skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, the middle class isn't coming back until the employment situation improves, with consequent improvements in salaries etc.

Soon we're going to be seeing low-skill jobs go almost entirely to machines, while higher-skill work gets more and more levered up. I expect at the pace we're going (on both technology and economy), that will happen before we ever recover from the current crisis. A large percentage of workers are not going to have much to offer, economically, and I'm not sure where we go from there.
sounds kinda like the reason why most people would rather look-up guides to video games on the internet then buy the strategy guide at thier local wallmart, also advice is kinda like an opinion just because you get some advice doesn't mean its "good" or worth the payment also how would you know the source is credible...its on the internet anyone could claim to be someone else....I think its an alright idea BUT I would never pay someone over the internet for advice when experience is more valuable
Valve has an economist they work with for TF2, and he blogs: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equil...
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But the cloud...
And a great hardware, with the sliding boards and the pressure connectors. Its only culprit was the missing 5.25'' slot. I still have a dual R12K MXE Octane too :)
Faraway, the making of a universe
Google Glass: Obnoxious and invasive at any price
I'd be interested in knowing how much of that is android vs Samsung's crapware.
how do people know your phone number and twitter otherwise?
It is entirely possible that the two cases you cite are outliers. It is also likely that you cherry-picked those two cases because they support your point of view.

How about this: take a random sample of at least 100 felony cases in which the defendant was a minor prosecuted by that office. If you can find that in that sample, black people were more likely to be prosecuted aggressively than white people, you would have at least taken the first step in demonstrating ongoing racism.
Looks good, but it's not available in the UK. Anything related?
Signaling isn't really that hard, and I say that as someone who wrote a signaling and chat server for webrtc. Fortunately, the chat server is no longer necessary and that functionality can ride on webrtc itself. (And I assume you didn't write your own STUN server and are just hosting/running an existing one.)

Do you run a TURN server?
Well, you can reclaim disk space quite easily.
Interesting to see him include "meaningful equity ownership," a phrase thrown around still today.
> Oh, Christ. Start-up wankery has its place, but something to keep in mind: there's nothing that makes working for a start-up the be-all, end-all of a meaningful life.

I work for a giant corporate behemoth, I just so happen to love my job. :)

> You complain about people just wanting to exist and live and enjoy time with their friends and family? And that they don't have grand dreams of starting a business, running it, doing a bunch of shit that's secondary to their actual interests?

The thing is, they don't even think that far ahead.

If they wanted to live the standard "get a job, get married, get a house" sort of thing, I can understand that, but so many young adults aren't even thinking that far into the future.

> Not everyone can be a special snowflake, and that's fine. Some people want to work a 9 to 5 job and then head home to cook dinner with their loved ones. In the past that's been possible, but increasingly for our generation it's becoming harder and harder. And that's a societal failure.

Bullshit at the last part. Those of us with passion are pushing the envelope every day. We will continue to automate and refine and improve efficiency. It is not a societal failure, society is changing.

Go back 120 years. "Some people just want to work the field, go inside to their wife and kids, and relax. Not go to the city, start work in a factory and claw their way up to management."

Go back thousands of years.

"Some people don't want to have to settle down on a farm and work a field, they just want to migrate with the herds like they have always done."

Those who have ambition forever change society itself.
Riding a bike through CERN with Google Glass
Yes, you explain better than me ;)
Hiring top talent is certainly expensive. And if you're searching for the best of the best, it will always be hard by virtue of the fact that you're looking for people at the extreme of a bell curve, no matter how large the sample set is.

As for knowing how malloc works: fewer and fewer universities are even touching C. It's all C++ or, better yet, Java (no need to understand memory management _at all_ in that case). The only guys left that are into reimplementing malloc are the minority of Computer Science or Computer Engineering graduates that are into embedded work or HA scenarios.

And just to quench my own personal curiosity, since you're on the hiring side and I'm not: why is it that every company absolutely must find someone who fits the bill exactly? What is with this aversion to spending any amount of time training people?
Ask HN: Please help with my experiment (Toronto)
Dear HN,

I'm a long-time fan of HN, so before I try the normal job boards and LinkedIN route I thought I'd experiment with something different here...

I've recently left my corporate job at a big 4 consulting company and was due to move over to a sovereign wealth firm when they had a bureaucratic seizure as is so often the case here in the Middle East. I was earning well over $100,000 tax-free and was offered well over $200,000 tax free at the opportunity that fell through. I'm good at pretty much anything I put my mind to, and I'm a nice guy to boot, with lots of big company experience. I've worked for in all different industries, my former client list includes Shell, AstraZeneca, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland and many others. My focus has mainly been "operational effectiveness" (i.e. helping clients to increase revenue of decrease costs), and I have deep knowledge in IT strategy, organisation transformation, portfolio management and other happy sounding business jargon terms (which I can't stand - I guess that's why I never really loved consulting)...

