skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their surveying method is perfectly fine. The study is based on a cohort of kids who were born between 1980 and 1984 (in USA); and in 1980 Asian Americans were only 1.6% of USA population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_de...).

It does disregard (relatively) recent immigrants in that regard, though; but if it's to be used as analysis of gov't policy/parenting/schooling/etc circumstances, then you'd want to look at people who grew up in USA policies and environment.
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I'm reminded of two things:

A Vice piece on the contrast of slums and a billion-dollar home in Mumbai [1] and a pair of 2008 billionaire suicides [2][3].

It makes me wonder if each of these guys and the profiled Alwaleed are just so far abstracted from typical human wants that prestige and status become sole obsessions?

1: http://youtu.be/8TMKyUdEEMo?t=17m43s
2: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/02madoff.html?_r=...
3: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/recession/4210246/Adolf-M...
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> The proverbial you could have thought of it too.
It's here (imho) that the problem lies. People get jealous around money, especially when (from their perspective) it's unearned, and this often leads to irrational anger, which is the bread and butter of internet comments.
An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, can be used to deny non-US citizens entry to the US. UK citizens who've been arrested need to apply for a visa and can't use the visa waiver / esta system.

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q683.htm

http://london.usembassy.gov/niv/add_crime.html
Yeah, that's the classic argument for wrapping a CLI with a GUI. The only problem is that with git, you can't design around the "weird things"...if the user is in a weird state in version control, they need to know about it.

In other words, it's the leaky abstraction problem. You can pretty up the UI, but ultimately, you have to communicate the concept to the user. It's how we got those "Can I copy The Internet?" questions in Windows 95....
Anyone able to refute these points? As someone who's used Sphinx quite a lot, and was hoping to dive I to ES, some of these points are disappointing to hear (particularly prefix/infix support)

Some of these points aren't too important, like having to use composer (you don't ever have to use composer, by the way). The library file size I'm also not too concerned about.

Result speed and the terrible docs are interesting, however.
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I was in the same spot as you, I was entering my
Masters even though I knew exactly what I wanted to do--apps.

For that reason, that whole year of my Masters felt wasted and it strained me a lot, because at the same time I tried to launch my first startup.

I think doing my Bachelors was definitely worth it, you should do your degree as long as you're not entirely sure what you're really good at.

However, you seem like you know what you want to do and at the vast cost of a degree in the U.S., if I were you, I would completely dive into consulting, apps and startups.

Good luck!
Similar to that line about contemporary art being a combination of "I could've done that" and "Yeah, but you didn't".
I saw earlier today that the New Yorker had written about the potato salad guy, and I skipped it because I wrongly assumed it was going to be more whining about the state of society and cynicism of our new tech-savvy overlords (cynicism which I kind of share, to be honest)...It's nice that they took a non-do-gooder stance.

I chipped in $3. That's about how much I'd tip a good street performer in New York, and this Kickstarter made me laugh. The comedic timing, as much timing as you can convey in a plain written description, was just right...and I'll happily admit, I'm very curious to see how the hell he's going to deliver a "bite of potato salad" (and a photo) to me...I'm also curious if this will be the first Kickstarter project I've backed that has actually delivered its reward on time. Good for the potato guy for making the kind of joke lots of people may have had in their heads, but actually executing on it.

The most annoying protests, IMO, are from the people who ostensibly represent a good cause, like a homeless shelter or cancer research, complaining that a potato salad is getting $45K while they can't even raise $4K. Well, what does that say about your cause? Hopefully, it says nothing about your cause, but maybe it says something about your process. If some random guy from Ohio can raise $45K for something that no one should care about, I think the proper attitude should be, damn, just think about how much money I could raise for something people DO care about and then, get started on figuring out how to go about it.

The jealousy of goodhearted people towards this goodhearted potato fan is a bit unbecoming. And sad, because if they're unhappy about a guy making a shitload of money while being completely honest about what he was doing, how angry will these people be when they learn about the many, many people who raise a shitload of money while being dishonest?
Not many, but every once in a while I'll get something like "Hey, I saw your article on X and really enjoyed it and thought we should connect" or something of that ilk.
It's true about the feet. The earth pin fits right into the tender bit of your foot.

In every other respect, they're brilliant.
Curfew laws are mostly aimed at children and don't apply to adults.

Would you draw parallels between the government legislating that 'school-aged' children must go to school and the US decreeing that all Japanese people on the west coast must go to internment camps? Probably not.
How is Box significantly cheaper? Box is $5 / seat for 100GB, with a cap of 10 users at that tier - if you want more than 10 users in an organization you have to buy in at the $15 / seat price point. Zocalo's $5 / seat for 200GB is a pretty good value in the enterprise space.
It's hard for me to submit to a philosophy for reasons like that it's beautiful, and that you will reach zen. Level 3 enlightenment sounds very cultish to me. :) I've dropped the notion of REST and been very happy with simple RPC, instead of contorting my mental model into resources or to align with the HTTP spec.

