skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the personal attack at the end.

The figures given by the living wage calculator are assuming a middle class lifestyle which is obviously ignorant when discussing lower class economics. Plugging in my own city of Ann Arbor, Michigan gives wildly inflated figures that fall in line exactly with my claims up above. The rent figure given is for having your own one bedroom apartment with no roommates, the food figure is hilariously overstated ($242/month), transportation assumes a pretty new car or very long commutes ($306/month). These figures simply are not realistic for a lower class individual.

I am living a lower class lifestyle right now as I type this. I live in a shared home with 2 other people. I drive an older but reliable car I purchased for $2.2k cash (a luxury expense, I could have kept taking the bus/biking to work). I rarely eat out, and I avoid expensive items at the grocery store barring a few healthy choices like nuts. I split a $45/month 50 mbit internet connection with both my roommates. No cable. $30/month cell phone bill (another luxury). I have health and auto insurance.

Overall, I have a pretty comfortable life for less than <$10k/yr. Nothing is stopping genuinely poor people from doing the same except extraordinary misfortunes (birth defects, severe disabilities). There is no moralizing here, just the cold hard numbers and experience from someone actually living this life and interacting daily with others at the bottom of the workforce.

EDIT:

After seeing your comment above I want to point out that at no point did I assert you could retire by 30 years old on this kind of income. If you're trying to argue that point then it's a strawman. I will also add that if you're still making ~20k/yr all of your life then you've made some financial mistakes in regards to your actual career choices, even janitorial staff end up around 35k/yr after a while.
"No boss, trust me on this. Sometimes - for the process to work - I have to let these guys pay me subvert the process."

It's unacceptable that there are any levers on our politicians other than our votes - they're our employees after all.

For what it's worth, if you're going to lobby I'd rather you lobby all of "us" (commercials, etc) to sway the popular vote than being able to concentrate on only our elected representatives.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9547539
The passphrase you set on a GPG private key only applies to keys stored on-disk in the keychain or exported from the keychain. Once you import one into a Yubikey or other OpenPGPCard device, there is no passphrase anymore, you're relying on the card itself to protect it against side-channel attacks, prevent unauthorized or insecure export of the key (Yubikeys don't allow this at all though), and authorize the use of it via the PIN code.
Even distribution is just important for doing it in as few questions as possible. If you want to do it in 8, and cover 16M distinct personalities, you're gonna need them to be very evenly distributed.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28information_theory%2...

Information gain is maximized when the distribution is even.

Imagine a very extreme biased form of this where everyone answers the same way to a question, and that question is repeated 8 times with different wordings. You will only get 1 distinct personality type.

For a real-world example, take the myers briggs (MBTI) personality test. It only does 16 distinct personality types and takes about 50q to get right. Only way 8^8 beats that, without any data to predict the distributions and correlations out of the gate, or completely revolutionarily novel psychological theory, is with precogs.
> Wait, what right of way does Amtrak lease from freight carriers?

Well, everywhere west of Harrisburg and south of DC, Amtrak runs on the right of way of freight railroads. That isn't "lease" exactly, but Amtrak pays to use those tracks, which is essentially the same thing.
Now, there are good and bad answers that I can provide here.

Bad: Lots of things you take for granted if you look into WhatsApp/Hangouts/Telegram et al are extensions, lots of these extensions are optional, lots of optional extensions are not supported in a coherent way.

Somewhat bad: Archives had a decent XEP, but it's not 136. It's 313 (which I mentioned above, MAM). You probably won't find any improvements in 136, it's - as far as I can tell - considered superseded, although 313 is still not really available (which is the reason for me listing this as 'bad').

Good: Running your own server is trivial. Really. People always say that running a mail server is hard and - maybe it is. It certainly has a number of issues you can run into. Running an XMPP server? Install, configure, done. Easy. Give it a try this weekend?
I figured the company would get more traffic by someone as large as Fast Company. Looking at the metrics included from OP it looks like it was less than the front page of Hacker News.
My thoughts exactly! Most of my most interesting experiences has happened just because some one I was with at the time choose to do something that I would never have done.

As an introverted thinker, I need someone to challenge my ideas, not to reinforce them.
Click the "read more" link after those numbers and all is explained.
I'm very supportive of Oculus deciding to focus on one platform. Though I'm a Mac and Linux user, I want Oculus to be a success, and deciding to say "no" to non-dominant options maximizes that chance.

Relatedly, can anyone give an estimate about how many years behind integrated graphics chips like Intel's are from Rift-compatible performance?
This solution is right, but counts the number of points incorrectly -- or at least not rigorously.

Infinity isn't a number, so you can't add to it, or multiply by it. So saying "one plus infinity times infinity” locations" isn't right.

