skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partly yes. The fulfilling part there is a huge dependency on me and my company counts on me to deliver critical things to run business. That responsibility is fulfilling (to an extent).

The main thing which is not fulfilling in my full-time job is the fact that I'm selling my time which makes difficult for me to spend my time for myself whenever I want.

Also, I learned that if you are so unhappy with your current life, mostly you will not be happy even if you get what you want. I changed my daily routine to include lot of physical activity and reading, which has greatly improved my mindset and is helping to be more active in my day-to-day life.

As an aside, like you I had a very early (around 21,22) quarter-life crisis after my college (Now I'm 28). After working in a unfulfilling job, I just quit without any plans. Looking back, it was the wonderful time of my life and it reinforced my want to create my own business, so that I don't sell time rather sell something based on my expertise. It was scary enough; case in point, I'm currently in a full time job. But soon, I may take a leap to have my own business and an independent life.

All the best.
>Let's get rid of doctor licensing then? The free market will separate the good ones from the ones who will kill you! Pyramid schemes? You have the right to invest in one, so why outlaw it? Toxic waste dump?

Unlicensed doctors should be legal. As should pyramid schemes. Dumping toxic waste on other people's private property or on commonly held public property is not a "voluntary interaction", and thus should be illegal. A free society is one where people are free to engage in voluntary interactions, and are safe from others violating their right to their person and property.

You tell me to "grow up" and lecture about how "your rights end where others begin". I recommend you take your own advice and learn what it is that I'm actually advocating (hint: a free market doesn't mean no laws/government, and people being allowed to dump toxic waste), and stop advocating for laws that restrict my rights to spend my money how I want.
Google is launching a new line of cameras for 180-degree VR video
>Do the people who enforce the law get punished when they break it?

In a democracy they do ...
I run Tedium (http://tedium.co), a twice-weekly newsletter that covers obscure topics—half the time tech, half the time not. I've been doing it two and a half years.

I make money from a variety of sources on it, including affiliate links, sponsorships (I recently had some success with http://upstart.me on this front), donations from readers (both Patreon and PayPal, because folks want options), banner ads, and fees for syndicating the content to outlets like Vice's Motherboard.

The pieces are written more like stories than link roundups, giving them an evergreen appeal. This week I wrote about the history of the 911 system; last week I wrote about CGA graphics and Windex. It actually has a smaller profile than my last project, ShortFormBlog, but it's more sustainable from a financial and work-life balance perspective.

Last month, I did a T-shirt sale with the help of a vendor (Vacord Screen Printing, http://vacord.com) and made a few hundred dollars through that.

All of this together is not enough to stop me from working a day job, but the mixture of sources and the fact that I syndicate content helps build exposure and ensures that if one source is weaker than another on a different month, the whole machine doesn't fall apart.

If you want to run a profitable newsletter, be willing to rely on more than one revenue stream.
That would be cool if there was any graduate students working on this topic. I sure would like to work on a topic like this!
How to Rob an Airbnb: flaw could put 1.2M homes at risk
Couldn't agree more.
Let's not forget the kind of racial discrimination that exists in all industries, but tech. I speak as an asian immigrant, and i can't see myself working in any other industry, and hope to get to any senior role.

How many immigrants make it to the top tier of management in media companies? None. How many in UPS, banks, the government... you name it. None.

The only reason tech has to answer, is because there is money in tech. There are working class people, making a fortune in tech BY WORKING HARD. The media and the government doesn't like it.
Unless things have changed, one of the key benefits of DNNs was that you trained them layer by layer.

You also want to be able to train the DNN on your unlabelled data and the SVM on your much smaller labelled set.
Big Data and Mobile Apps: A Cool and Cognitive Combo
Ask HN: Why are workplace relationships considered inappropriate?
Genuine question, so please answer in good faith.

Also why are relationships between college students not frowned upon? Both are professional settings.
"incredibly serious allegations" -- Sexual advances (flirting, being assertive) are nothing to be ashamed of. It's when you go with the "grab 'em by the pussy" mentality that it seems to get rapey. Make the dude out to be Cosby for views, though, Pando. Keep on pandorin'.
You speak in certainties about vagaries.

There are plenty of companies where "most of the time it's not broken" is a big problem. Possibly bigger than the cost of a security issue (I don't know, because this is both hypothetical and I'm an outsider to the issues at play).

To not acknowledge that others would value a different part of the risk curve lacks perspective.
>Do you really expect each taxi passenger to sort out all of that info for each and every ride!?

There can be certification.. A certifying body certifies that a taxi driver meets all of the conditions you mentioned and issues certificates to those drivers who do. There can be more than one certification standard, and consumers would be free to choose which certifying standard they trust, or even choose to use a driver with no certifications.

I'm not sure why such a world is so scary for you.

