skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what parts of the "American Dream" are cut and/or subsidized with debt to fit reality? Median household income is about $50K so there's about a $80K shortfall between the $130K "American Dream" and the $50K "Median American". Assuming $20K of the $80K shortfall are taxes you wouldn't have to pay due to earning $50K instead of $130K, you would still need to cut $60K out of expenses. Looking at the list, the line items most likely to see cuts are:

Housing at $17k per year

Groceries at $13k per year

Car at $11k per year

Medical at $9k per year

Education at $4K per year

Apparel at $2.6K per year

Vacation/Entertainment/Discretionary at $17k per year

Savings/College Investments at $22.5k per year

What's scary is you can completely cut savings, discretionary, and medical (~$50k total) and still need to find another $10k to cut. This is how we end up with people in debt and/or are forced to live without a safety net (no insurance/savings) to fund everyday expenses.

So what's the fix? Tough to say. Near term you're definitely seeing a rise in "sharing economy" type activities to better utilize/monetize assets. Provider gets another revenue stream (to supplement flat/stagnant wages). Consumer gets an end product at an affordable price (since they can't afford it otherwise).
I'm curious on the theoretical basis of this effort. I'm reminded of "On Trusting Trust." Simply put, not at all an easy problem to try and tackle.

No, I'm not against trying. Just going from your thing, I'm not sure what is being aimed at. Specifically, would a "deterministic" build really help much?

edit: I am perusing https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o... and https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-t... Good reads so far.
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That was not in jest. I really don't understand the value they are providing, likely because I'm outside their target audience. I can't help seeing it as mere fancy footnotes, while I could point a couple things Facebook had going for them.
> Saving $2500/year @ 10% compounded annually over 18
> years is a little over $120K.

10% is not realistic; 2-3% is more likely, since a college fund isn't the sort of thing you'd want to gamble on stocks with.

> Not qualifying for financial aid

Always factor in financial aid when calculating college costs. According to stanford.edu's Net Price Calculator, a gross income of $130k with the specified income tax rates will receive sufficient financial aid to reduce the net cost to about $11k per year. This is still pretty high for undergrad, but it's not financially ruinous.
$40 million
Anyone remember Third Voice?
Sure. Weston has a nested backend for this use case, and I'm told that KWin is going to do the same thing, because they don't want to fiddle with DRM/KMS directly.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/tree/src/composit...
We can do lots of hacks, then the user clicks on print screen and its a done deal.
i agree with both this and OP - while the format and function of the site is great for reading, i am usually underwhelmed by the annotations. in fairness to the annotators, the content they are annotating is often pretty inane - "he's bragging about his sexual prowess" etc etc.

perhaps we should rename is "genious". let's at least have a sense of humor about what we're doing here.
The Syrian and Russian model won't work in the States. Despite all its glaring failings there is still a relative balance of power.
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That's a lot of water - 16 ounces before, and after each drink? So they drank 1.8 liters of water during this experiment. I'm honestly really surprised it didn't have a bigger impact on reducing their BAC levels.

The water drink works extremely well for every person I know. If you simply have a large glass of water after every drink, then, in addition to slightly diluting the alcohol you are drinking, it also cuts in half the amount of alcohol you drink that night - presuming you don't speed up your liquid consumption to accommodate.
I would recommend against the Tronche site for references. It was automatically converted, but there are sometimes fields missing in places. I've tried emailing him, but the email address is disconnected. You can find reference documentation officially here:

http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.h...
http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/icccm/icccm....

I haven't read the tutorial, so maybe that's perfectly OK.
It's probably based on the factual inaccuracy of the energy saving claim.
Funny how this keeps going around. Internet Explorer used to have a "discussions" feature to add comments to arbitrary web pages. That was around 1999 or so, I think.
> For modern cars, maintenance is not a significant expense compared to the purchase price and fuel

Its certainly not in the first few years (which is why some companies offer prepaid routine maintenance) -- in the latter several years of a 10 year life, that's far less the case.

> No need to buy new, let some other sucker eat the depreciation. A 3-4 year old Corolla (or equivalent) shouldn't cost more than $10k.

A 3-4 year old Corolla or other economy car is going to be spending more of the 10 year life you propose in the part of its lifespan where the "maintenance is not a significant expense compared to the purchase price and fuel" argument is invalid than a new car.

> Inflation isn't going to be a significant factor, since long-term savings are going to be placed in something like a TIPS bond.

