skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has something to do with the power relationship: they can see you, but you can't see them. You might be able to see a camera pointed at you, but the phone locator operates over a passive mechanism that you can't see. Not unfair when you're on their turf--or much different from the online reality, as some have stated--but I could see how it might be disconcerting nonetheless.
> How is appointing a competent guy creating a destructive work environment, and appointing an incompetent guy not creating a demotivating environment.

Because you based it on competition.

Holding that position, which presumably comes with better pay, perks and a résumé line item, is a zero sum game.

Everything good that programmer A does for the company now directly disadvantages programmer B and vice versa.

Do you think this creates conditions conducive to cooperative efforts like developing and maintaining complex software?

If you want to pick a leader, pick a leader yourself. Boohoo, it's hard and you might hurt people's feelings. Well too bad. Picking leaders is itself an act of leadership. Too many senior managers shirk the responsibility of growing a cadre of good managers by connecting it all to numbers that encourage destructive behaviour. It's the lazy and gutless way to lead.

See Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations for a full enumeration of why having people compete for a tech leadership job would easily destroy any small company.
Interesting idea. I will look into what some possible options are. In the mean time I create a Github issue to track the request: https://github.com/justinwalsh/daux.io/issues/13
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I think it was about time someone does this. Not sure what will come out of this, but coffeescript was radical for js, maybe this can also have that influence on php.
I am not particularly smart, nor a MBA, or a McKinsey. I am learning to code to be useful, to build something useful, not build something great.

I would say that smart MBA try to learn to code to build something great, the next Dropbox, something that match their ambitions.
When patio11 is your reference, not Bill Gates, or Zuckerberg, it is easier to keep your motivation.
(Please, don't read this as me saying patio11 is not a great engineer, i couldnt know, just to illustrate the difference of ambition)
Several people seem to get this theme out of the essay, which I think is partially due to the sarcastic tone I take in certain sections. I try to make it blatantly obvious that I disapprove of the system in general and think it's a disaster to everyone, not just me.

To be perfectly honest, the system was fairly kind to me. I was able to deal with it. My little brother couldn't handle it and had to go to a special online high school and get tutoring help just to graduate. He is very bright, but the system just crushes him because he can't operate within it very well and the system doesn't care.

I did once try to get into research. Academic research has a whole boatload of its own problems, including the professor/graduate student ponzi scheme and the overemphasis on getting published. I decided doing research on my own would be much more fruitful.

My classmates were usually quite smart. They were also usually just as frustrated with the system as I was.
Is it possible to disagree with someone about the appropriate scope of surveillance without their being a "morally bankrupt individual?"

Imagine a world where most people don't think information privacy is a big deal. Imagine a world where most people do think terrorism is a big deal. This is a hypothetical, so don't argue the hypothetical (i.e. whether information privacy is important or whether terrorists are a threat). Is it possible, just maybe, that a non-morally bankrupt individual could put those two things together and come to the good-faith conclusion that collecting large amounts of data to protect against a terrorist threat is in the public interest? Especially if that individual conservative but reasonable legal opinions stating that data held by private companies about their users are not within the scope of the 4th amendment?

That hypothetical is probably closer to reality than you'd like to admit. My in-laws are not afraid of the NSA. They are afraid of Al Qaeda. Many legal experts reasonably read precedent like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland) to give a narrow scope to the 4th amendment when it comes to information in the possession of third parties. These people are not all "morally bankrupt." They just don't share your values and priorities.

Probably most relevant is that you'll never convince my in-laws otherwise by dismissing them as "sheeple" or be able to effect any change by dismissing anyone who interprets the 4th amendment differently as "morally bankrupt."
Scary attitude. Lack of ECC in servers has bitten me personally at work to that extent I even use ECC in all of my home desktop computers. Heck, I've been looking for laptops with ECC - unsuccessfully so far.

Anything can happen, and it's all up to luck. And I don't want to rely on luck.

Although I guess it's ok if all you're doing is serving somewhat unimportant static resources. That said, I think AWS servers do have ECC, but I've got no proof.
Octopress, on the other hand, is for hackers.
Thanks, I didn't see a Github link on the page but I could have missed it.

Created: https://github.com/btwael/mammouth/issues/1
It's really hard sometimes to find DoD CA certs. It could be hidden in some chain starting with proper non-DoD CA for example.
Alternative Internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006393
Prism Break: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6010803
Pretty much the reason I stopped using FreeBSD as my desktop os and got an OSX machine. Nothing against the DIYers out there, but the vast majority of people have other things they would rather spend their precious time on.
Wow, we even looked around when naming Daux to make sure there wouldn't be any conflicts. I took a look at the dox project and I think we are going to be ok. It looks to be a significantly different approach.
A guide to learn full-stack web development.
If your not a fan of the code floating, that can be disabled. We are working on getting some better code styles as well that should fix the contrast issue.
The new hire puts you up a tax bracket, and you lose profit to gain productivity.

