skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At an earlier point in my career I was exactly the "highly technical person" in the above comment. I have always taken the approach to my work outlined in the OP, and therefore my emphasis on "getting it right" has caused me to switch jobs quite a bit over the past few years.

For people like me, understanding business constraints is crucial. We must constantly question decisions, not to condescend, but to understand.

Once I understand the context behind a decision, I can then decide if I agree with it or not. If I don't, then I'm in a fight-or-flight situation: try to change it (may not be a reasonable option) or get out as soon as my commitments allow.

Typically once I understand the constraints I start to less like a cog and more like part of a larger effort to ship in spite of our difficulties.
How about one of the microfilm devices they used to use in 60s spy movies?
In any sense.
Same issue in China.
CALEA says otherwise:

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/09/calea-and-encryption.htm...
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Yes, it is, both in general

Citation? X11 window managers are decoupled from the rest of X and the OS by well-specified protocols.

That compositing manager also needs to handle input

Oh yes, I forgot how Wayland couples the WM to the OS as well.

Wayland handles software modularity by providing a library for use by prospective compositing managers. Moving the compositing manager into a separate process from the thing actually doing the rendering does not add a useful form of modularity.

1) Can you point me to an API specification for Wayland compositor libraries? If not, it's not decoupled.

2) Can one switch window managers without restarting the compositor (and thus losing window state) with Wayland? If not, it's missing a "useful form of modularity" provided by X11.
I wonder if ADHD clinics are a bit like a hammer in search of a nail. Unsolicited suggestion: go to a neurologist. Failing that, go to a psychiatrist.

When I took Concerta I had similar problems. The irritability was awful. My nerves just felt raw. Methylphenidate (aka Ritalin) anecdotally amongst the people I know who've taken it seems to be the most likely to cause heart problems - with one friend having been hospitalized.

If you feel like you aren't making it, there are other options.
On what legal grounds was Microsoft "forced" to provide access to unencrypted data before encryption (effectively nullifying the security that they promised to their customers)? So how were they forced? Legally? Illegally/blackmail?

CALEA seems to say that companies don't have to decrypt data for authorities. I guess it's very convenient that they give it to them before they encrypt it then:

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/09/calea-and-encryption.htm...

And this seems to be a "team sport", and that implies willing collaboration, not being forced to do it. More like something "fun" they're doing together.
If it was code that significantly impacted your ability ti live your life, absolutely.
Sorry but you're mistaken, it's generally 1-2 days rollover and only is it stalled if bugs persist.
Great, thanks for the summary :) I'm not using Python but I'm writing an alternative HaskellDB API, so it's good to know the strengths of other systems.
There are many people who actually read the emails they receive from companies, even promotional emails. The fact is that not all email marketing is spam.

Some people like being informed about the products/services they use - in this case, the email marketing they opt into is a periodic newsletter of sorts. When a new feature or improvement is released, some people like receiving an email notifying them of the release. Again, such an email is marketing. For larger companies, there's a marketing team who designed the email and wrote the copy for it.

Don't confuse email marketing with spam. Some marketing is spam, much of it is not.
Your last sentence makes no sense. Did you mean to say "and" instead of "but", or "underrated" instead of "overrated"?
Vote selling is a form of Voting Fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling

Secret ballots make it even easier to pull off.
I'm not sure the cynicism is warranted. Dan does a bunch of native iOS development. He's got more experience than the vast majority of people who read this site. This isn't some random brogrammer writing a post about JavaScript. Dan Bricklin's resume rightfully could include the line "1979: Invented the spreadsheet".
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I'm starting to build a blog about product design: http://www.thomazz.com
These are examples of Voting Fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling

Secret ballots make it easier to pull off.
>> Do you really have to keep in touch with people seeing what they did on their vacations, bs inspirational quotes and baby photos?

You may mock, but keeping involved in the minutiae of each others' lives does enable the maintenance of friendships over longer distance and time spans. Minutiae that we wouldn't necessarily make the effort to email or chat about.

As I get older my friends (and myself) have dispersed all over the globe, and even the ones not so far off have less time to give (and possibly less inclination) to spend time just hanging out.

That said, it doesn't have to be FB, or a centralised service at all.
> Is this how we should be judged by society, by what normal people joke about?

Yes, but in the opposite way: by what normal people are free to joke about.

(slightly off-topic: IMO the only way to really judge a society, is by the way it treats the very lowest/poorest/worst-off. everything comes after that. close your eyes to only a tiny fraction of the very long long tail of the very worst, and your perception gets very much skewed)
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"Any programmer ignoring JavaScript is doing themselves a disservice."

