skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suggestions from my own experience:

1) Set written goals: quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily. I have a pre-printed "form" that I populate with my goals. Then I check them off at the end of a period (day, week, etc.), grade myself, and make notes about what worked, what didn't and what I learned. Save these in a binder so you can see your progress, or lack thereof.

2) Use Pomodoro or HoursTracker or some other app that works for you. Observing how many (few) hours I was productively working was eye-opening.

3) Reward yourself. The idea is, work shouldn't stretch on "indefinitely" - then you have little psychological incentive to complete.

4) Separate your workspace from your living space, even if it is only a desk that you use solely for work.

5) Use StickK or some other form of commitment contract.

6) Use SelfControl or other internet-limiting app. Watch out for blocking Google URLs though - block youtube, and you can end up blocking Google Drive.

7) In the beginning, overinvest in setting up systems and tracking to discover what really works for you. Getting a good system going will easily pay for itself in efficiency gains.
I have Gmail and Chrome installed on an iPad. HTTP links in Gmail open in Chrome if that browser is installed. Just FYI.
> One example comes to mind: "The feed is so pixelated, what if it's a shovel, and not a weapon?"

This is precisely what the Oculus Rift folks and the people working on the helmet that goes with the F-35 are working against. Biological senses are freaking amazing. The outliers on the upper end of the scale are downright incredible. Synthetic substitutes need to be really well engineered to be comparable or surpass them. (Which is precisely what happened with RADAR. Did you know that modern radio telescopes developed from technology we used to eavesdrop on Soviet EM emissions reflected off the moon? Did you know that the energy gathered by all of the radio telescopes, ever, is less than that of a single snowflake hitting the ground?)
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I loathe launching and talking about my products so Facebook Ads and AdWords are good shortcuts. It will cost you but if the product is any good the word will spread as soon as you have a few customers/users.
I'm sure there is something at the end of 1984 (the book) that applies here.

But, anyway, not exatly for everybody but those things will become cheap someday, up to the point that a person can build one, and stay as lethal. If that threatens us, it also threatens the people controlling today's drones.

(And, just to be clear, I'm making no moral judgment here.)
A hypothetical:

"The principal called. He said that you cheated on your exams."

"Yeah, but I never meant for anyone to find out, so why am I in trouble?"

Seems legit to me!
Whenever I see one of these graphs that is not zero-based, I'm forced to expend the unnecessary mental effort to decide whether the author is intentionally deceptive or merely stupid.

Usually, to save the expenditure of this increasingly rare resource, I stop reading.
You're correct. I did not look. And it does make sense that they would exist.

Yeah, maybe my original comment was wrong. Maybe my view on this is wrong. I will admit seeing the male nurse initiatives does give me a different perspective on this.
In my experience the vast majority of people join the military for job opportunities and benefits. I know more military members than average I would say. My husband and many of my friends being active duty, my father, grandfather, some friends, and the majority of my uncles being vets.

The military doesn’t commit suicide at a significantly higher rate than the general population.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/02/but-there...
How would intervening in Rawanda have saved lives exactly? Go in and arm the Tutsi's?

A group of armed Tutsi's is ultimately what ended the Rwandan genocide. So yes, that likely would have worked well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide#Rwandan_Patrio...
Yoot Tower was ported to the iPad:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yoot-tower/id379197311?mt=8
It's easier at this point to just say what I do and don't actually think. I don't think Paul Graham believes women are intrinsically less capable than men. I do think he has a blind spot regarding privilege and specifically the way his reputational energy reinforces privilege, and another related blind spot about how that fortified privilege impedes the progress of women in our field.

