skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just took a fairly large pay cut (more than 8%) to work remotely.

Is there a distinction between working remotely and working from home?
Good point. I am yet to reach that state though. Working at work involves more communication as well
Shuffling lines was the scrambling algorithm used in nagravision a while back... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAinn6sddQ there was a software that could descramble the video using a similar technique
Replacement Galaxy 7 Catches Fire, Samsung Texts 'I Can Try and Slow Him Down'
Self-signed certificates are not secure as they are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8110/what-are-t...

With free/cheap certificates widely available through e.g. Let's Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager, there's absolutely no reason to use self-signed certificates.

The cPanel login page linked to in the footer isn't using any HTTPS, self-signed or otherwise. This means that anyone controlling the network can inject javascript to steal your users' passwords.
Not really, SourceForge bundled adware with downloads which effected all end users, GitHub did some daft presentation that had zero impact on anyone who didn't see it and not much on those of us who did.
irccloud keeps going down every time freenode netsplits. It got so bad lately I actually canceled my subscription and instead set up weechat+glowing bear, which is not as polished, but it works fairly well on both desktop and mobile. (And cheaper)

It's also free software and easy to set up so I encourage everybody to check it out.
Personally I think a big factor is the kind of work involved. I'm a home-based security consultant and I'm pretty motivated to deliver as I know that each engagement is pretty short and there's a clear deliverable at the end of each one.

More vague work can be trickier, but I still think home working can work for a lot of people...
Being able to work from home when I need to is a perk.

Having to work from home is not, because I enjoy being able to quickly reach out to my coworkers face-to-face (especially when I need to talk to more than one), I enjoy having a delineated work/home demarcator, and I enjoy all of the perks that my employer provides (snacks, drinks, weekly catered lunch) and ones that come for free with the office location (a nice view, a good selection of places to eat, a convenient commute).
I actually have a fairly unpopular view on market rate. I tend to look at the U.S. as a whole for determining what constitutes fair compensation. This is strictly regarding developer and tech employee pay.

I don't take location into account at all. If you want to save money and live in the middle of nowhere then go for it. You should have the exact same pay as the person in SF doing the exact same thing as you.
GitHub - https://bounty.github.com/

Google - https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/whitehat
It would really be interesting to see something like a "personal SOLID server" that runs on your phone, and is reachable in IPv6 only (or through tunneling via "DNS for people", replacing phonebooks conceptually and handled as a separate distributed service).

The biggest obstacle to running a personal server is that it must always be on, and always be connected. Using cell phones (which certainly have the capacity for most individuals) would make that easy, and also refocuses "my data" into a physical concept. When you used to unplug your phone, the entry in the phonebook would fail. Now, when you turn off your phone, you "go dark" in the truest sense. It would be very easy to have a secondary battery that powers a low power coprocessor optimized for this task so that even when your phone dies, the server lasts a while longer (say 48 hours?).

I think ultimately if we're going to live in a world of personal data ownership in the truest sense, our data must be something tangible we can carry with us (and that isn't an extra thing to carry).

Of course, you'd want to back up that server config and your data, so there would be monetized services for that. Celebrities and business owners would have substantially more traffic or need to be online all the time, and as a result would need to actually pay for hosting and maintenance as a function of their utility. This introduces yet another market.

And throughout this whole system, you are now explicitly trusting your data as an object to a company for their services. You are not participating on their platform while they farm your interactions.

Any thoughts or criticisms?
Now we need a formatter/linter too
It is behaviourally impossible to switch to Diaspora, when all your friends and family are on Facebook.
I think so, traveling and adventuring through the world while working seems more worth a pay cut than just not needing to drive to an office.
> most people tend to be mediocre

As the article points out, most jobs are mediocre. Good work is not appreciated, a company can't form a team that works normal hours and uses tests and version control, autonomy and learning is low, the work is some dull obscure business problem, IT and the company is dysfunctional and pay for the skillset is below market average. Yet all these companies want great developers as well.

Also, as he mentions in the article, sometimes a great developer does roll in but they get filtered out for some reason. In my experience it is usually due to age - a great developer who is 52 comes in, but management almost openly says they want someone in their 20s who they can push around more when they nix the person.

So the mediocrity goes both ways. When Oculus got going they seemed to have little trouble getting some of the best graphics programmers (Abrash, Carmack) to join them. If you want a great programmer you need to be a great company with a great position.
> It's legal nitpicking about a persons choice.

