skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine this. The company recognizes that it has too many staff, therefore it offers early retirement deals and voluntary redundancy deals, which pay significant bonuses if you have been with the company for several years. But you need to get approval up the management chain, i.e. your manager, their manager, their manager's manager, etc. And it is refused.

Six months later, the deal is offered again, you apply and it is refused. And again six months later, and again, until 3 years have passed. All these years you have hardly anything to do, i.e. your job responsibilities can be completed in 4 hours per week. You spend a lot of time browsing the web, reading research papers, gaining the equivalent of a university education. You spend some time on the corporate wiki documenting things, explaining stuff, collating a glossary of corporate jargon etc. From time to time you find someone else with a problem and help them out with it, in secret because that is not your job.

And finally, after carefully crafting emails to everyone in your management chain, pointing out how you do nothing useful for the business and haven't for the past several years, and how there is no risk to the business because you have trained person X to do your 4 hours per week of real work, and built an automated tool as well, they accept your application. You get a check for 4 months wages, and never have to return to that place.

Do you think such a person would ever recommend anyone to work there? The worst part of this is that when this happened to me there was another department that desperately needed people with my skillset and experience, but I could not be considered for such jobs without approval of my management chain. Somehow they got the idea in their head that I was an employee too valuable to lose, even though I did so little work that I "worked from home" 4 days a week so that nobody would notice if I took a nap or something.

I have some sympathy with Yahoo and HP for wanting people to work in the office, but if they happen to have this kind of problem, I think that they are solving it in the wrong way. Instead, try zero-based budgeting for headcount. If you cannot justify every position in dollars and cents, that person is out of your organization and goes into a pool where anyone in need of their skills can bid for the headcount.
That's.. odd.
Some people here likely weren't even born in 1992.
> "Internet is different" is the very principle Amazon invoked to not collect sales tax for years.

No, its not; Amazon sought to have legal rulings that had been applied to remote selling (by mail and telephone order) applied to remote selling by internet in exactly the same way that they had been applied to other means of remote selling.

It was exactly the opposite of "Internet is different."
I check out /r/programming on the occasion. More often than not, I've already seen whatever they have here or somewhere else, though.
Until the pledge system is fixed we (Ionic Security) will pledge here. To get this ball moving a bit faster we pledge $10,000 USD.

Email in profile for confirmation.
Obviously - you have to get up in the night if you want to photograph the dawn, which most people prefer not to do, whereas most people don't go to sleep until well after dark.
Ask HN: What the ?#* do I do now?
Lawyer by day, programmer by night. Attended Chicago's StarterLeague (Fall 2012) to learn to program. LOVED IT.

Decided to build a graphically intuitive web commenting system, having no clue how 'in over my head' I was.

Worked diligently this last year and, finally, a prototype:

http://74.207.237.99/

My problem? WHAT THE !?#*@ DO I DO NOW?!

My goal? To build a business of my own and find myself amongst a similarly-minded, avid group of programmers/entrepreneurs.

The issue of course is that what I've built is not really an MVP--it's more a concept. Yeah, it works, it's cool and close to what I originally visualized but still it's a concept.

So, do I move on to a more 'business-viable' project, being grateful for how much over the last year I've learned about Javascript, d3, programming in general, etc.

Or do I slog on and keep iterating on this?

Thoughts?
Somewhat off-topic, but if you're curious, here's a heat map that I made of Reddit's submission activity: http://i.imgur.com/ur18gQa.png

I'm currently working on downloading all of Reddit's link submissions for data analyses (one such analysis is published here: http://minimaxir.com/2013/09/reddit-imgur-youtube/). So far, I have about 20M links downloaded...and that's not even a year's worth of data.
It's strangers over the internet - the same that report bedbug issues if you google for those terms. Bedbugs are spread by travelers, sometimes NYC hotels are to even blame.

People that do AirBNB in NYC aren't doing it at the same recurrence rate as 'having someone crash on the couch.' Either AirBNB hosts are trying to control the tone on hackernews or people are seriously oblivious to reality.
That's not how mandatory voting works, at least in Australia, one if the few democracies to have it. It's mandatory to show up to the voting place and get your name ticked off the roll. It is not mandatory to actually cast a vote. You can turn around and walk back out as soon as your name has been crossed off. Or you can cast a blank ballot. Or an invalid ballot, or a donkey vote etc etc
Weird. Why is there a three year limit anyway? If the guy is standing in front of you and it's pretty clear he's not dead, why insist that he's dead?
Yes - they acknowledge this in the Readme.txt for the source:

At the end of each official .exe and
.sys file, there are embedded digital signatures and all related certificates
(i.e. all certificates in the relevant certification chain, such as the
certification authority certificates, CA-MS cross-certificate, and the
TrueCrypt Foundation certificate). Keep this in mind if you compile TrueCrypt
and compare your binaries with the official binaries. If your binaries are
unsigned, the sizes of the official binaries will usually be approximately
10 KB greater than sizes of your binaries (there may be further differences
if you use a different version of the compiler, or if you install a different
or no service pack for Visual Studio, or different hotfixes for it, or if you
use different versions of the required SDKs).
"Aluminium case with tens of thousands of individual perforations" sounds so much fancier than "metal screen".
I heard Gladwell very briefly on the radio today and he described his work as "intellectual adventure stories".

