skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Written by two of the people who helped develop INFOSEC field and early secure systems. Schell was an acquisitions guy who worked with Paul in early pentests, pushed "COMPUSEC" when few believed in it, pushed for security certifications, was sneaking funding into secure systems like SCOMP, and spent rest of his career pushing solutions based on GEMSOS security kernel.

Paul Karger who was an engineer that worked with him early on doing pentests that were quite embarrassing to military and commercial sector. Paul designed and built a number of highly-secure systems at a time when it was little understood. Here's his publication list and an obituary summarizing some of his work.

https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Karger:Paul_A=

https://www.ieee-security.org/Cipher/Newsbriefs/2010/karger....

My favorite was VAX Security Kernel whose design is still stronger than most modern VMM's. It was also the project where the application of covert-channel analysis discovered cache-based, timing channels in processors. The high-assurance, security field started freaking out about how insecure CPU hardware was around that point. Both problems ignored by other groups in security much like results and advice from MULTICS evaluation. His last project was a secure, smartcard OS for IBM designed for EAL7 evaluation. He and/or his team wisely split it up into intermediate deliverables that had independent value and potential sales to keep the long-term project funded despite effects of management impatience or changes.
Yes, all the time. Often in key positions or on strategic initiatives where expertise or specialist skills are needed. I've also seen short contracts used while a company ramps up hiring FTE as a velocity optimization to get the ball rolling on something new.
If there's demand for said service, then there will be some new enterprising individual who will try to provide it at a profit.

It apparently wasn't running at a profit even before these new overheads. It was essentially being provided as a gift to the community by the person running it, and that person is not prepared to accept what he perceives to be a lot of extra risk just for doing people a favour. Why then is it reasonable to assume that someone else will step in and be willing to provide the same benefit to others despite the additional overheads?

The level of risk and profit is going to adjust to the correct balance over time.

Again, why should we make such a strong assumption in general? Previous ill-judged regulation of tech industries by the EU hasn't gotten any better with time. They still haven't fixed the "cookie law", which must be on the short list for most useless and widely ridiculed law in history! More seriously, they still haven't fixed the VAT mess, which finished too many microbusinesses and caused significant damage to many more slightly larger ones.
Nice, congrats! Care to share a link to your company?
Ask HN: How do you deal with disastrous levels of procrastination?
I've been trying to get into programming jobs for the last 4 years. I've been at 3 companies but I haven't lasted longer than 6 months at any of them. I just can't seem to get anything done at work. I don't think I've ever written any code that is used in production.

I've also tried free lancing but I've had the same kind of problems. I got a freelance job to build a property database for a local realtor. I managed to get started on the project but quickly got overwhelmed. After feeling overwhelmed I never touched the code again and felt too nervous to email the client back. This has happened a couple of times before with freelancing.

I've been for a psychological assesement and was told I had no problems. The doctor I spoke to suggested maybe I just wasn't suited to employment in a company and maybe I should start my own thing. That's what I decided to do.

I had an idea that I'd like to develop and managed to make a very simple prototype. I invested all my savings in the company but now feel like I'm under so much pressure from myself that I can't do anything. The day I set up the company I spent the entire day in bed because I felt like I couldn't face doing anything.

I feel like I've tried everything. All sorts of to do lists, books on procrastination, exercise, keeping myself accountable to other people and so on. I just can't seem to get started doing anything, and when I do it feels so painful that I can't continue. Occasionally, maybe once every 3 months or so, I'll have a day where I get lots done and I'm really focused, but I've never been able to work out how these days are different from any other day. I always go to bed feeling great at what I've achieved and then wake up to another day of nothing.

I'm going to visit a doctor again next month, but I wondered if hacker news could offer any insight on the situation. Is there anyone else who had a disastrous level of procrastination who has managed to turn it around?
> they run IBM 7074 assembly

That potentially puts them in the late 50s. That might be some of the oldest running code in the world. That's pretty cool.

I wonder if the person who wrote it is still alive?
There are two distinct classes of contractors.

- Those who aren't good enough to get a full time job.

- Those who are too good to settle for a full time job.

The two groups are treated quite differently.
Just replace deleted user's data with "Mr. Deleted 1234, 1234@deleted.com".
The day AI understands my dirty jokes, it's the day I call it cognitive.
I've always been bemused by the major focus that we need a brand new implementation of the algorithms so that they can take advantage of modern computers. Ignoring just how bloody well it already takes advantage of faster processing power.

(I get that there are some good arguments for a more developer friendly extension language.)
Ok, I am even more confused after reading this:

https://revenue.support.tn.gov/hc/en-us/article_attachments/...

How do you even have a single member LLC that is a disregarded entity where the single entity is a corporation? Huh?

