skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional burnout recovery. Are you done or still might be kicking?
The fact that this isn't new doesn't mean we have to condone it.

If we do (or are) then all a large corporation has to do to stifle most MSM criticism is to push enough money into advertising with those platforms. Of course we already have cases in this area [1], but hopefully the proposition as a whole sounds as ridiculous to you as it does to me.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/30/new-ameri...
I don't know... I have been on Xubuntu for about 4 years now, and love it. Just got a new touchscreen laptop with win10 on it and hate the experience. Switched the wife over to Xubuntu as her win10 laptop was running like crap, and she barely notices any difference in the experience except the Linux system is faster.

I think for a lot of people who want to just browse the Web and watch movies, Linux is more than up to the task. And suit, recently even libreoffice is working fine for my simple needs for word processing and spreadsheet work.
>People thought that about music services "No one will ever pay!"

The jury is still out for businesses that depend on people paying for digital music. Both digital streaming services of Spotify and Pandora have been losing money since their inception. Apple's iTunes digital downloads of music declined 14% in 2015. Its peak sales was 2012. There are even some industry whispers that Apple may someday drop iTunes music sales altogether since the shrinking revenues won't be worth their attention.

Nobody knows the future but the above trends may mean that digital music sales could eventually go the same way as encyclopedias: free. Not enough people are willing to pay for digital music. They still pay for live concerts though. If that's the remaining sustainable business, musicians would have to earn income from performances ... or licensing deals.

>I would definitely pay for such a news service.

Yes, but there may not be enough people like you. When people say, "no one" will pay, they don't literally mean "zero" payers. Instead, they mean "not enough" will pay.
You are right, the article itself says something about avg. worker.

I had other similar article in mind when i wrote my comment.
Since he has a hand, how do they discern between the electrical signals picked up from the motor neurons, and the electrical signals created by the muscles (which are a lot stronger)?

To compare: some years ago I saw a talk from neuroscience researcher about a locked in patients. Only with great effort they were able to discern a single on/off signal from the brain, and only after a lot of practice. I asked why commercial products seemed much further than that, and he explained that these basically pickup subtle nearby (ie from the eye) muscles movements (that locked in patients no longer have), and users only 'believe' they are controlling the system directly with their brain.
When I play Russian Roulette, and I pull the trigger four times with no ill effects, that does not indicate that the revolver is robust against false firings. This is the poster child for survivourship bias.

How robust are we talking about? Do you think the odds of a nuclear war in your lifetime are <1%? I certainly do not.
That looks like a single leak of four bytes of kernel stack, not multiple vulnerabilities.
I think it all depends on the person.

Both my wife and I were labelled as "gifted". My wife scored 145 twice on the IQ test, so she's much smarter than me. We were both praised as smart throughout our childhood, but we were also both very competitive. We never had any problems with lacking motivation and working hard. Losing never discouraged us, because winning was always much more motivating.

I was never tempted to cheat, mainly because I always felt that if I lost, I deserved the loss. To me, there's no sense in being competitive if you're going to fabricate your wins, but that's a moral system I developed on my own very young.

My kids are a bit different. They're definitely much smarter than their peers, but I often see them giving up when they lose, when we plays games and such. I definitely stress to them the importance of never giving up, and the value of effort over natural skills and always trying hard. I tell them that just because they're smart doesn't mean that they will always win, and that people who work hard will always beat the lazy smart person. Also, never fear losing because winners always lose more because they're always competing, but it's the big wins that matter more than small losses.

I hope they take this message to heart, because I have friends who fear failure and it's debilitating to them. Even the idea of applying for a new job is too much because they can't handle rejection, which I find extremely sad.
I feel this is true of Tufte in general (and I own his books and have taken his seminar): he has made, and finds, excellent examples of good design but his heuristics (they are never as strong as "rules") are rarely actionable.
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This is so wrong.
Long Bets is a good site to make a public statement but PredictionBook[1] or Metaculus[2] may be better to track predictions about things we argue about. Both sites calculate your Brier score, which is how you can know how well calibrated you are.[3]

Since prediction tracking and aggregation sites use reputation instead of money, they scale to a higher number of predictions. As proof, there have been only 747 predictions and bets on Long Bets, while gwern alone has made[4] 2275 on PredictionBook. Furthermore, the Metaculus community prediction provides valuable forecast information,[5] much like prediction markets, while predictions on Long Bets don't count as Bayesian evidence of their own.

[1]: https://predictionbook.com/

[2]: https://www.metaculus.com/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score

[4]: https://www.gwern.net/Prediction-markets

[5]: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/track-record/
Apache has mod_reqtimeout which mitigates the slowloris-attack.
It's been a while, but in my tests that worked pretty well.
Colleagues of mine treat Tufte's work like a literal ten commandments. I can't really fault his logic on the minimalism and he's certainly earned his rep in the GIS space, which really can be applied to pretty much any visualization.

