skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me feel pretty uncomfortable - maybe it's the sense of superiority the author puts across. A couple of the more irritating snippets:

In a regular 9-5 job you’re selling your time to an employer

Or, to look at it another way, you are collaborating with a number of colleagues to develop and sell software, and you are all sharing the income. See how that's the same thing, phrased differently? Attitude matters.

You can do whatever you want now. Everything is under your control. It’s not dependent on your boss, co-workers, or other departments. You decide what projects to work on. You decide when you want to work on them. You even decide whether or not you want to get out of bed every day.

You're not dependent on anything - except your customers or clients, your investors, your employees, third parties… the list goes on. Sure, you could choose to stay in bed, or leave for a week and do no work - but you'd have to consider what the implications would be for your services, your family, staff and so on. Sometimes, the illusion of freedom is more dangerous.

You get to put all your time and effort into only things you’re truly passionate about.

Nope - all of the grunt work still has to be done. Need a stupid feature for a large client? You'll probably be doing it. And you'll be doing all of that sysadmin stuff you hate too.

Selling your time for money to an employer will put a cap on the amount of money you can make... You are generating more money for their business than they’re paying you. That’s the only way they can run a profitable business. Which means you’re getting screwed.

It's a trade-off, isn't it? I think we can all accept that the self-employed will keep more of the value they generate. But the other side of the coin is that they're exposed to more risk. Not a bad trade-off, especially if you've got a family.

Most of the software you write at a company doesn’t ever ship.

I can count on one hand the number of features I've ever developed which didn't ship, and quickly. Maybe if you work at a dysfunctional company, this could be the case.

tl;dr: don't take a job at a rubbish company you're not interested in. Enjoy what you do - have you seen what the market is like for "developer time" recently? You can have your pick of companies, developing software for almost any imaginable market, and earn an impressive salary doing it.

Okay, maybe this works for you - and that's great, I'm all behind people finding work that suits their lifestyles. But I've got an awesome 9–5 job, where I am paid very well to work with great people on interesting products. There are a lot of other people in that situation, and I don't think that it's quite a clear-cut as the author makes out.
Just a quick update - I've disabled all email notifications from the alpha project (the source of these notifications). No more emails should be sent out. Again, very sorry about that. Rough day.
Not necessarily, but they do have less women than the average French school, and the OP gave a bunch of serious reasons why this might be the case. They could try to eliminate those policies, and see if it increases female enrollment.
The problem for most white-collar workers is that the actual work demands are low, but the emotional overhead of subordination and mandatory presence is as bad as ever. The T-shirt describes someone for whom the work demands are low, presumably because of a defective office culture that leaves everyone enervated.

Easy jobs are usually emotionally harder than difficult ones, if that makes sense. Most white-collar environments boil the work down to triviality (the executives take the fun stuff, and the challenging projects aren't attempted, being "too risky") and become similar to prisons: mandatory presence beyond purpose.
Platinum is less reactive than gold.
Interesting - what if you combined it with regular exercise?

Right now I'm sitting and my upper body is supported only by the lower back (arms on the armrests, hands on the keyboard tray). It's comfortable, except my back starts to hurt after sitting for hours at end (so I stretch/exercise once in a while).

Which is why I believe a lying position would be more comfortable...
Definitely possible, thanks for the suggestion. I'll consider it and do a visibility test.

There's 5 LEDs on the back - three reds and two amber turn signals. When blinking, the center red LED stays solid to provide a reference for the turn signal.
Do you really think that "we are no closer to being able to have an intelligent conversation with a computer" ?

I mean, we aren't there yet, but we're definitely closer than before, the gap is narrowing in part due to the 6 order of magnitude increase. And do take note that at the time when we'd be 95% close, then it would still feel like having an intelligent conversation with a dog; the conversation would only 'feel right' if the capabilities matched 100% or more.
> Windows installation is breeze, just pop-in the disk and it will install everything for you.

Actually, in the majority of cases your OEM or your IT department does this. It's not uncommon to have missing drivers when doing a clean install from the stock image on the retail DVD.

(Disclaimer: I have some history with this as I used to work in the team that created Windows Setup.)
Not to be too blunt, but why are you working in that environment? There is absolutely no shortage of high-paying jobs for developers.
How is this possible when they can't get a stupid health insurance website to work?
Facts can't be copyrighted, and the trademarks of pokemon names can be used w/o permission if properly acknowledged.
http://60lbgloss.com (alpha stage) - database, community, and marketplace for magazine cutouts. ("60 lb gloss" is the type of paper that magazines are printed on) At the moment it's really bare, only I can add and sell the ads. So far I made a working site in 5 days. Next will be the community features like adding an Ad to your favorites.

