skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
human beings being treated like cogs in a machine

You realize that Hacker News is focused on people starting businesses, right? Why are you here?

hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.

When you get your car worked on, do you expect that the mechanic should fix your car because you're paying him to or because you give him a hug and tell him that he's a useful human being?

When you get a cup of coffee, do you expect the barista to want not only for you to pay for your double whip latte, but to also feel that you're validating her as a human being?

The guy was "well paid and well treated". Without an iota of evidence that the business was doing anything wrong besides expecting that its employees do a good job - you indite the system and ignore the probable fact that this guy had mental stability issues that were going to come out either at work, his personal life, wherever.
Is the issue really work-life balance, or mental health? They are actually two separate things.

I had a roommate lose it. He was very disciplined, but had a chemical imbalance in his head. He was a hard worker, but did this really have any impact on his losing it? I am not an expert, but I doubt it.

The end lesson of "Don't kill yourself for a company if they don't respect you" may be true, but that seems a little disconnected from taking care of your mental health.
There is an expectation of the bar to not use that footage for anything other than crime prevention and suchlike. Bars do not typically upload all their CCTV data to a wider internet audience - or even to a central, powerful authority such as Google.
I never realized how time consuming it was to deal with all your cables. I'd love to know the purpose of the color coding scheme on their different cables, but couldn't find anything with a quick search. I'm assuming different weights?
Is there any info on what is happening? Why are they out of the station?
Basket was a pretty nice replacement for (some features of) OneNote. However development seems to have stopped on it. The last release was in 2010 unless I am mistaken.
It would start boiling but this very fact would very quickly cool it off to freezing point: water has a very high heat of vaporization.
This is insanely depressing and a wake up call to all of us who work every weekend trying to get ahead. You know what gets you ahead in this world? Ownership. Anything less is just spinning your wheels. They'll only give you enough to keep coming in.
XP falls out of support next year: any bank using it would be going against very strong security guidance from Microsoft.

Once you're on non-antique Windows, there's nothing preventing you from going all the way to IE10 which, again, starts getting into situations where not upgrading for security reasons starts approaching negligence.
Although it should be noted that the Latin itself is a translation, since this quote is attributed to Socrates and would have originally been in Greek.
No I don't want a world where ordinary citizens need permission to take a picture--but neither do I want to live in a world where a google or Facebook employee can find out in seconds where anyone in the world is or has been and what that person is or has been doing. Ubiquitous, always-on video devices that are always talking to a server, combined with facial recognition and other AI would allow this, and there seems to be no legal or cultural prohibition against it.
For those complaining about it being too late, try http://isitbeerti.me/ instead ;)
Total speculation, but: perhaps the police / FBI would DDoS Reddit to prevent the suspect from gaining intel on their operations? The Reddit live stream was all over Twitter...
To be fair though, 90% of reddit is the "reddit hivemind".
> When you stand on a street corner shouting ‘This guy did it’ with a picture of said guy, how many people do you reach as compared to a similar post on Reddit?

Without going too deep into the hole of metaphors, a guy standing on the street corner shouting about anything has the same credibility as the author of http://www.timecube.com/
Five Weirdest Boston Bombing Conspiracy Theories Yet 
Tea party would have been my first guess
And it comes with a convenient LED to alert everyone that it is recording, which is not covert by an definition.
Just saw this thread. I just posted that SWAT teams are going door-to-door in Watertown and the CNN live blog here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576686
Was Canadian austerity like European austerity? Or was it a cut from (making up numbers here) 2x European social services to 1.5, vs Europe's 1x cut to 0.5x?
> a love and passion for coding as a recreational activity that defies our conventional beliefs about software as a craft & industry.

I must be in the wrong "conventional", but I always thought everyone saw coding/hacking as a past time that they are lucky enough to be able to turn into money as well. Most if not all of top developers are hobbyists first and professionals second.
Robinhood Taps Social Networks For Stock Tips
I like it that for me beer o'clock coincides with the morning standup!
Too many people talking...
The difference is in who suffers. How is it distributed among creditors, debtors, cash holders, wage earners, etc...
This reinforces their incorrect belief that it was their skill and not chance that got them ahead

If it doesn't take skill to have success in the market, then what's stopping you from being filthy rich?

contribute consistent novel and useful ideas

Wait, so if the market doesn't know how to properly judge ideas then who is the judge of what's "novel and useful"?
15 Things You Didn't Know About 'Game of Thrones'
the Boston police scanners said they were looking for Sunil

Did you hear this yourself, or did you read it? That's really what I'm asking. I know many people were listening, but it's hard to tell what people heard first-hand and what people simply re-tweeted.

