skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much that it's anecdotal, it's that article that's poorly written. Financial Times has a better one.

> Neuronov says there are some 500 strays that live in the metro stations, especially during the colder months, but only about 20 have learned how to ride the trains. [...]
“They orient themselves in a number of ways,” Neuronov adds. “They figure out where they are by smell, by recognising the name of the station from the recorded announcer’s voice and by time intervals. If, for example, you come every Monday and feed a dog, that dog will know when it’s Monday and the hour to expect you, based on their sense of time intervals from their ­biological clocks.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/628a8500-ff1c-11de-a677-00144feab4...
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I was operating under the (apparently mistaken) impression that the only automated processing of email contents done by teh Google was for targeted advertising purposes.

It's sort of scary to think that they're now going to parse out and generate non-email records of potentially confidential information such as your physical location at a point in time (like a flight number + date).

I steal private data for a living and that's just fucking creepy.
> If your money doesn't buy you happiness, you are spending it wrong.

One of my all-time favorite papers:
"If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't
spending it right" http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WIL...
That's probably the work of Tynt Tracer [1] - i've too used a while ago but yeah, even tho it does work to some extent (getting users to click on that link) it also angers them so i've abandoned that.

[1] http://tynt.com/
It's all about raising barriers to keep foreign business out in the guise of national security.
This whole article made me feel sad on the insides, even down to the domain name in the URL.
I remember someone pointing out that the DRM on books was massively, hugely successful to one party: Amazon. Imagine if all publishers had jumped in on distributing mobi and epub from the start - Amazon would have far less hold.

It was trivial for me to move from Amazon MP3 to Google Music (and back, if I want). It'd be far more work to get off Kindle. Even if tomorrow another company came out with a far superior device than the Kindle Paperwhite, how many users could just jump ship? Ripping the DRM off is a pain, even if it just requires some googling and downloading into another program.

Publishers getting off DRM is a good thing. Just remember that the real reason is they're terrified that Amazon holds the keys and are regretting their decision to willing hand things over to Amazon.
>> You type your code directly into RAM and instructions are being assembled as you type

> Most C64 devs used assemblers. We stored source on disk and ran assemblers on them.

From my perspective, devs that were able to do that were extremely lucky. I gave up trying to program my (contemporaneous) ZX Spectrum in raw machine code with a tape deck for storage after one too many catastrophic failures, and I didn't take up programming again until ten years later when a friend donated me an old PC compatible.

Edit: And yes, I'm still kind of bitter.
What stops the US from sending a whole bunch of constant dummy traffic to disguise this? I realize bandwidth capacity and cost could be a reason, but if there were enough capacity and budget? OK, maybe that question is a non-starter.

I'm reminded of a funny time when I was in an internship. My team and another team was fighting over disk space in the database servers. So we created a whole bunch of dummy tables. Whenever one of us needed to do something, we'd request for one of the dummy tables to be dropped so that we could do our thing. The other team could never do anything. It was weird.
So it's not an issue to use Chinese manufactured electronic devices like mobile phones, laptops and TV's in your day-to-day lives, but all of a sudden the US needs to use a Chinese satellite and the foil hat wearers come out of the basement in fear? Think of the use of a Chinese satellite like the US using a Chinese made laptop or mobile phone, not really a big deal. We're talking about the US government here, the data would be heavily encrypted but if things were to ever sour the Chinese wouldn't need to try and decrypt the traffic to cause problems, they'd merely have to disable access to the satellite and boom! US loses a massive amount of needed bandwidth which would be far more damaging than decrypting the information I'd assume.

Considering just how much money is spent on defence yearly in the US I am surprised something as trivial as satellite bandwidth capacity is an issue. More money is spent on the military than anything else in the budget and yet after all of those hundreds of billions, still need to borrow capacity from a Chinese satellite. Makes you wonder where the priorities actually are doesn't it?

This is not really a big deal as far as privacy is concerned, it does however show just how reliant the US amongst other countries have become on countries like China for innovating and help keeping up with this heavily connected and forever-evolving world. Hopefully the in-sourcing boom trend continues and perhaps the US starts innovating and relying on itself again instead of others.
Not an OP, but I can answer the same.

Good pay, benefits, stability, lots of free time and overall an ability to "have life" now (between 5 and 8:30) as opposed to having it after a startup maybe exits.
Well, Steam is actually more convenient than torrenting. You don't have to search for the correct torrent, test it, trust it, and so on.

