skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my smoke detector makes an obnoxious sound during a controlled fire (like cooking) the product is defective.

You are ignoring the real problem here. The problem is "people who are inconvenienced by their smoke detectors such as an alarm going off when toast is burnt, tend to disable them - leading to death. How do we solve this?" Its quite obvious the solution isn't "Don't disable them" because if it was I'm sure nest's product wouldn't exist.

As a product designer, its very hard to change human behavior. If humans are disabling smoke detectors because they are inconvenienced, either the product is wrong, or user education is wrong. I'm hard pressed to believe you are going to educate people to not disable their smoke detectors while cooking, when people still by and large drive without seatbelts.
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In fact the City of London is a tiny part of the city of London, and only one part of the centre (the north-east). It's the area that was originally defended by a wall in Roman times.
City of London is like a borough of London. That would be like the Manhattan Police vs the NYPD.
I want to transition out of the web development industry. How?
For the last ten years I have been working on websites. Currently I'm employed with a startup as a python programmer. Things are going well, however I realize that web development just doesn't hold my interest anymore.

Recently I have been playing around with video game dev (when I was a kid I did the same thing as a hobby so this feels very familiar to me).

After writing a pixel perfect collision detector for pyglet using numpy I realized that I definitely need something more challenging and less intense than web dev.

I have a strong desire (as do a few of my friends) to learn synthetic bioengineering, or perhaps to make indy games (huge leap I realize).

My question is – what else is out there? What steps does a weathered web programmer need to take to transition out of this industry?
Thanks for the feedback and interesting discussion about being a .co member.
ah yes, the wonderful Excel line graph. Always use scatter!
The rumour circulating around is that they have the ability to detect which other applications are running or installed on a mobile device. Certainly for applications that have this service installed, they could correlate the owner of the device to an ID. That might help with targeting ads, but it's just a theory.
There are a number of beautiful places in the United States where it is possible for a person to subsist quite luxuriously on $1200/mo and preserve the ability to throw parties for friends, buy books and tools, etc. As of January a person with such income will have free Medicare in Oregon.

"Fuck You" money is an illusion that keeps you working. The mind loves to believe that having enough of some external thing will give us control, safety, or whatever we most fear the lack of. It isn't true. A man with with excess money is absorbed in concerns of what to do with it and is hardly free. He might be able to say "fuck you" to people, but he can't say "fuck you" to money.

Freedom is measured by the scarcity of our concerns. And happiness, perhaps, by closeness with people to whom we need never say "fuck you" because we love them and accept them fully.
Birds + running water + rustling trees? That should cover a wide band.
Wow, check out the page they wanted us to redirect the domain too http://83.138.166.114/

"Don't use those other guys, use these guys instead"

It's like reverse online piracy, hijack the traffic from a bunch of domain takedowns and push your own cronies sites.

pro-music.org - based in london, UK
whymusicmatters.org - London, UK
thecontentmap.com - London, UK

Nice scam
I'm more worried that the Justice Alito is apparently unaware of the phenomenon of vaporware:

There are games in which a player can take on the
identity and reenact the killings carried out by
the perpetrators of the murders at Columbine High
School and Virginia Tech.

But both the news article and the now defunct website he cites clearly state that the game doesn't exist.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/20/school-shooter-video-gam...
7400 at the last census (2011), but many thousands of workers during the day.
What if I have no batteries and its 11PM? Will the user 1.) Drive to the nearest 24/7 convenience store or 2.) disable the device and forget about it?
They can't award it to CERN or CMS or ATLAS. At most 3 individual people can split one prize.
Wouldn't intelligence be 100% genetic. I mean humans have intelligence and insects have way less. And all that programming to make one or the other is encoded in the DNA.
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What gets me about all of this is that the largest, most
egregious perpetrators of online criminal activity right
now are our own governments, spying on their own citizens,
illegally wiretapping our own private communications and
nobody cares, nobody will answer for it, it's just an out-
of-scope conversation that is expected to blend into the
overall background malaise of our ever increasing serfdom.

The truth doesn't have many friends with the powers that be.
Gamblers and hackers alike flock to Macau, the world’s casino capital
European Cloud Users Could Shun U.S. Cloud Services Altogether
Hmm, perhaps Nest should update their terms of service? This clause in particular should make someone think twice about buying a safety device from them:

(c) Reliability of Notifications. You acknowledge that the Services, including remote access and mobile notifications, are not intended to be 100% reliable and 100% available. We cannot and do not guarantee that you will receive notifications in any given time or at all. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT RELY ON THE SERVICES FOR ANY LIFE SAFETY OR CRITICAL PURPOSES. MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS REGARDING THE STATUS AND ALARMS ON YOUR NEST PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY – THEY ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR A THIRD-PARTY MONITORED EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.

