skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, same here. I'm sitting at a Barnes & Noble cafe right now, actually. I prefer to be here over being at home, because if I'm alone in my apartment too much in one go, the "lonely" thing really kicks in big-time. But, by the same token, even though I like having people around right now, I very, very much do not want to talk to any of these people, or interact with them in pretty much anyway. Well, OK, other than the two hot baristas serving coffee, especially the redhead, but I digress...

Anyway, the "lonely but want to be left alone" thing really resonates with me. I definitely am a lonely person, as I find it harder and harder to "connect" with people on a deep level as I get older, and I don't have many truly close friends even though most people think of me as highly social, and I have tons and tons of acquaintances. So I know lots of people, am social enough to interact with strangers when I want to, have no problems networking and talking to people at events, etc... but I still mostly don't enjoy being around people, except for a very selective set of people that I deem interesting. Most people bore me very quickly, which is, I suppose, part of my problem. Very few people just seem to be interested in anything genuinely interesting. Outside of hanging out at SplatSpace (local hackerspace), most people strike me as fairly boring.

It also doesn't help that I have strongly held opinions and positions that make me a minority in one sense of another in most social groups (I'm a Libertarian and I'm atheist) so the set of people I'm likely to feel good about deeply engaging in is already pretty small.

sigh
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I'm assuming that in a fair system, people whose work produces more value should make more money than people whose work produces less value.
new grads probably shouldn't be making 'architectural work' decisions, at least not on their own, and doing it 'on their own' is more likely in a 'breakout startup' situation.
Poll: How do you learn new technologies?
Would like to understand what are the best practices employed by this community to learn/keep up with new technologies.

Feel free to leave comments if you dont see a option or would like to elaborate on your response.
Buy a Book for the specific technology.
Buy a video from Peepcode or similar service.
Use free material available on the net - youtube, blogs, journal articles.
First buy a book or video to get a good structured overview and then look for free resources.
Subscribe to a paid service like oreilly, treehouse, lynda etc and refer to it as needed.
This worries me.

I've met all too many designers and engineers who started out exactly like this, and years later come to realize that they've been underpaid by more than 50% below market rate for half a decade, and have little more to show for it than one entry on their resume and a case of Stockholm syndrome.

That's a home they could have bought if they knew their real value and weren't being exploited by a greedy employer. It's years of bitterness and job dissatisfaction they could have avoided by better knowing their value and having the right kind of ambition-inspiring peer pressure.

Let's assume you're not such a person, but at the same time I hope you would help educate your young designer about what exactly she's sacrificing by working with you at a salary of "making more than her mother." Please help her understand what she could be earning if she's willing to possibly relocate and hustle a bit, and allow her to make an informed decision.
> I don't think what you listed, "contributing to the long-term well-being of humanity," is either actionable or useful.

Shortly after, I mentioned two examples of such: working toward the colonization of other worlds at the large scale, and having children in the small. These are both actionable; their utility, I believe, is unquestionable.

> I took the time to carefully respond to your question on the purpose of life, and you completely ignored it.

It is my turn to apologize. Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss you as a "Randroid" in my mind, since that was essentially the view you espoused. Maximizing your personal pleasure is a path that, I believe, leads to a profound emptiness.

> when somebody calls for people to sacrifice their own lives and happiness for the good of the collective

I defy you to show where I said that or implied it. Living for a higher purpose than yourself is, ironically, a central tenet of Objectivism: Rand placed the Truth above all else. Egoism was merely an expression of the acknowledgement of that Truth. I am not an adherent to Objectivism, but I don't believe that even the most fervent Objectivist could blanch at my proposal to work to achieve the stars. Or do you think that Objectivism requires that it's adherents exist purely as agents in self-interested economic market? Rand was an idealist to the extreme, and, I believe, would have recoiled at your narrow view of what she taught.
FreeBSD and Netbsd are often chosen due to the more permissive licensing agreements. They allow the revised platform to be fully commercial and proprietary. Another example would be Juniper's JunOS.
Kaufman's point is that phones don't even have enough resources to be a normal Skype peer, let alone a supernode. Thus work had to be shifted from peers to servers. I guess they could have shifted all that work to supernodes, but it was probably simpler to just put that functionality in reliable MS data centers. Also, I don't know that it's safe to send iOS/Android push messages from random PCs.
And for some additional perspective, "under God" was added in the 50s to distinguish us from those godless communists.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Addition_o... The pledge is unarguably a political tool.
Seems about right. I don't imagine your average radio station is generating a fortune.
I think most companies in the Valley would acknowledge this.

