skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the bay area (not the city) and make ~$300k per year. A chunk of that is bonus and RSUs and is paid out in increments because of that.

$300,000 (work income)

+22,000 (rental income)

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$322,000 income

-90,000 (~30% effective tax rate for CA + Federal taxes + SSI, ignoring rental income)

-18,000 (401k contribution)

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$108,000 taxes and pre-tax investment

-36,000 (rent)

-17,000 (home mortgage, insurance, property taxes)

-8,000 (miscellaneous expenses, shopping)

-5,000 (groceries)

-5,000 (restaurants and bars)

-4,000 (property manager)

-2,500 (public transit, auto: gas, car insurance, maintenance)

-2,000 (vacation)

-1,800 (utilities)

-1,000 (pet)

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$82,300 spending

$322,000 - 108,000 - 82,300 = 131,700 savings per year

So, my total savings per year is $131,700 into taxable investment vehicles + $18,000 401k (+ additional company match money) + equity in my rental property

If I made $130,000, my spending would be at about 60% of my income, my taxes would be at about 20-25%, so my savings would be at 15-20%. However, I'd likely cut back some of my spending pretty substantially if that were the case.
Actually the facts are not incompatible here. There are two questions: Are weak Debian keys accepted in the web app? Are weak Debian keys accepted by their SSH.

The answers were yes and no. It's the same for most systems right now. You can put a weak Debian key in authorised keys, but you won't be able to login anyway.
Yes, even Windows has good stuff under all that legacy crap, and IOCPs are one of those things. The actual low-level APIs - and I'm talking kernel-level stuff here - aren't that bad. The bad stuff is what's layered on top of that, such as the Win32 APIs, which are genuinely crap.

I also really like kqueue (and unsurprisingly FreeBSD is also my OS of choice) and it's better in general than epoll, but it has its limitations. For instance, directory and file change notifications are less than awesome as kqueue needs file handles. inotify on Linux works better for this stuff, IOCPs just work for this stuff.

My point was that dismissing everything in Windows like jadeddrag did is shortsighted and dumb. It's not as if Unix-like OSs don't have plenty of misfeatures: nobody in their right mind is going to say that sockets couldn't have been designed much better (see how Plan 9 implements them for a better designed API), or that audio on Linux isn't a godawful mess, or that X isn't a monstrosity.

You're right, all that stuff is great, but as they saying goes, "why worry about a speck in the other guy's eye when you've a log in your own?"
There is a reason that there are a lot more 'spooks' than there are political campaigns right now. There is also a reason there are a lot more mothers who were 'spooks' than there are political campaigns right now.

You basically said.. nothing.
> Using neutral bill names, e.g., HR 625 or SB 1780 would be an upgrade from what we have now.

In theory, but the names catch on because they're easy to remember and use in conversation. People responded to Heartbleed because it was catchy and easy to remember. CVE-2014-0160 was not.

Asking people to remember what SB1780 is and whether they support it is about as likely to happen as them remembering the CNAME or A record corresponding to a DNS request[0].

Even if we forbade these names from bills, the media would invent them. "Obamacare" was not even the real name for the Affordable Care Act, and was originally a pejorative term, but the media started using it because it was much more distinctive and evocative. It became so widely used that it's now lost much of it's pejorative connotation (you'll even hear Democrats referring to it non-pejoratively).

[0] Remember that the same bill has multiple such numbers (one each for the House and Senate, plus a new one if it's reintroduced in subsequent years, etc., which is not uncommon for many pieces of legislation).
For some reason I'll never be able to understand, a large percentage of the population considers relative wealth to be more important than absolute wealth.
You're correct since you specified thorium reactors, but it's also possible to build very simple non-breeding molten salt reactors running on uranium. Terrestrial Energy, for example, is working on one that's designed to reach production as soon as possible.

