skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the disconnect is that these people have an Upper Class salary nationally (the student linked at the top), but choose (and I stress the word choose) to live a middle class lifestyle locally.

For instance, with that upper class salary they could likely get a home outside the city with a pool, park a couple expensive bmw cars out front and go on expensive vacations, buy the latest toys, etc.

Or, they can live close to work/coast/lake/whatever and be house-rich, but poor everywhere else.

Middle-class people don't have such an option. Their salary leads to outskirt/suburb house without pool, without bmw, etc. And no option to live close to what they desire. People in the bracket sniffing the upper-class usually buy token "I'm rich" status items (designer clothes/phones/etc) which they can't really afford except maybe sporadically.

Poor people are worse off, they live in location with an x-block radius they rarely leave.
A language is a good start, but you need to provide something on top of that, or built on that, to make money.

MathWorks: Matlab -> Simulink + other toolkits. Hickey: Clojure -> Datomic. Typesafe: Scala -> TS stack. Whitney: A+ -> kdb/q.
Uh, the original purpose of XMLHttpRequest was to fetch XML, as its name implies.

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
Kinshasa's traffic robots: 'I thought it was some kind of joke' – in pictures
Me too, in a desktop publishing sense of the thing
What do you know of the sky in the UK? How was the eclipse by the way?

:)

Just kidding, I was just too disappointed not to be able to see anything.
Think of a song as something that can be distilled down to a formula. That formula is the 'essence' of the song -- the "groove" for lack of a better term.

Williams' song basically adapted 'the groove'. If I was on that jury I would have probably voted the same way. Inspiration is one thing but adaptation is another.
hippyvm as it is is indeed quite useless. it's faster than php7 on par with hhvm but it needs funding to get somewhere where you can actuaply run wordpress on it
Yes, you're absolutely right. However, I believe that the proper direction is to change the people's expectations towards "I'm aware that typical consumer technology doesn't offer me anonymity, just like I can't expect to be anonymous/invisible on the street with typical behavior" instead of luring them into the illusion that the internet is some completely separate world.Off- and on-line will interweave more and more and society should adjust their expectations accordingly.
Agreed.

It's worth remembering that nobody knows the original composer of the "Superman" theme. While John Williams is credited with arranging the cinematic version, his arrangement was based on the television show theme. That theme was purchased sans-crédit from a French artist via a system intentionally architected to leverage the at-the-time gaps in international law to minimize Hollywood's cost burden for music scores.

To maintain this protection, they intentionally did not track the pedigree of the theme. This is a loss for history.
One of the more expensive and annoying repairs I had to have done was the end of my parking brake cable snapping off when I pushed on the pedal. A few cents of metal turned into many hundreds of dollars because the whole cable had to be replaced and it was routed stupidly requiring a lot of labor to disassemble and reassemble stuff. I dare say that cables and their attachments have been along much longer than 100 years.

Other mundane repairs include tie rods, exhaust system leaks, and premature brake rotor wear.

On the other hand, in a decade of car ownership (not a huge amount of time, to be sure) I never once had to repair anything relating to the newer features of the car like remote entry, computerized engine control, digital entertainment system, etc. Even on my 2005 GM, which was not the best year for that manufacturer, it was the boring, old, "proven" systems that needed attention.

I now own a Model S and my maintenance/repair worries are almost all about the boring mechanical bits. I already had a sunroof problem where it got jammed (fixed well and without hesitation under warranty, of course) and when I feel like worrying about stuff on the car breaking, I worry about the little motors for power seats or door handles failing, or the hardware that holds the wheels on starting to bend. The fancy systems like the autopilot stuff seem to have nothing that's likely to fail.
In a similar vein, Minneapolis has a great pedestrian/bike bridge that was converted from an old rail line. It's much roomier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Arch_Bridge_%28Minneapoli...

http://movingtofreedom.org/images/2006/10/061001_minneapolis...
Mobile world peace: tackling the 'native or web app' dilemma
If you read his apologetics, it's literally faith-based science.
I live on the Thai border with Burma, and while it's possible it's still tricky. The road from the Thai border to Yangon has one lane total (!) so it alternates directions depending on whether it's an even or odd day.
They started caching images, but since open tracking pixel URLs are unique (after all, that's how they track an individual recipient) and Google only caches the image if you open the mail, essentially you still get tracking. You just don't get to count how many times the email is opened or the length it's opened (a common trick is to leave the connection open to see how long the client keeps the request open).
Strictness accomplishes nothing whatsoever. If you remove presentational elements, people just abuse semantic elements.
Well, you wrote "doing open source stuff", not me :)

I agree that it doesn't make purists happy, but frankly, I don't find it particularly important. As long as proprietary software exists, whether companies are separated between open and closed or hybrid isn't particularly relevant, in my opinion.
Does it matter how much money they make? My understanding is that the difference between middle class and upper class isn't how much they make, it is how they make that money. The upper class is the only class that makes the majority of its income from investments, while lower and middle class make their income from wages and salaries.