Find a game, pay it, download it, play it.
It's sold in New Zealand where I am, and we are on 240v.
So you're saying that if handguns could stop without killing, then it would be ok to ban handguns that killed?
I don't get why people like rebasing as an alternative to merging. It works kind of OK for small histories, but if you do something slightly complex or your history is not meticulous, rebasing becomes extremly tedious. The worse example is a conflict in a reverted commit. A merge will flatten the diff and skip the reverted commit entirely, while a rebase will require you to fix the conflict twice. And while a merge is tedious to revert, it is possible. Good luck saving a branch ravaged by a bad rebase.
The Grace of Y - and Y the programmer should never die.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345155

Paul Graham and I were both correct. I posted the above submission a couple years ago. Today, my invention, Open Platform as a Service(tm) is arguably one of the hottest things on the Web in the space. If you don't want to read the whole post/rant, here is the gist. I applied to Y in 2011 with Open Platform as a Service and got rejected. Fine. But Y provided no feedback on why even when asked. I thought that was ridiculous to not even give a single sentence as to why you are not accepted as how does that help programmers? So of course I did what a lot of programmers would do, I ranted about :) Not the rejection, the zero feedback rationale. So what is the lesson. At the end of the day, Y is great. Not because they miss or hit, Paul acknowledges they miss things. Y is great because they know they miss and they communicate that should not stop you. They even let the developer post critical comments on same. So did I come back to say I was right and Y was wrong? No. We were both right. The take away is never die the first time. "Two, three, four, five, time to stay alive." Brian Sullivan, Inventor Open Platform as a Service(tm)
Or change your password using a computer, to a more iphone friendly password.
Please don't confuse copyright with trade secret.

Or for that matter, concept ideas to implementation details. I for one would consider a case different if a past coca cola employee would start his own suger flavored drink, vs copying the cola recipe.
"We should be designing more user experiences that are so natural and predictable, even dogs can take advantage."

There's a web startup idea somewhere in that sentence... "it's like MTurk for dogs who want work for earning treats, and web application developers who want to request dogs for user testing."

And dog-workers are such an untapped resource... imagine all the hours they spend at home tearing up furniture that could be used for something productive. All we need to do is figure out an intuitive dog computer interface along with a treat dispensing device, and this startup idea would be bulletproof.
Newman 314s idea of email tags triggering a different light colour, combined with this...
Just to be clear: you're standing by your statement that you don't need any more info to decide that Opera is in the wrong here. They're categorically in the wrong, as long as they are actually suing an individual for divulging trade secrets. There is literally no more information that would change your mind if you heard it.
What day of the week did you submit the ad?
Products (and cattle) are branded. People are not. It's demeaning to imply that a person's reputation is the same as a brand.
Our engineers have thick skin, they can handle it. However, we don't know how sensitive a potential hacker might be, and would feel terrible if we offended someone who wasn't expecting so see such profanity.
Isn't it clear? Experienced developer can give you huge list what to do and why, and what not to do and yet again exactly why. I'm seen millions of ways writing extremely bad and unreliable code. I can tell exactly why not to write such code. Nothing kills more productivity than totally unreliable code.
Use transactions, locking, handle exceptions, give clear error indicaton, log possible issues. Use auto-recovery, if possible. It's not that hard, it should be really obvious for anyone. Don't write stuff that totally kills performance, use batching, sane SQL queries, indexes, etc.
It's an interesting time now. It used to frustrate me how I couldn't find an address with just the phone number - despite having a white pages that contained the info. I know this was buy design, for privacy. Now if you search for a number, your bound to get a hit for it, and can work out who it belongs to. I'm sure this will fail me one day, but it hasn't yet.
Problem I've found is that there aren't any simple GUIs for creating/tweaking GTK3 themes. You could configure the colour scheme slightly (5 colours) with Gnome 2 and the older GTK engine. The other thing, is that you still have a mix of GTK3, GTK2 and non GTK apps, well at least I think that's true. OpenOffice being an example. It's an annoying problem for any distro, but the end result is that you end up with loads of inconsistency.

In short it's more of a pig for a user to configure their desktop style than it was in Windows 98.

So yes you could swap your theme, but I have yet to find many professional themes, and even the better ones like Bluebird, have issues.
Sorry, I read too quickly and missed that. In that case, I suppose the writer does realize that it's a log scale, but proceeds to make incorrect inferences from the slope of the line anyway, which is even more baffling.
> Why do people get out of their way to use some marginal browser when there better both proprietary and open source options available?

Integrated notes, integrated mail, clean interface. I've been using it since it was really early and while I can do similar things with other browsers I need a bunch of plugins to do so.