Your immediate finances can't support adopting a new hire or division because tax proceeds from your profit margin limit your growth potential.

If you can immediately make a return on a new hire, with instant productivity gains and immediate bottom line improvements, yes, you absolutely make the hire. But that doesn't always happen, and in major skill movements across the labor market it never happens. You need financial capital to invest in broadening or transitioning your business rather than just increasing labor to meet more demand, principally because in this modern age it is easier to automate increased demand (circumstantially, but frequently) than to hire more workers to cover it. IE, if your market grows 10%, you might as well invest in a contracted software team to automate your systems to enable your current labor staff to be 10% more productive than to hire 10% more people.
How would you design the CSE admissions process? What would you change? Have you considered the pressure and lack of resources the admissions committee is forced to deal with? What about the students who received 4.0's in all intro math and computer science classes? Why should the department devote precious educational resources to you, rather than to them?

We all wish that CSE was an open major at UW. But you're ignoring a huge amount of complex practical issues when you blame bureaucracy. You offer simplistic criticism but no solutions.
> Did you remember/bother to tweak, your ssd settings in fstab?

I use Arch too, and no, I didn't think to do that. Thanks!
Thanks! It's funny, in fact that's exactly what I was thinking. Building a platform to share these kind of screencast with a low barrier of entry. Of course, the first series of screencast would be me building the platform.
A General should not have been allowed to attain this much political power. Or repeatedly lie to congress without repercussions.

Yet more checks and balances that are clearly out of whack.
While still in college, one my senior papers involved analysis of patterns of movement in a large local bar/nightclub. The owners had changed the layout of the club several times and were losing money every weekend. After spending time doing some simple observations, I made a few suggestions and after a two week period of implementation, they were making 8-10% more per weekend.

I'm always surprised when I see people who are convinced technology can solve their woes when all you need to do is make some observations. No wi-fi tracking will tell you there's a huge clearance rack blocking your view of several other items. It also won't tell you if a merchandise row is so narrow only one person can stand in front of a display.

Technology is great, but in most retail or commercial environment's, you still need feet on the ground.
This is like the old interview chestnut "what's your biggest weakness?"

"I just work too hard and care too much sometimes!"
It's hard. Somehow I knew about it and did not go. Anyway, I happened to see it because I follow Alex Miller on twitter (@puredanger) & some others on Twitter. In addition to Lambda Jam, Alex organizes (at least) Strange Loop and Clojure/(West, East).

It's surprising just how many conferences are put on. I learned about some more from the Lisp in Summer Projects page[1].

TL;DR: dig into the community(ies) of conferences you're interested in. You'll still miss some.

[1] http://lispinsummerprojects.org/
What drives his passion to lie to the nation to which he swore an oath?
That's because he (bob tekiela) was at 500friends until may of 2013.

In other words, op is lying/mistaken because we were not hiring for this role last year.
I've lost interest in myself
How does one find motivation? Slowly over the past few months I've lost the drive to learn, to try to achieve. I'm not suicidal, all I have the desire to do is lounge, read reddit, and watch netflix. I feel as if this is wrong, that I want to move forward not backwards. I want to WANT to study and improve. Any advice HN?
The most important thing I learned in college was how to learn things on my own.
I'd love to see something like this for games that were previously sold as part of Humble Bundle, especially those for which the authors released the source code for the game engine.
Thanks, the scrubbing idea is great. I mainly want to get around the tedious process of sophisticated editing. Maybe speeding up the recording at certain parts (while doing a voiceover) is a middle ground.
I'd be curious to read even a short sentence about how you learned each lesson.
Not sure why this is getting voted up so much. The author came across a report of IE freezing/crashing, replicated it, and Microsoft fixed it. In the same security update (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-03...) there are 10 other vulnerabilities described in the same way. Why is this particular vulnerability noteworthy or interesting, other than the fact that someone stumbled across it and documented it before it ended up reported to Microsoft?

In fact, CVE-2013-1297 from that same security update (which I didn't know existed until now) is far more interesting from a security perspective (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1...).

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not properly restrict data access by VBScript, which allows remote attackers to perform cross-domain reading of JSON files via a crafted web site, aka "JSON Array Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Similar JSON information disclosure can be very serious for a web application. http://haacked.com/archive/2009/06/24/json-hijacking.aspx describes the general issue in some depth. The fact that it was possible to use vbscript as a way to read in cross-domain JavaScript is very important from a security perspective.
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That's not how tax brackets work. Tax brackets in the US are marginal, which means that the increased rate only applies to income above the threshold. It is impossible for an increase in income to be accompanied by a larger increase in tax burden.

