skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I've done it when it wasn't prudent either. People who look at my salary history tend to have their jaw hit the floor when they look at the first 8-to-9 years. I used to have my own bosses tell me every day that I was "getting screwed". We're talking 25-33% of market rate, which traps you into slightly less crappy paychecks going forward and initially being typecast as an idiot. That was my fault for being a doormat in my teenage years -- I didn't think it would follow me until I was 26.

Fortunately I was smart enough to fix it at one point, and got a 70% pay increase upon starting another job. That takes a few tricks, though, including being hard-nosed enough to call the CxO of a company out on the politics of his negotiating practices.

It has forced me to live simpler overall, and not waste money. That's stuck with me. But when you don't have much to fall back on, you'd be surprised at how fast you're able to find a decent step up.
Geinimi, Sophisticated New Android Trojan Found in Wild
I think that it's ridiculous that the lent book is unavailable to the original purchaser while it's loaned out. That completely defeats the purpose of an e-book.

Edit:
Do the downvoters disagree on the benefits of having a book in electronic form? Or do they think that the restrictions are not unreasonable/ridiculous?
I haven't seen this article anywhere on the NYT. As of 12:38, the union slowdown story still hasn't appeared in the NY section.
It's only a matter of time before the Nigerian authorities realize how much money they can make from allowi.ng TLD registrations.
Because the sole source for that story is City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Halloran
The medical profession has an electronic document standard in HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2.
http://www.hl7.org/v3ballot2009may/html/infrastructure/cda/c...
It's an XML format so there is no character limit on narrative sections. Apparently that one vendor just decided to impose an arbitrary limit for no good reason.
Can you really loan out a book just once in its lifetime? Or just once every 14 days?
> I think there are a lot of people with this viewpoint, that the current security theater is a waste of effort at best.

How large is the group of people who think it isn't wasted effort?

I recently had a conversation with a group of well-traveled, well-educated people who honestly believed that the new scanners and pat-downs are okay because they are designed for our own safety. The 4th Amendment was never a concern to them. When I brought it up, the answer was essentially that the end justified the means. Ben Franklin's famous words[1] did not convince them otherwise.

How are you (general) educating people about their rights?

[1] http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1381.html
I understand your point, but I think it might not always be possible to improve the work situation enough to justify staying there. I think it's always worthwhile to give it a try and see how much change you can effect, but there is a practical limit.

As far as unemployment - I only know of one friend who is currently unemployed, and that's by choice! Not that this is indicative of North America as a whole; but it does reflect what I've heard others say in regards to there always being good jobs available for good people who are skilled.
I think this is a good reminder to thoughtfully consider how we handle edge cases.

I know that I often treat edge cases with the least care. This is certainly a situation where the opposite required.
Just something else you have to think about before recommending a new phone to your friends and family.
It took me a while to suck it up and flash a ROM on my Vibrant, but I'm happily running Nero v3 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883379) now and I keep kicking myself for not doing it sooner. The difference in 2.1 to 2.2 is incredible. It's really not that difficult to install it, either.
What regulations are keeping companies from going public? I ask out of ignorance.
“Well, we can’t have the doctors rambling on forever,” the tech replies.

Is medicine like this elsewhere now, too? The idea of having the quality of my medical care determined by grade-A morons in an IT department terrifies me even more than having the quality of my medical care determined by bureaucrats at the HMO main office.

Knowing which specific insurers/hmos/etc have restrictions like this on medical documentation would also be great when choosing where to get your coverage, but I bet regulations like HIPAA would prevent people from naming names.
Now that is cool. Thanks for the link. I prefer to be on the cutting edge.
For comments from the other times this was posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872759

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=873059

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871721
Exactly. At my last corporate job, there were a few extreme libertarians who would rail against "big government taking away our freedoms" at the drop of a hat -- but these same guys would meekly submit to all of the 1984-esque corporate BS (swiping a badge 9 times to get to your desk, weekly 'IT Security' reminders that your every action is being logged, surveillance cameras everywhere...
Why Snowflakes are Symmetric
Jailbroken PS3 running Linux, flashed permanently
Nobody is trying to win an argument here.

My take on this thread is that it is a personal attack on Sebastian. That's why I commented.

I don't know Sebastian (although we're "friends" on FB), I don't read his blog as much as some, and I have no interest in either defending him or protecting him. He's a big guy and can take care of himself.

But if you don't like a post -- don't upvote it. If you have a problem with a certain type of blog article -- complain about it in general terms. If you think there are charlatans among us eager to prey on the innocent, then say so -- but do it in a neutral manner. This isn't rocket science. This is just the basic skills of how to get along with other people.

