skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His reasons don't necessarily result in a pivot. He says "you want to have something you're doing", so if your alternative is to do nothing, then keep doing what you're doing even if it's a bad idea. Whether you later pivot, change to a whole different idea or get a job, isn't the point. In the absence of a better idea, keep going, because doing something is almost always better than not.

Similarly, gaining experience with a bad idea is more likely to help you compared to doing nothing. That's not covered by a pivot. It may or may not aid you in pivoting, but it's almost definitely not going to hurt. Sitting doing nothing is just a waste, though.

He talks about serendipity. That'll often be amplified by working on something, rather than doing nothing and thinking about doing something. You'll be meeting people, creating stuff someone might find a use for, maybe writing code you could use in a different project. All of that could open up a new avenue that sitting around won't.

In addition, let me add a point. Practice being a finisher. You might not feel like the idea is fantastic but even if it's rubbish, moving the needle on it is good practice. Good for your mental strength, good to know "I'm a finisher", because many people haven't learned that (yet).

Obviously the caveat is if you have a better use of your time, do that. Could be making money to increase your runway, could be a better idea, whatever. But if your only alternative is to stop and read HN, it could well be worth continuing with your bad idea.
I would begin by not trying to cheat.
There was a long comment before the sleep. It seems likely that the sleep was there for a reason.
Echoes (not messages) expire after 7 days. As long as a message gets echoed it can live on indefinitely.

There's no killer reasoning behind using an image for maps. We could be using the Google Maps API instead though right now it lets you share the actual image. We don't consider the maps to be overly important.
That would be great. We're actually looking for partnerships that might allow us to publish content from sources other than users.
I'm with you. I enjoy a well written long and meandering article, but this one was just a dud. The story just wasn't that interesting. I kept expecting it to pick up right until the very end; then I just felt disappointed.
Here's an example: "In St. Petersburg, 2005, Benjamin Smith III was arrested and charged with "unauthorized access to a computer network", a third-degree felony in the state of Florida, after using a resident's wireless network from a car parked outside."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#United...

Or:

Using a neighbor's wireless access point may not be legal even with their permission. The answer varies depending on the policies of residential Internet service providers and plans among other factors. (...) Many U.S. states prohibit unauthorized access to computer networks including open Wi-Fi networks. While interpretations of these laws may vary, some precedents have been set in recent years:

2007 - a man in Michigan was fined for using the Wi-Fi hotspot of a local cafe, from his car
2006 - Illinois man David Kauchak was fined for unauthorized use of a local agency's Wi-Fi access point
2005 - a Florida man faced felony charges for piggybacking onto a neighbor's Internet connection without their permission

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelessfaqs/f/legal_free...

And:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/pr_burning_wifi_squatt...
This is a pretty good solution, however there are a few things other programs add on:

- $CDPATH requires manual management. You're using a line in profile, but I imagine that's limited to specific directories and creates overhead when creating new shells.
- What happens with namespace collision? First entry in $CDPATH wins?
- Fuzzy searching for mistyped directory names. I don't find this feature that useful personally, but was requested quite a bit by others.

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Yes, yes, exactly what i am doing for a long time, deliberatley. My brain works at night, i usally can not get very good sleep, but i do see lot of interesting dreams and somehow the solution presents himself at some point. Be prepared you may forgot the solution when you wake up like dreams you saw. So try to not mix them in the middle of the night ;-) And no, i cannot help with that, i can separate them somehow.
Upvoted. I remember your article on SS. Good points.
The sex issue is just frivolous. E.g. I haven't had anything but rejection from a woman in three years, I'm perfectly healthy and functional, and I'm not being carefully chosen for one of the most groundbreaking missions for the human race.
True. Any word from the up voters on why they enjoyed this particular article? Or did the votes come mostly because people like The New Yorker, and were expecting it to be good?
I feel like this article lacks a fundamental understanding of the labor market.

The beauty of being self employed and working for multiple clients means that, if you are constantly promoting your skills, you can accelerate your way up the proverbial ladder.

If you get a "real job", you might have an opportunity for a raise or a promotion once every year; 6 months at best.

