skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of these have been named and I've upvoted them, but this is my list:

* "Flow" by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Being fully immersed and engaged in an activity. 1) Knowing the value of this mental state, 2) being able to recognize when you're in it, and 3) setting yourself up so that you can be in this state as much as possible is really valuable. File it under living an examined life, IMO. All the popular "don't interrupt the programmer" and Pomodoro and other time management techniques build on this old research.

* "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius (several translations, worth comparing for even more insight) -- this is a man who understood duty and getting things done! (Not surprising from a stoic, but somehow this collection has extra impact because I know they were primarily notes and reflections written for his own clarity, more than for an audience.) Wisdom to apply to situations. Patterns to recognize in yourself and others.

* "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. When more sophisticated or trendy approaches to effectiveness reach their limits, you can't go wrong falling back on "Begin with the end in mind", "Sharpen the saw", classifying activities into the Four Quadrants, etc.

* Modern (typically psychological) interpretations of Buddhism. If a single book pops into my head, I will update this, so right now I'm talking about a whole category of books on Buddhist perspectives on character traits and habits of behaviour. If you strip any paranormal nonsense from Buddhist psychology you are often left with effective ways to classify your own thoughts, words, and deeds and work on improving them. A simple example would be the Four Sublime Attitudes. If I reflect on any relationship or interaction I have with colleagues or clients or new prospects, I can almost always take direct action immediately to improve it by applying these old rules: 1) replace anger toward someone with active good will toward them, 2) replace jealousy or envy of someone else's fortune with sympathetic joy for them, 3) approach anyone's suffering as your own suffering (compassion), 4) treat all situations and people impartially without judgement of of "good" or "bad" (equanimity).

I'm sorry these are really old! For me, these just don't go out of style and their wisdom works cross-culture.
If you use MongoDB with the WiredTiger engine, the database pages are compressed with Snappy by default. On other systems you have the option of running the database on a filesystem that provides compression.
Not the parent but sometimes, you have to check all the different mailing lists and/or they require you to retype in your email. Some might find this a bit more annoying than simply marking the email sender as spam.
Ask HN: Any back-end devs swiched to front-end or a mix? What's your experience?
I've recenty been becoming a bit daunted by doing back-end, mostly freelancing for infrastructure and devops scene.

In a lot of teams I worked front-end skills (or lack thereof) was an elephant in the room - people avoided it at all costs and I find it a good value to be able to prototype quickly usable UIs for a proof of concept.

I have moderate JS experience, some React knowedge, a bit of CSS and bootstrap.

Anyone who moved positions to front-end from back-end, how was your experience?
Some of the same things that make Go an amazing language for legitimate use, also make it good for writing malwwre. This isn't the first time I see Go get used in such a fashion.
The first scene in Tolstoy's War and Peace should be required reading for engineering graduates, particularly the hyper-rational Sheldon types. I'm referring specifically to the impact Pierre has on the people at the party, the importance of manners, why small talk, etc. War and Peace is generally a great book because of how much it captures about human nature and power plays and it is still relevant today. It has a reputation for length but I found it much more readable than, say, Lord of the Rings.

Delta Force by Col. Charlie Beckwith. Think your company has red tape? Try the US Army post-Vietnam. It's a great example of someone moving through bureaucracy to achieve great things and taught me to stop making excuses based on organisational behaviour. The Phantom Major by Virginia Cowles is in the same vein with some phenomenal hustling lessons. I still think of both men whenever I think whatever I'm doing is hard.

Dynamic Hedging by Taleb was written whilst he was a pit trader and is the most intuitive introduction to thinking about options I've read. It informs my thinking about decision making in terms of probability, path dependency and higher order greeks, and helps me take risks in a smart manner. I recommend it to a lot of people but nobody takes it up because (I'm guessing) it's only available as a second hand paper copy, and people think trading options has nothing to do with their life.

Legionnaire by Simon Murray was recommended to me by my thesis supervisor shortly before graduation. I respected his opinion so I read the thing and it blew my mind in what people were capable of doing when pushed to the edge. Murray went on to have multiple interesting careers and set records as a helicopter pilot.

There are two books that were lessons in what they did not teach me.

Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma/Solution presents a very enticing idea but I think the core explanation for what it covers is much better set forward in Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat. There are regular sub-threads on the book on HN so I won't go into it further.

