skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, definitely-its a massive part of why I left. But high five/low six figure salaries are more than adequate to live as a single person in a decent apartment in most parts of Santa Clara County. No need to commute in from Tracy or Merced (unless you assume firefighters are all rural Good Ole Boys at heart who must, must have their own house).
A start up does not have to tell it's trade secrets. Patents are only useful for startups to acquire VC funding.
I always laugh at that because to me "jimmie" means condom. Or penis.
http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=134 is wild.
only time I've ever heard somebody use meritocracy they usually use it to justify why things worked out for them.
Who needs a family anyway, amirite?
I met a guy from Philly who over used "the jawn" so much we started calling him John. He was also often caught uttering phrases like "I'm from Philly yo"
I never had a Video Toaster, but started using an Amiga fully expecting to continue learning the computer programming I had begun on an Apple II, and ended up doing 3D animation and video production for a few years instead before finding my way back to software development.

There was something almost magical about the Amiga... the hardware, the software, the community... I don't think I've ever had such sheer fun with computers as I did then, and I'm not sure if anything will ever be quite like it again.
Amazing. Terrifying.
Looks like that one also has start/stop controls (yellow square buttons top, left of centre)...
>Btw, know any animal who developed cannibalism?

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/animal-cannibalism/

Do cats bring home prey as gifts? Yes. However, kitty cams have shown they also often kill and leave their prey.
man, that was messed up!
A symptom of the lack of focus -- or giving up -- on the idea that people should have a reason to keep profiles up to date: acquiring Lynda.

The shift to content was already underway with Pulse et al., but purchasing Lynda indicated that LinkedIn needed to deduce interests and skills from viewing content, rather than get first-hand information from profiles.

In terms of resumes being more complete than LinkedIn, resumes let you do one thing you can't do with a public profile: scope your experience -- which is necessarily simplified to be on one page -- according to the role you're applying for.
I'm seeing someone's checking account. Maybe even a banking system. Not logging into that!
I cannot seem to connect to any of them? Are they all still supposed to be open on port 5900?
Sad and fascinating. Couldn't stop clicking. Way to go San Jose State, getting in there three times is an achievement.
Because you are describing the informational construct known as discovery, which can - and is - provided through many methods in every field, including gaming, and does not require advertising whatsoever.

Minecraft is basically a cultural icon now, despite having no effective advertising throughout its growth years. It was only after it was already gargantuan that Minecraft Pocket Edition started seeing adverts, primarily because the parent company ran out of ideas of what to do with their money, which is often the motivator for a lot of advertising budgets.

Specific to the games industry, discovery is a problem if consumers both A. have no peer group involved in gaming to get recommendations from and B. have no sources of discovery media (ie, rankings, reviews, etc) to find games themselves. Which I'd definitely say is true - the two largest game stores in the world, Google Play and Steam, have incredibly bad discovery mechanisms built in, and the former's entire market is mostly an appeal to getting on top of said discovery mechanism through psychological manipulation in skinner boxes.
RIP headphone users on slide 29.
Log time Arch user and I never knew this. I'm waiting for my new x1 carbon to come in the mail and was excited to give Arch w OpenRC a shot. But after reading this thread I might need to finally give Gentoo a go.
Oh man, I'm creating slides to teach intro stats to some fellow grad students, this is quite timely. Not quite dead salmon level, but maybe more concerning given the context. Check your assumptions!
That is a problem. When I first joined Linkedin, one of the first questions I asked openly was about the difference between "pass by value" vs. "pass by reference". There were some good people in those forums.

Over time, I'd get all these tech recruiters whom I've never worked with in any context yet wanted me to be networked with them. A few I said yes to though I never felt very good about it.

As Linkedin requests by Linkedin and email got more obnoxious, I became less and less inclined to have any honest technical discussions that would expose my ignorance to a more and more recruiter-centric audience. I felt better posing those kinds of questions on StackOverflow or even Reddit than I would on Linkedin.

Eventually, I did delete my Linkedin account completely. It's funny. Even unemployed, I don't miss it at all.
A friend of mine did the opposite - living in SF and firefighting somewhere near Sacramento. He bunked at the station during his shift, and would come back to SF for his days off. I've also known people who have a similar arrangement at the Forest Service (living in nearby cities during their days off).
Be careful using weed to mask depression. It does work, in my experience. But tolerance can develop over time. It's nowhere near as dramatic as addiction to tobacco or heroin or benzodiazepines. Yet there is the risk.

