skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can recognize the part about getting lost in reading, but it's mostly under control. And it happens to me when I read stuff I kind of don't give a shit about. It's like I get lost scanning for something to care about, and it can absolutely take forever before I notice that I'm off the rails. Luckily, I mostly get by reading interesting stuff I can hyperfocus on, thanks to my job.

I do have another, comparable problem with getting lost in text. Only it's with writing. I'm should be non-dyslexic because I generally don't recognize any of the symptoms. But I have diagnosis for the uh, lovely mix of ADHD/Aspergers.

I'm in my late twenties, so through my years in school we mostly wrote on paper. I never had any problems with writing - other than getting started with assignments in my own time, which is another story entirely.

It's when I'm typing work stuff in any kind of editor that it gets... interesting.

I have a job in what you'd call content marketing and I'm lucky in that I get to write about a lot of things I care about. I write in English, which is is a second language to me, covering IT, infosec, culture, movies, politics, history... I should be super happy!

But the more interesting something I'm trying to write about is, the more I fail at spelling and grammar. I change the structures of sentences mid way and get lost even more in thoughts that force me to write long rants that I painfully edit down, if it's paid work. This is especially evident when I'm trying to process material from several sources.

I sometimes let my ranting run free in that I allow myself to be something of a village idiot by dropping in to interesting discussions on FB and other forums. I assume no-one reads that crap, but I really like writing it.

It's absolutely more easy for me to write mundane copy on any random things than being focused and concise on the stuff I'm really passionate about.

Combined with my problems getting started, writing can really be a time consuming burden sometimes, which means I sit and stare at a screen too damn much. It's a shame because I really love writing.
Also in this series:

"So, You're Going to Prison"

"My First Root Canal"

"Identifying Divorce: Accurate Results With Simple Tools"
If there aren't enough chairs for you, and you think you can provide value, then go into business for yourself. You don't have to rely on a pre-existing employer to give you work.
I think an important part of agile development is pair programming. This way, information is shared with the team. Having two sets of eyes on your code can really increase software quality and shared knowledge.
Or they can just walk down the street and get a job anywhere else with similar compensation with less contortion.

The people who will go through this either a) really want to work at your particular company (in which case, great, but unlikely), or b) are desperate for a job because they've been turned down several times.
I'm a Mondo user. Things I like about it:

- no login bullshit (no pinsentry, or being timed out after 5 minutes or whatever)

- instant card freeze/unfreeze from the app. I don't have to talk to anyone to do it

- push notifications for every purchase (including full text entries for where the transaction was, and a cute little topical emoji)

- no hassling with PDFs of my transaction history, there's a god-damned API (and for the average consumer, there's the potential to have a constellation of 3rd party apps to deal with anything on the API). There's also in-app transaction breakdowns (for instance, I can see how much I spend in a particular category, or at a particular place). SHOW ME ANOTHER BANK WITH AN API

- I always know how much money I have in the account; there's not "available balance/actual balance" bullshit.

Honestly the main thing is that's really easy to use. I'm generally terrible at keeping track of how much money I have (usually because I avoid cash machines (I don't know who's still using cash in London, pretty much everything is contactless) and logging into online banking is a hassle). With Mondo, I can find my balance in one tap.

And yeah, they've earned my loyalty and I invested in them yesterday. Sign up for a card, use it, then criticise it.
I suggest understanding Geller Mann amnesia effect. It's very true of Internet comments, especially about tech companies.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

― Michael Crichton
"Apparently, Google has not merged the various drivers that optimize Qualcomm's QCE module for encryption and decryption into AOSP. The generally-assumed reason is that this code is proprietary. Without these optimizations, the Nexus 6's hardware decryption module on the Snapdragon 805 is essentially hamstrung."

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/20/anandtech-posts-side...

I believe the 5.1 update fixed the QCE issue.
I got stuck on their annoying typeform. I was on my mobile and agree wasn't clicking properly it kept going back. Then I was too late. So.. it could be worse!
This person used someone else's electronic credentials to perform a task without asking for permission. [...] This would/should get you fired at many places.

You mean that thing that happens all the time at every office?

