skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some spend their entire lives working at a company to figure out how little they actually value them in the end. I know I've worked for people for far too long knowing this and always regret not leaving sooner. Glad you saw the light and had an opportunity to get out, some don't always get that sadly.

I've turned down contracts because the stress of working with certain businesses just isn't worth the money they are offering and they are a constant revolving door of people. Hiring a contractor, burning them out with insane expectations and micromanagement and firing them when they miss those deadlines or slip up. It seems like it might work in the short term but long term it has to be costing these companies. They always have the worst codebases too, funny that.
New research published online Oct 12.

Including ‘very large’ increases in altruism.
Matthew Green's blog on why it happened and how it escaped detection is a really good read. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-...
I don't see the difference or understand what the difference is supposed to be or the rest of your argument at all, really. First you said something inaccurate about the gold standard on the basis of a comic book movie. Now you're saying what exactly?
if it were the case, don't you think they'd already tapped our their share of employees with clearances?
I could probably be handled though a legal trustee or a safe deposit box in which the contents(hard wallet) is willed to beneficiary.
> “What is unique about this latest study is that positive changes were found in several traits. In contrast to ‘states’, ‘traits’ are relatively stable and very resistant to change,” explained Griffiths. “Importantly, the trait changes were measured using scientifically validated scales, and positive change was corroborated by ratings from friends and colleagues who had established relationships with study participants,” he added.

From one of the authors
How much is this exposing humans who are not paying attention (ie: on their phone) while driving?

I would like to know to what extent are accidents caused by robot drivers being "odd" versus humans not paying attention and then blaming the robot for being odd.

(ED: grammar)
Cryptocurrencies would indeed preclude printing money.

>that money might simply be borrowed

...but I don't think any cryptocurrency would have any effect on any government's hability to borrow money. What would stop a lender from trading 1 BTC from a note saying "I.O.U. 1 BTC"?
If you're the first person to the line you have the right of way anyway.
Don Clarke Wins Layer123 Network Transformation Award
Personality is not a thing as such. What matter is the environment.

People adapt to their environment. Most character issues are a response to the work environment.
Theoretically. The extension can refuse to load sites that aren’t using HTTPS, but the real flaw is sites that use SSL instead of TLS. Attackers can reject SSL but they can’t do anything about TLS, so the security of your browsing would be affected by the website’s HTTPS configuration, and whether they use SSL, TLS, or both (the only 100% safe method is TLS only). I know for most people disabling SSL and going TLS-only isn’t high on their list of priorities so I expect this attack to be very successful on the internet as it is right now.
I make around $2,000/year from a store on the Second Life marketplace [0]. I rarely log into SL anymore, except to move money out of my account, but the products I made back when I was active continue to sell. I've never done any advertising for them, so it's all based on organic search traffic and word of mouth.

[0] https://marketplace.secondlife.com (1 USD = around L$250)
Most IoT devices never get patched. With this vulnerability you can just drive around and spy on webcams. I mean, that's pretty bad. It's enough to make me want to build rpi wifi-wired bridges/gateways for every IoT I own (which, thankfully, isn't all that many, but enough to annoy me).
> I think the unwritten rule is that people should not turn on flashing lights too early before acting.

A bunch of highly nuanced rules like this seems very fragile. If you are driving in this manner, you have a responsibility to be alert for things breaking.
We'd have to do the same for developers. A program that does nothing is an absurdity. The equivalent function, `id`, is an absurdity. I'm sure I could think of more if I tried.

ninjedit: I understand that they are a logical consequence of a reasonable way of doing things; my point is that law is basically the same (you could argue that a law is unreasonable, but a seemingly absurd law is not prima facie unreasonable).
Agile always comes off as if it were intended for small consultancy firms who do specific jobs for individual customers. That honestly doesn't sound like a place I'd ever like to work at. I'd rather work for a company that puts out mass-market products with near-monopoly status and takes a stance of "you'll take what we give you". Basically something like Microsoft or Adobe.

To me, agile is endless micromanagement. Tracking every little thing in JIRA and having constant pointless meetings. The next time I look for a job, I'm going to categorically rule out any company that uses JIRA at all.

And then there's a particular quality associated with agile that just comes off as cult-like. A while back, I was googling "scrum master" to find out what one actually did, and I stumbled on the official scrum page [0]. Some of the terminology on that page just jumps out at me saying "this is a cult" (in particular, the phrase "servant-leader" is used in an almost religious sense). If someone were to state what's on that page in real life, I'd start backing away slowly. And the cult-like feel is only reinforced by the agile community's peculiar use of ordinary words such as "story".

