skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever Brazil loses in capability, Rouseff gets back in her relations with her neighbors. I guarantee there's isn't a head of state in South America that hasn't sent her an 'ataboy. Brazil even further establishes itself as the country that matters in South America. That's worth 36 planes that will never fire a shot in anger anyway...
This is why I hate being a democrat ( I know republicans do the same thing but I think hard to argue they have a stronger overall position of lower taxes for everyone). This kind of stuff is embarrassing. It seems like a secondary but big reason taxes are so high is so that politicos can hand out stupid breaks like this to arbitrary groups. Plus the fairly obvious admission that taxes diminish business growth.

I would say that tax breaks are not compelling to startups since they play almost no role. But the employee income tax waiver might be significant.
Ok. I'm close to your age and about to graduate in the spring with degrees in physics and applied mathematics. I have a similar background to yours (entrepreneur, software, and webdev, but not as much on the hardware side). College is valuable not so much for what it looks like on paper, for much of what you said about getting hired as an 'older' engineer is true, but for shoring up your knowledge with formal training. Also, I have had several really good ideas come to me in math classes over the past few years. You never know where inspiration will come from. You will also be immersing yourself somewhat in the culture of a younger generation. There is value to that especially if you plan on marketing something to an Internet market that largely consists of their demographic. You will also meet a lot of people and those connections are terrific, and not just for networking value. But, ultimately, what jborden13 said is true. You shouldn't make a big commitment like that if you don't truly want it. I loved it.

For me, I feel like entrepreneurship is like touching butterfly wings; you'll never be the same again and probably not very happy in a "job". Good luck
Based on what I've read so far, you're in a really comfortable position, so don't shift specializations.

Capitalize on your rich experience with embedded hardware and software development. At 50 I'm pretty sure you have a wealth of contacts from people in that field (people you consulted for, past work buddies, etc.) warm them up and make contact: you now have a client/referral list. Ask them how they're doing, take them out for coffee. Discuss what they're currently doing and what they need help with. Start with one tiny project.

Ask your wife for a little help, ask her for some contacts. Talk to others in your field, take them out for breakfast or lunch, offer to speak in an event, you can offer consulting or training workshops.

Go back to building a business, it's your best bet, and you've done it before. Outsource the bulk of your work into your other known contacts that can refer you to high-end consulting shops in the South-east asian or Indian region. Disclaimer: I'm from the Philippines. It's 2013, there's so much more tools for remote collaboration than it was a decade ago, you'll get a good english speaking/writing workforce for less than US salary rates.

Don't study unless you really really want to. 4+ years is a lot of time. You could have made another business up and running at that amount of time.

Don't shift specializations just because of current market trends. Who knows, hardware might boom in the next decade.
Honestly, currently, the web itself and all mobile app stores are over-saturated with everyone trying to make a dent.

The point is, no one can predict what is going to happen in the next 10 years, just stick with what you know and what you can do to answer a need from your contacts. If a specific "solution" you're offering picks up traction, "productize" it and put a little more focus on that, but don't bank the entire consulting shop for a product unless it dwarfs your consulting revenue by 3x-5x. Consulting cultivates client relationships, and business is all about building professional relationships that would earn you more money.

I'm not 50, I'm only 26, the 50+ year old people I know end up in three ways:

- Teaching (writing books with their knowledge, offering workshops, teaching in universities, etc.)

- Retired

- Business

Again, I'm only 26. Take the input with a grain of salt.
Is that $45K total Canadian taxes on it or just what you pay to BC?

$150K CAD ($140K USD) in NYC will result in you paying ~$58K CAD ($55K USD) in taxes between City, State and Federal.
> There are many corners of C that have no direct translation into Go; macros, unions, and bit fields are probably highest on the list. Fortunately (but not coincidentally), those features are rarely used, if at all, in the code being translated.

Sounds like they had this idea in the back of their minds from the beginning, and wrote the C code accordingly.
Don't employees in SV still have to pay state taxes on their salaries?
Who owns the world's biggest Bitcoin wallet? The FBI
Magic delimiter constants for indefinite lists. Doesn't seem like a great implementation when you need hacks like that. Plus the size of individual data elements is restricted by the type/length information struct size. JSON is nice because it doesn't try to be very efficient, yet it's wholly better than XML. This is a binary format, not really comparable considering how restricted this is.
Bill Gates is an amazing Secret Santa
When did all customers become "users". Delta has passengers. Delta has customers. They do not have users.
I'm not a big fan of people who are always on their phones but I don't think disallowing them on planes really solves any actual real world problem. Those chatterboxes who need to be talking will just continue to annoy the stranger sitting next to them or chatterbox with their friend sitting next to them if they are travelling in a group. Either way I need to filter them out with headphones or whatever.

