skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take on it. I attribute this more to their incompetence and plain 'ol stupidity. I imagine people who can think better in general don't aspire to be school administrators. Some teacher perhaps love teaching kids and are dedicated, administration and bureaucracy attracts a special breed of people... and let's just say that these are not usually the brightest either. But what they have learned and do well is protect themselves. The constant threat or funding withdrawal from the govt, the threat of law suits, the threat of reputation if say a student goes "mental".

They have nightmares of being on the stand in court and asked questions like "are you sure you did everything you could to prevent the disaster?"...At least this is probably how testing and psych screening company sold them the packet.

Now their stupidity is also a blessing. If just someone could manipulate them into being afraid of your scenario. Being sued for collecting too much private info about its students. What if they get hacked or someone breaks into the office and steals all those answer sheets with all kinds of strange confessions? Law suits from parents is supposedly this dark deep evil always lurking in their minds. Just need to re-frame the problem so that they see collecting data = increasing risks of getting sued and voila, temporary win.

As a side note, someone on Reddit mentioned taking a similar test (but supposedly anonymous, I say "supposedly" as teacher often can tell the students by handwriting). and putting the most outrageous answers they could in the boxes, mostly for fun. I realized I would have probably have done back then the same thing, just to mess up their statistics. What if didn't end up being anonymous, it leaks and now it is attached to my name for life. Good luck explaining every employer who runs background checks.
lol, compare N4 with iP5? You`re an idiot.
Not necessarily. With something like a smartcard or TPM chip, one could move the hashes and salts off the server. Both would still be stored together (on the device) but they'd be separate from the server!

Edit:
Or one could move just the salts into the device and store an index into them in the password file. Hashing would be carried out by the device but an attacker would only gain access to the indices. Without stealing the device itself it'd be impossible to properly salt the passwords for hashing.
It sounds like there's actually a few untapped markets out there that no one is even thinking about. That's a shame.
Google's social network and list of apps are an attempt to stay relevant so they can change the world.

Doing expensive R&D without a money maker generally requires government help. I don't think Google wants to go that route.
The cost argument can not always be made. Millions of dollars are also poured into commercial software. Yet open source alternatives exist that are really good. For example icc vs gcc.

This happened because a lot of computer scientists / engineers donated their time willingly for these projects. My original statement was meant to point out there is a lack of designers in the open source community.
As much as I'd like it to work on my iPad too, I still just view it as a toy and not something that can be productive.
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This would be good to know, at least I will be able to respond to the initial issue that spawned this thread.

Regards
Matt
Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into this. I'd been wondering about that myself.
sensationalist as opposed to the current title? Any other recommendations?
Definitely some great stuff. I've read a few of his other articles as a result and wow! I'm totally impressed.

The securities industry gets a pretty bad rep. This guy has been a prop trader and hedge fund manager and has integrity in spades; believe it or not but I'm my experience that's a common trait with most of these guys.
Silicon Valley is more similar to Wall Street than it cares to admit.
I think what jimmaswell was getting at is that salary does not equate to overtime exempt. There's plenty of overlap, but salaried workers who aren't exempt get paid overtime on a calculated basis.
I would never even think of washing my feet in the water where people are swimming

In some countries people wash their clothes in the same river that other people bathe and swim. In many places there's just a lake, a pond, or a swimming hole, but no separate hose. And people make jokes about urinating in the pool all the time.
I believe that both situations have plenty of parrallels, but are not equivalent. Obviously blowing up multi-ton statues with explosives and graffiti are two very different activities in magnitude and severity. Nevertheless, they have many clear parallels.

My objection is to your assertion that some people are allowed to express their objection to the art and some people are not.

Many "westerners" who have never been in that hemisphere, nor have an particular interest in art, objected loudly to the dynamiting of those statues. Some of them did so anonymously on the internet.

Is this okay because that act was more energetic, dramatic, and irreversible (the reason the two acts cannot be said to be equivalent)? Is it okay for another reason? (I don't know what standard you are using to determine if somebody is "self-righteous", so perhaps that is the difference to you?) Or perhaps do you think that it was not okay for "westerners" who didn't care about art to object to that act anonymously on the internet?

These specific objections that you raised ("westerners", "anonymous", "don't care about the art anyway", "self-righteous") make much sense to me (you offered them with little to no justification), and I am trying to grok the extent to which you think they are valid.
That's in the docs :-)
Why isn't everyone just quitting their day jobs and becoming Bitcoin miners? It's like the modern day Gold Rush!
This article makes bitcoin sound like a ponzi scheme
The fact that the two acts were not equivalent (which should be plain to see) does not mean that there are no parallels which can not be examined. Not all comparisons imply equivalence.
Sure. Looking forward to putting some Nazi symbols on Jewish graves for the fun of it and spaying "Osama was here" at Ground Zero. Nothing is sacred, right?

