skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be confusing employment and earnings. Just because you're employed doesn't mean that your earnings prospects are good. Many college graduates are employed but underemployed, and many others have low-paying jobs that don't even require a college education.

As for pay-as-you-earn, which I believe requires a high debt-to-income ratio (a red flag to begin with), you need to do the actual math. Even with forgiveness, many pay-as-you go borrowers will pay more over the life of their loan.

Your comment about "making sure the monthly amount is doable is really important" is how people who live beyond their means justify purchasing things they can't really afford. This mentality is why we have 72+ month auto loans.

If you purchase a college education using debt and it does not produce monthly income that comfortably enables you to repay said debt within a reasonable amount of time, just how good is the "investment" you're making? Five figures of debt (the national average) should not take two decades to pay off; many people pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars of mortgage debt in 15 years.

The fact that relatively small amounts of debt so frequently become crippling tells you everything you need to know about how college is working out for lots of young people who don't know how to do basic math and are being mislead by adults who lack financial literacy themselves.
Sure, and negative comments that also expand on the original idea are just as good (or perhaps even better). That is, "I disagree, and here is more information necessary to inform that disagreement". I personally think you see a lot of those on this site, and that they shouldn't be lumped in with the general disdain people have for negativity.
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I don't know of any short books on Ada. Given the language, and the fact it's still growing, I doubt there are any.
This system organizes files in a very efficient way. It could save us so much time everyday and the interface is very good-looking. It seems this system can't show the size of each file or copy/paste a lot of files simultaneously. I really recommend this and hope this could be implemented soon!
And this is why Torvalds defaults to "if a change in the kernel breaks user space, the fault is in the kernel no matter how buggy the user space is".

The attitude of many of the core systemd devs seems to be the polar opposite. They decree from on high, and if you don't like it thought luck.

In a sense this is the same difference in attitude we see between Apple (systemd) and Microsoft (Linux kernel).

Microsoft has in the past bent over backwards to ensure that people could run older software on newer version of Windows.

Apple in contrast have removed and changed expected product behaviors virtually over night.
Perhaps GPUs would fare better.
It's a wonderful article about how low level assembly and C programs work on linux, and somehow HN gets caught up on a single intended-to-be-funny hyperbole, effectively turning it into a gender debate...
> TPB doesn't connect musician to audience -- it distances musician from audience even more than the record companies ever did! Piracy is the ultimate in passive consumerism. It's consumerism so passive there isn't even a twice-removed economic connection. There's no connection at all. You -- the viewer or listener -- might as well not even exist.

The connection is the same as always have been, you view their film/listened to their music/etc, and hopefully liked it. By that metric, borrowing a book from a friend also doesn't count. This coupling of money and art is a disservice to both those things.

> On TPB, Popcorn Time, and any number of these other things, I don't even see a way to pay the artists if I want to.

This is so wrong. Things don't work like that. Say I watch the latest blockbuster, or the latest Game of Thrones episode. Who do I pay?
Why are bangs good? Why not just go to the site?

Also Stackoverflow's search and many other site searches are totally rubbish. Not a bit, but totally rubbish. Here's an example:

"!so c# read file" => this delivers useless results, the top result being "Reading Excel files from C#"

Compare that to "stackoverflow c# read file" on google, which delivers what you actually want, with the question "Reading From a Text File in C#".
Might be multiplets. Or maybe wycats is a clonal colony, like Pando.
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Seems precisely the scenario of cyberpunk RPGs from the 90s
Awesome! Thanks for picking us from the plethora of Icelandic hipster bands!
Thanks for organising such a great conference. I missed this talk, so have been looking forward to the videos.
There was another thread about kos a while back [1] which was why I invited Geo to speak, as there seemed like a lot of interest.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8475809
> executes the program pointed to by filename[1]

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/2/execve

man pages are your friend ;P

(I think they assume if you are doing this level of debugging, you are familiar with the typical linux sys calls, and/or know where to look-up more information about them)
>doing something sane

Dunno if dumping the output of every last damn command performed by systemd, and the daemons it starts, into dmesg can be considered sane...
The ie8 thing is because it is the last version you can run on the massive number of pirated XP copies out there.
Since Google doesn't have a replacement ready, what are the best available options out there?
Ask HN: Is ruby/rails still a good bet? What else should I learn?
I've worked with ruby and rails (and other ruby frameworks) for many years now, mostly for backend works, and I love them. It's the only language I'm really fluent with and I'm thinking about looking to some more languages to deeply learn and experiment, to avoid that one day ruby won't be needed anymore and . I'd still like to be on the web development

Which languages and frameworks do think are good bets? Javascript (nodejs, angular/ember, and many more)? Go? Which others?

