skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What options are there for an “old” CIO?
I’m the CIO for a company of around 3000 employees in a non-tech industry. Prior to this gig, I was a software developer in a number of different industries, including telecom and a brief stint in network security.

I am leaving my role after 15 years. The company has changed significantly over that time, and so have I. I was part of a team that led it through a sales process and an acquisition. Post-acquisition, things have stabilized, and it’s time. I’m not being forced out. I met with the CEO, discussed my feelings, and requested to be let out of my contract at the end of this year.

My problem is...I have no idea what I should be next.

I wouldn’t call what I’ve done over the past 15 years typical for a CIO. Many CIOs I know are paper pushers, figureheads, or governance junkies. I’m a technologist at heart. I still write code on a regular basis. I know open-source inside and out. I run Linux as my primary desktop and have since 1998. I’m more CTO than CIO.
I’m passionate about building smart teams and smart products. I absolutely love building and creating innovative solutions.

I’m a mid-40s guy who has a lot to offer, but I don’t know where or who to offer it to.

I’m not hung up on my title. I don’t care if I’m called CIO, CTO, or even C-anything. I’m more interested in finding something I enjoy doing which can leverage my experience. I’ve even considered applying for technical sales roles. I’d like to maintain a similar compensation level ($200-250K annually).

Have any other HN’ers found themselves in a similar position? What did you do? What would you recommend I pursue?

Note, my original post was longer, but HN limits things to 2K characters. Here's the full post:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zawasbwgnal9ZzAQTLB1__MeV_FuNhUR0-p2tolkKSM/edit?usp=sharing
Possibly, but it generally won't - assuming that the paper meets the criteria (which generally don't include any requirements for affiliation or degree) and isn't obviously garbage or absolutely weird (which may be an issue for first self publishing without any mentoring, you need to have an idea about "how papers are written" in this domain), it'll just go through the same process as every other paper.

In some fields there is a noticeable proportion of "industry papers" with valuable contribution coming from people outside of academia without advanced degrees. Sometimes it's obvious in the reviewing process by having problems that are less frequent otherwise (i.e. they lack the experience of "how to write a decent paper according to the standards in this field" that's taught and practiced during the PhD process), but those generally are fixable and so they're just pointed out doing the reviewing/correction process.
Seeing as this comes up every so often, what in your opinion are the elements missing in todays current banking system - either as a consumer or a developer - that you would like to see?
Microbiologist Carl Woese changed the way we think about evolution
If you are concerned about 100W chargers not being enough, use the 135W charger (that comes with the machine) then?

That doesn't mean that people who want to use other 100W USB-C chargers should be denied this convenience...
I don't care so much about ports, but a Xeon with 64GB RAM would be quite nice.
> If you were to raise the speed limit to 75mph, people would just use the same logic to drive 90mph instead.

I've driven in parts of the country where the speed limit is 75 or even 80 and that wasn't my experience. There were not a lot of people blowing past me doing 95.
How Long Should Your SaaS Software Trial Period Be?
Ask HN: Will Facebook and/or Apple join the cloud computing race?
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are all selling cloud computing platforms, which are a massive revenue driver with vendor lock-in and margins that would have any investor salivating.

IMO there is an elephant in the room — or rather, a lack of two elephants in the room. Where are Apple and Facebook in the cloud computing race?

Does HN think either of these companies will attempt to offer cloud compute at any point in the future?
Still true to this day - I've been pulled over for speeding just over 80, and the State Police knocked my recorded speed down to just below 80 so I wouldn't get a very serious "aggravated" speeding ticket (something like 15mph over limit)
Do you post updates on your work on this game at all?
I would love to purchase a game that taught different hacking challenges using true to life code/exploits.
PROFOUND TAKEAWAYS for Life and Business from “The Alchemist”
This was apparently done without his consent -- since he never wanted to be recorded live.

Here is the official YouTube preview, with captioned explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Xp2Djqh3s
It wouldn’t be meant to cover every case. But most people have simple taxes - they receive an income from a job and investments that are already reported and thier only deductions are charity, home mortgage, state taxes and dependent (or did that change this year?)
> A paper ballot system is just as terribly ineffective as electronic voting. Look at Russia. They have a paper voting system as well.

If corruption is widespread at all levels of society no system will work.

> I know in other poorer nations thugs just straight stuff the ballots with votes, some even steal the box, some set it on fire, and it can be in general a complete shit show.

And you know that this happens because you need a shit show to mess election at that level. With electronic voting, you will not even notice.

Paper voting is inefficient and is what it makes it hard to break. You need a lot of manpower to alter an election. If you can alter the election result with manpower, the system that you use does not matter anymore.
> You have to stop the bots from trying to brute force user accounts and passwords.