The thing is - most companies are not looking for the best talent, they're looking to build the best teams. And one of the things that helps a team to gel is having all the members co-located together. It would be wonderful if the physical presence barrier was broken and you could setup virtual presences that were as efficient as physical ones, but something intangible seems to be lost when you only interact over e-mail.

It works for GitHub because it makes the company a very incentivized user of their own product - they're developing for precisely the sort of organization that is their market, and so they understand their market better than if they acted like a normal start-up. But if they were playing in a fast-moving consumer market or trying to capitalize on a recent platform or innovation, they'd get eaten alive.
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Not that I disagree with the sentiment or to rag on GitHub or their management (I think they have a nice product). But this article is simply quoting the CEO of a small company that has been around for very little time. Is the Valley so insular that they think this is truly a management success or is this just a terrible article?
The assertion that there are innate differences? Of course. They're flooded with different hormones from birth. Throughout life, the genders will experience vastly different hormones. Their development process is different from very early one. It's not drastically different, but it's a key different very early on. Males and females then go on to have notable differences in physical prowess like strength, coordination, and in other areas like chemically-motivated aggression, etc.

We know there are differences. We've chipped away at it for decades, and no one in science disagrees. The problem is that the obvious differences that are manifested are all macro physical, we don't know how the differences extend to the mental area. But then, in these kinds of arguments we don't really even know what we mean by "mental" because, technically, it's all physical. (At least, the part science cares about.)

Some people think that it doesn't extend to "mental". Some do. Considering the basic fact that our mental states are very obviously modified chemically, and that males and females get different chemical influences throughout life, I can't think anything but we have to leave that possibility open that there are consistent developmental differences. This is not one of those situations where it's probably most accurate to assume there is no difference until one is proven.

Also, stonemetal posted a link elsewhere in this comment thread. No one wanted to reply to that, they just wanted to post "are you sure?" in this thread.

And I can't help but wonder if this is supposed to be satire, considering above I posted:

> Every time someone mentions that they think there's a difference between males and females, someone pushes up their glasses and asks "source?", as if the 6th layer of comments on a news aggregater is the place to rehash decades of complicated studies and biology.
I'm advocating help for those who want it. Skid Row is all the evidence you should need that policymakers in LA don't care about homeless people.
For AES you are correct. The best known quantum attack is Grover's Search Algorithm (but emphasis on 'known' here), reducing the key space to 2^128. RSA, however, is based on prime factors, so it can be broken with Shor's Algorithm, which means it will take on the order of (256)^3 operations.
Oops, my bad and you're right. Forgot some zeroes on the way :)
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Biggest thing that struck me in this piece wasn't really related to the topic, but was: "Art still remained from the heroin addicts who had lived in the rehab center" - reading that made me realise what a big disconnect I have in my head between the sort of people who would create "art" on their walls with the sort of people I think of as heroin addicts.

On a conscious level I know that anyone can be a heroin addict, I could become one, my brother/boss/friend might already be one... but I've only just realised what a predisposition I still hold onto.
My point is that all our elections tend to lead to centrist outcomes because all our elections have, by voluntary standards, very high turnout.
You were wrong in saying I was making misleading and / or false statements about Snowden's lack of protection and you're wrong in your belief that the law you cited offers protection to whistleblowers.

The Whistleblower Protection Act - which is what I was originally talking about - has two seperate features. The first is to provide a well-defined pathway for reporting abuses to Congress. The second is to provide protection from retaliation against those who use this path.

The point I made is that this Act covers Federal employees only, and not private contractors.

What you referred to was a different law, written specifically for NatSec agencies. Like the Whistleblower Protection Act, it delineates a clear path for reporting abuse to Congress. And unlike the more general Act, it opens this path to private contractors as well as direct employees of the government. However—and this is critical—it does NOT provide the shield against retaliation that the Whistleblower Protection Act provides. In other words, if you're a private contractor (i.e. unprotected) and you use it to speak truth to power, you'd better be prepared to run.

So like I said, as a private security contractor, Snowden doesn't enjoy meaningful protections in the event that he blows a whistle. All he's got is a path for doing so that he may use at his own (very considerable) risk.

Again, as noted, not a single complaint has reached Congress via this channel. Not one. That should give you an idea as to how important the protections that Snowden doesn't enjoy really are.
From the preface (prerequisites):

> Students taking courses based on this book have ranged from first-year undergraduates to graduate students. We assume only that students have had a solid course in programming. They should be familiar with the programming language ANSI C to use this edition. In particular, we expect students to be comfortable with C constructs such as recursive functions, structures, pointers, and operators involving pointers and structures such as dot, ->, and &.\

Could someone recommend a resource for someone who is fairly proficient in Python?
Additional option: build some thine.
> But I don't want to see the frontpage filled with articles about suicide, depression, and celebrity gossip -- that's not what I'm looking to read when I get on HN! And I assumed that others felt as I did, so seeing this upvoted to #2 on the frontpage, I was a bit shocked that my assumptions had been violated.

