skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve spent a career working 50 to 70 hours per week...This post is not me complaining that work is hard and I want to do less.

Would that be so wrong? How many of us are tired of the Do What You Love And Work Will Set You Free mythology? Why are tech workers always the most gullible with the DWYL cult?

I wonder how many Victorias there are out there. In my dealings with executives they've all been pretty much like her - oblivious of life outside business and devoid of empathy (all non-SV but of course most of the world is non-SV).
Why on earth are people calling these sideways skateboards "hoverboards"? They have wheels, they don't hover, they are not hoverboards - and it's particularly confusing due to the recent demonstration of an actual hoverboard, which is actually a board that hovers!
now that the gag order is not in place, can we learn who the FBI was spying on? was it legitimate? if not, who approved it?

this is a pointless victory unless we use it for accountability.
Tooling for injection molded plastic is very expensive so for small-volume runs like this one it's likely cheaper and quicker to get off-the-shelf plastic.
Where did this headline even come from?

The original headline is "Le tout-sécuritaire ne suffira pas" which they translated as "Clamping down with law and order will not be enough" (which looks like a good translation to me). The linked Washington Post article is titled "This might be the most controversial theory for what’s behind the rise of ISIS." Yet on HN it's called, "Thomas Piketty: Income inequality is behind the rise of Islamic State." Was something changed, or did the person who posted this decide to make up something that would incite controversy?
The article doesn't mention a "big" commercial botulism case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bon_Vivant_botulism_case

I put "big" in quotes because only one person died. But it caused quite the scare, people were afraid of eating canned soup. The company went bankrupt.

Not nearly as deadly as E. coli. E.g. in 1993, 732 people were infected and four died from undercooked hamburger at Jack In The Box.[1] And it continues. A quick google found an article that claims[2]

approximately 100,000 illnesses,
3,000 hospitalizations,
and 90 deaths annually in the United States

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_o...
[2] http://www.about-ecoli.com/
Ok. How about "because the states stopping them were sabotaged by external actors". In Iraq's case pretty obvious. From a local's perspective, here's what the US did :

1) remove nationalists from power by destroying all infrastructure. They sucked, but they sucked for everybody and they weren't nearly as bad as religous muslims.

2) jobs ... gone. Money ... gone (or gone soon). Family ... partially gone. Tribe ... partially gone. Security forces replaced by US troops, who don't speak the language.

3) this situation persists for years.

4) (for Sunni's, Christians, ...) US replaces security forces (suddenly) with an army exclusively formed by a religious grouping that Sunni's are attacking wherever they can (Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan ...) who are looking for revenge.

5) These new security forces come in, US forces don't keep them in check, then suddenly abandon everyone. This sort of stuff becomes commonplace : http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-11/shiite-mili...

6) several tens of thousands of people that this happened to were soldiers.

So why is islamic extremism spreading ? For Iraq, you have the answer above this sentence. For Europe/America the answer is different. It is not spreading within the older generation, people who fled the middle east. It is spreading within the youth. How ? Well :

1) schools, bankrolled from Saudi Arabia and Turkey teach islamic supremacism to the kids of immigrant muslims.

2) western european states do token cleanups of these schools every 10 years or so, but not fast enough to make them stop.

3) these kids are not educated to the level even bad local schools educate local youngsters. At 18, they are suddenly abandoned, and quickly find out that no job, no family (not possible without job), no car, no status symbols, ... sucks

4) furthermore. Suddenly islamic supremacism educated kids finds society (including muslims) shun them, or worse. Why ? They have no decent skills, and because of the supremacism thing they are prone to violence.

5) they subsist on welfare for a while, generally causing trouble around them and little else.

6) someone offers them a purpose. "Free" brides (ie. kidnapped women and children. Like most muslim scholars, daesh sees nothing wrong with forced marriage at 6, after all the prophet did it. Makes you wonder how "normal" muslims morally deal with that). A state and police force that supports the supremacism and a free ride over. Oh and a monthly paycheck that more or less matches local welfare checks and what you might call life insurance.

The biggest thing stopping them: daesh has a reputation for getting people killed and abandoning them.

Let's get real here : if the US did the same to a Western European country it did to Iraq, there'd be isis/daesh territory in the middle of Western Europe, no doubt.

Also let's face facts here, and scale the problem. Daesh/islam will not be recruiting really large amounts of muslims from the western world. But it is growing : these people will cause a civil war in Europe unless the situation changes.
I think he agreed with that perspective, otherwise he would not have shut it down, clearly it was not salvageable at that point.

Still, in spite of the damage done and the technical flaws that was quite the holding action and I think quite a few companies would have folded and much earlier.
> There isn't enough tech to keep developers, because they know if your company tanks or fires them, the market isn't very good.