And while I have no interest in spending the majority of even a short flight talking on phones, it would sometimes be very convenient to be able to make a quick call to someone waiting at the airport 10 minutes before a flight lands or something like that. Throwing out that sort of convenience to get rid of a distraction like someone talking on their phone in an environment that is already inherently full of really loud sound distractions seems like a silly move to me.
Ah, sorry I wasn't very clear. =)
Not sure you can really do that. Even if it's a space with 4-8 seats sectioned off. If they're all planning on talking on the phone, I could see that being annoying for eachother. Otherwise if they were completely sealed off sections, they'd be charging a small fortune to compensate for the lost seat revenue.
Show HN: I made an easy-to-understand 6502 emulator in pure C
Hm, well. I'm still not convinced the fact that you'd get the whole message anyway was very important. Even if you already have (instant) access to the previous mail -- I still much prefer reading a sanely typed/quoted reply. For example when arriving "late" to a discussion on a mailing list.

I don't exactly have fond memories (or more precisely my parents don't) of dialup (and later isdn) access -- we've never really had free local calls in Norway (and still don't). But since I was blasting away at 2400 baud, I was at least downloading faster-than-realtime (as in -- faster than you can read text).
DMCA takedown notice in 3, 2, 1, ...
I've used it. It's uncommon, but occasionally useful.
Bah hum bug. People vary too much to make a claim like this. It may take some practice but I bet you can learn to deal with it for much longer periods.
Mind & Machine, Part 2 - "Intelligence Explosion”, The Exponential Growth of AI
Only appears to happen on .com
Thank you for this priceless resource.
>All these tape/paper/etc advices to cover the webcam

Jesus Christ, guys. Do you use Linux?

Just blacklist the webcam module to preventing it from loading whenever the system boots. Want to use the webcam? Load the module manually.

# modprobe uvcvideo

Want to unload the camera again? Easy.

# modprobe -r uvcvideo

Generally, it's the uvcvideo module, but it might change from system to system.

A malicious code would need root access to your system to load/unload the webcam module. If someone has root access to your computer/to execute code in your computer, you're in MUCH, much deeper shit than if you let someone film you. Seriously. Specially if you use your computer for money transactions or talk about important stuff to people.
I also have a nearly complete implementation of this in Haskell. https://github.com/orclev/CBOR

The main problem it currently faces is that the encoding/decoding support for half-width floats is currently wrong, but so long as you avoid half-width floats it works perfectly.

Eventually I want to add support for encoding indefinite lists by way of one of the streaming libraries like conduit or pipes, but before I do that I need to refactor to the code to break the Binary instances out from the types.
You get to choose if you parental controls on or not Maybe there is something like that in the book, but the point is, company are now choosing to, by default, have sexually explicit content blocked, and it can be opted out of. Do you believe this is bad? The UK government forcing ISPs to block stuff may not be the best way to do it, but it looks like David Cameron is just recommending it and that the ISPs have agreed.) Have I misunderstood the situation?
Yeah, finding java programmers is super hard. Not like there's literally hundreds of times more of them than there are ruby programmers or anything. Facebooks is building HHVM because it is too late to do it right in the first place. If they started with reasonably performant language they'd have saved millions on servers, plus millions on developers writing HHVM. You are posting in a discussion about the very numbers you want. Go look at them.
when r u next doing this at metreon
If the project doesn't actually contain copyrighted code from SnapChat (and it doesn't seem to) then a DMCA takedown notice would be illegitimate and fraudulent.
The guy behind me on the train this morming was traveling by himself. Other than the 15 minutes he spent loudly participating in a settlement conference call (violating client confidentiality I might add) he was perfectly quiet. There was no evidence that he was a compulsive chatterbox, he just found it convienient to take a call right then and didn't care how many people he bothered.

While it is true that other people have been very annoying on the train by talking to each other it is not true that banning telephone calls would have no salutary effect.
I just wanted to say "maximum respect." I am the same age and I think it is really cool that you would even consider going back to school. If it is a possibility, I would definitely go, although that might be my heart talking much more than my head.

Every once in a while I go out for beers after work with some of the guys that I know, and almost always there is somebody asking what the "next one" technology is; the one that is somehow going to carry him until retirement. That could be practical thinking, but absolutely nothing makes me sadder to hear. We live in a golden age, an age where great ideas and phenomenal code literally flows freely around us. Our generation was lucky enough to live through the dotCom boom and see endless opportunities, and now we are 15 years from age 65 with so many languages and paradigms out there that I fear I will never have enough time to learn them all, even in a cursory way.

Go back to school. Be the guy that does every exercise in SICP, TAs the course in data mining, and can still tell the guys in your study group what it was like to edit Pascal on a DECwriter II.
"Hello, Internet Service Provider? I would like to have access to porn sites."