I have a post-it note on which my boss wrote his password for me, specifically because he was sick of my asking whenever I needed to be granted access to new things. I can't think of a single job I've that involved computers where I wasn't given access to user accounts that were not mine for reasons of expediency in the face of inflexable permissions systems.
I love the first graph on Jeff's article. It shows how versatile the "best"-word can be in such a context:
- If you have the best programmers in the world but they failed to help you identify when/where to pivot, you fail.
- If you have the best programmers in the world but let them run too fast and burn, you fail.
- If you have the best programmers in the world but let their ego/drive ignore customer feedback, you fail.
- ...

There is no definition for "the best" beside a "well balanced human being"...

I have been researching this exact space for the past few months (www.developersjourney.info) and am now more and more convinced that once you reach a technical-threshold, in order to close onto "better-developers", you need to hunt for the 3-C-values: create, care and criticize. A balanced team should be a patchwork of cultures, backgrounds, desires and skills. But I think the drive toward those 3-Cs isn't optional...

Plug: This is very much an ongoing thoughts-process for me. If you have further input for my DevJourney Project and/or want to appear on my podcast on this subject, please contact me!
UN high commissioner on human rights supports Apple in San Bernardino case
> I felt stupid for not planning that I would have to give up my devices, which were my primary devices and hadn't been backed up in a while. I had a lot of personal things there that I never got back.

Don't rely on your employer's devices as your personal primary devices. Things like this may happen, or they might want to claim ownership of everything done on those devices. Hell they could even be tracking what you're doing on them.

Same goes the other way, your devices are yours, if you need a computer/phone/tablet for your job, your work should provide one. I see too many people happy to use their own devices at work so they don't have to ask for things.
The literature I've read says hormones are "involved in the creation of the brain".

"Steroid hormones are a dominant and pervasive source of sex differences by mediating developmental processes that are enduring and establish adult physiological and behavioural responses relevant to the reproductive constraints of each sex."

From Multifaceted origins of sex differences in the brain, 1 February 2016, an open access article.

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1688/2015...
> Most people do not have the opportunity to make themselves valuable.

I disagree. You can make yourself valuable in many ways, not tied to any job you're prospecting to win.

Making yourself a valuable person to society is where everyone unemployed should be. That's how you win the respect of people who work. That's what it's about. Now how one does that could be in many forms. And it's not necessarily something that needs to take up more than a couple hours a day even. in fact you find that people who work not only put in their 8 hours, they follow that up with volunteering, speaking at engagements, mentoring, helping others at church, all kinds of things.
>Talk to people, dig into their background and preferred working style a little. If they appear to be competent, then just hire them.

If I am very good at this assessment, then this may work. However, if I trust my skills to assess someone accurately, I am unlikely to have a complicated hiring process.

If I am a company owner (or manager!) who is not good at assessing people this way, then wouldn't substituting my process with this proposal make me spend a lot of money twice?

1) Paying salary to more people than open positions (Because I don't spend money on a hiring process and rely on my assessment skills, I may end up with many not-so-best-fits)

2) Severance package to let them go
One of the things I absolutely love about Go is that the standard library is so readable and accessible. It's been a great resource for learning by example, especially for some fairly complex design patterns.
Also we've been working (stopping and starting) on this problem since 2009. Here's the Hacker News post for the original implementation, In-a-Moon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586798

There was a lot of learning that went on during that time. The biggest difference in implementation though was that In-a-Moon required sites to install JavaScript snippets, and we tracked at the site level. For Atri, we're bypassing sites and going straight to individuals by looking for Twitter handles.
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Agreed on this one. Every time a company buys up another company just to make money from patents, they are destroying others opportunities for creating wealth and all the people who would team up and work with and for them.
Ally Bank?
When I've seen people advocate Fizzbuzz, it's always in a context of how 90% of their candidates can't even do it. It's intended as a quick screener that immediately eliminates a ton of obviously bad candidates.

You're clearly getting a better caliber of candidate than those people are. That's great! And clearly, if that's the case, you should adjust accordingly. I think the lesson there is to tailor your process to the people you get.
I agree; it's absolutely a shame that people need to be explicitly told that harassment can take the form of compliments, and that saying something nice about somebody does not give you a free pass about the content of your statement.