I personally have found zen in applying simpler concepts to software development. Such as composition over inheritance to my API design, mixing in certain aspects like content negotiation or caching, when those complexities become necessary. Or separation of concerns, making sure endpoints don't do too much, and the realization of concerns vs technology [1]. Really thinking about the notion of simplicity as describe by Rick Hickley in Simple Made Easy [2]. Or "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"--putting off caching until an endpoint becomes a problem--and not worrying if my URL structure is RESTful.

Here's an example of an API that I find beautiful [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY
[2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
[3] https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/
One big thing Zacolo has over Dropbox is cheaper pricing. Dropbox for Business is $15/mo [1] per user (can be up to 30% cheaper if you pay in-full for a year), where-as Zacolo is $5/mo [2] per user. That'll put downward pressure on Dropbox's corporate pricing unless they have much better service, or much better features, than Amazon.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/business/buy
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/zocalo/pricing/
It seems almost abusive to foster an environment wherein one can accuse another openly but that other cannot respond openly.
They're Python-fans, I believe.

EDIT: This used to be their recommended way of making apps: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/08/quickl...
I would be very interested in seeing a tutorial for how to build a custom developer tool in this.

Something I've been very interested in over the last couple of years is the idea of creating once off, task specific, development and introspection tools. Breach seems like the perfect environment for that kind of thing.
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Are you going to elaborate on that?
I use Copy for storing photos since it gives a lot of free space. The client is more or less identical to Dropbox's. I can barely tell the difference between the popup for Dropbox and the popup for Copy, and it works the same. I wrote a post comparing prices and features: http://mkronline.com/2014/06/05/dropbox-vs-copy-a-comparison...
Really wish they offered pay-as-you-go plans...
I have no need to a $10/month extra expense, but I would love to occasionally use this service if it was based on usage (although there is surely some expense for Silent Circle here).
Does it work with svn repos? i.e., if I've git svn cloned a repo on my machine. Can I interact with it with GhfM? Will sync do 'git svn dcommit'?
Actually, you should generally expect that ANY statistical analysis will give significantly different results than what you'd see of people around you.

Many of such parameters exhibit clustering; so if 50% people are X; then you'd expect most people to say "hey, that's wrong, that's not what I see" - since there would be many people that would see that 80+% of their friends would be X; and there would be many people that would see that 20-% of their friends are X, but virtually noone would have a circle of friends that would have the "true" 50/50 split.
Can Paypal (not Braintree) also authorize future Credit Card purchases from the same user without having to enter the CC number again? As in, could PayPal pass me a customer ID when someone purchases with CC via PayPal?
Here's a collection of some favorite images from my Instagram feed over the last 9 months or so: http://x.are.na/SekSZPT. I'm not sure if you would find them un-subtle, but they are certainly on the whole neither over-saturated nor overly contrasty.

Edit: seems Arena is having this content loading bug again. If you click on the grey blocks, there's an overly and you can step through like a presentation.
Well for my purposes, and this is subjective, google drive works equally well. Granted I may not need all the features that dropbox offers anyway. However, google seems to be quickly coming up to par with the rest of dropbox's offerings, and in the long run as cloud storage becomes more and more of a commodity the only differentiator will be price.
The name of the "loophole" is the Ellis Act. It was passed after the California Supreme Court declared that, under existing law, landlords had no right to evict renters if they wanted to exit the multitenant rental business. The Ellis Act has one purpose: to make legal the eviction of tenants if one wants to exit the multitenant rental business. That is not a side effect, bug, or unintended consequence of the law, it is the exact designed intent.

This eviction is an Ellis Act eviction. The reason for the eviction is that the landlord wishes to exit the multitenant rental business, in favor of a condo conversion, something which the Ellis Act was designed to allow. San Francisco tenants rights activists hate the Ellis Act, so they describe this as a "loophole."
I fully expect version 2 will have full document editing, competing directly with GDrive and Office 365.
That may be what the contract says, but there's more to contract law than just enforcing a contract. There are, for example, rules governing how contracts are handled in the event of a bankruptcy or dissolution of the company. It's likely that Kickstarter backers would become creditors of the bankrupt company and the refund they were due subject to creditor recovery rules.
Something like that but without the barrier/limit that stops people from continuing to browse the site.