In other words, the "job" of the upper class is to manage their wealth.
Interestingly I'd attribute the ability for firms to grow ever larger to engineering. There have been more and more improvements over the past 5-10 years that allow a decoupling between business groups so they can work effectively together with fewer coordination costs. Basically everything SOA, means business units are easier to manage because the interfaces they consume from other business units are better standardized and the tools to consume them are better.

Basically, executives aren't getting better. The tools that the employees that work for those executives are, so much so that the employees no longer need to go through the command and control hierarchy to get things done across business units.

See:

Steve Yegge's Amazon Platform Rant: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

Google Protobufs
https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/

Facebook's Thrift
https://thrift.apache.org/

... and all the other SOA enabling technologies the reduce transaction costs* stemming from coordination.

* http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~jsfeng/CPEC11.pdf
There are lots of one year or less effort text editors. There are a couple of four decade text editors: Emacs and vim. Really smart people have invested a lot of time in each both in extending them into green fields and working around architectural limitations. Spending a year studying their source code would be a good first research step toward writing a really good editor. That's my take on writing a text editor.

The efficiency of a text editor is an XY problem. A text editor is just a tool in a workflow. The workflow is defined by inputs and outputs. If Sublime text shells out into awk or uses MySQL as a preprocessor who cares? There's little practical point in being beholden to a particular text editor if it's in the way.

BTW, googling up "efficiency of sublime regex engine" provides some indication that Sublime chokes on modest json data. Then again, json data serializes to text, but it can easily be interpreted as data by a database engine. General tools are great, but knowing the specifics about the data allows for creating useful heuristics to guide workflows.
That may be against FSA regulations.

When I worked in banking that type of policy would have been torn apart by any competent auditor, an internal audit at that.

If you're their customer or just concerned, write an email to the FSA, as certainly using a birth date as a username is phishy to the extreme.
As many people have pointed out, many VCs want a fast ramp up. Also be aware that taking money from VCs will introduce a new level of complexity to your operations. Some VCs will even try to essentially make decisions for you and the future of your business.

VC money always comes with "strings attached".

While I'm not against taking money from VCs, seriously consider if it will benefit your company's growth and business models by taking money from them. There are ways to bootstrap and grow a business without external funding like VCs. This is something a lot of people seem to have forgotten in this current startup 2.0 mindset.

To the founders of HippyVM don't let Y Combinator's rejection stop you!
Except it doesn't thwart tracking the actual open. Just the IP of the end user, etc: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/12/gmail-open-rates/
Well, yes, they're in a situation where it can be done per country. Also they usually can't price-segment (sometimes they can, I guess)

But then again, MS, Apple, and several other products are priced per country as well.
I think this knowledge is out of date; the cell-free DNA test I talked about is both more reliable (it sequences the genome, and Down's is an easily-detectable chromosomal disorder) and is available earlier than an ultrasound or amnio.
Why is this JS unsafe? It's all hosted by Google, just like the blog.
Too many new people creating web pages these days ignore the science behind it all.
You have a link to that analysis? I'd be curious over the conclusion since I would imagine comparing vocals to be the weakest part of such a case.

Also, I've seen lots of commentary from supposed experts in the field that have concluded the opposite.
It's the standard size of a vial of insulin - 1000 units, same as the extremely expensive insulins referenced in the article and by other people in this thread. How long it lasts depends on how much you need to use, which can vary widely.
And can I also add to this that, while I appreciate widescreen monitors on laptops due to form factor, the fact that monitor manufacturers just up and stopped making square displays is endlessly frustration too.
Where Docker security may be headed
There is still much good about the U.S. The only thing that people regularly seem to complain about is that they want to act however they choose, ignore how that affects the rest of the world and then when someone stands up and says, no that's bullshit, they act like a spoiled brat about it. [Clarification: I'm not speaking about the U.S. as a whole, just the government agencies that regularly reach beyond their legal authority to achieve illegal objectives]
Fair enough, it was a thrown-off comment.

The dichotomy is this in any event: it's easy enough to work on free infrastructure stuff if you make your money elsewhere, but it's difficult to work on free infrastructure stuff as your business.
>Well, Hamlet (like all of Shakespeare's works) is not copyrighted

I find it interesting that the HN community is usually deeply anti-copyright until they're own works or the works they like are used seemingly without permission. Then we all become copyright nannies and strict copyright lawyers. This is why I think IP reform will never truly work. We're all to hypocritical about it. We want to use Disney's stuff but we don't want to let Disney use anyone else's. If the stuff that someone else owns is more valuable that ours we want it. When someone takes something of value from us, we freak out. That isn't politics, that's just envy and theft.