Advantages include passive safety, no potential for hydrogen explosions, no high pressure containment, excellent nonproliferation, and reasonably high burnup. It's nowhere near what breeders are shooting for, but it's a good start.
Yay, thanks for that! Fixed. That's been so annoying.
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With LLVM as a back end this should be trival.
Oh the it's the Indie again, this surely goes well with the following masterpiece.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/business_inside...

I would be very reluctant to assign blame just yet. This bears a lot of resemblence to how the Wakefield saga unfolded - lots of outwardly strong evidence that ultimately turned into vapour, from either a lack of knowledge in epidermiology or sheer disingenuity.

Back to the topic, I am probably not the most impartial commenter - I have lost somebody important to cervical cancer and have always been an outspoken supporter of HPV vaccine since. That said, there has been an increasing number of peer-reviewed post-hoc studies looking into the issue and I agree that this should be investigated further. ADR is high complex and highly idiosyncratic; the more we know the better it will be for everybody.
Slightly off-topic, but you've got a double "and" in the "Lets be safe" section.
That first quote was from this link. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

Which uses 53 as its source. "US spy base `taps UK phones for MI5'" which may or may not be credible. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/us-spy-base-t....

However, my second posts links to a court case which suggests they overstepped some bounds.
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It's probably more likely that Microsoft will ship a Swift runtime/compiler system for Swift than Apple admitting anyone cares about anything but iOS. I'd be slightly surprised if MS hasn't already started on it.

The day Apple goes cross plat will be interesting. (Sorta like MS backing down on longstanding issues as reality invades.)
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Exactly! And that's an excellent presentation that outlines what's really cool about IOCPs.
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Yes! There are even articles from 3013 about the FBI using small planes for aerial surveillance, including IMSI-catchers. I think the reason the story might be catching on now is because of the compelling nature of seeing screenshots of multiple circle tracks over multiple cities, and even seeing photos of the planes and their camera turrets.
I am similarly skeptical. I contacted the physicist quoted in the article and inquired about the tests they did in their lab. I wanted to see if the quote is out of context, relates to a specific use case or what. He sent a brief, friendly reply (from his iPhone). Here it is:

Dear [redacted]
Thank you for your email concerning the Battereiser. The product is sound and we will disclose additional information in the coming weeks.

Best,
Kiumars Parvin

So he is apparently still endorsing it. I still suspect the article is grossly misrepresenting its usefulness. I am willing to be swayed by solid data, but I'm not holding my breath.
Protesters rally outside Facebook HQ over 'real name' policy
It can be. You can be lucky to meet the right co-founders. You can be lucky to have the right idea at the right time. You can be lucky in the sense that working on your current mediocre startup allowed you to luckily come upon a problem or idea that is even bigger. There is and always will be an element of luck to success. What it comes down to though is nurturing an environment where that luck is more likely to happen than not.
>...In the preceding ten years, the world had seen a sequence of serious nuclear accidents: Three Mile Island, Sellafield, Chernobyl...

Considering that it would be illegal to build a Chernobyl style plant in any other country rather than the Soviet Union, it probably shouldn't be on your list.

>...The smear campaign was accomplished by the companies and nations that built and maintained those shoddy, dangerous plants.

But even including the deaths from Chernobyl, nuclear power has been safer over the last 60 years than all other types of mass energy production: coal, natural gas or hydroelectric.

>...Blaming Greenpeace makes as much sense as blaming them for climate change.