>But you're also the same kind of free market numbskull who supports unfettered capitalism and campaign donations, which is how a special interest strangles a government body like a taxi cab commission.

That's not a very nice or constructive comment. Where I live, Uber is banned, and taxi service is heavily regulated. The taxi drivers are the most dangerous drivers on the roads. Please give me free market competition that results in the high quality service you see from Uber.
How secure and private is Ancestry DNA?
That postgres is behind in scaling (multi-core, replication, sharding, multi-master) against all modern relational databases is verifiable truth. Your judgement is clouded by your proximity to the project. Here's just 1 prior thread between us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13841496

And if you want more feedback:

-> Add (and enable) multi-core queries.

-> Build-in pgbouncer (or better connection management).

-> Enable 1-line command to setup basic replication (whole node or per db level) without having to edit anything else. Look at redis or memsql for inspiration.

-> Enable 1-line command to easily failover, remove hotstandby requirements.

-> Add DDL support to logical replication because I guarantee this will be the #1 source of problems for anyone that tries to use this.

-> Fix the poor defaults in all the configs.

-> Document the existence of pg_conftool and make it a first-class tool that can also edit pg_hba.conf automatically so I no longer have to deal with any config files. Store any other settings in the database cluster itself. Inspiration from sql server on linux or cockroachdb here.

IT/admin UX at this point is more important than the diminishing core upgrades. Postgres is good enough internally but has sorely fallen behind on usability with obsolete defaults, convoluted configs and way too many 3rd party tools needed for basic scaling. Saying use X tool is effectively the same as just use Y database that already does it. MySQL, MariaDB, even SQL Server are not standing still.

Solid in-cluster and cross-dc replication is the reason we stuck with memsql (+ built-in columnstore), not because it was possible but because it actually works easily and reliably with their fantastic memsql ops program. I've shared all of this feedback online over the years (along with many others) so the lack of understanding is really more a reflection of the postgres team and poor priority planning.
On the basis that most linksys owners never touch or upgrade their firmware, why aren't linksys (and other manufacturers) products shipped with a physical hardware 'read-only' switch for the firmware to prevent unauthorised remote upgrades?
That honor goes to melling:
>Some guy whining on HN about a first generation product adds zero value.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500455
I'll checkout your news letter mate, cheers.

Those running costs, the $1,000/year, seems a bit high. Should be able to get that down I reckon? I'm willing to help out on this front for a free sub' :)

Let me know.
https://uimovement.com - ~16k subs, $500-1000+ a month from sponsors. I hardly ever do sales and spend ~1 hour a week on this - I'm sure it could be more profitable with more effort.
Kaggle 1.5M$ Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge from DHS – Discrimination
Members of the Kaggle community who are not United States Citizens or legal permanent residents at the time of entry are allowed to participate in the Competition but are not eligible to win prizes. If a team has one or more members who are not prize eligible, then the entire team is not prize eligible.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/passenger-screening-algorithm-challenge/rules

https://www.kaggle.com/c/passenger-screening-algorithm-challenge/discussion
I gave that last item a bit more thought, and I think that may be the mitigating factor in all this. You can only automate so much / put so many people out of work, until it becomes unprofitable to automate anything else because the market will have fallen so far.

So rather than a single huge mass event where automation destroys our fabric of life, we'll have swings back and forth from overautomation to overemployment. Each swing will give us a chance to re-evaluate and rebalance our priorities.

Essentially that's already happening and has already happened over the last ... couple centuries really. I guess there's a chance that the pendulum could suddenly swing so far in one direction that it's irrecoverable, but at least I don't think one can say it's inevitable.
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> previously running on WebGL and now we base just on HTML, so it will be possible to attach any HTML

Just in case anyone else faces this issue, another possibility is to do WebGL-above-HTML two-layer hybrids, with punchouts to see the synchronized HTML. But perhaps not worth the pain for 2D UIs.

Hmm. Last year I half-started a quick hack of atom.io with CSS3D in Vive VR. Intended for purescript et al. But the display's angular resolution was painfully low for working with text. It looks like Luna might be an interesting alternative for exploring coding in VR.

Also on my infinite todo list are exploring VR direct manipulation of a category-theoretic pushout lattice of <types,ops,laws> theories, and (separately) an interactive editor for string diagrams...

Any thoughts on using Luna as a compiler target?
http://uxcurator.com (UX newsletter)
Posted my site on Hacker News and Reddit for the first launch, and it got a few hundred subscribers, and it has been gradually growing since last 2 years. And it roughly makes ($AUD)1k a month via sponsorships.
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Have you seen live free or die hard? It was a heist flick and a crappy movie in general.

