skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recognize the poster is not in the US but to answer your question:

According to the BLS the average hourly wage (not including overhead) of ALL us software developers is 45.81/hr. I would expect iOS developers to command a premium. Typical overhead of office space, management, equipment, benefits etc could easily add 50-100%

Occupation: Software Developers and Programmers (SOC code 151130)
Period: May 2014
Area name: National

Hourly mean wage: 45.81

SOC code: Standard Occupational Classification code -- see http://www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm

Data extracted on July 16, 2015
> PR disaster

I keep saying it... There are billionaires alive today, who might actually chose to die on Mars. They could do it.

If James Cameron, Richard Branson, or Elon Musk decided they wanted to die on Mars, I think they could make it happen. And I don't think it would be a big departure from their personalities.

And I don't think it would be a PR disaster.

I think it would be inspiring as hell.

"All men die. Not all men truly live. Follow me to Mars. Colonize it. Make it a second home for humanity. Life is too precious to keep all of it in one basket."
You're correct. It's just that our field is not in a good state with gender equality at moment, so some consideration beyond the literal meanings found in dictionaries is often worth the tiny effort. See: "to add insult to injury."
Exploiting the Adobe Updater (CVE-2015-5090)
Openstack is so large it also has a plethora of examples of bad code. Especially in vendor-contributed drivers and such. I wouldn't pay attention to the code so much as the incredible infrastructure and process that manages it and improves it over time.

Seriously, I've seen "sychronization threads" that use no synchronization primitives that have a single bare exception handler trap the critical section. The handler just restarts the computation... leading to fun times.

Cinder also has an interesting problem in the explosion of ABC "mixins" used for constructing a backend driver. It went from 5 in the previous release to something like 25 presently. A patch to fix it: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/201812/

But even the process isn't perfect. I've seen patches that change a couple of log lines get dog-piled with -1 nit-picks about inconsequential wording and take months to get through.

Openstack is an interesting beast but it's not a good example if you're just learning, IMO.
Not really food, but ubiquitous and immune to local shocks: insulin.
Capitalism is a relic in the new collaborative economy
Async JavaScript in ES2015
It's not the pages of laws, the common law renders relevant the judgement in thousands of prior cases. In many cases what you're paying for is not rhetorical and theatrical flourish (to sway the jury), but the specialized knowledge and application of prior rulings (to sway the judge).
Slimming down your Meteor app
American Express doesn't have branches, but I'm sure there are plenty of ways one can verify his or her identity without going inside a branch.
The type inference code would make the world a worse place.

Whole careers would be ruined by new developers closing one eye and peeking at the last close brace.
It must be a strange world that you live in if you consider a good-natured joke said with a smile to be "annoying". Anyway, my comment missing seeing the smiley was in reference to untog's comment that Roger was starting a flamewar (when he clearly wasn't).
Got a DNS mail returned error.
I completely disagree. As a woman in the industry I find it excludes people who aren't male. Sure it's a small thing, but that means it's easy to correct. Recently I had a recruiter email me asking if I wanted to come on site and meet the chaps. Great, a men's club, how diverse and welcoming.
IMF stuns Europe with call for massive Greek debt relief
Side question. Was recently in the tabac in Valence TGV looking for a book by Fred Vargas to read, I find detective novels are a good way to practice my French when over on cycling trips (easier reading level than, say, Zazie dans le Metro). Anyway - this place had novels by authors from A-M...then two books by an author beginning X. Half the alphabet dropped due to lack of shelf space! The missing V section makes me curious -

would de Villiers have been missing? Would it be under D or V in a french bookstore?
You can plug in your own rates at the bottom :-) just click "Show Details"

Man hours will be changed to something much more gender non-specific once traffic calms a bit, good spot. We have many female developers and none pointed it out! :-)
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Excellent choice, I get a dozen or two of black and blue each year and probably one of red. Feels great to write with, clean lines, really nice and very economical.
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Exactly (what sofal said).
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No, definitely no. Django aged well in terms of being alive, usable and comfortable to use in most usecases.
But the codebase... Let me explain. Currently it works as "pay-to-get-a-feature" by crowdfounding. It not a bad thing, it gives good features we all need, but it is a bit sad fact when you look at Rails.
So, it doesn't mean Django developers doesn't care about code, they care. But codebase is so big and complicated(because some code needs to be refactored)... it is common to see that some bug cannot be simply fixed by two lines, because some core member insists "this all should be reworked".
Anyone have any idea whether this could have been prevented if banks in the US required PIN to process a transaction? Would fraudulent transactions go down significantly if stolen cards couldn't be used without PINs?
It is arbitrary. Compare e.g. treatment of Jane Austen (or heck, Shakespeare) at the time and today.