I saw reddit take down a site that was using some redditors clip-art without permission, most likely accidentately. The outrage and DDOS was unbelievable for a place where "free culture" is the norm. It seems like there is no real anti-copyright movement, at least an organized one. Just a disorganized group engaging in hypocritical self-interest under the guise of "political reformer."

Shame really, 10+ years ago, it seemed guys like Lessig were making progress and we were just one SCOTUS ruling from change. If anything, we're farther from reform than ever now.
Careful. Yudkowski and LW have a dark side. (google Roko's Basilisk)

Rationality applied to ethics is a sticky wicket. You have to subscribe to some metric of "good" in order to weigh and compare outcomes. EY's definition of good is ruthlessly utilitarian, and that has some extreme, nay dire consequences for certain thought experiments.

Consume this philosophy at your own risk.
What happens when a corporation dies or doesn't die?
It looks like browsers only support it with a prefix like -moz-. Doesn't that mean it's not even a standard yet?
As with the poster below, you're not understanding the advancement of the cell-free DNA test I described. It is >98% accurate at detecting Down's in the first 10 weeks, is non-invasive, and is now commonly used.
>If someone need performance it will use Java

Thanks! I needed a laugh.
This NY Times piece explores this topic further: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/upshot/letter-from-the-edi...

A key quote, which almost doesn't need context: "But here’s the thing: Being able to afford those things is pretty good definition of affluence in modern American society."
What pure mathematics is tuned to stop GIGO?
wget to make a static copy of a site is the one thing I use it for. It's awesome. I tend to reach for curl first in most other cases, for one thing it's included in the "minimal" RHEL installation so I can pretty much depend on it always being there, whereas wget is extra.
Pinbox is your Pinboard client on Mac
>in these cases the stop and go system doesn't react quite fast enough and

Wait... you, open an open road going full speed at a traffic jam, just sat back and tested if this was going to stop you in time? Without being sure it was going to work?
you're absolutely right, i have to put a demo video in home,
in the meantime you can get the idea with 2 simple videos that shows the main usage :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifPFBk5R0Hs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovciyOl2ds

thanks
For anyone interested in applying Dempster-Shafer Theory, I suggest checking out Subjective Logic [1] as well. One of the issues that pops up in DS-Theory is that the traditional method of belief combination tends to assign lots of mass to uncertainty, and thus highly opposed beliefs end up with sometimes counter-intuitive results. Subjective Logic offers an extensive battery of operators for combining beliefs: from cumulative and averaging fusion, to belief constraining, to consensus. I did my Master's thesis on implementing and analyzing the various SL operators, and for many situations, working with SL is very pleasant.

[1] http://folk.uio.no/josang/sl/
Clojure is an interesting model where you have the company Cognitect built around the language. You have the product arm with Datomic, the consulting arm creating client projects in clojure and finally paid clojure/datomic training. All three feed into each other while helping to improve the language ecosystem at the same time.
Disney ripped of Kimba in much the same way as DS9 ripped off B5... or vice-versa, depending on who you talk to.

This won't have been down to a storyboarder or artist going "mwahahaha, appropriate the things", rather down to execs going "hey guys... you know... I was thinking it'd be neat if like the daddy lion appeared in clouds like a ghost... above a pointy rock or something. Left a bit. Slope it more. Give the baddie lion a scar or something. Hey, hyenas are evil, let's use hyenas as a sort of critical greek chorus.". This is apparently largely what happened with DS9 - "hey, it'd be great if there were like, some aliens or something, and if we had long expansive plot arcs... and let's make it on a space station. with a bar. and hookers. and blackjack. ok, forget the hookers and the blackjack.".

Typically, the people who are doing the ripping off have absolutely no idea that this is what they're doing. Talk to a web developer who, after the event, realises he's been made to clone a site through drip-fed inference by their client.
Yes, you're right. I was generalizing about Westerners, rather than all travel. I had been told that while in Thailand years ago, but apparently there were some (complicated) ways for Westerners to get visas in the past.
The Well-Tempered Clavier, by J.S. Bach – Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka
Thankfully this looks like it is never gonna happen, and is instead just a random suggestion posted to a newsgroup (which carries very little weight/credibility).