Not really. You get to work with a buggy language and you loose competitive edge on the work market. Management's/business's point of view could be different though.
BBC article is basically copypasta. Original source article is, of course, at the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-co...
In the initial tour, are the "top moments" hard-coded or actually being generated? Seeing "Aaron Schwartz Commits Suicide" in huge letters at the top of the column had me closing the tab rapidly.
During your "doctor recommended breaks" - try doing diet cleanses, elimination diet. Many foods, very common ones - wheat, dairy, eggs, soy, potatoes, almonds, etc - can cause ADD-like thinking through irritation (that you may notice or not) in your intestinal tract, etc.. Then there is also childhood emotion repression that could be a cause to ADD / scattered thinking. Food and past trauma are two things to always look into if someone's having difficulty. I always suggest a good dose of yoga with a regular yoga practice to help with the calming / releasing endorphines, serotonin, etc. - reducing baseline stress levels.

Edit: Oh, and also, if you ever had painful ear infections as a child then look into http://www.aitinstitute.org (sound / auditory re-training), or if you've never had your vision properly checked out -- you should be able to see clearly / things in focus with your eyes relaxed, if you're straining them then it means your brain/mind is actively concentrating to focus, which then will take your ability away to focus on other things fully (leading to ADD symptoms).
In the US we have a similar statement: "I swear on my mother's life that this is true".

Kids even have a rhyme they sing while skipping down a sidewalk. The rules of the game are, you can't step on a crack between the stones. "Step on a crack and break your mother's back".
>Imagine having a porsche in your driveway, but for reasons you can only use the first gear.

That is a good description of how I feel. When I was younger I could spend hours learning things, programming, reading, and playing video games. Eventually, around when I was 16 I would guess, I lost my ability to concentrate, and now I can't sit through a 30 minute TV show without losing focus. It was really bad for me in university, and continues to harm my career.

However, I was actually diagnosed with ADD and tried many different medications. Unfortunately all of the medications I was prescribed were either ineffective or had terrible side effects, so I ended up not taking anything beyond a trial period. Despite this, I used Adderrall two times to prepare for important tests in university. Side effects aside, it is amazing.
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Well, using it for licensing is of course harder to argue for than increasing the user's security. May I ask what were the specific problems in your scenario? I'm guessing users with multiple browsers? That's another reason why I hate Windows not having a central MS provided keyring. If MS had pushed for it soon after the POSIX community and Apple, passwordless authentification might be already a standard nowadays.
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My understanding is that Snowden has already given everything to a bunch of journalists, encrypted, who can access the data even if something happens to him.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...
This post is rubbish. 'Looking for a replacement for Google Calendar? Grab a piece of paper.'

Unless every event you attend is by yourself, and you keep your calendar rolled up in your pocket at all times, that's an extremely poor solution.
I've been using threema[1] for a few days and that uses notifications pretty well.

[1] - http://threema.ch/en/
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it:

Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was already, always listening. The idea that the Kinect might always be listening got people reaching for their tin foil or vowing to not let an Xbox One into their home.

Microsoft is now seeking to calm concerns that the new Kinect might spy. "We are designing the new Kinect with simple, easy methods to customize privacy settings, provide clear notifications and meaningful privacy choices for how data will be used, stored and shared," the Microsoft rep told me.

"We know our customers want and expect strong privacy protections to be built into our products, devices and services, and for companies to be responsible stewards of their data. Microsoft has more than ten years of experience making privacy a top priority. Kinect for Xbox 360 was designed and built with strong privacy protections in place and the new Kinect will continue this commitment. We’ll share more details later."

http://kotaku.com/xbox-ones-kinect-can-turn-off-microsoft-sa...

Not sure I'd want the Xbox One in my house after this fiasco.
If he's an employee coding at his desk at 10pm on a Saturday he's clearly held back.
So, anybody else think that maybe the anonymous donor was somebody associated with Facebook?
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5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
Any reason why you're still only using AES-128?

What else would you suggest?
App Store Has Forever Changed the Face of Software
Here's a trick that many companies use successfully.

Step 1. If you do the same type of job repeatedly, create a "platform" (a bunch of re-usable code). Don't actually spend too much time on this.

Step 2. Create a great marketing section on your site for this platform. Create sales materials. You will be telling clients: our "whatever-we-do-all-the-time platform" will save you tons of time and money.

Step 3. Apart from the normal hourly development cost, you charge clients a licensing fee for the platform too. And: PROFIT.

Now let's be clear: your platform doesn't have to be highly polished. It doesn't need to actually save you development time. It's a sales tool to increase your profitability. Pick something hot, like a "mobile platform" or a "social platform" or something like that. And make some pretty graphs for it.
Actually, E-voting could revolutionalize politics.