That shouldn't be an issue if the passwords have enough entropy.
It's not hard to find VSTs which will easily max out an i7, especially if they run on Max/MSP. Also, stuff from u-he, like Diva. If you run several instances on high-quality you'll usually need to start freezing tracks.
Yes, of course. I'll ignore the law that I actually learned in law school and in the actual practice of litigating contracts for what some guy said on the internet...

There's a reason I brought up the falling apple example. Verbal contracts are enforceable--if they satisfy the same requirements as written contracts. On top of that, the terms of a verbal agreement must be corroborated by other evidence outside of the verbal agreement itself in order to survive litigation--and the trend in the US legal system is to require more supporting evidence.
Is there added risk for a credit union to be in a specific niche? Say, for tech workers.
The apparent paradox is that the choice of blue/green vs grue/bleen appears symmetric: green="grue if before 2028 else bleen" whereas grue="green before 2028 else blue". But then why do we strongly prefer to make predictions using green/blue instead of grue/bleen?

One way to resolve this paradox is to translate the terms into the raw language of physics, at which point it's obvious which one is simpler. More concretely, imagine trying to make a camera that recognizes "bleen" vs making a camera that recognizes "blue". Which camera only works if you include a clock? More abstractly, I would say that the Solomonoff complexity (aka algorithmic complexity) of bleen is higher than blue (for basically any programming language or hardware you will run into). Therefore you prefer blue/green.

Yes, one can generalize the paradox by reformulating all of physics or all of computer architecture to be based on the before/after 2028 distinction. And yet, it does seem that that would make the physics harder and the hardware more expensive, right? There seems to be an objective sense in which nature is built around blue/green rather than grue/bleen.
I don't think this would prevent you from using a CPA or Itemizing your return. However, this system could be very beneficial for the 68.5% of the population that doesn't itemize[1].

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/who-itemizes-deductions/
Show HN: Websites for Artists (1-man side project)
I have "boring" taxes with many stock transactions. This is not simple to file.
Slightly humorous, probably passes the bar on reddit but not here.
No idea...

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Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17605371
Would the downvote care to share an opinion? It improves discussion when there are two sides.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Travel_speeds

on a free-flowing section in 1992, the recorded average speed was 132 km/h (82 mph) with 51% of drivers exceeding the recommended speed.

The autobahn has a long history proving that people feel comfortable and safe at excessive velocities.
Publish it to the public - fuck academia. Bought and sold by special interests.
The analogy still works: Let's say the vending machine companies became fed up with being robbed all the time by people using face masks and as soon as somebody walked up wearing a face mask the vending machine would recognize this and turn into a locked down candy safe.

Maybe to get around this the vending machine could ask for an identity card to confirm this person was safe.

In the same way, could Cloudflare (or anybody else) cookie people who were deemed safe? Sure. But then that sort of defeats the purpose of Tor.

From the perspective of somebody operating these systems: they are either damned if they do, damned if they don't. Given the relatively small number of people using Tor, I think what has been done here is perfectly reasonable.
You just provided a valid interpretation for q. So what’s the problem here? I don’t understand why you’re arguing that q must be 0 or 1, which is nonsense.

I don’t object to your comments about the absence of a working paper.

You need to do better than just quoting passages from Wikipedia if you want to understand what that means.

You’re accusing me of not understanding the Dutch book argument. Do you have any reason for this, or is it just a baseless accusation?
Just curious, what do you think a fair articulation of the facts would sound like?
In the late 90s to early 2000s I was a teenager and communicated with various scientists and academics via email, some of which had something of a mentor role.

By those experiences I'd say someone like Alcubierre is more likely to engage young ducklings than, say, Michio Kaku.
Cryptocurrency support would be nice. I understand why that's not going to happen, but if a local bank supported crypto, I might be tempted to open an account.
it's the cars. the relative motion that is transferred into the cab, the handling, etc. back in the 70s/80s when folks drove huge metal deathtraps with barely any seatbelt that nobody wore anyway, on top of a giant floating weight distribution that would easily spin out, 80mph was an insanely high speed.
> Russia also apparently interpreted the tweet as encouragement to illegally hack into messages by a former Secretary of State, because they were encouraged to attempt to illegally hack into messages by a former Secretary of State:

First, the allegations against the Russians and Trump can be 100% true without this particular item being a request made and fulfilled. Second, what the article claims as hard fact is not strictly supported by the indictment, which uses the legalese "on or about", which means prosecutors are sure it happened, but not exactly the timing. Third, per the indictment this was a part of an ongoing Russian campaign, so it is hard to imagine the Russians named were "encouraged" to engage in behavior they were already engaged in. Fourth, as the article notes, no link between the statement and the activity is alleged in the indictment.