With Tinypass: hits limit of 10 articles, donation of $5 requested; non-payers go elsewhere for their content

With my hypothetical: user ignores donation at 10 articles, maybe gets to 100. Isn't going to a competitor for content. Potentially decides that 100 articles seems like a lot, surely that's worth at least $5.
> but with the boom in startups lately

That will not always be the case, and when the market starts cooling off, you will want as many options as you can find. A degree may feel worthless right now, but it provides you with a well-rounded skill set and credentials that bigger companies with actual HR departments will value. Developers won't always be the ones who filter through the resumes.
Yes, I wondered about that too but I'm not sure about the legal issues involved. Though once they allow regular people to invest in startups, founders can sell some equity and use the money to invest in a pool of startups.
Probably a dumb question but can I use this for repositories hosted anywhere or does this only work with Github repositories?

I currently use SourceTree but only for solving conflicts and manually adding things to staging in increments. I would like to give this software a try.
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I totally agree, they must exist together for as long as it takes (or until you don't care), good luck!
Glad to see a language taking inspiration from go. Are other targets (ie a cpython style native interpreter) being considered?

I'd love to see a scripting language with go's type system (and concise syntax for declaration, type inference and built in collections) but support for operator overloading and the ability to link in external shared libraries. Basically I want python+numpy (ie external C/fortran numerical code wrapped with pretty operator overloading and a repl) but with go style syntax and pointers.
I second this. One for Rubyists coming from, say, Sinatra would be great.

Or maybe focusing on the language transition separately from the tools/library transition: "the X things that will hurt your head transitioning from Y to Go"
The fuses in the plugs are in addition to the trips (formerly fuses) in the consumer unit for each circuit (and a master one too, I think?).

We run on roughly double your voltage and a slightly lower frequency - 230V @ 50Hz - with usually a fairly decent amount of amps available, so a little more protection is a good thing. Mains here is hot, and it tends to tense/jam the muscles in your arm so it's hard to pull away, so you do not really want to be friends with it.
As with many things in life, it's a tradeoff... Does it help someone who is conducting recon on Silent Circle employees? Absolutely. But by the same token, we feel the fact that we do have employees who are active parts of communities like this is an asset. For that matter, communities like HN are a great asset to companies like us (we've had great success with the Who's Hiring threads).

It wouldn't take much for someone to sort out my HN profile regardless of my disclaimer though. My HN username is the same as my GitHub username, which is linked to the Silent Circle organization.
It seems like a better solution to the pie-cutting conundrum is the following:
0. Given 3 children: C1, C2, C3
1. C1 gets to cut a piece but not to choose yet.
2. C2 or C3 gets to cut the remaining cake but not to choose any of the pieces yet. Let's say C2 gets to cut.
3. C3 gets to choose one of the 3 pieces.
4. C1 gets to choose one of the remaining 2 pieces.
5. C2 gets the last piece.
It doesn't say that. It's not slightly higher, it's a lot higher. If you disagree then post numbers for wheat pasta and a source.
If you're going to need to teach it for students to read and write programs in the wild than it's irrelevant whether it's 'part of the language syntax' or the ecosystem's syntax. 'Loop' is another one.

Lisp as an idea has a simple syntax but Common Lisp isn't even close to that platonic ideal.
Grammar Nazi Time. An excerpt from Oxford's American:

1 (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react: he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea.
2 informal (of a person) not disconcerted; unperturbed.

usage: In standard use, nonplussed means ‘surprised and confused’: the hostility of the new neighbor's refusal left Mrs. Walker nonplussed. In North American English, a new use has developed in recent years, meaning ‘unperturbed’—more or less the opposite of its traditional meaning: hoping to disguise his confusion, he tried to appear nonplussed. This new use probably arose on the assumption that non- was the normal negative prefix and must therefore have a negative meaning. It is not considered part of standard English.
Wait, what? How does voting determine who gets a taxi? I'm not sure what jurisdiction you're thinking of, but none of the ones that Uber operates in holds a referendum every time N people are trying to hail M taxis (where N > M).

Of course, voting expresses needs and desires, but that's in an entirely different sense of the word than it's being used in this context. The only way one could mistake the two is if they read my comment COMPLETELY without context: without having read the article, the headline, or any of the HN comments page....unless you're just nitpicking semantics to be contrarian because you have nothing else to contribute, in which case I'm not interested in wasting any more of my time.
>Not to mention, encrypted to the PSTN solves what, exactly?

I presume, if one calls Germany, and the line is encrypted from the handset to Germany, then that person would be out of NSA's reach.