First, how many "circles" are there that are 1/n miles in diameter, where n is a positive integer^1? As many as there are positive integers, so there are a countable infinity of these circles. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable_set)

Now, how many points are there in each circle? There's one for each real number, because a real number corresponds to a position along a line. And there are an uncountable infinity of real numbers. (https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_6_01.html).

There's one other possibility, which doesn't end up applying to the earth:

If the earth was so "pointed" at the top that you could go a mile south from somewhere near (but not at) the North Pole, go a mile west, and still end up at the point you started at. This doesn't apply because by the time you get a mile south, the circle you're on is greater than a mile in circumference. So there are no such sets.

So, there are a countable infinity of sets that satisfy the problem, each set containing an uncountable infinity of points.

Plus the North Pole.

[1] Really, we're looking for how many circles are there that are one mile North of such a circle, but the earth is big enough that this doesn't change the number. If the earth was small enough that you couldn't go one mile north of some of the circles, that would matter -- for example, you can't go a mile north on an asteroid 1/2 mile in diameter.
And rightfully so. Providing a marketplace to connect drivers to riders is not an "invention". Surge-pricing is an attempt to create well known market dynamics, but again, not an invention.
Fundamentally this is about your belief system. Many people hold a dualist core belief which precludes 'artificial consciousness'. This is mostly a holdover from a certain type of religion.

I think there should be some variant of panpyschism that disguishes between the consciousness of a mammal and that of a rock.
Has anyone here used the Wolfram Language? How discoverable is it? How does debugging work? What about state management? All the demos are small, stateless calculations. What is it look like when you want to build long-lived, stateful systems - say a robot that builds an internal map as it moves.
Totally understand. My comment was just meant to inform other readers not dissuade you from building awesome apps!
That's not a "right". That's just an "action".

Rights are protected by a legal structure. There are no 'rights' without a higher-power legal structure to provide it.

We are working with very different definitions of what a "right" is. A "right" in my book is "something you don't need anyone else's permission to do". So, defending myself, obviously is a right. Walking into your home, opening your refrigerator and taking a swig from the milk jug, is not a right I have.

Sounds like we basically come down on the different sides of the argument about "negative right" vs "positive rights". I don't believe in "positive rights", so the idea of "the right to a Plasma TV in the bathroom" is basically nonsense to me. All it means to me is, "of course you have the right to buy a Plasma TV and put it in your bathroom, if you want to and can afford it".
I looked at the sequence and said, "I call B.S.—there is no pattern." Then I saw that the solution is at the end of the bio, not in the article (click on "read more"). Spoiler alert: There is no pattern.
I'm waiting for camp 14 street map : http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0...

This is real north korea :-)
That's not much good when you're just talking to ahitty GObject APIs that - guess what! - use reference counted GC and have lots of race conditions. You gain nothing
Your point is irrelevant, then difference then becomes the fact that at an OS level I can choose what code I compile into machine code and in the browser I can't.
It's just about the only living mostly lisp implemented with mexps instead of sexps.

But it sure is overhyped and it being proprietary is a huge drawback.
No that actually sounds like a really good time to start ignoring things. You don't feed the trolls, real life or internet.

What's more inflammatory, ignoring a troll after he happens to find a picture of your children, or aggressively attacking their actions on their medium of choice? Don't feed the trolls.
Ask HN: How to argue coworker saying strong database encryption is unimportant?
I am no security specialist, and my knowledge of it is generally weak, but I looked into the subject enough to know best practices and what makes them the most secure, such as bcrypt, scrypt, and PBKDF2.

When I discovered my company was encrypting passwords with SHA2, I tried explaining how this was wrong and got talked down by a coworker arguing that this was unimportant compared to the importance of making sure nobody gets to the database in the first place. She was basically saying that that's much more important and if that's done right then having strong encryption isn't that vital.

Unfortunately I didn't know enough to counterargue and had to say 'okay,' which bothers me to this day (several months later).

Can anyone explain why she was wrong, or conversely why she was right?
you idiot why would I lie? I exactly did that, it's a small word I know but I can't be bothered, also when I code, I always copy paste even small variables, is that a problem for you? son't assume stuff that you have no fucking clue. Anyway why would I trust a nickname to get the gender?