Academic literature forms a clique (I mean this descriptively rather than pejoratively). The critics and the writers all know each other, are largely the same people.
Have you considered building something with Django and figuring out the magic as you go along??
that's a lot of broken guitars!
As the article mentions things like insurance and long term investments, annuities, stock certificates, and the like, are the ones where it makes the most sense to be the most exacting in enforcing contract terms. That's essentially the nature of the business, and in a world where people can hedge two massive sums of money against each other for hundredths of a percent gains and so on, it does make sense for the financial system to decide that this level of precision should be considered inviolate.

There is precedent for the argument that very long term arrangements (sometimes called "Methuselah Trusts"[0]) involving compounding interest should be prohibited or changeable in some circumstances but the lifetime of a single person would really never fall into that category.

Also of note in this specific instance, the "error" on the banks part is not a case of overlooked fine print, obliviousness to an extreme edge case situation that seems highly implausible, or a customer acting in somewhat bad faith or wastefully, which you could argue gifting first class tickets to random strangers is.

In this instance the whole point of the investment was to allow wealthy purchasers to make backward looking adjustments to a held investment portfolio. Which is, in fact, exactly what has happened.

[0] http://www.nickbaily.com/nick_bailys_002/2015/01/the-dangers...
Though it would be easy to code a filter to remove numbers from titles,
there are always exceptions when the numbers are meaningful. The bad
titles like "$X Ways to ..." are also a form of useful signaling; it
tells you that the submitter either doesn't care about the quality of
their submission or they have never bothered to read the HN guidelines.

Lastly, the guidelines also ask people to not supposed to create a text
submission to ask HN/YC questions. The preferred way to handle it is to
send them an email (hn@ycombinator.com).
ISS crew shelters from space debri in Soyuz
Tailoring Retirement Plans to Companies with a Handful of Workers
New Smoking Microbiome Study: free uBiome mouth kits for smokers and non-smokers
Delivering Conjur with Vagrant
phase transitions are complicated. when something is a gas that rule applies because the forces between the constituent particles are neglible except for the electromagnetic interaction causing scattering (i.e. particles bouncing off each other, or the surroundings).

this is the pressure from that formula. increasing temperature increases the energy in the system, resulting in more collisions, and more pressure. decreasing it results in less as you correctly point out.

in a solid the electromagnetic interaction is constantly present and locks the constiuent particles nearly in place, so that when excited they 'vibrate' around their location, rather than moving freely like in a gas. this has different consequences, so that decreasing the temperature will increase the rigidity of the material since the particles will become ever less likely to achieve the energy required to escape their electromagnetic 'traps'.
They must be trying to undercut everyone else, because those prices are way too low. I wonder how many times they go over these budgets themselves.
You are an illusion, basically. You, the observer who goes through time from past to the future at some rate, is just an abstraction that evolved in a process of evolution because created with higher cognitive abilities were better at survival, and at some point their cognitive abilities developed a very useful illusion of "self".
Strange, it does work for me. Could you check again ?

Otherwise, you could access it here : http://bit.ly/birdlyforslack

Thanks for your feedback
This paradox also helps illustrate why you might want to avoid percentages or 0-1 decimal probability in statistics - in some cases, the compression at the end of the range can mask very important phenomenon. (0.01% and 1% look almost the same as percentages or decimals, but can have different implications.) Particularly important if you're doing anything at the tails of the distribution, like thinking about how to increase extreme values (is increasing the proportion of extreme-values from 0.01% to 0.10% extremely important or utterly trivial?)
Acne problem
Fuse: native apps for iOS and Android in JS
At least $100, in my mind.

Good point from others RE: other countries ... sorry for being so US-centric.
Not true. My dad's side of the family lives in Libya and one of my aunts requires insulin- the price went up at least 5x during the worst of it and it's still currently 3x of what it used to be.
The Right to Bear (Robotic) Arms
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Video shows ‘Chapo’ Guzman pacing in cell just before vanishing from prison
Good article for beginners. A couple thoughts, just to build on what the author said:

First off, data science == fancy name for data mining/analysis. Wanted to clear that up due to buzzwordy nature of "data science."

Learn SQL - this is the big one. You must be proficient with SQL to be effective at data science. Whether it's running on an RDBMS or translating to map/reduce (Hive) or DAG (Spark), SQL is invaluable. If you don't know what those acronyms mean yet, don't worry. Just learn SQL.

Learn to communicate insights - I would add here to try some UI techniques. Highcharts, d3.js, these are good libraries for telling your data story. You can also do a ton just with Excel and not need to write any code beyond what you wrote for the mining portion (usually SQL).

I would also go back to basics with regards to statistical techniques. Start with your simple Z Score, this is such an important tool in your data science toolbox. If you're just looking at raw numbers, try to Z-normalize the data and see what happens. You'd be surprised what you can achieve with a high school statistics textbook, Postgres/MySQL (or even Excel!), and a moderate-sized data set. These are powerful enough to answer the majority of your questions, and when they fail then move on to more sexy algorithms.

Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention. After SQL, learn Python. There are a ton of libraries in the python ecosystem that are perfect for data science (numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, etc). It's also one of the top languages used in academic settings. My preferred data science workspace involves Python, IPython Notebook, and Pandas (This book is quite good: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython...)
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That version has some rather funny side-effects... try it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk , for example.
I guess it's a way to dip their toes into the waters, because for good safe pen testing they would need to mirror their infrastructure and make a system for testers to create accounts on demands, which necessitate work.
I think "the web" in this case really means media sites and some retailers. The media sites don't have a clue how to make money, other than to include all the usual ad networks and tracking scripts and then sit back and hope. The ecommerce guys are obsessed with slicing and dicing visitor behavior and tracking conversions. Seems to me that outside these (admittedly rather vaguely defined) spaces the web is a much cleaner and snappier place.
I'm not willing to do this from a work network, but if you search the wayback machine [1] you can probably find when /r/nsfw disappeared following the Condé Nast purchase; and then look around that time for a thread about reddit management where some user complains about it disappearing.

[1] you could try reddit search if you are feeling lucky or masochistic. Or maybe it's really good at binary date searches and I just don't know how to use it.
Working with sessionized data 2: variable selection
From the article:
>1.All events have the properties of past, present and future, at the same time.

>2.That these A-properties are incompatible (or mutually-exclusive) with one another.

>A person may object to the first premise, accusing McTaggart of assuming that all events have these properties at the same time. It is in assuming that all events start out with a contradiction that requires tensing that creates the regress, but once we reject this, the contradiction does not even take off. An event is said to be past, but is not also present nor future, and as well, an event is said to be present, but not past and future.

>He concludes these arguments by stating that "Our ground for rejecting time, it may be said, is that time cannot be explained without assuming time."

He's saying that any event was at one point in the future, at some point was in the present, and eventually went into the past. This makes sense, right?

However, to judge where the event is at some point in time (past, present, or future), you need another point in time by which to reference it. For a concrete example, on "Monday July 13th, 2015", "Wednesday July 15th, 2015" was in the future. On "Wednesday July 15th, 2015", "Wednesday July 15th, 2015" was in the present, and by "Thursday July 16th, 2015", "Wednesday July 15th, 2015" is in the past. Without a specific reference point, any point in time is just a point in time and exists in all three states at once (because it is the future for any time before it, present for any time during it, and past for any time after it).

Like most philosophical works... I can't really see why it's right, but I can't obviously point out why it's wrong; it won't affect my day to day life, but it's fun to think about.
I hope none of my future clients come to me with a reference to this app for cost estimation. This estimation is vague and garbage. Good effort though.
I picked up a kindle fire hd 7" tablet for my daughter. I let her have a little time watching learning videos on youtube but using a macbook pro for it is overkill
Memory-loss case ‘like nothing we have ever seen before’
I'm pretty sure 150m of Russian people are not hackers investigated by the KGB.
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Would love to see examples of their work, showing how that translates into the options in the estimation tool.

i.e. What is their definition of "polished"?
10.3 m of water + a strong magnetic field gives you approximately the same protection as the earth's atmosphere. Sadly, that getting that much mass in orbit would be extremely expensive, but a shield provides a long shadow of safe area. Though, in the long term such a shield could be reused indefinably.

On Mars the easy option is to live in a cave.

And, considering the other risks involved I think many would trade a significant increased risk of cancer in their lifetimes for the journey.
I wish you luck as I feel your pain. Lotus Notes for email is probably the worst piece of crap (I refuse to call it software) I have used. I dreaded it whenever a company I worked for forced me to use it. To my knowledge, you cannot do anything really. Hope that some day they "upgrade" to Outlook :). I am no outlook fan but in front of notes, it looks like a God send.
Ah I get that too. I figured out why sleep paralysis happens and here's how to fix it. When you sleep on your back your pillow is compressing your brain stem at the base of your skull. Get the pillow further up on your head so as much as possible it doesn't touch your neck or the fleshy part just below the back of your skull. It'll feel a bit different (weird?) but you should be able to sleep without issue.

Tell as many people as you can after you see for yourself.

edit: As an additional tip, the way I get out of the paralysis is by trying to rock my body as if I'm building up momentum to jump or at least jerk a limb. Once I twitch a limb it feels easy enough to break everything else out. That rocking feeling is probably imaginary so I don't know how transferable the technique is to other people.
A great suggestion, thank you.
I agree with the business men in theory but not in implementation. It sounds like they're talking out of both sides of their mouths. You can certainly save money and uphold quality if you've invested the time/money in developing a solid process. If you don't spend the time to develop a process and don't spend the money on the people that can manage that chaos, you're going to have a bad time.