I think the point the OP was making was that by smearing nuclear (a power source that doesn't put CO2 into the atmosphere from generating power) the alternative has usually been to build a natural gas or coal plant that does put CO2 into the atmosphere when it generates power.
Will this at all help to help diagnose and maybe even fix why FF eats so much memory? I keep getting out of memory errors in windows and see FF eating tons of RAM & Virtual, and have no idea which is causing the errors or how to fix it.
It seems like the only automated replication that you can elect to use is upon sell. Are there plans to replicate buying as well? No doubt you're familiar with how other sites work: decide to "follow" an investor and your funds are effectively pooled into theirs and executed automatically on your behalf... at the cost of some percentage as management fee. I'm curious as to why you've chosen the model you have.
The only thing that went right with Fukushima was the wind blew the radio isotopes over the pacific (mostly) and the rest of the stuff that leaked out went into the ocean. People would be singing a different tune if the wind blew all that stuff on shore. Quite a number of nuclear plants are located in places not so fortunate. For instance consider the location of three mile island, located well inland on the Susquehanna River. If you had a containment loss at three mile island, it'd be a big big mess.

People say these plants are all safe, and newer plants are safer, but the near catastrophic failures don't give one a warm feeling. The one that stands out to me was pin hole corrosion through the cladding on the top of a reactor vessel. That lead to a large cavity corroding unnoticed in the mild steel. Which which was discovered when someone noticed an odd budge in the top. if that had failed, you would have had total loss of cooling and a melt down.
Guildbit: deploy a mumble server
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Exactly this. While the concepts had no reasonable explanation of "how" they work given our present understanding of biology, that does not mean there wasn't a real mechanism at play here. Heck, this exact linkage could entirely explain the placebo effect, couldn't it?
I think it's the balance between new and old. You know, if your TV is either too old or too new it looks like you're trying too hard.
I am talking about industry as share of GDP. Check the numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States_by.... Manufacturing kept going down.
Don't forget Netty..
The analogy isn't flawed, it's a question of the benefit for the person who's key/info it is, in this case github users. We generally don't have anything to gain from our keys being made public (address, phone number, etc...). It's also a generally accepted faux pas to share someone else's public key for them. Quoted from another comment[1] (quoted from email for the practical paranoid)...

You can send someone else’s public key to an old-style keyserver. Although you might think this would be a favor, it’s actually extremely rude. The public key owner might have reasons for not using a keyserver and might prefer to distribute his public key via some other method—or he might not want to publicize the key at all beyond a small group of people.

Never publicize someone else’s key for them!

Admittedly, it's a risk we should be aware of. But regardless of whether it's rude or not, it doesn't seem to be what people expect. What's worse though is that whether it's malicious or not; user trust is practically impossible to get back after it's gone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9648351
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Why web frameworks in Swift? Do people think they will crop up instantly after Swift is open sourced? What makes it more attractive than Go, or Rust?

It takes a considerable amount of work to make a good web framework - look at the attention Rust gets and the state of its web frameworks. They've come a long way no doubt, but none are production ready. Swift can leverage some Objective-C sure, but nobody's writing web apps in Objective-C either.
I am not sure how this is a pump & dump scheme. Covester (backed by USV and acquired by Interactive brokers) has a similar model. Wealthfront's predecessor -KaChing-(backed by Benchmark) also allowed you to replicate trades of smart investors.

Both Covester/Ka-Ching wanted to disrupt the mutual fund model where any smart guy sitting in a basement can become a portfolio manager.

The theory is not so far fetched because Michael Burry ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry ) was discovered by Wall Street after talking about on Yahoo Message boards.

BUT...

KaChing pivoted to a modern day financial advisor focused on making Index investments (like DFA) & Covestor sold to IB.

This leads me to believe that the market to build a big VC backed size business may not be there.
Kind of takes the punch out of his digs at Google.
What a terrible launch page. Video not front and centre, video trailer doesn't load and the 'more info' button displays copyright information. Because that's what grabs kid's attention these days - a wordy rights statement asserting WB's ownership of '...the Brick and the Knob configurations'.
I tried sailing my (small) yacht in Pamlico sound a few years ago. It's really shallow (in some parts due to the deposit of dredged material. I can't imagine a naval battle with any serious ships occurring there ... I ran aground repeatedly while almost five nautical miles from Hatteras Village. I'd love to find a history of that battle!
Dolphin pod gets 'high' off pufferfish toxins
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It's a well established rule that private party's can hand the U.S. government information of there own free will without issue. The issue is the government can't request specific information, but a wink wink system of bulk data sharing should be perfectly legal.