Also, dogma and accepted practice notwithstanding, "depression" is a morass of symptoms, not a well-defined disease/condition. Testing treatments is hard, because symptoms subjective and placebo effects are huge. And worse, GPs tend to cluelessly prescribe popular SSRIs/SNRIs, and those can make bipolar folks seriously crazy. As in psychotic. homicidal and/or suicidal. Especially younger patients, apparently. So be careful!
flux + deepFreeze your state just to be safe

you also have Haskell for immutability by default and with no other option :)
I don't see any of the screens moving. Maybe they are all idle sessions, however I did not expect that many of them.
HK GDP/capita also grew 1320% between 1960 and 1980 when China trade wasn't really rocking. N Korea also borders and trades mostly with China and it didn't do them much good. Though if you want a counter example Singapore has had more state involvement in the economy and has done even better than HK.

One interesting area where HK has been very non laissez faire is in land ownership. Much of the prime real estate belongs to the government and they can raise money by reclaiming some land and selling it off or renting it out. Also works for Monaco where there is no tax but government controls the real estate. You could argue you could use the same model in the Bay Area to an extent - the government grabs some land, licences fancy blocks for tech workers, auctions off the land with planning permission to builders with the money going to the tax pool. Lower taxes and less accom shortage - win win overall apart from some neighbours complaining about their views.
Zoloft.

I had a very strong opinion about psychiatric drugs: I hated the idea of them.

But when you are desperate, you'll try anything. And I was desperate.

SO I made a bargain with myself: drugs for a maximum one year. No matter what happened, I'd only try the drugs for one year.

After one year I didn't need them any longer. I was able to understand when I was entering a depressed state and adjust. Knowing what "good" felt like helped me understand what
bad" felt like.

That's the bit that causes the growth and why you need to combine talk therapy with drug therapy.

I got lucky and found the right combo for me; someone else might have to try a few combinations to find what works for them.
It was not clear whether it was free as in beer or speech. I do understand there are benefits to using open software.

Too often I see engineers bias heavily toward inexpensive, free/cheap, or home-built solutions simply because they personally don't think things should cost money, when the understated anchoring costs of building and maintaining, plus the opportunity cost of valuable people time, might shift the toward other alternatives if a wider business context is taken into consideration.
>If you believe it doesn't, then you should probably tell that to the trillion dollar industry.

The advertising industry is profitable because it's an arms race. Companies have to advertise because their competitors already are doing.

If all industries agreed to limit their ad spending, those trillions could become mere billions overnight, and the marginal revenue decreases would be more than offset by the decreased spending. But such coordination is impossible in a competitive economy, because any defector will reap huge rewards.
What are the commission costs? I always thought switching from cash to btc cost money regardless.
How terribly ironic.
Your thinking is broken because you have a mental illness. You say you've been through this before so that means you can get out of it again.

I've been through similar episodes of planning for isolation and suicide. You need to get help. I mean you can always kill yourself later, right? Might as well try to get help first.

There are many, many options and the technology is getting better.

I almost jumped off a bridge a month ago. Over what? Not marking some fucking assignments for my students? Not being a billionaire? Turning 40?

You may hate yourself right now, but there are people who love you and who would be devastated by your death.

Get help! Try again! Keep trying. You've been through this before, so you can get out of it again.
That BASIC looks way ahead of it's time. Thanks so much for sharing.
Sure, But you still have to send your data through their API
> You are talking about a profession... there are serious personal safety risks.

This is sort of a myth. Firefighting is far less risky than many jobs out there, for instance it is four times less deadly than being a garbage collector [1].

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/
Wtf one is a control panel for a major South Korean nuclear powerplant!? How is this site getting these snapshots?
There is certainly an argument for the consequences of a breakneck economy of high monetary velocity. It pressures everyone into being paycheck to paycheck, which increases stress and depression. The hyper-utilization of the monetary base can also destabilize the economic system very easily when that velocity shifts even slightly - part of the 2008 downturn might be attributed to such a mechanism, as would the dramatic rebound of the stock market in the interim. Basically, total utilization can drive significant growth, but it also means any downturn can be that much more catastrophic. More relaxed economies in Europe were impacted much less severely than the US.
It's fascinating.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11331602

It looks good, will have to wait and see what actually makes it into 9.6 and how well it supports all the possible queries. This is something that many commercial databases have solved so Postgres is pretty behind in vertical scaling.
Some of these seem old. I saw one that looked like some kind of industrial status dashboard but the date/time displayed on it was from 2015.
Thank you for all the responses. I took a large life insurance policy a few weeks ago, but I'll look for a therapist on Monday. There's a hundred in Boulder, I feel paralyzed, I don't have time to figure them out. The few friends I have don't hear me. I do exercise and team sport, I eat decently well, those are not the causes.
Hah, a SQL error. SQL injection vulnerable?
Who is paying for this???
You seem surprised that marketing drives culture
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caradoc
i still use the last presto version for reading big chunks of text
These are screenshots I think, not live feed.
http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=193