I'm not sure this is something we're developing, though; I'm pretty sure society has been this way for a while. If anything, it's good that it's being explicitly spelled out, because hopefully that means the improper behaviours will start to extinguish.
That's not true. I've been working hard on my side projects after work time and I don't have much sleep unfortunatley. I feel exausted all the time and not exactly hungry, plus to be honest I lost appetite. I'm quite skinny, lean muscle, etc.
This might explain the string of interviews I've taken place in where it's typically down to one person that shuts everything down because they want to play stump the chump. You know, instead of looking for qualities in candidates that would bring value to the company.
I still believe that hard work is necessary for a civilized world to continue. When the Pilgrims first landed they needed everyone to pitch in so they said if you don't work you don't get food. We have advanced to a point where we still need that incentive, but allow people to be more creative in how they add value to society. My gripe is that people shouldn't be forced into menial tasks because they didn't have the opportunity to "make themselves valuable" earlier in life.

There still needs to be some sort of incentive to actually do work. I'm sure most of these people in the article would rather be writing novels or creating art or something better than flipping burgers or the like.
I think I'm miscommunicating here. I'm not saying that people should be defined by anything in particular, just that this idea of a work ethic tied to being evidence of being a good person blessed by God is a traditional cultural concept which started in Europe and took root in America and then many other places in the world as well.

What you're talking about is an effort by people to be more inclusive by communicating things about themselves that they want others to be aware of. I can understand how this can be awkward and annoying, but it also has positive effects of bringing out these kinds of unstated assumptions like the idea of a work ethic.

If you look at history, groups tended to be more cohesive and share cultural values. This made it easy for most people to relate to each other because they could rely on certain unstated agreements. Now that we have more of an interconnected world, it's important to figure out how we can live together despite different understandings and identities. Not everyone is on board with this kind of diversity, but it's hard to see how we can move forward without finding some way to connect to people who aren't like us, and so far one of the solutions put forward is to over-communicate.
Yes, but that is just the default behavior, does this not work?

NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler({exception in
print("\(exception)")
exit(1)
});
When they say top 1% they generally mean the top 1% of applications. A very large portion of the applications you get for an opening are sent by those who need to send out hundreds of applications to get a job.
Sure, but there is a reason mothers get it and fathers don't. My post was in reply to the assumption that everybody wants to work instead of staying at home with the kids.

I know just by staying at home you are not free of all worries. But for the time being, your responsibility is not worrying about earning a livelihood.
After using encrypted Android devices since 4.0 or so, I find your post a bit misleading. Yes, you do lose performance in benchmarks, but the devices themselves (about 15 or so I've dealt with, mostly branded with Nexus and Samsung brands) did not severely degrade as you're trying to say. They were a bit slower, but not in a way a passerby would notice without actually putting two together.
are you meaning to imply that the author of the Quora post did not understand the reasons behind his/her own termination?

I hope you realize that the Quora post linked here is NOT the second hand account of a journalist, but was instead a primary source from an involved party.

I don't think the Geller-Mann effect applies to this kind of situation and I find it more than a little strange that you're suggesting it would.
Shameless plugs are great, but are you saying you take active effort to keep undesirable people from using your service? Because I'm not sure (at least on this forum) why you'd want to say that you do, and you're not differentiating yourself for the purposes of this article if you're not. :)
You can add noise, which means they will have to collect more data and filter it in order to perform the attack. That cans make the attack harder, but not impossible.
There really needs to be a way to get honorary degrees of some sort where you've put in the work. College degrees are something focused to complete, which shows initiative, but in terms of classes and skills they are so unfocused i'd rather see somebody so focused within a niche with no degree because they knew college would hurt their ambition.
"We hire only the best"

"What do you pay?"

"Market Rate."
Yeh, I was just about to post this. No one is buying these devices for security, or so they can keep files that would need to be encrypted.
It's never a good sign for your argument when you have to resort to ad hominem attacks.... No real point I trying to respond if that's your track but remember this is just a discussion on a website, no need to start throwing around personal accusations, for which you have no evidence.

Might I suggest you take a break from the keyboard, perhaps go for a nice walk in the fresh air:)
"Friendly" is not the word I would use. Powerful, sure. But IDEA breaks quite a few universal GUI concepts and that takes a bit to get used to.

For example, Ctrl-w is a very important keybinding on IDEA, one that I use all the time (it expands the selection to the enclosing expression). It's literally wired in my brain now. To the point that I now use it in Eclipse as well and I even started using it in other places (Sublime, etc...) and... closing the window as a result. Very annoying.