A TIPS bond is indexed to general inflation, inflation of higher education costs has been much higher than the general inflation for quite a long time. So, yes, for college savings, inflation is likely to be significant factor, even if you use an investment vehicle protected against general inflation.

> It is possible that the total cost will increase, but what are the chances it'll cost more for a regular school then than it does for a top-tier school now?

Quite good. Using reference points I'm familiar with, the tuition for a UC now are higher than the tuition at Caltech in the early 1990s, and the ratio of college tuition inflation to general inflation has been higher in the second half of that interval at the first, having stabilized at around 2.0 from the late 1990s on, where it had been at around 1.5 in the early 1990s. So
CVS still has its uses.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7871646/827263
It's unfortunate that so many are uncritically jumping to Max's defense. Scratch that--it's wrong, misogynistic, and reflects badly on the HN community. No one knows what actually happened, except for the accused and the accuser, and even they have to contend with time dulling memory.

If you're part of the group that's immediately discounting her accusation and claiming she made it up, I've got to ask: why? The only reasons I see mentioned here are "it was a long time ago, she would have pressed charges then if she were telling the truth" and "she refers to rape culture, she's clearly a social justice warrior trying to pick up some Twitter followers." But both are transparently bad reasons to attack her credibility.

A more interesting question is how to dispel the fog of claims and counterclaims that makes identifying and prosecuting intimate violence so difficult. I can't imagine anything short of the panopticon that could do that, though.
Yeah I was also surprised by the willful inconsistence of that sentence. "The hardworking Mexican" / "Homeless people" / "AIDS" / etc. Personally, while I think rape jokes belong almost nowhere, I'd be a little disappointed to find that there isn't even a place for them in CAH -- it's the definition of "agreed-upon safe place for offensive jokes" and you would have to neuter the game to consistently remove offensive jokes from it.

(Also, "Surprise sex!" is still on the list at http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/wcards.txt)
Btw, seems like Popcorn Time got removed from Github because of DMCA. Is that valid? The code wasn't pirated, so how does that make sense?
The community. Why do people keep responding with rethorical questions?
I chose GitHub because it's an easy way to publish a static website that I don't have to rsync: contributors can fix a typo and I press a button on the website and things are automatically deployed.

It's a super convenient workflow for me, and there's nothing else like it in my opinion. If there is, please let me know! I hate rsync / scp for deploying static sites, but that's the best thing we have right now.
Just be sure to test in a non production database first, I have seen PTOSC crash certain MySQL versions.
Ask HN: Anyone been bitten by aws "free tier" charges?
aws requires a credit card to sign up for the free tier (ugh). It looks like you can still get charged for a variety of things unless you really watch out. Hooking up a faucet to a credit card with the risk that who-knows-what charges might hit is worrisome. Relying on alerts after-the-fact does not solve this, imo.

But maybe I'm alone in feeling this way, and was wondering if anyone has really had a problem with this before. thx
You're the one who is preoccupied with the puerile. Perhaps you sicken yourself.

Accusations of sexual assault don't require there to have been any sex act, near-sex act, or even co-presence in the same room to have profound impact on the accused. Colleges have very strong responses to accusations of sexual assault, largely because actual assaults are very common, and colleges also have extra-judicial rules and regulations and systems of punishment with significant consequences. This is what makes the accusation of sexual assault a powerful tactic of revenge.
The victim should have reported the rape when it occured. I will always support that choice on the part of the victum.

Not reporting rape when it occurred is not the fault of the victim.

However, she leveled public accusations 10 years later when the only chance of evaluating the accusations is the word and unreliable memories of the two people involved.

Now, even that isn't necessarily a bad thing. She should have that right, and people should come forward in case there are other silent, more recent, victims.

Unfortunately, internet culture involves people thinking that they somehow have the ability and responsiblity to judge the truth of these accusations and then publicly voice that opinion. I wish fewer people on this thread were doing that.

We need to have a safe, secure, victim friendly system for logging these types of accusations, investigating them, looking for corroboration, and then strict guidelines for publicizing these accusations even if the statue of limitations has expired.

Public shaming works, the court of public opinion doesn't.

The most honorable thing in that whole post is this:

"You will not harass or threaten the woman making these claims. I am not looking for a mob of people carrying pitchforks on my behalf. If you harass her or go after her in any way, you are not a friend of mine, and you are not a friend of Cards Against Humanity."
Sounds like you need a remedial course of gender sensitivity training.
It's not equivalent, but share some aspects. CPS straight forward semantics, but a semantic for SSA must carry path history along as phi-nodes have no local meaning (you must know where you came from).

