skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the work, I think? If it's degrading nonsense done for the nonsensical greed of others, sure. But there is no reason to assume or accept this as the only possible kind of work. Why would a doctor not feel good about all the time they spent helping patients, if they were passionate about it, for example?

Sure, you need to find a balance, for yourself and friends and family. But where work is utterly separate from being alive I think something is broken. Just consider what dogs enjoy doing most: running after stuff and biting it. You could say, doing their job, that's what makes them fucking happy. Most animals are harder to read than dogs when it comes to happiness, but I really don't see dragging anyone "dragging their feet to work" except humans, and maybe some animals that lived too close to humans, or were caged by them.
All of this will be possible soon. We're working on the ability for users to completely customize the sound palette.
note to mkessy: your account appears to be hellbanned.
The "Golden Years" are not what they used to be. The WWII generation likely thought that way, but what I see on the ground now is not working hard to cash in, its working hard in terror of a coming time when you can't work. If you haven't saved enough by that time you die in misery and poverty. Eek over the line and if you don't get an unlucky disease, you get a modicum of comfort.

"Enjoy your Golden years" has turned into "Winter is coming."
No, we mustn't. There's a document designed to ensure that the government is limited in what it can do, and ensures that the people are in charge. I think I saw it in a waste bin somewhere...
I agree that wage slavery exists but let's be serious, slavery in many societies, including the US was a brutal existence that included beatings & intentional separations of families, often even if you as a slave were compliant in the system. If you weren't compliant you were subject to torture and/or a violent death. The cruelty of slavery stretches far beyond the lack of freedom you're describing here.
Very interesting.

Watching log files scroll by I have noticed that once you have stared at them for too long you start recognizing the patterns. There's not enough time you read everything that scrolls by you quite often you just know that now something is out of place.

Maybe these soundscapes could provide something similar in a non obtrusive way. Just by listening your brain would be wired to expect certain sounds as consequence for certain actions. If something goes wrong, you would just know it.

I think one challenges is how to take something like this into use. Setting up the the triggers and configuring the sounds feels like too much trouble ("What is the correct sound for this event"). Might be just better to take some ready provided set and learn the sounds.
My experience is that reaching a 'work-optional' state is not the easy transition most would think it. I recommend that you search for a meaningful goal and get to work on it, drifting is dangerous.
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To run it on x86, you need a heavily modified Linux kernel. You also sacrifice about 30% or so of your throughput on the extra operations that allow for the dramatically reduced latency, which may not be acceptable for some people.
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Unless you are a hedonist, maximum leisure in your prime working years and minimum leisure in old age don't make sense. Personally, I've found work matured both me and my brothers, gave us more perspective, and generally improved us as human beings.

Without including the chance to really mature, you are basically talking about extending adolescence, and we already complain about how irresponsible and short-sighted twenty-year-olds are today.
I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the "societal overlords" you're referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and "quit" the rat race earlier if they like.
That's not how async/await work at all. They let you write the code as if it were synchronous, but it's still asynchronous, which is the whole point.
I just get a flat tone in Safari 6.1 on OS X 10.8.4. Looks interesting though!
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"Show HN: My thoughts on companies that don't do accelerator programs."
Here is an example where callbacks are even less intuitive:

if not song.artist
@getArtist song.id, (err, artist) =>
song.artist = artist
@save song
@addToCatalog song
#...
else
@save song
@addToCatalog song
#...

Callbacks will force you to move @save, @addCatalog, ... into a separate function. Completely messing up the logical sequence of operations.
(for whatever's worth, I'm Brazilian)
I'm deliberately saying "GPLv3" here.

If your laptop comes preloaded with Microsoft's signing key and is also set to fast boot [1] so that you can't even get into the BIOS, your system does not have the ability to run a GPLv3 OS. You can't get into the BIOS so you can't change the fact that it refuses to run anything not signed by the Microsoft key!

Yes, I know Linux is not GPLv3, but it is GPLv2 "or any later version." Also, I already know that Windows 8 has a way to get to the BIOS (hold down shift, click the restart button). Neither of those is a valid counter-argument.

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/24869.html
maybe:

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1158 ?
GMO opponents often react reflixively without looking at specifics, but I think their fears are rooted in something real. Setting aside bad behavior from Monsanto specifically (suing farmers, patents, sterile seeds), there is both promise and peril to GMOs, even in the simple act of selective breeding that comprises most of the activity in that space.

My primary concern is the lack of long-term thinking in the drive for high production yield, and accompanying side effects to health and ecosystems. For instance, some claim that the high-yield "dwarf wheat" pioneered in the 60s is responsible for exacerbating gluten sensitivity: http://marksdailyapple.com/the-problems-with-modern-wheat/

There is also an overlapping concern with the broken patent system, and whether it is acceptable to "own" the genetic results of evolution, whether human-guided or otherwise. It's not hard to conceive of some scary slippery slopes there.

