skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most important thing is to be self-aware and vigilant. Every person will find their own tricks and techniques to making it work, and you certainly have a large collection of comments here to get you going.

But ultimately, you are your own person, in your own role, in your own organization, with your own culture. Try things, have honest evaluations of what works and what does not, and figure out your own best practices.

My company has no office - we all work remotely, no matter what our role is. We have a few tools we use for communication, but everybody does it differently, and every new hire takes a while to find their own rhythm. Give yourself that time, and treat the process of finding what works for you as an important part of your job.
The Road to a Better World (Or My New Investment Thesis)
Personally, I often confuse Jamie Fox and Samuel L. Jackson.
Why a VR Game About Flirting Is as Scary as a Horror Game
Are you being paid minimum wage? No? Then there's something you're not considering.

There is at least some competition for your labor, and making it dramatically more expensive to employ you will have some effect on how much money you can get.
In fact, I learned in a very silly thing to know. The risk is on controlling the hardware thats in there"Only when you get the impression that credit cards that my Time Warner unfamiliar with the goal these people as potential phishing as well as US government uses private business to sell your company in its own horn about being able to be great.
Hmm, the NYT link for the Clever "dashboard" / app store just pointed to clever.com, but here's the link to the list of supported apps: https://clever.com/schools/partners
Creative. Nice project.
Its more than just a NES emulator:

Currently Supported Emulators:

Sega:
Genesis / Mega Drive
Master System
MegaCD See wiki
Game Gear

Nintendo:
NES
SNES
Gameboy / Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance

Now that you can sidled iOS programs for free with Xcode 7, I hope we see more open source projects make it to iOS.
*fewer grammatical errors (sorry)
Title seems editorialized.

What we are looking at is an AppleTV frontend for existing emulators like FCEU, SNES9x, Genesis-Plus-GX, etc.
If you think the government making the drug is a viable solution, there's no need to set prices. If you think the government making the drug is not a viable solution, then you shouldn't set prices for fear of the drug being cancelled.

Could you point out the flaw here?
There are all kinds of players along the spectrum. It's just that the ones that grow to become the largest (Amazon, Walmart, Costco, Jet, etc.) tend to operate this way (and offer Everyday Low Prices).
A Framework for Cognitive Computing [pdf]
My father ran a budget counselling service at the local church. The vast majority of people the church was helping were low income families who were struggling to make ends meet, and were considering things like payday loans in order to simply put food on the table.

They were not irresponsible people: they had smart phones but no landline: Smartphone for $60/month versus landline for $70/month, they were making some smart decisions about where to spend their money.

The issues they did have were not being in contrl of their budgets. For the majority of these families, just learning about the envelope budget system helped them regain control. Also learning how to shop around more carefully and pay attention to whh coupons were useful and which were merely advertising helped.

The catch for low incme families can simply be not knowing how to be ruthlessly disciplined with their budget.

There is a vast gulf between, "being irresponsible," and "not knowing better ways to manage their money."

Poor people are often poor because they do not have access to the same opportunities as you: inadequate education, poor training, naiveté about wealth-building habits, and so on.

You can help make the world a better place by not perpetuating the myth that poor people are popr because they are undisciplined, lazy, stupid, or irresponsible.

Even better, find a local support group for low income families and see how you can provide assistance.
Non-horrible flat structures very quickly become neither. There's an old essay available online called "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" that talks about this.
The article misrepresents the federal reserve study it uses to make it's case. It claims that the federal reserve study implies rich "have more leisure time so they get to know prices and deals well".

But this is nonsense. The federal reserve study doesn't study rich and poor at all - it studies the unemployed vs employed. Specifically, the article shows that unemployed people spend less time shopping than employed people. Is the article really claiming that unemployed people have less leisure time?

In fact, the article actually claims that reduced working time causes a (small) drop in shopping time.
I wrote about this a couple of years ago on my blog and it's still relevant. Rather than re-post it here, have a look if you don't mind. You won't even need an ad blocker, and this is not blog spam. http://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/08/experiences-and-reali...
America coming to its senses? Hard to believe that the Nation would really bring itself to acknowledge something so simple and obvious. But I have hope.
A mean but honest assessment of the people the author describes, author included: crippled by cognitive dissonance, confusing their unwillingness to negotiate or compromise with passion or drive and engrossed with the movie or novel that is their overly dramatized lives. They just need a solemn pop song to kick in whenever someone rebukes them. Maybe an enterprising developer could make an app for that.

I know people like this - they add drama where it isn't needed, over analyze and romanticize simple interactions preventing them from forming a trusting and therefore stable relationship. You can almost see the imaginary cameras they think are following them throughout life, the star of their own reality TV show.