I never really understood the big deal about SSA as it's just a really weak version of models from the functional world. (Disclaimer: I've worked on both sides of the fence).
On deterministic builds you may also find interesting this one: http://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/isolated-testing/...
I wonder if there are any startups in weapon technology.
Instead of hiding or modifying the image entirely at tiny random intervals, why not modify subsections of the image at all times, rolling the imperceptible modification around the image itself, so that at no time interval is there ever an unmodified image?
Whoever gave this band of clowns 40 million is extremely socially irresponsible in my view.

Either that, or else they have a vested interest in social degradation. I haven't made up my mind which I believe yet.

Yep I'm biased. I can't stand rap genius nor those nappy haired punks that run it.

Some people might think this comment is simply ugly hatred. But it's a small shadow of what I've seen spewing out of rap genius guys. Can't_Stand_Them!
Me, I was walking home from a friend's house after staying up late pair programming on the weekend.

Me, in '95. No curfews in Ireland, of course.
It happened to the person I was shopping with in California in 2012 or perhaps 2011.
that reminds me of another technique I used but didn't describe in the article which could be interesting for you:

encode the viewer's IP into the image (with steganography, wrote a small script for that) on the server (every request). whenever your image pops up somewhere in the web you know which IP address is to "blame" (easily bypassed with IP obfusication software though :) )
Yeah, Amazon charged me for $0.41 that they're still trying to collect upon because the credit card I used to sign up was canceled. I had a friend complain about getting a bill for I think $0.01 that caused a bunch of administrative hassles.

I think the risk of super-high bills is pretty minimal because if you're using the free tier you're not doing stuff that will incur super-high charges anyway. Still, I hate owing money and I hate the administrative hassle of being billed for tiny (sub-$1) amounts a year after signing up.
Your final demo is easily defeated because a link to cat.png appears right in the page source:

I mean this line:

<img id="cat" src="cat.png" width="237" height="235" />

in the source code to this page:

http://www.patrick-wied.at/talks/image-protection/demos/demo-interlacing.html

Am I correct in assuming that for demo purposes you didn't worry about that, but if you had intended to do this in practice, you would have to feed the data in cat.png to client in some non-obvious way?
Completely agree! At post.fm we're trying to design an email client which will work offline, and synchronize data when online (IMAP isn't sufficient for our needs) - Exchange style. We've thought long and hard about various solutions, and have tried syncing logic-less document-stores such as this. As you say - this doesn't really work, and there's definitely no way to handle anything remotely complex like transactions. In our case "app data" is effectively all your mail and more, and we can't expect each client to have a local copy of everything, meaning partial syncing of a collection is important for us (not something any solution out here seems to handle).

The solution we've come up with, which we'll hopefully get to open-source one day, is to model state over time as a persistent "event log", which means instead of syncing documents we sync events that clients perform, replaying events instead of document-update statements. This approach is infinitely flexible I believe, but requires more work if your clients are written in different languages (we use JS throughout so that isn't an issue).
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"nor have you given me a reason to believe that your friend's friend didn't actually rape someone." - so it's guilty until proven innocent now?
This reminds me of a story I heard as a kid while listening to a baseball game on the radio.

During a game one night, one of the non-starting pitchers was bored in the dugout and started doodling on the baseballs that would be periodically brought out to the umpire (to replace balls that are hit out of play or that are scuffed on the dirt). He happened to know that it was the home plate umpire's birthday that day and so on one ball he wrote "Happy Birthday Dave" (or whatever the umpire's name was). At one point, that ball was brought out to the umpire by the bat boy along with a few other balls and was put into play by the umpire who didn't notice the inscription.

The batter happened to hit that ball foul into the stands where it was caught by a guy named Dave who was also celebrating his birthday that day.
The 2nd isn't really to protect you from the combined might of an oppressive nation-state. If it gets that far, its really already too late. The 2nd is to protect you from Bob down at the police station in Podunksville deciding that he might like to have a go at running the town his way and helping himself to your stuff. Its the safety valve on the local-est kind of corruption.
I've been trying to get in touch with your CEO - could you be of help? @simon on Twitter, you find my email there. Thanks :)
The terms are not inherently demeaning, but they can certainly be accidentally used in a demeaning way.
If you want a strong resemblance, Swift looks spookily like Groovy - to the point where I have to actually check sometimes that I'm not reading Groovy code. I would say much more so than Scala.
They have a version available for iOS. It's just a simple BASIC game that evolved into Ultima I (also written in BASIC, with some Assembly).
Yes you are right, the main purpose of the last demo is to try to prevent a screen shot (ignoring all other techniques to obtain the image). thank you I, already forgot about it and will change that
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This is basically exactly what I2P does automatically.