Beyond that point, I have no idea if there is some exemption that lets them request specific information.
Is it just me, or does the flashy website somehow make them seem less credible?
What's the case for Thunderbolt not just being USB 3.2? Now that it's using the exact same connector, it really seems like a solution in search of an actual use-case. I thought the external GPU thing would be amazing, except that totally failed to materialize, and I've even heard that it's being actively blocked.
They also generally have more (useful) features than the BSD ones.
It's kind of fun to read a story with tweets intertwined. It's like tweets are the new bold.

Anyways, great to see this stuff still so accessible even if hidden at first glance.
Yes, if you actually use it for RAM, which isn't proposed anywhere in the article.
This is similar to the callsigns of the Area 51 planes flying from vegas. JANET was an acronym for Just Another Non-Existent Terminal[0]

Interested to see what JENNA stands for.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_(airline)
Maybe a weird submission, but I just think it's a really clean, well-designed site.

Even having never visited the site before, the user's immediately invited to just type a password and go. You don't need to browse around and think about all the options.

The philosophy is "do now, learn later" rather than "learn now, do later." It's really appealing for a user flitting around the internet with a 2 second attention span.

(EDIT: If you have no idea what Mumble is, you'll need "How it Works" of course...)
pretty sure he meant any data obtained via methods which would be illegal for a private citizen to utilize should require a warrant. So no national security letters or breaking into secure facilities to place taps ect.
Yes, that is inconsistent. I like those languages that have a quality about them where you can guess correctly at how to do something. Orthogonality comes into play here as well as copying from other languages.
Actually not impossible to answer.

Yes, all 4 factors do help US tech industry succeed.

1) Google could have made the amount of cash from ads because of population size of US. Had it started in places like Korea, it could've been profitable but not to the point where it can finance other fantastic ideas and projects, starting a snowballing effect.

2) True too. A tech company from US? Everyone else around the world is bound to hear about it. A hot tech company from non-US? Most others hear about it when it's acquired by US company. KakaoTalk makes millions and millions in real profit and has 93% market penetration of a fairly not-so small country but no one outside knows about it. And when Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 billion in paper money, and everyone knows about WhatsApp.

3) Programming is possible only if you know english alphabets. Much tools/methodologies are first available in English. Big factor why large S Korean corporations have sucky software. If you can speak/write/read English well, far more prestigious careers paths are available for you in the mega corporations. Although this is fast changing due to effect of Facebook and other internet success stories.

4) Maybe. But not always. Cyworld in S Korea was a social network service that was launched about 4-5 years before Myspace and facebook. At one point it dominated S Korean cyber space. Then they got complacent and stagnated. And facebook came in.

Interesting anecdotal. I heard that Andy Rubin first floated Android OS to Samsung to launch. Samsung already had been one of the big phone makers at that point. Samsung for some reason turned down the offer. I think they knew (probably right) they couldn't make Android succeed. They are hardware makers, weak in software overall, and not part of the English speaking sphere. Some Korean observers chided Samsung for letting Android get away to Google, but I think had Samsung been the main partner of Android, Android wouldn't have succeeded as it has now.
Who are the best “quiet” angels and VCs?
Seems like, nowadays, part of angel investing (and entrepreneurship, too, I guess) is aggressive and obsessive tweeting, blogging, newslettering and general self promotion.

As an introvert, I resent the idea that it's now essentially a requirement of The Game.

Is it?

If not, who are some of the best "quiet" angels and VCs?
Ditto. (Also, no need to pipe + count: `grep -c` works.)

Also, problem with sampling: you oversample long lines. I'm not actually sure if there is any way to count probabilistically that doesn't.