[0] https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-scrum-master
Where can I read this without logging into LinkedIn?
Oh I see, Thanks for the answer! For what is useful the extension then?
I guess if you compare a bad roundabout to an ideal four-way intersection that's true, but in general we can safely say roundabouts have much lower rates of accidents, especially serious ones, than do traditional intersections, despite many drivers' intuition that it should be the other way around.
This is purely an anecdote, but in my city it's hard to cross a road as a pedestrian even when there's a stop or a priority light for pedestrians. I've been honked and yelled at for "not crossing fast enough" or whatever. Of course it's not the norm and most drivers are respectful and doing just fine, but even a couple of those in a month gets annoying.

I shiver at the thought of having to cross any of these if there was only a yield sign. The principle that I have priority is not important enough over not getting hit by a bad driver.

TL;DR: I agree 100% with your point, but I do think bad drivers should be taken into consideration.
> All we have so far is confirmations of rather well-understood interactions.

Confirmations of commonly assumed interactions. This is vital, as numbers of other hypothesise/theories/other rely on that understanding. Without results like these all that work is on shaky ground, now it looks far more solid.

Confirming current understanding isn't as sexy as discovering new physics, but just as important, possibly more so.
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> You're ignoring a reality where a culture has _figured out on their own_ an optimal way to navigate from point A to B in bad traffic, (mostly) safely while constraining themselves to the _intent_ of the law, if not the letter.

Is it a reality? Sounds like conjecture to me, and the fact that many humans are killed in traffic fatalities certainly suggests otherwise.
The production curve Satoshi designed was to produce the largest supply of Bitcoins for the least amount of effort/resource input to the smallest group of users running the software. Half of the supply was produced this way in the first few months.

Blockchain and Bitcoin is different than physical resources because it's so easily produced.

Crypto tokens are different from other traded instruments because of the exchanges they're traded on are unregulated exchanges which can easily manipulate prices, fake orders, front run, or entirely falsify their deposits until there's run on the withdraws.
My parents got a (somewhat twisted) kick of taking me to the Church of St Nicholas in NYC when I was a kid so I could see several relics that were supposedly parts of the remains of Santa.

(sadly, the Church would be destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, and IIRC, the relics were never recovered.)
You still didn't answer if changing the blade in my utility knife will increase the likelihood that I'll attack someone.
The fact that a lot of OEMs don't push monthly security patches doesn't help.
Lol. I love how they say humans need to drive more like robots when it comes to traffic cameras, insurance, and making big money for insurance and gov't.

However, when it comes to something that threatens these industries...it's suddenly the humans that need to lighten up?

I'm ready to get rid of the entire auto industry once and for all, along with all of the insane amount of income they generate off the backs of regular people.
If you are counting that, then building up a dividend portfolio is a good source of passive income. About $400 a year from a 1x,xxx portfolio.
Writing covered calls once per month
Chances are someone else might want my same representative, maybe just not my neighbor. Right now, 50% of a state minus 1 can be represented by someone they don't want. Why not take a national vote and if your real is in the top 100, they become a senator, or the next top 538 and they become a representative.
> rules are wrong because politicians decide them

I would have thought speed limits are decided by technicians, based on statistics. I don't think it's elected politicians who decide them.
Supreme Court to decide if US has right to data on world’s servers
Number One: In 1945, corporations paid 50% of federal taxes; now they pay about 5%.

Number Two: In 1900, 90% of Americans were self employed; now it's about 2%... It's called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time.
On GitHub, appears at [0] with comments coming in today at [1].

0 - https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e40dd69ac29d6a858309b...
1 - https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/cc66e8f557d6f3d4dea5ea...
I run a side project for sending business reminders: https://www.cronote.com

Cronote made next to no money for 5 years, but slowly migrated its way to the top of Google for search of "text message reminders" and "sms reminders." I did a ton of work, made an iPhone app, changed the billing system four times and rebuilt the interface three times.

I now have ~60 paying customers, but it only makes $300 per month after all expenses. I don't think I've recouped the man-hours spent, but I've certainly learned a lot along the way. I learned Python/Django (website back-end), Objective-C and Swift (iOS app), and lots of fun stuff about timezones and calendaring APIs.
A crosswalk by definition is a place where pedestrians can cross with the right of way. They absolutely can be and often are unmarked, and exist in practically every first world country, including yours.

Here are the rules by state in the US.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...

You should probably learn the rules of the road before you kill someone.
I honestly don't know, but I should problably check.

I sold a _very_ small IT company in 1998 for $50K when I got a "real job"; the truth is, I didn't earn much on my own company, and it was doomed to fail anyway. I was only 22 years old, and my financially over-protective dad (thanks, though, and RIP) insisted on putting all the money into pretty secure stock funds.

I've never needed the money, and after my dad passed away in 2012, my brother's lawyer and accounting company keeps it under control. Based on a fairly conservative avg. interest of 7% since then, I should be good for $190K now, increasing approx. $1K+/month at the moment. If my rather poor math skills serve me right.