I'm glad this screen is sanitized regularly.
http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=1%27

Poster above noted an implied SQL injection vulnerability in your site. Somewhat ironic, eh?
Recruiters are advertisers! Recruiters pay LinkedIn to show messages to users.
Lightweight versatile JavaScript cache
tl;dr: Censorship of "being offended" is as bad as that of a tyrannical government.
> programmed

This is the key I think. Robot people will have buffer overflows, memory corruption and silently ignored errors. You will need some continuous integration style routine to check for erroneous behaviors. Something that would do Check Operations to Preserve Specifications, or COPS for short.
In the absence of advertising very few people are educated enough to more productively use their wealth. Principally, you must also consider that almost no dollars today are hoarded - even if you place them in the "slowest" place you can, your bank, that is still a fractional reserve bank that will loan all that out to drive economics in the same way buying goods would. Very, very few people who are saving are going to just hide cash under their bed if psychologically manipulative advertising was coercing them into buying things they did not want or need. And besides that, most of any money held in reserve would go into investments, which can drive much more social utility than buying unecessary crap.

But in reality that does not actually matter either. Like I said, there is very little fiscal responsibility in people - at least in the US - predominantly a product of culture. The money people would have spent on random useless object advertised on TV 1 would instead be spent on personal want 2. The practical effect of advertising is that it is simply redirecting dollars that would have gone to those with smaller advertising budgets to those with larger budgets. The trillion dollar industry exists as an arms race where increasing product quality or diversifying is less effective - because people are already broke, and net wealth is declining, you cannot compete honestly as effectively in product anymore. If you try that, you simply lose to the guy who had more advertising out there using psychological techniques to manipulate people into buying the inferior product over yours, and that is where the wishing comes in, people wish people were more rational, but we are not, and constant bombardment of advertising only wastes money to let the fattest cats maintain sales margins.
> At least until you want asynchronous actions (and you will) in which case it seems to shrug and encourage using addons with side effects.

Imho there's nothing special with async actions and you don't necessarily need an addon, they're just actions arriving to the reducer later, and it can't see the difference. Your data fetching is no more async than a user clicking on a button.
> Whenever I am thinking of applying to a job at some company, I can spend 30 seconds looking on LinkedIn to see if I already know someone inside...

This.

I also think that LinkedIn is good for references. When I get an application for an open job and want to get further background, I use two tools: LinkedIn and Google.

And when I hear about an interesting company that I may want to work for, I use two tools: LinkedIn and Google.
A little disappointing to see the links to his favourite paper going to paywalls. Here are arxiv/free links:

39 page JFP version:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.3539v1.pdf

12 pager from ICFP:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.4446.pdf

8 page CACM highlight:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dvanhorn/pubs/vanhorn-might-cacm...
I'd like to think I'm safe, since I'm sleeping with the CEO - my wife, but since I'm the only other employee I guess I'm the first to go.

But my last job...

All of my product code, even stuff I'd inherited, had been stabilized, documented, and had decent test coverage. Strike one.

I was given a manager title but had no direct reports. Strike two.

I was moved to an architect role on a struggling cross-product effort. Strike three.
A powerful and free referral marketing tool for startups
At the end of the day, if there are a certain number of jobs in an area, and fewer housing units, then something has to give. What you pay people doesn't even matter. You're just playing musical chairs, and if you pay one group enough to live nearby, you've automatically priced some other group out of the market.

The obvious solution for the firefighters is to pay them well enough to live in the community they protect. Maybe that's a very high salary, but it only seems reasonable that a community that's very expensive to live in will have very expensive firefighters.

But this just pushes the problem elsewhere, since some other set of local workers will now have to live far away. The only real solution is to either build more housing or shed some local jobs.
What unfortunate timing for this poor guy who is now forever captured having dissapointed his client: http://vncroulette.com/images/14.97.72.37.jpg
In parts of the west of england you can replace pretty much any word with "badger" and get away with it.
I'm not sure of the exact logic it uses, but it appears to me that when React finds a new component in place of an old one of the same class, it just changes the props on the old component (and calls componentWillReceiveProps) which bypasses some of the lifecycle calls.

Also, I believe Chrome and Firefox (and hopefully other) garbage collectors use a generational algorithm which makes it very cheap to throw away short-lived objects.

Of course it's more efficient just to mutate state, but these factors and other optimizations should mitigate the added cost and I think for most applications, the wasted cycles are not going to be much concern.
For wine issue, see https://github.com/red/red/issues/1618 . Short Summary: You need the Consolas font installed.