To complicate matters I would like to move to Toronto to get married.

I can offer you 6 years of big 4 experience (Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers) without ever having drunk the corporate Kool Aid (I understand big corporations, but I've kept a startup mindset), I'm great with people, I've managed large teams, I love solving problems, I'm technically minded (though I don't program much these days), and I'm most at home in an interesting role where I have lots of freedom to fix a business and make it grow rapidly.

Give me something interesting to sink my teeth into and I'll move mountains for you.

I'm completely open to the type and size of business that I work for - if you have something interesting and challenging to offer, or know someone who might, get in touch and let's talk...

If not please help out by upvoting :-)

Thanks,

Tom
Will our nuclear weapons work?
Ask HN: Have startups traditionally skimped on web security?
I'm currently in the process of learning the ropes of web security, mostly by using OWASP and various Mozilla resources for reference.

What I noticed in the process is that quite a few of the middle-stage startups, whose SaaS products I use, seem to often roll their own security infrastructure (custom session management etc.), visibly omitting many of the basic guidelines recommended by experts. I'm not even talking about "persistent cookies", which is more often than not a business decision, but things like transmitting PII over HTTP are dime a dozen. Wasn't Facebook serving all of their content over HTTP all the way to 2011? Not to mention all of the sites that store their user passwords in cleartext, when bcrypt libraries are completely ubiquitous.

Now, it's not my place to judge their attitude towards security. I am however extremely interested in the underlying thought process and strategy that led to those choices.

Is the startup philosophy that security is something you deal with once you become a real business and/or someone makes a fuss about it? Is the idea that you simply don't have the bandwidth to deal with anything but advancing the product (more features, most customer development, more sales etc)? Or, are the "security experts" living in their own world where nothing but their immediate concerns is important?

Has anybody's business REALLY ever been hurt by being hacked? If leaking user data once or twice doesn't hurt a business, what incentive do small companies have to get it right the first time?

I'd love to understand this better, thank you.
Ok, you're right. I just changed it to W=2, and all the numbers are the same.
ARM Exploitation Tokyo: Hacking in the Land of the Rising Sun
DIY OpenShift Java App server: A short review
Roadrunner -- On the road to Trinity.
Class A drugs actually have a range of benefits, from curing addiction(!), depression, PTSD, migraines, and inspiring people creatively. This is not for all drugs, and some also have associated risks, but they are not by nature "bad".

Unfortunately, these drugs often are unpatentable, so it's safer to make them illegal (class A so that law says they "have no medical purpose"). Then big pharma can find less effective substances, sell them for more, and it's all under the guise of safety.
What is under the floor of a supercomputer?
I have used a Samadhi Tank, and they are awesome beyond belief. Highly recommended.
C++11 beats C++03 by such a wide margin it's not even funny
I'm not against H1 for other reasons, but I'm a little skeptical of the trickle-down benefits of software engineers. Civil engineers, industrial engineers, sure. But who else do we add to a company's payroll? A few sales, HR, here and there. A little business to local grocery stores, restaurants, etc. But I don't see software as a leveraged job-creation industry.
>Oh, Christ. Start-up wankery has its place, but something to keep in mind: there's nothing that makes working for a start-up the be-all, end-all of a meaningful life.

Yes and no.

I would argue that being a productive citizen that has much to give to others (kindness, companionship, food, money, etc.) is the fundamental mark of adulthood. I am blessed to live/work in a world where I can do that very well without horrendous scrambling, due to a successful and enlightened employer.

If such is a good thing, is not offering good employment under highly civilized working conditions to many adults an achievement worth great accolades?
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We can, but will most consumers? Will they even know a ‘64GB tablet’ doesn’t have 64GB of storage space? Do they know that their OS choice influences how much free space their tablet will have?
The 16GB is generally formatted to be a 2GB OS partition where apps normally go, and you can use the "USB Drive" partition of the 16GB to move apps to. Not as bad as it sounds - haven't run out of space on my S2 yet, but you might have to move things around.
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> Strawman. You made that up.

Oh, please!

> What I said is this: it is brainless to produce even more guns, instead of investing brains into more important problems.

I agree with your sentiment, but what I said about the earlier quoted line is true and is also true about the above. You may disagree with someone about public policy, but that doesn't entitle you to call them "brainless." It's called "civil discourse" for a reason, and I know you don't have to look up the word "civil."

Have you built a 3D printer? I have. (And not a RepRap derivative either!) Have you ever developed a your own plans for a device or a sellable useful object from one? I have. If you have, then you should know that this is not a "brainless" activity. Even producing a one-shot disposable pistol on one is far from "brainless."

