skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem I can see with Friedman's private courts/Rights Enforcement Agencies, is that if you have bigger and smaller REAs, a sufficiently big REA would be able to compel smaller REAs to ignore violations by the customers of the big REA. Smaller REAs would go out of business, as the big REA would be a much better deal for anyone who doesn't want to get sued. Finally, you'd be left with one big REA, probably called "The Police" or something.
solistice gave you advice that runs the danger of telling you to work harder at burning yourself out. Given that I'm also giving advice, take that with a grain of salt.

"Make small changes," he suggests.

If you're really on the burnout train, your life is out of control because of your internal pressure to work. You want to be overworking yourself.

Some of that internal pressure is because of external pressure that you've accepted. You want the grades--do you want them, or are you running on others' expectations, and accepting them into your life?

My advice is, be prepared to make big changes. That's not even right: be prepared for big changes to happen to you. Burnout means you lose something.

And so what I should say is, be ready to give it up. You might be really happy if you didn't have all this internal pressure driving you to work all the time.

Are you doing it for them? Or are you doing it for you?

Don't be afraid to quit.

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That said, you'll do your best work when you're under pressure you're not sure you can handle.

My impression is that you're a student. Apparently you're not under so much pressure that you don't have time to spare asking for advice.

I don't know if you're working too hard. There is always something to be said for keeping a little voice in your mind telling you to "Work harder."

But if it comes crashing down, you have a right to quit and to drastically change your life.
Seriously, why are admins doing this?
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Absolutely. I see peer review as a way of - hopefully - filtering out the most egregious crap, and fixing the worst errors in papers while rounding them off.

I feel all these debates are kind of pointless, because no-one I know treats a published article as gospel. We make up our own minds about the paper.
The very first sentence in the section about the response from the medical community:

> One of the first to respond to Semmelweis's 1848 communications was James Young Simpson who wrote a stinging letter. Simpson surmised that the English obstetrical literature must be totally unknown in Vienna, or Semmelweis would have known that the English had long regarded childbed fever as contagious and would have employed chlorine washing to protect against it.

And:

> Indeed, initial responses to Semmelweis's findings were that he had said nothing new.

But:

> In fact, Semmelweis was warning against all decaying organic matter, not just against a specific contagion that originated from victims of childbed fever themselves. This misunderstanding, and others like it, occurred partly because Semmelweis's work was known only through secondhand reports written by his colleagues and students. At this crucial stage, Semmelweis himself had published nothing.

Why didn't he publish until later? Who knows. The fact is, he didn't and it hurt his case.

And, if you read further, you see that Semmelweis simply went crazy later on, with people later on proposing causes from Alzheimer's to learned helplessness to PTSD. Not a good thing if you are insulting and argumentative to begin with and are proposing a new theory on top of it.
15 minutes per day is not long enough for effective learning. I think you'd be better off with 1 hour 3x per week for a similar time investment - especially when you take into account setup time and context switching.
The existing plugins are heavy and don't integrate well with other web technologies. In addition, the NPAPI interface is not standardized (I believe). Thus, the point is to narrow down the scope of plugins from everything that Flash and Silverlight do to just a piece of code focused on DRM. Everything else that people use Flash and Silverlight can be replaced by standards and directly implemented in the browser. However, DRM, by its nature depends on closed-source compiled binaries, which means that it has to remain in a plug-in.
I really wish this were able to be run internally on my own server without handing these guys the keys to my castle. I'd do it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately that's not the case.
I agree. It makes sense to use the original title so that people don't editorialize. However, it may be the case that the site uses a vague title for artistic reasons. What benefit do we get by using that cryptic title instead of a descriptive one (as long as it doesn't editorialize)?
Careful there, Citizen.
10 Reasons You Need an SEO Strategy
http://arxiv.org/

The arXiv focuses on physics, math, computer science, and similar, but it certainly seems to be what you're looking for.
I think this is an artefact of how science is taught: In 1953 Watson and Crick published a paper on the structure of DNA. Everyone smiled and nodded.

In my experience it's more like: Most scientists ignored it. Others were interested but had too much teaching to pay attention to it. A few people got pissed off and tried to prove it wrong. A few other people got excited and tried to build on it.
In Muppet form: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYEJx7PkWE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
What are these promoted videos I keep seeing on Google-owned Youtube?
So did you ever get to enjoy sex with a guy after that?

Seems with the popularity of sites like chatroulette and cam4 more and more guys are either secretly or openingly experimenting with their curious sides.