That's actually what the law is: interpretation of statute, or what you call "nitpicking".
I'm from Germany and it's almost uncanny with _some_ people. Like in, you get a glass of water (from the tap, where else?) and (some) people act like "What the hell is he doing?! Is he insane? You can't drink that!"

n.b. Germany has some of the strictest regulations and accordingly the tap water is of excellent quality - everywhere.
How is this implemented in the Islamic Republic? In the US we use a number of interlocking myths and fears which ultimately amount to a basic misanthropy.

The most pervasive and effective of these is the "people are stupid" myth which is really a genius piece of ideological engineering if you think about it. Flattery, fear-mongering, and static inevitability all contained in one succinct phrase.
I hadnt, but thank you for the pointer. Please feel free to pop into the solid gitter channel. Tim is a participant when he has time.

https://gitter.im/solid/chat
iOS Swift Meetup in Toronto – Oct. 26th
Come listen to 3 talks on Swift programming language on Oct 26th, followed by drinks, appetizers, and some great conversation! We're excited to share what we've learned while making the switch to Swift, and to talk about how you can get the most out of it. Here is the facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/636943246484438/) and the eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hitech-meetup-to-swift-n-beyond-tickets-28170168733).
Hope to see you there
Or maybe both of you are on the opposite sides of a false dichotomy. Just sayin'...
> How does your company select their supported engineering tools? Is this done amongst a select group of engineering leads? Organizational surveys, etc?

IMO. All tools are history from a distant past.

There was problem some time ago. Some people picked a tool and it persists. The reasons for a particular tool could have been anything and may or may not still hold true.

Usually the tooling ends up fragmented by team, office locations, external acquisitions... especially when there are multiple similar products available.

The alternative is to have one ruthless dictator who forces the adoption of ONE SINGLE TOOL and kill everything else. That's the only way to get decent tooling and unify it across a company. (Coincidentally, that's also the only way to migrate from a mess of old tools).
Hello, Windows 10 user here. How can I be sure I'm using optimized atlas? I tried building it earlier, but with no success. I found some info on atlas forum for older versions, but couldn't get it to work.
Doesn't dynamic DNS solve this problem? I have used that for a service on a home server set up for friends. I haven't had any connectivity problems using the dynamic DNS address, although, to be fair my dynamic IP address has stayed remarkably static.
This would be fantastic. Twitter's utility is in its open (inherently less profitable) nature. As a data source for academic study it's unparalleled.
What if we just check whether target host is 169.254.169.254 before allowing an HTTP call?
or just filter the tap water yourself
Well like I said above, I look at it as a "condition of employment" piece of software. Nobody would us Lotus Notes for email if they had their own choice in the matter. Nobody would use OracleApps for time keeping if they had their own choice in the matter. No, you have to use it to be employed.

Unfortunately, software in that particular niche has to be really good or it'll engender a lot of hate. If you're Skype, people generally don't mind because Skype is relatively easy and pleasant to use. If you're Git, people are going to hate you.
Solid is a larger framework of which Activity Streams can be one component. Developers are free to choose the messaging format they prefer.
This article begins with truth quality in math then switches to talking about illogical people.
Misleading someone intentionally is lying. Saying you'll do something if something does/doesn't happen and not doing what you say under the conditions is lying.
Literary fallacies are real. Induction and deduction logic applied in math, when applied to English, can be fallacious. Assuming that the truth value of a math statement is the same as a statement in language is a terrible mistake.
My company probably spends millions to rent it's office. It also has a kitchen with a lot of free food and coffee available. So, they'd probably save a lot of money to have a smaller office with fewer people in it, and I'd spend more money on coffee if I worked from home. There are certainly pros and cons for both, and costs associated with those things.
What state is that? We just carry epi...
I live in Zürich.

The water company here says that it's unfair to compare the tap water with bottled mineral water; the tap water is substantially better.

(I had a tour of the plant. They are a serious group of overachievers. The source of the water is mostly the local lake, and is purified by, two grades of sand filter, activated charcoal, ozone purification, and a bacterial bed. They actively manage the biofilms in the water pipes; the water itself is so clean that chlorination is unnecessary. They also actively manage the local aquifers so that the underground water flow near any industrial site flows away from their collection wells. There are two separate distribution networks, one for emergencies, plus a warehouse full of bagged water ready for distribution. And, best of all, it tastes great.)
I mean, the whole point of that strategy is to provide statistical cover to prevent the detection of forming riots (or attacks) ahead of their actual nucleation and rioting (or attack). Effectively, you give the appearance of spontaneous formation of riots out of a near-rioting background, even though the actual formation still takes coordination ahead of time, by simply having a lot of times you don't actually plan a riot, you just say all the words to (preferably to random people).