I'm just curious why this post is making a recurrence now, is this because of the twilio post that made its way to the HN frontpage?
Idaho Wants to Establish America's First 'Dark Sky Preserve'
The 5-digit display year is definitely in keeping with our mission, which is to get people to think longer term. But under the hood, I represented all dates as 64-bit longs of ms since epoch. So I believe the farthest date the current code can represent is 17 Aug 292,278,994 AD. By that point the earth's day will be an hour longer [1], so whatever sucker has inherited this project will have bigger problems than just the size of the field.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
on() and off() are the names that every JavaScript library uses for event handlers; I don't think bikeshedding individual libraries is going to help much.
Spotify has yet to prove profitability, or even viability, so far. The streaming music scene remains undecided for the long-term.

There's also a big difference between a 1-time reading of news in comparison to music which is often repeated, timeless and can have a deep impact on your life and memories.

Even if an easy news bundle service existed, the cost isnt the problem, it's the fact that society has become used to digital news being free - turning that around will be a massive effort.
>I enforce a militant "40 hours only" policy for my employees, and it's incredible for productivity.

why not 35, 39 or 42 hours?
For anyone who hasn't had the opportunity: I highly recommend taking Tufte's one-day class. You get a copy of his books and get to see at least one or two truly historic texts (it's been 20 years for me, so I don't remember off-hand what he had with him).

Plus he's a tremendously bright man with entertaining anecdotes.

So, even though I don't think that anything he shared that day has been useful in my career, it was a life-enriching experience.
Using biometrics for security is hardly secure anyway.
Safari is going to prevent ad tracking by not allowing cross domain cookies. Does that mean you are would use Safari instead when the feature is released?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/ad-industry-deep...
If AppImage, Flatpak and Snap don’t cut it, you can roll your own
There are plenty of docs on linode for nginx configurations.
Hackers slipped malware into popular PC software CCleaner
On a desktop, you can fairly easily obtain displays that will fill your entire field of view, so the aspect ratio doesn't matter so much. When it comes to laptops, there's much more of an optimization problem; it therefore seems strange to me that there's so little variety on the market, as different users certainly have different needs.
It is not the norm. Maybe for certain segments of people within the country that expect to be able to burn out their employees, but for the most part it is not the norm.

You only hear the bad stories.
My new app: CCleanerCleaner will clear everything up in a jiffy.
The biggest thing missing from the paper seems to be SLC caching, which is now nearly universal on client SSDs but usually not used on enterprise SSDs. Modern SSDs also use much more robust error correction schemes than they did 5 years ago; almost everything has LDPC soft-decode or similar as a fallback, which gives an effective increase in the write endurance of the drive.

There are also trends underway to dismantle some of the abstractions between the file system and the flash. Even when a SSD is presenting an interface of 512B or 4kB logical blocks for compatibility reasons, it can inform the host of the optimal block size to use for I/O. The host can also tag I/O commands with a stream ID, allowing the SSD to store related data together and separate from unrelated streams. Used properly, this approximates generational garbage collection and improves both performance and write amplification.

There's also a recently standardized feature for partitioning a SSD in a way that makes hard guarantees about the sharing (or lack thereof) of memory channels and flash chips. This is intended primarily for multi-tenant use cases, to ensure that one process/VM's I/O won't inflict garbage collection pauses upon another process/VM. In a similar vein, there are now mechanisms to request that the SSD defer all background processing for a while in order to service a burst of I/O with minimal and predictable latency, and controls for whether a SSD is permitted to do non-critical background processing during idle time (you may not want that happening while running on battery).

Beyond that, there's some work on open-channel SSDs that move large portions of the flash translation layer to the host system, allowing all the above controls and more to be managed by the host. With application-layer tuning this can be extremely powerful.
I seem to in a minority here scanning the comments, which are focused on "advertising".

The OP is discussing "the power of Jeff Bezos". To illustrate, he has anecdotal evidence of an attorney bowing out due to concern for his daughter's upcoming book.

He is talking about a network effect with scope far beyond the matter of a specific publication and its relationship with a key advertiser.
Deactivating that programs start on boot, maybe?
Just like this tiger-repellent rock that has kept me safe from tigers my entire life.
I can't edit my post anymore, so apologies for me not seeing that before my morning coffee (or it was added afterwards).
Obligatory post on this thread due to my username (chosen to honor him).
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...
> but I'd gladly pay 25 cents after reading a great article if it didn't require entering CC info and bouncing between three different webpages... Unfortunately, this would require immense coordination between web standards, browsers, OS vendors, and banks to implement

If you're okay with customers choosing to make piece-work payments after consuming the material, the problem becomes much easier because micro-payments don't have to be instantaneous or binding.