Could torch the museum, no point in spending money on old junk, especially if it might actually teach something to the visitors.
About Israeli style of negotiation, I must agree (I'm Israeli). It's aggressive, though some find that "charming" - ok, mostly Israelis I guess ;), but again, it's a generalisation...
That's in the docs :-)

Ooops no it's not - kind of assumed it was obvious - thank you for the reminder :-)
If only we could remove these pesky kids from the school ... then we could have perfect teaching environment. Perfect lessons with no delay in empty classes. The school will hum like a well tuned V8.

But with their rights, troubles and teenage rebellion - how dare they disrupt the perfect teaching set up by bureaucracy by being themselves.

The fact that a survey is needed means that the system has already failed the students. And the idea of it being non anonymous means that the persons responsible have no idea at all how to deal with children. The school is there to guide the young ones during one very hard period in a person's life. It should be relationship based on trust not intimidation. But instead we get administrators that think of themselves as sheriffs that must be tough on crime.

But the mantra is protect the children (which we do for ourselves) and not do something good for the children.
I like the idea of starting a conversation instead of the usual resume and interview approach, but the example job listing (here: http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/982) came off as creepy to me, somehow.

Maybe it was the overly familiar tone from a stranger, or the slightly self-centered focus on the prospective employer's own personality, or the paternalistic tone of the listing, down to the closing line: "deal?"

I would personally not be comfortable answering an ad like that. I prefer my professional relationships to at least begin with a more professional tone. Phrases like "I will not hire anyone until we both understand and care about each other" remind me of bosses I've had when I was younger that seemed to want to treat me more like a son or nephew than an employee, and it always made me kind of uncomfortable.
I can imagine for a woman, this might set off even more alarm bells than it does for me as a man.

Hire skilled, talented people. Looking for "good-hearted" people with "giving personalities" sounds to me like I'm going to have to hug you at the end of the day or something.
The West is reckless.
Nice list!

Xash3D is an open-source recreation of the GoldSrc engine used in Half-life 1 and friends (Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, etc).
It could have read 2900 gribloops vs 3100 gribloops and, not knowing anything about gribloops other than it's a measure of distance between cities, the expected conclusion is the same: the two pairs of cities are roughly the same distance apart. Ergo, converting the units presents no additional information.
Why the japanese characters ? :) You could have use the free beer, free speech analogy :)
I don think it is very useful or practical. A similar effect can be done using static variables declared outside the methods.

But it is a good example on how to write a plugin, with annotations and instrumentation. So the interesting parts are on the code implementing this functionality.
Where are you going to get staff for the great medical care facilities? I'm dating a girl who just graduated from medical school and I can't imagine any of her friends wanting to move next to shantytown.

Do you think the burning man-esque campus would work over a 2-5 year time period with burning man level of sewage treatment facilities?
If you have a dedicated cryptography module, you would be better off storing encrypted hashes, and asking the cryptography module to decrypt the hash and verify the password against it. Salting the hash (and using an expensive hash) would still provide a second layer of defence in case the module is compromised (and provide a physical rate limit to online attacks even if the server is compromised).
Stitcher (podcast app) does not encrypt user passwords
Yeah, that's really weird and wouldn't fly in my country. There is nothing you can show my kids in school that you can legally keep from me.

The public (parents in particular) ought to have the right to know everything that their kids see.
Occasionally I wonder whether the mantra to "solve your own problems" when looking for startup ideas is making things harder for ourselves.

We stand on the shoulders of giants, the least we can do is help lift others to that level.

If you were to build a business by implementing other people's cloud based product, be it an OAuth provider, MapBox, Embedly, Mailgun, AWS, etc... the barrier to profitability has been raised significantly. The raw costs remain low, but the costs for even a low number of users is quite high.

Maybe this is just the natural order though. It's never really been possible for the author of a lib to be able to charge, let alone charge on a recurring basis, before.
> Never blame on malice what can be blamed on incompetence.

So, does the early bird get the worm or do good things come to those who wait? We're maybe too inclined to just assert these sorts of things as fact. (This includes me.)
Wow, suprised tuxkart is not listed there. Used to love playing it in 8th grade with my buddies. It was my go-to answer when people asked me "can you play games on linux?"
Yeah, I don't understand spitting indoors. Why didn't I remember this in your comment earlier?
It's good enough for a beginner to start with. Provided they know it's not the complete picture.
Maybe it's just a stupid statement made out of tv shows like 'extreme makeover home edition', correct me please if I'm wrong....

In US most of the houses seems to be made over a wooden structure, making them more fragile, easy to be renovated / customized / moved / rebuilt and, most important, cheaper.