Their expectations for what a relationship should be are so contorted and highly-strung that they're doomed to failure from the beginning. Thankfully they seem to attract each other and form a layer of social sediment separated from the bedrock that is practical people. Best of luck to them.
So basically OpenEMU that runs on AppleTV
Maybe because you don't need to actually open an executable file to get infected. Even displaying an image in your web browser may do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution
My personal rule is waist-up, wear something you'd generally be OK with wearing in public. Other than that, all bets are off (unless you have a standing desk).
That is so cool. We're used to thinking of programming as a sort-of abstract job that is that takes a long time to do and gets deployed to everyone. It's really cool to hear about a programmer being able to make an on-the-spot operational impact on a real work site.

Also, I wonder how the hell the thing survived?
Dang, this hits home.

About seven years ago, I was fired from a help desk tech job at a local bank for 'bad performance'. In the exit interview he told me, "I don't think you're ready for this sort of job yet. You should try to do this sort of job again five years from now when you're ready." To this day I insist that it was his piss poor management skills that led to it (it was my first IT job and his first management job.)

These days, I'm a senior Linux engineer at a respectable company making a killer salary as the youngest on the team, without a degree. If I took his advice, I would have lost all confidence and drive. Sometimes I wish I was a bit more vindictive just so I could give that guy a strong piece of my mind :).

Never let these sorts of people influence your life negatively!
Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
You're straight up wrong. Read the piece. Quote below:

"For instance, total shopping time for households with an income between $100,000 and $150,000 (category 5) is 5 to 7 minutes greater (per day) than average shopping time by an individual in a household with income in the $0 to $24,999 bracket (category 1). After controlling for various individual characteristics (column I), this is robust to including both time and state (columns II and III), as well as labor force status dummy variables (column IV)."
> Then there's buying quality products that last longer by the wealthy and crappy products that need to be replaced (far) more frequently by the poor and many more examples like these.

Yep, to be capital efficient you need capital, and it's one reason having X amount of money today is worth more than having X tomorrow. Unfortunately it's such a fundamental problem that it will exist as long as there are scarce resources.

I remember when I first moved into my poor/gentrifying neighborhood of Manhattan, I went to buy light bulbs at the local pharmacy. I picked out all LEDs, and when I got to the check-out counter the lady working there stopped in disbelief. "Sir, you know these are ten dollars each?" I'm like duh, they have a fifth the electricity cost and last 30 times longer, but looking back I can see how this would seem so bizarre to her.
Have they made a cheap device entirely out of sustainable materials? No. The photoactive GaAs/InGaP would be extremely expensive to fabricate. Have they tested it for commercially relevant timescales? 40 hours is hardly close, realistically they need to do stability testing for thousands of hours. They did use non-precious materials to protect the semiconductors from the corrosive solution and inexpensive catalysts, but this is a very long ways from practical. Further, they didn't even hit the 10% efficiency mark which has long been heralded as starting point for these devices.

It is not clear to me that this approach could ever be economically viable even with the right semiconductors. H2 just doesn't provide enough bang for your buck.
"200-600 dollar smartphone with a 60/month plan"

If I was so poor as to barely afford food I would be living either without a phone or with a $20 shit-phone on a bare bones prepaid plan. Costs hundreds less and gets the same shit done (person-to-person communication)
I imagine it thus: Human appearance is a vector space in our minds and we tend to put ourselves at the origin of the vector space. When we look at two people who look like us, the vectors that describe their appearance may be comparatively quite different because of their closeness to us. But if we look at two people of the same, different race, their appearance is quite removed from us, so the appearance-vectors that lead from us to them will be comparatively close together in direction and have comparatively similar magnitudes.

A Japanese friend of mine once told me I looked like a celebrity -- Manuel Schwarz, an Austrian model who was once married to Ayumi Hamasaki. Near as I can tell the only similarities between my appearance and his are that we are both white and we both have brown hair.
> The only benefit is that a decent amount of vinyl releases do not have the same mastering as the CD, due to the perception that many of the vinyl purchasers are audiophiles and want the higher dynamic range master

Wait: There are two masters? How many bits is the higher DR master?
I wonder how many other apps will also have this bug due to being a webapp inside Chromium, and thus require updating when it's fixed. It's not Heartbleed-like criticality, but still seems rather unpleasant, not to mention the waste of keeping multiple copies of Chromium around (I'd guess the typical webapp is much smaller than the browser itself.)
Yep, I use that one sometimes. Also Cornell's project feederwatch[1] and allaboutbirds[2]. Cornell has a lot of love for bird studies.

I've been tempted to apply when their Ornithology Department had web/mobile job openings, but moving to Ithaca for it seems a bit too much for me, even for a hobby I enjoy.

[1] http://feederwatch.org

[2] http://allaboutbirds.org
Numerous people in this very discussion list issues to create a 'replacement' drug, even if the patent is expired. If they are correct (see disclaimer above) that might be a reason why others haven't tried it - or why they haven't succeeded yet.