I'm good with that.
That is exactly the case. And managers are the main reason that people leave companies as well. This video talks about this challenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0RO3qnLMg
Yeah. I haven't had time to read the list (I plan on reading it later, ) but the tone from the intro didn't seem to be concerned about destroying people.

I'm personally in the camp of folks that picks up information about evolution as I go, since it's not really related to anything I do in my day to day, and I appreciate a concise description of possible misconceptions.
One reported benefit (I think early SQLite releases reported this) is 5-10% speed and/or size optimization benefit.
I use reddit a lot.

It's frustratingly similar to Usenet, but without the great bits.

I also use Imgur, and might spend more time making content for the Imgurians.
Keep iterating on this. If you drop this for something else in a few months we're going to be right back to this point - you have a prototype, do you move forward or drop it?
I'm the OP/author, and you are pretty much right. It's probably not the sort of deal you'd read about in TechCrunch or the WSJ, but it made the work I did in the past year totally worth it. And it got me my "dream job," which counts for a lot.
Could the Higgs Nobel Be the End of Particle Physics?
I took a look at the links you provided. There's some interesting stuff in there. I note, however, that the downfall of guys like Ulbricht involved things like:

1) Single point of failure. This is also related to increased susceptibility to network analysis. Even if the CIA "can't deanonymize everyone all the time" they can deanonymize a given host of a given network, by analyzing traffic patterns, placing proxies in the way or backdooring the nodes in the network, etc.

2) Recording. As you say, he got serious about his security "too late". In an age where tons of stuff you do online can be recorded and found when needed, you have to protect your anonymity from day 1.

What I am claiming is that it's possible to BEGIN an alternate identity by leveraging techniques #1 and #2. #1 is what you can do with freenet or perfectdark - basically, distributed DHTs which DO NOT record the originator of a file. While it's true that a given freenode network can be compromised by backdooring enough nodes, that is much harder to do than with Tor. And #2 is what you can do with services like pastie and others who simply DO NOT have the capability in place to record who posted a message. As governments go after people, they will attempt to intimidate #2 type services.

Either way there can be databases listing the confidence that a given system does NOT record a particular identifier such as an IP address. The ones that score high can be used directly. The ones that score low must unfortunately be used via commandeered accounts and the steganography would proceed that way.

If there were truly no networks that the agents could trust, the agents could have aggressively employed steganography - they should have basically commandeered some email addresses in the country (http://xkcd.com/792/) and then tunneled messages through a number of different channels, including the text, the timing of the messages, the order of the messages, etc.

There's tons of ways to do this without falling prey to being doxed. However, once even the smallest bit is revealed (e.g. your literary writing style is identified) the whole thing can unravel IN THEORY.
How Ready Is The Little Guy For Big Data; The Medium And Large Company?
I donated to the Levison pledge drive thing. But can I sound a note of caution about the rush to hero worship here?

What seems to have happened is, Levison got screwed by the DOJ when he refused a request for information about Snowden's account, after having established a track record of cooperation in the past. The original demand was for targeted metadata. After Levison refused, the DOJ upped the ante, declared Levison untrustworthy, and demanded keys.

It seems clear to me that Levison was the victim of an injustice, and, once that injustice was inflicted on him, he followed through with the only ethical option available to him. I have no trouble seeing why he's deserving of support.

But Levison did cooperate with law enforcement. When he decided not to, it seemed to have been in support of his own politics. When his politics became too expensive, he seems to have backed down from them.

The lede of this article appears to be accurate.
Since people share passwords with (at the time) trusted people quite frequently, it seems like a scenario one should plan for.
I had to stop reading when I got to the part about GPS where the author says he almost lost his job, due to tardiness, becuase he refused to use GPS.
I've noticed the same. The community is much less critical/negative there compared to here.
Do join a fraternity. I never thought of myself as the fraternity type, but joined one in my third year of college too after a few friends did. Best decision I ever made. 14 years later it's still a major part of my social life, both with current students and alumni from all years from my class to the present.

