skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be more than that, as the writer shall have the ability to understand and explain sophisticated technical terms
Beating $15k is certainly possible. If it's hard in your area, there's probably work that can be done remotely paying 10x. The catch is that you'd have to build up the reputation and the network of satisfied clients needed.

I know a few very experienced engineers doing work in robotics. There's a fairly high variance in salary. Of those, the one I'm fairly certain clears >$200k does so largely through things like consulting and appearing as an expert in patent disputes. His day job is maybe half that.

You can make lots of money and do what you love, but sometimes the thing that pays the bills and the thing you enjoy aren't the same. You'll get better results if you work out an optimal solution for yourself, versus being wholly dependent on an employer to give you a single monolithic package - but it will also take much more effort, and likely many failures.

Lots of the ones doing work in industry are in areas like calibration and maintenance, vs. design and research. Part of the issue here is working out the specifics of what "decent paying" and "in robotics" mean to you.
With a couple Google queries, you can find out that the Chrome PDF viewer has had multiple vulnerabilities that allow code to be executed in the sandboxed environment, and that there have also been Chrome vulnerabilities that allow sandboxed code to escape the sandbox.

Sandboxing is certainly a good thing, but it's not perfect. Sandboxed code still increases the attack surface. The rationale behind pdf.js is that, because it's almost entirely unprivileged JavaScript, it's unlikely that there's a way to exploit a browser in the presence of pdf.js that wouldn't work in the absence of pdf.js.
> To think that the first transatlantic cable was laid in 1957.

1858, my friend, 1858.

https://www.google.com/search?q=first+transatlantic+cable

Additional reading...

Mother Earth Mother Board:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

The Victorian Internet (one of my favorite books ever, highly recommended):

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+victorian+internet
>I'm not agoraphobic, I'm not depressed, and I'm not insane 2. I simply don't socialize.

Isn't that for others to judge? It's not like one person can judge himself to be or not be the above.
If you superimpose a map on a road, you can't see the road anymore because the map gets in the way.
I also like the content security policies of packaged apps. A web page can load new code at will and frequently does so.
Packaged apps typically come bundled with everything they need to run, and can't directly load scripts from the web.
Also HTML5 app cache is pretty terrible.
because phreaking/hacking didn't pay my bills.

This is what kills most adventures in hacking. And I think you're right, we're already seeing a resurgence in that burner cellphones are already becoming commonplace, although a lot of that is in the blackmarket and sadly being used for criminal activity than just to satiate curiosity.

An old friend of mine got a visit by AT&T technicians when they detected funny activity on his dad's line and I think he had to pay a $100 fine or something. Today, if he was doing the same things, he likely would be in jail. The legal atmosphere has turned toward disproportionate punishment so much so that the only people exploring the wireless field, by and large, are those who are dodging jail time to begin with.

I think the Raspberry Pi and Arduino field may be more enticing for young people due to their hacker-friendly nature and I feel wireless mesh technology may be where the future of communications hacking will be.
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There are well paid jobs in the U.S. robotics market. However, most of them require a U.S. citizenship and security clearance (defense grants.).
This is the problem: Omnibox is so powerful that I don't even use app launcher on my chromebook.
That is not how Mozilla's decision making works. There's considerably more to it than such simple economics.

As a non-profit, we are here to create a public good. It's actually goods, plural, and services too. Firefox and other Mozilla products and services exist to promote the Mozilla mission, not to enrich the Mozilla organization.

