skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but there are a few caveats.

1. Most of the happiness-finding comes from cutting expenses and complexity, not from leaving "tech". If you want to live in San Francisco or New York, you need a high-paying job, and you'll have to worry about security deposits and commutes. If you'd be happy in New Hampshire or Mexico-- and most people would be-- you don't.

2. It takes a fair bit of savings, and some luck. Make sure you have bridges unburned and contacts so that if your yoga studio fails, you can get back into technology. I don't think it's the work itself that's bothering you; I think it's the political nature of technology when you slide in at a low level and have no credibility.

3. OP: you, personally, have been bumping along the bottom of tech. It's not that tech is a horrible place (although people do burn out now and then). You've just been getting a string of shitty jobs.

4. Here's a counterintuitive idea, related to #3. You've already gotten over the hard part, which is getting people to pay you as a freelancer. Double your rate. Double it again, maybe. You could be getting shitty work because you charge too little. Perhaps you'll be happier if you charge more and get better projects. To add to that, you'll have more time (because you'll be doing less work, most likely) to build your skills and move on to something better.

5. If #4 fails, include training time (to get the skills to move to better work) in your billable hours.
And when that court decides that it is all perfectly constitutional? That is the outcome that I expect, at this point. I think it is better to rely on ourselves to protect our privacy, where possible.
In what regard -- the question is too broad for me to generally answer meaningfully.
What are the alternatives to EBC? Why not use CBC?
Links[0] to the article without a login; if you aren't subscribing to NY times, and/or don't intend to.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=N.S.A.Phone+surveillance+is+...

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&u...
Interesting enough, all of the standard library for Common Lisp is in caps. However, the default reader upcases all unescaped characters.

A somewhat common way of getting case sensitivity without (CONS (CAR x) (CDR y)) is to change the reader to be case-inverting (which then requires you to type in all standard-library symbols as lowercase.
which saves me 4 hours of commuting

This is the first step. What about moving? Long commutes are killing your time while you are not working, and are basically "work-time". In a 16 hour day of non-sleeping hours, 4 hours is 25% of your day.

So, one strategy would be to move in order to get free time. Then, use this free time to develop a hobby/portfolio of new skills to leverage going forward. If this step is not feasible, then that def. think through the fundamental tradeoffs you are making.

But a 4 hour commute can ruin a good job, and can make a marginal one a negative ROI on your time for sure.
If all we want to do is prove the existence of transcendental numbers, rather than construct them, that follows as soon as we know:

1. Algebraic numbers are countable.
2. Real numbers aren't countable.

#1 is easy -- the number of polynomials with rational coefficients is obviously countable, and they have finitely many real roots each. So pick your favorite proof of #2 and you're done.
I'm in law school now, so I'm pretty interested in your experiences as a techie-turned-lawyer. Does your software development experience impact your legal work in any way? e.g. , do you work on any tech-related practice areas?
They're totally exploiting the fact that the legal system is so huge, no one organization can keep track of all of these conceptual inconsistencies.

Where's http://groklaw.net when you need it?
This is the most important distinction here.

According to this, tax returns and medical records are no longer private, since you don't control them.
The root problem is simple to define -- The assumption that professors have been able to make, historically, is that university students are there because they are motivated. With everyone going to college, that is no longer the case.
Yeah haha! Let's at least make the system consistent.

To be fair, then I'd also have to let the NSA keep records from "third parties", since I'm a Kopimist of sorts.

Actually, I'm OK with the NSA having my data. I'm not OK with them compelling third parties to HAND OVER data (e.g. PRISM) but I'm fine with them holding information that they gathered through other means as long as those means were acceptable. Tapping fiber optic cables is a gray line here.

All good as long as they allow me to evade them by taking privacy into my own hands. I want to be able to use, export, and import any encryption technology that I see fit.

Let's play ball.
Hey Matt Cutts, how does it feel to be responsible for the end of Google as a objective search engine? Blocking RapGenius was a dick move, for years Google has told ppl complaining about ranking that you guys "believe in the algorithm" and refused human interference. RapGenius traded in some of the influence they have built by making a awesome product to boost a few of their search results, just like paying for SEO they payed for the bump they received via depreciating the value of their tweets and influence, if they continued to execute the same strategy on a reg basis their influence would quickly depreciate. Removing them just proves your lack of emotional intelligence and how influence works. I am not affiliated with Rap Genius or Google in any way , but I am now boycotting your search product bc it now known without a doubt googles search results are not organic, objective or algorithm based.....they are based on whatever Matt Cutts feels should be the top result on any given day.
I think he's saying the phone company is the 3rd party, and so searching and seizing from them is fine, because they're not searching you directly?

