skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of this is that you're comparing yourself to others. The only thing you can really control is your own actions. It's much better to focus on where you are and where you want to be. Are you making progress or not? If not, what can you do to get where you want to be?

It's about progress every day towards a goal. Whatever has happend has happened. You can't control the past. But you can absolutely control the future and where you end up. Focus on what you can control (your actions going forward) not what you can't (the actions of your friends or what you've done in the past).

People successfully re-invent themselves much later than their early 30s. You've got nothing to worry about. It's not too late.
>and here's Yelp ("Please don't bring your kids here.")

Despite the possibilty that they may reflect the truth, most of those reviews are obvious snark, written in the style of depilatory creme reviews http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R231U4ZG0YDNHD/ref=cm_cr_dp_t...
ie: not to be taken seriously.
It's so disappointing. I'm inspired by stories that end with "all tech men carry batteries". But then I see their treatment of my friend when she had far more benign intent.

Disappointment is almost too weak of a word when it comes to my opinion of most of the administration. Hopefully Reif will stir things up, but I'm doubtful.
"The Tin Drum" too.
Sorry, but there is this illusion of WebKit being a totally opensource project. This is not true. It is mostly controlled by Apple. Any big decisions need to be "approved" by them. See the recent contribution changes they made about WebKit2 with no consideration for other developers. See how they oppose to any "cleanups" and "refactoring" that doesn't come from them.

I am very happy there are other engines like IE and mozilla. It would be very hard to keep html5 and related standards in check without these engines.
The world bears on you, expectation, floundered. But with it awareness, have you learnt nothing? I have your age but not your regrets. Regret is the belief that you have no opportunity to correct your decisions, this is almost never correct. There are many paths to any goal, and goals are never as clear as you suspect. Choose your destination and live in the fog, if you want to you will find a way.

Most people find competition, but what are you winning? Do you want the prize or the step ahead? What were you aiming for anyway? Do you really want it or is it simply the most obvious thing to do?
It's possible(even likely) that what you typed is enough for a crawler to try that site.
Google+ ads seen in the wild
I may or may not have direct experience with this but I can comment on this part: "I would be in competition with others who've been practicing their trade for many years. It feels as if it's too late."
You will be pleasantly surprised how motivated learning of one month triumphs over years of experience of people who are just getting along with the job. If you have passion for any skill then you are already ahead of most people.
So " Efforts taken at this point to turn things around would be futile" is wrong unless its half-hearted effort.
I don't know about going back to school but I can definitely say: Full-hearted "efforts taken at this point" not be futile "for picking up a new skill" unless the skill is physically demanding.
Getting filtered down to the bottom is not actually just a result of getting down-voted. Having a lack of activity (from people essentially ignoring your message) is actually the other reason why comments slowly trickle down to the bottom - and the one I suspected would happen as often does when people write-off your opinion.

As for your point about the "don't complain about being downmodded" - fair enough, and I'm sure I'll earn a few more downvotes thanks to your due-diligence :)

At the same time, once in a while, you have to stand for something in your life. I made a serious point about a serious topic and some coward came along and decided to "down-vote" instead of having some dialog about it. I may lose digital karma but at least my conscience is clear for defending something I believe in.
"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired -- you quit when the gorilla is tired."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schwarz_Strauss
I have a lot of experience with this. I'm just pulling through the other side of this regret.

I am in my early 30's as well. I opted to work right out of high school and take 10 years getting my 2 year degree. I worked for a very long time with a decent employer, and I built up great skills along the way.

In the past couple of years though things started getting bleak. I was hitting the boundaries of what this employer could offer, and I could even say that it was a bit of an abusive work relationship(probably mutually). My mood started getting foul. People who I was good friends with I was having trouble getting along with. I was drinking a lot to smooth things over. My family life suffered. Things were a mess.

One day I just had enough and got into counseling. I took control. I changed jobs, and stepped away from friends for a while and worked on family. I doubled down on education(I had started on my bachelors a while back, but I recommitted). Things got a bit better.

Then things went down a bit again. I started reading more HN and r/programming to build up my professional chops. I started feeling inadequate. I felt like this new job I had wasn't cool or startuppy enough. Doubt crept back in.

So I had conversations with a lot of people. There was a guy on HN that was taking stories and giving advice. He helped me a bit. I have a pen pal kind of friend who has had cool experiences. He helped me a lot also. I talked to family and friends of all stripes about my concerns. Basically everyone had the same thing to say, that I was living a good life. That the kind of things I felt I should be doing have their tradeoffs as well. That I should focus on what I am doing instead of always looking for major improvements.

And then I came to the realization that I was trying to live up to someone else's yard stick. It took me 10 years to get an associates degree because I was raising a family. I lost my startup because I didn't want to spend my entire life at a keyboard. I was beating myself up about my job because I was trying to measure my career as an engineer against that of the internet's best and brightest entrepreneurs. I was trying too hard.