You can tell a thread is off the rails the minute somebody starts talking personally about somebody else. It's a sign that they have a weak argument and are more interested in scoring points than making a critique. There's no happy ending: if folks come on and say the person is nice, others will accuse them of having a clique mentality. If others come on and agree, it's just some random internet mob lashing out for whatever reason -- not an attractive thing to watch.

So let's not do that, okay? If you're saying that all these comments and upvotes were actually people just objecting to the blog and not the person, then I believe you. I personally didn't take it that way at all, but I believe what you are saying to be true. All I ask is that you take a look at this from another viewpoint.

And I'm done here. I have no intention of kicking this can down the road any more. If you don't get it by now, you're not going to get it.
The whole point of this feature is to make e-books behave slightly more like real books. As it stands normally, you can't share your purchased e-book with anyone — it's prohibited by the terms of use you signed and enforced by DRM. This allows you to share your e-book like you would share a real book (well, once), wherein you can't read the book after you've loaned it out because...you don't have the book.
I've already confirmed that there is a "work-around" for this. Load the book up on your Kindle (or other device). Disable wireless (or other networking). Then perform the loan from your computer.

This way the book will be available on your device (since it doesn't know it's been lent out) and on your friend's device. Just don't re-enable wireless until you're done with the book or the loan has expired.

This way, at least, I was able to share a book with a friend and we could both read it at the same time to discuss it.
Is whether or not I was as pertinent as whether or not I might have been - because I may have been.

You might also ask (as the proper counterpart to your advocacy for using "women") whether I might have been had it been presented as an activity for men. Probably not, because I didn't identify as a man when I was a boy.

All I'm saying is that there's no reason to be hypersensitive about using the word "girls" if your target audience actually includes them. Is there a reason to believe that they were using the word "girls" but excessively trying to appeal to women? I took the unicorn and the kitty as a dead giveaway, myself.
"Hacker's Delight" happens to be in O'Reilly's Safari, I'm happy to notice:

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/networking/security/020...

Thanks for the nudge to check; you've put another item on my reading list.
Great point, we will add more information and stats about the work. A good number might be the % of packages that are late and then rejected by FedEx for one reason or another and the work that goes into that. Thanks.
Java - Grails and PlayFramework to be specific.
Improve your skills
Take on something new (even as a side project or hobby)
Network
Search indeed.com instead of monster.com!
Windows Accessibility to the rescue!

Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off

"Instead of using the mouse, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the numeric keypad to move the mouse."

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsvista/mousek...
Just curious, how long does it take to "go through" 2-10 papers a day? Do you read in detail, only if the abstract grabs you, skim for important points...?
If the "finder" is an investment banker, this seems very low.
http://www.funnysalescartoons.com/photo/dilbert-sales-engine...
One day perhaps, when you can run games on a mobile browser.

Otherwise, what killer web apps will make that happen?
Think of it this way. Negative space is essential in providing spatial relationships between items. You need to guide your readers eyes, with purpose, and one way to do that is by being smart in use of negative space.

A lot of designers starting out focus on what to put in, where in fact, a good design is essentially what you leave out. It takes discipline and experience, but most of all, it's derived from a deep understanding of the project requirements at hand. A good designer is 70% researcher, 30% designer.

Are you trying to build emphasis on a feature or message? What is the goal behind this web/app page design? etc.

All are question that need to be answered and understood before the sketching period, way before a first mockup rendition.

One method or guide you with alignment is to use a grid layout. Grab a guided PSD file http://960.gs/ and when you position your elements, try to build relationships between your elements by the way you align them on the grid.

Hope that helps.
Very interesting idea, we will consider offering this for sure. If anyone wants to test this we will work with them.
"* Fear of failure is a great motivator. When you quit without having another opportunity already lined up, you have a lot of obvious motivation to find a new job since your income is $0. I've found it easier than lulling myself into complacency by continuing to get my income from the source I hate"

Just remember that you are a more desired candidate if you are actively employed, and that other available jobs might be just as bad or worse than your current one. Also, if you don't absolutely loathe your job, you can use job offers as leverage in your current role.
Have you tried using CSS Grid systems (960.gs, blueprint CSS)? It is a great way to start learning how to space things around. Try experimenting with simple boxes first, then replace them with actual design content.

I don't use them anymore, but I have used them as training wheels to get myself to where I am today.
This is depressing in so many ways...just a few:

The software he is using is obviously extremely poorly designed:

"It turns out that in our electronic medical record system there is a 1,000-character maximum in the assessment field."

- Unreal. No further comment necessary.

"In practice, most doctors end up opening only the last two or three visits; everything before that is effectively consigned to the electronic dust heap."

- Opening individual windows for each visit is ridiculous, this should be viewed through a historic report at least (as well as a thousand other subtle smart features).