I don't know why but I always thought fashion ads in Vogue were beautiful. They were art. And it pissed me off that others didn't see what I saw. I also love and admire Milla Jovovich and try to collect as many of her fashion/fragrance ads I see. I get really pissed when I can't have one. It's my collector's mindset. Even if the site fails as a marketplace and instead becomes the Pinterest of Magazine Ads, I don't mind. I just love scanning the ads in and organizing them.

So I thought why not have a marketplace where people can buy and sell their favorite ads of models and celebrities. There's tons of people who are obsessed with celebrities and collect whatever has their favorite celeb's face on it.
+1 to this idea. If it's simple enough, it shouldn't be a big deal to turn it into a mobile website.
I have come across some interesting ones, like showing an empty forwarding email when the original email's to field was empty. That client must have done something very strange.
It's because people can't really picture what "50,000 deaths" looks like. It's just outside of the scale our brains are evolved to cope with.
Oh god agreed. The blog at least isn't blinding, but CCAN is.

I feel a bit like the kid who only likes the vidja-games with the fanciest, flashiest graphics but I basically won't tolerate anything less than modern style and typography anymore.
I've seem papers before where machine learning was able to compensate for both inaccuracy of measurement and outright falsehoods being reported, and overall was far more reliable than humans.

Full Disclosure: I just read a paper saying that only 10% of doctors are capable of bayesian reasoning, so I'm in a mood to pick on doctors today. I'll stop now.
I have always been curious why encryption keys are so small. with todays networks/memory 10kbytes key should not be un noticable.
I do appreciate their existence, but Aether is something different: it requires no configuration, and it tries to do one thing, and do it well. This is not a darknet. There is only two things you can do in Aether, to read and to write text. This is an intentional restriction that shapes all the design decisions. This is closer to BitTorrent than Tor.
Interesting. I wonder if your father resorted to the Ubuntu laptop because your Mom refused to give up the mini :P
The 'this' he's referring to is a quote from Apple's submission guidelines. I'm not just nitpicking; I was hoping there'd be some interesting information here, like maybe an account of his interaction with Apple regarding the rejection, but what I actually read was a vague post about how Pokemon apps shouldn't play Pokemon sounds or something.
1) Data discovery and social analytics:

http://signup.itrendcorporation.com/

Extremely minimal interface, fast (everything is precalculated/precached).

2) tech accelerator: http://www.colodesk.com/

All about rapid prototyping, idea to MVP within weeks.
... your point?
I'm not going to use Intro, but I have to ask, how is giving LinkedIn access to my email account any worse than giving access to Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft--by virtue of using their webmail?
I recommend you add "Holodomor" next time you make a throwaway account to talk about the Holocaust.
Not to nitpick, but I don't see any physical activity in that schedule even though you say you're into bodybuilding and need 6 meals a day. If that schedule is literally how your days go then you probably don't need 6 meals.
If the web server is making API calls, encryption could still protect you from some SQL injection attacks, even if the decryption key for all tokens was in the web app code.

With a system of this scale, the web server will probably be making no API calls, as everything might be sent via some distributed system.

There are, anyway, many solutions to store the keys, a key vault that is separate from both database and application/web servers would be ideal.

There's not much to do if an attacker gains control of every machine, so the general idea is to keep every attack vector as isolated as possible.
Or when the Chinese were caught doing the same thing.
When the iPhone and iPod touch were released, that was exactly the solution Apple went with. They hosted a directory (www.apple.com/webapps) where everyone could submit their iPhoneOS optimized web app to be listed. Many of the web apps used local storage and you could save the shortcuts on your Springboard, just like native apps.

When the App Store came along, that directory became a wasteland. In June, Apple shut it down completely.

Apple’s iPhone User Guide was one of those web apps. Nowadays, it’s just a PDF.

Given that newer mobile OSes are going the route of web apps only, perhaps Apple was just 8 years too early with this concept (I wrote ‘8 years’, because I think we’re still 2 years off from mobile web apps being capable enough to rival basic native apps in speed.)
Oily fish make for some great quick high-protein meals.

Smoked salmon and smoked trout are the easiest of all — obtain from supermarket, open packet, eat — the only disadvantage is that this can cost upwards of $5 per meal.

Other options include herrings and tuna. My preference here for a quick meal is boil-in-the-bag kippers. I know people who will eat herring or tuna out of a can, but personally I find them too "fishy" that way.
Ugh, so let's stifle the media on the subject? The fact that the leader of a powerful nation is making any sort of protest should be lauded by the tech community.
>That is why extremely malicious conspiracies involving more than a dozen or so people are not believable. As the circle of those in the know increases, the likelihood that someone will think they did not get dealt fairly goes up rapidly, and those with gripes will find they are holding the moral equivalent of nuclear weapons against those who wronged them.

Exactly.