*Why is this getting downvoted are hacker newers homophobic? The author notes how much the encounter excited him and how he thought about how it excited him throughout the years. I don't see this being an unreasonable question to ask.
> There is, however, a major problem with Twitters
> bootstrap framework... [a] return to all the problems
> that came with tables. A complete rejection of the
> agreed upon separation between semantic content and
> visual design.

First of all, the semantic web was never widely agreed upon in practice [1], simply because almost everyone is interested in generating a particular page layout first. For whatever reason, the standards bodies have tried to pretend that prioritizing the semantic web in the HTML standards would somehow change the behavior of most web developers. It hasn't.

The fundamental issue is that there was a "tight coupling" between page layout and data structure in early web browsers, and while CSS has helped separate layout from HTML, it has not changed the behavior of web developers en masse, who will hack HTML to kingdom come if it gets them the page layout they want. (If you only every use <div> tags, you're not doing semantic HTML.)

But things are actually looking quite bright, because we now have RESTful web services, that operate solely with data structures (typically JSON), so REST is essentially the modern semantic web. That frees HTML from the burden of being a data structure at all.

Now if we could just replace HTML and CSS with something that actually gave you a WYSIWYG page layout, we'd be all set.

[1] As evidence of this, I point you to the HTML parsers of all major browsers, and the Google web crawler/parser. Neither of these assume that pages are valid, let alone semantic.
No libvirt is a disgusting mess, look at the internals sometime.
Agreed. I saw the old title and liked it better.
And that's all well and good, but the OP also points out the inconsistency in policy -- e.g. front page shutdown but many other subdomain sites still running.

I guess in the end one may chalk it up to pure inefficiency. I'm sure there are probably multiple groups of people responsible for multiple servers under one domain, but still, it seems a little childish at this point to shut down one server if you're doing it for liability reasons, and yet leave up a whole slew of others on the same domain. I mean nasa.gov -- really? Was it necessary to redirect that?
Considering there is frequently space-related articles here, it is particularly misleading.
Ask HN: Visiting SF, would like to visit startups/tech companies
Hi,

My girlfriend and I will be visiting San Francisco for the first time between October 11th-18th.

We already have our itinerary for the places we want to visit but we also want to try and visit some startups/tech companies.

My girlfriend is a UX/UI designer and is interested in learning how design is implemented at various companies.

I am a software engineer and interested in learning about the technology used at various companies. In particular, I am interested in companies that have an Android application. I'd like to get a better idea on how companies build and test their Android applications.

My contact info is in my profile.

Thank you
Some people seem to have an almost super-human level of charisma/ability to influence others (there is probably a D&D reference to be made here).

Certainly the trope is common in fiction. See: The Mentalist (both the protagonist and antagonist share this ability) and several Agatha Christie novels with similar storylines.

This guy sounds like a real-life Red John; able to subtly re-wire people's thinking so that they actually want to do what he suggests.

I have only ever experienced this in the formulaic pattern of dark-arts sales tactics. Israeli companies selling cosmetic products from the Dead Sea are notorious for making a superficial connection with their potential customers and then exploiting that connection for a sale. But those tactics aren't hard to see through and resist. Quite scary to think that someone who has mastered those techniques could actually alter my preferences simply with the power of suggestion.
I understand the idea you're putting forward -- you have in fact repeated it three times.

I think the idea is less novel than you seem to. And more to the point, I don't think it provides guidance.

In a situation where we have no expectation of linearity, waiting for significant pressure back from the environment (as you say, "it might not be as catastrophical as the article pictures it") may prove very foolish.
Or you order it and only after it arrives do you realize it's been completely redesigned. Different shade of whatever color it was before, different cut, different materials, etc.
psychopaths are pretty good social hackers :) to them a person is just a machine they have to act the right way towards to get some benefit
For one, nobody wears jerseys anymore.
AgileBits Support here.

Not every version. We've only charged for three upgrades in our history.

1Password 2 for Mac to 1Password 3 for Mac

1Password 3 for Mac to 1Password 4 for Mac

1Password 3 for iOS to 1Password 4 for iOS

So, two of the three updates happened in the last year for the latest release (1Password 4). All other updates were free for existing users.

That's over 4 years between releases with no charges for users who purchased on launch day. Now, not every user purchased on launch day obviously, but I think we've been pretty fair with the upgrades. We go out of our way to try to help users who purchased prior to the new version too. We gave every user who purchased 1Password 3 for iOS a free upgrade to 1Password 4 within a 30 day window from 1Password 4 release.