So take it easy on yourself man. I am sure that you have some pretty awesome stuff going on in your life. Take time to appreciate the things you enjoy. Discard things that don't work for you anymore. Put down HN for a while if you it is making you feel like you aren't doing enough(I had to for a while). Make a change if it is smart for you to do so, and don't beat yourself if it isn't the right time. But above all else, just cut yourself some slack.
The logic is that it takes time and money to get to where people can be helped. While it is true that Watsi can help people now regardless of whether they will be able to in a year, it's much more effective for Watsi to continue to exist because otherwise another organization will have to pay the startup time and money cost again.

Also, it is entirely possible to donate and also have this discussion, so you may very well be talking to people who both help present needs and express concern for potential unmet future needs.
Just the same way you can make a face or a zoo animal from a pattern of water vapor in the sky, you're making a failure out of a pattern of events in the past. In both cases, it's illusion.

Wow.

Thank you for that.
The wording of the title is misleading because he wasn't a comedian in Canada. I wouldn't really consider him a "Canadian comedian" so much as a "Chinese comedian from Canada." The entirety of his career as an entertainer has been in China, in the Mandarin language. His Mandarin is truly beyond native-speaker level.

But yes, as a white guy in China it is kind of annoying to have to listen to Chinese people bring up Dashan every time you open your mouth. In China, he is the original token-Mandarin-speaking-white-guy character. And I get the impression that he got there not just by studying Chinese really hard (way before it was cool), but also by agreeing to do whatever he was asked to, and never complaining about it.

See, as a non-Asian person in China, strangers will come up and ask to take their photo with you constantly. They will even approach you on the street, at school/work, or even while you're eating dinner in a restaurant, and proposition you with all types of casting calls for bizarre modeling and performance jobs where they just need a white person, any white person. Most of us politely decline--because it's creepy--but he seems like the guy that always said yes and hammed it up for the camera.
Not to be cynical but how do they ensure the veracity of the patients?
1080p H.264 can just now be played back on modern processors without hardware acceleration. I shutter to think about playing back 2160p H.265 before anyone builds hardware support. I'm sure you don't get "twice as efficient" without making it about twice as difficult to decode. Or maybe 4 times...
Steve Jobs at one point would have agreed with you.

That's a large part of why he's now dead.
"The hope to change the world is a childish illusion. You have to change yourself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Von_Franz
Are there any opportunities for students/fresh grads to help? This seems like a very good cause to spend some time during a gap year or so.
Well, do you think targeting xen api instead of bare metal is a good idea, or would that repeat history to no benefit?
Also one of the things that makes sociopathic self-serving prosecutors thrive, apparently.

If it's a rare exception that he doesn't have to pay that $600k, what does that tell you about the cost of entry to this already asymmetric game?

You cannot win these battles. He either loses his property, or "wins" and loses his $600k.

Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are incentivized to find a target and steamroll them at all costs. This incentive is entirely incompatible with seeking justice.
Isn't this being a bit too absurd?
“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers”
Elite universities are priced like many other goods: the list price is not the price most people will pay.

They set a very high list price and then offer "scholarships" because this allows them to efficiently segment the market. If they did it the other way around (cheap "base" price and then escalating prices), it would cause horrible brand damage and arouse regulatory interest.

Financially, though, it's identical.

Notice how many retail places offer "cash discounts" rather than having "credit card surcharges".

Financially identical. Psychologically, worlds apart.
CNET has a nice site you might want to see: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptop-reviews/
Depends on the complexity/size/requirements of your CI system/infrastructure. I am mostly interested in the kernel features for LXC/virt: see https://github.com/globalcitizen/lxc-gentoo .. damn handy for rapid and efficient virtualization of complex infrastructures on limited hardware.
It is a short name, so it's likely that it'll be found. But the real honeypot would be the large hashed subdomains that you would use as bait.

I don't think the main site or its www subdomain would need to be secret. Of course, if it uncovers some huge invasion of privacy, we might have to set up an army of different domains running similar software on separate IPs to keep it effective.
Scrounge up an extra hundred bucks somehow, somewhere and pick up an 11" MacBook Air at Best Buy this weekend: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-gilbert/macbook-air-sale...
You are, to the best of my knowledge as well, correct.
"Study the masters, and not the pupils."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neils_Abel
Presumably, the cost of taking the tests is the cost of having someone thoroughly vet your work, in addition to developmental costs. If it costs, say, $1,000, you'd expect that to mean that people would spend around 10 hours actually verifying your work. And so, even if you have to write 10 papers and develop 10 projects, 10 hours of grading should be plenty to provide a fairly comprehensive assessment (30 minutes per large assignment is much more than most professors put in now. At least, in my department). For $1,000, you could even up the evaluation time to something like 40 hours (at ~$15/hr, plus administrative costs) by using TAs who really understand.
It's not a postal thing, I believe it's common law. If someone ships you something unsolicited, you are under no obligation to return the item or make payment.
Brazil: bar codes on sidewalks give tourist info
>If you give people a test they can take online, how long do you think it will be before the answers get out there and people are just easily getting degrees?