>Oh brother. Nope, you're the one redefining. See the myriad examples of "avoiding sexist language" style guides.

do you whitch hunt everyine that use the wrong word? get a grip

when I talk to people on the phone they always get my gender wrong, I don't correct them because I really couldn't care less,
> tl;dr: The Wolfram Language is an ok 30-year-old language
I don't think it is just 'OK'. It is lispy, with a HEAVY emphasis on symbolic computation.
I have yet to see anything even remotely similar to it.
EDIT:

There's also the visualization aspect. Things like Jupyter (formerly iPython) come close, but still can't do things like render video.
If you don't want to read the article, there's this video: https://youtu.be/_P9HqHVPeik?t=67 (initial ego trip skipped)

(Another edit: fix typo)
https://wiki.haskell.org/The_JavaScript_Problem
If you want to vapidly denigrate Rust I'd recommend something like, "Pssh. After years and years of wild goose chase, all we get is your basic fleshed out language built around having lifetime types? You can't even make abstractions over monads and lenses. No f128 type?? What's the point of reliable software if you can't use it to calculate hyperspace jumps?"
Verizon's acquisition of AOL is a move to disrupt the TV market
A while back, somebody got Cargo running on an unsupported platform, but bootstrapping was a major problem. The compiler had to bootstrap newer versions of itself tens of times, and that was only for a few weeks of breaking changes …
That may be easier said than done, given that FB has already invested $2 billion in making Oculus happen, and have openly set their sites on getting a billion users into VR within a decade.
RIP browser history.
Ask HN: How to write a diary?
i am having a hard time writing diary, I cant express my experience nor I am getting much help from previous diary entries. I think there is some problem the way I write. I generally write my experience or whatever nice thought crosses my mind
> There seems to be an awful lot of gratuitous negativity going on here.

There isn't much negativity above your comment, no-one above you has criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA. Were you referring to a specific comment without using the reply-to feature? Are you saying the HN community is "mean" about it?

Most people on HN are very positive even if the project is slow, because everyone knows what it means to be on the top page of HN.
With its recently announced acquisition of AOL, Verizon now stands with the television disruptors attacking this $400 billion market in opposition to incumbent television networks and entrenched ratings service Nielsen. Telecom giant Verizon's move signals an uptick in the rate of television disintermediation.
What kind of diary?
My wife is an Industrial/Organizational psychologist. It's a thing I didn't even know existed until I met her. In her years of grad school education, she learned all about memory, learning, human interactions, workplace management, etc, everything relating to how human psychology affects work. Part of that was how to hire the right people.

It turns out there ARE things that can strongly indicate employee competence and success, but nearly no one uses them. People like her get hired, and then management promptly ignores their suggestions. On one of her job interviews, while waiting for a manager to come in for the interview, she got to talking shop with the HR rep who was co-conducting the interview. They talked a little bit socially afterwards too, and the HR rep agreed with my wife that the interview went terribly because it didn't focus on anything of real substance. The HR rep said to my wife, "we've been looking for someone like you for months, and we've seen a few as qualified as you, but not many, and we've never made an offer to folks like you because they won't listen to me, I keep getting overruled, and we're still without that position filled." They can't fill the job because they keep ignoring the advice they're paying for.

One example is the interview. It turns out the interview as we do it is actually one of the WORST ways to hire people, because it rewards all the wrong behaviors over the real needed skills. Simply scanning a resume isn't great either, you need to engage with the person on theoretical tasks, like an audition, rather than simply conversation and crazy questions.

TL;DR We know how t hire people, experts have it worked out, but we don't want to listen to their advice.
I'm not saying anything about a group of people, I'm saying something about a specific belief. For those two things to be equivalent, there needs to be a layer of indirection, eg. if I were to say: "people who claim to know the nature of consciousness are doing so because they aren't comfortable with the idea of not knowing something"—that would be an equivalently arrogant statement. As it is, my statement is definitely not in that league. Do you not see the difference?
Software compartmentalization vs. physical separation (2014) [pdf]
Yes it does. I just do a `cargo run` and it figures out the dependencies, builds, and runs.
No, people have been against breaking compatibility with old source, like changing how certain statements are parsed and executed that would have made old code now in error. This is why strict mode is opt-in and larger ES4-like changes are dead in the water without careful design.

On the other side of things, though, new features that break in old browsers are added all the time. Try and run Date.now or Function.bind in old browsers and they'll immediately throw an error. It's only through polyfilling (and in some cases transpiling) that sites work in even IE8 today, and it will be the same situation in the future if a site wants to still work on an old Android or iOS device.

But yes, staying up to date as a user does depend on a newish browser being available for the platform you're running, and it would be great if old devices could continue to get updates. Really old iOS is out of luck, but Firefox supports back to Android 2.3, so users stuck there can download that browser to continue browsing the web.
Just a head's up: it's Jupyter, not Jupyther.
It's definitely a dangerous attitude, this is also the problem with anecdotes, we all start postulating strawmans.

I would point out though that in the financing-focused case you gave, although you have a definitive slow down from technical debt, it's still an open question whether or not it's actually a net slowdown vs the "status quo" scenario.

In practice of course, every individual company, with different teams and different contexts, has to find the right "cognitive bias" for themselves.
I clicked around frustratedly for a while before just opening the dev tools and seeing it was a slideshow.

I want to call it a bad user experience, but maybe it's actually a clever way of limiting your audience to web developers.
Two main reasons:

1) I am actually very safety-conscious. I have been solo hiking in the mountains and deserts for over 20 years. I know how to be safe, and how to keep my kids safe.