This is the App Store we're talking about, which doesn't provide a mechanism for giving the app away free (while having it a paid app). Unless you count those 50 app store promo codes you get each release... (that's cost of app + 30% hit from Apple). I don't know of any other company that would do that on the scale we did. We tried VERY hard to give our users the best we could while going to a new app.

Kyle

AgileBits Support
Bah. Disappointing. No reason to change the title.
Don't paint the remaining 99.7% of wrap with the same brush as that 0.3%.
Well come on, who uses python internally and doesn't use ipython?
The obvious solution to this would be to cycle randomly between fonts every few characters (or keep a running total of the font used for each particular symbol, and ensure it stays below some threshold).

This sounds like a useful defence in general against OCR re-use of particular things you might publish. I wonder if it could be done in a manner unobtrusive to the eye, but progressively more expensive to algorithms, either in terms of memory or time. This is really a neat idea you have.
> developed a slew of transient (but terrifying) neurological problems.

well don't stop there - what were they? this is important information for the HN crowd.
Isn't Randy Kraft still alive? I imagine the author has decided not to actually try to arrange some type of conversation with him?
How do you get your app translated into other languages?
How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font
Quran.js - an api for embedding verses from the holy book
I can't help but wonder how effective those memos would have been if he'd been more direct, rather than use manager-speak. Passive voice just doesn't work when you want to get people to take action.

Certain of our competitors' products and their rapid advancement and refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy

could have been:

Our competitors are out-innovating us, and we're losing to them. I hate to lose and you should hate being losers too. So this is what we're going to do.
We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders

On first reading I had a split-second where I thought the attackers did everyone a favor by deleting the data; e.g. "drop table customer_financial_data". Unfortunately they meant the ~other~ kind of "removal". I think "obtained" would have been a better word to use here (instead of "removed").
FBI shuts down Silk Road
Under a "Futarchy", the corn lobby can spend lots of money to "predict" that a sugar tariff will make the country better.

To do that they would have to bet a lot of money that the tariff will make the country better (by an objective metric which is decided upon by the voters), and if that turned out wrong, they would lose a lot of money.
AgileBits Support here.

Noted. We can't promise Linux support. It's hard to provide paid software on Linux and be able to pay for the development and technical support. The user base is tricky, many are used to free software via their favorite package manager. Serious professionals are likely to pay I think, but how many of those are there?

We'd love to support Linux in some way, and we just hired a guy who primarily works in Linux. We never say never, but we certainly can't promise Linux support. All that said, I'll pass your feedback along :)

I'd agree, I want our Windows application to get a make over and try to gain feature parity with our Mac app. We're a very small team though so focus tends to be on Mac and iOS since that's where a vast majority of our user base is. That's not to say we don't want the other platforms to be better. Example: We're working on a brand new Android application that should blend both our look and feel with Android's look and feel.

We'll get the Windows application there, just give it some time. :)

Kyle

AgileBits Support
Parents of young children: the time to inoculate your children against this tool of sociopaths is now. Communicate your love with every word and embrace, and you'll fill a reservoir that will never go dry.
I have to concur. I clicked on this article wondering if there was some sort of new discovery in astronomy. Still an interesting read, but the old headline was much more appropriate.
I agree, but I think there was a reason.

The name of the linked article is "Center Of The Universe". Not sure why they want the two titles to match but they do now.
Yeah, I've lived in this area my whole life and I'd never heard of Randy Kraft. Granted I was a kid during the time so perhaps I just had been kept in the dark (though I was keenly aware of the Night Stalker as a kid). So I just asked my dad and he'd never heard of him either. Crazy that something that large was happening under our noses and nobody knew...
Yeah, the other title was WAY better.

Could it be that this is done by an automated script? :/
Don't Just Sit There: How bathroom posture affects your health (2010)
If you email me, my name (see sig at bottom) at company url with the email address you used to send your support ticket in I'll personally take a look.

Kyle

AgileBits Support
Of course watching TV isn't ambitious!

But here's the thing: the "watch TV/self-development" dichotomy exists and keeps existing at every level of actual achievement. There are people who think that lawyers, doctors, and software engineers are underachievers for not becoming CEOs, after all. Lawyers, doctors, and software engineers tend to think people working old-fashioned 9-5 jobs instead of high-level professions are underachievers. People in old-fashioned 9-5 jobs think part-timers are underachievers.

And in the other direction, there are people who think that anyone who merely runs a business and doesn't build an international business conglomerate is an underachiever. There are people who think that running an international business conglomerate instead of a world empire makes you an underachiever.

There's at least a few people who think that running a worldwide empire makes you an underachiever, because you should be trying to become a god!