I suppose if you had some prior of how long the types were you may be able to do better, but in general, good luck.
If that where the case only one person could see your monitor at a time. Instead monitors send light across a vary wide viewing angle.
Even if a city has the 1/10 of the density of Seoul, there's no reason for a city as important as NYC to have internet infrastructure as bad as it is now.

Density argument doesn't make sense. Why can't major cities in US have faster internet than rural areas?
Am I missing something? Most of the issues seems to be Hardware Raid related.
One small benefit of using a non default port is that it keeps down the noise from automated scans. So any "real" suspicious activity will now stand out as it is not drowned out by the noise anymore.
While what he says is true, if you're taking on a lot of debt you have to consider whether you're going to be able to pay it off and how long that will take.

"How much can I expect to make after graduation" was something people always considered, but the recent steep rise in tuition has made it more of an overriding question.
our" design aesthetic is not on a basis of trying to save bandwidth

Netflix. Amazon Prime Movie. I often, often, get notices on Neflix/Amazon that some movies can't be streamed due to network issue. Come on...
No, you see, our current medical treatments and the resulting longevity are exactly optimal given human social psychology. Anything less is backward and primitive, and anything more is scary and weird.
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It's pronounced JIF not GIF
> an USB

how do you pronounce usb?
The ambiguity of "salt" is unfortunate here. The "salt" in "molten salt" is a salt, but not table salt (so, no sodium). The one proposed here is a lithium fluoride/uranium fluoride salt. Conversely, while table salt has sodium in it, the sodium in the sodium reactor isn't part of table salt, it's pure sodium metal. (Turns out they explode, also, so there's not much enthusiasm about them anymore.)
> Cures to fatal diseases are not products that can be given a real market value based on supply and demand

That argument doesn't work. Antibiotics can cure many fatal diseases, yet they don't cost all that much.

The reason is supply and demand, the exact thing you say can't be done.

The supply is that it's easy to make them.

The demand is that people can pick other drugs.

Other things that work into the equation is how much effort it took to invent it, and how many people get sick and need the particular medication.

Or in other words, market economics works just fine even for that type of treatment.

And elderly people refuse treatment all the time in order not to waste resources they want to pass on to their kids.
Migrate to DigitalOcean, you can probably keep the site on the $5 month plan.
Do you have a link to share for some feedback?
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> they say the amount of energy required to break that would be nearly enough to boil all the water on earth.

Not wanting to be alarmist, but what you're saying is that someone breaking my ssh key (which is 2048 bits) is the end of the world...
So another reason for whole-disk encryption is to defend against your own drive firmware? I guess that may make sense nowadays, though it hadn't occurred to me.
Good to see Soundslice on the hire!
Well I guess that settled that.
I do, the conversation usually goes to the idea that bills are more likely to do the opposite of what the title suggests.
Thanks for that. I thought 'up the back of your brain' was clear when I wrote it but I suppose sinuses are more often associated with a runny nose.
Correct. One way to think of it is that running the program produces a proof of the theorem. But since the program is guaranteed to terminate with a proof (since all functions are total in Coq), why run it at all? Type checking is sufficient.
> Is this really scalable?

To what scale? If they've got ~100,000 active lead investors, each executing one trade a week, that's 1,000 reviewers reading 100 plans a week. If it takes 15-30 minutes to read and validate each one (I'm assuming a cursory check here), then we're talking ~35 hours a week.

If each lead investor's trade can trigger 25 follow-on trades, that's $8.75M in trading fees, per week. Obviously, those are nice, blue sky numbers, but I think it's clear that in their best case, the biggest problem will be hiring enough qualified reviewers, and a thousand employees is a reasonable hiring target IMO.
What if your a cup half empty person who looks as this as a failure as now all the people on the fence will have reason to ignore this issue for the next few years baring some kind of new revelations.

Seriously, who in congress is going to be supporting a bill in the next 3 years to cut more powers from the spying apparatus when they can just say "We just did that, it's time to talk about X instead".