2) I guess in all honesty, I don't know we will be safe. But you cannot let fear drive your life, or else you will not live it.
I dunno, a lot of us got our start on TI calculators, and their input was comparatively awful.

But they had a small environment and a hierarchial menu of the various key words and common functions. And it worked pretty well.
...I just spent 1 hour or so on the sequence...and the following clue is the farthest I've got,

the first parameter is the cumulative sum of the sequence,

>>> log(1002, 10)
3.0008677215312267
>>> log(634, 9)
2.936454025222717
>>> log(409, 8)
2.89198567764725
>>> log(275, 7)
2.8864493565611764
>>> log(186, 6)
2.9165447502641713
>>> log(108, 5)
2.9091716996047423
>>> log(61, 4)
2.9653686687814433
>>> log(39, 3)
3.3347175194727923
>>> log(18, 2)
4.169925001442312

EDIT:

yes, I saw that "read more" at first...I did not want to spoil the puzzle so I tried to solve it on my own for a while but then realized I might have to spend more than 1 hour on this thing -- and at this point I totally forgot there is a spoiler there...
Wasn't me, but you might've been downvoted because the book description states: The book comes with a simple proof assistant to help readers work through the book and complete solutions to every example.

So, there is a proof assistant.
Dairy where I write about my experience, my life, what problem I face. for purpose of introspection, to analysis my self.
What?

"American railroads accounted for just 17.2 billion passenger-kilometres in 2010, according to Amtrak, America's government-backed passenger rail corporation. In the European Union, railways accounted for nearly 400 billion ..."

(http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/ec...)
> We're all about open access to the world's academic research.

Is this really true? academia.edu seems to me to be a walled garden, essentially linkedin for professors. It's true that I can download one paper at a time -- after I have signed up -- but can I download all of them in bulk? Can I easily rehost all my papers elsewhere? Can I view papers without signing up? Can I download your social graph?
Someone found a trick for fast Bitcoin mining?
ChipsAndGuac – A Node API for Chipotle orders
They said all those things to Java too. And still it is everywhere. So always bet on Java.
It also points out that execution is more important than the idea. Halpern could have also built an Uber-like service, since it sounds like he had a prototype of one already, and beat them fairly in the market. But since he failed now he is whining about it.
Totally agree on CEO compensation and not valuing the employee - often even the founders get screwed in those deals. This is the problem. The "dream of equity" doesn't pay out so many times that people shouldn't assume it's part of compensation.

I recall losing some relatively good engineers at various startups due to very small, in the end, not bank-breaking levels of compensation, we just couldn't compete with larger companies, when I really would have loved to hire them and maybe just hire less people.

Meanwhile, people who work at companies like Cisco in the area are able to command about 30-40% more in salary sometimes and have better hours.

If you find the right big company, your work can be quite as good as a small one, and you may have better hardware/software resources.

For me, I think the answer is mid-size to large startups right now, but small ones can be good. Can be. But they can go either way really quick.

I recall a similar thread somewhere about sales compensation, which gets super crazy at times, but sometimes getting an engineer who is going to work tons of hours $100k (who is going to make the product you sell or raise money for) at some companies can be really hard. It's not right.

They lose big to save a dime in the most important areas and blow it elsewhere.
At least in the Valley, hours tend to be flexible, at my current position, people walk in between 8 and 11. My team's stand up is at 11 so the rule is be in the office before them, but even then sending an email saying that traffic was bad, or Bart is dumb, or you're waiting for Fedex is okay (the assumption being you'll join the standup remotely and get some work from from home).

With the large companies that have shuttle's the flexibility is because they need to stagger all their busses.

It really depends on the culture and the type of environment though, much more "corporate" positions and cultures would require better on-timeliness, but being told to take the day off for being 6 minutes late seems odd for a developer position.
Press space or swipe or right arrow
"If you take the 8^8 test right now all our services will be 100% free for you. This offer is good only for those taking the 8^8 test before we reach the milestone of 1,000,000 tests taken. Thereafter, to cover server costs, there will be a modest fee for connecting with matches. "

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I'm usually pretty pessimistic about the motives of websites like these. For example, this site seems like a great way to get a huge database of marketing info associated with email addresses. Nowhere on the main page or in their faq does it say they won't be selling this data, so they probably will. Use your spam-address if you're going to do this!

That being said, someone just like me also wouldn't pay for a service that's likely going to sign them up for spam. Given that payment will be required long before the odds favour a match for me showing up, I think I'll just skip it.
What are the things that can strongly indicate employee competence and success? I am sure it is a big topic, so a link to an article your wife would agree with would be as good as an answer. It's troubling to think that something is being done backwards, but it happens in so many areas that it seems nearly inevitable that it is also done in hiring.