Each individual advancement is probably, on average, not a big deal, and probably a win for both providers and consumers. But if you aggregrate the accelerating advances over decades and centuries, I think there are real consequences for human health and the biosphere. I'm not advocating the elimination of GMOs (as if we could), but at minimum they deserve scrutiny, honest labeling, and long-term follow-up studies.
What an absurd thing to say. I feel sorry for any kids you may have if this is how you speak to people.

Someone worthwhile would just admit they were offended at what I said and move on with their life. I'm sorry you aren't such a person.
Broken in Firefox 23 on OSX

Error log:

Blocked loading mixed active content "http://api.choir.io/stream/f9c750f2bedb0c0f" @ https://choir.io/static/media/lib.967f1395.js:8671
Bush or Clinton, I forgot who basically was pushing that. Create high deductible plans, add tax benefits attached to them (tax sheltered health saving accounts) so that people are more directly involved in shopping for prices and it was being sold as that would drive the prices and competition to get better.
Don't Call it a Drone: Scenes from a Drone Convention
Both – interaction with the search results and general site usage data are important factors.
> In one instance, the NSA decided that it need not report the unintended surveillance of Americans. A notable example in 2008 was the interception of a “large number” of calls placed from Washington when a programming error confused U.S. area code 202 for 20, the international dialing code for Egypt

Considering their track record with honesty, why should we believe this was an accident?
I also post self-deprecating comments, but you're probably a lot better at it than I am.
Worst case is probably accidentally creating a GMO plant that does something vary useful and also produces a novel toxin which Bio-accumulates and is not discovered. Under the right circumstances you could probably kill something like 10-100,000 people that way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation
Right, this is exactly the kind of thing we're thinking about now. We already have integration with a bunch of services (GitHub, BitBucket, etc. etc.). At the moment, you still have to pick sounds for these on signup, but very soon we'll have flexible, sane defaults. Once this happens we will have onboarding in a few minutes for all of our pre-rolled integrations.
Visiting the demo via http instead of https works. (Though ofcourse they should fix that)
Care to explain or is your intelligence just too far beyond that level of thought?
Yeah, direct tax is a lot more fair.
I wish people would stop fetishizing sociopaths. Common sociopaths are actually pretty boring.

Most of them are very, very prone to addictions and substance abuse and spend a lot of time getting money for that. They follow the path of least resistance often in a surprisingly logically and often lazy way. Their greatest skill is finding the weakest prey. They target very emotionally vulnerable people and manipulate them. Think of the oxycodone addict conning grandmothers or mooching after their "romantic" partners and basically living a parasitic lifestyle.
Thanks, ordered. There's a substantial body of research in this area, and we're just becoming conversant with it now.
This goes off the tracks for me about midway through. While for many people the reality described is actually their life, there are many of us (and I'd imagine a huge percentage of those reading this) that aren't slaves. If you're making over 70-80k/year, you have the capacity to save a lot and do the things you want to do before you hit 55, 65, or 75.
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My gut tells me that everything falls down to your last bullet, i.e. Google does not care if the full app is HTML5, but they want the an HTML5 YouTube player with appropriate DRM to be embedded in the app so they have full control on the ads and other stuff they are serving, and Microsoft is deliberately trying to avoid it and misleads everyone into thinking that they require full HTML5 app to be implemented.

You know what? If it is time consuming to implement, it's Microsoft's problem, not anyone else's. Lots of people would be happy to get shitload of money from Microsoft and assemble a team to implement it if their problem is difficulty and they are so generous to be willing to pay cash, as they brag about in their blogpost ("...at Microsoft's expense...").
Awesome application of sound sonification[1].
Generate ambient sound based on data is hard, hope they can nail it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonification
Okay, yeah, I guess I was overthinking it a bit. It does seem relatively straightforward now that I reflect on it some more.
This is the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

We were not paranoid enough. I was not paranoid enough. You were not paranoid enough. Reality outstripped our imaginations. How are we going to recalibrate our expectations? What's next?
And why is the body not capable of doing the same things at 70? Is it because you overworked it earlier on?
I used to live about 8 hours drive from where I'm currently working (rural australia to Sydney). When they found out where I was, they arranged the normal 4 interviews to be arranged back to back rather than spread out over a few days.

Just the fact they were willing to do that meant a lot for me (because no one else had ever bothered how inconvenient it was for me to do interviews).

Still here 3 years later and the attitude shown during the interview process extended right through the company.
I'm also disappointed that so many comments above do not engage with the information in the article. I, too, found this to be a thoughtful and helpful piece. Along the parts I liked --

Using "calibrated" questions that you have used before and know how far people get with.

Focusing on a specific accomplishment or area of strength of the candidate to probe. (As opposed to choosing something from the resume that, say, the interviewer was most comfortable with, or that the interviewer found interesting.)

Paying attention to preparing the interviewers, so they know why the candidate is being considered, they know why they are on the interview list, and they are experienced enough with interviewing to give a useful opinion.
I'm considering to open an account with a Norwegian bank, say Bank Norwegian, as a low risk investment. What is currently the untaxable annual income? I believe it used to be 30K NOK a few years ago.
I think the drop-off is more precipitous than you believe, at least for the jobs that require physical ability & mobility.
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National Security Archive: The Secret History of the U-2
Cost of PRISM could be "as high as $180 billion" hit to US IT over 3 years
Fix will be inbound shortly. We've had a bit of an unexpected bump in traffic today, and we're waiting for our moment in the sun to fade before we revamp things.
I'm confused as to why you think the code presented in the blog post isn't an example of 'the same functionality implemented some other way'. The await code is almost undeniably more straightforward and the exceptional cases more obvious to handle.