Worth repeating:

"YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT RELY ON THE SERVICES FOR ANY LIFE SAFETY OR CRITICAL PURPOSES"

Don't buy a safety device from a company that claims this!
The title of the article (as fascinating as it was) seems rhetorical. Can't easydns just point the PIPCU to their own Domain Takedown Policy and instruct them to take it further with ICANN and the courts of the Province of Ontario?
I'm not sure that we can compare that to having a chance to win the lottery or get struck by lightening. There's a bit more than just luck in the whole equation, but luck is definitely a factor
Thanks for that link to Gutenberg. Adding those essays to my reading list.
> You can't possibly trust any company with this kind of service.

That's a good point. However, the Swiss made a lot of money offering comparable services for many years. (Numbered bank accounts.) Also, there's a big difference between simply building such a service and having such a service that is well tested and reliably and securely hosted. It's also a relatively simple matter to test such a service with a small amount of money.

Such services seem highly valuable, but may require practical homomorphic encryption/computation schemes to be themselves practical.
Pickle Boots. (I can say two words one after another too.)

Does a technology exist if nobody writes anything for it?
There is a big difference between relying on its wifi notification and relying on its auditory alarms.
Gandhi never won the prize.
Data Models Versus Data Resource Models
btw I feel this post should at least get 50 upvotes to make sure I get a push notification about it. So please help me ;-)
Yes, Bad JavaScript Will Shut Your Site Down
Skype has a competitor called Google Hangouts that works just fine in the browser.

Word has a competitor called Google Docs that works just fine in the browser.

Desktop-only apps need to adapt or get left behind.
Here's something sort of related in Deuteronomy 24:5 - If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married

How much of the rest of the Bible came out of obeying that law, I wonder?
> No more frantically swinging towels at the smoke alarm to quiet it down. If there’s a nuisance alarm, just stand under Nest Protect and wave your arm to hush the alert. As you wave, your hand should be 2-8 feet away from the alarm.

What happens if one of my cats is sitting under it and scratching the floor or playing with a toy..
> What's overwhelmingly clear from this article is that either the feds, or at least the people they are sending to talk to the media, have really no idea how bitcoin works.

Not so much. Everyone might have a clue, but their words could be mangled and/or placed in entirely the wrong context by clueless editors.
The Pixel's got 64 GB available, and afaik, crouton's pretty easy to install: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-a...

Note: not that I'm suggesting you get one, I'm just adding what I know. I've been tempted by the screen: the LTE version with a DigitalOcean SSD-based VM to do all the painful work (and completely disposable, my favorite part), combined with that screen for text editing, makes a lovely combination.

But, I just run Arch on a thinkpad. I still get a little kick when I boot a machine the first time I get it, try out the hardware to make sure it all works, get annoyed with windows being utterly awful, and then get to wipe it over. I might dd it with all zeroes first, depending on how annoying it was :-)
So you were deliberately lying then?
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Find a household safety device (smoke alarms and such) that doesn't have similar warning. If they did guarantee it worked 100% of the time and it malfunctioned for whatever reason, they would be opening themselves to a lawsuit.
gmail is doing that too
see http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-annive... and note that over the next 40 years, the war in Iraq will cost the US 6 trillion dollars. That is sixty times 100 billion dollars. See also http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-28/world/38097452...

Now, don't you think it would have been better, instead, to spend that much money on hot fusion research?
A ratio without a denominator is useless.
Very cool. I have a friend building something in a related space, he'll be very happy to discover more competition. Best of luck!
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What's 7300 human lives between friends?
She has a Google+ page with a headshot that will be shown next to her email when using gmail.
In Sweden, at least two people have been arrested for selling drugs on Silk Road, right after Dread Pirate Roberts was busted. Are the feds going after all vendors on SR?

https://hd.se/skane/2013/10/08/haktade-for-knarkhandel-pa-de...

https://hd.se/skane/2013/10/08/langarnas-hemliga-internetkon...
I'm assuming at least a small factor of why delivery gets delayed is the fact that they became significantly overfunded with a lot more perks needed to be fulfilled/produced/shipped over the original amount that was planned to be provided in the timeline that these projects originally laid out.
What about this: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~baojie/dataset/
I think you missed the "A smoke alarm in or near the kitchen is incorrectly placed if it is producing frequent false alarms" part of the original statement.
That reply might be off topic for the article. I just think the headline isn't topical in any way. It saddens me.
The NSA’s Massive Computer Clusters In Utah Are Failing Due To “Arc” Explosions
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The guy's Gmail probably has everything they need.
If anyone has seen my posts in the past, you'll know that I'm not a fan of the ACA, but disregarding that, let me be the first to say that this probably isn't the fault (or, at least not solely the fault) of those building the web frontends.