(I guess I should mention that the Business degree came with a Professional Accounting option.)
Responeded to your comment pre-edit.

If the U.S. Government wants to know who is communicating with whom in a world without modern technology, it can hire n government workers to sit at a desk and write down the address information on all the envelopes passing through USPS in a day. Expensive? Yes. Impossible - to the entity that fought WWII, landed on the moon, and continues to maintain a pretty much stable country of 300 million people? No. Our government may suck at cost-efficiency, but it is great at throwing resources at things that scale O(n), like the number of postal workers required to handle n letters.

There are good arguments to be made that it's not the government's place to know who is communicating with whom anyway, so it shouldn't be allowed to. If this is the case, than it shouldn't be allowed to by any means.

But how does a shopping mall not have the right to watch people move through its store? If it's wrong to watch the EM signals people emit as the move through, then is it also wrong to watch the light they reflect? I've seen employees doing traffic analysis in museums pretty frequently - in fact art museum security guards do it all the time. They could do the same in a mall. They could even park an employee with a clipboard on the second level and map out people's movements between stores below. Focus on one store at a time, find out where all the people leaving that store go. You'd still get the same result - the general trends of how people move around the stores, based on our evolutionary "tracking" ability - the Orwellian step of correlating neural impulses from the eye as belonging to the same object in different positions. Which is exactly what this cell phone tracking system does, except with MAC addresses instead of faces and hairstyles.

I say this to emphasize that not all tracking is bad. Correlating different sensory input with past and future inputs is a large part of being human. Hell, in a small town 50 years ago, the general store owner probably knew you and what you've bought before and who your friends are. The post office worker could recognize a scandalous pattern of letters are tell your family about it. That's way more invasive than this. Involvement of machinery is not the difference between good and bad tracking.
Oooh, if I'm understanding right, if a daemon fails to start correctly for whatever reason, that status request will give me the stdout/stderr of the failure? That's a genuine improvement if systemd handles that consistently for all services.
Microsoft has created a non-intel living room device, the X-Box.

Dropping support for the OEM's in the Phone and PC space would be an interesting move, which I think they could carry off quite quickly. I don't think they are headed in that direction myself.
What is unique is the original report of the bug was public. I was the one who figured out that it was exploitable and sent it to MSRC.
That's a great idea! Perhaps the gamedevs who participated in The Bitcoin Bundle [1] might be the most receptive to the idea of open-sourcing their games.

[1] https://www.thebitcoinbundle.com/
After the initial transition period, I have not had any PulseAudio issues other than on maybe 2 occasions where the pulseaudio daemon ran amok, consuming 99% CPU for some reason, until it was killed. I'll admit that I'm not running any exotic configurations though, but built-in audio works just fine, and plugging my USB camera/microphone[1] has worked without issue for a long time too.

At one point I was also able to stream audio from my HTPC to my laptop, so that I could use my headphones when everyone else was sleeping. Though I'll admit configuration was a pain in the ass, I don't recall being able to do that with ALSA (though I recall someone creating a shell script a while back that read from /dev/dsp and piped to a socket).

Prior to PulseAudio, sound on Linux was always an uphill battle for me (don't get me started on regressions in the PowerBook audio driver that no one cared about since "it works on the newer PowerMacs"). It was a crap-shoot which audio system an application would use. OSS? Alsa? eSound? KDE's sound daemon? Do they all use the same mixer app? What happens when I write to /dev/dsp? Does all other audio block? Which applications support Jackd? etc...

[1] Referring to the mic in the pulseaudio context.

EDIT:

> I literally know no other linux users who
> have ever had anything good to say about
> PulseAudio.

I'll mention that the same could be said of OSS or ALSA too. They may have worked better for you, but I doubt that prior to PulseAudio, you were singing their praises from the rooftops.
That's really interesting. I wonder though if signing would have a negative effect in terms of privacy?

i.e with message signing, a third party can prove that a message was sent by you.
Whereas with an unsigned email, you'd at least be able to plausibly deny that you sent it. You could claim it was forged.

But then again, with secret and silent data collection systems you're not really in a position to deny anything anyway.
I have a feeling you'd have a hard time denying an unsigned email with your name on it to a court if it came to that.
This proves my point.

Have you ever used a Windows Phone device? Probably not. Windows Phone is the most consistent mobile OS out there, and the simplest to use. I would never recommend an Android device to my parents (or any non-geek). iPhone is okay, but I'm not a fan of the skeuomorphism. Windows Phone is simple, elegant, affordable and extremely usable. It's NOTHING like Windows on PC.