With all the client javascript frameworks I'm also starting to wonder if we'll ever need backend anymore or if it'll be just built as "premade blocks" and bringing all the focus to the frontend
You're onto something important when you say "companies are looking for ideal candidates – as in they’re willing to wait for them". I've been frustrated by interviews where everything is fantastic, from the phone screen to the on-site interview, then at the very last step a Director or VP of Engineering needs to sign off, gets spooked by something really minor, then a previously super-optimistic recruiter sends you the out-of-nowhere "We decided to move forward with a better qualified candidate for this position" email.

They're more worried about hiring a single bad employee than rejecting many well-qualified employees. And I grudgingly understand that and the effect it has on company culture, but it's disappointing how arbitrary some of the "might be a bad employee" signals are, and how inept HR and recruiters are at giving you feedback about what you could have done better.
trevor paglen has written/spoken about this topic extensively, e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Could-Tell-Then-Would-Destroyed/dp/193... from 2007 and various talks on youtube, e.g. from 30c3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVgPw7TR_k
I think the point being made is that there are probably predictors which have many orders of magnitude more predictive power (e.g. work experience, education, interview questions, programming exercise, available source code, etc.).

The male gender is probably correlated to programming ability as well due to the fact that there are more male programmers but it's not a very useful predictor.
> > You can't count it as a cost on you without adding the value of the employer share to your base income.

> I agree with you, but I think I did that.

You did not. Or you calculated the tax wrong, but it looks more like the former than the latter.

> I said $100,000 of payroll causes $15,300 of payroll taxes.

You said when "earning" $100k, you pay $15,300 of payroll tax, you did not say $100k of payroll causes $15,300 of payroll tax -- and interpreting earning in the usual way for such a discussion (i.e., the income shown on your pay stub subject to payroll tax) -- this is exactly correct; at $100k of such income, the total payroll tax (employer + employee share, Social Security + Medicare) is exactly $15,300.

If you are looking at the employer's payroll expense, however, though, that's not $100k, its at least $107,650 (the employee's income subject to payroll tax -- which includes the employee share of the tax -- plus the employer share of the tax.)
Unclear design/coding/development guidelines on contribution submission resulted in effort wasted in developing the contribution. Slow review process. Took more than a month and repeated requests to get a resolution. Arbitrary rigid design decision that couldn't be circumvented even when resulted in bugs. No channel for design decision escalation in the event of a disagreement.

At least that's what I've encountered before. May be now is better. The thing for community contributors is that we all have other jobs to do. After spent huge amount of effort in development and exhaustive testing and the review process went nowhere, I just didn't care to bother about it anymore.
I don't know how you plan on doing the VFS stuff on windows but back in the day when I still used windows (XP) I had a shell extension that let you tag a folder or file from the context menu. It would then be linked into a tag directory using either NTFS reparse points (aka junctions?) for directories or hardlinks for files.
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This. Windows was much more open and created a massive parallel industry of third party software, at all levels of the stack.

Apple doesn't even let Firefox port their browser. Windows had third-party C compilers.
Hey Pavel! I updated the post with a more in-depth explanation, you can check out the details right below that paragraph in the post.
When in doubt people should interpret it in a way that is convenient to them and not others. It makes total sense for Yahoo! to promote Firefox as a "Better browser". Google in past too has tried similar tricks.
Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.

—Linus Torvalds (2000-05-02)
I guess the problem is that the author sounds less credible saying "minimal convex hull," because that's the only type anybody cares anything about. In the computational geometry literature the phrase "convex hull" almost always implies the minimal, unique convex hull.

Using the phrase makes it sound like he googled the algorithms for half an hour and wrote up an article about it.
There absolutely is a negative feedback mechanism. The question is whether that mechanism involves the destruction of humanity.
I tried DDG for a while (a month, but probably a year ago now) but found I was always doing "!g <search terms>". So I just went back to using the address bar for searching and just the standard FF shortcuts (called "search engine keywords" IIRC) + a few extras I've added over the years.

On Firefox I have

g - google

ddg - duckduckgo

yt - youtube

w - wikipedia

etc.

easy to type without the bang at the front (Google and Wikipedia are defaults, not sure what the other ones are). I gather on DDG you can use them at the end so you need the ! as a delimiter.
>* Can see no compelling case for it

Why is that? Curious
tl;dr In order to get the content in the first place, we had to sign contract that said we wouldn't distribute it to a PC, and that we wouldn't tell anyone the real reason.

Why Netflix or Amazon would tolerate that is another question. I'm not convinced they need to.