Also, it blocks a number of other stuff, including "extremist" views.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/c...
It starts and ends at zero, like any other pump and dump hype...
Oh for heaven's sake.

Isn't it enough just to install a blacklist system that blocks, say, the top 99% of porn sites? No. Apparently not. Some wiseguy with a smooth line in "meeting legal obligations" sold the ISPs an "intelligent" porn blocker, with all-too-predictable consequences.
Fun fact: The character Alfred Bester in B5 was named after this Alfred Bester.
Point of inquiry:

Suppose it costs the animal kingdom 1,000,000,000,000 microbial animals of various sorts, 1,000,000,000 macroscopic arthropods, 1,000,000 vertebrates, and 10,000 mammals to live one life according to the lifestyle we expect in western society.

If that's so, is it your moral/ethical/philosophical duty to kill yourself, and to kill other humans, whose environmental footprint is so great? Why not?

You who would see species as peers, as independent entities worthy of a respect for their collective rights, I accuse you of being insufficiently imaginative, and lacking any sense of perspective. Your footprint on this earth is FAR costlier than the 1/1000th of a cow you didn't consume for dinner.

Human exceptionalism, as a formal ethical principle, is pragmatically required if you wish your system of philosophy to be persuasive to essentially anyone. If you can't see this, you are either entirely ignorant of the processes of industrialized civilization, or you're exhibiting magical thinking. The species boundary forms a convenient natural Schelling Point at which it is particularly useful to distinguish between things deserving of empathy on equal footing with us, and things which are subhuman, inferior, not capable and thus not useful to incorporate into our model. Yes, things beyond this boundary still think and learn, still feel pain, and still form social relationships... but they're not, they can't be, the same as us, because they're not capable of fulfilling the roles of, nor exerting the pressure on our social contracts necessary to change them.
But generally the webcam light is placed near the webcam itself, away from all the other LEDs you mentioned.
Hooray! Common sense prevailed. Oh wait - wrong thread.
Have you ever considered teaching? With all your practical experience you could open up coaching center and start teaching? Doesn't require much investment and this is a good time too, people are realizing the importance of knowing how to code and with all the efforts being made by govt. encouraging people to learning to code, this might just work out for you.
And like others, I too don't think a college degree will help you. Best of luck.
Obscurity is underrated.
Automatic Differentiation with Scala
Even Mark Jaquith's (WP core team member) WP Skeleton (https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton) renames it to `content`. If that's the only thing you don't like, then you can easily just fork it and rename app to wp-content and change the couple config settings :)
Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is strength!
This is the doge of deco.
The article says that the state is limiting the amount of land that can be used for marijuana cultivation? For thirty years all of the best weed in Washington has been grown indoors with specially timed lights, often hydroponically with CO2 enhancement. Surely they mean square footage.
Good to know that mainstream media is still failing at distinguishing between hackers and crackers.
I looked at Pomander briefly before. It would be nice to use a pure PHP solution and eliminate the Ruby dependency. So I'll have to give Pomander a better look and if it works well, I have no problem replacing Capistrano with it.
So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
I saw somebody today snarking about Bitcoins being Dunning Krugerrands. Coinbase appears to be making their point for them.
Way to make the whole flying experience even more awesome.

I'm all for booths though, where you could isolate yourself if you really need to call and where calls would be limited in duration.
I work with some of the largest financials institutions and nothing surprises me any longer.
Interesting they mention "young white men" tech workers, isn't the Valley tech sector minority majority i.e. asians predominate?
The Homebrew Computer Club was a networking event that helped launch Apple.
From the article seems like each ISP is rolling their own:

"TalkTalk's filter is endorsed by Mr Cameron but it failed to block 7% of the 68 pornographic websites tested by Newsnight."

"Sky's filter fared much better, blocking 99% of sites, but it did block six porn-addiction sites."

Anyone else still waiting for someone to jump out of the bushes and "April fools!" this whole thing away?
Not that that would prevent SnapChat from making one, and GitHub from following along with it. GitHub has a trend of taking down repositories lately...
Sensory deprivation has well-known adverse psychological effects, which is why long-term solitary confinement is known as a type of torture.
> It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal.

You are JUST NOW figuring this out? We all assumed you were idiots before for using Mongo at all. Then to know you are using it for financial transactions made it worse. And NOW on top of all of that, turns out you don't even watch your transactions during server upgrades?

You do realize Mongo isn't a very good database for anything you care about keeping right?
"do" monad syntax in JavaScript
Just an experiment. Gist https://gist.github.com/elclanrs/8034102
60k of very subtle, complex, intertwined C code is actually quite a lot.