For my own peace of mind I'm trying to distinguish between two possibilities: a) that the names were not heard on the scanner at all and whole story was either a mirage or an intentional hoax, b) that someone's erroneous tip to the police was mistaken for its own confirmation.
Pretty cool and creative stuff
Noon NY? Or 5pm London? Either way I like how they're thinking.
Wikileaks releases secret chat between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange
The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date
My personal selection would be based first and foremost on the team. If the team is really solid then I would look for a company that I believe in as far as what they are trying to do. My personal opinion is that if you are looking to hit it big as a company you need to have good people working towards a goal they believe in. Other outside factors can be hit or miss but the truth is that very few companies go big, but the one thing they all seem to have in common is great people who have bought into the vision of the company.
The -0.1% mean growth rate was the silver bullet. It was everything - the only number anyone remembered or cared about after reading the paper.

Without that, it's another data point correlating economic growth and sovereign debt - and not a very interesting one, either.
Form Follows Function - "Dependency Management is Risk Management"
Gender selection is particularly strange. Male is depicted by a ♀ Venus symbol?! In fact, I wasn’t sure which gender is where until I've used Firebug.
Venafi[1] has made a pretty good business out of cert management.

1. http://www.venafi.com/solutions/ssl-certificate-management/
I very much doubt it. Microsoft have their own interests in such augmented reality devices[1] and such a move would hurt future business in that area.

[1] e.g. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20120293548.pdf
Professor said if we can get 10,000 likes in 5 days we get an A
Microsoft will not be doing it past 2014. I wouldn't care more about their OS than they do, particularly given the extreme security risks.
That's not what happens. The problem is:

When times are good, governments frequently LOWER taxes, because hey, we can raise the same revenue

When times turn bad, governments frequently LOWER taxes, because hey, people can't afford it.

borrow in bad times, pay back in good times, is well established. Governments are good at borrowing in bad times, but bad at paying back in good times. Look at late-90s US, when we briefly had a balanced budget, and instead of preparing for the bust, we rushed headlong into it.
Although it's wrong for me (says Beer O'Clock is at 11AM), I accept it, because it's Friday...
The MIT shooter was one of the marathon bombing terrorists according to CNN if I got it correctly

http://bit.ly/11pohgx

> The search followed a violent night in which authorities say the men allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers after killing a university police officer, robbing a convenience store and hijacking a car.

> ...Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was fatally shot while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in statement. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.
This entire post is like a "why CSP is broken in the real world", yet they're going ahead with deploying it?
This is clearly wrong as referenced by: http://isitbeeroclock.com/
Lent, indeed. And now they default on those loans.
5 Startup Concepts That are Not the Next Big Thing
The beginning was good, but when you claimed that smart people are certain to not get along with authority you went way out on an unsupported limb. I personally think passion and drive correlate to conflict a lot stronger than intelligence does; plenty of smart people know how to choose their battles and bite their tongues, and the suggestion that if they do they must not be super smart is just outrageous.
You should definitely take this up with the site owner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575255
Exactly, everyone was actively telling each other not to be heroes and report what they know to the FBI instead of speculating on the board. It didn't keep everyone from being stupid, but that's not what the majority of the spirit of those threads were about.
You can also specify a CSP using a document's meta tags:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src *; script-src https://assets.example.com; style-src https://assets.example.com"></meta>

I'm not sure if that introduces any additional attack vectors (other than somebody modifying the document in an unencrypted connection) but it's useful for when hosting statically.

EDIT: updated to mimic example in post
Ah, Redditors were in a large thread looking at the marathon bomb blast pictures, to identify suspects. Someone on reddit linked pictures of one suspect to the missing student, Sunil.
Is it good for your career to get high impact factor for a paper that admits that your most famous work was a fraud that destroyed the economy of several nations?
For the record, the poignant guide to Ruby was what made me turn my attention towards Python... everything about it felt "wrong" to me in a way that seemed generalizable to the whole Ruby culture (yeah, this changed for the better in the meantime, and now it's an ok language with a "culture" that doesn't feel so "wrong" for people who think like me).
Gordon Sinclair - The Americans
Well, at least it's not cathedral.
Didn't they lock down the city over those Adult Swim advertisements that were 'obviously' bombs because they had exposed wires and batteries?
...people really only use credit cards for online purchases or when they're already living beyond their means. (Which means the use of a credit card in day-to-day spending is another warning sign!)