So flag it. if others agree with you, they will too. If they don't, maybe it is not really your culture, then? It is just an online forum; there will be others.
That seems pretty unlikely. The Mac OS X core operating system Darwin is also based off FreeBSD, but there's a whole lot on top of the core OS that they don't have in common, so Mac programs are not very easily ported.
Young children are ridiculously easy to indoctrinate. You see this type of thing with religious education and upbringing all the time. A lot of adults are religious not because they chose to do so, but because they were brought up in religious households and their childhood activities involved going to church. As such, religion became a part of their identity.
Considering that I race a modern, fuel injected, turbocharged, AWD vehicle I'd say that they have very little chance of fixing anything on my car. It doesn't have a big sloppy push rod v8.
I can decide for myself, but by going public, a whistleblower decides for everyone.
Invest outside the US. India & China at-least will be growing 7%+ Y/Y for a quite a while. Add the rest of asia, S america, and africa, and there are tons of great investment opportunity. Heck currently euro zone bonds are making a killing.
The talk about the race is irrelevant, but I think the insult is relevant, if not nice. Perhaps you're still right that this comment shouldn't be at the top, but I have no problem with the sentiment it espouses being at the top. The story reeked of "humble brag" and "first world problems" and there are a lot of comments on this page saying as much. Clearly it was an impression that a lot of people agreed with.
Coming to the correct conclusion about whether he is a whistleblower or a spy is not something that is easy to do from your armchair, reading reports on the internet from sources who have their own agendas.

In order to really make the determination, you need to have lots of evidence presented to you, hear each side present their case as to why the facts support their position, and have each side answer tough questions about things they are leaving out of their side of the story.

You know, kinda like a trial.
I fail to see how it's better to pledge allegiance to a piece of paper than a piece of cloth. Surely both are symbolic of the general idea of "America" rather than the actual object.
No, I wouldn't either. It's a safe bet that most everyone in the discussion of a mega space project like this one assumes the US gov't will (borrow to) pay for it.
In 2011, Pandora paid over 50% of revenues in performance royalties. 50%. Of Revenues.
There do seem to be plenty of parallels; enough for me to feel confident that the mechanism is the same.

I wonder though if these systems were implemented accidentally or in a cool calculating way. The religion one seems like something that could bootstrap itself from true belief (if you honestly think that you have life figure out, chances are you are going to tell your kids), but the pledge one seems more calculated to me. There just really is no reason to have young children pledging allegiance to a flag and its government.
"What is this company?" is a very good question. I speculate whether the writer left this information out on purpose, to mitigate the risk of looking silly if the company goes bust next week.
"Prosecuted to the full extent of the law" cannot possibly mean anything but facing punishment. That's not really an assumption — it's right there in the thesis.
Once someone finds or gathers this data it would be great to put it into Open Street Map.
> So, if you have terrifically huge enemies, who will burn galaxies to get at your secrets, you might want to use a few more bits.

If you have enemies who can burn galaxies, then you have really other problems than keeping any possible secret.
Demonizing Edward Snowden
The devkit will be unlockable — but that's not interesting. What bootloader the devkit runs has no relation to what the final console will (and I expect that will be locked down, even if it allows other OSes).
Oh, God...
Yes. There are many weather conditions that occur in New York that make yachts and helicopters more dangerous than driving a car over a bridge.
I don't think Bellard's emulator supports tcp/ip. Getting it to listen on a port would be tricky.

You could probably do it the other way around without too much trouble. Run Linux inside Notanos. You could implement a file system that communicates with the host environment.
That's a much more telling stat.
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Check out the "Outsider Art" movement if you would like to continue be challenged on who is capable of creating art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
I am fully aware that they handle a lot more than patent cases. However most of the decisions that they make which I have an opinion on do involve patents. So I tend to focus on what they do there.

My inclination is to assume that they are likely to be as bad on other areas as they specifically are for patents. However I don't pay attention to that, so I really don't know.
a) This was suggested as a method to combat random trolling from botnets, so this sort of response is highly unlikely unless you're already getting DDOS'd [1], and b) Fail2Ban allows you to whitelist some IP's that won't be banned, if you really need to protect against that sort of attack.