Finally, this would be very foolish of Trump. That's not to say he can't be foolish, but it does suggest that we should think twice about such an interpretation; especially since the Russians win here regardless of the outcome. Either they get what they want or they create even more division in American politics and make the president weak. (And, for the record, this 'request' suggestion is some of the less hyperbolic stuff I've seen.)

I already think there's fire because I'm looking at fire. I just don't see the value in peddling weak interpretations (or, in many cases, egregious hyperbole) as fact.
Bullshit. They're great at it. They just don't tell you/"you" (general populace) don't bother to inform yourself about it.

See: Verizon buying up ad networks, CarrierIQ, etc
Twitter Lite expands to 21 more countries, adds push notifications
Surprisingly enough, I know the guy that wrote the blogpost in [1] and talked to him this morning.
Ask HN: What is the YC/ HN for making physical goods?
I've seen YC fund a few founders who are starting a brand, but it is certainly not common. Does anyone know if this exists?
Same here. We have tons of ThinkPad from the T series which perform really good. We had some issues with the early X series but those were replaced by Lenovo.
Then use something else, but what your ISP offers you is probably a lot worse (in service quality and security).
And once more the supposed nation of the future shows itself to be massively stuck in the past...
Cool! I must not have seen that flag from my quick glance at the README
an inclusion list (i.e, only these apps are allowed to run) would help.

Really, though, the thing that I want (and I'm probably not thinking through the ramifications too deeply, so bear with me), is a remote kill switch that is physically manifested as a FOB.

Without such a device, our option of last resort is to temporarily cut service to the phone via the cell provider. This is not a process that lends itself easily toward doing and undoing, and its also only available to the primary account holder, which makes it sub-optimal. Though it has been done more than once...
In my experience addiction is less about the thing you're addicted to, and more about some negative experience / emotions that you're using the addiction to escape.
Hey HN. Been working on this solo project off and on for 1 - 2 years now. Looking for feedback, tips, tricks on marketing, anything really. Still several things todo, but feel it's ready enough to try and gain some traction. Built mostly on CakePHP with S3 for image data hosting.
20% VAT on everything makes a difference as well although it isn't an income tax
Their problem, not mine.
Sending a pre-filled form that we can append with any deductions would be the best. Hell, it could be a website. The web is great for filling in forms.

I live in Virginia and about a decade ago we had an online website to fill in the state taxes. It was so easy. H&R block bought off the legislature to have it shut down and now they charge one of the highest rates in the nation to file state taxes for Virginia. The stated reason for shutting it down was to save money, because $40k was apparently too expensive to save the residents of the state millions.
I think it would still happen with standard/non-itemized deductions. This particular case was mis-reported income. But agreed that my case (and really any cases that involve capital-gains) are probably in the vast minority.
> Not..entirely true.

Obviously. You should read categorical statements like this one as, "The IRS [often and in many of the most common cases] have all the data."

That's a generally-applicable, useful, mental substitution that saves us from unnecessary and constant waffling and equivocation in everyday conversation.
In .NET it's even advanced to the point that the official C# and Visual Basic (and maybe others) compilers expose this functionality themselves, so that the IDE doesn't have to implement its own parser that may or may not understand things the same way.

Contrast with, e.g., working with Scala in IntelliJ, where you just have to kind of get used to the fact that the IDE will occasionally insist six ways from Sunday that your working code couldn't possibly compile.
It does not have to be this way. The fact that new system is developed by a brand new team is because the old team has dug in and would not support moving to the new technology.

But even when the old system is decommissioned there is no need to fire the old team. It does happen, but because everyone who is capable of finding a new project moved there and whoever is left cannot or doesn't want to do anything else.
Thanks, icedchai.
It's definitely a major factor in my life for the past few years.

The alternatives available include driving to a different city with a 2 hour / day commute, or full-time remote work.

I appreciate it... it's nice to have any encouragement that I'm not crazy for even considering passing up such an opportunity in my life.
If by 1099 you mean 1099-MISC, which is what I think most people mean when they say "1099 income" without an additional qualifier, then the IRS almost certainly has no idea what detections are available to you, and there may be taxable things that they don't know about either.
I have reviewed and published several papers for conferences in Computer Science. You got good suggestions so far, I'd like to add one important thing:

* Choose and Know your community!

When you choose a venue like a conference, you are writing an article with the intent of being read by a very specific subset of the research community. You can imagine each subgroup having a set of "interesting conversations" around a narrow set of topics or methodology that are deemed important by the community.

So ... you have to convince your audience that you are contributing something to their conversation. Go look up papers in the previous edition of the conference, dig into their references, and frame your contribution in the term of the conversation they are having. In this way it'll be easier for everybody reading the paper to understand what you are doing.