He also doesn't seem to be making a weird logical leap the way you claim he is. He's not really using an analogy. He's saying callbacks are bad the same way goto is bad, in that they make the logical structure of a program's execution non-obvious, particularly over time and when being modified.
ReQL for the win. It's so expressive, it's composable, I love it.

I feel more confident that the m will be easy to scale if/when my app needs it.

My code that interacts with the API feels cleaner.
Web server in one line of bash
From the article:

> Three government officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, said the number would be substantially higher if it included other NSA operating units and regional collection centers.
Note: list === [] doesn't do what you expect it to do. It's going to return false all the time because it is comparing the actual objects and not their content.
This is part of why the "rat race" works/exists. People are always looking up to see who is above them, never down to see how far they've come.

"I IPO'd for ten million dollars! Life is awesome!" quickly transitions to "Frank IPO'd for 5x what I did! That's not fair!"
The idea is that while you're waiting on some kind of I/O or other asynchronous activity to complete, the thread you're on can do some other work. Threads are relatively heavyweight compared to the sort of cooperative multitasking that can be done through await or callbacks.
You are correct, the conclusions of the study are wrong. One name used to describe this phenomenon is "Demand Characteristics" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_characteristics
As someone who gave depressing feedback, I'd like to defend my actions:

I've learned that attention is more important than appreciation. When you introduce a project, it's better to get people thinking about it, nitpicking and even questioning the point of your project, than to get a few replies of "Nice!" and be ignored in the long term.

I've noticed another thing: most things of which I'm initially slightly dismissive fail to reach any success, but the things I'm very dismissive succeed. I've seen products get very harsh feedback and, a few months later, the products were successful, had better user experiences, and their users loved them.

But the visceral reaction to his project may have to do with the kind of expectations we have from web use vs. installed software.

I know some people install anything they happen by, and will try all one-line command line installs and random .pkgs they find, but most people who care about security are wary of installing closed source software from a not-very-known third party, or run arbitrary code in a virtual machine.

When you browse the web, there's an expectation of not worrying about security and malicious code execution. Javascript blurs that line, but it's mostly kept away from the innards of the host. Installed software is more intimate; in some ways, it's like letting a stranger into your kitchen, but not into into your bedroom. Of course, they can do harm in the kitchen too, but the bedroom has implications that go beyond physical access.

HN can be very negative sometimes, and seeing angry or snide comments makes me sad too. You can give concrete, actionable advice and feedback without being an asshole, and no, that's not pretending to be nice, it's simply not going out of your way to be rude. But if you take everything into account, it's better to get discouraging comments from HN and filter them for real information than to be ignored.
so much for... let's see... expensive treatments like heart transplants, free enterprise, risk sharing... impecunious family member/relative/unrelated S.O. needs expensive treatment and let's see how fast opinions change on that.
Employment is, by definition, exploitation. If the objective of the company is to profit, it has to pay the employee less than the value he generates. The alternative is profiting out of non-internalized costs (e.g., exploiting natural resources).
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Amazon.com Creates 5,000 Jobs, Destroys 25,000 in the Process?
Unfortunately, full networking capability as it exists in a typical virtual machine (like Virtualbox), will not be possible in pure javascript. Security features of the browser like the same origin policy restrict this from being possible. Even if you were to use some of the exceptions to the same origin policy, you will be limited to sending HTTP requests. There is no way to send a UDP packet from javascript for example. Of course you can create browser extensions which expose these utilities, but then you're taking the easy way out :)
And the Eye of Harmony.
This meant that you worked only as much was actually needed - i.e. subsistence - and no more.

You do know that in agrarian societies this meant 12 hours a day 7 days a week with no holidays ever? And that children worked in the fields instead of going to school?

People don't subsistence farm because they don't want anything more than the bare minimum for survival. They subsistence farm because the bare minimum for survival is the best they can manage.
Looks like some other people are seeing it too http://developer.linkedin.com/forum/has-authentication-url-c...

I'd have posted too, but their login is broken http://developer.linkedin.com/user/login
To me the most valuable programmer is a full-stack developer

That's because of the type of problems you work with. I have seen a embedded programmer literally create over 10 million in value in less than 8 months by rewriting someone else assembly code. His code did error correction, and cooperative multitasking on a 32khz embedded system which allowed the company to avoid ripping out a lot of deployed hardware by added new capability's and fixing a range of issues relating to cosmic radiation flipping bits. (You deploy enough sensors and it's an issue.)
The system isn't capitalism, it's life: you don't work, you don't eat. The author was one of the few whose work is both enjoyable on its own and worth enough to others to survive on, capitalism in the form of sponsorship. Capitalism at least gives a generally fair exchange of work for value; the alternatives amount to institutionalized theft.