skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, who are we kidding? Of course it's a pre-order. Are you claiming that if Pebble didn't meet their funding goal, the Time will never ship? That there's the possibility that I'll never see my Pebble Time after pledging? Pebble is now an established company in the wearables market, the Time is shipping regardless of KS. Pebble doesn't need the money, it's marketing.
NetApp Delivers Data Backup and Archive to the Cloud
Nice. A slightly more useful analysis would be for a fixed, user defined, salary. Showing results for Glassdoor is pretty cool. But I don't care what other people make. I care about what I make and what I think I can make in particular cities. All the figures are pretty low for a senior engineer which limits it's use.

Also, the chart that takes taxes into account is really cool. Super useful. People who move from Seattle to California know that cost of living is a big difference, but they don't properly account for state income tax! They often try to, but get the math wrong.
The war on the internet
It would give you a framework for starting to work on gigs with clients, yes.
The source code for the python version has this comment:

/* The maximum number of entries in a MergeState's pending-runs stack.
* This is enough to sort arrays of size up to about
* 32 * phi ** MAX_MERGE_PENDING
* where phi ~= 1.618. 85 is ridiculouslylarge enough, good for an array
* with 2**64 elements.
*/

According to the linked article that's incorrect, it is only good enough for an array with 2^49 elements. So, if the (implicit) design guarantee is for lists up to 2^64, the implementation is technically bugged. But it'd be pretty hard to run into it in practice. 2^49 of python's plain integers consume more than 4.5 petabytes of RAM.
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Rental prices have skyrocketed in the past few years:

https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/626WvTKmFK2FRBFpBg9rNg--/...

This is for buyers but the rental market price rates have gone up in pretty much the same way.
I don't think it's up to 'the government', it's up to the courts. It seems pretty clear to me that the school should have educated the students, and didn't. Hopefully the courts will see it that way as well.

Yes, I know that means the taxpayer footing the bill. The government was responsible for accrediting, regulating and auditing the colleges. The government, and collectively the people, are responsible for any failures in that duty and any individual citizens harmed as a result deserve compensation.

Note I'm not a US citizen, so my comments are meant in general.
What are you blabbering on about? There are plenty of good looking cheap watches, just not watches that are aiming at the same buyers as Richemont/Swatch/LVMH do. If you want to complain justifiable, point your disdain at Invicta and their ilk.
Thank you!

The classes/lessons are slideshows - as I've found people retain more of what I'm talking about if there are words on the screen.

It's all the same stunning personality though, haha...
The parent and article author are describing a world that they would like to exist, not necessarily the one we inhabit.
How to Scale Change
Forgive the click-baity title -- figured it was the most tantalizing part of the blurb.
It's a good thing there's no poorly written PHP in the wild and everyone is really, really good at patching PHP immediately upon update. /s

edit: http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/12/php-install-statistics.htm...
Are you really willing to bet that they'll be shipping in three months? On what basis? Because it says so on the kickstarter page? Kickstarter never miss their targets, right?
Yeah it is too bad. I know many people who will not wear a smart watch if it doesn't look good. And these are people who have / wear many fashion watches of various sizes. The apple watch is the first watch that they actually like appearance wise.

At least come out with a shiny gold, brass and rose gold colored versions. Not actual gold mind you, just gold colored. There are certain market segments that love those colors.
Eh, for $10 you take what you can get. For ~$200 I don't need expensive materials but I would like it to not look like what it looks like. This double bezel thing is kinda ugly. I mean if you spend $20 more from the $10 Timex you can get a Timex Weekend, which looks pretty nice.
Its true that locking people up costs taxpayer money. But there are people of influence who have positioned themselves to control and receive that money.
very true. I offer a lot of benefits over other similar companies. Many times I am involved in moving a contract because I will give more of the bill rate.

I also offer a family package. You would not believe how many H1Bs I get that want to leave their L1 status because they want to move for various reasons. Marriage being the one I get the most.

When a contract ends, I will put H1Bs on internal work for as long as I can but the liquidity of this area is such that I hardly go past a month or two for any given candidate.
States Predict Inmates' Future Crimes with Secretive Surveys
If you learn what you need to on the free course, I'm fine with you not buying the paid course (I've told many people not to buy the course if I don't think it's right for them). The free version still has a ton of great information that's already helped the beta testers.
Friendly reminder that every request to any Google associated server comes at the price of having your privacy invaded. Yes, this means Google Search but also GMail, Android, reCAPTCHA, Maps (any website displaying a Google Map), Google fonts (any website using Google fonts), Google CDN (any website using Google CDN), G+ (any website using an integration) et cetera.