I guess a physical analogy would be if you held your belongings in a 3rd party storage unit, the judge is saying the cops should be allowed to search and take whatever they want, because they're doing it to you through a 3rd party.
Poll: What common problems you face 'specifically' during interview scheduling?
100s of hours are wasted in productivity due to usage of wrong tools, inefficient processes, and coordination problems.<p>I myself have faced problems first-hand from both sides of the table. I'd like to get a hint of problems others have faced particularly around interview scheduling process.
As a candidate, interviews don't start on-time
As a candidate, topic coverage is not known
As a candidate, the exact roles and responsibilities are not known
As a candidate, follow-up between rounds is poor
As a candidate, feedback is not received
As a panel member, feedback from earlier rounds is not known
As a panel member, candidates are not punctual
As a panel member, filing interview feedback is a gigantic task
As a coordinator, matching candidate and panel timings is a challenge
As a coordinator, proper interview feedback is rarely received
As a coordinator, tracking position vs candidate history is a challenge
But the onus is on the institution to only grant degrees to those who deserve it

Unfortunately, with an ever greater share of universities' budgets coming from tuition, they cannot afford to throw people out. It's also why you see so many summer courses offered where for lack of time they cannot even hope to cover the material appropiately, and it's why you see this proliferation of taught masters degrees. It's disgusting, and it ought to stop.

worthlessness comes when you start giving bachelor's degrees to people who chose to waste their tuition on partying

Taught Masters degrees sold to students whose GPA isn't sufficient to get them into medical school are a different kind of worthless. They are disgusting and reprehensible.
As it happens I ride steel, primarily for the first reason you mention! I am also from the UK and I was over-generalising about what is available. There are plenty of people that still prefer steel, this is something I like about bicycles, there is a lot more individuality going on with bikes than you get (generally) with motoring.
The OS classes at several universities revolve around reimplementing Xinu and really getting to know a linksys router.
Spivak's Calculus contains a 3-page proof that e is transcendental. I didn't work through it, but it's unsurprisingly based on the famous series expansion of e.
How has surveillance impacted cyber security agenda:Hayden, Bamford, PBS, etc
...just like https://isitchristmas.com/ on days other than Christmas.
The math seems to be correct and borne out by simulations, even independent simulations devised by people who did not believe that the selfish mining attack would work [1].

So Stephen's point is that there may be operational procedures that might allow one to detect selfish mining. This is great, as this is what we want is for Bitcoin to deploy in-protocol incentives to break up selfish miners. But there are two issues: (1) I'm not sure that his suggested tactic of judging by the latest timestamp would actually work well for established pools. I suspect that some pools are less eager to update their xaction sets, and therefore might lose to selfish miners, and (2) even if these operational measures worked perfectly, they would succeed in lowering gamma. But even with gamma at 0, selfish mining is still a win for groups of size 33% and above.

Hope this is useful.

[1] http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/17/selfish-mining-simu...
Cool photo. Bare aluminum is really shiny and attractive compared to mild steel. What are your maintenance costs on the A2? I need a new used car...
Learn to think big
Expirer - Linux tool to delete files when they expire
I don't think I've heard of Alperovitch before, but Hayden & Bamford made this worth watching.
Sandbags are pretty standard in the northland[1]. Although, some trucks (looking at you Ford Ranger / Mazada B4000) are just bad on snow and ice (described as death traps).

If I still lived in a state that used salt, I would follow the precaution of getting a year round carwash pass and going once a week. Plus, a good underbody coating works well.

1) put them over the back wheel, NOT loose in the bed so they slide. Rope or bungee cords are your friend.
"Technology allowed al Qaeda to operate decentralized and plot international terrorist attacks remotely," Pauley wrote. "The bulk telephony metadata collection program represents the government's counter-punch."

Following this line of reasoning, as technology advances, there is no limit to what data can be gathered in to stop "terrorism."

This ruling highlights the fact that there can be no political solution to ending the U.S. surveillance state as long as those in power believe this or at least find it profitable. The remedy has to be technological. Citizens need to be encrypting all their communications to make mass surveillance prohibitively expensive.
Secondly, the aluminum coat prevents further oxidization unlike with iron.
This really depends on the type of business behind the API. Transactional API models have worked really well (Expedia affiliates, payment gateways, messaging). It's really only been a problem for providers who didn't properly align their interests with the consumer of the API meaning one side of the equation was getting far more value than they were contributing. This tends to be most common in consumer service APIs.