Here in Italy (and AFAIK in the whole Europe) there's nothing like that: full concrete and a proper basement, basically no wood (except from roof).

I just bought my first flat and I've spent 168k euros for a 85 square meters flat 25 km from Milan. Despite the crisis, prices are stable and/or are decreasing very slowly.

You will never find, even in the worst zones of the cheapest cities an house at 10k euros here, neither a bunch of bricks will be sold for that. :)
If it's coincidence, it's an incredible one. I reloaded the site two more times, and got The Lorax repeatedly. If it's not coincidence, am I supposed to look at Mr. Dryden and think "I want to see The Lorax... oh how convenient! There it is! click"?
It is a bit of an overstatement to say Ann Arbor's hacker community has been dormant. It's the liveliest in the state and Ann Arbor has also long been the startup capital though it is starting to be challenged by Detroit.

However I was there opening night at MHacks and what that crew pulled off was nothing short of amazing. There was incredible energy in the building that night.
The part I found most useful:

Recently, I have been practicing a new time management technique and I am calling it the “Minimum Viable Daily Tasks”. Here is how it works: Choose the minimum amount of work that needs to be done everyday so that you have a big smile on your face when you are heading home in the evening. If you accomplish anything more then it is a bonus.
i would love to see this applied in a sort of CSS zen garden way where a simple layout's color scheme is updated continuously based off of moving your mouse around.
I don't blame you. I thought the picture just sealed the creepy touch. But then again, one can argue that creepiness is a social construct, and that it itself is a barrier against making the conversation approach of interviewing for jobs seem unnatural, when really they shouldn't be. If more of us decided to be more "professionally personable" in the way that Brooke is, then perhaps this social construct of creepiness would change.
It's an incorrect statement. vWorker user earnings are well up, around 50% higher than before.

vWorker did have some great freelancers and some really nice features. However it was an incredibly difficult site to use, this is why they did not survive as an independent business. Ironically, this is what those people that were left on the site at the end were high quality. To post a project took something like 3 pages of complicated forms in a 3 point font in order to just get it live. Around 70% of people dropped out of the post project funnel. So of course, if you laboured on to complete those three pages then you are probably a pretty dedicated employer. Likewise if you were a freelancer and put up with horrendous interface, you were probably pretty dedicated. vWorker's UI was franking shocking, and so was its UX. It was right out of 1995.

We imported 100% of the feedback into our reputation system, so the big freelancers on vWorker are also at the top of the leaderboards at Freelancer - and there are significantly more projects on Freelancer than vWorker ever had. Also a vast majority of employers have come across and are active on Freelancer. I am not sure what sort of projects you are going for, or what categories you are working in- I am happy to have a look at your account if you private message or email me to provide some feedback to you.

Regards
Matt
You're definitely not crazy. I am not as far into my own career as you, but I would even say that it seems the crazy thing to do, in your position, is to do nothing. You want more from life? Get it! You will be able to find a job later, guaranteed, especially if you kept hacking after leaving your big-co job! (Do re-adjust expectations, though. A start-up will not pay you nearly as much as your last job did, although you should get stock. You know all this, but it will still be a big change.)
Beauty indeed. Architecture this elegant is more appropriate for an organism than a currency.
Yes, you don't. But it helps immensely.

Ours was 12-hour flight away from where we were, and the first 2 years was very very very damn stressful. In fact, I don't rememeber anything from the first 5 months or so.

To say that having a kid is a major lifestyle change is an understatement. It completely, abruptly and irreversibly fucks up whatever lifestyle you had, including any ability to work in long stretches or to even poke around things you like for your own pleasure. Your life is no longer your own. So if there's someone who can take at least some load off and grant you back a little of personal time, it's a huge help.
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There's some deep philosophy in the article. I wish everyone who was in charge of hiring took this sort of care to place people. So refreshing to see that integrity and honesty are still valuable assets.
:) works well.
Tiny, tiny, condensed font = nearly unreadable.
i like green.
thanks for the feedback. many of the bugs I had not noticed before
Classic case of projection. The guy works in hedge fund management where success and 'goodness' is so easily observable (buy low sell high). His observations make sense ... for his industry. For other industries and roles, for example sales, niceness has its benefits.
mgiglesias, I am not going to comment on your business, workana. But your statement is grossly incorrect.
> How is Crate.io better than the current PyPi? The website does not mention any of this, it barely contains any text.

But it has a huge ass search field! It's all about the UX, brother; the bigger (and flatter!) the UI, the better the UX, as any UX expert will tell you.
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I am not using surveillance as "bad things governments spy on us with" but "side effects of joining billions of people to humanities central nervous system" - all of a sudden the clues and inferences about our lives that previously could only be gleaned by our neighbours (when we left the house, with whom) are on an electronic bulletin board and available to almost anyone who cares to look.