Replace interested with "no one is interested and able". The reasons don't matter (insofar as they cannot be changed), the fact is that no one else is making them.

The lack of empathy and the trust in random business/market theoretical stuff to find a reasonable solution for the access to drugs that might very well save lives - that just doesn't compute, doesn't make sense in my world.

This doesn't come from a lack of empathy. I am (or try to emulate) a utilitarianist. To my mind, the question to ask is "which system will produce better outcomes overall"?

As I've said elsewhere in this thread, this particular example has them covering the cost of the drug for anyone who can't afford it; so the value of a life is irrelevant. The question is "is it better for a health insurance company or the drug manufacturer to have the money?" This doesn't seem obvious.

On the other hand, any claims of "fairness" fail to compute. If doing X improves the world, who cares if it makes things less fair?

Health care should be free.

The world should be perfect. I agree. Now, do you have any way of bringing the world to perfection? Saying "Health care should be free" while ignoring the fact that currently, health care needs to be rationed, does nobody any good.

Who pays for health care, if it's free? Who becomes a doctor, a researcher, if the prices are driven down by politicians with similar arguments to yours?

There's no 'value' to 'capture'.

That sounds to me like saying that every drug company should be selling at cost or close to cost. The problem with that is that there's then much less incentive for investors to fund pharmaceutical startups, which leads to less new drugs being developed, and so on.

You can't ignore economics when building your utopia.
From the article:

"The results indicate that a 1 minute decline in market hours is associated with a 0.04 minute decline in shopping time."

The correlation between income and shopping time is simply not caused by leisure time. This should hardly be surprising - leisure and income are inversely correlated (i.e., the poor have lots of leisure, the rich very little).
Stewart Brand and the Long Now Foundation have a deextinction research program called Revive & Restore:

http://longnow.org/revive/
Reminder: headlines are rarely truly representative of the article beneath them.

Of course they will use tweets, retweets, and other signals as data that help inform them about a person of interest. Why is this surprising? This person was not arrested for a retweet which is what the headline implies. They were arrested for showing support for ISIL in a number of ways and contacting people to arrange or trying to arrange to join them.

I'm no huge fan of the NSA itself or many government practices that I feel are an overreach, but this isn't one of them.
> Never let these sorts of people influence your life negatively!

It sounds as if you have.
The security section should mention that as of 2015, FreeBSD still does not have ASLR.
Flat structures are really project based orgs. They work fine if you are in fact working on projects.

When the org grows and operational/day to day work and process start to appear, flat orgs falter more often than not. Someone needs to be accountable for critical things, and whomever ends up in charge of the most critical thing ends up being "more equal" than everyone else.
Bringing back extinct species isn't cool. You know what's cool?

Designing brand new species in DNA!
Why Recruiting Is Broken and How to Fix It
I just wrote an article about my first year of working remotely, you can read it here: http://danmunro.com/blog/2015/09/17/working-remotely/. There's a lot of good advice in the comments here too.
Has there been much work on cloning endangered species? I guess resurrecting extinct species would be "cooler", but helping endangered species would be less controversial.
Thanks for posting, though I will repost when the compiler is self hosting, it isn't really ready yet.

It is missing a preprocessor, static initializers and floating point.
Getting away from the usual capitalist moralizing, Paribus has a time-tested business model I've seen before. Very well-compensated people discover companies overpaying for (say) a utility, and offer to negotiate for them.

> To paraphrase what the fine folks in the US like to say, the world doesn't owe you a deal.

I’m from the US. 40% of us believe the earth was created a few thousand years ago. Be immediately skeptical about anything we commonly say. (http://www.livescience.com/46123-many-americans-creationists...)

(And it even contradicts the whole point of the "US". We’re born into all sorts of bizarre deals, like the so-called social contract I never consented to.)
> This video is not authorized to be embedded here.

Getting this for the video
Controlling in Software Development: Why timekeeping is nonsense
And Windows is free if you your time is worthless and you pretend you didn't fork over a wodge of cash. Can we kill this meme already?
I can attest to the "dress in work clothes" part helping with the routine. You don't have to be in a suit and tie, but putting on a polo shirt does help with deliniating work time and personal time

Also, going for a walk during breaks is great, because you're probably going to be getting less exercise otherwise.
How would you feel about cloning endangered species compared to resurrecting extinct species? Endangered species are still part of ecosystem, so you avoid some of the problems or arguments around introducing new, invasive species.
pretty sure that is the grail diary from the last crusade
Spolsky was relaying the observation which was first made by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. There's a good diagram in McConnell's Rapid Development when he discusses it.
Hey Eric,

I think you make a good point here. I'm not sure it always works out one way or the other though. We can talk in generalizations, but there are also very savvy poor shoppers and very careless rich shoppers. My inclination in matters like this is that it's better to arm people with information and encourage them to be savvier. I think what you guys are doing is a great example of this, using technology to empower people over their own finances.