Working for yourself, you can have that opportunity every day. If your client wants to maintain freedom with you by hiring you as a freelancer, then there's no reason you can't do the same with them. Only committing 10-20 hours a week to a client allows you to do that.

Get a client for $10/hr at 20 hours a week, then start shopping for a client at $15/hr at 15 hours a week. Once you find that, look for a $30/hr client at 20 hours a week. When you find that, dump the $10/hr client and start looking for a $40/hr client.

THAT is how you climb the ladder. And it doesn't just have to be about money - you can substitute money for creative freedom or benefits or working conditions or whatever you're in the labor market for.
Great read

> (Editor’s Note: In order to preserve the anonymity of my sources, the company in question will be referred to as “Friendly Business”, or “FB.” And I will pick a random name for ops engineers, such as “Mark.”)
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But that's my point. It took us forty years from initial landing to find out if there is water on the planet exactly because we abandoned Moon landings.
Well, if I got the app, and some idiot started posting racist rhetoric or links to pics of their penis, i'd rather get fewer than an unlimited amount.

Additionally, people should be able to block posters, and the weight of those blocks can ban a user if there are enough and the velocity is high.

In that vein, it would seem that an IRC approach with "channels" might be better, so that you can have a private "channel" with your friends nearby, or move into the "starbucks" channel to get deals and updates from your local Starbucks.

Perhaps allow people to create "private" channels, by invite only, if they buy the paid version of the app..
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I hope you're just being snarky, or else you're missing the point entirely. The acknowledgement of "well its also hard for men in x" does not dismiss the fact that historically discriminated groups also deserve support.
A great investigation and writeup but wasted on a problem that is not really a crime but simply a nuisance to society.

I guess some poor people shoplift out of desperation vs some wealthy dentists fly around and cheat on marathons out of boredom.

I wish that investigative energy would have been aimed at banks, wallstreet or billionaire tax cheats.
"women seem to be less underrepresented among CS folks in cultures where STEM professions are not historically low-status."

The correlation isn't so clear. STEM is even more unpopular among Japanese and Korean women than English-speaking nation women.

But thanks for pointing out that CS is hardly a desirable route to a good and comfortable life unless you love it for its own sake. It requires the same level of skills and ability necessary for a much more profitable and less difficult career in medicine, law, accountancy, dentistry, business administration, public administration, or the like.
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The according article is here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/drink-up... yet I prefer linking to the closest thing to the original source.
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It may become my favourite website for procrastination. :)

What I don't like is two-column layout: it makes title boxes have uneven height. Even both columns have different weights.
It would be nice to see numbered list for sites with numbered postings - like HN(of course, if it's not by design, for example, if your project uses custom ranking and selection systems for publications).
That's a mistake, IMHO. You're pushing a LOT more data over the air by sharing an image versus a URL to a google map. Additionally, Google has partner adverts on those maps that they get revenue from, and if you get enough traffic viewing the maps, you can go to them and get a revshare.

When people start using it to broadcast events like accidents, fires, etc., you're going to want to use URLs, not pics.
The interesting part to me was the fairly heavy use of RDF triple stores. The BBC have used these to good effect before on the world cup site and waxed lyrical at the time about what a difference it made modelling the data in this way. AFAIK they use BigOwlim from Ontotext as their store, run in cluster mode.
Let me try again: I don't like that someone can write software that is perfectly legal and to see Apple censor it. AppStore is very far from an open platform.

Writing software that interprets public data and disseminates it seems like a form of "speech" to me.
We have a reporting system planned and once (if we ever) get enough users/messages adding categories would make a lot of sense.

I like the idea of private channels.
haha I am actually glad that you caught one of the design flaw i was talking about...the story for adding Java to my technical skills, is actually in another commit ...

In this particular case, I added Java to my Resume not because I know it well enough...but because I was actually able to build an Android app in 7 days, Java starting at level 0, in a week.. an App good enough for me to clear the interview :)

https://github.com/saidinesh5/MyResume/commit/c6a0b75c24e840...