I also read a couple of Jack Welch books and thought, wow, this guy knows what he is talking about. This was before 2007. After 2007, I heard from a few people - including very smart investors - who basically put GE's success down to the 30 year bull market and to the growth of GE Capital which became something like 60% of the company and indeed did almost take down GE with it after Lehman. It introduced the possibility that some famous leaders and gurus might not be as competent as they are branded to be and it's important to check for confounding variables.
Totally agree. At a previous job, some of the senior engineers decided to use MongoDB as the main data store, and doing migrations was among the worst things about it. I think some engineers envision that they'll just be able to do read repair and things will magically work. In practice, you can only really do read repair when you have a workload oriented to reading single records at a time and you have strict controls on concurrent access to prevent weird A-B-A errors with read repair. Complex aggregate queries are almost always impossible with read repair. Even with single records, read repair is still a pain in the ass. You often have to maintain unmarshalling code for several versions of a record formats. In the end, one of the engineers ended up having to write some internal migration tool (which was of course strictly worse than migrations via Postgres, because schema changes did require rewriting a table with update queries, so we ended up needing a bit of downtime). Even with the migration tool, shipping always required a lot of people on call, since migrations would inevitably break during the release process due to frequently brittle migration code.

As for the above story, that engineer was sort of on his way out at the time, so I used the above method to provide query hints as a short term fix. After he left, I was able to restructure the event data schema to make more use of columns. Some of the ancillary attributes that weren't used for row selection stayed as jsonb, but things like timestamp, event name, user id, etc. were moved to columns.
This is not the first malware to use the Go language. Here is the first, from 2012:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/malware-uses-google-go...

i believe at the same time symantec decided to block every binary compiled with Go's compiler. because that was easiest.
I paid for YouTube Red under two different accounts for three months before realizing how to cancel it.
If only you could put it under a license that said "permissive, except those guys".

What you've written there is a wish for something that works like copyleft.
Even if it's not, they have information about the finances and plans of a company that are highly relevant to the decision to invest.

And it also protects them against the worst case, where management acts in ways that are plainly hostile to shareholder interests.
Really? I find I don't get up to steam until 12 noon. Before then I'd rather have my half asleep self in meetings. If you want to change that schedule though, consider working at a satellite office for a place where HQ is in an appropriate time zone (say you're in CA, try to work at an Australian headquartered company).
Because of this, I virtually never comment on anything on the internet. I am genuinely disgusted at the comments on most sites and want no part of it. It is not just a waste of time, it can also rot your soul. Besides the small handful of posts here on HackerNews, I honestly cannot remember the last time I wrote anything online at all.

I suggest all of you do the same. You might find you are much better off, like I did. To be clear - by all means READ blogs and sites and stay informed. Just steer clear of the comments section. Vote at the ballot box and with your wallet. Not with your keyboard.
They did rename it AD&D: Advanced Debate and Discussion in one of their April Fool's binges a while back.
Considering that it replaced a TV from 2005, I'd wager yes.

4K will probably be the last big consumer TV tech push until we get cybernetic implants for eyes. You can't see a difference from 4K to 8K at under 100" screen sizes.
OpenOffice was tarnished by Oracle when they bought Sun and some of that bad will was transferred to Apache when they got it.

OpenOffice has had unpatched security vulnerabilities with exploits in the wild for 6+ months at a time.

Users today are downloading OpenOffice thinking it is the best free office suite out there when it's had no feature upgrades since May 2014. They'd often find out that it didn't properly support something they wanted to do (like handling MS Office formats) and think they had to go buy MS Office. Meanwhile LibreOffice is sitting there ready to be downloaded for free and handles MS Office formats much better than OO does.

Sure, there are some people who are finding schadenfreude in it, but many of us want to see the confusion, security issues, etc go away so things can move forward.
A bit more - what you wrote is exactly the typical case I have seen almost exclusively across the spectrum for many boards/sites. And Reddit in particular is especially guilty of this. It shouldn't really surprise anyone, though, given that Silicon Valley leans hard to the left - they are in charge of some of these non-media owned discussion sites like Reddit. Just look at the recent case of Facebook hiding conservative news from the feed. Of course they claim it was a few "rogue employees". Sure, I believe that.

And as for discussions on Reddit or news websites, the typical tactic I see over and over is as soon as anyone who is in the minority viewpoint is starting to make any sort of sense, commenters whip out the laundry list of go-to techniques for intellectually dishonest attacks - name-calling, stereotyping, questioning motives, questioning knowledge/expertise/credentials, using incorrect assumptions and false premises, straw man attacks, claiming facts are just opinions, use of weasel words, or (my personal favorite) the claim of having "rights" that are not in fact rights at all (surprisingly common). None of these crap tactics address either incorrect facts or incorrect logic, which are the only two things that should matter.

It's amazing to me how ugly things have become. And it's not just politics. Go to virtually ANY youtube video with more than a few thousand views and read the comments. There are an inordinate amount of hateful/angry posts, even for the most subjective things like music. And somehow anything related to news devolves into a political debate.
I see a Pixar movie in this somewhere as they free themselves. Though all the death is not ideal.
Bulgaria is a very good solution. Bulgaria has a standard 10% tax on profits, plus 5% if/when you pay dividends.