That's the big one. I moved from a "small town" with a single tech employer to the SF Bay Area to reduce the risk of unemployment. It was not a financially great decision (+50% salary, +300% cost of living) but here, if things go south, I can more easily find another employer. This is not true for most of the country.

I'd gladly move back to small town America--I like backyards and big houses--but not if it means my life is at the whim of one or two local employers.
Can't speak for the parent, but I have similar thoughts with my kids. My reasoning is pretty simple: technology that's already finely packaged and integrated might as well be magic, and it really makes it hard to want to open the hood and tinker with stuff. Personally, I think tinkering with computers had a big impact on me because it revealed that computers are just another kind of machine, subject to tweaking and understanding. I don't think of them as inscrutable monoliths as a result. I'd like my kids to have that same attitude toward technology in general, so the more they can build for themselves, the better.

Regarding why it might be the only hardware, I'm probably not as extreme on that front, but I think I can understand the motivation. With a choice between the slick user experience of a well-integrated touch device or the hacked together experience of roll-your-own Linux on roll-your-own hardware, I'm not sure how many kids would voluntarily choose the harder (but ultimately more rewarding) road. A certain amount of struggle and adversity seems to be important for making knowledge seem worthwhile and for pushing kids to explore. My own kids are most proud of themselves when they do something that's not easy for them, even though they usually complain the whole time they're doing it.
GnuPG (Enigmail) with Riseup
There's an often repeated assertion in some of the less glamorous men's forums online that in online dating, etc. The top 20% of guys in terms of looks and status get 80% of the dates while the dating demand for women of child bearing age is more evenly spread out. This would tend to be indicative of polygamy being a natural tendency, even today, if social norms did not interfere.

Has there been any research on this on okcupid data, etc?
Require little, or no money, avoiding the need for outside investors.

This excludes most ideas that can affect the world.

Is not being worked on by anyone else (i.e. no direct competitors).

Dropbox had about a dozen when they started. Viaweb had none, but quickly had a dozen. Maybe the author means the latter is a good situation to be in?

The first mover has a major advantage. [...] Is a natural monopoly that can be defended.

Without funding, you won't be able to exploit these advantages. But they seem some of the most important to aim for, if possible. E.g. Uber and Ebay.

Solves an interesting and/or important problem that will make your mother proud.

Most parents are shocked by what their children work on which later turn out to be great ideas. There are an even larger list of parents who were right, though.

The author makes some good points. I'm misunderstanding the point of this list, I think. Aiming for all of these seems to exclude two kinds of ideas: those that can affect the world, and those that can get you rich. But aiming for a subset of them depending on your goals seems more promising.
Got it. Very appreciate!

My interview will be a special hire so the team that is supposed to hire me will do the interview.

Anyway, thanks for your advice!
> They create a hugely disproportionate amount of value to the amount that they receive in return.

You can actually immediately see this with the constant busts of universities breaking NCAA rules on player compensation. If these athletes truly did not bring value, then there would be no reason to break these compensation rules to provide value back to them.
Finland has YLE.

It's good to have. But it's a mess really. Their most recent stuff is called YLE kioski. Click bait website combined with TV show discussing click bait stuff. YLE tries to be neutral, but when that fails they are obviously left leaning. All this while bleeding money by running three separate TV channels and buying broadcasting from a monopoly company they created themselves.
> Sorry to be boring but a simple timer seems more sensible.

Not all projects are about being sensible. This is "hacker" News after all.

> And kitty needs water.

Water and food have different needs; an automatic water fountain like http://www.amazon.com/Drinkwell-Platinum-Pet-Fountain-168oz/... keeps a pool of water fresh at all times, without needing to dispense a particular measure of it.
I think in the the post he's responding to "smaller" means "smaller"
Well, there was a time when phones didn't have headphone jacks, but could play music and would often ship with proprietary shitty earphones, and everyone had their standard (same as for chargers). And I'm pretty sure people just used to use mp3 players more rather than buying adapters.

But somehow everything went the standardization way, so why on earth would this (alleged) Apple's move be considered progress, I have no idea.

Also don't really see why 3.5mm jack "needs to be replaced". MicroUSB is worse imo.
Doctors have egos and incentives that could lead to terrible patient outcomes.

For many terminal cases, there are still well optimized/studied systems and procedures to prolong and improve quality of life. Unless a patient doesn't qualify for any of those, the doctor is taking a risk on bad odds, a risk most patients can't fully understand.
I don't think your experience is representative. The wired headphone business is booming.

If am doing high-fidelity listening using good headphones, I'm not playing the audio from my phone anyway; I am at home with my proper audio equipment.

Audio quality over headphones is typically a thing that Apple does really well. Objectively measured, the iPhone's DAC and headphone amp are darn good: http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-6-plus.htm#measureme...

The built-in amp may be lacking in power if you're using hard-to-drive headphones.