Another way to put it would be, if Paul Graham acted personally as the hiring manager for every YC company, I wouldn't be too concerned. But he's not: his thoughts about capability and aptitude are filtered through the brains of hundreds of (mostly young, male) nerds.
Apparently it can be as low as 50mA maximum now [0]. However bear in mind this is the maximum speed. For a low power sensor, you could bring the clock speed down a lot lower to reduce consumption on writes. It's also unlikely you will be writing 40MB/s constantly :)

[0] http://www.swissbit.com/images/stories/pdfs/S-300u_data_shee... (page 8).
Sometimes they are spreading a political message (I've seen more Syrian hackers than Turkish on defaced websites recently, incidentally) so they want to spread their identity. Just like hacking groups that are in it for infamy spread their identity.

Of course in some cases they may be false flag operations, always a possibility worth keeping in mind.
is-ought problem is a false problem. Hume says u cannot derive an ought from an is. So if science tells us that a society which treats women as subordinates, kills homosexuals, inhibits dissenting opinions is not a healthy society, you saying we cannot say its not what we ought to strive for? And i guess you can see which sort of society I am hinting towards.
>but also considers what happens when you don't deploy soldiers/drones/etc.

Nothing happens. Nothing. The reason those people are pissed is because of the U.S. government constantly fucking with them and poking them. Over throwing governments, secret renditions, locking up loved ones in Guantanamo with no trial indefinitely. I'd be fucking pissed too.
It's amazing how much firmware has these back doors, where the engineers responsible have one or more of the following justifications:

- "I don't care, this is just my job. And I was told to do it by management." [what can I say? This sums up a lot of grunt coders I know]

- "What are the chances that anyone will find this?" [lack of appreciation for how smart and dedicated attackers can be]

- "So what if they do? It's not like it's useful" [lack of proper analysis]

- "How else are we going to run tests?" [poor design / fear]

- "Huh?" [absolutely oblivious about security]

I've worked on projects where we made the very conscious choice to leave doors like this open, but I doubt that most firmware shops are that intentional about it.
I agree, and it strikes me as ironic the massive tidal wave of hate that arises whenever anyone violates a What You Can't Say in our industry. I understand the reasons for it in general, and sometimes it's even deserved (eg confirmed cases of sexual harassment at conferences).

But it seems to me to be directly counter productive to the stated goals. We want to be more accepting and open as an industry? How about having some fucking maturity!? How about calmly discussing ideas with people that mean well? Even if they're wrong?

Even Hacker News, once the bastion of calm, rational discussion, has devolved into a bar room brawl whenever gender issues are talked about. Hundreds of posts to a topic, many really fucking mean and almost all black and white strawman bullshit, within an hour before it's manually killed off by a moderator.

There are plenty of smart, competent women (and men) in college who have the pick of their field. My sister was one. They could easily learn to code (or already do) and come here. But if we act like children at a drop of a hat, why on earth would they want to?
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6980085

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082464

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081309

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6188543

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1087975
Read the post before jumping to your reply button.

> while being an expert in one field, and while being objectively smart, can be a complete moron in another field

ye said that Krugman is an expert in his field, but has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to computers and the impact thereof.
I don't believe anyone fully understands macroeconomics, and there is no direct incentive for anyone to do so. Certain powerful interests have an incentive to promote some schools of thought over others, because of political implications that directly impact their business.

Bitcoin promoters will typically promote ideologies that help bitcoin, because they've invested in bitcoin. I doubt anyone has a truly unbiased perspective on any of it.
fair point and well put.
Check out the Pixel[0]. It has a great display but is horribly overpriced in my opinion

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pix...
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658
How does Matasno's hiring process work? I don't think I've heard you comment on hiring except to say everyone does it wrong.

In my company, we've hired everyone based on remote/part-time work, and paid tryouts. This seems to work well, but I don't feel like I can hire people who currently have full time jobs this way. I'm not sure how best to judge candidates who I can't observe working, besides a standard battery of technical interviewing and a lunch with the team.
Classic Krugman. Of course those that don't immediately break into uproarious laughter at "Bitcoin Is Evil" are clearly the ones that need their funny bone checked.