There are at least 2 accounting firms that I found through freshbooks with which you can work remotely and they are fluent in English. I didn't work with them, but exchange a few emails, their rate is about 1.200 EUR/year for up to 20-25 invoices per month AFAIK.

You'll have to pay yourself insurance which is extremely low, I don't know the exact figure but it's a non-issue.

Banks... Banks have higher fees than any Bulgarian country but at the same time they are way more loose. You can open an account with your passport. I did the mistake to go with Raiffeisenbank which gives only Electron Visas to foreigners. Should you choose a bank in BG, go with Unicredit. They'll give you a proper visa (the electron is for children, many websites do not accept the electron VISA).

It's very common for companies in Bulgaria to use a lawyer's address as their official address for paperwork. That's extremely cheap too.

The thing with Bulgaria is that the financial setup is rather stable. Their tax rates doesn't go up and down like an elevator. Banks are considerably easier to deal with compared to Estonia for non-Estonians for example.

If you want more info drop a mail, good luck!
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Realistically, is this in the wild under active exploit? With the likelihood of infection remote unless one is a UAE-targeted activist?
We've reached this far by listening to our users. Would love to take this further and get any feedback from HN's detailed community.
You mean the current speed of light is not designed to deal with that kind of distance.
This remark doesn't help anything. https://twitter.com/izs/status/513011614803427328
If that's the case, it would make it somewhat less suspicious. Given how deep the unsubscribe button seems to be buried, I hadn't been hopeful.
> We yearn to reprogram existence, and with the computer we have the best means yet.

Indeed, we have today the means to build an entirely new world with new rules completely unbound from the physical realm. However, we can't escape the physical (yet), meaning in practice, this disconnectedness is not going to work, a compromise has to be found. (Compromise (concessions on both sides) generally has a negative connotation. I want to underline that a compromise in this case is much more valuable than either extreme.)

> The screen provides a refuge, a mediated world that is more predictable, more tractable, and above all safer than the recalcitrant world of things. We flock to the virtual because the real demands too much of us.

Which is a shame, but I'm not too pessimistic about that particular problem. Instead, I think by retaking control over the electronic part of our life, i.e. taking power away from big corporations, a wise guiding hand can right a lot of what's currently going wrong. I believe the virtual can be a great (intellectual) portal to the physical, but that's not going to happen as long as money-making machines are in power.

That brings me neatly to the author's own conclusion:

> What I want from technology is not a new world. What I want from technology are tools for exploring and enjoying the world that is – the world that comes to us thick with ‘things counter, original, spare, strange’
In fact, Oracle didn't even have many committers on OOo at the time - they'd reassigned most of the StarDivision devs to the abortive CloudOffice. At the time of the fork, LO had more dev resources on the codebase than Oracle did.
I understand the difference. I don't see the distinction. They know an unpatched vulnerability and if they haven't reported it to Apple, they don't own the moral high ground that would justify their smug public-interested belief.
So that was one of the best answers in the history of HN. Than you. I too have imagined Nero as the Sadam Hussein of his time. Or maybe one of the last 3 Kims.
There are no queens. Therefore, all the ants are from "outside" and there's no chance for a mutation to develop for this pseudocolony to become a real colony.
> I have a suspicion that there were terms agreed to between IBM, Oracle, and ASF that prevented ASF from donating anything to anyone.

There were no secret deals. The Apache Incubator PMC voted on a public proposal (<http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal>) which included both a community and the promise of assets. Those assets were later delivered as promised. The incubation process then proceeded as it has for scores of other projects. It would have been completely inappropriate, unthinkable, for the Incubator (which oversees incubating projects) or the ASF Board (which oversees all projects) to take the assets away from that nascent community.
But I thought everything written in Rust was supposed to be safe! /s
You don't even need a breach to hack 123456, I expect it to be in every pentester's top20 first-tries (contingent on whatever profile they have on the target, obviously).
True. How about a punishing tax on any kind of unoccupied property, rather than specifying that it must be owner-occupied?
The trend is towards neither, I'd say. The biggest trend has been towards online automatically graded multiple choice & short answer questions that aren't really open ended.

The automated essay grading stuff typically looks at writing style more than content, but it's true that it's a problem that tons of people have worked on and there's been some cool progress there as well. We're not really working on bringing AI to essay grading ourselves though.
Indeed. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3606
Yes, cell membranes are largely made of phospholipids. Soap can disrupt the membrane and essentially leak the contents of cells.
Elsewhere in this thread, grandinj of LO notes that he tried to donate back and there weren't enough people at Apache to do anything with the patches.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414681

So you did get your wish, but it's not the LO people at fault.
Probably something of the form "all persons that have stayed at $property during $time"?
I want AOO to die because it has the brand recognition. Frankly, AOO is slower, less stable, less secure, less pretty, and overall a worse product than LibreOffice.