In some cases, it might be that you are telling the community that they should care about this new problem of yours, but if it is completely unrelated to their discussion, it'll be an harder sell.

Also, be aware of the style of the community: are they interested in experiments backed by strong theoretical work? Or are they more interested in practical experiences, without caring much about theory? A decent paper accepted in a theoretical conference might actually be rejected by a more practical conference (and the other way around).
Party over country.
Cops don't set speed limits.
Stock transactions make your taxes very not boring. Pub 550 (https://www.irs.gov/publications/p550) is one of the most complicated areas of personal income tax.
You nuke the OS it comes with and install your own.

(on the assumption the main risk is Windows crapware installed at the end of manufacturing rather than low-level firmware backdoors)
Forget the federal government. I wish this was something states worked out. After all they collect my taxes on my behalf. I should just be able to fill out my state return and let them deal with the federal government.
That's not true as far as I know.

EPA selected glyphosate for screening based on the widespread use of the chemical. Not because it was suspected to be endocrine disruptor for any real reason. After tier 1 screening did not find any evidence no other testing was considered necessary.
Is your solution considered clean and maintainable based on voting? The site has no examples, so I find it confusing.
From new information.
Just curious: why try to publish in an academic journal if you're not an academic?

In many fields, if you have the resources to do the research you wouldn't be asking this question. And fields where single author, more creative (let's call it) work is acceptable also seem to be areas with a broader audience beyond readers of narrow, often paywalled journals and could be more appropriate as a book, talk, blog, or arxiv post. And if you're not trying to be an academic, you don't need publications for treading water in your career.

(I'm not being critical of the ambition. Even if the reason is just ego or getting accepted into a group of people you respect, that's good enough reason for me!)
Are you literally arguing for men to become the "soy boy" stereotype with insufficient testosterone for proper male development simply because it will keep them docile?

Today, I watched a leftist argue for something worse than eugenics.
Group f/64
> If your addiction had instead been to hacking sites together with php, maybe you would be a multi-millionaire now.

That's me. Except for the multi-millionaire part :/
If I had $500M the least fun thing I could do is start a bank.
I don't buy your premise, but supposing I did, what alternative do you propose? The purpose of social science is to understand human society. Do you have some concept of a way to do that which you feel would be more clearly accurate or scientific than what's currently done?

Bear in mind that the 'hard' sciences use theories which are partially or wholly incorrect, too; we still use Newtonian physics in many cases because they're easier to use as a model, even if they don't capture everything.
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It feels like there's a growing split between what borrowers and depositors want from banks.

Conventional wisdom says small businesses benefit from a personal relationship with local bankers who know market conditions and can sign off on loans and lines of credit that a national bank might see as too risky or too small to deal with.

But as a depositor, I don't want a personal relationship with my bank at all. I want a reliable IT system with low costs and great tech support if something goes wrong, which is something the scale of a national operation can best deliver.
Consider the possibility that human sovereignty doesn't give a good goddamn what's "good for society", only the ability to be free.

I'll decide how I want my interactions with the rest of humanity to go, thanks.

We'd be 100% safe if we were all in cells with a telescreen, or if we had our brainwaves monitored for aggressive thoughts/disruptive emotions.

Think that's too extreme of a comparison? Well, that's where your comment leads: China is monitoring employees' brain waves and emotions: $315M profit increase - https://nordic.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveilla...
I don’t think dismissing the parent comment based on a study is fair. Anecdotally, I drive the way the parent describes, and several comments also corroborate with that. Likely that a non negligible portion of the population drive this way.
That was my point too. If such people can be found then by all means this is a testable proposition. I had another idea though.

Give these journalists what they ask for and attach betting markets to news articles as bets on media bullshit - then we'll see what happens next. I'm sure it will be illuminating.

The bets could come in many forms from "Is X true?" where X is measurable to more complex bets like "If X then Y result" where Y objectively measurable. This incentive will balance against the clickbait incentive of journalists and the bookmaker will make more money if more people accept the terms of the bet - so the third party has an incentive to resolve for good quality propositions. Sports bookmakers already slice up complex scenarios into betting proposals so I'm sure this can be accomplished in a way reasonable to all partisans.
Working a smaller shop, 30 days frequently translates to at best a day or two of actual use of a product. Given the hassle or a 30-day vs. 90-day trial, and equivalent products, I'll eliminate the short trial up fron among a set of offerings.
Well, if the IRS gets it wrong they'll come back and declare the taxes you filed are wrong and send you a bill. Maybe also trigger an audit.

This system would be way better since you get to see the error up front and deal with it immediately instead of waiting 8 weeks for the process to start and your refund to languish for another month or two before it is all sorted out.
While I'm sure that most tax prep companies have lobbied similarly, this is why I don't use TurboTax and other Intuit products.