"As I type away, I feel like I’m doing the right thing, explicating my clinical reasoning rather than just plugging numbers into a formula."

- Why is a doctor be typing this stuff in? This should be spoken and recorded permanently, and transcribed by a qualified person into text.

And, maybe it's just me....I don't expect doctors to be experts in software design, but I would like to think doctors would be of average to above average intelligence...these shortcomings should be obvious to him as poor design as a reasonably intelligent person who has interacted with many forms of software in his day to day life and recognized as such - but from the article, he seems to think these are natural tradeoffs that must be made when switching to an electronic format.
Work initially in black and white. If it doesn't work BW, it won't work in color either. Squint when you look at the page. Does the contrast still pop? If not, change the design.

Think about the content. What's most important? What do you want to emphasize?

Minimize the number of styles, fonts, and sizes. Group elements together.

Print it out and read it. Does it flow? Is there an eye-pleasing sequence of elements? Or is it a jumble. Look at designs that are very good. What makes them good? Try to apply the same principles.
Sony failed to safely sign their executables with ECDSA, effectively yielding their private key to the team. They then used this, plus some bugs in the lower-level loaders to permanently flash a loader than would bring up Linux at the same level as a game would normally run.

This is in addition to the release yesterday of the private HMAC secret to generate dongles for downgrading the OS.

More information:

[1] How to sign things properly with DSA: http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/19/dsa-requirements-for-random...

[2] The actual talk from yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6CA4fqAdsc (with slides here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/attachments/1780...)
could not you make it pull my photo from facebook as well?
also ad an option of inviting friends from facebook?
>HN would be a better place without a constant stream of victory spam.

A beer on me if we're ever in the same city. I was starting to think I was alone in fighting the good fight.
HP c7000's are 10U - but they suck a hell of a lot of power. It would be great to pay just 150 per month to physically host 16 physical servers with (N) VMs running on it - but getting the power to it kills this deal.

EDIT: actually - you should be able to negotiate free hosting of an HP chassis assuming you get serious BW and power at full price.
All of Moosejaw's marketing is like this -- their boxes ship to you with a stamp saying something like "Sealed with a kiss by JOE," and they hand out Moosejaw bumper stickers that say something like "Camping * Kayaking * Hiking * French Kissing" at the bottom.

Their print catalogs tend to be thick and full of Russian models in beautiful scenery.

It's tough to differentiate yourself in the hiking equipment market; REI seems like the only company with an extensive array of house-label products, and everything else you can buy at at least two or three other stores online. Moosejaw's done a good job of making themselves memorable with this attitude.

Doesn't hurt that it's often possible to find 20% off coupons and the like, either.
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SOX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act

It's not keeping companies from going public as much as being a big enough pain and expense to make methods like Groupon's more desirable.
Korea Times: Is Nexus S Doomed?
Sarbanes-Oxley is the biggest one by far. Practically single-handedly killed all IPOs in the United States.

Plus nobody wants to IPO in this economy anyway.
Research In Motion Denies PlayBook Has Battery Issues
How would you suggest that book sellers handle lending.

Note the word "sellers" - they don't make any money from lending, just from selling.

They're really scared that they'll sell one copy and everyone will read that copy (or copies of it).

Note - "they should make less money" isn't an answer.
Howdy, I'm the Economist writer behind the Pease Porridge Hot story. I spoke to Matthew at some length, and have followed webcomics for over a decade. I'm not sure which people you spoke with, but Matthew clearly spends the majority of his time drawing The Oatmeal, dealing with sourcing merchandise, managing his web site (including programming).

There's no SEO business that he says he's currently involved with, and I have no reason to doubt that based on his posting schedule and the scope of The Oatmeal's operations.

We talked quite a bit about how traffic is generated, but there wasn't room in the article to discuss. Case in point was a cat comic he had posted the day we spoke that had received 40,000 page views an hour just before we met. He'd posted the comic, and it was already zooming around via his Twitter and Facebook feeds, and someone I believe had already linked it on either Reddit or Digg.
Please stop wasting your precious time.

yep, i'm senselessly stuck in bad job situation. lol
I wish the carriers and phone makers would stop "improving" their Android builds. Then you could just upgrade the day after Google releases a new version.

If you want to improve an open source project, don't fork it and forget about it. Send a fucking patch.

(Fortunately, AOSP seems to run fine on many phones. Looking forward to Cyanogenmod Gingerbread for my EVO 4G :)
I find the whole post out of place here. It's one thing to have a discussion on here about the success and merits of an MVP site that certain people seem to find entertaining enough to pass it along, but why do we need a quickly thrown together blog post that merely regurgitates some content in that thread taking up space on HN as well?
That's not the best comparison if we're talking about digital books, which take up nothing but a tiny amount of hard-disk space to "stock."

