skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pew Center has some interesting research about "religious unaffiliation."[1] Unaffiliated is the second largest religious identification by a large margin at 16%, Judaism is the third largest group at 1.8%.[2]

The Global Religious Landscape Report has some interesting figures for the world population. Religiously unaffiliated was the third largest reported/identified group in the survey at 16.3% just barely nudging out Hinduism at 15%.[3]

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/religiously-unaffiliated/ Growth in US Specifically http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/ and http://www.pewforum.org/2013/07/02/growth-of-the-nonreligiou...

[2] Page 50 http://www.pewforum.org/files/2014/01/global-religion-full.p...

[3] http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscap...
To your last point, the problem with a subscription service (any subscription service) is that the more it's used, the less its profit margins. A company that is subscription based actually has an interest in their customers using the service as little as possible. It's completely backward (see: gyms, insurance, etc.)

The only way to incentivize a company to provide the best service possible is to tie the use of the service to its cost. I wouldn't mind paying, say $2/GB for service if it meant that Comcast's incentives were in line.

That would even have an external benefit on creating competition among streaming companies to have the best compression algorithms. Efficiency and speed become directly correlated to the service and its value.
For me it triggers a memory of this quote:

“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position.”

― Richard Buckminster Fuller
Can you expand on the idea that providing free transport to a city of people necessarily involves handing out free cars?
Quick question. When you signed up to your say 20meg broadband contract, did the contract exclude certain services - YouTube, amazon Prime, Netflix?
What about fedex or ups? The customer is paying for x bandwidth and not getting it.
Presumably, scaling the deposit by the seat count solves the short-sat problem because the client might end up paying more as the deposit than the final check (and there is no refund) so they are incentivized to not reserve a too-large table.
You mean the green numbers on top of the thumbs up? Those are how many votes the story gets. Every week we'll pick the top story and illustrate it.
This is already available, for a huge set of languages, with Sentry (originally designed for Python), too.

Including event aggregation, lib versions, and so on: https://www.getsentry.com/welcome/
I really wish the people with a lot of money from the tech sector would be more passionate and incendiary when they address the government regarding reeling in the NSA. Unveiled political threats such as funding candidates who oppose incumbents siding with the NSA would also be quite helpful, I think.

You can easily write off a citizen (read: serf) with passion and aggressive language to lobby the government, but it's much harder to ignore a superstar who is funding your campaign and has a large and powerful corporation.
Yeap. I've been invited to many events, and I never went. An event where most people think they'll change the world (which is not bad per se) but who also think they're smarter than "the others" is kind of crap.

I often see that this crowd is addicted to the "movement" itself, not to getting things done. Meaning they like stories and knowing who bought who, etc. I've talked to too many, and they have crappy ideas they would've known are crappy if they've ever talked to another person about it.

They like to use jargon (A/B testing, alpha gamma shit rays and what not, to seem like they're really doing stuff).

There's someone who posted a blog post that his website is now open to the public and that beta testing has ended and people don't need invites to sign up. I tried to sign up, and I got prompted for an invite code. How dumb must someone be, to take care of the blog before taking care of the actual code?

I emailed him telling him his site still prompts for an invite(what's worse, is that he managed to take off the input field, but didn't change the code to account for that).

He didn't reply. He wrote an API that used a non HTTPS website, flagged by myWOT as malicious.

The app he was trying to make was about a wallet, to handle payments.

How much retard (excuse for the word) one needs to have in himself to manage that combo?

I saw him bitch about life on TV, that the authorities don't do anything to encourage inventions and young entrepreneurs. Um, yeah buddy. It's the others' fault, always. (And I sent emails to him warning him about these things: site flagged, impossible to register to the site, etc).
>Do you quit your job when your boss does something you don't like?

False equivalence. The correct analogy would be "Do you quit your job when your company does something you don't like?"

Many people would answer yes to that.
I don't think so: banks are capital constrained, not reserve constrained. There's other types of money that make up their capital base as well as central bank reserves.
As a 40-year old who has been in the industry long enough to have a very healthy set of references to back me up, I conversely find it annoying that my time is wasted by people who want to subject me to half a dozen levels of interviews where I'm mostly doing silly shit like reversing a string in place or doing their stupid variation of a Fermi question.

Yes, interview me for fit (on both sides), but subjecting me to an endless barrage of technical interviews where you ask me questions I've heard dozens of times before is much more likely to get me to drop out of the process than subjecting me to not enough is. The article says they skipped "one of the final interviews" suggesting there were multiple already... And within one interview I can assess the skill level of the people interviewing me without having to attempt to intuit it based on how many of the "Microsoft questions" from the 80s they found on Google to ask potential candidates.