The reason I don't bother about this investment is that I'm currently OK with the "normal pay", but it's also because I'm afraid of being disappointed if I look into it, or (worse) get so excited I spend it all on crap. :/ Also, if I never bother about those money, I guess I'll never miss them when the stock market _really_ crashes. :)
You should be good if you’re up to date as of November 6th (I think, it may be November 8th)
Swiftonsecurity tweeted this out, it’s a description of KRACK and various devices affected by it. Apparently google already fixed it on android? Also it says that iOS is rumored to be protected against this since iOS 11 but it’s not confirmed. Nobody has put out an official statement yet. What’s weird is that commercial vendors like Ubiquiti UniFi (I use them myself) have already released fixes for their APs but the paper says that clients should be the priority and get fixed from KRACK ASAP. And it’s weird because I don’t know of any client-side fix released in the wake of KRACK being public.
https://char.gd/blog/2017/wifi-has-been-broken-heres-the-com...
> You need to understand monads before learning FP

No, you don't. You don't even need to understand them before learning Haskell, much less before learning FP using a language which doesn't use monads as pervasively as Haskell does.

You obviously need to learn at least something about monads as you learn Haskell, but understanding them is not a prerequisite.
hidden APs can be easily seen
Exactly. And then there will be a tipping point where autonomous cars are the norm with people 'riding' in them and all of our lives will be made easier because autonomous cars will do the driving, and the traffic laws pretty much will be obsolete. It will just be routing autonomous cars various places.
How do you define passive? Is 3 hours a week passive after setup costs?

Would organic traffic after doing SEO for 2-3 weeks be passive? Theres a lot of things which take 1 hour/week after being setup right.
I think that feature could be summed up as:

With criptocurrencies, if your software and opsec are good, you're a lot less vulnerable to identity theft and overcharges.
The president can’t spend money without authorization from congress (see Authorization for Use of Military Force congress keeps renewing) It doesn’t matter where the money comes from. Congress doesn’t just control how tax receipts can be spent, they also control how much can be borrowed and when, and directs the president in how to use it. And neither the president nor congress control monetary policy.
I imagine that it's because he delivered, rather than taking the time to abstract away stuff which might not need to be abstracted away.

Remember that very, very few organisations (companies or in academia) have 'quality code' as an overarching goal: rather, they want good enough code, soon. Time after time I've seen developers fall into one of two traps: abstracting too soon or too late. It's very, very difficult to avoid.

My preferred method is to just hack together something that works over a couple of iterations, then spend an iteration refactoring. It's hard to convince a business that this refactoring time isn't wasted, but it is in fact extremely valuable to the code base. 'I need to do this now so that I can satisfy your change requests later' sometimes works.
Sniff the apps, uninstall if they don't, it's just plain unacceptable at this point. If there's something you really need that doesn't, set up a VPN.
Is it?

It's also possible that FB, finding itself the victim of continual PSYOPs, is hiring people with backgrounds in that to help defend the company or needs security cleared people to liase with government security teams on that issue.

I'm getting sick of the cheap cynicism that fancies simplistic, dramatic interpretations over nuanced, realistic ones.

(This isn't to say that FB doesnt collaborate with the government in any number of ways -- just that the parent is a lazy, cheap shot.)
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BuzzFeed says its morning news show ‘AM to DM’ is reaching 1M daily viewers
WOuldn't that logic suggest that self-driving tech dependent only on image recognition has a hard-limit at around the human driving expertise-level? If we truly want super-human driving skills (as everyone seems to expect from future cars), wouldn't that mandate a richer and better quality of data?
... which is why a certain class of programs is most elegantly described in brainfuck?

Certainly there are tradeoffs to be made, but this does not mean that some languages are not simply better than others.
If Rick had snapped and shot up the place would you think he should face no consequences?

I'm sorry I insufficiently hedged my tolerance of someone showing anger when pressed and didn't think to explicitly cover the case of escalation to violence.

I absolutely get to say what the arbitrary line is in this case because I’m the one making the subjective judgment

And I absolutely get to tell you that in my assessment you're wrong. That how opinions work.
I released a mobile app for checking upcoming train timetable half year ago and earned approx $300. Assuming the same sales figure on the next half, yearly will be $600.

Was inspired by a previous "passive income" posts in HN too, original goal was to cover Apple developer annual fees.
you should probably check... there may be fees or other things that have happened.
You still need proximity to the client, a powerful SDR will definitely improve reliability on real-life environments.
Thanks for posting this, saved me a job. Maybe I'll post it again, or after the next one to see if it gets any more reaction.