I suspect that would make wiretaps more difficult as well, since police would need to tap who is called, instead of the caller. That's a lot more warrants and they need them in advance of a call... or they need every call recorded from the end points for later search.
>> But when Ars reached Chen by phone, he seemed nonplussed by his own company's failure. "Do you know what the percentage of completion is for Kickstarters in general for technology-based startups?" Chen asked. "Probably 85 percent of all startups fail."

I wonder if this is actually true and if there's any hard historical data on this. It sounds to me like a statistic he just made up.
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The broadcasters have been given a huge amount of very valuable public spectrum that is increasingly useless. It really should be taken away from them and made unlicensed. Can you imagine the benefits to society if these useless giant companies stopped hogging the spectrum and a million innovators got to play in that playground?
I can't comment on this as it's a php installation but the rails integration on elasticsearch was pretty easy and fast. It gave us so much speed that we decided to use it as a full cms read data store for our website.
You may want to add a Proxy for ES6 users to simplify syntax: [1,2,3,4,5]['1::-1'] = [2,1]

Multidimensional arrays are possible then too.
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There is a lot of really interesting and inspiring people Hacker News and I would love to have more of you, and the products of your brilliant minds in my Twitter feed. So care to share yours!

PS. I live and thrive at:
https://twitter.com/gopatrik
Here's a nice little animation showing the difference between unhulled, brown, white, and polished rice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice#mediaviewer/File:Rice_Ani...
It's confirmed, Apple's Feb14 security whitepaper states:

"The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure."

But, as far as I know, they don't use Azure/Amazon for any non-storage functionality.
For those interested in this issue, check out JSON API's compound documents [0], and how to specify inclusion [1].

[0] http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-structure-compound-docum...

[1] http://jsonapi.org/format/#fetching-includes
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> No, it may simply mean that money is worth less to them.

You started your sentence with "No", and then literally stated the exact same thing in different words. Saying "a unit of their time is worth more of their money than the equivalent for person X" is exactly equivalent to "a unit of their money is worth less time than the equivalent for person X". The only difference between your statement and the statement you think you're disagreeing with is whether you choose to denominate "worth" in time or money: the end result however, is identical.
As tzs points out above, this could be because police take crimes against black victims less seriously.
As a parent and a member of parent forums, this is just funny. Because it doesn't work.

A recurring theme in the parent world is simply that "kids are different." What works wonders for one parent&child is completely useless to another.

I have two completely opposite daughters. One has the will and dominance of a conquerer, and the other is butterfly princess. I cannot use the same methods for both.

I've seen parents post about using the random chance approach. You flip a coin or play rock paper scissors, and it is agreed upon that whoever wins gets the "prize". That works for some children, but in my case, no matter who wins, the other one cries and gets upset. Even if I explain to them beforehand and afterwards how it was completely fair.

Kids are different. It's up to you to figure out what works. The only thing I would 100% recommend to a parent is "structure". Have a set bedtime, set expectations for food time and play time, etc.
That is too f'ing cool. I like Elon Musk more all the time! I especially love the idea of putting a Supercharger station at the Tesla Museum. It just all seems so fitting somehow. Nice job, Mr. Musk.

Now, if they can only raise the other $7MM...
Black males are disproportionately represented among those in poverty or with low income compared to white males. If the police completely ignored race, we would expect black males to be arrested at a higher rate than white males.

When is comes to violent crime, yes. However violent crime arrests make up a relatively small amount of arrests (about 8% of arrests according to my accounting, including arson [0]). Drug related arrests make up 12% of arrests, that's an area where whites and blacks are known to use use and sell at about the same rates [1] but blacks are arrested at higher rates. I'm not sure about the other classes of crimes (burglary, fraud, disorderly conduct, etc), but I suspect those are highly dependent on local conditions.

[0] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...

[1] http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-like... - this is link to a mainstream media summary, the data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for various years goes into more detail, I just don't have time to look it up right now.
Contemporary art has nowhere close to any objective criteria, by any lax use of the word. Which means it's a popularity contest. Network, a nice name, a pretty face and last but not least a good personal story will make you go far. I'm talking about art-exhibition contemporary art and not the stuff people hang on their walls.

Reference: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21586580-fakes-say-som...
A piece of advice I had from a mentor 15+ years ago when I started my business was to pay yourself something regular. Even if it was a tiny amount like $200/wk, just do that rather than forever be pulling out irregular lump sums when you got paid for a job.
Why'd they go with a British accent?
This loophole was a result of the original law being passed in the 1970s. I'm not sure conspiracy theories will stretch to time travel.
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If you have private repos on GitHub, and lets say GitHub has a security vulnerability[1] that lets users post to private repos it probably would be better if malicious people who knew that their target used Silent Circle didn't know you were on GitHub. Which I didn't, until you just mentioned it. Why are you on GitHub?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/hacker-commandeers-g...