Are you sure the candidate was "spooked" because you didn't interview him or her that one final time? The article doesn't do a good job of explaining if that is speculation or verified feedback from the candidate. There are a billion and one reasons why someone might give you a pass.
Two ugly chickens are coming home to roost here.

1) ISP's insisted on selling home bandwidth as functionally unlimited. They did this primarily so they would only have to offer expensive plans. Grandma can't get the 300meg email plan for $8, only the $80 plan. And then everybody tried to use it like it really was unlimited.

2) DRM. Drm makes it so that the net can't cache. 90% of netfilx bandwidth is likely the same 10% of videos. They all have to make the full trip through the wires. A local cache at the ISP to improve efficiency is impossible.
(In case it's not a given, spoilers for Days of Future Past below.)

He didn't. He just has all his memories from the original timeline (e.g. previous X-Men and Wolverine films), plus the events he experienced during Days of Future Past. He has no memory of what happened to him between 1973 and the present in the new timeline (which he created). That's why he's surprised to see a few characters at the end of DoFP. He remembers them from the original timeline, but he also remembers them dying in the original timeline. What would be much stranger is if they had never met him in the new timelines (in which case he would remember them but they wouldn't know him), or if he had met someone in the new timeline but not the original timeline (in which case they would know him but he would have no memory of them).
Verizon doesn't pay Level3 for the traffic, the person sending the traffic always pays, unless there is a peering agreement.

That's how it's always worked. These fights and skirmishes over peering agreements happen often. That's the reality of how things have always been up until today, it's not a change in the status quo.
@OP thanks for share. Was planning to learn something new. Swift will surely be a good choice.

Udemy seems to be super fast. WWDC ended just couple of days ago and they have produced the video tutorials for the same.
This might be a helpful explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842312
Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
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Isn't BPF a virtual machine inside the kernel? Does this have any impact on the likelihood of exploits?
The user experience is not determined by how the technology secretly works. Appearing to do something wrong is a bad thing in and of itself.
Seems like most companies disagree with this, great people get preferential hiring treatment and get to skip interviews. The story of Zuckerberg taking candidates on hikes is a good example.

I wonder if it would be as effective to just tell them what you're letting them skip and why.
I wouldn't be so cynical. Contracts are really awarded to companies that can jump through the bureaucratic hoops--and there's an entire industry dedicated to doing that while over-charging and under-delivering.
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Yes, poor Netflix performance is Verizon's fault
Link to actual letter: https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/USAFreedomAct
There are many applications/areas where finding and fixing bugs is 'good news'. Cryptography isn't one of them. Stakeholders really expect this stuff to work before relying on it, and I can't imagine anyone is happy about a 10-year old vulnerability.

I'm certainly interested in hearing further analysis on this.
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I wasn't trying to be patronizing.

Clearly we both know you can look up "counterpoint" if you want to, so I read into your post you were a tiny bit interested but not so interested as to bother looking it up.

I'd hoped the shorthand would give you enough additional idea that you could decide whether doing so was worth it for you, the link between interesting patterns and computer science being hopefully obvious.
Ask HN: Company is changing direction, need career advice
I have joined the place 2 years ago. The position was advertised as one for an expert in PHP with ability to understand a lot of the nuances of best practice approaches in web application development. The project that I joined on and for was in trouble. Last fall we shipped it. Yay!

The subsequent work aside from shipping the main project was to maintain other similar stack applications as well as prepare and implement a new project using the same stack.

At some point last year, developers and engineers were notified that the applications used internally and externally will undergo modernization. For all intents and purposes, the new 'stack' projects were the modernization steps, but managements seemed dissatisfied.

Word started to spread that upper and some middle management were less than impressed, and called development efforts as unsustainable.

By the decree from the very top, modernization plan was kaibashed and Oracle/Peoplesoft RFP is now well underway. Hardware is being sourced, software stack will most likely change.

Messaging about the whole thing is tightly controlled. News about eventual implementation is only spread on need to know basis. Questions are simply answered with "When we know something, we'll tell you" approach.

I have close to 10 years experience developing applications. I'm on my third contract extension. About half of the engineers are contract and half are FT. I'm also an optimist, but I'm starting to get wary about my situation.

I would like to ask for your suggestions. If you have any words of wisdom, please share on how one should approach these next couple of months.
Ya. WWDC Got me pumped up. I thought this would be a fun way to learn and share with others
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I don't think this will happen, as it would be a DISASTER.
Rent seeking, baby! Gotta protect the entrenched interests.
Regarding 2): Don't Netflix provide content servers / boxes / network devices that ISP's can put in the ISP's own data centres to help with exactly this issue?

https://www.netflix.com/openconnect
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Thank you for the position, this comes up regularly, and I love seeing it discussed and dismissed.