So I wouldn't call it 'by mistake', more like 'by design'.
Sure, I would take an 8% cut of an average Silicon Valley developer salary as a remote worker :)

Hint: I'm in the EU.
Or too lazy to work it out in your head. Jeez.
There are challenges and costs employing remote workers in significantly different timezones. So you mostly compete with other workers in nearby timezones.
I loathe being in offices. Especially without Windows. I feel castrophobic. I like to work in big open spaces. At the same time I do love my me-time. So I come to work 10.30-11 and leave at 8. Gives me 2-3 hours after everyone leaves. Those are my most productive hours.

Also I love working from coffee shops. It's like you're alone but you have people around. The smell of tea and coffee have something to do with it.
You're making the argument from apathy. Sure, there are a ton of people who don't care. But what interest of theirs are you defending? "Don't care either way" is not an objection to change. Ambivalence about privacy is not the same as a preference to give it up.
Agree with the rest of your statement but not this:

> this 'hydration' ritual you are theorizing.

You are lucky not to have encountered the whole "hydration" fetish. It's especially bad with kids (apparently they are so busy having fun they don't notice when they are thirsty -- and this has apparently only recently developed??) and spread via parents into the workplace. part of the pathology of helicopter parenting.
Not personally, at least from a social aspect. I work from home. I haven't spoken to people in so long that when I finally saw my friends from out of town (everyone moved away), my face hurt from talking and laughing so much I could't flex a muscle in my face for a week.

Those with families and already established social circles, and significant others, are in a great position to work from home.

It's great for me because I have a lot of anxiety and do better in solitude but the social aspect is depressing.

I mainly went this route when I got a job in an open office that drove me absolutely insane. Every little sound and interaction would distract and subsequently infuriate me. Plus watching a bunch of 20 year olds line up 3x a day with their plates in their hands was disgusting, having employers infantilize their employees to such a degree, I couldn't take it anymore. It went far beyond the food but that's a story for another time.

I agree with the raise.
> Instead, these people "travel as fast as beer" when they're looking for a new position - they mention it to a friend or colleague who has a beer with someone else who sends over a job offer.

Not that I am some great developer, but in multiple jobs over almost 20 years I have sent a blind resume exactly once. Even then, it was on a whim.
In my experience, one of the largest hurdles decentralization faces is agent identity. Or simply put, how do you determine who is who on the network. The original Internet failed to address this problem.

The successful solutions I have seen to this issue have employed centralization. SSL certificates from Verisign and login with Google Sign In so consumers can trust your website.

Don't confuse this with distributed authentication. They exist , but I would say difficult to use.

I am talking about identity.
or 511, because C told A that this was a funny number and faster for some reason.
I liked the article but I wish this guy spent a little more time making the articles readable. Wall to wall text at a small size is sort of hard to read.
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They ignored the one from the article, which I think is the main point of contention.

Now, the other part of this is the companies the female founders were pitching. Venture capitalists will only want to go that extra step if they think the idea is worth the investment and can make a quick ROI.

Since there aren't as many women there in the first place (we don't have exact numbers, but the article), and the ones that are there have to have an idea worthy of a pitch, my point still stands. Getting a pitch is mostly about having a good business idea and not about race or gender.

I keep reading that women are paid 70 cents to the dollar to men. If this were actually true, why wouldn't the venture capitalists be fighting each other to get cheap labor?

After reading the article again, I'm also a little shocked that the author is trying to make a point about being excluded while at the same time pointing to an entire list of groups that are exclusive to a specific gender or sexual preference.

Shouldn't we be fighting for equality instead of creating more exclusive groups? Why do you expect this behavior of others if you can't behave that way yourself?
Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer
Easy: if it works, it uses the ATLAS version that is installed on the system, which means that when it works, it will use the optimized ATLAS that you provided.
That means that you have to build it itself, which is problematic on Windows, BUT, the author recently released version 3.10.3, and one of major improvements is that builds fine on Windows with cygwin and mingw.
Not knowing what this was I pressed the "Neanderthal" link at the top left, but this got me a 404 at http://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org/articles/

Apart from that, looks good!
> Great developers form a network of people who know them.