I'm currently at 16:04:06 and the lords have just started to really interrogate about the progress towards General AI. So far I'm liking their tone.
A lot of us are contractors for the company with 40 hour work weeks. People at my company are salaried. I don't know about the other companies. I don't stray much from my 40 hours. If others want to put in that time, so be it. I always tell them to knock it off, but some people just can't be helped.

I don't put it all on management. It's a little of column A and a little of column B. It's tough standing up to management when they control your well-being.
> "good managers" are incredibly thin on the ground

True, but that should be a problem to solve, not an excuse (for the industry at large). Are companies providing leadership training? Are they trying to find out if a managerial candidate is actually "good" (by whatever definition they choose)? Are they evaluating the existing managers and trying to prevent problems before they start? Are they treating their managers as resources to be invested in or scapegoats?

There is a bit of chicken/egg there (they need to be good managers of their managers), but overall you can't expect to get what you aren't trying to get. If the incentives are to work on big projects to pad your resume and point fingers when they fail, you have an incentive to CREATE big projects, and an incentive to treat coders et al as someone to start building a blame narrative for in case it is useful.

I've had great managers and terrible ones. The great ones maintained a long view (don't overcommit, understand tech debt, know people are human) and would fight for you, whether that meant talking with upper management or having a hard talk with you. The terrible ones assumed their job was to assign work and chide are threaten as needed. The great ones would ask for details to understand, and only occasionally raise concerns. When they did, they brought their concerns to me first, to ask what I thought should be done. The terrible managers would also ask for details, but it was to micromanage. The great managers appreciated all their staff, even the troublesome ones, and viewed their job as finding the best point of mutual happiness between that employee and the company. The terrible ones mentally (or more) divided people up into "poor", "acceptable", and "great", and then showed favoritism to the greats and disdained the floors.

One constant for both, however, was that the managers that thrived at any given company were decided by the incentives the company provided, be they financial, cultural, or social.
Not a genuine answer, but JavaScript has a great ability to inspire respect for type systems, due to that duck typing.

I suppose the GP enforced it manually?
Given your constraints, I'd say that Elm is an excellent choice. It's simplistic enough to be approachable, the easy web integration is a feature (not a drawback as you mentioned), and people are doing "real work" in Elm so they will be able to use it for years moving forward.
And in this field that especially includes "managing your manager".

Managers get paid to have people skills. Programmers get paid to code. If you really are some genius, you may be able to write good code and also be more talented than your manager at people stuff such that you can manage your own boss with some seriously tricksy Machiavellian maneuvering. But, saying that is necessary is suggesting that all managers are incompetent dolts who cannot possibly do their job and, also, should not be expected to.

How would you feel about someone saying "Managers should be better at running the company than the CEO and it is their responsibility to somehow steer the ship to success in spite of an incompetent, alcoholic CEO routinely making stupid decisions"?
Well they keep claiming that they didn't do it but the company they acquired did so it's not their responsibility...

Same shit will happen once Bayer buys Monsanto and the Monsanto turds come to the surface. Not that Bayer hasn't done horrible things itself in the past. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannego...
SWWebView: An Experiment in Adding Service Worker APIs to an iOS WKWebView
I’m in the opposite position now. When I see a developer complaining about working hard having to learn all of the new stuff I’m pushing on the department - unit testing, dependency injection, CI/CD, etc. since I’m not technically management, I’m not in a position to do anything but allow for comp days and put in a good word for the FTEs and sign the time sheets of the contractors. But anything they learn will help them in the future either at the current company or the next.

I want everyone to come from the job with a mixture of doing grunt work - Yet Another Enterprise CRUD app — and learning something new cool and useful. I don’t want anyone stuck on the same app forever.
I make about $250/mo off of Space Gremlin mac app and a few mobile games that probably amount to nothing now. With kids entering the picture it's been harder to focus on passive income projects.
It might be passive income now, but that is without counting the months of work and years of experience I had to put into it.

A near-zero-maintenance project is DNS Spy [0], which brings in roughly ~600$/month.

[0] https://dnsspy.io/
I run a small website that loses me a few hundred dollars per month. Not taking it down out of nostalgia & for the people who are still using it.
Infineon-developed RSA library is broken
Curiously watching this discussion. I have a few ideas that I thought I should spend time building a product around releasing in the wild - a few months ago. Haven't had the kick in the back to do them yet. May be looking at someone else's $$$ will do it.
Goodbye Gatekeepers
Buy a financial asset. Boom! Passive income.
But it requires a different kind of skill altogether. A semiring is a concept in abstract algebra that’s quite independent from general functional programming.
What about taking away peoples ability to go out with other? Looking at “cellphones” as one collective thing is foolish, it’s a platform on which all of modern life takes place- you’re causing them serious harm by taking away their phone
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