That is one of many reasons why I find all the 9/11 conspiracies completely infeasible. Especially since those would require the cooperation of not only a few dozen, but probably a few hundred people.
It's hard to take seriously the opinions of someone who knows nothing about AI and is therefore unable to critically evaluate the made about Watson. To go from any kind of parsing/understanding of medical articles, to actual diagnoses of patients, is absolutely impossible with today's technology
At least somebody with influence is getting angry at all.
I agree there are many benefits to having a job. I met and worked with some of the smartest people at my job. They all left to start their own company.

That doesn't mean there's no value in continuing to have a job. I just want to be clear that there are other options. In fact, 88 out of the 95 developers I know who have jobs are looking for those other options. I wrote this article for those 88 people.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is how it goes: you have an LLC in the US, use it for your work, pay taxes there. You travel on tourist/business visas and work on your laptop. No taxes in the countries you work out of.

I guess it might seem a bit shady, but since you're working on your laptop with no help/input from the host country (consider the laptop a "tunnel" back to your home country or wherever your company is registered), why would you bother to go through all the bullshit required to get actual work visas everywhere (the bureaucracy is really nuts).

Besides, you pay local taxes when you shop, rent an apartment, etc.
I installed xubuntu on a 60+ year old man's laptop. It was surprising to see him go from typing "www.google.com" in the yahoo homepage search field to searching for and installing packages on the software center. He needed help when he updated the kernel but he has taught himself a ton of things.
It's all about priorities.
How big is a market for an expensive senior oncologist, if a doctor with twice shorter training (and half the school debt) can give the same results (by using the same Watson) while competing on price and friendliness?
Which incident was that?
I actually went to the local university - they said that you can't use university resources for personal gain (I was trying to print a case on their 3D printer). I'm sure there would be some people in the engineering department willing to give me some pointers, there's also a local prototyping company (I've emailed them a few times). Nothing too serious though - I guess I don't really have much of a plan yet, and didn't want to rush into getting roped into sticky situations.

Thanks for asking the questions - I just reached out to a friend who said he'd help me before, maybe this thing will start rolling :).
> In a regular 9-5 job you’re selling your time to an employer

> Or, to look at it another way, you are collaborating with a number of colleagues to develop and sell software, and you are all sharing the income. See how that's the same thing, phrased differently?

But it is clearly not the same thing phrased differently. The first is an accurate description of a wage labor relationship, the latter is an accurate description of the relation between members of a labor cooperative. You can imagine that the latter relationship is the case when you are in the former relationship, but self-delusion probably isn't useful or healthy in the long term.
You see "fugly", I see "an application that looks like iOS 7 applications tend to look."

The incidence of both of these may be on the uptick, but that's no reason to toss out abject insults. It's a data-driven application that looks like it provides data, and that is fine.
Think the Russians hope no one notices how quiet they are right now about all this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Soviet_and_Russian_e...

According to former GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev, "SVR and GRU (Russia's external and military intelligence agencies, respectively) are operating against the U.S. in a much more active manner than they were during even the hottest days of the Cold War"
I do sell my time for money. Directly. As a contractor I have an hourly rate and people take me on as needed. The money is good, I like meeting new people and what I really, really like is working on a project, seeing it ship and then going on to something else entirely.

Although it's also awesome that I get paid for every minute I work, if the client wants overtime I get paid more, if they don't I'm out the door at 5. I set my own vacation allowance and when an email comes in from a client at 3am to tell us how awesome the product is I don't care.

So IMHO, go the other way start selling your time for a living. Stop pretending you give a crap about anything but yourself and cold, hard cash, go contract!
Wiiliam you should email me at tom at buysellads.com

We can def help you out on the monetization side of things.

Plus we are bootstrapped and profitable too. We love helping other self funded startups.
That was true back in the xp days but I haven't had to manually hunt down drivers in years. Although I still manually install my graphics drivers since the ones you get through windows update aren't near as current.
Where is lunch? Dinner? Why six meals? Why wake at six when you apparently start at 10 or even 11? It is a crazy day, probably very bad for your health.
Are TV detector vans just a cunning con trick?
Incidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_a...
Looks interesting.

I don't see a prominent link to a full pdf version of the draft of the website.

Any reason why not?
It seems this has been posted before.