Porting the runtime to Go is also on the drawing board, but later. Right now the compiler complexity makes it harder to work on, hence porting it first is going to pay off quicker.
Don't bother. I have bought more than a few LED bulbs now and they absolutely rock. On the other hand, I don't think incandescents should be illegal. How am I going to heat my chicken coup? ;-)
I enjoyed my brief visits to a couple of anechoic chambers. The quiet was very relaxing, and the few sounds that were present I could pinpoint precisely without looking. I think it'd be a useful place to meditate for maybe 10-15 minutes at a time.
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Jonathan Blow - Game design: The medium is the message [video]
NO, that is the wrong way to go. HDD is important (especially if you have an SSD) because it shows when it's being accessed, Wifi is even more important because you're communicating over the network when that one activates, and if it's doing so without any reason to then you should suspect something going on (like malware infection). Ditto for BlueTooth. If they're implemented well, hardware indicators are impossible to fake.

One of my biggest gripes is how MS removed in Win7 the little connection icon in the system tray that shows when data is sent/received (it even split send/recv into two separate indicators, rather clever I think.) IMHO the trend of "simplification" is going too far. How about educating the users instead of making them more ignorant by hiding anything that they "wouldn't know about" (and making it harder for them to even start wondering about - and thus possibly learning)?
It might be useful, but I suspect it will still be a lot of work to expand the translator to be generally applicable. It's a fair amount of work just to get such a translator to operate on a specific code base.
We posted on this thread already, so I hope this isn't spammy, but we're http://getlambda.com and we personally screen all devs for quality.
> Email clients hide quotes by default and also quote by default.

Which clients?

> Gmail has made top posting the default which means most users will top
> quote.

Outlook already did this. At least with Outlook, the UI is broken, so
people understand what you mean when you complain. Gmail being smart,
people have a hard time grasping what you mean when you try to get them
to quote "smart". And both approaches are wrong (IMNHO).

> Feel free to continue bottom posting but remember not to quote the
> whole damn thing and remember to keep the quote short enough that I
> hopefully don't have to scroll down to see what you added. I
> personally find top posting easier to follow with modern threading.

Why would you have to scroll when "[e]mail clients hide quotes by
default" ?

Anyway, lets not continue this into a flame war about top/bottom/proper
quoting -- but I'm genuinely confused about your points above (they seem
to contradict each other?).

I really need to play a bit with sup -- I hear they did a lot of things
right.

For what it's worth, I think threading with quoting/conversations is
still an unsolved problem (and I'm not just talking corner-cases and
presence/absence of word wrap etc -- just what is the best way to
present a conversation that a) makes conversation flow easily, and with
readily available (correct amounts) of context while it is active, and
b) reads like a reasonable transcript/conversation without too much
redundancy for someone seeing the thread after the conversation has
started. So far I think manually quoted replies, with bottom posting is
by far the best).

> who has the time to summarize/edit the quote anymore

Most people on high-quality discussion lists? I think this goes more
towards a "what is email as a medium"-type thing. Sometimes a quick
reply is fine -- but if you are writing more than a paragraph, it is
probably worth the time to put some effort into it (ironically, actively
counteracted by things like hn's simple text-input field -- unless you
invoke a proper editor, for example using the "It's all text!"-firefox
extension, or ctrl-i for external editor with vimperator).

I think it's more that people don't really compose emails anymore --
they don't invoke a proper editor (whatever that may be for the user in
question -- but something that at least allows a minimum of easy
copy/cut/paste -- I would say vim/emacs, some might want something a
little more modern). But when you're given an augmented text-field (the
so-called rich web editors) -- ofcourse you won't be writing much. It's
a horrible writing/editing experience.
Worked at a bank. They have better processes than this. Not gonna say they're perfect, but they can handle balancing their books and not dropping transactions. They certainly don't use a non-ACID PoS like Mongo.

Excel was over-used in many places, but was not used for day to day transactions and operations.

Yet again, bitcoin apologists inaccurately claim (lie) that banks are actually worse to excuse failings by "their" services.
Just getting JSON doesn't make it an API.

Why can't I POST you a message? Or myself as a new acquaintance? Once I'm your friend, why not POST a meetup for the two of us so I can PUT a new date in it or DELETE it later?
I was attempting to introduce another, separate subject of intellectual interest to build on the conversation, not trying to provide my takeaway from this article. If my comment came across as a callous attempt to make the topic about the subjective happiness of the privileged rather than the objective disadvantages of those in need, it was not my intention. I'm sorry for my inappropriateness.

I did not think my takeaway from this article added to the conversation. Since I've been prompted for it, all I can say about the situation is that I'm appalled by income inequality and an apparent lack of empathy, but I don't know enough about the subjects of this article, or the people examining the article's subjects, to pass judgement. I can only empathize.
Fixed GnuPG 1.4.16 version released:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/00033...
I don't even like sitting in my office if it's too quiet. And that's with three dogs running around. I almost always listen to Spotify when I'm working. Interestingly, I can read in total silence and in fact I prefer to. I'm unsure why. Both require concentration.