Bluetooth [...] high-fidelity

I've read that Bluetooth headphones that support the AAC codec sound great (theoretically this can avoid transcoding if your music is AAC) although they're few and far between.
> cats are smart enough to eat only what they need

Could you tell my immense cat about that?
What was the point of his "holding action"? DOJ not only got what it wanted, but, as a result of Levison's hapless attempt to wriggle out of their request, they got Lavabit's TLS keys as well! Had Levison simply complied up front, he'd have held on to the keys, and been able to fold the site up gracefully, losing only the specific account DOJ targeted.
An Anonymous Satire of Silicon Valley Now Has a Publisher
Well, there's almost nothing more antiquated than banking laws so Uber for banking makes me think of a service that helps me move money around more efficiently with less hassle.

Sounds like a great service.
Not all dogs are fatties. Mine only eats what he needs.
Panic. When cornered people make strange moves. It's easy enough to look at this rationally after the fact but I'm trying to imagine being in the focal point of such a powerplay and I'm not sure I'd make every move by the book.
Git Wars: GitHub vs. Bitbucket
I always wonder when somebody proclaim they have best universities, what does it actually mean? Eg. methodology in this article http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/... Basically it is all about reputation that is very subjective and if you are not good, the name will not help you or research that is nice if you want to do PhD otherwise it is not very useful for you.

I would recommend people in US to study abroad. You might learn a new language and you will receive equally good education and it will be much cheaper for you.
Hi there!

I left a rather critical comment, but I wanted to say that the piece has many good points. I was wondering if you could provide examples of ideas you're trying to aim for.
>Well, if you are criticizing a person, then the rest of the team may not need to hear it.

Perhaps. Everyone cannot hear everything. There is just not enough time to process it all. Each must be able to work on their own pieces. However, I would say that any time things are being said in private, there is the opportunity that candor is being lost to the rest of the team.

I can believe that people can forget that they are talking to a person. I'm just having a hard time imagining what that would be like.

I think I get what you are saying about personalizing things. I want to say that the rule should be, "Don't treat your perceptions as reality, they could be wrong."

You can send me anything you've got.
They make money from personal info but not necessarily in a way that would automatically be considered a violation of privacy.

The best way I can think of it is to compare to cable TV. Insert some other service if you've never had or wanted cable TV. Right now I pay something like $40/mo for cable TV and still have to watch something like 15-18 minutes of advertising per hour of programming.

The "Google version" of cable TV would either be free or cost a nominal $5/mo subscription and their algorithm would automatically use my viewing history to determine which ads might be applicable to me. As a result, I'd only have to watch a single 5 minute ad segment in the middle of every hour-long program. The better odds of a given ad being applicable would make the ad time more valuable so they wouldn't need to run as many to make the same amount of profit. Likewise, people and companies that want to reach potential customers waste less of their advertising and publicity budget on viewers that would never buy their products.

So, gross oversimplification aside, there's "making money from personal info" and there's "using data to make the same money from less advertising than traditional methods". I'm sort of on the fence myself and somewhat playing devil's advocate here but it's something that's often lost in discussions.

My main concerns are that government, law enforcement, or criminals would gain access to data that I only agreed to share with one company's algorithms. My main point is that "making money from personal data" can sound a lot like "selling my personal info to god knows who" which I've never known to be the case regarding Google or any of the info that's collected by Microsoft in newer versions of Windows.

My main conflict is between two things: a reflexive distrust of the motives of business and an acknowledgement that some really cool things (and plenty of mundane but still good things) only work when you have the data to power them. It's definitely a complex issue and not something I'll solve in an overly-long comment while I waste the last 10 minutes before it's time to go home.
Ok. You see, though, how his holding action probably harmed his users, right?
You know those games that big universities play against smaller ones? Those smaller schools get paid to participate -- typically in the millions range. Why else would they willingly walk into a high-probability loss situation?

So sure, it's not billions. But it's not necessarily a losing game for those non-top-tier teams either.
my point basically was that "correct interpretation" is always an oxymoron
The summer classes are usually second-class citizens though: the material is divided up into individual classes assuming the normal-length semesters, so summer classes are always rushed.
Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions
Yes, absolutely. In the end everybody lost.
I heard Bunnie was a master but the FPGA cpu MITM had me sitting down. Fantasy level impressive.
The Exploration and Exploitation of an SD Memory Card [30c3]- Bunnie Huang, Xobs
Symfony 3.0.0 released
I read this as: how successful you are has nothing to do with how innovative you are.