Right now, we have to have presidents, prime ministers, even kings; making all the big decisions for us because that was the only practical way.

E-voting makes it possible for the population to be consulted on any major decision. This, IMHO, is the reason it's so unpopular amongst politicians.

Right now in the UK, for instance, MPs get to vote on their own salary increases. Wouldn't it be nice if they were obliged to ask the voters instead?

Recent years have seen several unpopular wars begun by Western countries - if political leaders had been unable to start those wars unless they'd had majority approval from their populace, the world might well be a more peaceful place right now.

E-voting is something with a lot of promise. But if diminishes the power of the people who would have to implement it. So don't expect to see it widespread any time soon.
Oh I dunno, a few well placed Murdoch headlines seem to do the trick. If only he were on our side...
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> There are some things normal people don't even joke about - this is one of them.

Those aren't normal people. At least not "normal" in the sense that you shouldn't keep a very close eye on whether you should worry about what they will do one day.

I mean sure, not joking about something is everybody's choice free to make.

> It was just a sick statement.

It's the ones making baseless assumptions and judgements like this that I am most nervous about.
As a european with ADHD i'm not glad of that at all. It's a major PITA to find competent therapists for ADHD and our beautiful universal healthcare won't pay for half the treatment.
Live stream in the airport:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RjENf...
not at the moment, I should probably be more explicit about that. I removed registration to simplify the process for new visitors. And you still can keep track of news you've read.
How (Not) To Manage A UX Project
The entire premise, re: Great Golf Players, is off. The vast majority of golf players make bad shots most of the time, and, are a function of individual performance.

Landing a Plane is not like a golf tournament. Every trained and qualified pilot should be expected to safely land the plane. While not a trivial task, and one requiring significant experience and training, it is not so inordinately difficult that only a very few people alive can perform the task.

With Airplane pilots, Crashes are so exceedingly rare, and the backups, both mechanical, human, and training so well designed to prevent them, that the issues associated with a crash are typically systemic, and little to do with an individual.

Also, the korean culturalism developed when the overly formal/seniority centric cockpit of Korean Airlines was identified as a key contributor to a poor safety record with some korean airlines.

I completely agree with the OP that it's absolutely premature to be making any conclusions regarding impact of culture on the Asiana airlines crash, but, the nature of the crash, in great weather, suggests that there will be some systemic failure (Training, Over-reliance on Automation, poor maintenance, overly complex modal-auto-throttle) that turns out to be the cause of it.
Many neurologists don't have a deep understanding of ADHD, so if I were to go to one, I'd need to find one that specializes in this field. My ADHD doctor was a psychiatrist, by the way.

I agree with you about the Concerta. I have a short fuse, but Concerta made it much worse.
Unfortunately, I don't live in the US, and the only gov't subsidized ADHD medication is 'Ritalin'. That's right 'Ritalin'. Not even the active ingredient 'methylphenidate' (which is why Concerta is much more expensive than Ritalin around here).

I know some people report that methylphenidate based drugs doesn't work for them, and yet the amphetamine-based do (Adderall, Vyvanse, etc...), but if I get a prescription for either, they're going to be very expensive, and the import process for these kind of drugs is a bureaucratic nightmare.

I guess I'll just have to suck it up. Next year is my senior year, so the end is very near!
You left out throwing a rock through their window with your CV wrapped around it. And changing their desktop wallpaper to an image of you doing something funny. And modify their cellphone ringtone to a musical piece of you singing "Hire me maybe!".

(Restraining orders and getting hired are the same thing, right?)
Of all my browsers, IE rendered the font on the MIT page the best. Why is it so ugly?
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I agree that everyone uses Facebook, but for Google products other than search uses seems much more scattered. I personally know only techies on Google Talk/Hangouts, no "regular people", and many of those techies are thinking of moving away from it. The "regular people" I know all use Skype, with a minority using AIM for text-chat. Skype would be harder for me to drop (unfortunately, because the client is incredibly annoying), but Google Talk is easy.
Would definitely like to hear more about that! I'd like to build the backend of whatever I build next in Haskell. Is it on github or accessable anywhere?
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At heart, arbitrary distinctions like that end up just being "apps that run well" vs "apps that run badly". And no matter how good the system, there will always be some apps in both camps.
For many years in the US, it was easy to do vote-selling because each political party gave their voters a color-coded, one-party ballot.

The secret ballot makes vote selling unreliable, because it's impossible to prove whether someone has voted as promised.
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Undergrad in CS at a midwest public university. Currently a Software Dev intern at a rapid-prototyping company in the Twin Cities area, working on in-house 3D modeling software.