1: at which point you'd most likely need to be a lot more involved anyways, and you should most likely be running something more serious in front of your server anyways...
> charges of which he is obviously guilty and which are punishable by decades in prison or death.

Could he really be sentenced to death? I'm not familiar with US law on the subject, so I'm curious. That really sounds scary :\
Building is key, but the way I learn while I'm building is to go through blog posts, tutorials and videos. Always free ones though.
I think the title of this is a bit misleading. The message is much less about "the valley" and more about building a culture around geographically distributed collaboration.
comment is likely at the top because user has high average karma, not due to upvotes, so in this case the problem is likely in software
> If a government employee leaked the details of the Osama Bin Laden raid and it subsequently failed, would that be for the benefit of the public? What about leaking the plans of the Union Army during the Civil War?

Those things aren't being done to the public. Cripes, man.
This whole thing will make a hell of a movie script.
When I think of heroin addicts, I mostly think of artists and musicians. And Sherlock Holmes.
Whether a certain action would be more like giving out Allied secrets or more like giving out Axis secrets is a matter of opinion and perspective -- by going public, a whistleblower forces his or her own interpretation of the situation onto the entire population.
To be fair, it's not like the US hasn't had it share of human-rights abuses before, just historically less than some other countries.

As for the Snowden extradition actually being a human-rights issue that's another story. I get that what he did was probably morally right but it was still illegal. I'm not sure why everyone is so shocked (SHOCKED, I say!) at the US wanting to prosecute him.

That said, the US would be smart to just forget about the whole thing. The damage has been done and this continued talk about prosecution for Snowden is making him a martyr.
you aren't forced, you have a choice. many choose not to.
Wow.

There is

> The community’s efforts to have a meaningful say in its future, in the face of top down development and crony capitalism, is a universal story being played out all across the US,” said director Mike Galinsky.

Sounds like democracy, politics, or that
bad part of democracy 'the tyranny of the
majority'. Mike got elected and, one can
believe, has tried to 'make NYC a great place'.
In doing so, can believe he'd rather
eat a fancy lunch with the Barclays guys
than the Brooklyn neighbors of the
development site. It's 'democracy'
in that Mike was elected.

There's an old comment on democracy:
It's intention is just to avoid
bloodshed. So, fight it out at the
polls as a proxy for what it would
be like if the sides met with
weapons and fought it out to the
death. So, we've avoided bloodshed.
If we haven't been really fair or
achieved 'social justice', if some
'little people' got stepped on,
we expected something else? But,
for such tyranny of the majority,
courts and a constitution can
be important fixes.
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Ask HN: any devs in Denver?
I am curious about the local market etc. Thinking about moving soon - I am full stack developer 8yrs experience. Consistently used java/jvm languages and now Node and heavy js frontends. Any information would be appreciated my email is patporan at yahoo .
This is a faux contrarian opinion. If someone is asking Sam Altman what to do, it is far more likely than not, they define ambition as starting their own thing. If thats the case, learning start-up stuff is likely not going to happen at a place like Microsoft. So he says go somewhere that can educate you in building from scratch.

It's pretty clear he isnt knocking the old guard, but answering the question in the the way the person asking it was likely anticipating.
Loved that article. I work as a UI developer, and sometimes it helps to remember that story. A couple CSS3 animations here and there always liven up a boring presentation of new features.
Personally, I'm glad my children say the "pledge" every day to start school. Yes, I'm religious, but I'm also liberal on some things. For instance, I think anyone charged with marijuana possession should be freed from jail-- that's absurd in my opinion. However, you have to draw the line somewhere. My childrens' identity isn't tied to "religion" per se, but rather "faith." But I wouldn't expect someone with hostility towards religion/faith to get that...
The Case of the Missing Ancestor
It seems like a pretty boring movie so far.
So she works for free now, and if you get funded she'll get an underwhelming salary, and if you don't she gets nothing. You're a helluva guy.
My intent is a mixture of both, I'm taking the safer route. Go to college, work on projects (in school and out), then i'm going to (hopefully) get paid at a corporation, get some experience. Then when I have a life settled when i'm 25-26 start a company, with a bit of financial backing, no student loans, it makes more sense than going out with no support and no experience (in my view).
http://readable.cc
Note that OP is only talking about 60% of just the writer royalties. He provides no data about other payments, like performer royalties.
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Seameless: a TCP proxy that allow you to deploy new code without downtime.
> I know that the money doesn't all go to the artists - what would you have me (or the GP) do instead, not pay for any of it?

Mail them a check. Mail them cash. Hand them cash in person. Send them bitcoins; if they're tech-savvy enough.
What is the legal status of a place like this? Is it trespassing to take a look around?