That seems to indicate I am responsible for these taxes?
Yes, and many places have technical editors that help with these sorts of things.
There are many types of work outside of Tech and Gig-worker (the two that most comments here focus on) in which workers are inappropriately classified as contractors in order to reduce carried risk and cost to the employer, but where the employer also exerts significant control over the time, place and manner in which the work is done.

My own familiarity with this (through family who have experienced it) is in the healthcare field, where new graduates who are hungry for experience have little leverage vs established employers, and don't push the issue of how they are incorrectly classified as contractors.

Their only alternative would be to report the misclassification to state employment authorities, but again, they are often not in a position to make that worthwhile.
The manual for the 7070, which was similar, is here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7070/A22-7003-01_7070_Refer...

The instruction set documentation starts at page 42.
> The vast majority of "contractors" in the US are paid than their full-time equivalents.

You're missing the most important word there. I'm honestly not sure which one is intended.
You are correct - this is interesting. I run, and in the last 2 years my only medical visits are for bacterial pneumonia (non-flu related, just appeared to be really bad luck) and a stress fracture in my knee from ‘overtraining’. The stress fracture involved 3 visits with an orthopedic surgeon, an x-ray, and an MRI.

Wonder what the tradeoff is there for my lifetime medical expenses if I wasn’t running?
Aside from the fact that the tech is obviously cool, I think the FAQ section is really well-written. Props to the team.
I mean to say the there are tons of problems NNs aren’t good for. If we are on the journey to discover GAI super algorithm that is smart enough to learn very quickly without a shit ton of data, I’d say we still have a long way to go.

Anyone claiming they solved cognitive reasoning with a bunch of NNs stacked together in a black box is probably lying to themselves.
This is sort of the basis for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

It's a tricky subject though. In the US, it's been used to bring judgements closer to what we consider legal today, like refusing to convict on the Fugitive Slave Act or alcohol control laws during prohibition. But there are also cases of all white juries refusing to convict for hate crimes despite obvious evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_Unit...
I live in NW Kansas and we have gigabit fiber everywhere in this corner. Ruraltel/Nextech is the company that scored the $300 million grant that was a rider on the Hurricane Katrina bill for the purpose of running fiber throughout northwest Kansas.
I prefer ads to paided services. I wish there was more honest advertising. I use to be concerned with tracking but the bigger concern is walled gardens.
Advertising can be very helpful to get a new product or service in front of people, which then allows you to start building word of mouth referrals etc. Without it, there are many things that would never see the light of day. And because it costs money, it provides somewhat of a filter; while we all feel inundated with a lot of garbage advertising, you'd have to wade through far more to find interesting new products otherwise.

This isn't to say that you can't currently find useful things in ways other than ads; obviously that happens all the time. But without ads (or other similar forms of marketing) it might not be viable for many of these things to be launched in the first place, allowing you to then discover them.
Presumably he feels that Zuck is reneging on his verbal agreements made during the acquisition process. Speaking out publicly is the appropriate recourse.
Contractors are almost always paid less in my experience after taking into effect stock grants and bonuses. The contracting agency probably gets a nice portion of the takehome though (for having the political capital of being on a preferred vendors list), so to the company they probably pay more than salary.
Your habits define "you" more than your conscious self does.

When you don't take care of your needs (sleep, diet, exercise, hygiene), your habits take over. Sometimes it's circular - someone could have a habit of eating fast food, then feeling unhealthy, and not having the willpower to cook. Or watching porn until late at night, not getting rest, then not being able to stop.

If you can't take care of your needs, another hack would be to build good habits so that you'd be able to perform well even when you're on autopilot.
I couldn't tell you the reasoning, but I've worked at a couple of places where there were contract programmers alongside FTE programmers. In one case, that contract programmer became a FTE, but in either situation, most of the programmers were FTEs.
Indeed it would, but it's probably really difficult to research this, as you need a large population, and there will be plenty of external factors acting on those populations. You'd ideally want to use students with the same (or similar) age, and similar ability levels. Where do you find a suitably large number of those from? Then you'd need to remove any external influences - the effect of a good or bad teacher, for example.

That's not to say it can't be done, but is a much larger and more expensive piece of research.
> I think there are many cyclists who are an order of magnitude safer than your average cyclist.

Statiscally, that’s not likely - maybe even not possible. There will be some who are that much safer, but not many - otherwise the average would just be pulled up.
Today, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (as mentioned in the article) has indeed successfully migrated to SAP Core Banking.
Westpac is in a similar transformation to Oracle Core Banking.
Some European banks, eg Nordea, are slowly moving to Temenos T24, a Swiss java based core banking system.
Danske Bank built their own. It was expensive and, afaik, still has issues.
In an article for the general public?