More of a musing: I do wonder if it is ultimately self-defeating. If everyone were to use Paribus, companies would stop offering special deals in the first place. Maybe it's a good thing overall. But the savvy poor shoppers would be hurt by this.
Communication is key. Follow up every real-time conversation in email. Log everything in an issue tracker, link it with version control, comments, comments, comments.

Keep a well-organized note-taking and to-do list system.

Take a well-deserved break somewhere quiet. Take a walk.
Just to expand a little on Sanddancer's reply, PC-BSD is FreeBSD, but with a friendlier installer, and comes with X11 and a window manager installed and set up for you. It is designed to get FreeBSD installed as a desktop system quicker and more easily than installing straight FreeBSD and then installing everything else on top of that. So, it is similar to how Ubuntu was to Debian back when Ubuntu first came out.
What do you mean by 'as if'?

Try hitting Cmd + , to change change some of your HN settings, or alt-tabbing to your HN tab (the one in your browser).
The sun does not rise
The article will get you through challenge 1-3. Myself, I got stuck on 5.
I would recommend the ability to browse other photos and understand what you're outputting, as [noted below] people are going to be very suspicious of uploading their own photo, or just won't care enough to upload a fake photo.
I think I agree with you that on balance it's not an obviously wise thing to do. But for fun, I tried to think of some arguments in favor of resurrecting extinct species:

- (Karma) Humans have been the proximate cause of so many extinctions, and this is a chance to "undo" some of that harm.

- (Glory) Life seeks life. What could be more glorious and good than to finally apply the knowledge and art so painfully accumulated by the the hundred suffering generations before us to a real conquest of death?

- (Knowledge) Merely by attempting to resurrect an extinct species, we would learn so much. And if we ever succeeded, it's likely that the things we could learn by observing extinct phenotypes and extinct phenotype-genotype mappings would make for a true revolution in the life sciences.
Normally I don't like comments that are just jokes, but this one was too perfect. Well done.

And to add just a slight bit more substance to my comment, while I was reading through all the comments here my wife asked why I was laughing so hard. I found it really difficult to convey why, but I guess that's the nature of this type of humor.
This does not seem strange to me. My Chinese girlfriend (who is from China) tells me that caucasian people look alike.
It's pretty mature, but its place within the Python ecosystem is different from JRuby's place in the Ruby ecosystem. Jython is basically an extension language for the JVM: it lets you use the familiar & comfortable Python language to script your JVM languages. Many popular Python packages won't work on Jython, either because they depend upon C extensions or because Jython is several versions behind CPython.

Ruby has much more of a bias toward writing libraries in pure Ruby, and so a greater portion of the Ruby ecosystem runs on JRuby. Also, Ruby's use-cases largely center around Rails and system administration, while Python also has large presences in scientific computing, scriptable C++ network servers, desktop GUI apps, etc, (none of which work on Jython). That makes JRuby very attractive for deploying a Rails frontend on top of JVM backend infrastructure, but the analogous situation in the Python world (Django webapp in front of say Twisted or Celery) won't even run on Jython.
Let's not forget that your team needs to manage itself differently for the remote worker to be a success. Here's stuff that we (Sauce Labs Mobile Team) have found to work:

- Slack everything all the time even if you are in the same room. If you're not using Slack get on it; it's by far the best tool for remotes. If you have a discussion in person, copy the conclusions to the channel.

- Use video hangouts for meetings whenever possible.

- During such meetings, everyone must be "equal" in how they are present. Our solution is to have everyone log into the meeting at their own desk. (Audio and video will be delayed by a second, so you all need headphones for this to work.) So everyone appears as a talking head, equally taking turns. Another solution might be to do videoconferencing in a meeting room with a very large screen, so all the remote workers appear to be as present as people in the room.

- Make sure that team members socialize with the remote worker. We have semi-randomly-assigned sessions we call "coffee" where you both get a beverage and just hang out for an hour on a video chat. I know it sounds silly but it has a HUGE benefit.
"bridget jones" was a great fictional exploration of this sort of mindset, i thought.
Why would there be a catch?
They haven't resolved all the practical problems, they just seem to have made some incremental progress.
Apple's iOS App Store suffers first major attack
False positives are the other dark side of AV; here's AVG detecting completely innocuous "Hello World" programs as potential threats:

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/67634/

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mingwusers/kFrCqECTY_Y

Along the same lines, it's rather common that keygens/cracks/patches are detected as false positives too:

http://underlore.com/anti-virus-community-creates-false-posi...