I also agree with your priority ordering: That was never my issue. (Reread the above, and reply to my actual position, please!)
it was a port of tetris party to the xbla that got cancelled by the developer a couple weeks before alpha. that was the heartbreak that convinced me to get out games.

with 20g the big difficulty is when you build yourself a wall, say a single I standing upright on the floor, a couple spaces from the left side of the playfield.

now, because this is 20g, it's impossible to fill the gap on the left without first filling the gap to the right. it's true that you can move around really for as long as you like, with only the rare exception (i'm not sure, for instance, if it's possible to spin out of a spot you t-spinned into), but the problem is that it's all too easy to limit the playable area on the board. actually, i think it's unavoidable.
This is just a function of the markets. If people can't afford to move here, and vacancy increases, then housing prices will naturally drop. I've seen this happen more than a couple of times in the last 15 years. I have no doubt that rent prices will drop sometime in the next couple of years, because the rate of growth is unsustainable. One of my friends moved out of her 2br2ba apartment at Avalon Mission Bay because her rent was increased to 5100/month.
If there are or were aliens, why have we not heard them?

Forget visits, why haven't we heard a peep? From anywhere?

The universe is 13.77 billion years old. It took planet earth 4.54 billion years to evolve a species capable of emitting significant electromagnetic radiation.

I'm starting to be pretty convinced that we are the first advanced species, and perhaps life is a lot more rare than we imagine.
An introduction to the mechanics of bitcoins.
What happens on the edges of said subdivisions? If there is open land that the subdivision owner doesn't own, someone can put in a chemical plant next to it no?
$5000 human-computer interaction contest
This isn't standard. In fact, I don't know of a single device manufacturer that does this. Every iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows desktop, Windows laptop, Microsoft tablet, and Android tablets I am aware of states the total storage space as the primary indicator of storage. Do you have any counterexamples?
PSA: check out the HTC One[0] before buying the Galaxy S4. It's as good, if not better, than the Galaxy S4.

0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF75-HPdUfY
This is fine on the street, but not inside a Starbucks. As soon as you start approaching customers inside a business, they have the right (and obligation) to ask you to leave.
I actually use tab -> enter to send and I find it quite convenient. Why are people complaining about this when we've all tacitly admitted top posting?

IMO bigger problems are that email ought to be plain text by default and replies ought to go in the bottom (with three dots on the top if necessary).

Sorry if I made anyone mad. Now you know how I felt reading this post.
I did as well (50:50 with oxygen), ignited with a shot from a roman candle. Close enough to knock me over when I was 14. Realized how fucking stupid it was when I thought about static electricity and trash bags....
I saw something recently that said Tuesday. Lemme try to find it.

Got it: http://philosophically.com/dont-launch-your-product
> Browsers do multiple requests at once

Generally only up to 6 at a time though, per hostname.

http://www.browserscope.org/results?o=xhr&v=top&cate...
It's official: Hotmail is DEAD!!!! It's about time..
the largest logical fallacy among many that this article suffers from is that alien species would necessarily need to be technologically advanced to reach us. This probably comes from another flawed line of thought that aliens need to be like us in some way (hence requiring things like figuring out how to survive radiation, last for long periods without food and so on). This doesnt really make sense since on earth itself there are species that can do things we humans couldnt do (cockroaches can cope with tremendous amounts of radiation for example, and bacteria that live near geysers etc - thrive at extremely high temperatures). So why isn't it possible that an alien species that just about figures out how to ride a rock in space and doesnt really need all the advancement that we need to survive - comes floating by planet earth and decides to check us out sometimes?! Don't back up a lack of imagination with flawed logic ;)
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More people are injured by horse riding than MDMA. Under your regime, will you ban all risk taking including sports?

How about starting a startup? That often results in elevated stress and could impact health. Let's ban that too.

How about we take the ridiculous amounts spent on the drug war, regulate supply and tax products for potential harms, then use that to educate people on safety and provide support to people that get in trouble.

Not all drug takers have a problem with drugs. I know successful and effective CEOs, developers, prolific scientists, government policy analysts, and many others that take drugs. They are often more effective than any other people I know. So please check your stereotypes.
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This is why KoL has a money sink which fixes the prices on many common items.
> Sometimes the worship of the startup culture gets to be a bit much... there's nothing inherently more valuable about making your own startup than there is in working for someone else, and you also forgot to add "money" to the list of things that drive the YC crowd.

Before there were massive corporations employing everyone, people typically did work for themselves in some way shape or form.

Heck go to other countries, look at how many street vendors there are, people going door to door selling food, trinkets, hand made creations.

Why is our attitude that "some giant corporation should hire me to work 9-5"?

Why should that happen? Just because, by some economic anomaly, that is how it worked for 60 or 70 years?

