to be homeless in expensive area instead of not homeless in more reasonable area based on his SS income.

> The fact is, there are people who aren't making anywhere near $150,000 annual and these people will inevitably run into the same problems this man is facing

Yes, people who don't make a lot of money will have more problems than someone who does make a lot of money. That's why I said kicking them while they are down doesn't make sense. That doesn't mean that the guy who made a lot of money and pissed it away isn't responsible for his current situation.
We used dropbox at my prior company, we are now using box. Not sure if it's just because I'm not used to box, or if I'm biased since I use dropbox for personal storage too, but I really wish we used dropbox instead of box.
I find the UI + integration way better on dropbox.
You can run the code on your local machine, on Amazon ElasticMapReduce, or on your own Hadoop cluster. This really is a give-away of useful open source code.
Disclaimer: I have a number of free StartCom certificates.

However, even though I own some certs with StartCom, I personally think this comment has literally no basis.

Looking at the CA market - if anything - we should be happy that a CA like StartCom exists. It is a very small team lead by Eddy Nigg (he is very helpful by the way) and given that they are the ONLY ones (as far as I am aware) offering free certs - we should applaud them. Besides, the fee for revoking is very small.

I also was very much aware that revoking a cert had a charge before I signed up for one - I think it is pretty clear - so not a problem for me at all. Of course if I had to revoke a cert because of StartCom's mistake that would be a different story.

Bare in mind these are only domain validated certificates - perfect for small website owners who wish to offer their site over httpS without paying any extra fee.
We used to have ADA-TRAN code at work. Fortran code migrated to Ada. It was awful, but it worked so we left it.

It been commented the Perl I write, it written like C programmer.
Let's assume started in 1978 with 30k. Pay increases of 5.75%/yr which gets him to 151K in 2007. assuming saving 10% and a 8% return per yr that's 628k in 401k. Let's assume market takes 40% and losses job with 2-3 years before SSN. Out there you could easily blow through any kind of retirement savings pretty quickly.
Well, sure. It can't violate the laws of physics, what a shame.
I agree with your principle whole-heartedly; I was just pointing out that I feel that police harassment is an orthogonal concern, and that selective enforcement is a Good Thing in the vast majority of cases -- ie, all the ones you never hear nor think about.
[cough](http://cluster.co). I work on it. It's less "storage/archival" and more "private photo/video social network".
I would just counsel that there are more angles in our relationship to work above and beyond pure supply and demand.

You have (employment) market liquidity, you have long standing cultural practices, you have collective action problems, etc. We happen to work in a rapidly growing industry, which is why times are rosy.
> Same reason why Tide detergent still exists when others are around half as expensive.

Tide does not "subsist on brand recognition".

"Tide is a perennial powerhouse in Consumer Reports' laundry detergent Ratings." [1] (although as of 2013, other brands are catching up in quality)

[1]http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/06/wisk-kirklan...
"Carousel is taking longer than expected to go live in the App Store & Google Play.
Please try again in a few minutes."
How Threadable solved the Yahoo DMARC problem
It's interesting how this is a separate app from the Dropbox app (I make this assumption because the app store links say the app isn't up yet). I'd imagine with DB's mobile pictures push the app would be integrated into the DB app itself.
They must not be talking about developers alone. The only developers who work that cheap are remote from other countries. I could see it maybe for IT people who wipe hard drives in computer labs or something like that, and who don't bill directly, but are paid by an agency that bills and takes a cut.
It's link-baity and disingenuous to generalize around gender here [in this article].
That might be something the legislature could do (Sacramento, maybe Washington) -- corporations buying municipal bonds are exempt from the tax.
Clojure in the Cloud
yes there are places within a short car ride of the city where you can rent.. for about $750+/month a place to put an RV with electricity and hookups and all of that.. Some of these vehicle dwellers can't even afford that.

As far as FREE places to camp with an RV, no absolutely not. You have to drive hours to get to a campground where you might be able to camp for free or close to nothing.
Dabbawalas tie-up with WHO for malaria, dengue
MICA – A key-value store with 60 million IO/s
http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/65271-bitbuck...