Automatic synchronisation of bookmarks and note across all my devices....
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$3.4 million NOK = $600,000 USD

Still a lot of money, but they also claim that they lost $20M NOK because of this alleged breach and that's just $4M USD, which is when put in perspective - peanuts.
Ah, Tasman. Later MS did develop much better versions, but unfortunately new versions of IE for Mac ended when Apple moved to Safari/WebKit.
"You should decline the offer as soon as you have accepted another offer or made a definitive decision not to accept."

"In rare cases, your final decision (either verbal or written) may trigger a decision to negotiate with you. In case you are given the opportunity to obtain what you want from the offer, you should be prepared to conduct the negotiation."

I understand that this is rare, but I wonder if you've really thought the scenario through. You've already accepted job offer A, but now you're negotiating job offer B? How would you explain your behavior to the first company if you end up taking the second offer?
I do believe there is a difference there, however. A brand is what people perceive of you before they know anything about your reputation. What do they see around the web? What image do you put off when you walk in the room? How do you treat people? What do your correspondence cards look like? How do you communicate? Those are all elements of a brand.

A reputation is all about what other people have to say and how you are preceded by what those people say. That includes things like LinkedIn recommendations, hearsay, references, etc.

Thoughts? What other terms would you use to describe the two different aspects? I do think it's important to distinguish.
So, these "hackers" logged in from their home/dorm IPs? And the FBI busts doors down then intimidates so the guy starts talking without a lawyer. Seems like this lowers the bar for "cracking" a plot, and for plotting a plot and being a "mastermind".

Seriously, this is almost equivalent to some kids that find someone's letters to their mistress and call them from their home number and demand money. Hardly worthy of the breathless "badass" FBI agent story reporting this article is full of.

If the guy had bought a couple VMs in cash and bounced around a few times and (for example) took Bitcoin and didn't spend it - then what?
Nice read! It makes a lot of sense too.

We developers could probably do something as small as working on a projecteuler.net problem for 30 minutes at the end of a rough day.
Friday. Not ideal, but it just worked out that way; I decided to advertise on a whim midweek, and the system requires 48 hours notice.
Your arguments are very persuasive, although they could use a bit elaboration.
Note most people(young) might not even be aware of the era you are talking about.

They might be the first to do something. But so was AOL to many things. Who(or how many compare to their competitors) uses AOL these days?
Agreed. That would be a bad call. In this case, if there are two offers on the table and you are confident in your choice, then there would be no further room for negotiations.

If you have two comparable offers and you want to test the negotiating waters, it would be best to approach that company first (before accepting an offer).

In some cases, however, you may have decided to turn down an offer as it stands, despite a lack of competing offers. In this case, if the employer opens up negotiations, it would be a good time to have the conversation.
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Nice, I didn't know about 37.5 hour weeks in NZ. Does that 2.5 difference from 40 hour weeks account for a paid 30 minutes of lunch time everyday, or just a shorter Friday?
Proggy has a variant with a slashed 0. Can't see I've ever seen a 7 or Z with a slash in it, though.
As I replied in another thread, older means nothing.

Most young people don't even care about an era when there parents read news on Emacs.
while often overlooked in our industry, it's the importance of hitting the "reset" button. we're making sure clients are happy, sales people have the information they need, and that can creep very hard into the rest of they day.
instituting a "hard stop" can go a long way, it did for me. i've spent 12-15hrs at the office, per day, dealing with meetings, questions, providing guidance and the like.
eventually you must put you interests first. whether it's picking up that book, working on that personal project, or calling that friend who works in a different field.
ultimately, the problems are not crazy new, but it's the day to day that burns people out. there's knowledge to be shared but when you feel like day in and day out it's the same old, then all the more reason to institute basic guides/metrics that let us know things are on track.
vacation is equally important, truly the 'reset' button, get off the grid. after all, it things fall apart while we're getting replenished, it's time to rethink our priorities.
This article really hit home for me. If I could I would take this advice, but I literally can't afford to. My only option is to continue working 12 hour days or I'll actually become homeless. So if anyone here has been through a similar situation I would appreciate any advice you may have to offer.
Thanks for teaching me a new word, had no idea what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods were. :)
Probably the same thing as `first class' in `first class functions'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function
We've done a bit of Reddit advertising ourselves - except to promote our Landing page.
Of the $40 spent, we got 138 clicks (CTR=0.07%) making it roughly $0.29 per click. That's not bad compared to other avenues like Facebook and Google AdWords.

We're doing another round next week, so it'll be interesting to see the download/sign up conversion.
Same can be said about socializing.