How do you know it isn't there other way around? That networking is crucial to building a reputation as a "good developer"?
Let me get this straight... you keep IRC running all day but you wouldn't recommend it to others because it's all nerds?
Beware, Poland Spring (owned by Pepsi) in New England famously bored a well in a property they bought -- that had previously been a paint factory. Because of the success of food regulation in the USA it took a TV station to find this out.
Just launched Duolingo flash cards. haven't tried yet. Not just for language other subjects too.
https://tinycards.duolingo.com
Drawing conclusions from call center jobs (the article) to developer jobs is fraught with problems primarily as call center jobs are about delivered service time (availability for and handling of calls) and developer jobs are about delivered value (written and/or deleted lines of code).
And city property tax where the majority of all homeless housing initiatives are funded from, even though homelessness is really a national problem as they migrate to the cities with the best weather and benefits, further straining individual city resources like San Jose.
A lot of people travel 2 hours per day in a commute. If they take the train, it can be around 3900 a year in season ticket rail passes. No one pays you for it. What a bloody waste of time.
Couldn't agree more...

Interviewing of late is filled with randomness. One place I interviewed, the Recruiter told me to expect coding exercise. The call starts, and I am handed out a system design problem ! Never expected a positive outcome since I hadn't prepared. Randomly, I got selected for the next round. This time around I prepared for anything come what may. The call starts, I get asked a coding question. I solve it in about 20 minutes, and the remaining 25 minutes we have a good discussion about the company dev practices. Randomly, this time I am not selected !

Another company I interviewed with last year but didn't make it but kept in touch with the recruiter for re-applying after a 12 month cool-off period. Come the time to re-apply, the good recruiter left and now the current ones keep politely refusing my application.

Another interesting one wanted me to record a video of mine explaining what I know about the company and why I would be a good fit and send that video to them ! (this one is a mixed bag, I kinda liked the idea but didn't bother eventually)

Another one had me fly out internationaly-all-expenses-paid after three Skype rounds,on the day of flying back I left a courtesy email to the recruiter thanking for the opportunity to interview and asking about possible turn-around time for a feedback. Haven't heard back !

Overall I have begun to get the feeling that at I particularly am a Lemon (or atleast the Potato no one is buying).

Was that a long comment ? Or maybe a rant.
Fortunately, that link should only lead to the main page of the site. I'll repair that immediately.
Just to clarify, this immunotherapy is legit science has nothing to do with the typical "immune system booster" bullcrap.
Yes.

E.g. centralized Snapchat has a multi-billion market value based on marketing of ephemeral messaging and a fun UX. Despite technical limitations of the marketing claims, they have reduced the audience for their "historical conversations" from "all customers" to "malicious actors", which is a big step forward.
"most jobs are mediocre"

Exactly. 95+% of all developer jobs are not particularly novel nor do they require the top 1% of developer talent. However it seems like 95+% of all developer jobs believe themselves to be novel and requiring the top developer talent.
Paul Graham said he started viaweb because he didn't want to be poor anymore. I guess poor can be relative.

I dont know PG personally and I don't know the young adults you teach, so I can only speak in generalities, but the scenario you painted can just as easily mint a determined person who takes all sorts of risks because, "What do they have to lose?!"

I guess what I'm trying to say is that only a fraction of people are entrepreneurs and those people usually have certain ways to view the world that the majority of people don't...So, when you observe this fear in your prodigies, maybe that fear is about proportionate to the general population and while the specific fear might be different, the willingness to view the world in away that allows risk taking in entreprenuership might have nothing to do with specific backgrounds but rather specific personalities and perspectives.
Have you tried Alastair Reynolds? One of the best hard sci-fi writers I’ve come across.
I admit, I'm biased. My day job is fully remote (the entire company), and the company treats us extremely well. In return for saving them rent on an office space, we have no commute, the ability to work from anywhere with an internet connection, and so on (vacation time is easier to use when you're already living somewhere exotic versus having to travel from some major metro in the US). Saved office expenses are dollars that can go into growing the business or employee perks. I don't mind paying for the coffee; I'm still ahead thousands of dollars a year from not needing a car and commuting each day. To each their own of course!
Can you give an example or two of such overestimation, and how low the bar might be sometimes, so as to encourage people more?
I'm a female founder. I go to a handful of woman-only events.

I don't go because I need or want any special accommodation for gender, nor do most other women I know.

We prefer woman-only events because attending mixed events is made uncomfortable and annoying by a small minority of unpoliced men. I mean, what are we going to do about that, make a scene because some poor guys are unusually awkward and persistent (as pop culture instructs them to be)? Easier to just skip them and find our community elsewhere
It would only make sense if the poor also believe they are "temporarily embarrassed millionaires." It is amazing how many are opposed to policies that would benefit them the most.
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Plus you are spending on extra heating/cooling,
my ISP blacklists some random ports on consumer contracts.

you could of course go with non-standard ones, its still another complication that they throw your way.