The Apple formula: keep innovations at a minimum, but market all your products as the coolest thing that anyone has ever seen anywhere. With enough of a marketing budget, everyone will believe you.
if you move the split from the bottom to the right side, it fits great... Unless I'm missing something?
George Lucas Has Completely Avoided the Internet for the Last 15 Years
You are miss understanding what he meant. I don't think he meant to explain the reasoning used by the attackers, he is however trying to understand what caused all these people to start killing in the first place. ISIS surely feeds on religion, but the root cause of the problem is not only religion, just as the root cause of the Crusades wasn't.
My comments on this previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601219

TL;DR China's financial system is partially privatized central planning so it follow different patterns than the Western financial system.
What Elm and Haskell are teaching mainstream JS [video]
>What does it mean to remember that you are talking to a person?

Your interpretation is overly literal, IMO. In the context of giving critical feedback, it's easy to focus on the problem, the specific area you want to correct, and reduce the person on the other side to just being the cause of the problem.

For example, you're a team lead and have a developer on your team who routinely writes buggy code and shipped a broken feature last release, which caused a kerfuffle with a major client.

When you meet with them to discuss what happened, in your mind, you're not talking to "a person". You're talking to the developer who caused this big problem you have to deal with. In your mind, you are handling a problem, not talking to a person.

It's easy to forget that the developer is a person with a lifetime of experiences different from yours, a different perspective, different strengths and weaknesses, different insecurities, different stuff going on in their personal life. You need to remember they are "a person" and as such, entitled to a modicum of dignity and respect.

So, sure, address the problem with radical candor, but remember this problem does not define the entirety of the person. In other words, treat them how you would want to be treated, because I assure you, their life is just as important to them as yours is to you.

At least, that's my interpretation.

And if your response is still, "Duh, that's obvious," then maybe you're just better at giving critical feedback than most people. I haven't been on the receiving end myself, but I have often seen managers give feedback that is belittling and reduces the entire worth of a person to a single mistake.
being in the auto parts industry this type of article strikes home. it is amazing the lengths manufacturers will go to prevent you from repairing stuff you own.

I am still waiting for the day the only way to obtain an iphone or similar will be lease. As in, you never buy it, you only lease it.
People optimize for what you measure. If you want numbers they will pump out numbers, if you want citations they will set up citation rings etc.

The real solution is to realize research is best ignored. Don’t count it for anything in any way. And they people who stick with it will likely focus on actual important things.
Where are the sources for any of the claimed figures in the article?

It doesn't have one single link to any of the claimed figures and a quick Google shows the claimed figures to be at least an order of magnitude out.
>Perl

>fun

Pick one and choose wisely.
> By all appearances, a significant chunk of the US law enforcement apparatus has simply gone rogue, stopped respecting Congress and the courts and is instead focused on increasing its own power.

I truly don't understand why nothing is done about that. Why doesn't anyone lose their job over this, let alone go to jail? I mean, I've gotten used to such indifference in Russia, but US seemed like the country that shouldn't tolerate shit like this.
I agree.

A wise man once noted - it is not only easy to criticize - it is fun too! But blunt criticism is not radical - I would assert it is the default; both easy and fun.

What makes the candor radical is that it is rooted in care for the person.
What's the risk for terminal cases? Dying sooner? I'm honestly asking, not trying to be snark.
Great, so now all HTTP/2 traffic forever is going to start with a reference to an NSA program that was topical for about a week in 2013.

Maybe we could have waited a year and made the magic

THE * HTTP/2.0

DRESS

Or if this change had been made a year earlier:

KO * HTTP/2.0

NY
Injecting Life into Artificial Body Parts (2014)
Github needs a ignore user list for project where the issues and pull requests from a use just get ignored. So those mean people don't know they are being ignored but are ignored.
Bluetooth headphones, or wireless charging would both solve this issue
With Shipwreck Treasure Easier to Reach, a Duel Is On
ShareAmerica
You were almost there, but your last sentence is ridiculous. The median household income for families with children in NYC was $50,800 in 2014. Even for Manhattan alone that figure is $99,000.

It is certainly "doable" to raise a family on $125,000 a year or less in NYC as evidenced by the fact that millions of people are doing so.
From the article:

> Apple’s relative thriftiness extends to its vaunted advertising and marketing operations. The company spent $3.5 billion on advertising and marketing over the past four quarters, while Google spent about $8.8 billion in the past three.
kibble is bad. Cats get water from food and kibble doesn't have any water.
I'm not sure why the down-votes but what I mean is that nowadays, with tag readers everywhere, I think we give up too much privacy by having a tag on the exterior of the vehicle. Steve Jobs never had a tag on his car as far as I know but this was in CA and he had to switch car every 6 months... I don't know if this is legal in any other states.
Agreed on the research front: here in the UK research grants are so competitive that unless you have some university money to start your project before even asking for external funding, you're not likely to win the grant.

And from the accounts of my colleages, teaching loads are on the rise here though I don't know about the US.

On the admin front, I did hear about an anonymous university having a large and long meeting discussing the colour of their logo last year.