It utilized scary "cyberweapons" as a plot point but the goal was to steal.
I love Tedium - always look forward to it! Keep it up mate :)
i strongly recommend this link, which explores these ideas philosophically:

https://samzdat.com/2017/06/19/the-use-and-abuse-of-witchdoc...

and if you have a little spare time, a previous book review that provides extra framing for what the author is getting at, as well as expanding on the notion you mentioned:

https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/

> In the [cool kids scene] of the 2000’s, opposition to Christianity was a given. No subject was more likely to unite than a good old bashing of fundamentalists. Marxists, Anarchists, Libertarians, Liberals, Randians – it crossed political borders. (I’m from California, if that helps.)

> It was hard not to – it’s not like the fundies had any coherent reasons they could articulate. Every other day some [class indicator] pastor would announce opposition to “the gay agenda” or seek to return to “a Christian nation” as though that were a desirable thing that had ever existed (like, deism duh, etc.). If that wasn’t bad enough, when pressed for an explanation, they’d just read some passage from John or Corinthians. “And? Was that all?” Readers take note: if someone is busy mocking you for your holy book, justifying your actions based on your holy book is a terrible rhetorical strategy.

> Standard interpretation: “The olds are lamenting the loss of an oppressive institution that has no objective value, right?” Right?

> So this is what churches do in our language: they’re probably the single most important economic institution in rural America. Period.
I love the article! It makes sense that after developing AR application on a game engine, I will identify the common functionality that would fit better for an "engine" that would fit the ideas I want to develop.

I am interested in developing AR applications that are not as much of a game, so I was worried that a game engine would not fit.

With both learning more about graphics and making my own games, it would make future engine development more clear.
non-mobile link: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-year-old-physics-problem.html
The solution is not that everyone on Windows switch to Linux, just that some of them do. You said it right there: Linux is more secure, right now, not because it has fewer holes in it but because the incentive to find those holes is much less than with Windows. Seems like a good enough reason to switch for me, just don't expect it to last forever.
Also the security patch channel has been incredibly abused to deliver non-patches.
Ask HN: People at Amzn/Goog/FB/MSFT/bloomberg, how to get promoted?
I work for one of the so called tech giant that's has taken over the world. I have been excellent performer. I have worked for top tech companies before moving out of bay area.

My workload is 50+ hrs consistently. My manager knows about the workload and does nothing but to ignore it. I have been talking to him about promotion for a while now. He is just reluctant to do it but says I am doing good job.
I know it's not the person who works most hard gets promoted but the one who shows he/she worked most.

What can I do to get promoted?
OK - found this on Quora [1] that gave me some idea.

I asked before as googling because there are often very well-informed software legal opinions on HN.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-different-between-Apache-v2-...
I know that they have used GitHub Enterprise internally for some of their groups, but beyond that I don't have a lot of details for you.
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2017/06/22/Low-carb-diets-eff....
Three advantages of the combination of open source and cloud computing
Workplace relationships are not universally frowned upon. My girlfriend worked at a (fairly large, well-known) company where they were encouraged.

Where they are frowned upon, there are many reasons. One is that romantic relationships in the workplace often end before the professional relationship does. The end of the romantic relationship can make it difficult to work together, which harms productivity.

Another is that it blurs the lines between sexual and power dynamics. Imagine a boss asking an employee on a date -- is the employee in a comfortable or fair position? Or, imagine that an employee wants to break up with his boss. How can he choose between what's best for him personally and what's best for his career?

Relationships between students are frowned upon in some places, like at very conservative colleges. Usually, the issues above don't apply. A student can't be another student's boss. A student's work is not usually dependent on an ability to work with another student. Even if it were, it's possible to switch to a different group to avoid working with that other student.

(Also, unless you're a PhD and getting paid to study, college isn't a professional setting for a student. Learning is not their profession because they aren't employees at the school. They're students.)
Ha, I didn't think it could be read that way.

What I tried to point out is that actively sabotaging competitors has nothing to do with company culture, toxic or not. It's simply an aspect of a company being reasonably large (iow. they have resources to effectively use underhanded tactics).

I have no doubt that Uber's culture is toxic. (And I do admit to some glee observing them get raked over coals.) But engaging in sabotage is, for me, a null signal in that regard. The capacity for that is simply a result of being large enough.
Uber employees are circulating a petition to let Travis Kalanick return
Humans have only two eyes and terrible reaction times. They also get distracted easily and tend to act emotionally often. There is little data to show that computers are better drivers, because currently they aren't, but they lack human weaknesses and are safer than humans in many other situations (planes, trains...).
thats awesome !
Ask HN: Cookies Privacy Law vs. Hubspot/Mailchimp Trackers?
Europe mandates sites to display a note about "Usage of cookies" and etc., Modern tools such as mailchimp, hubspot include backlinks or someway to know what the recipient does with the message clicks, how long one reads it and etc.

Is not this a privacy issue? How are you seeing this?
My wife took me to Salton Sea for my birthday. Fascinating place, bizarre history, blistering heat, sobering ruins, but also strangely beautiful, and site of an ongoing ecological crisis that few Californians are probably aware of.