Yes. Sustainability is certainly a factor in some of our decision making. Mozilla would be foolish to ignore significant opportunities to increase its mission impact. But revenue for sustainability is not the sole or even the dominant factor in any major product decision at Mozilla.
Getting a grant proposal accepted is much more difficult than getting a paper accepted.
Good thing it will likely have some really good exclusive games then.
Defender's Quest: By The Numbers
Maker’s Mark Uses Their Community To Perfection
Yes, because people care about Burger King's twitter account in a way that is meaningful to their bottom line. I think it'll probably help them, if anything. In a roundabout, unintentional way, Burger King got the attention of a wide audience that largely ignores them. I'm going to go eat a Whopper.
Yeah but generally you should be compensated for the already done damage.
This whole discussion reminds me very strongly of http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ 's example about the 1800s debate about whether people could actually visualize things mentally or whether that was just a metaphor.
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Wouldn't it be better to respond constructively rather than insultingly?
I think all the arguments need to be viewed in a modern (within the last 300 years) light. I mean the Arab world had a fairly phenomenal military force up until the mongols really obliterated the region.

More so than anything, I think Arab military faliures may have more do with socioeconomical conditions than genetics or tribal construct. Why are Arabs failing now when a few hundred years ago they were far more organised and structured. Can we blame colonialism? Are petrochemical dollars reducing the incentive to develop socially and intellectually?
It's great for PC gaming for say the next 4 years, for the first time in ages all AAA games will make decent use of a graphics card/features (with PCs running higher res + less optimised) . After that it will be dire and stagnated again. That is IF these consoles last as a major force past then.. the traditional advantages of consoles over PC gaming are a thing of the past erroded from both sides; your console has constant required system updates, a web browser, 0 day game updates, meanwhile your PC can now do instant-on, has proper controller support (360), an app store (steam).
On a complete side-note, wow that's a racist cartoon. It helps you appreciate how times have changed, yet still how far we have yet to go.
I think his point was that if you don't consider your salary as your take home pay plus the tuition that is paid on your behalf, then it is a very meager income.
Disruption: It moves in mysterious ways
Is it just me or did they just make their site require you to register to view it now? http://pinterest.com/

Edit - Interesting. If you do a google search for something like "Pinterest Cake" you can get past the registration.
I have a stack of "Tap" newsletters from the 80's. Tap was the forerunner of 2600... A combination of tidbits of information on blue boxing, bbses, DARPANET hacking, unix privilege escalation vulnerabilities... Along with information about recreational drugs, guns, surviving the upcoming nuclear war that was prophesied by Nostradamus, avoiding paying taxes... A crazy mix of topics. I loved reading them. They were transmissions of secret knowledge.
About the "ponzi scheme" similarities; I said the same thing in more words on the subreddit, though it probably fell on a few deaf ears: http://www.reddit.com/r/ripplers/comments/18h9ir/the_one_thi...
> Really enjoying @RapGenius’s latest mix tape, “I Have No Idea How Distributed Systems Work”.

I guess someone didn't take their history lesson: In the opinion of a lot of people here Heroku was very close to perfect. Then they attempted to scale their approach and expand to different platforms. In this process they created a whole different product that they kept marketing as the original thing.

That is the problem.

Solving it isn't really that hard. As a thought experiment consider: 1.) The system was working nicely. Leaving it that way and adding no further customers would have left rapgenius happy. 2.) Adding a new, completely separate pool could serve more customers with the same needs as rapgenius.

I'm not saying this is an optimal soulution, I'm just pointing out that unless they were loosing money in their previous configuration, Heroku didn't need to change to the new architecture, -they chose to.
I object to being baited into signing up, just to see the dancing cat. Really though, I want to see the cat. Damnit.
JIT compiling is hardly new, but JIT languages still underperform C. What makes you think that JavaScript will succeed where all others have failed?
Because people like apps. The app wrapper makes people comfortable with the idea of using web apps in place of desktop apps.
So, a technical copywriter. Those are kinda hard to find.
Theres got to be a fine balance - you have to both find something you enjoy, and yet something that pays the bills. Unfortuantely that is sort of rare - the only flexible part in all of this is your interests. Can you change your own interests to fit reality?
There isn't any DRM, the plugin is just listening to a "suggestion" that it not let me save (no error, it just doesn't do anything when I click the save icon). Everything on ScienceDirect has this property. I just tested with this paper from my RSS feed (Chromium 24.0.1312.70).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045782513...
>I don't think Linux adoption is in any way harmed by the removal of all Mono packages from the default installs of several distros