Ridiculous, unsubstantiated, and false. The US is not perfect, but neither are your ideas about credit cards and the people who use them. I, much of my family, and many of my friends use credit cards for all of our daily expenses and pay them off immediately, or at least before the bills are due. It's convenient and lets you keep a small cash stash on you that rarely gets used just in case you need it.
isn’t ‘Pointing out ‘suspiciuos’ people’ on a public forum rather immature by itself?
Only a matter of time before someone makes this with a slide trombone.
Around 130, you start to question and dislike authority, but you can still hold back.

At 150, authority comes to you looking for fights (even if you don't do anything to it) because you make it insecure about its inherent illegitimacy and moral emptiness.

Actual 150s are pretty rare: about 43 per 100,000 people. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3.333+sigma
Ironically they pull the shit that annoyed them with their own staff.

Often, this is because they've been drenched from the cold bucket of reality. The nonsense ideas they once had about how easy it was to be the boss and how they would have the time, money, and energy to treat each employee as a special little extremely well paid but not-too-overworked snowflake was completely unachievable.

They realized that being the boss is difficult, because no matter how well their little startup is doing, there are always other bosses (customers, the IRS, life) to whom they are responsible.
I hate to sound impatient but I love crypto and can't wait to get started on the first set of challenges.

How long am I likely to have to wait to receive them? It's been 5 hours so far

Again, I'm not meaning to be rude, I just want to know if I should set aside time to do them this evening, this weekend, or in a couple of weeks
Apple finally reveals how long Siri keeps your data
It's not ninja covert but if you have enough of these around in any public place it's going to be difficult to always check whether you are being recorded.

The real change is that it may become socially acceptable to wear a recording device.
Hacker News Mobile
Excel is a great tool. Having used it professionally for a number of years, in the midst of other financial professionals, I can say with a somewhat well-qualified opinion that the majority of people using it should not be. Or rather, they should be treated as if they were using a Word processor, which is what Excel essentially is for them: A tablified "Word processor" with a built-in calculator.

Who knows what they typed in, nor how they tied it together? For work of any complexity -- no, really, not infrequently even for the apparently simplest of work -- if the result is of any importance, you had better get the original workbook file and check it for yourself.

Excel can be used, very well and very efficiently, for enormously complex work. But... you have to know what you're doing. And that takes not only time but significant will and effort to achieve -- something that even many professionals do not have -- have not demonstrated, in my experience.

Construct calculations in ways that create robustness. Build in cross checks and alternate paths of calculation to double check your work. Audit your own work and perform manual calculations to verify. Essentially, you've built a software product and you need to test it.

You want to know what the results of "programming for the masses" initiatives might look like when applied to society? Well, Excel is one (if not necessarily the best) extant example. It's not all roses.

--

P.S. We insist that grade school students "show their work" when doing math. How should this not apply to professional economists?
Chromebook could free Google from Microsoft and Apple
Depends on the type of cert. There're EV SSL certificates that do not allow wildcards, for example.
Sunil Tripathi (or his parents) would do well to take legal action against Reddit for facilitating this garbage, if the final legal reports support the assessment that Sunil was not involved.
Harvard should keep them, and endure the reputation decrease as a result. This incident should stand as a long-term reminder that the Ivy League is does not have an infallible monopoly on genius.
Former firefighter and 911 dispatcher here: I agree completely. It takes a while to get a feel for it, but if you want to know what's going on in real-time, listening to the emergency comms is the way to go.

Unfortunately, in some jurisdictions that's hard or impossible to do, as they use digital systems with trunking that made it hard to monitor with a scanner and/or use encryption.

Need I say that I think encrypting this stuff is a bad idea? Even if it may, on rare occasion, benefit a "bad guy" to listen to the police channels, weighed against the need for government transparency, I think the need to keep the comms open for everybody wins out.
Is it possible to receive a Russian transmission? I speak Russian and so the interpreter is only ruining it for me because I hear too many people talking.
Tell me I'm not the only person who was expecting some kind of CoffeeScript and Bootstrap mashup.
>I think it would load faster with client-side interpolation actually, 17 MB takes a long time on most connections.

You'd still have to move the 5-6 MB original, and then it would hog a lot of people's browsers to work on the image in the canvas (depending on client CPU/memory).

>But I don't see why client-side can't do "powerful resizing". Not since <canvas> appeared, anyway.

Who said it cannot do? I said the options aren't available. The guy did a simple resize. Should he also spend hours coding smart interpolation on javascript instead of just putting the image up?

For most connections, a 17MB download is eaten for breakfast, anyway.
Why 'Innovate or die' is a lie
who on earth thought austerity was ever a good idea?

Lots of sensible people.