It's not that Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic. 100% of my ISPs "global bandwidth" should be content of the end users choosing (usually requests). The user is paying for the right to request this content, and have it delivered. Wether its Netflix, gaming, news, poltiics or Zombo.com doesn't enter into it. At 35% though, it might make sense for Netflix to enter the ISP business.

This framing is a tool that ISPs and their supporters use to excuse charging twice for the same service, and more importantly, controlling users access to content through discrimination.

Thanks again for the writing prompt though.
Oh, they didn't just go to the press and declare Ed Snowden a traitor for hurting their business?
A quick Google turned up a repository on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/loggerfs/

Started in 2007, last update in 2013. Not sure if it's the same thing, but the description is similar:

> LoggerFS is a fuse-based virtual file system that allows you to store log files from apache, syslog and more directly in a database instead of a regular file.
I did not say "Changing from the inside" works all the time. There's no perfect solution.

If these YC alums, etc decide they don't want to be a "cog in the machine", how else can they have improved the healthcare web site?
Perhaps I've misunderstood the situation in the US, but isn't the problem that Verizon are a de-facto monopoly in many markets? If customers can't say "screw you" then all Verizon need to do is avoid getting hammered by the DOJ anti-trust department.
The main issue was face rec processing, not grabbing the images.

What's so weird about my startup? :)
Note: Neither of these methods work if the Mac is using the built-in FileVault encryption.
Why does it matter if some of the people are Google alumni? That doesn't mean anything anymore, the company employs over 10,000 engineers. It's like saying that you have IBM alumni.
Could you imagine if every shitty software project ended in a refund?
We're also getting pissed off enough at Canadian companies who don't have to follow CAN-SPAM.
Thus my, admittedly loaded, question :)
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The information was on the web. Students didn't have to pay the $1 to get to the information; they would have paid it because he made a nice, convenient app. Or they could go in via the website and dig through it themselves.

Did you read the story ? He tried to talk to the school but after several school employees told him they liked his app they changed their tune and decided he was ripping them off. T hey could have worked to understand what he had done and offered him his costs to open up the app but they decided not to.
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>> the DMV urged riders to make informed choices about which transportation services they use. The DMV says riders should check that cars have seatbelts, current license plate and inspection stickers.

Amazed at the reasons they point to in an attempt to justify their actions. In all my encounters with Lyft and Uber the cars conditions are well above a taxi. A typical taxi ride includes squealing brakes and bottoming out due to suspension falling apart.
It matters when you see how long DT wanted to get out of the US market. With a small ownership it's just a question of time when they get rid of that too, because frankly you have no control with that percentage. So if you don't control the entity and have no interest in it in the first place (thus the multiple tries to sell it), why tarnish your brand with something that is out of your hand and control?
<pedantic rant>

There is a common misconception as to what lean is. Lean has nothing to do with the size of the team, but rather has to do about keeping churn low. The true version of lean would have done a ticketing system using an Excel spreadsheet and a phone number - but kept the ticketing system exactly identical. This ultimately would allow you to prove your ticketing model without wasting time and money on a programmer.

</pedantic rant>

Either way, kudos...love your ambition and your willingness to share. This point Bottom line EBITDA profits are up 38% from previous average years. is a management consultant's wet dream. Nice one.
Can't compete? Lobby.
I'd be curious too but there is a big gap between no religious beliefs and Atheist. Many people just don't care about religion at all, some have mild beliefs, and some are devout, it's a broad spectrum. To some, their religious identification is more a statement of their lifestyle then their actual belief. For example my dad labels himself a Christian, despite admittedly having no actual belief because he adheres to Christian morality and it gives him a group to belong to. I've also known people identify as Buddhist because it fits closest to their lifestyle.

Unfortunately the label Atheist, has some pretty negative connotations to some people in the US.

The questions I'd really like to see:
"Do your religious beliefs have an impact on your decision making"
"Do you have full confidence in the core tenets of your religion"
"How important is it to you to observe Religious rules?"

PS. Interesting stat, 40% of Americans claim to attend church regularly. But only 20% of Americans actually attend regularly. People often respond to polls with a more ideal version of reality. http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_rate.htm
You can only sue for wage theft if you're an employee. He said he "got accepted into a startup accelerator", so that seems to suggest some kind of co-founder relationship. He might be able to sue for breach of contract, but if it was just a verbal agreement it would be hard to prove there was a contract. Since he doesn't have any money, he'd have to find a lawyer who thinks the case is good enough to take on contingency.
How is this not a success for the vendor? They got paid.