What a fraternity gives as opposed to clubs is the opportunity for unstructured types of social interaction. A fraternity house is where you can just hang out with whoever's around, rather than being always oriented on the tasks and projects of a club.

I wasn't the same guy after college as after high school, a change almost entirely induced by the fraternity. A Greek house is a fantastic opportunity to learn open-ended leadership roles and break out of the task-assignment structure of academia and business grunt work.

Whether commuting can work depends a lot on the particular fraternity, of course. Mine has always had a fair few commuters. It's not quite the same as living in the house, but with effort to show up and be around and involved, commuters can get a pretty good experience as well. It's not too late to join. The relationships and experience will stay with you after graduation.
I don't understand why you're uneasy about it.
>I wish my brain had a switch.

We might be able to develop one by using non-invasive brain stimulation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110615123647.ht....
There is good flat design and there are also bad implementations of it. Here is a collection of well done flat designs: http://fltdsgn.com/
What if you had a friend or family outside, and you used teamviewer or equivalent on their computer?
Very well put.

I'm the same way. I have "reddit enhancement suite" installed, and "view images" on /r/pics is something I check out every day.

The sfwporn subreddits are really beautiful too. This was a thing I made a couple of years ago: http://thingist.com/labs/ipad.shtml

(I was trying to think of something to do with an old iPad)
Facebook Building Apartments for Employees
This would cause all sorts of complications. I think the three-year limit should have an exception for mysterious reappearance, this man given his "life" back and be demanded to repay child support.

What happens if this man gets murdered? Can you go to jail for killing a dead man?
How much email do you think is sent worldwide each day? How big is your hard drive?
You say it's sloppy and unresearched. I'd like to hear why that is, based on something more than just your opinion.
It's always useful to include "other" - some people might use reddit in a way that they don't want to select either yes or no.
As far as I could tell, it was "user's", not "users'."

I may be wrong, but that's what I read.
The license on the code doesn't include trademarks on the name, or copyright on marketing materials, branding, etc. Depending on the project, the bulk of the value might actually be in that stuff and not in the code itself. Don't underestimate how valuable "brand recognition" is.

Also, and while it might not apply in this specific case, a startup / side-project that has paying customers will have value in terms of acquiring the accounts and the relationships, even if the code is open source.
That's a general problem with the interpretation of test answers. What an appropriately penalized scoring scheme for a multiple choice tests does is set the expected value of guessing to zero, providing an unbiased estimator of performance for students who guess randomly.
It's nice to be able to fix or contribute to every element of anything you use for one.
I always assumed that even then you had to be paid, like the guys who get pay measured in double-digit-cents-per-hour to make license plates or whatever.

Although I guess forced community service could be thought about the same way.
I learned PHP, CSS and JQuery to make this RSS aggregator – help me improve it
You can actually stage and unstage hunks from a diff view. With a diff view open, you can press + or - to increase or decrease hunk size, n/p and N/P for next/previous hunk/file, and s/u for stage and unstage.

Rebase is one of the big ones coming up.
Just getting on the front page of HN means he got 10k+ views from interested people in the right field for their product for the cost of a blog entry. Just a link to yesgraph.com probably would not have done that. It certainly wouldn't have done that more than once like a blog can. You can't really claim the blog was a bad idea when it just succeeded wildly.
Discipline Your Child Beat Their Ass
Larrabee itself is defunct, but one of its successors is the "Xeon Phi" line, and the Knights Landing generation of that will have AVX-512.
Your telecom equipment manufacturer probably did not exclaim that the inventory taking was high priority and needed to be done in overtime as well. In fact if their goal was learning they probably would have spread the work out to only a few hours a day so that you get maximum retention of the knowledge.

It's the hurry up busy work that is so bad.

In one of my jobs, I was providing technical support to sales for major accounts. It was challenging work which involved reading RFPs in languages that I did not know very well to catch where the sales team was misunderstanding technical requirements. Sometimes there was hurry up work to meet a prospect's deadlines. And we only won about 5% of the bids that I worked on. But it still felt good to do the work. I knew that it wasn't wasted any more than a football practice session is wasted. It was a competition.

I wonder if there is some way to incorporate gamification into the enterprise to solve this problem.
Ancient Unix lore has it that you need to do 'sync; sync; init 6' in order to sync the buffers and reboot. Sync was supposed to only schedule a sync, but would block if another sync was already running. I have no idea how applicable that lore is to modern 2013 Linux... Definitely would like to see more careful research than just removing the sleep(2) and declaring victory and address if that sleep was simply vestigial or not...
Plus I guess Visual Studio could be backdoored to recognise the TrueCrypt source code and insert malicious code?
In addition to Google Analytics, we tried Twitter, Facebook and Stumble Upon.