In fact, completing this list with ALL Google its tentacles will probably break the character limit on HN. On a very few exceptions, Google its scooping eye is there to learn more about you.
Right-click any tab -> Reload All Tabs. If you want a permanent solution, go to about:config and double-click browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand.
It doesn't necessarily follow. I can think of at least two other reasons as to why skates would be less used:

1) skates require much more skill than bikes, reducing the number of potential users.
2) the skateway network isn't as big (what happens when you have to get off the skateway, it makes it lesss useful than the bike path)
7-Day Battery life. Why does no other smartwatch offer this?
They didn't have an addon ecosystem to contend with back then.
A Brief Introduction to Termios (2009)
After this chat we made an update to the "terms of service" under "Rights you licence". Let me know what you think guys.
Google's free CS classes for kids
It's only applicable to those folks who have been on H1B over 6 years and have applied for permanent residency.

I read it as over 6 years or applied for permanent residency:

"""
Eligible individuals include certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants who:

- Are the principal beneficiaries of an approved Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker; or

- Have been granted H-1B status under sections 106(a) and (b) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 as amended by the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act. The Act permits H-1B nonimmigrants seeking lawful permanent residence to work and remain in the United States beyond the six-year limit on their H-1B status.
"""
> This is a bug, because the C++ standard mandates a worst case of O(n log n).

Specifically, this is a requirement in C++11. Earlier C++ standards only require it to be average-case O(n log n).
Well, when I lived in Calgary my software developer roommate/friend and I canoed down the river to work. Felt pretty Canadian after that. Only worked one way though, paddling upstream through the deluge of meltwater proved impossible. We were also outstripped by people biking along the riverbank (our usual mode of commute) so only did it once.
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I'm in Ottawa. I really need to get around to skating this year before it melts away. Thanks for the post and the reminder to get out there!

(Yes, I'm playing with my Keybase.io account / tool)
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There is literally no way they could say "at least" with any number that would mean anything to anyone. Even if they did a range between worst case scenario (app refreshing as often as possible and running the CPU and Bluetooth radios 100%) to best case scenario (watch face that updates once per hour), would you really want to see a number that says "Between 5 minutes and 7 days of battery life!"?

You can't really even have a "under normal use" battery life claim. My Pebble lasts between 4-5 days depending on app usage. Other have theirs lasting 2-3 days. My personal iPhone sometimes needs to be recharged in the middle of the day. My work iPhone gets charged once every three days.

"Up to 7 days" is the most meaningful number they could put there, because it shows you what to expect while using it as a watch. Everything else is up to you.
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My university (UT Dallas) once hosted a talk about privacy and security, during which they emphasized that it was important to keep your social security number as secret as possible.

Then they passed out sign-in sheets and asked us to sign in with our student IDs - which were our social security numbers.

The sign-in sheet made it through approximately half the room before someone pointed out what was happening. The organizers looked completely baffled.
Never trust Der Spiegel. Worst magazine ever.
Why was -remote removed?
Opening Keynote by Aaron Frost at NG-NL 2015
JDK is using quicksort (more like variation of) for sorting primitives. (being not stable doesn't matter for primitives)
How about filing some bugs for your concerns?
I'm also surprised that people are not more skeptical of anything coming out of the white house with Obama's name on it.

Obama has proven himself to be a warmonger with loose ethics unwilling to prosecute torture and also fully interested in continuing the surveillance state, killing Americans without due process, prosecuting whistle-blowers, and protecting the status quo above the constitution and civil rights.
Is any money real money, by that logic?
This solves a security issue I had with ClojureScript.

Because of the whole-program compilation, you couldn't completely remove the JS a user was not allowed to access. While you could still secure the external resources (server), it would expose privileged access points unnecessarily.
The site owner may want to put a timeout on the font loading. I had to manually remove the `wf-loading` class from the `html` tag to get the page to appear.
> the correlation of women participation and GRE math scores can remain just as strong regardless of the actual participation rates: the high correlation does not explain sex differences (as in this illustration http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Heritabil...)