Corporations are very inefficient, but less so now than in times past.

We all have heard stories of a secretary whose sole job was to take mailed in checks, open the envelope, take the check out, and type it into a computer, or copy it down onto some form.

Or even worse, employees whose job was to take items coming in on one computer screen and copy them to another computer screen.

Even more antiquated, the guy pulling the same lever in the factory every 5 seconds.

And we have all heard stories (or encountered first hand) corporate employees whose sole job was to go to meetings and discuss things and then write papers that got read by no one and ignored. (A lot of these types exist around the IT sectors in large companies, writing "strategy" papers on integrating some piece of software that consist of Power Point slides that have little to no meaning.)

Those are all examples of waste. Those jobs are gone, because they should be gone. They contributed nothing to society except to fill a void that existed solely because of inefficiencies in how large companies were run.

So now the people who would have filled those jobs need to find something that actually contributes to society.

That is sort of what money is supposed represent after all, how much value someone has provided through goods or service.
Even those bordering countries/areas are unclear. cf Golan Heights (which resulted in Facebook being banned by the Syrian government); and the dispute between Lebanon and Israel on maritime borders.

Talk about messy...
I grew up in San Ramon (10 mins from Pleasanton), and I can assure you that -- mind-numbingly boring as I found the place -- many people want to live there.
> The idea of software in a printer preventing you from printing counterfeit currency is ridiculous.

...but it works well enough. It is embedded in certain graphics program and in (computer-driven) printer/copiers for office use. Not sure about printer drivers, but probably just as well.

The tech behind it is quite simple, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

However, I can't imagine any similar solution working for 3D print. When one tries to copy bank notes, the `EURion constellation' is there, included by the issuer.

However, when trying to print third-party designed 3D item, if the designer did not bother with including any protective markings, those simply won't be there.
I'm not denying that Dynamo features more consistent availability, but it does so at either cost of temporal consistency or a much larger amount of resources. That's the point of the article, the tradeoffs are expensive and you can achieve effectively the same performance and availability with fewer resources.

Dynamo may rule out a certain class of bugs, but that doesn't mean other systems must also have those bugs.

And Couchbase also has multi-data center master/master capabilities, with any topology: chain, ring, hub and spoke or any combination therein.
Oh, come now, scarmig. All he was saying is that many in our peer group don't have a plan. And they blame others for their lack of a job and for their lack of a life they find meaningful--rather than going out and doing something about it.

I, for one, agree with him because that's what I've observed: numerous 20-somethings working at dead-end, menial jobs after graduation because they didn't adequately prepare for something more demanding. And many of them aren't thrilled to be merely subsisting. They want more, but they don't know how to get it, and they don't really own the responsibility for doing so anyway.

Somehow at some point they got the mistaken impression that if they got a degree they'd graduate, and be instantly awarded with that six-figure 9-5 job. And they'd live happily ever after.

So yeah, for that group they're a little disappointed to graduate and discover that the median income of someone with a bachelor's degree (as I recall) is $40,000/yr. And if they have an especially common degree and especially mediocre academic performance perhaps they can't even get that job. Oh, and they are surprised to discover they have to work their butts off to find ANY job, and then that most jobs are just "work" not "play."

I have no aspiration to necessarily work for a start-up or work 60 hours a week. But I do have a plan, and I do take responsibility for making my life what I want it to be. I have goals and aspirations and a long-term plan how to accomplish them. Most of our peers do not.

My hope is to be able to make a decent living (say $50,000/yr) working 25-30 hours a week so I can spend lots of time on my own interests and with my family. So I didn't hear him saying that we all have to want to work for start-ups or work 60 hours a week or anything. He was merely pointing out that many of our peers don't know what they want, or how to get it on top of being unemployed or underemployed...and they blame others for their situation rather than taking responsibility for their life.
Because it's never been done that way, so why should they advertise a lower amount? Most people don't care.
this argument - just as that of the OP fails in its assumption that some alien species would need FTL To get here. maybe theyre just a species that lives for millenia in earth years - and can manage without gravity or limited gravity. You just dont know.
This article couldn't be more inaccurate and delayed. Shame on you.
> with a Motorola 68030 CPU running at a screaming 25Mhz, [...] this was the "Ferrari" of desktop systems!

Um, no. The NeXT cube competed mostly directly in price and market against MIPS and SPARC boxes which ran rings around it (quite literally 4x faster on typical CPU benchmarks in many cases). It was never a performance platform, and would only fall farther behind as the 68k architecture failed.

There were many things to like about the platform, but really NeXT was a very flawed system. It lacked the speed and features to compete with machines in its price range, yet was priced out of the PC and Mac world where it's UI and integration would otherwise have been attractive.