I wrote a little bit about this here: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/12/apis-are-dead-long-live-...
Steel can burn too. Generally you don't get conditions that can cause ignition of bulk steel or aluminum in automobile fires though.
Same formula on Quake's Railgun
Not sure. I tried the mail app, but it was too cumbersome. I just use Gmail in Safari on OS Mavericks and the Gmail app on the iPhone. On OS Mavericks it works well enough with desktop notifications.
I don't get it... The Fourth Amendment Text reads:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, [and effects], against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.

And effects. They're washing this term of all its meaning.

That's like arguing that cops can search your apartment if it's being rented.
Enabled by the MagicalHypeFactory (aka Google), Bing, Yahoo! etc. as explained in the article.
On interviewing front-end engineers
Being from small company, the human resources function isn't organized. Everything mainly happens over phone, e-mail and on-the-desk chats. Finding a particular track after few weeks is almost impossible.

And when it comes to being a candidate the world is a horrible place. Some companies have put us through upto 16 rounds of technical discussions and you could clearly sense it that the panel have absolutely no idea how many earlier rounds have happened and respective feedback.
Author didn't say specifically what kind of requests Google didn't respond to. It could easily be the case that given EOM's device isn't good enough to pass Compatibility Test, and instead of fixing the issue EOM would contact Google saying "our phone doesnt really need this feature that your test requires, but you still give us keys to GSuite." Of course Google won't respond to such inquiry.
They don't have the same kind of board power they used to, but they're still very influential. They are often more experienced than founders, and also, being older, more authoritative. And much of their advice is good. Especially the best investors, some of whom are really smart. So founders rightly start to rely on their advice.

The catch is that founders' and investors' interests are not always aligned, and when they aren't you can't trust investors' advice quite as much. But the two types of cases aren't sharply differentiated. Which means to avoid being misled by investors you have to be able to judge precisely how misaligned your interests are in each situation, and discount their advice by exactly that amount. It's a subtle problem.
Maybe. That's the funny thing about human beings. We fear the unknown and uncertainty so we create familiarity through higher order structures like society. Yet we balk at this seemingly imposed order and crave novelty and uncertainty. Erdos' answer to the question is perhaps a bit extreme, but nobody can deny that he positively impacted those around him and lived his life authentically.
Can hidden information in photographs be used to spot criminals?
It runs great on Linux if you have a proprietary driver, which is far from optimal.
Have you considered approaching a local non-profit and volunteering to build their web presence? I am sure they would be happy to have you.
Ugh. Windows always decides to update at the worst times. On University computers we'll do tests on computers for some subjects, and sometimes the computers will be updating or randomly broken somehow...

As for Linux, it's great, doesn't even need to boot to check for updates (I never turn my laptop off, just suspend - doesn't get rebooted for weeks), and you can lock it down sufficiently to prevent tampering/breaking, but there's not many consumer computers with a full Linux distro other than the Raspberry Pi - which would be great, but still 30 dollars each + peripherals is much more than $0.
Specifically:

> The appendix to the report confirms that the “top-“ and “bottom” third figures are also based on SAT/ACT scores, specifically those of 1999 graduates whose first job (at least by 2001) was teaching. The breakdown for these graduates is as follows: 23 percent came from the “top third;” 47 percent from the “bottom third;” and 29 percent from the “middle third.”

Comparing performance on entrance exams is more consistent with how private sector employers evaluate non-STEM college graduates. Those 47% of teachers scoring in the bottom third of the SAT/ACT aren't going to be in the running for very high-paying jobs almost regardless of their college performance.
If you're buying a F-150, you are more concerned with it holding up[1]. This is the vehicle of construction sites and farmers. It is truly the vehicle of I need to haul that stuff over there where they might not be a road. The concern is that the 2014 F-150 will not hold up and be more expensive to repair.

This is Ford's flagship vehicle. It cannot just sell well, it must put up amazing numbers. Its the iPhone of the car world.

1) the F-150's gas mileage isn't stellar, but it does even out when hauling.
I see several comments on this thread re: 'where are they going to get the teachers?' Not sure what Chicago is planning to do, but I'd love to see them follow the TEALS k-12 model (http://www.tealsk12.org/) - TEALS is an organization that brings software engineers into high schools to teach computer science (so you, yes you, can teach CS!) - there is a regular classroom teacher in the classroom w/ you, and while they help you out w/ teaching/classroom management etc, you are helping them to learn about computer science - so after a few semesters of assisting in intro CS classes, these full-time teachers are prepared to teach it themselves. Awesome program.