I'm glad I'm not a science writer, I'd hate to have to deal with criticism like this.
http://www.ctex.org/documents/shredder/src/texbook.pdf

Page 449
Packaging an Electron app for managed distribution across devices
> "It’s almost criminal to endebt a student $100,000 to be a painter or a performance artist"

I agree and will never understand the students, parents, and faculty who choose to support such a system.
S-Corp always seems to get short shrift compared to LLC. I live in MA, where I registered my S-Corp, and it simply costs less, w/ no downside. Do your research (or, better, ask your accountant) before following the herd! :)
Fair enough, that's pretty interesting actually
If You Can Program, You Can Invent Your Own Tools
And worth noting the real pressure comes about when you move to real time payments. COBOL / mainframes are batch transaction processing systems and generally struggle with real time / event based transactions.
Blazor 0.2.0 – new experimental web UI framework with C# and WebAssembly
With those options then Net influencer or Instagram model surely? When the task of picking berries can be automated the manual labor should be shifted to other activities.

Naturally one might argue that it would be better for society where it so that people put in their hours into other fields than those that seek to profit on people's vanity.

However, when the option is what would essentially be meaningless work when compared to a machine performing the same task, then for me at least I would prefer people to be Net influencers or Instagram models.
Uber Loses Share to Lyft. Both Crush Rental Cars and Taxis
I would agree that kids and age play a big part in the appeal of Manhattan for people outside of college age range, but it has other things going for it besides just K-State. https://livability.com/best-places/top-100-best-places-to-li...

Kansas City is only a 2 hour drive away to go do bigger city stuff.
I'm not familiar with all of IBM's z offerings but it was my understanding that older systems were completely emulated and that there is no hardware compatibility. The emulation is completely independent of the underlying hardware platform and it allows them to retain ridiculous uptimes because of all of the hotswappable redundant systems that are able to run the systems concurrently.
Just saying, there's vaping and nicotine patches. I don't encourage it but I know a lot of people who use it as a nootropic. There's also a type of cigarette which heats it up instead of burning, so you get more flavor and less smoke/tar.
Isn't it more or less common knowledge now that Watson is all marketing buzz? The Watson that IBM is selling CIOs on is a very different thing from what was seen on Jeopardy.
And after all the accounting of minuitae is done, after we pay for layers of actuaries, account administrators, and executives that rebalance all the groups and variable, we end up paying a risk and profit optimized system price that is, on average, double other modern nations bills. And for the privilege of paying more than any other modern nation, we die earlier, exclude the poorest, and subject even those with that optimized insurance to bankruptcy should they need to exercise their benefit in a major medical episode.
It would be a nice surprise to come across an article on COBOL that has anything nice to say, much less informative, about the language. One could start with that it's one of a tiny minority of languages based on decimal arithmetic as opposed to binary. This is kind of handy when dealing with money.
In the real world, something you tell a couple dozen friends is no longer secret, but you don't expect it to wind up in corporate/government databases or on the front page of the paper. That's the model that's misdirecting people about Facebook.
I have an uncle who's about to retire after a career as a cobol dev. He tells me that he can teach me the language in two days, show me around the legacy systems of [big company you know] in two months, and then I could have a safe and lucrative career until I retire, too.

I wish he was interested in writing a blog post of war stories.
yeah but now you have to compete with WhatsApp to get that traction, so maybe a hard slog.
A Brief History of .NET Standard
Honestly, yours is a GREAT read.

That's a very solid case for contractors and almost nobody will have a meaningful problem with it. I've done similar things in the CAD / data management space.

A person with outside perspective, rare skills, experience, and most importantly, is the outside voice able to bring real options to the table along with production proven, time tested ways and means, is worth every penny.

The full time peeps should be taking you out for a lunch or two to network and gain some easy, high value mentoring, contacts...

I would in a second, and have had others invite me for this kind of thing. Some have remained in touch for years, and as they grew, have helped me as I did them.

If we had more of that going on, it would benefit nearly everyone.

But we don't.

The majority case boils down to head count quotas, and cost of labor factors. Often, these are both under specified, leaving managers to find contractors to fill gaps. The larger companies do this and it's chronic.
New sensors monitor brain activity and blood flow in the brain more accurately
I agree, refreshingly top-notch FAQs!
Herbie Hancock and Jim Whiting rocked it in 1984!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockit_(song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
I felt that way at Capitol Reef. Where were you?
If this is common in other states I'd assume they've already passed the test for driver partners?
Hahaha, I saw someone in the hallway wearing a contractor badge and a MIT hoodies. I am an alum so I asked about their time there. They said they graduated in 2003 but started in 91. I said, "Woah that's one helluva of a PHD." Turns out, they took a 10 year gap to play blackjack. Now they just work for fun every couple of years because they otherwise get bored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team
UK Bank’s IT Disaster Enters 2nd Week, Contagion Fears Rise
I just drink a glass when stressed out. It cools the brain and prevents overeating because your stomach feels a bit more full.
There is downside to S-Corps. Lots more regulatory requirements, minutes, and tax forms required. As a general rule of thumb assuming you are a single person company it doesn't make sense unless profits are greater than at a minimum of $150,000 a year. At that level you can pay yourself a "reasonable" salary say $80,000 and then lump dividend for the rest which is taxed at 15%.
Here is the new test (the ABC test if you're into unnecessary pet names for things):

> If A, B, or C isn’t present, the worker is considered an employee.