All you need is a not-terribly-insecure ledger that the consumer has full read/write access to, and approves of every month (perhaps implicitly for bills under $X). This removes a lot of the security/trust/coordination issues -- an 90% solution is good enough if you just double-check with the consumer before doing anything actually important. Similar to the proposal here: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/17/the-learned-helplessness-o... Micro-payments made by browser software (sim. SSNs) become spam-reducing mechanisms rather than trusted tokens.

Of course, this doesn't work if you want true micro-payments; i.e., where the consumer pays for access to the material, instead of making a piece-work contribution after having already consumed the material.
Salesforce Integrated Slack. Now Freshworks Has an Answer: Freshchat
[I am not an electrical engineer]

As a practical matter, laptop batteries are limited by FAA regulations: no more than 12v and no more than 100 watt-hours. [1] A laptop that runs off of battery power for a week probably must be engineered backward from the 100 watt-hour limitation. A week has 168 hours so a processor running continuously at one watt uses the entire battery budget in about four days without powering a screen or a network chip. [2]

Good luck.

[1]: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

[2]: None of which means the idea isn't a viable Kickstarter.
> m I happy that I suddenly have a free sub? It's nice to have but it worries me that more and more services are bundled until the point where Amazon Prime is no longer a luxury but there is so much bundling where the price isn't worth it for any given service but there's no alternative.

Rest assured, that is precisely their goal:

"Our goal with Amazon Prime, make no mistake, is to make sure that if you are not a Prime member, you are being irresponsible," - Jeff Bezos

src: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-says-it...
I was able to reproduce this issue on Apache 2.2.22 with a legitimate method:

<LIMIT GET>
Allow from x.y.z.v
Deny from all
</LIMIT>

for I in `seq 1 100`; do curl -sI -X OPTIONS http://myhost/ | grep ^Allow; done | uniq
Allow: ,GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS
Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS
Allow: ,GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS
Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS
Great! If Elementary ends up not being to your tastes, do try Gnome-Shell. The UI is a bit "different", in the sense that it tries to innovate in quite a few places, but it's definitely pretty.
What are your top 10 tips for a young cyber security analyst?
Could you explain in more detail what the effects of different methods would be?
Not sure if this is the case for most of Europe.

In Germany, only a minority enjoys a 37.5h week. The obligatory lunch break is not paid.
How I cut my Webpack bundle size in half
Is that truly the history of the reaction to boiling instruments?

This part seems relevant today:

> We know that no responsible scientist guesses his formulae but derives them...

I am troubled by the epistemological blankness of our age of multi-gigabyte mathematical proofs and inscrutable multilayer neural nets....
He was often allowed to leave for work release to help the government build a case against Bear Stearns. He definitely had to stay there during the weekends.

According to federal prosecutors, only one of the girls would agree tontesitfy against him and that wasn't enough to get a conviction.

If you read about the case in sources that aren't determined to link the whole thing to a Bill Clinton conspiracy, you'll see it wasn't an open and shut case. It's pretty likely prosecutors agreed to a deal because they thoght he'd walk otherwise.

The local DA convened a grand jury and they thought there was only enough evidence to support fairly minor charges. Maybe he was paying off witnesses, but you need evidence of that.

Regardless he still spent time in jail.
I think the rationale that you can gain nuance from in-person interviews about public information is where science and mathematics turns into wizardry and human bias nonsense.

If the evidence suggests access to CEOs like this works, there's probably something else going on. Maybe a bit more winking and "I didn't say this but..."
Much love for the old thinkpads. You can practically drive over them with a car and they keep on ticking.
Shapely too!
Lets all hope these practices aren't looked at as successful by other governments, I'd hate to see other countries following suit.

There are activists basically asking for this in the US and western countries.
I think it's common to use "(re)charge" when adding credits to something like a Steam wallet. This feels like that type of transaction.
We would totally accept that bet. The closest bet we have right now is bet 11: “At least one human alive in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150.”

http://longbets.org/11/

The tricky part is coming up with a clear agreement about what "cure" and "death" mean here. But there's a lot of good discussion around e.g., the extropians, so I think a solid bet could be created.
Once a submissions grows old enough without having gotten significant attention those upvotes don't matter anyway, so a repost is allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Motor neurons move the muscles, so does it matter which signal they pick up? With some machine learning in there, it should be able to discern between actual actions and random twitches.

Edit: for down voters who didn't read the article, they already are using machine learning:

"Picking up the signals is only the first step. Perhaps the most difficult part is then transforming them into signals that the device understands. This requires a combination of coding, machine learning, and neuroscience."
Obviously there's tension between releasing code and protecting security interests.