In fact, here in grad school we have a rule: "Choose any two from -- Grades, Social Life, or Sleep".
I see the distinction you are making, but I would use the word "impression" instead of "brand". E.g. The kind of impression you make on other people.

Hackers tend to have very sensitive bullshit detectors. Anything that seems phony (like the word "brand") is going to raise suspicion that you don't understand us.
This article is not fair because you only spent $30 whole dollars and have such a terribly small pool of data to react on. The ads actually seem like a pretty good deal for how much exposer to general traffic you got with it.

Your 2.34% sales rate is totally wrong because you can't track the route of the traffic, but I would be pretty happy that conversion rate. You have no price in your ad (to gain clicks) but I am sure lots of people feel $2.99 is kind of expensive for something they don't really feel they need (i can just visit reddit for free).
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While you don't need encrypted channel to get a public key, you still need authenticated channel.
I think an awful lot of people who advertise on Reddit just don't know much about advertising, but often think they do.

For example, I followed the link to /r/selfserve and saw someone complaining: "$100 for 13,000 impressions is a rip off. I've been advertising for years online and this is lowest I've seen by a mile" and following up with a comment saying "$100 buys 150k impressions anywhere else". At that price you're going to be getting low quality impressions wherever you buy, and if he's never seen a CPM rate like that before he's got a very limited experience in his years of advertising. In my world, as long as clicks are well targeted I have no problem hitting an eCPC of $1, and I spend a hell of a lot of advertising money getting those clicks.

No doubt people who actually work in advertising and know what they're doing aren't talking about it online, whereas the people we hear from are those who spend a tiny amount (normally $30, much too little to judge on) and don't necessarily understand too much about what they're doing.

That said, I don't know enough about it to have any decent thoughts on the subject, I've spent a few bucks just to see how the booking system works but never put any effort into getting results from it - I didn't like the system too much and wasn't optimistic that it could give good results. So on the one hand, this comment is just uninformed complaining about others, but on the other, I've probably spent more than most people who complain about Reddit advertising yet I know I don't know enough to judge it.

Note to OP: Most of this comment was about the overall situation not you. That said, I do think that spending $30 and coming to any conclusion stronger than "it's not worth my effort to try and find out if Reddit advertising can help me" is based on too little information.

Edit: To add some more general feedback about Reddit advertising, my feeling is that right now they're the worst of both worlds (self-serve and account managers). Most platforms buy me lunch to ask what I want to do with them, some, like Facebook, make me book in manually, but with that manual work comes the added value of the options they give - with Reddit you have to do it all yourself while getting hardly any flexibility. (And even with Facebook, I still have an account manager, an account strategist and a technical account manager, all three of whom are reachable on mobile any time they're needed even outside office hours.) I get that Reddit self-serve is still young, and I've heard talk of improvements on the way (such as paying CPM rates), but right now it just feels far too amateur to keep my attention - from the selling all the way through to the reporting - despite the fact that I use Reddit myself.
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I can definitely appreciate the bullshit detectors. I'll have to keep that in mind in the future, for sure. It's hard in a field like career advice not to sound woo woo from time to time. It's easy to get lost in the industry and forget how it gets interpreted by the people you're actually trying to help.

Thanks for having the patience to call that out to me.
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Yes, but the point I'm getting to is that sometimes you have to actually turn down one offer before accepting a competing offer.
That isn't how it works. COPPA is pretty narrowly defined.

You only have to take action to get parent's permission if:

a) Your site or app is very specifically targeting children (LEGO or Disney for example)

b) You have asked for some information from the user that positively identifies them as a child - birthdate is the main one

Path were fined because they asked for birthdate during the signup process and then allowed registration even if the user was under 13.
> I don't think court decisions are necessarily the truth, and that I should agree with them. I only care about facts to make my personal judgment.

Well, sure, but are you actually going to spend enough hours poring over the details in order to come to a reasonably well-informed personal opinion, compared with what a court will do? Courts are not perfect, but they're generally much better are sorting out the details than the media or random bloggers.
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May I ask why you replied specifically to my comment if your statement wasn't addressing anything I said?
I guess he just used what he had on hand. By the time the freeze cartridges were out, you could get pretty good native assemblers (like Ocean's Laser Genius, which can even be scripted in a sort of Forth dialect). Then you'd use the monitor on the freeze cartridge to debug the code generated by the assembler.

I wrote many intros using the Power Cartridge monitor, before I learned about assemblers. For small projects it's fine!
Tell me specifically what you're referring to. Would love the feedback.
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