Dr. Krugman seems to be the Benjamin Button of Economics... his early work was by far his greatest and he seems to have been settling for cashing checks in exchange for making ideological arguments wrapped up in very eloquent nonsense.
I suggested that a 65 year old I knew that frequently had computer issues (and asked me for support) but only surfed the web and used gmail consider getting a Chromebook. Several months after the purchase I was thanked and told it was working out great. E-mail is an important point: typing anything more than a sentence on an iPad isn't very nice.

My suggestions to consider using OS X rather than Windows have never worked because there are no low-cost OS X options.
> Really?

I did not dig up the changelog of the make homepage but the linked post is fairly old (2010) and the make manual gets updated somewhat frequently[1].

Why this was posted and upvoted tho I don't quite understand. It's not some kind of arcane concept barely anybody knew/knows about. The accepted answer doesn't seem to be better than the part in the current manual about it either.

[1]:
> This is Edition 0.72, last updated 9 October 2013, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNU make version 4.0.
You are referring to what I think was called Operation High Tower in the Vietnam War, which in retrospect was a low point in my country's actions. You have the benefit of hindsight so I find it disturbing that you sound OK with the napalming and massive high altitude bombing of mostly civilian populations.
I always cringe when someone famous gets attacked by the political correctness Nazis -- usually the reaction by them is appeasement, which only makes the general cultural situation worse.
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So Alan, I resent ignorant but i'm definitely arrogant enough to tell you when you're misguided.

"opt in is a genuine choice"; it all boils down to this, opt in to what exactly?

We have no idea and noone is accountable for the list. Given this, it makes no difference whether it's an opt in or an opt out. It should be opposed, loudly.

Whether you think these sites are unsuitable for consumption by your kids, it really doesn't matter.

Whether you think a tick box on a router is not hard to work out. Whether you think that'd be a reasonable balance (maybe it would). Whether you think the only 2 options are "give me my tick box" or "absolve parental responsibility", it's all by-the-bye; in today's situation.

Because there's no accountability for this hidden list. There's no checks or balances. My opinions on list content, like yours, don't mean much in this context. There's a bigger problem to deal with first and it's nothing to do with what sites are on the list.

FWIW my personal view, I'm less convinced these days that there even "has to be a balance". The internet is fundamentally a pull medium, not push (despite advertisers best efforts, i can still just drain the battery). So my current thinking leans heavily towards "you can always just choose not to use it".

[1] "these sites":
bsdly.net
nuug.no
usenix.org
ukuug.org
flossuk.org
eff.org
amnesty.org.uk
slashdot.org
linuxtoday.com
nostarch.com
blogspot.com
arstechnica.com
openbsd.org
undeadly.org
freebsd.org
geekculture.com
linux.com
Γιατί το 80% των ιστοσελίδων αποτυγχαίνει; -
I should point out that the person who argued for the petitioner - Doe - in Gonzaga v Doe, was John Roberts - this may not go the obvious way if it reaches the supreme court.
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This was discussed yesterday and the numbers do seem fishy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977640

This is HN and many of us run sites. Why don't we post ChromeOS stats?

I'll start. For a completely nontech related site, for the last month, out of 117K visits, here is the breakdown for #7 to 10

Linux 782

Windows Phone 565

Series40 407

Chrome OS 224
Bitcoin solved a major technical problem, but not an economic one
I agree with you and this is why Austrian economics disregards macroeconomics completely.
> and thus not be able to contribute to actually solving the virus problem

So I am expected to believe that the makers of anti virus programs have an interest in solving the virus problem, AND that they are actually capable of doing this, AND that they are the only way this can be done? Not buying it.
Yet another example of Amara's law, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara
(sometimes also attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in the form "When it comes to technology, most people overestimate the impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term").
"Party line" is an interesting choice of words. There's definitely some unhealthy groupthink going on that's gaining in power. It's never been easier to have something said taken out of context and have your reputation dragged through the mud by people who are professional social justice warriors and not much else (I doubt Nitasha Tiku could program "hello world")

Maybe it's due to the rise of twitter and the ease of taking things out of context. It seems to fuel tabloid "journalists" like Sam Biddle who sit around on twitter all day, looking for tweets that he can read X-ism into.