:)
even after waiting a couple minutes, it's still showing me that message.
A bit off topic- why is GHC so large? I recently noticed it was over three times the size of gcc (for amd64, in an .xz archive).
And keep in mind that facilities fees often go to highly profitable outpatient facilities owned by the doctors.
You can do that with a single moving platform, since the target is not moving. Record the bearings for half an hour, make a 90° turn, and recore another half hour of bearing data. That should give a decent approximate location. Its also basic target motion analysis that a military sonar operator can do in their sleep.
The mortar recommendation system is written in Pig, and can scale to any data size, even petabytes. The lenskit tool cannot.
توقعات الابراج مع ميشال حايك الخميس 10/4/2014 ،
I will generally base my estimates off prior projects that are similar in nature. If the project is unique enough, I usually push for a weekly rate instead of a project rate. I really dislike scope creep, and this allows me to charge for it.
And that's why every single login system should have two-factor auth -
I started using google's authenticator app for my google and github account and it works just great.
I wish I could use it for every account I have.
Agree completely. For long threads, Discourse is a usability disaster. phpBB is awful software, but everyone in the world can click on page 20 and know where they are. Jumping 2/3rds into a long topic using Discourse is essentially impossible for the average user.

But I love Discourse for at least trying something new and different - thats how progress is made. But some of their UI/stack decisions seem to have been made with no thought for normal people/web admins.
This seems a bit harsh. While it would have been nice to have a bit more transparency, calling them amateur is not realistic. It takes time to patch a bunch (read thousands) of servers and one day turn around is not all that bad.
The superfluous semicolons on line endings in the C example gave me a chuckle.
> and removing functional/useful sensors.

Are temperature and humidity really that useful? I know many Android phones have had them, but have they really be used? Do they really add much to the device?
No, go ahead and be that guy. 30 years in SV and you're still living paycheck to paycheck? And guess what? I can't afford to live in Palo Alto, either, and I'm employed with a high-paying tech job.

But what really bothers me is that he's the poster child in this story. He's easy to ignore. "Should have saved more...", "he should move...", it's all his fault. But what about the folks for whom it's _not_ all their fault?
Software security used to work this way, in the early 90s. Disclosures went to vendor cabals. They leaked like sieves and were a running joke on #hack.

It's hard to argue: yes, the world would be better if only the people who were going to mitigate the bug had the information until everyone had mitigated. But a repeal of the CAP theorem would be nice too. Meanwhile, we have to work with the world we have, not the one we want.

Early disclosure club isn't a terrible idea, but good luck getting it funded in a serious way. The correlation between "most impacted" and "most clueful" isn't particularly strong.
I generated about 30 different palettes just to try it out, but I didn't like any of them. Most of the palettes generated had colors that didn't even work well with each other, maybe it's just my taste. Good work though, I'm sure you'll be able to make it better.
Amazon Fire TV misses the same marks as Ouya, other media boxes
Bookmarkly.com is down
http://bookmarkly.com is down?
A thought: given that admins already have something that they treat like DNS--which is to say, DNS--could certificate revocations be distributed as DNS TXT records, and thus reuse all the caching infrastructure DNS currently implies?
It's the "actions not the words that matter", according to those preaching intolerance on this subject today.
Ask HN: Why are quadcopters not flown like helicopters yet?
Not RC quadcopters, but actual size ones, which carry people. Are they even being built? Would they not be more stable?

Edit: found this. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1708654
First, you have a great site! congratulations.

Second, there is no way Quora only gets 1.5 million visitors per month. They have an Alexa ranking in the 400s. Yes, the tech audience skews this, but even a tech-heavy audience can't skew it that badly. Getting in the top 500 of Alexa is very, very difficult.

My guess is that they get at least 10 million visitors per month.
I'm not sure that's true. Books can create a DRY problem. When a project moves fast enough, any books written about it have a short window during which they're relevant. After which time they can do as much harm as good, between the info being out of date, or wrong, causing confusion with new developers, diverting them from the official docs, etc.

Flask is pretty small and simple, so books are less necessary than they would be for other types of projects. As long as its own documentation remains good that's going to be the best option.
The reasoning behind using '\' for lambda in Haskell was because it sort of looks like a lambda character ( λ vs \ ) if you squint hard enough.
> Avoid debt for things that lose value (e.g. cars).

This is actually not terribly good advice. Debt does not become especially bad depending on whether what you used it for is gaining or losing value.

This rule is really a proxy for, "Don't buy an expensive car, boat, or plane, relative to what you are making." Now that is a good rule. There's no reason to hide it behind a false rule. Financing a purchase that you could pay cash for can sometimes be wise, even if the purchased item is losing value.
I did watch, thanks, but anyone in a hurry can get just the slides here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/_downloads/FOSDEM_2014.pdf

I particularly appreciated the "QUEEN success example: SSC" (self-signed certificates, starts at slide 23), which also got a good laugh from the audience ...

(if you're just watching the video, this is the text of the second slide in the PDF, not shown at FOSDEM:

"""
What is this ?

This is a ficticious NSA briefing I gave as the closing keynote at FOSDEM 2014

The intent was to make people laugh and think,
but I challenge anybody to prove it untrue.