Unfortunately that's what this Startup Cowboy Culture seems to embrace. It's more about looking and feeling busy than actually producing any quality results.
So, if we go off the market rates for a business consultant skilled at developing a web application ($1k to $2k per day per consultant), and plug in the numbers here:

35 Man Days UX/UI Design -> probably $35k to $70k

178 Man Days Development -> $178k to $356k

The total cost is: $208k to $416k

The calculator's estimate: $95,850

So the actual cost is going to be anywhere from 2x to 5x higher than what this projects.
The cruft is because the underlying economics of how data is hosted and distributed is flawed. The incentives between advertisers, readers, publishers, hosting and distribution providers are currently misaligned.

In other words, building an info-economic system based on "free" content that is supported by online advertising results in: the people who make the content don't get paid enough and the content itself is horribly mangled by advertisements and other priorities.

However, we can build other kinds of info-economic systems. Perhaps we could follow the model of publishing back when we still used copyrights as an effective way to align the incentives between authors and publishers. Covering the costs of hosting and distribution are a lot easier to manage when the content itself isn't hard-coded in to an ad-selling-machine as delivery options like BitTorrent or WebTorrent are now an option. Permanent seeds could be kept alive at very little cost to publishers. Perhaps we could experiment with royalties, or selling virtual shares in media, or buying virtual goods that list you as a supporter, or allow people to invest in the creation of and share ownership in media...
Nitpick: 2 typos in one sentence: "From lightning fast IaaS to innovate container technology" should be "From lightning-fast IaaS to innovative container technology".

And yes, ironic.
There's a guy (or maybe more than this guy) that has done just that:

http://www.20potatoesaday.com/
It's worth celebrating (well, noting in an approving manner) this release. GCC is a foundation stone project for, well, a huge amount of the world's wealth.

It is a healthy project (even with CLang etc), and with the heartbleed post mortem on our minds we should probably ask what can be done to keep it and others healthy - auditing, foundation status etc.

So thank you GCC developers, for making sure I do not need to worry about something.
Any practical reason you'd want a "non brand related" index? The way I understand it the Big Mac index is pretty good because it casts a wide net from the cost of producing (or importing) food to the price of labour, and everything in between. I doubt you'd get that with a potato.
What's funny is that it all still relies on our ability to see dogs in things that aren't dogs.
KFC is definitely more popular than McDonalds in Asia. Chicken and pork are much more popular than beef. I've always assumed it had to do with the stupendously inefficient nature of beef in terms of cost & land.
We should add that we are a German-based company. Is it more difficult for international companies?
I hated it because its message was perverted. The "mean" character was rewarded -- not punished -- for his most sadistic act (the last 10 minutes of the movie), and as sofal has pointed out here, audiences seemed to have taken his behavior as the norm when pushing students to greatness. If the movie had ever implied that greatness can be achieved without abuse (which it can), I'd have had no problem with it.
A medical mystery: The root canal that erased a man's memory
I think underlying all this is the assumption that they actually called the old number on another line. This was asserted by Dmitry; however there's no evidence that it wasn't just the typical put-you-on-hold repeatedly scenario where the rep keeps going to the supervisor. Maybe he just mentally over-remembered the situation?
Now would be a good time to try something, rather than watch more. A lot of people learn better by doing. Think of it as the exercises at the end of the class. Even if you don't have the idea yet, it would definitely help your learning.
A helpful tool that simplifies what has been a purposely cumbersome process.

But it does not guarantee that your carefully and thoughtfully drafted email will be read nor that the response you receive came from the congress critter and not from a file of form letter responses.
> And I've noticed that some of Edward Snowden's more vocal supporters also support Putin's actions across the board, including his hateful anti-LGBT stance.

I'm sorry but this is utter nonsense.

It sounds like you are insinuating that he was some kind of Russian agent or defector, and his supporters are have a pro-Russian agenda.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-goin...

If you add a few constraints, you can run a neural network "in reverse". Crank up the "dog" output (which is now an input) and it will generate an image that would be recognized as a dog. You can also feed in images like normal, then modify the output and run it backwards to make the image more "doggy". And you're not limited to the first and last layers; you can enhance the values of different layers in the middle to bring out smaller or larger features.

Here's a live stream that might help you visualize it better: http://www.twitch.tv/317070
You don't need to. This is hilarious.
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It's interesting to see how most countries dropped last year because of the exchange rate.

For a weird graph look at Venezuela, $9.08 in 2013 and $0.67 now.
Bit strange comment; there are still plenty of bugs in GCC to worry about.
I hadn't run across the concept of "Janus words/phrases" before. It's very apt! Here's another fun musing on the subject, which I read years ago:

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/upandup.html