I recommend Macbook Airs and Windows Phones to most people. I only recommend iPhones to "cool kids" and "early users" (those who want access to the cool new apps and games).
Upvoted you back up. Sarcasm is not always easy to detect.
We're in agreement for once, vacri. It started off strong and then veered off into embarrassing hyperbole. The part where he has a solution to the ills of the world but the margin is too small to contain it was my particular favourite.
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Greenwald: Snowden documents detail NSA "blueprint"
It seems like the author's main point is that Gentoo's source-based package management offers more fine-grained control than Arch's binary package management.

To this I say: Arch has source-based package management too! It's called makepkg, and is indispensable for long-time Arch users, as it allows you to build packages not in the official repos, or tweak the build flags of official packages.

As always, the Arch wiki has extensive documentation.

* Here are docs on makepkg https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

* Here are docs on installing unofficial packages from the Arch User Repository https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

* Here are instructions on installing custom versions of official packages from source using ABS (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS)
This is what I was thinking. CoffeeScript wasn't just syntactical sugar, it was actually there to help instill best practices of JS.
Solid state FTW! :)
Oops: s/tip their hat/tip their hand/
If anyone is left wanting for an example of the pdfs from The Physical Review Letters. This is my best attempt at providing an example:

http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v111/i1/e012001

or

http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v105/i25/e252302
Well, sure, but I'd think that Jekyll is to a larger extent, because Octopress is just a collection of plugins for Jekyll...
> You're probably doing a better job than you realize.

He is. Zero to $10mm is no small feat. He needs to hire a COO, not step down as CEO. The founder is almost always the best person to run the company.

> There are a lot of "good talkers" out there.

Beware the articulate incompetent ;-)
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Ask HN: Would this be useful? Video collaboration tool
Hey guys, I run a project called ContentForest - think of it like Basecamp for Publishers - right now, we support text content but we're working on getting into video

I have a question for those here who create video content - what's your biggest challenge/frustration in terms of collaborating with your clients or collaborators?
I'd rather imagine a world where the public servants believe in adherance to the standards of ethics befitting of a nation who justifies its actions by claiming moral high ground.

I'm not afraid of al Qaeda because, as our illustrious president said, Americans refuse to be terrorized.

When our public servants can perjure themselves before Congress, then they are fitting of the description morally bankrupt.

Some may say that Clapper was merely lying to preserve state secrets, but he didn't have to lie about anything he felt uncomfortable speaking on, he could have simply said, "I can't talk about that," which would have been the truth.

Perhaps your in-laws are comfortable being lied to by our public servants, however I am not.
The value of the business would instantly go up a lot more than 6% just by having "YC" forever attached to the company. All of the advising, connections etc would just be a cherry on top.
So if consent is more or less meaningless, why isn't it logical to conclude that intercourse is rape?
Yeah, I know, that was an example of something else that isn't sexist.
I was only addressing res0nat0r's comment that the NSA's broad surveillance was well known, not the possibility that Intel's HWRNG is compromised. I agree that if you can't trust your CPU, all bets are off, but there is probably a different way of expressing the futility and improbability of such a situation that doesn't use the word tinfoil.
I suppose "daux" is meant to be pronounced "docks" but a French-speaker would say "doh!" like Homer Simpson.

Trivia aside, the front page does nothing to make the purpose or advantages clear. What is "custom documentation"? (Is there another kind?) What is the advantage of "on the fly"? (As opposed to the typical "make doc".)

Is there some way to create a multi-level hierarchy within the "01_Getting_Started.md" filename convention? Is the filename structure the _only_ way to indicate structure? (If so, a trivial structure change turns into a nontrivial exercise of renaming files and getting git or svn to accept renamed files as logically unchanged.) Is there a way to cross-reference (link) between files? Is there a way to output in PDF, or any other format?
Kuwait is a tiny country. It's cheaper and quicker to just drive everywhere and pickup your order than wait for delivery.
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Ask HN: What is the most surprising quote you ever read?
Lobste.rs is pretty much what you're describing here.
>My econ classes taught me that increased productivity causes short-term pain for displaced workers, but results in long-term higher standards of living for everyone.

That's ideology, not science. Economists sell ideology instead of science all the time (for one, it helps them tout the "free market" from cushy government or teaching positions).

The outcome described above is not inevitable, like gravity. It depends on who has control of the situation and what the increased productivity is used for.

If the elites owning industry etc can get by by employing far less people, why would they care about huge parts of the population not having a job or living in slums? As long as they get to sell their products to a market (which can even be abroad), they are fine.