The tests are very unlikely to be online. The most probable scenario is that they are proctored at local professional test centers just like nearly every other distance education program.
Your life improve substantially, given focus and clarity. Most people make a mixture of good, fair, and horrible decisions every day. If you go from a 50% hit rate to 75%, it can make a huge impact in your life. I look at it like "pot odds" in the poker game of life. Don't dwell on your previous lost hands, focus on maximizing the opportunities you are given.
I down voted you, because I don't believe that folks want anything more than for Ortiz to resign. And you started the post talking about down voting, then you got upset when you got down voted.
I feel like you describe pretty often. I think the trick is to sleep, exercise, and concentrate on what's going on right now. You can't change the past, you can only change what you are doing right now, this second. You have control over that... hang in there. Also, rosser, you're answer seems very helpful.
You are discussing the impossibility of a simple relicensing due to components owned by a third party. I am pointing out that the FSF has a history of going to great lengths rewriting software, or pressuring people to do so, just so the resulting product falls under a license they find acceptable. Can you explain how am I being nonsensical?
defintely get a macbook. wait and keep saving if you have to.
Why isn't the job of underwriter totally automated? I imagine that a good bayesian classifier should be able to spot likely fraud. Sounds like a good startup opportunity.
What point are you trying to make here?
Comparing an alcoholic to an arsehole is absurd. An alcoholic can never touch a drop of alcohol for fear of getting addicted to it again. Someone can be an arsehole some of the time, and very nice the rest of the time!
I would suggest an older-generation macbook. Between the excellent hardware build quality and the well-maintained software, they don't become obsolete quickly. I've got enough cash on hand to buy a new laptop several times over, but my old macbook is still going.

If it's battery life you want, then you definitely should go with the macbook air.
A conversation with JSTOR
The HTTP protocol
I wouldn't say internet users "don't trust Bitcoin" I, for example don't use Bitcoin (much) for the same reason that I don't walk around in sketchy places with lots of cash. It's not that I don't trust cash. It's that I don't trust internet randoms to leave my Btc alone.
"Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing why. For me it is enough to wonder at the secrets."

-- Albert Einstein
Ask HN: Companies that don't track holidays
I see it is more and more popular in job ads to say things like "we don't track vacation".

I'd like to know how this is working for both the employees that work at such places taking vacations and the employers giving the perk? Is it all paid, or not paid?

I work/management a small company and we have quite flexible working schedules. We have had a few people (including myself) take months off for holidays to come back, but we do track holidays and many times the longer vacations is unpaid time off.

Just wondering how it is working out for all these new startups.

Cheers
I think that's a misreading of their principles then. In very large populations with entrenched gov'ts, the individual suffers the most. The smallest minority is the individual, and individual liberties be they economic, social, political, civil.. all revolve around freedom and protection of individual rights. I think theirs are the best of ideas in all areas, and protection of property rights necessarily involves the economic as well as the social.
Eye for an eye? No one is suggesting locking her up for 35 years. How is it a lynch mob when the worst that would happen is that she loses her job??
Time for fun. Insert Coin, PC Load Letter, etc. Good times.
http://miscellany.kovaya.com/2007/10/insert-coin.html
I love that fact that the other company was actually recycling an idea from 1919 and thinking they were onto something new.
It's pretty brave for Glee to piss off the Internet.
it's called psychotherapy

You were perhaps trying to say "psychiatry". Psychotherapy is a pseudoscience right up there with dream interpretation. And everyone else posting might consider that the OP isn't apparently an imbecile, and so is well-aware that an industry of therapists/doctors/quacks (etc etc etc) exists for mental health problems and that recommending it is pretty much redundant.
Many of these examples are a stretch:

(1) The transistor/monopoly theory make no sense. The US government never granted AT&T a monopoly but broke it up in 1982 when they discovered it was a monopoly.

(2) I don't think the residents of New Orleans would agree that Army Corps of Engineers should be a model for anything.