And ya, Now there are many more things I would want to delete from this Resume than I want to add to it .. for eg. like all of the silly projects I have done while in college... both the Java and the .Net stuff ..and what not :)
>The medically uninsured only pose a financial threat to themselves

Uninsured Joe has an undiagnosed medical condition which causes him to black out but won't get it checked out because he knows he can't afford it, and it doesn't happen too often so maybe it'll go away. Joe blacks out while driving to his third part time job and slams into another car, killing himself and rendering the other car's passengers permanently incapable of working. You were one of those passengers. What just happened?
Yes but I guess the women who rejected you don't live in the same house as you do. Imagine living in close quarters with a bunch of people and some of them are having sex while you don't. You'd have to seclude yourself from them to suppress your feelings and then the whole project would go south.
But they don't own the iOS App Store. People want to move goalposts and say we're arguing about what you can do with your phone but we're really arguing about a store policy.

And if these people wanted to buy a phone that had lots of app stores available I think we're all in agreement that they fucked up if they bought the iphone.
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I understand what you're saying, but it's not bigotry if the "stereotype" is true.

"offshore" is synonymous with "cheap(er) labor" in the US programming world, and is an accurate statement since that's what it's generally used for ("let's send it to XXX and it will cost us 1/10 as much")...

How many times do you think outsourcing happens in the US because they are looking for higher-quality code? 1%, 10%, 50%, 90% of the time?

"cheap(er) labor" is also synonymous with a bad product/service, because you often get what you pay for.

Are there exceptions to all this? Yes. Sometimes you can't find good quality coders in the US, but I doubt this is why outsourcing happens most of the time.

He might have generalized by adding that detail ("offshore") but that's not biggotry IMO as much as it is a flavoring.
Problem with sharing URLs is that people would be able to zoom in and see exactly where the messages/echoes come from. Not all of our users would be comfortable with that.
Think about ease of use here. It should allow people to "subscribe" to channels or categories rather than have to click, click, click to change channel/category. What they get is a "stream" of echos that are mixed together that they can filter out.

If it's more CraigsList in nature, I don't think it will have the staying power.
Is it really possible to send push notifications to apps from the cydia store?
tl;dr: It'll take a long time, people will have much more exposure to radiation (and cancer), people need sex, muscle/bone degradation from being that long in space, and cost of getting things there.
There are two schools of thought on how we should approach manned Mars exploration:

1. The incremental approach, the NASA favorite, the outrageous proposal that got dismissed due to budget costs. It involves build a base in orbit or on the moon and using it as a relay between Mars and Earth.

2. Mars Direct. Reducing a lot of the complexity of the incremental approach. Using available technology. Launching directly from Earth. Using a multitude of vessels to setup an outpost on Mars before human arrival. Generating oxygen and hydrogen before human arrival from the abundant methane on Mars. Cutting the previous budget proposal by more than half. An estimate of ten years of work required.[1]

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Mars Direct seems like a more realistic and pragmatic proposal but the incremental approach is more visionary. Something that most of us laymen don't often consider is the aftermath. We see the objective a human working on the red planet whereas I believe most at NASA are more interested in prolonged human exploration of Mars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
I don't disagree with the author on any of his points. But it's much easier to predict the future by drawing similarities with a sequence of events from the past which seem applicable and relevant. What makes the future interesting and exciting is that it hasn't happened, and if you truly knew what was going to happen, that means you have a unique opportunity to try to change it and avoid the mistakes of the past.
You wouldn't want to share a location with every message, but rather give users the "choice" to share location for any given message they post.

If they've just seen an accident, they'll want to post a URL. If they're at home, not likely.

You might even ask users to "mark" private locations from which location can't be sent, like school, home, or work.

You could also allow the user to vary the accuracy of the position by zooming in/out, to give them control of proximity for their posted locations.
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Fix the encoding, add a favicon and change the font from Times and I'd probably use it :)
Looks really nice. Would be nice if the language % also included closed projects. (and bitbucket always gets to little love :-))
and the higher the odds of a catastrophic collision with a meteoroid

This is silly. The dangers to a mission from a meteroid are essentially the same for a six-month mission as a six-day mission: nil when compared the to the risk of blowing up on the launchpad.

Chang-Diaz is developing an advanced plasma propulsion system that would cut the round-trip time on Mars missions to five months

Ugh. We can already get to Mars in six months using chemical rocket engines right off the shelf. If Chang-Diaz thinks people can accept nuclear reactors in space, then we should just pull out the Nuclear Thermal Rockets we've already built and use them instead.