In Maryland, our exchange website is poorly designed and written, just on the frontend (I obviously can't see the backend), but at the same time, all of the frontend issues could be fixed with a clever caching scheme.

Where the real bottleneck almost certainly lies is when the system takes your user submitted data and has to post it into what is surely an old, legacy federal system so that it can verify your identity. That old legacy system may have seen upgrades in preparation for this, but probably not -- even so, there's simply no way to prepare for the onslaught of users accessing (indirectly) what was certain to have been an isolated, government-only database in the past.
Any idea how he comes up with $73k/yr? He says 3 members, 49 months and I'm assuming he means $1b. By my calc that is still $8m/y.
I wish these guys offered a Safety Razor and/or blades but it's probably not possible to make money off those. Which is too bad, I like the company, like the service but at the end of the day you simply can't beat safety razors; they are cheaper and they actually work better. That's the only reason I stopped using this service.
The entrepreneurs I know all do multiple startups, so any chance is better then no chance :D
> The biggest improvement they could make in the short term is setting up a light weight version so you can just enter the needed information to view your plans/options prior to the signup/verification process.

Washington's site did just that. Still blew up. For the first couple of days, just trying to get available plans didn't actually work.

There aren't that many websites out there that experience the kind of traffic levels the exchanges have. Those that do have mostly grown (if sometimes quite quickly) to those levels, not launched with them on day 1.

Competent people with prior experience scaling to these levels are (over-)employed with high compensation. They didn't work on these sites.
> The "intelligence is genetic" "fact" is often used to justify refusal to tackle socio-economic problems

Changing it wouldn't make a difference, everyone using that logic isn't basing their end goal on it, simply using it to justify their feelings.

Hell it took a while for me to understand the benefit of such improvements, and it had nothing to do with genetics. My problem was few people talk about the socio-economic impacts on capabilities, and the fact that counteracting programs can theoretically stop the death spiral in those groups.

However there are a lot of people who can't get over "not like me" and think the whole thing is a waste because it takes away from "hard working young men".
Due process went out of the window a long time ago when the US showed everyone that it is certainly possible and even admissible to seize domains without any sort of process. The US (department of homeland security, no less!) started seizing domains about 2 years ago. They went and basically took down any domain that was related to large scale piracy (demonoid) or counterfeit goods (sites that sold fake gucci bags, that kind of stuff..). The other kind of site that they targeted were mostly sports streaming sites (ones that streamed ESPN, etc.).

It was obvious that the UK would follow soon enough seeing that such a thing was entirely possible. Of course when the US seized a spanish website (rojadirecta) domain, they were challenged in court and lost. [0] There were also several other incorrect seizures where the US government ended up seizing sites that had nothing to do with any illegal activity and then returning them a year later [1]. This is what happens when you ignore due process.

Most small service providers and ISPs feel threatened when a big government like the US comes after them. Unless they have properly defined protocols for dealing with this kind of stuff, the support rep will probably buckle under pressure and hand over the data.

Personally, I've seen instances where domain registrars are often requested for private registration data without court orders or any sort of legal basis. Some registrars hand out the data. Some registrars email their customers asking them to transfer away (so stop being our customers) to continue protecting their privacy. Some registrars actually have the guts to say no. It really varies.

We're certainly at a point now where governments can easily coerce internet businesses to bend to their will. There will be a brave few who will stand tall but I don't know how long it will be before their backs/businesses are broken and bent (lavabit being a recent example).

Of course the UK government probably doesn't have access to the root name servers and therefore is left with sending out notices. But there's no telling when governments (who are of course sponsored by corporations as we all know by now..) will start cooperating with each other for such take down requests. Sort of like the reverse surveillance agreements with Germany/Australia/etc. (can't spy on my own citizens ? no worries, you spy on mine, I'll spy on yours, and we'll exchange notes!)

And I thought the dark days of the internet were in the 90s...

[0] - https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-returns-seized-domains-to-strea...