You'd be surprised.
I'm not a fan because they have displaced cherry tomatoes which are better. Especially the Sungold variety.
I had one on my coding wrist, saw the doc, he advised against surgery. Sometimes they come back after excision or spontaneously disappear. In my case the latter happened years later, literally overnight. Good luck!
Lying, manipulating, and tricking ("outsmarting") others require considerable theory of mind, persuasive ability, creativity, and conscientious problem-solving execution. A dumb person is not able to perform these activities well.
Anybody have fond memories of playing BBS door games? I'd love to hear about 'em.
fair point. Except I don't believe you about the whopper
I've never given a spec to someone and needed to trick them into revealing whether they actually looked at it or not. That says a lot about outsourcing.
The problem with this essay is that it's describing war in the conventional sense — I'd argue that war in the 21st century is asymmetrical in nature and maybe not even be fought by nation state vs nation state. So if you look at Hamas in Lebanon or al-Qaeda you get a very different picture. Also with the exception of the first Gulf War you don't often see Arab nations going to war against other Arab nations.
I don't think that quote is really relevant to any of this. This isn't about cutting off entire sources of information. Nobody is saying that it's not right for a person to use a smartphone or an iPad or Google Glass. They're just saying that there are certain situations where it is rude to do so. But there are countless situations where it is not.

To me and many others, a date is one of the situations where it's rude to be seeking out revelations on your cell phone. Presumably you'll have plenty of time later that night or the next day to look for revelations in the digital world.
Guess how much RAM the PS3 and 360 have.

PS3: 256MB for the Cell and GPU each
360: 512MB shared

I don't think Ouya is worth anything, but comparing RAM sizes is almost useless.
I'm kind of in a state of disbelief that I'm even reading this. The "Rails is a Ghetto" rant? Everything you cite is from 2007.

> And even now, in 2013, when I have to set up a new server with Rails, even with Nginx and Unicorn and all the other systems to help me, I find Rails annoying to set up, especially compared to the simplicity of PHP running on Apache or a Clojure app bundled up with something like "lein uberjar".

Then don't pick Unicorn. Yes, Unicorn is a fantastic app server, but it requires that you know the app server very well, and as with all stand-alone app servers, the configuration is more complex.

Instead, pick something like Passenger. Passenger runs as an Apache module and is just as easy to get running as PHP.
Also, do not be deceived by "data science": it's mostly a bullshit term, and translates roughly to "programmer who knows basic statistics"

This is utter rubbish; I really wish people would keep quiet about things they know nothing about. I suggest that you have never actually discussed a domain with a data scientist if you think it's "basic statistics".

In our dev. shop, we have a lot of great programmers, but none of them can touch our data scientist when it comes to working out what our tens of millions of users are actually doing and what their salient attributes are.

As for the data scientist needing to 'implement their theories', that's what the developers are for. The data scientist does the analysis, then works with the developers to implement systems that incorporate the results. Neither group is capable of the other's work.
Here you go: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/fbi/foipa/response.html
Still, when the PS2 came out it was bringing true 3D. When the wii came out it was bringing motion. What is the PS4 bringing to the table?
Your answer has nothing to do with my question.

Your account has been opened 2 minutes ago.

I suspect you simply wanted to put freelancer.com in here - I suspect you are a spammer.
I'm not sure if this is entirely correct, but it seems to me that:

Mitsubishi are giving this network for free to Estonia in exchange for a right to some of their pollution allowance under the kyoto protocol.

Estonia has a lot of allowance spare because quotas were based upon the amount of polluting you used to do, and Estonia used to have a lot of heavy industry which fell apart in the 90s.