My feeling is that, at early stages, all outperform analytics unless you really know what you're selling and/or you've good landing pages. All have their specific "way to use it", e.g. on Facebook you need a page with engagement, on Stumble you need "something" that people can stumple upon :) e.g. blog posts.

Here I'm considering signups as conversions. Analytics (and Bing) were good to reach a lot of page views (that may still be useful).
> "I don't know where that leaves you, but you're still deceased as far as the law is concerned," Davis said.

When even a Judge recognizes that common sense should prevail, but isn't willing to do anything about it, courts start to be pretty useless.
I've always felt like the world was missing a platform for remote musical collaboration. This is a huge pain point for electronic music producers without access to session musicians or complex recording setups for acoustic drums. As far as I know the only current solution is to buy generic sample packs (yuck) or put out an ad in craigslist and hope someone local responds. A micropayment platform on top of this would be huge. Think odesk for session musicians.
There's also a thread for this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1o2ijo/learning_from...

Even though there are half as many upvotes on Reddit right now, it seems to be driving most of the new traffic
This is about the guy's Social Security money. You could argue that he shows up with unclean hands at court, after all he knew he had been declared dead since 2005 and did nothing about it in the intervening years.

The obligatory references are Le Gentil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil) and the Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_the_Dead)
Yup that would be a nice feature, but as of yet there's no way to do this within Sublime Text AFAIK.
When you put refuse to the curb, it's generally regarded as discarded. That word -- stolen -- doesn't mean what you think it means.
My favourite comment so far:

ell0ell0 commented 2 hours ago
I think I found the error...

allowing the <money> variable to modify <speech> is
negatively impacting the <congress> function
Ah, good. The end of this post provides a link to Mozilla's page on purchasing the ZTE OPEN unlocked developer/early adopter hardware[1].

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
The vast majority of evolution deniers I've known wouldn't have the slightest interest, I agree. But, as someone who grew up totally immersed in an evolution-denying atmosphere, I would have been very interested during that time in which I was "seeking the truth." (And indeed I fondly remember from that time the talk.origins page you linked. Thanks for the nostalgia, what a great site!)
I have a Parallella from another KickStarter, with a Zynq-7020 included. It would be interesting to use the Epiphany-16 co-processor as well to evaluate GPU concepts and code.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...
"He asked the court to reverse its 1994 death ruling so he can reinstate his canceled Social Security number and driver's license.

The court said no."

I don't think he's legally dead, I just think he's not going to be able to get his old identification back.

Sounds like a civil rights problem, as this man is being refused access to his own identity and rights.

In particular, I think if he commits a crime, like spitting on the judge right after his announcement, he'd certainly be found "alive" enough to incarcerate, so really the only thing the judge is doing is preventing him from accessing the services of government, although he's imminently liable for abiding by the strictures of government.

Heck if I wouldn't be tempted to break a law if I were him. Then appeal it as undue process because the officers of the court refused to identify him.

I am definitely not a lawyer, but I feel certain this man is not legally dead in the way most people think of it.
Ah, but it's not a direct equivalent. Do you think Jony Ive's contract with Apple allows moonlighting?
Certainly. For now the micropayment amount is 0 and you can already find pretty decent musicians there.
FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator
My favorite one is: Evolution and Creationism should be given equal time in education.

Not even the Catholic Church thinks Creationism should be taught (I'm Catholic if it matters) in school as science.

From Wikipedia: Here is viewpoint of the Vatican's chief astronomer, Fr. George Coyne, issued a statement on 18 November 2005 saying that "Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science." Cardinal Paul Poupard added that "the faithful have the obligation to listen to that which secular modern science has to offer, just as we ask that knowledge of the faith be taken in consideration as an expert voice in humanity." He also warned of the permanent lesson we have learned from the Galileo affair, and that "we also know the dangers of a religion that severs its links with reason and becomes prey to fundamentalism." Fiorenzo Facchini, professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, called intelligent design unscientific, and wrote in the January 16–17, 2006 edition L'Osservatore Romano: "But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science.... It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious." Kenneth R. Miller is another prominent Catholic scientist widely known for vehemently opposing Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design.
Thought experiment: compare and contrast weev and FC.
There isn't a single community on Reddit unlike here. Every subreddit is unique.

For example, people on /r/bicycling are often very elitist and critical. It reminds me of HN sometimes. People on /r/pics are more friendly.
In Canada, the term "Engineer" is a professional designation. You are not legally allowed to call yourself an engineer unless you have gone through the degree and professional accreditation. It feels really strange now to live in the U.S. where anyone is allowed to refer to themselves as an Engineer :)

Not saying the Canadian way is better, it's just interesting.
You assume they aren't getting anything else from that. Presumably it also counts as R&D for future products.