I seem to remember that Amazon was named after the river with the most volume in the world, a pun on their universal selection of books. Why change that now?
Why? Otherwise it's piracy. I can't read my copy of the physical book while my friend is borrowing it.

It is a reasonable compromise between amazon and the publishers that will hopefully become better as time goes by. As the publishers become more and more comfortable with it and less concerned that it will destroy their business (e.g. they'll need to adapt) the restrictions will get lighter, much like they did with iTunes.
Most statements are contextual and taken out of that context they become nonsense. Any statement that isn't must be a full description of the world.

The dichotomy I spoke of is more plain in the architect v. structural engineer example. The human terms the architect considers are building usage, energy distribution, flows of traffic, aesthetics, color, material, use of glass. By given each one and many others due consideration the architect attempts to build a useful, beautiful structure for humans.

The structural engineer attempts to decide if it's going to implode after its first earthquake (or even before). He doesn't care whether humans enjoy it. He cares whether the architects' dream has a right to exist in reality.

In the bus example, this is meant to suggest that just because we can humanly fear for the safety of our children it is wise to design with precision and care for reality otherwise we might make something comforting but ineffectual.

To do this pretty near requires switching your mind into a mode that abstractly considers the forces of impact a child's body might undergo during a bus crash. I simply want to reiterate that the voice of reason may be cold, but you should be unafraid to keep it in your toolbox, so to speak.
I've used Samsung's Galaxy S (my cousin just got one over the holidays). After having used a Nexus One and experienced "pure Android", it absolutely infuriated me to have to navigate through Samsung's crappy interface changes. Not only do they have "uninstallable" apps like monthly-fee-based AT&T Navigator (an inferior alternative to the free Google Maps which I'm sure AT&T demanded), but the Samsung customizations to the camera, apps list, etc. are completely unnecessary, inflexible, and worthless.

As I said before, I've used Android on the Nexus One and it really is fine "as is". I can understand why AT&T would try to trick their users into using their own apps that they can charge users for. But why would Samsung actually dump what I can only imagine is a substantial sum of money into doing stupid customizations to the camera app, applications list, and other parts of the phone that do nothing to improve the user experience?

edit: grammar
Wedding band.
Anyone who's attempted to or successfully installed an unofficial ROM, would love to hear your experiences in terms of difficultly of install and stability. Please include what carrier you're on.
I must have missed that meeting. Why?
A Linux horror story
I had no clue what he was talking about with tines down until he mentioned the american method being tines up. As for cutting stuff with a fork: I've unconsciously avoided doing that in nicer restaurants but I've always done it at home when I don't have a knife handy.

I think I would pick up on other people around me using forks differently just because I like to watch what everyone else is doing.
Hi everyone, thanks for the great feedback. As the author of the program, I have taken down Serendipity out of courtesy to Kayak.com after receiving an email (very nice, I might add) about the costs incurred by continuously running searches. Please back off your search frequencies if you are using the script. Thanks!
never.
Medical imaging is probably in systems and hard copies completely disconnected from (and inaccessible by) the database.
What carrier are you on, and how stable is it? I'm assuming the install wipes all data from your phone? Is there a good way to back up your contacts and restore them?
Ask HN: Name for "photos and video" section -- not "multimedia"
A section on our homepage features news photos and news video.

Under the subheading of "Photos," there are five thumbnails of recent photos.

Below that, under the subheading of "Video," there are five thumbnails of recent videos.

I need to come up with a headline that encompasses both of those, without merely repeating "Photos and Video."

"Multimedia" has already been ruled out.

Suggestions?
Lend HN: Kindle E-Book Lending thread.
So, now that Amazon has enabled lending on the Kindle devices, I thought it'd be a good idea to start a Lend HN thread to swap interesting books. I have a bunch of books that I have on my Amazon account, but the 'Loan this book' option is enabled for just one of them. (The publisher needs to approve this first). I suspect more will become available soon though as Amazon has just rolled this feature.

So for my first post:
I have a copy of 'Founders at Work' that I can loan out. Keep in mind that the book can only be loaned out for two weeks at a time. If anyone hasn't read this book yet, please post and I'd be happy to send it out to you.
I realize the point of the feature, but it really is an anti-feature.

It's like if you weren't allowed to skip tracks on a CD, but had to fast-forward through each individual song so that it would be more like a cassette tape.
I did three years of maintenance programming on a proprietary enterprise Java Big Feaking Web App framework, fighting fires and making minor changes. I learned more about engineering in those years than in college, first job, and building two software businesses from scratch. Possibly combined. YMMV.
Twitter for the greater good: "I will dig you out."