I don't understand what you're claiming. The differences in numeric GRE scores absolutely do explain the post-graduation sex differences. Are you claiming that low numeric GRE scores and low workplace success might have some common cause? Sure, but that cause would necessarily be pre-graduation, meaning that's the place to tackle it, and efforts to e.g. make workplaces less hostile aren't going to make any difference.
How to Build Your Distributed Database
/* spelling/autocorrect: it's 'pore over', not 'pour over' */
I think that's a reasonable argument, although I would point out that being marks and being in on the con are not mutually exclusive.
maybe. I like to think we suck less than other H1Bs by providing more perks. It's a dog-eat-dog world my friend and in the US, you have a choice. If you don't like it, stay in your native land then is all I can say.

Don't blame us for leveraging what is legal and allowed by economics. I do this part time through an entity I setup with a partner who is from India. He recently returned to India so we could open a site there where we can off shore work. Pumping work into those areas seems like a good thing to me. In addition, the Indian government gives free land if we open offices and/or buy buildings there too.
File a bug if you want to request devtools improvements.
Forgive my ignorance, is there a way I can use cookies for authentication tracking only on websites while blocking access to screen-size, CSS etc?
And there are indeed a few solutions that actually grant you partial relief from the pains of online tracking. First, switch your search engine, email and other major services where your personal information is heavily tracked to good private alternatives. Second, add EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere plugin to your browser, which will encrypt web site connections where possible. Third, add EFF’s Privacy Badger plugin to your browser, which blocks third-party trackers. These three simple changes will pretty seamlessly and significantly reduce your digital footprint.

Since this is a quote from the article, I feel this is an appropriate space to ask: does anyone have a page explaining how these various privacy extensions interact/overlap with each other? I tend to install (or at least try out) pretty much every popular one at some point or another, and I'm hoping to reduce redundancies. Alot of these tools show up on recommended "Get These If You're Serious About Privacy" lists without indicating what exactly each extension does or how it might interact with another extension. These include:

- Adblock Plus
- Ghostery
- Disconnect
- HTTPS Everywhere
- EFF Privacy Badger
- uBlock
- NoScript

At this point, I've "slimmed" down to just HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock, although I'm debating adding Privacy Badger. However, their own page mentions that it's "based on ABP code" [0], so my thought is that uBlock is probably also taking care of it.

Is that sufficient? Is there any danger in installing Privacy Badger and uBlock, for instance, if they serve the same function? Will they step on each other's toes?

Some kind of comparison chart would be useful.

[0] - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#how_is_it_different
A $10 watch and a several hundred dollar smart watch are two very different animals. When Pebble first came out it was new and innovative so first adopters bought it regardless of appearance. Now they're competing in a field that's getting more competitive every day. The poster isn't saying they should trade functionality for appearance, they're saying Pebble should at least put some effort towards design to appeal to the non-first adopters who care at least a little about appearance.

PS used low end Rolex watches start at several thousand
Except the tulip bubble wasn't caused by speculation. It was caused by a change in contract law.
What happened to 'Kickstarter is not a store' - https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store ?

Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited. Hardware and Product Design projects can only offer rewards in single quantities or a sensible set (some items only make sense as a pair or as a kit of several items, for instance). The development of new products can be especially complex for creators and offering multiple quantities feels premature, and can imply that products are shrink-wrapped and ready to ship.
Ask HN: Browser model where JS/CSS come from repositories?
Are there any projects where javascripts, css & other files come from (hopefully digitally signed) repositories, so I can download (for example) jQUERY once, leave it on my machine, and never have to trust a third-party JS content provider?
Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question
Sent this around a SMS company I worked for a while back. Cool stuff!
I am not expert in this area, but I watched their presentation in NYC (or was it Columbia U) about a year ago. The way he avoided answering any technical questions made me think these guys are either full of shit, or they have such a great technology that don't need to convince anybody with their world, people will see it in action and believe them. I am now inclined to believe it is not magic. But time will tell.
Apple Bombards Patent Office with 28 “New” Mapping “Inventions”
Like I said, I get it. The very reasons you've listed are why I've been tempted by such devices in the past. But when it comes time to shell out the cash, I buy function. Neither right or wrong, it's just why I paid for what is now my second Pebble and why (I take it) you likely won't be buying one at all.
I'm a big fan of that book, but there were a few too many important proofs "left as exercise for reader" for my taste.
This is false. The Asus ZenWatch, moto360, LG G Watch, LG G watch R all use standard 22mm bands.
I doubt the MVC JavaScript fad will last much longer, but JS for just manipulating the DOM and basic web stuff won't go anywhere, especially because of the necessity of browser tools for webdev.
Old-fashioned Snapchat
Except for the lack of data. Don't share things you consider private (and that are indeed private and not just things you don't want to expose but can't really do so, like your own face) with those who you don't trust. This is the most secure approach among all possibilities.
Yes, from ordinary people who own one modestly-sized home and think that that's enough, that it's wrong for people to own unoccupied houses when other people can't get one.
I don't see the problem with this?
> provably private