> A. Freedom from control over how to perform the service

> B. Service is outside the business' normal variety or workplace

> C. Worker is engaged in independently established role

So if any one of those conditions isn't the case, you are an employee under the law. I see people in this thread wondering how it'll affect companies like Uber/Lyft/whatever -- and I think it will actually be good for them, because now they'll use some of that warchest to hire the the best lawyers to figure out exactly how to best navigate the law (in california at least), and write their contracts in whatever way that best makes sure all 3 are present and they still get a healthy supply of drivers. Other smaller gig economy companies will then follow that lead so they can stay afloat and not purchase the legal work done by Uber/Lyft.

If I was invested in Uber/Lyft, I would welcome this, because it removes an avenue of risk, stabilizing the lawsuit risk.

[EDIT] - In the article there's a link to the decision from which the test comes from:

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Hargrov...
The problem is that "investors" would swoop in and buy said houses for the 30k, and rent it out for $700 a month. The first round wouldn't be so bad, but every-time anything came up for sale it would get bid up until the rent is astronomical in relation to the base materials cost.

In order for this to work you have to build enough oversupply that anyone at any time who wanted a 30k house could get one (and wouldn't have to drive two hours out of town). To do this you probably need to build huge condo blocks like you find in Hong Kong, or similar cities and those buildings aren't inexpensive. Possible, but I don't see it being something that happens without strong government involvement. Which itself tends to be a problem unless you happen to luck out with the proverbial benevolent dictator.
Just because there are openings doesn't mean it is frequently done!
I have never heard of this being an issue for diagnostic ultrasound. Since I’m trained in (cardiac) ultrasonography, I think this would have come up... I also did a brief lit search and didn’t identify any obvious examples.

I suspect your wife is referring to therapeutic ultrasound, which can damage bone [1]. But this is not the ultrasound people are getting of their heart, abdomen, or pelvis in general.

1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11731056/
Back when I worked at Boeing, contractors got paid about double what the full time employees did. But, they received no employee benefits (worth about 40% of the employees' salary, if I recall correctly) and could be let go at a moment's notice.

So in the end it worked out about the same.

If the law requires contractors to get the same benefits, etc., the result will be the contractors will get paid less. The ones I knew wanted the higher pay / no benefits circumstance, and they'd lose that option.
Best thing is to google "ada aarp eeoc gina" for timeframe of last few months. An example

https://www.provanthealth.com/industry-trends/2018/3/26/what...

"In the fall of 2016, the AARP brought suit on behalf of its members, arguing that the ADA and GINA regulations are inconsistent with Congress’s statutory requirement that employers’ wellness programs be “voluntary.” The AARP argued its members were injured by being forced to pay higher health insurance costs to avoid disclosing personal health information. In the fall of 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment to the AARP, holding that, although the term “voluntary” was ambiguous in the ADA’s and GINA’s statutes, the EEOC’s interpretation of the term was not supported by a reasoned explanation and therefore was not entitled to the Court’s deference."

http://www.psfinc.com/articles/aarp-vs-eeoc-lawsuit-update-s...

"If the current court order stands, wellness programs may not be allowed to tie incentives to wellness programs subject to the ADA or GINA."
Do you think you know why the position was structured like that? And did you have other non-contract job offers? Not trying to put you on the spot, just wondering about the details.
Night Court was a great show.

The TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/NightCourt) page says that "many legal professionals confide that Night Court is far ''more'' realistic than most straight Law Procedurals." I can't vouch for that, but my father is a lawyer, and it was one of his favourite shows too. His other favourite was Rumpole of the Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpole_of_the_Bailey.

The common thread here that both shows are both (a) funny, and (b) portray defense lawyers as more-or-less good guys. (My father worked for the Attorney General's department).

I can't think of a law procedural from the last two and a half decades that has either of those features. Why is that?
An ultrasonic device would make them clear out.
Last I worked on a 1099, the total tax amount was roughly the same, the difference was who paid it.
If you own a machete (or rampiri, or kukri), the marginal cost (and frankly effort) of killing a cobra is basically zero. And disposing of the dead ones has to be as easy or easier than disposing of live ones if you factor in any factors related to other people...