But, I'm not the right one to ask anyway because I can't get that kind of internet access from my cable company, and therefore not going to watch any 4k anything for a few years, I'd bet.
What i find interesting is that it is the traditional sysadmins that find fault after fault with systemd.

On the other hand those that embrace it come from web/cloud development, with an eye towards virtualization and containerization.

I think someone somewhere once compared it to pets vs cattle.

Traditional servers are the pets of sysadmins. Groomed and cared for to make sure they never keel over unexpectedly.

To the cloud "admins" (or maybe i should call them devops?) servers are cattle. they have X of them living in some cloud "farm" somewhere, and can order any number of them to be slaughtered and replace at the drop of a pin.
For some heavy users, including me, Firefox has always felt better.

I've honestly tried to switch to both Opera and Chrome but once you are spoiled with real extensions there is always one of them holding you back. ATM the most obvious one is treestyletabs.

This is not to say that there is not a lot of people to whom Chrome is better. Just that you can rest assured that Firefox is better as well, -for some of us, just like Safari is the best browser for some people and others want Opera. (Same goes for Linux, Mac and Windows and I love being able to chose one that I like.)
Fair enough.

The main reason why there is a lump of labor fallacy is that it rests on the fact that there is just a fixed quantity of jobs in the economy. A fixed amount of jobs means that thers is only a fixed amount of goods and services people desire. But this is wrong because human wants and desires are unlimited. This is the basic condition in economics. So in theory there is an infinite amount of jobs to be done to cater to our infinite wants.

Now, there are structural reasons for why there isn't universal employment. These can range from government policies, to technological reasons. If people want multistoried houses, and builders can build them, they will have jobs but if the government has policies which block those houses, the builders will not have those jobs. Another thing people want is to travel into space, say a visit to alpha centauri. There may be tourism operator jobs who can do that but technology does not exist which can take us there.

The main focus of government policies to promote and encourage job growth should be on building technology to promote new job creating industries, promoting skills growth to manage these industries, and removing or modifying policies which hinder job growth.

If trade or immigration caused a loss of jobs, the 90s would have been a time of high unemployment. It wasn't because a new industry came up to generate jobs and other jobs were created to service those workers. The same goes for policies to shorten hours or promote early retirement.
I thought this writeup was easier to understand: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/chemical-phthalate...
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No kidding. (How is this even news?)
The problems are different. The USA has much more accountability - people are not necessarily held to account, because of partisan sympathies and realpolitik, but they are restrained from levels of excess.
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"brain teaser"s are very background and culture dependent (and even age dependent), IMHO.
I'd prefer to "spend time" with candidates, solve a problem I have solved already with them together to see how they deal with it.
> First, you can't take home quite $78,900 on $115,300 -- you've shifted up income but haven't adjusted taxes accordingly.

While grandparent made an error of including both halves of the payroll tax, when only the employer share should have been added, the point is that employer share (while it can be considered "income" of a sort that goes directly into paying payroll taxes), isn't taxable income subject to any other taxes, so properly counting it as part of the "income" number if you are counting the whole payroll tax (including employer share) as part of the tax expense doesn't shift up the taxes, it just correctly accounts for the income that goes with the taxes originally presented.
Looks like what Geo was covering in the first few minutes at least is summarized in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476633
That's what "association" means.
Precisely what I thought as soon as I read the study, simply because I was terrible at math generally (and algebra specifically) before I studied CS. Afterwords, it turns out I'm fine at math generally (and have a bit of ability for algebra). The problem I had was not the content matter but the teaching paradigm.

A much more interesting experiment would be to add the algebra test back into the end of the program and see if there is improvement and how that correlates (or doesn't) to programming competence.
It doesn't end up simpler though in the end. I've had to explain to my grandfather how the unopened inks still in the boxes on his shelf have somehow "expired" and the ink that his printer takes is no longer commonly sold so really does need to scrap that working printer and buy a new one.

Its anything but simple. I'm a geek and the only thing I really know for sure about the whole debacle is that "plays for sure"... didn't.
I don't see a problem with this, its what google has been doing for years.
For all the guys that are stuck on inspiration, try reading Sam Altman's series on:

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec10/

I personally use this as a way to brainstorm new ideas on marketing for my projects.

This is a piece I wrote on Quora, covers 20 startup topics with links to articles. It's a basic summary of what I leant from the business side of startups: http://www.quora.com/What-should-you-do-if-you-want-to-be-an...

I'm focussed on trying to make a successful startup. I think it really helped when my daughter (7 months old) was born, kind of pushed me to work away from my shitty day job.