Sometimes all you have is an impulse to go in a direction, but not a destination. Those are the impulses to go out for, when no actual destination will sate the impulse.
Australia and New Zealand didn't get the new Yahoo logo
First of all, I thought Bootstrap was no longer part of Twitter, officially?

Second, enclosing elements in tables is a whole other level of violating the divide between content and visual design. There's not even a close comparison between row/spans and the restrictions of a tabular element.
That's a fair point I suppose but I suppose it depends on the website. In general rules and regulations change at a pretty glacial pace. It would seem easy enough to place a disclaimer at the top of every page stating something to the effect of "No email will be answered and the validity of this information may in some cases not be up to date due to the government shutdown". A government website is a public resource that we paid to put into place so as far as I'm concerned it's not really acceptable to shut if off when it takes almost no money and more importantly staff to simply keep it up.
Hanlon's razor seems to be knocking on the door here. They made their best effort to shut down the sites they're supposed to shut down, by law, whether it's good business or not. They were doing this in a bit of a challenging situation, with a skeleton crew and a lot of legal uncertainty, plus the individuals in charge were probably operating at pretty low morale. Some broken eggs and spilled milk (in the ironic form of better-functioning-than-expected sites) are to be expected.
But by the same token, they are something that is worth keeping up woth the joneses on. so this might be a case where equilibrium farms out the low hanging fruit and the proprietary differentiation is on the harder/rain-maker parts of the list. Just seeing the glass half full, in other wrds.
Keep in mind that the last world war resulted in nuclear attacks. I don't think we have any guarantee that "mutually assured destruction" will be enough to save us if there is another truly global war between the remaining super/nuclear powers.

And now we also have stuff like "depleted" uranium rounds which have pretty serious consequences on future generations.
Yup, it's been there for a long time. For at least as long as I've been a user.

We had trouble with 1Password 3 and non-US keyboards, but the new app should be MUCH better at handling non-US keyboard layouts. So change that shortcut however you see fit :)

I just can't promise a t-shirt for your chosen replacement of the shortcut (see our blog.agilebits.com header for this one).

Kyle

AgileBits Support
It had been a while so I looked through it again. Throughout he talks about deciding everything with a single measure of national welfare (which could include things besides GDP, weighted). I'm not convinced that's realistic. That one function would get enormously complex, its exact definition hard to decide but very influential on policy, and instead of debating specific policies we'd have vicious debates on the right formula to use, mostly driven by self-interested actors attempting to gain advantage, with even more obscurity than we have now.

In principle I like the idea, I'm just trying to figure out how to make it better.
What I find most interesting about the story is the reaction from the medical community.

He was onto something, had data showing the correlation, it was a simple method with no contraindications hindering it's immediate adoption... Still he was faced with incredulity or irrationality. The ones who didn't vilified him, didn't bothered to investigate further either.
Exfiltrated.
For a different view on working hard, take a look at In Praise of Idleness
By Bertrand Russell
" I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached."

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
> They could easily be profitable if they cared to. They don't.

I frequently wonder about this. Funny thing is that none of these latest crop of tech ipo's, which are mostly saas or social media companies, actually make money. NONE. Not one. Years ago, non-saas software companies didn't seem to have much trouble earning money when they were in growth mode. Adobe, to pick one, ipo'd in 1986. Between 1984 and 1988 their revenues grew from $2 million to $83 million (including 110% in 1988), aka hypergrowth. Guess what? They had positive net income every single year...huge margins, too. I see stuff like this and wonder about today's saas and social media craze, and I cant help but be very skeptical about these business' abilities to make any kind of meaningful profits ever.

Is it really a coincidence that they're all managed like this, strictly for revenue growth? Or are these businesses structurally incapable of earning a profit? I honestly have no idea anymore. Salesforce has been public for almost 10 years and if they had to pay all of their comp in cash there would be almost no cash flow at all. Maybe these companies just dont add as much value as we think.
> You write like there's some grand unified purpose to this whole thing.

I'd say there's a grand unified purpose at the upper govt level to make the shutdown hurt as much as possible, as alluded to by those mentioning Washington Monument Syndrome. At the lower levels, it's probably more a diffused feeling of "fvck 'em, now we're not getting paid, let's shut it all down". And you've raised a very good point about liability elsewhere - why take chances?

Nobody is going to analyze the most fiscally effective website shutdown configuration and enforce it. It's not in anyone's interest, which is why I find these articles a bit silly; it's just another excuse to spout anti-gubmint rhetoric.

A much more interesting angle is, "how can we alter our two-party system to prevent these kind of Red vs Blue stalemates"?
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