Compilation takes a long time currently. It is normal. Fast Compilation Times are an objective for 0.6.5 release.

For FFI, see http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs.html#section-15....

As for `Is there way to run a GUI script without the shell popping up?` , IDK. So better ask it at the gitter chat room.
Maybe I've been around Silicon Valley too long (born here), but the key paragraph of the whole story really is this --

Mr. Grove acknowledged that it was cheaper and thus more profitable for companies to hire workers and build factories in Asia than in the United States. But in his view, those lower Asian costs masked the high price of offshoring as measured by lost jobs and lost expertise. Silicon Valley misjudged the severity of those losses, he wrote, because of a “misplaced faith in the power of start-ups to create U.S. jobs.”

MBAs and money people look at immediate costs, managers look at engineering costs, lost in the off-shoring debacle is...you actually aren't saving money in the long term.

There are specific exceptions in the case of leveraging specific expertise -- for me, looking for a WinMo optimized two way DH key handshake in assembler, send the code and email Dec 23, receive the results Dec 25, was great. But most outsourcing isn't targeting specifics, it's the generalities and that is a big issue. Costs are masked.
Oh God, haha. I also have that reflex of putting 's everywhere in URLs. I've found lots of surprises, but not many, to be honest. Not even 0.1% of times I've tried.
See a professional as soon as possible. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you can't hide it from your mom, then don't. Your life and health are too important. And anyway, seeking help doesn't mean you stop being a source of support for others -- if anything, it'll make you better support for them.
http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=7

The horn button on this one is tempting. Not "go commit a felony" tempting, but still.

http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=17

That one looks to have some root term open.
This is beautiful.

Another nice explanation in a similar vein: http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...
Congrats to the Norwegian people for making better use of their oil money. I read this article about how an Iraqi engineer named Farouk al Kasim helped them get their priorities straight [1] :

> After growing up watching the benefits of Iraqi oil elude the Iraqi people, a young executive insisted that Norway do things differently.

For initial expansion of industry, I always felt that command and control economy works to an extend. Even the early soviet union was an example of rapid modernisation of an agrarian country to an industrialised one [2]. There are also examples of South Korea and how its government helped make them one of the best in the ship building [3].

To kickstart an industry government involvement is good to keep the pace and for the introduction of interlinked systems necessary for production where none had existed earlier, but there is no question the human cost soviet people had to pay and there is no justification to it. To keep people and companies from becoming complacent, the accountability and the skin-in-the—game feeling that capitalism brings is equally good. Little bit of both is what is good for developing economies and developing industrial sectors but we are still learning on where to draw the line on how much is too much but there is a lot to be learned yet.

[1] : http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/iraqi-vikings-far...

[2] : http://www.voxeu.org/article/stalin-and-soviet-industrialisa...

[3] : http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/72...
This is really bad software design. Unreal. The person who put it on those SCADA machines are long gone. Now what?
So... what does this mean? I mean, if there are so many hydropower plans et al vulnerable for VNC, how come we didn't have some major catastrophe? Is it simply more common to have a "read only" VNC vulnerability? (which is still a huge problem). Is VNC by default not password protected for read only viewing (and requires password for taking control?)
Obviously nothing should be password-less by default, and should not have a "changeit" password (I'm looking at you glassfish) but I really hope that even if VNC lets you be in "guest view only mode" without a password by just knowing an IP (who does that?!) then at least I hope they still require a password to also take control, right? please tell me they do. (otherwise I'll be surprised we are all still alive to be honest)

I mean there are some controls there that I'm sure if the wrong person pushes that red button, something will go kaboom.

And there is no shortage of people out there who would not think twice to blow things up.

So yes, this is scary, but also makes me be very surprised that statistically we are probably not supposed to be alive by now if so many critical control systems have VNC exposed like that in a way that allows full control on the system and not just viewing.

Perhaps it's just selection bias, if the world have ended by now then I would be able to type this.

But still seriously, with all these screenshots, I assume this is not something new, so how come I didn't hear yet on a major real world damage due to a VNC vulnerability?

Is this really most likely to be a read only privacy issue? (which is not to be taken lightly, but not the same as being able to press "shutdown" on some power plant controls)
You should always be aware of industry trends to stay employable, including learning what skills recruiters are looking for. You are always one management change away from a reshuffle.
Ummm. No.

This has been done before in PAM-4 using VCSELs.

http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/180262/...
Btw, it should also be "are trademarked" :)
Open vnc remote control servers. Point vnc at the address up top and you can remote control the computer. And commit a felony, so don't do it.

Edit: apparent read-only vnc is a thing so many of these are probably harmless.
just. move. out. of. there.
See also "wossname."
It was a comment in jest (as I mentioned).