So really, they got lucky and they got this network for free thanks to a quirk in the Kyoto protocol.
If only they had beat Groupon to an IPO and been the ones to raise a warchest before the market realized these businesses were a terrible idea.

Once this funding runs out they will probably be a great bargain basement acquisition for a handful of companies.

I feel really bad for the hard working employees who were counting on the stock options =(
As someone who has seen a great white shark underwater from 15 feet away (shark caging), I can safely say that there is no human alive capable of holding a great white shark still. There is simply no stopping a 20ft long, 4000lb., aquatic dinosaur. Unless you're an orca I suppose.

One of the most impressive and intimidating animals I have ever seen.
Whenever we did our internal documentation, we tried avoiding getting people outside involved as much as possible. When producing product info sites, we sometimes hired outside, but a lot of the detail was still left with us.

This is for the simple reason that no one understood our products better than us at the time. We may hire a consultant to help us better explain it, but we would always do our own stuff.

You're looking for a designer and creative consultant.
flashbacks to textfiles and issues of Phrack.

Seeing a full phonebooth (with a phone in it) makes me stop in my tracks these days.
omg dude serial?
Can you cite a sentence in which I said that?
Dutch auction! I didn't know there was a name for it! Very cool!
The fate of the steam box is rather dependent on how much support there is for developing/porting to linux.
Constructive criticism for those with reversed out type on their blogs like twenty thirteen. If you insist on a black background please use the color green as your font color rather than white. After 500 words or so white type on black becomes hard on the eyes.
Nothing stops you from treating Xamarin as one.

But it also supports the full experience for each platform.
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I will definitely do that in the future. Needs some cleaning up though since I built it and launched it in only a few hours. Rush job to get it on the Internet.
Dry farmed = traditional farming.

Modern commercial-scale eating (as opposed to canned) tomatoes are hydroponically grown.
This guy probably has aspergers. It makes sense in my opinion. Very articulate, doesn't see the social necessity to be around others.
This makes it sound like arabs will be unable to ever be good at warfare regardless how good individual soldiers are because of deep cultural issues, which is probably a good thing (at the moment anyway) if you consider the causes that Muslims get passionate about. Look at Libya, Syria, Hamas, Lebanon, Yemen... In all these cases a large number of people are very passionate about controlling others on a very personal level, until they give that up, I hope that they continue to have a dysfunctional military structure.

Though I guess those two are tied together: The article posits that their dysfunction comes from a need for honor and control. If they gave that up, it would become okay for them to be militarily powerful and they would become so (not because it would be okay but because they overcame their dysfunction).
Appreciate the feedback very much, thank you! Thank my friend for letting me use his expensive property to shoot the photos.
For what it is worth I always had some thoughts on combining eBay (community driven consumer to consumer framework) with craigslist (emphasis on the "barter" section) with a little old school amazon vibe (focus on books, movies, music, ect...)

1. A user would create an account and register Book "A" and identify what they are willing to trade for, say, Book "B" or Movie "A".

2. Obviously, users could barter directly among themselves Book "A" for Book "B". However, with a large enough community you could have algorithms suggest trades on mass scale - now it is no longer User A trades Book "A" with User B who has Book "B", but now User A can get Book "C" from User C and User C can get Book "B" from User B and User B can get Book "A" from A. The algorithm might conduct these large trades weekly or monthly.

3. What if User "A" does not send Book "A"? The ebay like community will encourage feed back and member rankings - allowing you to create settings to only accept trades from people with "X" ranking. Or in the short term - have members put in a $10-$20 deposit that will be forfeited any user that does not receive the trade.
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Meh, by the same logic I chose Penal Code Title 5 Chapter 19 (1) not to be valid. Yah, lets see how that works...

OTOH Homebrewing is perfectly legal in countries like mine (outside the USA).

(1) http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm
This isn't terribly surprising, they've been losing engineering talent left and right. It was pretty easy to infer that they were in trouble.
1. "Your answer has nothing to do with my question."