Another one is that Ctrl-n sometimes creates a new file (expected) and sometimes... something completely different depending on your current window. Again, not friendly. Optimized for development and a life saver on the long run, for sure, but it's fairly user hostile.
Looks interesting and nicely done from the screenshots, but there's massive friction to take a real look. There should be a link to a live demo, front and center.
My favorite is when you see companies droning on about how they only hire "the best" and their advertised salary ranges are at or below market.
Whereever the user wants it to. You're essentially saying the users of those tablets shouldn't be able to protect them just because you can't see a usecase beyond "only children are using it".
Thanks for your personal anecdote. Unfortunately, it is fallacious to try and generalize it to the entire population.
Medium lets you login with facebook, paste in a word doc, and you've published in <10 minutes. Its extremely simple. Wordpress, while simple compared to many other cms options, is not simple compared to medium.
Too few compared to what?

- To the _number of people who want/demand a job_ because the system they've grown into told them that they had to study to get a good job to have a good life(and that they will get a job if they get a good degree)?

- To the need for more jobs for the economy to work?

- To a wild guess disguised as a "this is how the economy should work" by people who got a degree or an office so now what they say is supposed to be right?

- To something else?

There's a difference between having a right to work (that is, not being prevented from working re: discrimination) and demanding a work (notwithstanding with: is there something one could do?).

If it's a game of chairs, unless you abide "the state/system", there's no one but you to get a chair or build a new one for you. Or for you and some others. Or someone else to step in and build a chair for you. But that's not a given.

Don't rely on the state.
The authors definition and "my" definition and everyone's definition are the same because it's a commonly understood economics term.

He's not talking about air-dropping people into the Amazon he's talking about workers productivity here in this economy and their wages in this economy, thus comparing apples to apples. And he's talking about the wages of an entire generation, not applying it down to some individual level.

This shouldn't be confusing, these concepts are commonly understood by many, and are called macroeconomics. The only thing at issue here is your mischaracterization of this as somehow being opposed to "basic economics," with which further inquiry has revealed you clearly are unfamiliar.
Date: 1998

Title: The Amateur Computerist, Winter/Spring 1998
So, no mods anywhere? You could make the same argument that deleting spam is censorship.
Why does that make you think it's not looking at user's private information?

He's running a test, and he wants to make sure his new function retrieves data properly. He can search for his own name, but out of idle curiosity and boredom (he's seen his own data a million times, he wants something visually distinct on his screen), he searches for the name of a friend of his that he hung out with last week. It's only a few different keystrokes to type the alternate name, but now he's accessing private information and gets canned.
Actually you are , AFAIK, incorrect there. Microsoft's consent decree from their antitrust trial expired in 2011/2012.
Huh? That chart in figure 3 tells it all; on the assumption that an employer in the 80s valued a college degree as much as a company in the 2010s, then as more people attain a college degree, it's value (i.e wages) won't move up. In fact you'd expect it to go down but that increase in "productivity" probably offset the downward pressure.

If you asked me, the problem facing workers in their 20s and 30s is that people are having longer careers, either by choice or by necessity. This is coupled with a job market which has never really recovered from the mid 2000s peaks. Until the Baby Boomer generation really begins to retire, the job market will remain tricky to navigate. Compound it all with an ever increasing cost of living (basically, the cost of housing) in pretty much every market and you get the bleak landscape we have now.
That's really hard to believe that there is not a national program for this. I wonder why nobody seems to care.
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Is this serious? Obviously, it's to make it easier to read. Reading a wall of code that's not syntax colored in a textbook is mind numbing.
Nope. These exceptions aren't actually uncaught, they're caught by an exception handler in the event loop. NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler only catches exceptions thrown when there's no handler in place at all, all the way up to the top of the current thread's stack. In practice, this means it really only works for exceptions thrown on secondary threads.

Even if you could modify the behavior, having the default work this way would still be terrible.
At this moment, it appears that the politics of the situation are shifting away from the FBI seeing a victory. Apple, Google, and other tech companies (AT&T excluded) are strongly opposed to the DOJ's interpretation of All Writs. Based on last week's hearings, Congress is either opposed or lukewarm (at best) to broadly interpreting it. And last week saw Ornstein's ruling come down pretty strongly against the government.

There may be new laws that eventually come out as a result of this, but for now I think smart money would be on betting against the FBI coming out on top in their current attempts to force Apple to unlock the San Bernadino murderer's iPhone 5.

It's a pleasant surprise to note that on this matter the system seems to be working.