My site will be ready in 1-2 months, if you're any good at UI/UX PM me and keep in touch, and maybe we could do a trade, you could have a look at my design, and I can teach you the marketing side - and, more importantly why I did things this way.
> We have a second amendment in the constitution for exactly this reason.

No. We have a second amendment to maintain a "well regulated militia" to protect the state - not to make it easier to overthrow it.
Are we not saying the same thing two different ways?

Earning $100k to me means providing services worth $100k. It's obvious when it's 1099 or self-employment. On a $100,000 '1099' or Schedule C income you owe $15,300 of payroll tax. I pulled the number straight from Schedule SE, Line 5. You will pay less income tax as a result, due to the 1/2 (e.g. $7650) deduction from income tax on Line 6. (I tried to account for that in my estimated $6500 of Federal Income Tax due, an effective 6.5% rate)

Somewhere along the line the Fed tricked us into subtracting 7.65% off our W-2 compensation before we even see it, and even got us to think we didn't even earn it. It's fully institutionalized now. It's like VAT being baked in and no one thinks they're paying the tax, but they are!

In my earning $100k example, the reported "Compensation" on the W-2 would be only 100,000 / 1.0765 = $92,893. My point is your W-2 is lying. The company is paying $100k for your services, and the IRS has their fingers in it before you even see it.

Anyway, we are arguing a very minor point to a very serious issue. I think I've provided enough numbers that are accurate enough to see the insanity of the whole system. It doesn't really matter when in the "pipeline" the $7,650 is confiscated. It's enough to know that FICA is 15.3% of every dollar up to $117,000 per person, $234,000 per household.
This is highly dependent on your opportunity. As hard as it is to find qualified math and english teachers prior to the college level, think how hard it would be to find programming instruction.

That is to say, when I was in school before university there was no choice for studying programming.

There was but it was offered at a private religious school/camp, not via the public schools.
> My Macroeconomics 101 class claimed it's been "proven" the full cost of payroll taxes is born by the employee.

Whether or not that's true, that's already reflected in you showing the full cost of payroll taxes (employee + employer share) as an expense to the employee. What you failed to do is show all of the income that pays that expense (including the money from the employer that goes directly to paying the employer share) as part of the income from which that cost was being paid.

> The good news for all the self-employed boot-strapping startups out there; STOP paying yourself. It's the absolute worst use of your company's cash.

Perhaps its worse for your company, OTOH, it mitigates the risk to you should the company -- as many do -- fail, since in that case you will have forgone labor income for equity in the failed firm.
> Hollywood would have to slim down significantly if it was going to go Netflix-model primary on all its content.

Similar to the contraction the music industry is going through because music isn't as valuable when there is so much more of it to listen to (ie Taylor Swift vs Spotify)?
Is there a workaround to get a moving average?
Why would you post that you got rejected from 150+ other companies publicly before starting a new job? I might be a little apprehensive about my hiring decision at HelloSign after reading that... I was in a similar position to you (coming from a smaller city with a less than stellar tech background) and I received several offers within 2-3 weeks of job hunting.
Where did the mothers get the phthalates from? What kinds of products promote bio-absorption of packaing phthalates?
Are phthalates in packaging correlated to certain kinds of (perhaps brain-unhealthy?) foods?
The best reason is it's getting released soon.
My mother gets all her TV from TPB and she's really not technically skilled at all. When it went down this week she asked me for an alternate place to download from.
If only 12% of Computer Science majors why do company's strive for a 50% split?
I am trying to understand this and honestly can't make sense of it. If only 12% of Computer Science majors are women then why do companies strive for a 50/50 split? It seems like it would cause discrimination towards males? Could someone explain this for me?

Where the 12% comes from: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Women_in_computing
We as an industry have no objective measure for what is and is not a good program. Therefore, we have no objective measure for who is good at programming.
That's exactly what I mean. :) A lot of the things I rely on for web development are so advanced under the hood that I don't even know where to begin. Like, let's say I want to write a tool that will let me take photos, resize them, crop them, add watermarks. I don't even... where do you start?

I wrote an LZW compressor in Rust 0.9 way back when, and it sucked pretty badly, but I wouldn't even know how to open a JPG or PNG, much less the mystical art of resizing it!

Gotta start somewhere, I guess. :)
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Yeah, they both have different benefits.

Chrome seems faster for most high performance sites I visit and crashes less often. However, I prefer to have less of my browsing data recorded and so primarily use firefox and duckduckgo.
Right, but starting college a couple of years later isn't the solution to that problem. The solution is to do something other than going to college, or at least other than going to such an expensive college for such an economically valueless degree.
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