In my judgment this feature is highly redundant and unnecessarily complicated.
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A major mechanic in Elite Dangerous is managing your ship's internal heat and heat signature.
The general online audience has matured over the past 10 years, and most people have an excellent filter to avoid clicking ads, which includes affiliate links. You can still monetize a site these days, and make some money while not being sketchy, but it requires approaching it as a service to your users, not as an exploit of your users.

What I mean by this is that whatever your site is, if your audience has a legit interest in specific products, and the next logical step in their personal workflow would be to buy something, go ahead and put in some affiliate links. It makes sense, and everyone gets what they need/desire.

But if you are adding links and talking about products solely because you want those nickels from someone clicking it, you are not helping your audience, and they know it, and they will react accordingly.

I'm somewhat surprised that anyone would have spent 10 years flailing in this arena and not learned that.
I wonder how the YCombinator process would have gone had they entered as a non-profit??
5 Things About Continuous Deployment…by the Man Who Coined the Term
My position is based in pragmatism. Code that works and is delivered in time is often more desirable than code that works, is fast, but delivered late. There's always a cost-benefit tradeoff to be made and if warm bodies yield more performance per buck than cold ones^, that's great for us programmers!

As for mindset, page aligned allocations are required to use protection modes and I tend to program more with security in mind. Glad it helps performance, but it could often times be a completely unintentional side effect. Thanks for your insights, though. Appreciated!

^: Assuming they're at present in idle (or off) state.
There are quite a large number of people who still have to support < IE10 (myself included). Hopefully in the next year or two we will drop support for IE9 and then we can use it but we aren't there yet.

Also the whole SEO issues are not something the sneeze at. I've yet to see a comprehensive approach to this that doesn't involve phantomjs running to serve up HTML to search engine bots. Maybe the bots will just get smarter and we won't have to worry about it but the jury is still out on that.

Luckity once I get to stop supporting IE9 I can go to single page (with push state) because the app I work on does not get seen by search bots and SEO is not a concern.
X-Rays Reveal Picasso’s Materials
But let's say you want to hit multiple marks simultaneously.

I want:

- Comfortable for large people to sit in (I'm 190cm tall).

- Can carry a decent number of people (five being a minimum, more is better... this is why I rejected the Volt as my last car).

- Can carry a decent amount of cargo in addition to 5+ people (this is why I rejected the Ford C-MAX).

- Good fuel efficiency. Prius-level fuel efficiency at a minimum, pure electric is better.

- Good reliability. (Generally the case for most options out there these days, but still important.)

- Good crash safety.

- Fun to drive.

- Affordable.

I'm not too familiar with the Fiesta, but from what I know, it'll hit three of these (fun, reliable, affordable). My last car was a Prius v, which mostly hit all of them except for "fun" (comfort was a bit marginal, there was more than enough room but the seating position was a bit awkward for the driver). When I could afford it, I moved up to the Model S, which hits all marks except for "affordable," and hits most of them better: I can carry 7 people if two of them are small (and they usually are), fuel efficiency is way better, crash safety is among the best, and it's a ton of fun to drive.

It is insanely expensive, and I wish it were cheaper so more people could buy them. But to me, it's worth it.
I've always advised other startups using AWS to begin on us-west-2 as it has a couple key pros:

1. Lower latency to SF/Bay Area

2. Cheaper then US-West-1 (California).

3. Updated and cared for. West-2 is sometimes behind East-1 on some features - things like govcloud, some instance types etc rolled out on East-1 first - However, unlike US-West-1, it eventually gets updated. [0]

4. Until now, it hasn't had a single incident. I knew this would never last, but given that it's smaller and simpler (less legacy hardware), I still think that Oregon will have better uptime then VA.

This advice doesn't changes at all, even with this most recent blip. I'm just sad that I can't say "US-West-2. Closer and never had an incident"

[0] Given how US-West-1 (CA) often falls behind on features, it will not surprise me if AWS announces that they're going to deprecate that region.
It's believed to be tied to the age of the eggs, so frozen eggs would indeed have a lower risk, but I'm skeptical that we've gathered enough data to know either way.
Except in the case of M.C. Hammer it is an obvious sample. Nothing more nothing less.
Ask HN: Developer machine, Macbook vs. arbitrary Laptop with Linux, which?
How hard is it to get an arbitrary distro of Linux to work seamlessly on an arbitrary laptop?

I intend to teach myself web development. Therefore I want a machine on which I can develop on. I'm told Macbook Pros work out of the box, pretty much. However I do not want to pay such a big premium just for the apple brand. So I figured I could buy a much better Windows laptop for less, and dualboot my chosen linux distro and windows -- but how hard is it to get the distro to work with the hw?
Do you understand why making voting not mandatory would not solve your problem? The subset of people that do vote will still vote poorly.

The people in power almost always badly represent the common interest; I hope this changes in my lifetime.