Playlist spoiler:

Electric Light ORCHESTRA: Confusion

ABBA: Money, Money, Money

Backman Turner OVERDRIVE: Taking Care Of Business

QUEEN: Bicycle Race

Beastie BOYS: Sabotage

PASADENA Roof Orchestra: Pennies From Heaven
"""
)
EDIT: Original post edited so making slight changes.

Considering it is a federal crime to not hire based on race, most employers don't provide the information as to why they break this federal law so readily -- they just do it since it is hard to prove.

So in summary... "Of course we discriminate. We have what we consider awesome reason to do so."

I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be Black and trying to get a job, and run across people like you who won't even give you a chance because they so clearly know how poor of an employee you'd be. Even worse they don't come out front and say it. Well maybe you could fly a confederate flag -- a not so subtle hint, but not an admission of guilt.

But at least for your own comfort -- you're clearly not alone.
This makes perfect sense, as Dropbox tries to be a backend to your storage rather than a frontend. Carousel is at the same time a potentially great app and an invitation to try Dropbox's API. Helps the competition to build even better photo experience on top of it.
Big Bang Theory is just nerd black face, it's a really hard to watch.
Chapters (and page numbers) give people a cognitive clue as to where they are, when reading fixed content. Try removing the chapters and page numbers from a book, and most people will complain.
Thanks for the feedback. I was on the fence about whether or not I wanted to check out this series because of problems like this, but I guess if it is well received by the tech community here I will probably enjoy it.
If all the show ever does is make saying your startup is "making the world a better place" instantly mock-worthy, then it was worth it.
I cant find the part which provisions the mapreduce cluster - isnt that part of their platform lockin ?
And then people are 100% in the right to no longer trust StartSSL certificates.
End ‘information striptease’ by certifying communication devices – MP
I disagree.

Any conversation about learning to provide, and communicate value is valuable. If it's not through one particular lens, be it yours, or mine, it doesn't mean everyone has no lessons to learn that you have not learnt. 42 an hour represents an exchange of value for a customer.

After a decade of doing this, there's as many opinions about consulting as there are consultants, myself included.

Having tried hourly, monthly retainers, fixed fee, and contingency based pricing, they all have their merits relative to your skills and ability to deliver value.

It all boils down to being able to add value in a productive way. I work fewer hours than I hever have, deliver bigger results than I ever have, and am making better money with better customers than I ever have. But, I started in the trenches like everyone. These details of how many hours and rates, and utilization rates are much more an issue without paying customers. I was very lucky to be able to get and keep long term customers, which I think is a topic unto itself worth learning more about forever.
I don't like his proof that a 1-2 hidden unit system can't handle the red circle in the blue torus. Feels too handwavy.

My proof: Suppose the matrix W is singular. Then there exists a nonzero vector v for which W v = 0. Find a point x in the red circle, then find a different point y=x+av (for some scalar a) in the blue torus. Wy+b=W(x+av)+b=Wx+aWv+b=Wx+a0+b=wX+b. Fin.
"Prop 8 has only 1 purpose: to deny gay couples the protection of marriage."

I'm sure that a certain % of individuals who voted for it also supported the institution of civil unions - that would entitle gays to same rights as married couple. But these people care about the name/institution of 'marriage' maintaining its original (m+w) definition.

Therefore I personally would not rush to call support of prop 8 'anti-gay'.
Grandfather’s Utility Threatened by Spreading Renewable
I suppose my point is that, when a law is selectively enforced, minorities and the poor are the ones who tend to get "selected," which I do think is relevant to selectively enforced laws - they are often enforced in a discriminatory manner.

Edit: I clearly did not explain this with the post above, which upon re-reading makes little to no sense in context here.
What else do CAs profit from if it isn't security vulnerabilities?

Their whole purpose is to help with the authentication side of security. They didn't force anyone to use buggy code written by a third party and it is not their fault that many of their customers have gone and done so.
It certainly wouldn't have been precisely internationally defined in terms of a unit of measure that didn't exist until about four centuries later.
This is most certainly the best advice you can give to someone coming from other languages. I constantly see people I very much respect for their skills in other programming disciplines get very angry and make otherwise irrational rants about Haskell because they can't translate their hard won skills over to this new model. Learning Haskell will make one feel like a beginner again, should just embrace that from the start.
Thinking about an ad platform? You must understand CCLV.
Temperature and humidity seem gimmicky to me (I don't care about atmospheric conditions in my pocket) while fingerprint and heart rate are at least potentially useful.
OneNote Engineers Parody
The OneNote Engineering Team creates a Parody for their new release of OneNote for Mac.
The 42/h could be something a contractor directly gets from an employer, with perhaps a headhunter keeping another $15-20/hr on top of it that the contractor does not see.
Introducing Hourly Billing
> This is entirely untrue I can still use my scrollbar to get back to the top of the page again, it can also be used to easily skim the results that were displayed.