Also, notes on AP CS - a few years ago, the AP CS AB test (this is the one with all the data structures and stuff) was discontinued - currently the only AP CS class that exists is the AP CS A test (that is, the easier version, that covers a fraction of the material of the AB test). Also currently under development is "AP CS Principles" - an even softer, more humanities focused AP course that deals w/ the role of computers in society in addition to programming. I have mixed feelings about this - on one hand, it'll introduce way more kids to computer science and give them a degree of technical literacy that today's kids really ought to have... on the other hand, not sure how I feel about the 'dumbing down' of the curriculum - I loved CS AB - it was probably the best course I took in high school, and it's a shame that many students will no longer have that opportunity.
Ugh no kidding. 9/11 happened on my 16th birthday. I can't believe I'm almost 30 and it is still used to justify so much of our policy.
The article gives plenty of blame to students.
Developer mode. Chrome OS = Gentoo, and you can use Crouton to install Ubuntu or another distro alongside Chrome OS (and they share the kernel as opposed to dual-booting).
Crewless vessels could soon set sail to save money and improve safety at sea
Around here (Utah), we see TONS of people driving on the steep mountain roads in the winter with expensive AWD/4x4 cars, trucks, and SUVs that they bought specifically for mountain driving yet are equipped with summer or all season tires. Unsurprisingly, a lot of these people end up in the ditch. Snow tires really are a night and day difference for winter driving conditions - I'd rather have a FWD (or even RWD) car with snow tires than AWD with summers or all seasons.

Snow tires are pretty cheap compared to body work too ;)
True. And in truth, the linked article is my favorite proof of #2.

And that's the point. This proof is really showing the uncountability of the reals - nowhere does it use any property of the algebraics other the fact that they're countable.
Actually, the Calkin-Wilf tree[0] for enumerating the positive rationals is really very good.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin%E2%80%93Wilf_tree
Definitely, it's not always easy knowing what to search for and it can take awhile to narrow that down.
I only have one upvote to give you. This should be a top comment on any thread dealing with patents OR copyrights.
The real story of the first two men in flight
The ignorance is often cured by the tow truck driver explaining what you did wrong, sometimes the police if you are particularly unlucky.
.... Then the federal government increases taxes on its subjects to spend on decryption of its subjects communications...
Such an Decision actually wholly deprives us of all self-governance what-so-ever since technically we do not own the fax machines and systems of all the companies we interact with.

This is totally disingenuous. It penalizes us for not only being born here but also for aligning ourselves with the American Dream.

Corporations are not people. Corporations do not have effects — we, the People, do. What kind of justice is this?
Somebody is making well reported news stories about this court decision from The New York Times and The Guardian go dead, which seems like a silly way to follow the latest news on an issue that has been discussed more than almost any other issue on Hacker News since June 2013. I had better upvote this article, and I had better write to pg about the two other threads that have just been autokilled by flagging (as it would appear).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971387

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971505
I'm 30 and have had 7 jobs since leaving school, including two pretty negative startup experiences. I've learned to think beyond a single job, and that would apply to a business, too. You don't really get to control these external variables. Your investors might pull funding, fucking up your reputation, for any reason or no reason at all. Shit changes. Businesses implode, firms contract. I had the CEO of a well-regarded (though less so, these days) VC-darling startup spend months trying to destroy my reputation. I survived it because, by that time, I was already really good at what I do.

You just have to do the right thing with the cards you're deal, and play strategically for long-term excellence rather than getting seduced by quick hits (and that's hard to do, because most people are after the latter).

My goal is to keep getting better. I can control the rate at which I learn new skills and become better at the work. If the best move is that I start a business and the opportunity is there, that's what I'll do. On the other hand, if the best thing for my career is to join a 5000-person company where I have to wear a suit every day, I'll do that.

People talk about 501 programmers (those who leave, on the dot, at 5:01 pm). I call myself a "121 programmer", as in 1% per 21 days. Every 21 days, I expect to increase the total value (a somewhat abstract concept) of my entire skillset by at least 1% (19% annually). Obviously, this abstract quantity can't be measured on the order of weeks, but if I pass too many 21-day checkpoints without being able to justify to myself that I'm 1% better than I was 3 weeks ago, I start to get nervous.
On PBS where I saw a brief description of aluminum and how difficult it was to refine and even when abundant supplies were available it's a soft metal if not an alloyed with copper or other metals. And the alloy is still soft unless it's forged correctly it takes time and heat, or so the show indicated, it was quite interesting.

For all that work you'd think these days carbon fibre would be just as good, economically-wise.
The Cap Trap
The idea that the current Egyptian regime is "US backed" or that it is significantly more "US backed" than Morsi's regime, is frankly not supported by reality.

US support for Mubarak's regime was always problematic but it was theoretically in service to the greater good of maintaining peace between Egypt and Israel (which lasted for decades). When Mubarak started murdering protesters the support of the US government for him evaporated rather quickly.