Maybe it'd be better to say that public money should produce public code by default and we'd put the onus on agencies and elected officials to exempt projects from the requirement.

Should the VA publish their record keeping software? Seems sensible. Should we publish the microcontroller code for ICBM guidance systems? I think the status quo of classifying that information is working out well enough.
He didn't "experiment". The decision was part of Ford's moral philosophy.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-work...

If you think Ford ran the best scientific business, you'd have to include this as well:
http://jalopnik.com/when-henry-fords-benevolent-secret-polic...

"To qualify for his doubled salary, the worker had to be thrifty and continent. He had to keep his home neat and his children healthy, and, if he were below the age of twenty-two, to be married.

What started out as a team of 50 “Investigators” eventually morphed into a team of 200 people who probed every aspect of their employees lives. And I mean every aspect.

Investigators would show up unannounced at your home, just to make sure it was being kept clean. They’d ask questions that were less appropriate of a car company, than they were for the modern-day CIA. They’d query you about your spending habits, your alcohol consumption, even your marital relationships. They’d ask what you were buying, and they’d check on your children to make sure they were in school.

Women weren’t eligible, unless they were single and had to support children. Men weren’t eligible unless the only work their wives did was in the home.

....
spiritual smelting process where the impurities of foreignness were burnt off as slag to be tossed away leaving a new 100% American.

you needed the company’s permission if you wanted to buy a car, which included a requirement to be married and have children. "

and Ford himself retracted the whole philosophy:

"It was also highly controversial, and because of the competing economic, and ironically, societal factors, it was slowly wound down. Even Henry Ford himself found that he was against many of the program’s aspects, writing in his 1922 autobiography:

“paternalism has no place in industry. Welfare work that consists in prying into employees’ private concerns is out of date. Men need counsel and men need help, often special help; and all this ought to be rendered for decency’s sake. But the broad workable plan of investment and participation will do more to solidify industry and strengthen organization than will any social work on the outside. Without changing the principle we have changed the method of payment.”
Database Management: No Progress Without Data Fundamentals
Now why on earth would I want to help come up with better justifications for people who want to spy on me, just because their current justification - fear of terrorism - is irrational?

This seems like really screwy logic. How about we just don't spy on people? Or, if you think it could be used to help people, maybe start from a point of "how can we help people" rather than working backwards from "how can we come up with legitimate uses for mass surveillance".
No worries, I avoid linked videos like the plague myself. This one is decently short (for these types of repair videos) at 11 minutes, and is pretty easy to jump through if your pressed for time.
Depending on the game, it may be done on purpose.

As someone who's made games, released them, and suffered so many complaints about how hard they were, so I'd dumb down the A.I. and still get complaints about how hard it is.

Or another 2 player turn based game that included three different difficulties and had a ton of people telling me easy mode -- which was basically the computer making random moves -- was impossible to beat, and the computer cheated, and the game was stupid, and I should kill myself for making such a stupid game.

A.I. isn't usually super great in games because it doesn't have to be to give a challenge to the vast majority of people.
The discussion is substantial, and over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274339
So... basically no, there isn’t. Yikes.
The Girl Gangs of El Salvador
Announcing CoffeeScript 2
You're right, we shouldn't disparage people for working long hours in pursuit of their passion. But we absolutely should disparage investors and founders who seek to exploit this youthful passion and energy to enrich themselves without fair compensation. The tricky part is actually defining what's fair.
>The one year we turned a profit, we celebrated with a pizza party that pushed us back into the red.

Literally the 3rd line of the article.
I'm not justifying anything, just applying logic.

Saying that bad journalism "is why the Rolling Stone is for sale" makes no sense when bad (and far worse) journalism does just fine everywhere.
I'll add the caveat that for HiDPI displays you're still likely to run into scaling issues, particularly if you have differently sized displays. I hear that for some specific cases Ubuntu/Gnome 3 handle things acceptably, but there's still a lot of rough edges (not that Windows doesn't still have problems here too).
>I wish more managers would stop buying into the myth of "time in seat == productivity", and look at the real output of their teams.

I think a big part of this is the generally ambiguous nature of knowledge work. If you could quantify work into discrete widgets it’s easy to mark people to output, but on stuff that’s fuzzy and hard to quantify it’s not so easy.

It actually takes a fair bit of work and intimate knowledge of how stuff gets done on the ground to make realistic projections about output or to understand what “real output” even means.
Doesn't this work by emulating the processor instruction set along with a few key drivers? The complexity of the OS itself wouldn't be directly hitting the emulator.
Does AMD do this or is that still just an Intel thing?
Computing the inverse of odd integers