Pop quiz: according to convention, while using your scrollbar to skim the results that are displayed, what position do you move the scrollbar to (or avoid moving it to) in order to trigger (or avoid triggering) loading the next chunk of content? Hint: it's not the bottom.
You guys fixed it for me before I noticed. Yes awkwardly, I still use yahoo mail for some accounts...
Infinite scrolling breaks what was a universal UI convention, and an interaction mode which has worked everywhere for well over 30 years, for a downright nebulous gain. You've made my browser's scrollbar widget dramatically less useful. Even on sites where I now know to expect it, I still end up unexpectedly jumping around the page while I'm trying to scroll through and read the content because the scroll bar I'm trained to use (30 years of training, remember) gets displaced out from under my mouse pointer when the next chunk of content loads.

You've replaced something which required no thought with something that requires conscious effort. Not only that, but I now have to learn how every site that implements infinite scrolling does it, because the conventions I expect for page length and page position don't hold any more. Given your response above, the very best you can hope to say is that compared to a paginated interface, you've only broken it a little bit. That's a very long way away from being worth the trade-off.

Infinite scrolling is gratuitous over-engineering, and as far as I'm concerned, any site which uses it is just broken.
I don't follow the logic. The author writes "instead of double majoring, you should take all the computational math classes and anything else that interests you, and then major in math or CS depending on which one is easier to get". What if you take all of the courses which interest you, and that just happens to be enough for both a math and CS degree?

I assume many people who get multiple degrees do so because they are interested in the topics.

That's why I got my triple degrees in math, physics, and CS. Even with years of hindsight, I can't think of which one, much less two, degrees I would drop. I can think of which additional courses I would have taken, but I didn't have the time for them.

The author states "you would presumably choose the schedule that maximized this utility to you."

Someone who chooses to acquire a double major has presumably done so to maximize utility. The author seems to say that a double major rarely maximizes utility given the available constraints. It's hard for me to believe that the author understands every student's goals better than the student does.

Also, the author's statement presumes that students are meaningfully able to judge utility. The number of students majoring in "undecided", or students who changed programs, convinces me otherwise. There are a couple of courses I would have changed in retrospect (eg, tensor calculus), but could not make that judgement before taking the course. Maximizing utility also requires risk analysis.

Degree requirements exist because the degree committee (and accreditation organization) believe they have have a better sense of overall utility than most students. I agree with them. And for those exceptions, it's also possible to define one's own degree program, such as Will Shortz's college degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles.

With that in mind, I think it's reasonable to conclude that taking courses which fulfill the requirements for two degrees is more likely to lead towards improved utility than doing the equivalent work for one degree plus a number of sophomore/junior-level courses.
Huh? This article didn't make any sense... People archive spam or unsubscribe from it? Nooooo

Here is a better article submitted to Hacker News on what "Auto-swipe" in Mailbox is --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7561088
Palo Alto doesn't have an income tax. Maybe California or the federal government would have the money though.
I'm fairly certain they'll double it or more the minute you ask them, maybe a couple of times before scrutinising it. Posterous had the same thing btw, with a limit of 3 blogs, and they increased my limit in a few hours.

I've implemented the same kind of workaround, and for two reasons.

It's actually a lot easier technically. I mean DB already has a limit for free users, so all they have to do is rev up the limit and all their clients "just work". They don't have to add magic if-then logic to change how clients show and enforce the limit.

Secondly, it prevents a disaster scenario where some script - either malicious or accidental - smashes your monthly quota with 1s an 0s. Yeah you could try to rate-limit it or something, but it's just easier to prevent the whole scenario by changing a database column.
Thinking about Japanese culture ... I would think coworking spaces are spectacularly more successful than in America. Even misfits in Japan feels a strong need to bond with their affinity groups, whereas misfits in America can take it as a point of pride.
speaking of lookout, I just downloaded Heyday, and wished they had Dropbox functionality...Looks like I'll be using Carousel now
Looks like this is pretty much identical to JavaScript?
Mono and Roslyn
If that physician did just 3 of those procedures per day, every day, 5 days a week for a year:
$7,043 x 3 x 5 x 52 = $5,493,540
I found a nifty iphone trick to increase newsletter signups
The iphone's spellcheck can serve a dual purpose. Shortcuts are invaluable