I'm only a few years into programming but I love every minute of it. I'll be graduating this spring and am very excited to start searching for jobs.
A couple of problems with this writeup.

First:

Actually, commoditization is about when an atomic capability becomes tradable/sellable:

GOOG says "A raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee." (http://www.google.com/search?q=define+commodity)

Coffee, copper, coal, and oil, all are differentiated. There is light sweet crude, heavy crude, and others. Copper from different mines has different properties and quality. Coffee is highly variable. Yet all are commodities.

The base unit doesn't have to be exactly the same, it just has to be measurable in terms of value so that you can compare one against the other.

This assertion has been corroborated in recent debates I had with an ex-commodities broker who was very clear that the commodities he bought and sold were quite frequently differentiated and variable.

For those who care, that was Dr. James Mitchell, CEO of CloudOptions, who was previously Global Head of Commodities for Morgan Stanley. Blog postings here: http://www.cloudoptions.com/blog/

Second:

This article's argument is essentially that if OpenStack is the winner, then everyone else loses. This is not a zero sum game, so there can be multiple winners, but just as with Linux, it's likely that there will be a very small number of winners and those will mostly dominate and then there will be a very long tail.

Linux success (as you can see in my original slide deck) meant that UNIX and other early x86 UNIX derivatives (e.g. SCO UNIX, 386BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) essentially "lost". But Linux "winning" meant that we have a relatively standardized server operating system running globally, which actually increases competitiveness, allows for people to focus their learning and knowledge, and makes everyone's life better. The conclusion that is leapt to isn't really supported by any evidence. It's simply asserted.

I say this as a long time BSD guy. I wasn't happy that Linux won, but I am happy that we have a relatively standard server operating system.

Finally:

To imagine that this will be any different with the cloud operating system wars is nonsensical. Clearly there will be one or two major winners and OpenStack is positioned to be the primary winner at the moment.
Ubuntu QML.
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/app-ecosystem
Email has changed. I don't reply to every link or picture people send me, nor do I expect a reply on each and every email I send.

There are certainly different social assumptions between email and Facebook, but the differences have long started to blur, depending on what context we're talking about (e.g work vs friends, etc.)
You have to be very competent to oversee all of this.

How many people can verify a digital check-sum?

In contrast regular people usually have the mental capabilities to count votes.
On the UN's Declaration on Territorial Asylum - Resolution 2312/67 (2008)
Yes, is there any sites you would like to see there first?

I've started with Google Calendar, then Twitter, then Reddit and now HackerNews. HackerNews so far is the best dataset to start with. Reddit integration is half done, but still not sure on subreddits because there are too many of them.
I've also noticed increased scrutiny in the media of the behaviour of the passengers who carried their cabin luggage with them as they evacuated the plane. Much emphasis was placed upon their race -- the majority of the passengers were Chinese.

It feels really tasteless how rapidly the discourse shifted towards criticism of the victims.
I initially interpreted "5D" in the title as five spatial dimensions, which would be incredible, but the reality is entirely credible:

> The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures.
Are you serious? Until well after the Civil Rights Act, the US was substantially lagging a ton of countries in liberties and opportunities for your own population, and for pretty much the entire period since the US has done it's best to oppress various other people (assortment of wars, CIA sponsored coups etc.). The US has just been better at marketing itself on a freedom angle based on claimed aspirations that has never been followed through.
I'm not sure why you're picking on Microsoft. The credibility of pretty much every large US-based tech services company is probably destroyed. The fact that we only saw the big service providers (MS, Google, etc...) on those slides doesn't mean that the other companies are free from the hands of the NSA.

Do you think that the NSA has no access to Dropbox?
The vast majority of golf players make bad shots most of the time, and, are a function of individual performance.

Sure, but if you took an untrained, unskilled person and had him flying a trans-Pacific jet, you'd see more crashes. This isn't done, for obvious reasons. A terrible golfer who shoots a 173 just annoys people who have to wait behind him. With an unskilled pilot, the stakes are higher and great efforts are made to prevent one from flying a passenger jet.

Good golfers, on the other hand, don't make terrible shots most of the time (although horrible shots are more common than plane crashes).

Also, the korean culturalism developed when the overly formal/seniority centric cockpit of Korean Airlines was identified as a key contributor to a poor safety record with some korean airlines.

OP's argument is that this isn't specifically a Korean or East Asian problem, and I agree. Most people are-- except when they perceive a life-threatening crisis (and that point of perception may be too late)-- deferential to authority. It's not limited to one culture.