The point of austerity is to stop spending money you don't have on stuff which does not clearly contribute to economic improvement. Every increase in debt must be balanced with a reasonable objective expectation that it will facilitate specific & significant increase in revenue greater than the debt and servicing thereof. If you've spent your paycheck, you buy rice & beans cooked at home instead of swiping the credit card on an expensive dinner out; if your car is out of gas, you borrow just enough to buy just enough get to work (or try walking/biking if at all sensible) instead of filling it up and heading out for an impromptu road trip.

National economics is of course complex and subtle, but the point is basic principles apply: if you don't have the money, don't borrow any unless not doing so will cost you much more, and unless you have a clear plan to pay it off. The Ryan plan (and plans of other austerity backers) is "stop spending money where it won't pay off", as in stop paying people to not work when they could, stop funding obscure/pointless/offensive projects/research/art which wastes money, stop hoping that prolific spending will change for the good.

Wealth is not durable. Spending $1,000,000 to create a $50,000/year job is stupid (and yes, there's a lot of that going on).
Thanks for sharing the post. I love the emphasis on the "feel good factor" for the work you're doing to bring innovation to the health sector.
Well they seem to be hooked to the ISS rails with a blue cable. The orange one seems to be hooked to one of their blue ones and also the the rail. This looks amazing!
That's what I thought as well. I expected some dire circumstance that the guy was put in, or some special lesson besides the weekly slacker "don't work to hard for the man" meme.
the last part of thaumaturgy's comment above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576010 ) is very similar to how I feel about Wallace's Infinite Jest.
> I've looked at the reddit threads a bit and it looked to me like a place where discussion was going on and people were trying to help.

You're factually incorrect, or maybe you were just looking in the wrong place: http://i.imgur.com/R0CZtwR.png and http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1co0d5/he... and I guess there are countless others.

Not to mention that I learned the names of the wrongly accused "suspects" from Hacker News first, but I guess we'll just keep digging our heads in the sand and carry on like nothing has ever happened.
Are they using some form of integration API such as that offered by facebook or G+ for the exchange of comments and likes/+1s?
It does make sense. I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said you should try to get someone to do you a favor because they'll be more likely to do you more favors in future.
It's because a the database isn't completely agnosticly load-balanced, and a single story is stored/processed with more co-locality than a random sample of, say, 10000 randomly chosen comments.

It's easier to cache and serve a fixed piece of content than to constantly insert and re-compress it (which kills cached versions too)
This is the most convenient and expeditious solution, but OP's suggestion is a cool and interesting hack.
It looks like, at this point [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5237265], we really need to change it! :-)
It's Miller time!!!!! (but hopefully with a much better beer!!!)
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Before investing lots of time and resources for this project , wouldn't it will be better to verify the idea first by MVP?

MVP you can easily create in 2-3 months for a big project.
Absolutely understand. I've been close to there. Definitely read books, and take advantage of the fact you can get a 100% free CS education from MIT in the comfort of your home. I hope I didn't come across too abrasive, I've just seen a lot of symptoms lately in your generation of people who want to show up to work and get paid for stealing time from the rest of the team instead of doing some self-learning. Your learning track mirrors mine too much to let you fall into this trap. Learn how to learn.

I will suggest the following advice; take it with whatever worth you might... work on improving Gamebrave. A LOT of developers I hire and work with love to constantly move to something new, something that will challenge them in a new way, allow them to use their new abilities, new technologies, etc. Resist this desire, and you will find success. Those developers come and go, and I certainly spent my own time doing this. But starting new is easy. It's not difficult to get through the hello world phase and get something started. What's truly difficult is pushing something past that plateau feeling into something even better or more effective.

And it's that skill (of resisting newness) that will get you hired full time, and indeed what I look for. If someone says they get passionate about debugging or refactoring, it's worth a thousand people who like starting from scratch. So go and open up your old code, improve it, maybe figure out how to turn that sucker into some passive income, figure out a way to get people there. Trust me, learning this Zen of development will be much better for your future career (assuming you want to do this full time). There's a reason that old OS/2 and mainframe people get jobs worth twice what their peers get for slinging javascript.
Sousveillance only really counts when it inverts the usual power imbalance inherent in authority-led surveillance systems.

The problem is that if wearable systems like Glass or EyeTap become widespread, this will create a new power imbalance between those who use it and those who don't, raising the same issues brought up by mass surveillance systems but on a more personal scale - which rather spoils the whole ethos of sousveillance that makes it so attractive in the first place.
And of course the US budget deficit is falling faster at present than it ever has.
could be an American/British English difference. I would consider omitting "of" incorrect in British English.
Lots of voices. Are the instructions given in English and translated to him?