If this takes off, wifi repeaters and solar charging stations will appear in villages and towns, and guess what with that detail each user will hand over position, time and search information - every drop able to glean more about them than the secret polices best efforts.

Our only hope is it is like rain - it surveils the just and unjust alike
Completely agree. Though you can sometimes relocate family.

My parents moved to live very nearby after our first (a few years ago) and we've since had twins (now 3 kids). The fact that they can come over almost every day to help out in small bits is immensely stress-releiving.
Nice to see work on ARM. I wish we had something as powerful for dealing with concurrency in iOS as golang. Immutables and the SDK get you pretty far, but not quite as elegant. (If I am wrong please tell me)
When can more information lead to worse decisions? (2011)
"I can't see tech workers breaking out the saws and sandpaper and building quality neighborhoods in their spare time"

I should have you over to my house sometime. I completely tore out the downstairs of my house. The guy that's helping me with the kitchen cabinets is an old cobol programmer. I think your experience with carpentry and people that enjoy carpentry might leave a little to be desired. (I don't mean any disrespect by this) and I'm not saying that just because you chose "saws and sandpaper" for what is needed to build a structure.

I am curious why do you think tech people would not be interested in building things using lumber? If you are looking for a book to read pickup "Shopclass as Soulcraft." I don't think its going to make you want to pick up a trade but I think it might give you a different perspective.
There are lots, but none in michaelochurch's life apparently.
I'm mostly talking about the folks who are calling for this kid, or his parents, to be beaten, fined, or punished in some way. I'm also talking about the people who use it as an excuse to complain about how Chinese people are louder, ruder, or generally worse than other cultures.

I don't have a problem with people complaining about defacing artifacts in general. It's shameful. But this kid was one of many who wrote his name on that statue, and one of many who defaced an ancient artifact as a tourist in another country. It only takes a few seconds to realize that to be the case, so the people condemning the child specifically are narrow-minded and probably just out to get their fill of hate, in my opinion.
They are. And it turned out to be a huge failure, at least here [0].

In any case, you'll have a lot more privacy if you stop using Google services.

[0] http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/23918/denmark-government...
That would be awesome if it became an inside joke!
Relevant:

http://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/sucks-t...

http://blogaborty.blogspot.in/2013/04/no-country-for-old-pro...
Hey hey hey.. Stop with the geography already, everyone. Just read what this guy's saying.

The best place to start a company with kids is next to your family.

And he is 100% right.
An HTC One with a stock Android is coming soon (http://www.androidcentral.com/google-edition-htc-one-coming-...).

As for the camera, I don't know the quality of the camera in any iPhone. But I think the camera in my Nexus 4 is good. It's not very good, but it's not ugly. I'm also not a fan of large size phones... Before. But when I tried browsing using Nexus 4, I felt that I don't want to have a smaller screen again.
And first you have to build the Murcielago
There are many different kind of "open source" licenses and they do not all give the same rights. Not saying you are doing anything wrong here, but you should be a little more careful which such statements.
Do it. Your savings exist precisely for that sort of situation.

Take time off, and figure out what you want to do. Maybe it'll be freelancing/indie development. Maybe in 6 months you'll want to come back to the tech world. Or maybe you'll just say "fuck it" and go teach high school mathematics or help out with IT infrastructure in third world countries or whatever.

The point is: you only live once, do it.
> I see a disturbing amount of this attitude: it's fine for corporations to be as unethical as they can get away with, and it's up to government to constantly rein them in.

That's not my attitude at all. My attitude is just one tiny facet of that attitude, which is that no one should have to pay more taxes than they are legally required to. I don't, for instance, think that corporations should be free to maximize profit by toeing the EPA line.

With regards to taxes, what's unethical about using the law to one's advantage? This isn't a rich guy socking away millions in the Bahamas; as far as we know there's nothing shady going on at all. Furthermore, we know Google pays some amount of tax all around the world and that they employee a lot of people in the UK all of whom pay gobs of taxes. Google decision of where and how to open offices may well be shaped by these tax laws, so it's really not fair to attract a company to your country with a certain tax regime, and then berate them for not following the "social contract" or whatever. Google is not a UK company. It didn't start in the UK, and it doesn't have to operate here. If tax laws change Google has to deal with it, so do it, but you can't have your cake and eat it too by attracting them in with a certain tax regime and then painting them as some sort of greedy villains because their accounts don't interpret the intention of the law and voluntarily decline tax breaks.
Related: Stitcher (still) stores passwords in plain text https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5778367
Quite right. What's interesting is that the Canadian homeownership rate is similar to that of the U.S., last I checked, even despite the different tax treatments.
You only need a couple of trained architects to oversee the whole deal.