citation?
1 in 4, really?
his personal blog...
THIS. Developers on HN with problems have the requisite skills to be able to file good bugs.
Would an empty file be considered valid?
Why not have the city build some high rises and compete with real estate developers?
AngularJS: JQuery Function $ in AngularJS Directive
There are installations which don't support ECC, usually due to hardware limitations, but do support RSA-4k. Often this cert is the trust anchor for various other uses than just SSL, so the result is you end up using RSA-4k instead of ECC.

There's also folks who don't entirely trust ECC because it's "too new". To be fair, RSA isn't broken, and 4k is sufficiently big to be safe even with a partial break.
Show HN: A package to backup your Laravel 5 app
I suspected that this was the case. In my opinion that means GSS is fundamentally broken and the fact that nobody thought of that kind of discredits the whole thing...

The fact that 70% of "modern" websites already have the same bug doesn't justify it imho.
The political culture in the United States would attack that system as being unfair to the poor and minorities that ostensibly received a lesser education than their middle- and upper-class cohorts.
I've been using my Pebble I got from UIUC when they gave hundreds away:

https://blog.getpebble.com/2013/12/16/pebbling-schools-in-th...

It was some good marketing, because I just bought a new one because I loved it so much.
Let's say Alice can hear Bob and Bob can hear Charlie, but Alice cannot hear Charlie. AFAIK, in ad-hoc mode Alice and Charlie cannot communicate. You'd need a real mesh (like 802.11s) where Bob would relay packets (and destroy his own performance and battery in the process). Then there's the 1/7th problem that hasn't been solved to my knowledge: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/grid:mobicom01/paper.pdf
It won't change. There's no way the average person is going to spend the kind of time and effort it would take to fight the pervasive privacy violations we're seeing now. Even if they all say they want better privacy, there's only so much stuff a person can keep up with / so many hours in a day. The market doesn't cater to what we want, it caters to what we have time to understand and the willpower to act on and, outside that very slim set of things, what is most profitable (e.g. selling our data).

Coordination problems. Coordination problems as far as the eye can see.
Very strange, that's the 2nd time today. We're in Berlin and aren't having issues, I'll talk to our host.
Our Against-The-Odds Acceptance into Y Combinator
That's true, however DC & Northern VA specifically are actually pretty expensive to live in. In fact, I would argue that they're not great places for a lot of devs, because the cost of living is high but you also don't get much in return for that COL - it's high because people in the region have basically guaranteed jobs between all the gov't and contracting jobs. Plus, all that gov't and contracting stuff is what the software jobs are. So sure, you can be gainfully employed writing AbstractFactoryFactories in some gigantic consulting firm.

But overall, you're really paying for the job security of people in very different fields than you, and you will spend your off-hours surrounded by lawyers and gov't employees. I don't recommend it, but YMMV of course.
Given that they seem to have a strong dislike towards a particular group based on a post from yesterday that was flagkilled, racism did seem more appropriate. Though in this case it may be about religion, rather than race.

I do not wish to quote that post, but you can find it in their history after enabling the "showdead" option on your profile.
Guess what. People who are really going to be successful are out there working their asses off instead of reading "programmer's self-help" ebooks.
Technically no. Money is only real if 2 or more people believe it to be so.

Think about it. We exchange dollars, euros, bits, whatever all day long. Do you ever stop to think, "Why does this hold any value to me?" Its because someone else will accept it in exchange for goods or services.

The Onion, as always, captures this perfectly: http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-economy-grinds-to-halt-a...
You already live there. What happened to the price of housing in your area?
Show HN: If you use selenium to test then you will love this
>we shouldn't rule out all data sharing as inherently evil.

I agree. However, that's going to be the knee-jerk reaction for a while precisely because huge entities like Google, NSA, AT&T, Verizon, etc have been doing that data sharing while doing an abysmal job of notifying users about what was happening. Eventually I think we'll settle into a happy medium, but we're in the pushback phase at the moment.
Interesting experience.

I assume if no salary is listed, they are paying "market rate."

For me, I've learned how to negotiate effectively, and as such, can get the compensation that I want.

It's not a skill that a lot of people have, so having a salary listing makes it easier.