You asked what I did, I posted jobs on freelancer and odesk, eventually freelancer worked out.

2. "I suspect you simply wanted to put freelancer.com in here - I suspect you are a spammer.

I mentioned multiple sites..... Yes I am new to HN but calling me a spammer for trying to help YOU is a bit harsh.
Obviously, we will provide all the information and the content. But there shall be one who can take those technical terms and feature lists and turn them into a great product description.
Most of us are still around. Agent Steal died. Minor Threat here, author of ToneLoc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToneLoc
I do not doubt that some executive in the American auto industry JUST TODAY used hard drugs and alcohol in the office. The prostitution probably happened in a hotel somewhere, the accommodations paid with frequent flyer miles.
Any idea what the peaks in July last year were due to?
As a Redditor, this holier-than-thou attitude is offensive.
They are still around, except that nowadays they fiddle with browser security hacks instead of phones..
Wasn't it a gaming company that basically did that? (video game streaming). I think their technology was fine and they were doing good, until they were bought.
What's the difference between a smart phone and a laptop? A smart phone can go with you everywhere to a greater extent than a laptop can. I think that glass would push that farther.
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It's unfortunate but it works, I actually picked it up from working at a Bank where the guys implementing the tech specs we wrote never read them correctly. These were in house guys making big bucks, arghhh

At the end of the day people matter, I use outsourcing for minor tasks to save a few bucks and keep great people around for everything else.
I found it odd that the author thought that was cruel of the Orcas. I assume they are referring to the waste, but that is pretty common for all animals.
Up to somewhere in the mid 90's, you could play around with phreaking, fairly confident in the knowledge that even if you got caught, you would get a "slap on the wrist" at most. But somewhere around the time of the Steve Jackson Games raid, the Mitnick bust, and a few other notable news events, the mood shifted, and a lot of people started thinking "shit, this is for real and I could (go to jail | lose my job | get kicked out of college | etc) for this". By 1998 or so, I'd pretty much given up on phreaking (and any element of "black hat" hacking) for (mostly) those reasons. I got the impression it was the same for a lot of people.

Also, phreaking per-se became a lot more difficult as telcos replaced the older switches with 5ESS and other digital switches. At some point, a switch just became a specialized computer and "phreaking" and "hacking" started to collapse into one activity. And as the Internet became ubiquitous and the WWW spread, a lot of people probably drifted into exploring websites and shit, instead of messing around with the phone network.
Although I think you overestimate your uniqueness, you have the potential to be a very good writer. Please keep the posts coming, Kay.

Of everything you wrote, this line was the most relatable to my own experiences:

"If you don't like who I am then you can go fuck yourself."

Once I adopted this mindset, all things became possible.

Good Luck!
I've lived my entire sentient life with a cable or faster Internet connection. I spend virtually all of my time that is not spent going out with friends, eating lunch with colleagues, or having alone time with my partner on my laptop, Xbox, or Nexus S. I am, seemingly, what you fear.

I cannot think of a single reason why it would be more productive for me to talk to a homeless person instead of doing any of the things I do on computing devices on a daily basis. I don't think you can name any, beyond straw men like "you're wasting your time looking at pictures of coffee cups on the Internet." Because my life is constantly mediated by technology, I can tell you with very good precision that of the 8,760 hours in 2011, I only wasted 939 of them (and most of that was playing video games over the summer -- it's arguable that I'm not wasting time by experiencing the story of Mass Effect the same way I wouldn't be wasting my time experiencing the story of The Hunger Games, but books are more high status, so I'll give myself incentive to prefer them over video games).

If uploading pictures of coffee cups to the Internet is what you do with most of your time on computers, I feel genuinely sorry for you, and I hope that you can find a better hobby. I don't think that talking to random people you run into during your day is that hobby, though. Have you tried this app ShuffleMyLife? It might give you better things to do outdoors than try to start conversations with shopkeepers.