I do agree with you though that UX is one of governments biggest problems. Imagine the training dollars that could be saved if enterprise software was as intuitive as consumer software, let alone the intangible efficiency gains from things getting done more quickly/effectively.

And not some ham fisted usability standard, the best response I can see is getting user advocates involved early in the process. Get some vendor trials going asap and immediately disqualify anything that isn't even trying in the UX department. Just one more thing for gov project managers to think about sadly which is why it won't happen.
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"former NSA" sadly is today slang for "no technical backing, so i'm going to dump that on you and try to impress". Some years ago random ivy league phd departments where used for that.
Yeah, that's understandable, but personally I'd prefer the 20% just included in the total price of the ticket. The French Laundry does this; they just charge a flat $260 and there is no tipping. The tip is already priced into the $260.
Things that I've found annoying:

- The inconsistency between some icons (e.g. Finder vs. Trash).

- The inconsistency between icons and the overall UI (e.g. folder icons just look blurry, while other icons have sharp lines).

- Juxtaposed rounded buttons in the toolbar are weird.

- Aliasing on some UI elements (e.g. tooltips, slider, buttons, sidebar).

- Too low contrast on some UI elements (e.g., sidebar, traffic lights).

IMO Apple is struggling to make this new visual language coherent and polished, I guess it'll take more 2-3 iterations to get to the level of coherency Aqua achieved.
I've just had 4 years of finding accommodation in the UK as a student, and am just going through the process of finding a flat in London as a graduate. I must admit I don't really know what this is, other than someone trying to build a mailing list of interested people.

From reading the text on the site, it appears to be a way to find permanent people for flat-shares, as well as a place for advertising/finding temporary accommodation (sofas to use overnight while interviewing), and also a place for finding flats to rent.

It says there are no agents, and students only, but I doubt many students have flats to rent out, so that confuses the 3rd point. As for the other two, it makes it sound like a social network, and indeed, this is something many people use Facebook for, either between existing friends, or in area-specific groups - I have done both myself.

Also, there is a typo in the description, which given the very short description, looks quite unprofessional.
Not that I disagree, but it's not like you'd notice if a car hadn't been inspected for years and had a non-functioning airbag. At least not until you needed it.
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Pretty obvious. Once you have physical access and can reboot the machine, you own it. This is true for any computer (barring firmware passwords and whole-disk encryption).
No, that was a certain well known VC.
I don't really understand your point. The thing about timing channels is absurd - we have the code right in front of us. Right there. It either calls third-party servers or it doesn't, and we can see that. Very easily.

The idea that anyone would successfully steal CC info by putting up an open-source client-side jQuery plugin under his real name is just silly. It's not something that you ever have to worry about in the real world. Sure, I'll concede that if a number of absurdly unlikely things happened, something like this could steal CC info.

Besides, you're missing the point. We're paid to vet this stuff. Customers aren't. Your choice of whether to use this or not harms no one - but customers being scared of an odd-looking CC form is harmful to business, and a valid and interesting point.
I feel like Verizon's treading VERY dangerous waters here. If they sue Netflix for libel over this, then they're going to have to go through discovery. Since the claims center around network congestion, that means it'd be fair game for Netflix to go after every scrap of paper they have about the state of their internal network, oversubscription strategies, data about advertised vs. actual customer performance, any history of traffic shaping, and they'd be able to depose employees about all of these things.

As much as I'd love to see all of that information come to light in a court battle, somehow, I don't think Verizon would...
Must. Refrain. From posting. Cynical comment.
> Ackerly spent eight years at the NSA, where he specialized in cloud analytic architecture — specifically, protecting the agency’s in-house data transfers.

1.) Former NSA analyst does not mean "NSA-grade security."

2.) Didn't the NSA have their most secret documents leaked? I think "NSA-Proof" security would be more impressive.
I'm not convinced that's new. I think it now comes with potential that they might have actually stopped working for their former employer.
I thought that was Marc Andreessen?
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You would in Virginia, since yearly inspections are required and the sticker is displayed prominently in the windshield.
Virtru claimed, in a blog post in January, that they would release the source for components of their software.

http://blog.virtru.com/2014/01/virtrus-open-source-strategy/

Assuming they do eventually release these components, are they enough for the software to be trusted? Why wait to release the source anyways? I'm not comfortable (at all) with installing closed-source software developed by "ex-NSA employees".