Each peer is also a router, so that point is covered.
It already has a well documented method of transmitting torrents over the protocol, unlike Tor.

I2P has dedicated .maggot links too for distributing files over that network.

It uses garlic routing too, which makes it even more difficult to discover hidden services through network saturation.

So by all accounts, I2P is the better network to choose for this, it has all the resources there and a community that's willing to help.
But you decided to go down the unsupported route with Tor, a route that's going to be very unpopular with the Tor community.
This is exactly the same way how I2P propagates its network, each peer is also a relay.

However, he should have used I2P, it's much more suited towards this project than Tor ever will be.
Ask HN: What IDEs for front-end web development?
The last time I was a full-time web developer, the state of the art web development IDE was Allaire HomeSite, and sadly it turns out it's no longer available. What are people using these days for front-end development? Is there anything available for Windows or Linux that's relatively lightweight but beats using Notepad++?
The best "trick" I know for processing alcohol fast and avoiding a hangover is plenty of sugar. Drink rum & coke and such like in preference to straight spirits or wine/beer.

Your liver rapidly uses up glycogen reserves while detoxifying alcohol, easily leaving you a bit hypoglycemic. The fructose in sucrose powerfully replenishes glycogen.

The sugar advantage really is very noticeable if you experiment. You'll sober up quicker from a screwdriver than from a glass of wine.
The link goes to a specific comment, should strip that if possible.
A Couple of Corrections for The Oatmeal’s Webcomic about the Tesla S
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/the-pay-gap-is-beca...

Eh. The pay gap is 12%. Please provide evidence this isn't real that is verifiable and not vague "look at the statistics". Which statistics?
CNET hacked, site source code leaked
+1 for the resume builder, it's super easy and the results look great.
that's because CVS is shit and they should use git or mercurial.

and why should we trust an SSL tool that uses COMIC SANS on thier website. these LibReSSL dudes sound like idiot hipsters
"I wanted to say I'm amazed by the number of commenters who just assume the OP states the truth, but I'm not, not really. HN is awfully quick to take sides, and it's very predictable where it comes down. (In the aggregate. Yes, I know there's no HN group mind)"

There are 121 comments right now. I have no idea how many users HN has, but I think it is safe to assume that the writers of those 121 comments are not a significant part of the group.

I think it is a mistake to draw conclusions about "HN" from a bunch of comments.
Yeah... the food estimate is one of the things they got right, at least in my experience. Have four people living in our house right now and we spend about $250-300/week on food. All healthy stuff, I avoid a lot of canned food. That doesn't include eating out or desserts. If we didn't bother to deal hunt the costs would be even higher.
Goat: Yet another dependency manager for go
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This is brilliant! I recently became addicted to 2048 and this quite literally takes it to another dimension. Would love to see this as a mobile app!
That isn't how a hiring process works. You don't get to arbitrarily redistribute labor across industries & fields with a magic wand.
Well, if you change your tampon ever 2-3 hours, then you end up using 4-5 a day, which can run up to 30-35 tampons a month, which averages out to a little more than one a day.
they use a shitty BSD clone called Open CVS
Some discussion of the relative strengths and weaknesses here, with references: http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assign...

(Including to the paper here, incidentally.)
I said I was looking into it and showed them the log files. I was specifically told that if I wasn't visibly panicking they didn't believe I was engaged in solving the problem.

This is the same agency that accused me of doing freelance on the side because they saw me with a C# book and there was no reason for me to be learning another programming language if I wasn't doing work on the side in violation of my contract.
That's great to hear! I haven't decided anything, I'm just more familiar with Tor and thought this would be something interesting to do with it. I'm not even building anything really, just getting feedback on the idea.

I don't see any antagonism between the two, and I'm glad to know there's something being done with I2P already, will check it out.

A Popcorn Time dev got in touch and showed interest in the idea, so it could be a great opportunity for the I2P community: https://twitter.com/xaiki/status/487732035331842048.

You should get in touch with them, I'd be thrilled to see this happen!
One you can keep. I know someone that ends up throwing away a pair of pants every cycle. That adds up!
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