I'm sure there are some truly great non-military US government accomplishments but I just can't think of any...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_ci...
This post goes great with your other one on Raspberry Pi. Hardware is definitely becoming cheaper and for folks with time and curiosity, it is a whole new fronteer to hack on. Time is a huge constraint right now (imho), since it's a lot easier to make pictures filtering app than it is to hook up your Roomba to the Pi, but in a few years we will definitely see an abundance of hardware innovations that don't require VC funding.
I take it from your response that you are the few who cares enough to say "who cares"? You sound a bit sensitive...
Perhaps not MPEG-LA itself, but a company owned by it's CEO, Jack Horn definitely waded into the patent trolling business a while back:

http://www.osnews.com/story/23258/MPEG-LA-owned_Patent_Troll...
It will be, and I'm sure most video players will support it, too, just like they are supporting VP8 now.
How Are Infosec Pros Affected by Pentagon’s 46K Layoffs Plans?
Apple has a really BIG iPhone problem
It would be nice if someone would point out where these companies go to manufacturer their products after getting a prototype up
Where have you gone? I don't think here people treat foreigners as another species.
So what happens if VP9 and Daala are significantly better then? By your logic they should be adopted instead of h.265.
11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will Use to Track You
> I wish people would look at this from both sides. How does she know that Aaron was truly innocent? I bet she had expert witnesses on her side saying that Aaron was doing something illegal and excessive. Everyone is saying that he had access to download those files. But the prosecutor is looking at all of his seemingly suspicious behavior.

It's condescending to say people aren't looking at both sides. You are actually now arguing that either she was incompetent because she picked bad expert witnesses or she had bad judgement in how hard she prosecuted. After she had all the facts in front of her, she threatened him with 35 years for it.

As someone else posted above, if he had stole the hard drive with the 4 million documents on it, it wouldn't be a felony.
Loving this, thank you for taking the time to make these. Is there any way we could get notified by email when the rest of the series comes out? My email is user @ gggmail.com just in case.
This makes me adore OXO even more than I did before. Very human response.
And after reading your entry I viewed the photos of all these bloodsuckers and ethical CEOs enjoying Sean Parker's dbag-fuelled taxidermy party at Davos.

Morality and ethics don't count for anything in a contemporary society where punishment for misdeeds exists only for those who cannot afford to buy their freedom.
Copyleft-next 0.1.0
OXO is one of my favorite companies. They seem to have the same quirky creative culture as much of the tech industry, except maybe even friendlier, plus a great design philosophy.

http://www.oxo.com/AboutOXO.aspx

http://www.oxo.com/UniversalDesign.aspx
"It's good for the same reasons that they came down so harshly on Aaron -- to make an example"

Making an example of someone in retribution for it happening to someone else is eye-for-an-eye.
"Punch Mediocrity in the Face"

There's still some aggression here.
I'm getting the hell out of California. Flying to Austin next weekend with the GF to go house hunting.
Managing CSS Explosion
Definitely not trying to make a joke. If someone had the knowledge equivalent to a bachelor's level, does it seem correct that to be considered equal, the individual would have to pay for at least 3 years of school full-time (even if he tested out of easy classes) and paid ~ $50,000? This is for a cheap school, not a top-tier.

This has never made sense to me. Knowledge is knowledge - who cares where it came from? I'm not saying other things are not learned in college - yes teamwork is important and such. But you can literally learn that in any situation. What about experience? If you're not actively trying to go to school, and doing BS work, you can actually get a relevant job, show some creativity in your field, or (I wish) hopefully get an apprenticeship. I hope these come back some day - the learning is unparalleled.

Three years ago, I spoke to a friend about designing a computer science bachelor's exam. It could literally be as grueling as you want, over a 10 day period, and you could charge up to $5,000 easily. Most people I spoke to said they had concerns about people "cramming for the exam". In truth, those people do not know how to design tests. It is VERY easy to prevent cramming, especially with such material, all you need is a little creativity. By "prevent cramming" I mean creative questions that force the candidate to know the material so well that cramming --> learning involuntarily.

I chose to start with a comp sci exam because it requires the least physical resources for the exam (no circuits, no lab, no nothing). Eventually, other degrees could be created once a proof of concept had been completed.

The original reason Universities were created were for efficiency (source: Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk). Teaching 50 students by mail, making each one order each textbook and other reference texts is crazily inefficient. Locating them all in one place, having lectures for all 50 students at once, and a library where all relevant texts are held is much better. What we're seeing now is just a modern version. Instead of lectures, we have video. Instead of library, we have ebooks/internet/curated content.

Sorry if I rambled for a bit, I'm very passionate about this issue. The thing is, without power in the field, changing education is hard. This is definitely the gateway, and I'm happy that I get to see all the fantastic (but slow for me) changes. The next step is re-optimizing spending in high schools. My mother works at a high school, and the stories I hear about wasteful technology spending are hard to hear.
Digging deeper into the "protest" linked from the OXO site:
http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2013/01/rise-up-quirky-seeks...

And the whole thing feels cheap and desperate. I like the idea of being scrappy and unorthodox, but one corporate entity protesting another? It just smells terrible.