It's close to the Coachella Valley, but you should have seen the look on the concierge's face when we explained we weren't there to golf and shop. :-) Besides just seeing the sea itself, I recommend Salvation Mountain, Slab City, the obsidian fields, and the world-famous (?) Date Shakes in Westmorland.
There should have never been management access enabled by default via WAN or WLAN on ANY router to be honest. In a misguided effort to make their consumer devices more 'friendly'[1] they've just made them more insecure.

--

[1] Even though most users have no idea the management interface even exists.
Genuine question but I'm assuming making the power train for a normal car releases greenhouse gasses too.

The totals for both should be released for a fair comparison
In those conditions human drivers don't work very well either. I'd rather have computers that drive very slowly because they can't see very well instead of humans that drive faster than they can see because "I'm a good driver".
Successful invocations for us are on the up after being effectively down for 5 hours. Control plane very laggy, and I have a CloudFormation stack with a lambda backed custom resource that still won't delete.

Initially we were seeing "service unavailable" and "internal server errors". A while(couple hours?) later the API was returning a rather lengthy message about there being no capacity in the region.

I submitted this issues twice; shortly after the start of the outage and 2 hours later. Both were flagged out; aws must be running damage control here.
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I love stories like these. I wonder what the Japanese equivalent is, in terms of "bizarre tourist experiences"? I bet there's equally breathless articles somewhere about American gun ranges, for example.
I think it's not bad to have it checked by default but a bit more intelligent it surely can be.
The biggest annoyance and source of confusion is when you make a merge request based on a protected branch. The checkbox is still there and checked but it won't actually delete the protected branch (well, that's good ;-)).

In that case the checkbox should just be not displayed at all.
Dude, I love your newsletter. It is literally an immediate open, every time. It is my goal to get my sporadic thoughts on tech published at the bottom.

That and the Quora digest are the only non-work emails I read.
I couldn't believe it reading it, but holy crap, you're right - but it's worse - that's €1500 not even $1500...
When it's someone who is pitching you, flirting and making sexual advances is something to be ashamed of.
> This would basically give corporations a way to make rulings on the behavior of nations, truly an ambitious move.

They have that option now, by choosing where they do business. Evidence suggests that they don't care.
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I worked at VMWare for a while, and I've been a confirmed MacFanatic since December of 1983.

In my experience, your number one driver for performance will be memory. If you don't have 16GB of RAM, you're likely to be unhappy.

Also, the higher capacity SSDs also tend to have higher performance, so you're going to want as much as you can get.

These days, everything comes hard-wired on the logic board, so if the device isn't maxxed-out when you buy it, then it never will be.

CPU performance would be my third criteria -- get as many cores and as high performance as you can, once you've gotten maximum RAM and as much SSD as you can.

For me and my wife, we would be perfectly happy to upgrade from our 2012 and 2014 MacBook Pros today, but only if we could get 32GB of RAM. Meanwhile, we wait.
Hey Dan, don't think I've ever introduced myself, but obviously your work with Now I Know is pretty rad. I do slightly similar stuff with my newsletter Tedium (though I aim for the deep dives, admittedly), and I just wanted to say that I respect the work you've done over the years to build out an audience as well as broader interest in the newsletter medium as a whole.

We wouldn't be talking about newsletters right now were it not for efforts like yours.
Private mode is explicitly about not remembering things. If I'm using private mode, I don't care how the browser exits. I want all the history gone (and never stored on disk in the first place). Also, Chrome sometimes crashes during shutdown (after I close the window), and I'd never know my session was secretly saved.

> Do I really need to use pen and paper here?

No. Use bookmark folders and delete them when you're done. Or just clear your autocomplete.

This sounds like your personal problem with the way you use Chrome and not something that should affect other users. You may want to try Firefox or Vivaldi[1], which have more customization options.

1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/hands...
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Reply all is funny and about the internet.
The Dig is not funny or about startups but I just discovered it and wanted to share. Smart policy discussion with a lefty viewpoint.
Kaggle competition won't award prizes to non-US residents
QubesOS boots vms from templates, only /home changes survive.
Software Engineering Daily, has some focus on startups
So basically infiltrate the supply chain which doesn't seem like a big deal lately
What do you get out of your subscription? I love Ben's podcast (exponent.fm) but cannot bring myself to pay the monthly subscription.
OpenVPN fixed several remotely exploitable flaws
Please keep this nonsense to Reddit. Thanks
> Of course, the use of the word “mate” is ubiquitous in Australia, and has slowly lost its old, comradely meaning. Not seldom now it can have a hostile ring, as in “Whadaya think you’re doin’, mate?”

'Mate' now usually either implies condescension or social distance (or cultural cringe), at least in the south eastern states. International stereotypes of Australian language are yet to catch up.