[1] - http://torrentfreak.com/feds-return-seized-domain-111208/
Mr. Reiser was a bit more hands-on in his approach. Does it make sense for someone who has been fooled into thinking he's had people killed to be as guilty as someone who actually kills the people? It seems so, but I'm not sure what US law says about that.
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The investment money is gone. Record labels functioned as venture capital firms.

Who cares?
Venture capital won't make you practice every damn day.
Venture capital won't make you suddenly sing in key.
Venture capital won't inspire you to write compelling lyrics.
Venture capital doesn't have anything at all to do with musical talent and I think most people would agree that the overwhelming majority of "VC" supported artists are chosen by record companies based on ROI, not based on their musical merit. Today more than ever, the cost of producing and distributing quality music is easily within the range of most serious musicians; the software available to musicians today is staggering and quality recording equipment becomes cheaper all the time.

The schedules of musicians do not align with the modern working world. Employers do not look highly on people who take 8 weeks off to tour. In order to make money touring, you have to be pretty well established..

Give me a break. If you're not big enough to make money touring then sorry, you have to get a job like the rest of us; this is not something unique to musicians, how do you think employers feel about a 6 month sabbatical dedicated to working on your ultimate app idea? It's not gonna happen. The majority of startups don't have access to VC money, and the capital going to many successful early stage startups are (relatively) paltry sums that a determined individual could absolutely accumulate.

Also, unlike software development, there is no 'day job' that musicians can work while saving to bootstrap their own venture

There is no law that says musicians have to work low-paying temp jobs. There is no reason why musicians are any more economically disadvantaged than any other individual who has to work full time while building towards their personal goals on the side. The implication seems to be that musicians generally have no other useful skills besides waiting tables, but that is obviously false.

Practice does not make you a good stage performer.

What? Every good performer practices within an inch of their life, even Beethoven had to put in the hours, the debatable exceptions are too rare to be worth consideration.

It is ultimately a dying art form and those that don't see that and in fact argue the opposite, don't have any inkling of what is actually going on.

That's a pretty presumptuous and condescending assertion. I'd argue that you don't actually know what's going on since music is more alive than ever; in fact, music is so alive that the flood of new music that has exploded onto the internet has driven the cost of music way down. It turns out, music is really cheap to produce when you're rolling studio quality equipment out of your laptop (with mastering/mixing/sequencing software that is rampantly pirated by musicians, I might add)
That doesn't seem right, that's a better chance that dying in a fire.
No, it does not cause weight gain. Excess energy consumption causes weight gain. Some thyroid disorders can make you more likely to consume excess energy. The solution is still to stop consuming excess energy.
Looks more like FYCK to me, and that is the same levenstein distance as FCUK which is everywhere.
Your opinion shouldn't be high. There are talented IT people working at government contractors, but they aren't going to get put where they are needed, because the incentives for contractors are not performing the work at a top-notch level.

Gov't contracting is, in economic terms, a rent-seeking business. The best and brightest in a given contracting firm are dedicated to pursuing new work. I work for a contractor, and my fun IT projects are all proof of concept items. Stellar execution simply isn't rewarded. The gov't puts idiots in charge of things: not idiots in the sense that they aren't smart, but idiots in the sense that they have no expertise in anything. They are hired for paper qualifications (ever heard of a Project Management Professional cert? It's what they hire, and its useless), and the bright/motivated ones move on to interesting work, perhaps in other parts of the gov't, or the private sector. I built a great tool, using all open source technology for the gov't once. I built it in 3 weeks (it is now officially gov't owned software), and it replaced an $80K piece of software (commercial off the shelf) that was inadequate for the task. My reward was complaints that the security people weren't familiar with Postgres, and an immediate request to migrate to Oracle. There was no functional reason for this, but I complied after the gov't shelled out huge sums of money for Oracle license. Why? Because paper pushing idiots in the gov't are in charge of IT security, and their credentials for the job are based entirely on passing certification tests. Their entire incentivization at their job is to minimize their own workload, rather than maximize the happiness of their gov't customers.

Do you think anybody who could even guage whether proper testing was being performed or not was in charge of this project from the gov't level? Of course not. If they had, it would have been properly tested.

I'm mad as hell about this because I want the ACA to succeed. I don't think its ideal, but its vastly better than the existing system of hospitals as clinics for the uninsured hordes.

The Federal gov't has an awful hiring process, and until it is fixed, you are lucky to encounter competent and driven individuals within it. You are foolish to expect it.