LibreOffice should have been the successor to OOo, and it offends me that my non-technical friends still install AOO when LibreOffice would improve their lives so much more.

When AOO began and actually had a release, I was surprised. I expected it to fail sooner. It was a mistake from the beginning.
This is actually a great way to test your idea. If lots of people find it promising, it will at least remove one concern when building a startup.
Boots? It only boots after power outages or updates. Otherwise it's in standby mode and the display turns on in a matter of seconds.

The UI is 1 layer deep unless you're in the settings menu. Apps are their own thing.

No sync issues for me as it's all pass through to sound bar.
You can usually buy small amounts of Bitcoin directly on www.coinbase.com via ACH without ID. Depends on the fraud score the ML fraud system assigns to you.

Circle and LocalBitcoins are also options (although I've never used Circle).

Disclaimer: I work for Coinbase
Coercion has always worked too. Bust a hacker, threaten a decade in prison, and BOOM! the Feds recruited a hacker.
Homelight | San Francisco | Onsite | fulltime | https://www.homelight.com/about-us#careers | Sr. Fullstack Developer

Current Interview Process: call with recruiter, engineering phone screen, onsite, team lunch, reference check, offer.

I applied via the link on the careers page, but if you have any questions, you can email me at eunoia.github+hnwh3@gmail.com. When you apply, make sure to mention you saw this hackernews post.

We're a small team of 7 engineers. Our stack is Ruby on Rails(4), and Postgresql hosted on Heroku. The javascript is well written, and we don't use any frameworks. We've got reasonable test coverage, and a very empathetic culture.

We're looking to hire a head of product with marketplace experience, and entrepreneur mentality. You'll be building a product team from the ground up.

The next engineer we're looking for is a Sr. Fullstack Developer.

You are an experienced web developer. You take pride in your work, writing clean, maintainable code. You also prioritize and build what’s necessary to accomplish the business objectives at hand. You roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary to push the company forward. You have strong back-end skills, but are also comfortable with front-end work and can drive a feature from PSD to functional product.

You Have

* A GitHub account (or portfolio) that rocks

* Projects that you can point to that you personally (not your team) built

* 2+ years of Ruby-on-Rails experience

* 5-10 years of web development experience, ideally some of which is in a startup environment

* An understanding of web analytics, A/B testing, and agile development methods

* An outstanding academic background; CS degree preferred

What You'll Do Here

* We're looking for a full stack engineer to help us build amazing products.

* We've got a full slate of interesting projects and need an exceptional engineer to help us create innovative technology that will change real estate.

* You'll be working on mission critical projects, both on our internal tools and on our customer facing products, and will be able to help shape our engineering culture as we grow.

You Want

* Your work to matter - to be critically important to your team’s success

* To work on a small team that gets sht done but also likes to have fun

* To build cool technology that will transform an industry and forever change the way people buy and sell real estate
Well, for starters, they don't have a queen... except that they actually do, just not on their own soil...
All 2016 and all Sony. You gotta stay in the same family. It's like the Apple ecosystem.
The idea of the JOBS act mini-IPO was to let 10 million dollar companies IPO. There are dollar and number of investor limits, but they're generous. ($1BN and 2000 investors, I think.) Above that, the regular IPO rules apply.

TrueCar, Zoës Kitchen, GlycoMimetics, ChannelAdvisor, and Malibu Boats all went public via this route, but on a larger scale, around $100M each. They did a proper IPO, where investors got publicly tradeable shares, not this weird "SAFE" thing.
This explains what the uber/black badge is and how people obtain it: https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-bb-policy.html

Here's some blog posts about people who've run the gauntlet:

http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon...

http://elegin.com/dc21/

https://1o57.wikispaces.com/DC20+Badge+Contest

In hacking circles, this is kind of a big deal to get one of these. It gives you a lifetime free admission to any future DefCon conferences and you're entered into a Black Badge HOF and plenty of bragging rights.

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-black-badge.html
Just discovered that the original warrant canary (2005) was purportedly created by a librarian, being a sign in her library reading: “The FBI has not been here (watch very closely for the removal of this sign).”[0]

[0]: http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v28/28HarvJLTech525...
Sure, it will be safe from crashes and errors ;)
The point is, why would they bother even with the minute hassle of vetting and hiring an agency just to make a few pennies every year as compared to their existing billions?

It's not even worth their time to do that much, apparently, since the houses in question are sitting empty in a high-rent area.