EDIT: I now see he is saying roundtrip being 5 months. This doesn't violate the laws of physics, but it does require nuclear reactors in space with massive energy-to-mass ratios, well beyond anything we've built for anything on the ground or in space before.

Spacecraft propelling astronauts to Mars — and habitats on its surface — must be equipped with shielding sufficient to block space radiation.

Or you can just take your dose. The cosmic ray dose from a round-trip Mars mission would increase your chance of cancer over your lifetime from about 20% to about 21%. This isn't something you would want to expose the general public (or even the janitor in a nuclear power plant) to, but it's petty when talking about the risks to crew safety from the Mars mission. Launching a extra spare habitat or earth-return-vehicle to Mars will be a better bang-for-the-buck in terms of decreasing mission risk, with the bonus that we need to do it anyway.

(This is different from blocking solar flares. Those can and probably will kill the crew dead if they aren't shielded from those. But that shielding is more straightforward as the article says.)
I'm not sure journalists deserve the benefit of the doubt. The press in the United States over the last 15 years has anemically covered two wars, the burst of the housing and related securities bubbles, the crippling government corruption associated with said bubbles, warrant-less wire-tapping, executive orders to assassinate US citizens, and the US military playing hopscotch with international boundaries.

All while creating an atmosphere of fear that empowers government to go further when the role of the press is supposed to hold government in check.

I'll admit that journalists are human when someone can show me a journalist. It's been a long time since I've seen one doing the job.
Something to keep in mind regarding "completeness": only planes equipped with ADS-B transponders will generally be picked up by this (I say generally because I'm not sure if they are trying any multilateration techniques here on the Mode S). Prevalence of ADS-B is OK at best and very dependent on geographical area and type of aircraft (general aviation, commercial domestic, commercial international, etc).
The Moon's gravitational pull wouldn't be enough to retain an athmosphere:

http://suite101.com/article/why-there-is-no-atmosphere-on-th...
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Offshore is, most of the times, about getting the same quality of work at cheaper cost. How is it cheaper? Not because it is shoddy work, but the economics in the other country work out that way. How can you equate cheaper price = lower quality. If you are looking for people in US alone, then cheaper = lower quality. Since another factor of the equation, the country, is changing, that is not the case.
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Hmm, I haven't read the articles yet, and it's the next thing I'm going to do, but I would like to say some words :
Admitting journalist are human is not a problem for me, I can understand that they have differents opinions of mine, political views etc... but there is three things which come regularly and that I can't accept from them and consider as a professional mistake :
-to not study a subject widely before writing a paper or when making a report. (as a daily reader of newspaper and media website I've come across many of those mistakes...)
-to not apologize or at least recognize for their mistakes when it's proven that what they have written is wrong... (just a recent exemple, how many media are going to acknowledge that the picture they used was not the good one in the issue of a christian girl accused of blasphemy in Pakistan ?)
-to claim of being "objective" for some of them...

And I'm not saying that all journalist have those flaws...
I don't get that, it's fine for me. (Chrome 21.0 Mountain Lion)
Do you have a reference for that? Was quite shocked by that and searching his site found a couple of sensible articles about security, but nothing about emailing yourself your passwords. May just be that my google-fu isn't good enough.
Ask HN: Google Apps Gmail just sent a draft e-mail.
So here are the basics of what happened to me:

- Ongoing thread with original sender of an e-mail
- About 5 replies later I draft a reply, but only click save
- “From” was not the main e-mail, it was an additional address added to Gmail

The e-mail is not in my sent folder. The only reference to my message is a draft within the thread. It was not sent by me, however the recipient received my e-mail plain and clear.

Obviously Gmail is a pretty big thing and contacting them isn’t super simple. But what happened is a major concern for me as there are plenty of draft e-mails wherein I’m seeking approval before sending. It’s like drafting obituaries… but I can’t use them until the time comes.

Has anyone else had this happen?

Is there a way I can raise this issue with Google? Since it’s a freebie service for the most part I can’t expect any one-on-one support, but at the very least I would like to let them know of this issue. Sadly, I can’t replicate it which is why I’ve turned to HN in hopes I’m not alone.