Nonetheless, thank you very much; it's new to me. Scheme is wonderful, and I'm enjoying learning Haskell. This will be a fun exercise.
Don't tell the feds, but I've also been monitoring the public internet in real time (reading Twitter) for years.
I don't know what you are referring to. But for a americanophile who sees the USA as the leader of the free world and protector of human rights that a way more shocking than if a known police state does it. Et tu, Brute?
It's political theatre. She's not mad, she playing to her audience.
Going from symptoms and test results to a diagnosis, and doing it more accurately than humans is certainly possible with current technology. It's not a particular testament to AI quality - it's about the data quantity and the well-known inabilities of humans to accurately judge weights of evidence; humans are really good for effective judgements about common patterns and corelations, however, people are really really horrible at judgement when a multitude of individually rare possibilities are involved, their biases overwhelm the signal.
#badBIOS (and lotsa paranoia, plus fireworks)
You are right. I myself earn my bread and butter by making those kind of apps. But then they are massively successful have high organic growth and make good amount of money on Android. I am targeting the niche segments.

Spam will happen in open markets and it is perfectly fine.
That maybe she's pretending to be mad, but knows this sort of thing goes on and everyone pretends it doesn't?
Yeah, that's very possible. All I know is that neither of them have had to call me for help so far.
And if you are on a mac, I would the think the preferred way to install would with homebrew (brew install leiningen)
I find this is especially true when comparing to the mess that is Windows 8. Just finding the power button in that OS is a nightmare.

It's also interesting to see that it was Ubuntu, presumably with the new Unity interface. It's not something I personally like or even find intuitive, but it looks like it's fairly easy to pick up even for non-technical people. Along with the push by Valve to support Linux, I really hope this increases take-up of linux on the desktop.

Sent from my Linux desktop. :)
Published in February 2012, revised in June 2012, according to this:

http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.html
Compiled programs are as easy to read the source for (at least the relevant bits) as interpreted ones. Still, if you encrypt it and someone gains access only to the database, they wouldn't be able to use the tokens.

Every little bit helps.
OK, hold on... Stefan is offended by Apple's frank language, and then calls a competing app a "steaming pile of trash"? At least Apple is somewhat impartial.
This is a really great idea. Just some feedback: The product photos, on my screen, look pretty low quality. I imagine this is because they are being scaled to the size of the browser. It also makes it a little hard to use as the photo takes the entire screen and requires scrolling for the information and site navigation.
So you did mean to imply were were doing something malicious. Got it. For the record: we were not.
The money is really great, I work with people that are also really great, and the job is actually really fun. It's more impressive than any other gig I could find. I'm learning faster than I have ever before as well.

I wouldn't drop this gig for another in the world, at least not until my contract is over.
Yes, I find this kind of self deception about the nature of a job much more disturbing than having a negative attitude about having someone else tell you what to do and when to do it. You're collaborating with colleagues to build software for someone else to sell, over which you retain no rights, and you receive a flat rate in the face of growing profits.
Maybe if they go to the thief's house in the ghetto, but this was in a grocery store filled with people.
Well, at least she is pretending - US politicians aren't even prentending to be outraged :-D
Constant stream of clean energy from clean foods. Food is fuel.
Politician move #178, also know as the "Reagan Shim Sham": just say you don't know anything about it.
Seriously - this guy was paid a full-time salary and most of his time was apparently free to use as he chose - and he chose to spend it preparing for lunch & browsing the internet

His problem was he had no drive or personal work ethic. Where he could have been learning just about anything, he seems to have just frittered his day away.

So his solution is: He's going to start a business where he can take vacation anytime he wants? Based on his 2 years experience surfing cat videos?

I don't think we'll be hearing about his IPO any time soon.
I have a hard time believing that it ended.
his point probably: because Obama exactly knows what she's doing. ;)
Depends a lot on your hardware. I've had the most problems with network drivers. With 7.
Agree, the scope here is extremely limited
It's worth remembering that Barack Obama was not president of the US until 2008. It's safe to assume that in 2002 he was the subject of, not the instigator of, surveillance.
Please define "shoehorn an OS". Linux generally runs on most modern hardware and arguably is a better general purpose OS than Windows.
OTOH, not running on port 22 prevents you from drive by scans.

You are right that it doesn't protect from a targeted attack. In my experience (10 years as a sysadmin and dev), I've never had a targeted attack -- all the attempts against my machines are drive by.

Having port 22 open can end my IPs on a list of "let's try to break later".

It's not close to a complete solution, but I find it beneficial.
Agree completely, I feel like it would have actually been harder to teach my parents windows 8 than the systems they're using now. Trying to explain the difference between the metro screen and the desktop just sounds like a nightmare.
She got a medal for fighting a surveillance state (historically quite questionable, btw) by a Obama. And now she has to learn that Obama is no better.
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"What good is a medical query engine if the patient doesn't know how to describe what is wrong?"

This implementation of Watson is more than a query engine; it returns a confidence interval with its diagnoses and "knows" which questions to ask to improve the confidence level in those diagnoses.
Used to do 15 hour days.. then cubital tunnel :( Now I'm trying to recover and limiting myself to 4hrs.
I know several people who have bad skin allergies to silver (from necklaces, earrings, etc). Is this a problem with your material?