The sad thing is that if Paul Graham were an employee of a tech company, he'd probably be fired by now[1]. The room for thought and discussion is much smaller than it used to be, even though we have more tools for self-expression than ever before.

Moldbug saw this happening and he decided that "America is a Communist Country". I think that's a bit strong, but I agree that at least the progressive half of the country is converging on a narrow, extreme Social Justice ideology.

First they came for the dongle jokers, and I did not speak, because I was not a dongle joker...

[1] http://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-badg...
"The first instance in English of nurse occurred in the early thirteenth century as the Anglo-Norman nurice, derived from the fifth-century post-Classical Latin nutrice, a wet-nurse."
Sure :)

I was hoping for something between the Rolls and the Yugo
Alex Chricton presented these slides at a Rust meetup in December 2013. A video of the presentations is available:

https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-december-2013/
Nope. IBM was >30% women engineers when I interned there in 2004/2005. About half the interns were women and there was plenty of racial diversity as well. My boss was a woman, my mentor was a woman, and frankly it was the most diverse place I have ever worked.
All decision making processes with a human in the loop are going to be random, arbitrary, capricious, etc. But inhumane? about a job? It actually seems very humane. After all, only a human can look past the rules and see that a candidate is someone special that would be great for the company despite not matching the criteria.

Would you rather be selected for a job by a computer that follows inflexible rules embedded in software? That would be inhumane.
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The damage that this does to US software and hardware manufacturers and service providers like hosting companies is incalculable. The NSA is providing a strong ongoing incentive to buy your hardware offshore and host your servers offshore. As an American entrepreneur I'm horrified by the long term implications of this. It seems for all the mathematicians they employ they're unable to see that the long term cost of these programs far outweighs the short term benefits.
The concern isn't China bombing Germany. It is China pushing to establish itself as the East China Sea's regional hegemon. This would involve displacing Japan, a conflict likely to pull in the U.S. That risks drawing in, at a minimum, the U.K. and Australia.

A U.S.-China conflict would shoot decades of progress in the head.
UPS, Fedex, DHL and Dell have some explaining to do.
I try to use a different password for every site and I remember all the passwords I use. This is obviously not helpful to anybody and would be thoroughly impractical even for me to rely on, because not everybody is good at remembering 18-30 character strings of letters, numbers and symbols, and equally I figure one day I will not have the same ability to remember them either.

So I keep the de facto "ciphers" on paper. These ciphers usually take the form of differential equations that give fairly lengthy, rational numerical solutions. Equations have the advantage of not looking like a cipher, especially if you're known to be a mathematician. Even if I lost the paper or it was destroyed, the equations are memorable to me for having played a role in some of my studies a long time ago. I could root around in my notes and find them again.

The equations are all I need to have on paper because I can just do the math and remember how I form the solution into a password to include letters and symbols. Even if I forgot how exactly I formed the solution, with the numerical string resolved I could quite simply brute force the few characters remaining. I keep this bit of paper safe but separate to my credit cards and cash because that's the most likely thing to be stolen from me.

But you know what? I don't even consider this a particularly secure solution. It's just more fun. And it has to be better than storing passwords with a password manager, using a pen drive or keeping passwords themselves on paper.
"Culture fit" is a terrible word for it. What you do is you explicitly lay out the principles you expect people to follow and conduct behavioral interviews to find times they've followed those principles in the past.

Here's an example: let's say you're a typical startup, and you need to move fast. You need to think fast and you need to act fast. Let's say you've made the decision to hire people around that principle. You can ask someone about how they've coped with short deadlines, or to tell you about a time they had to get a lot done in a short period of time, and you judge them based on their responses to your questions.

Generally there will be a number of different principles, and there are also ways you can overdo them, but you want to decide on the right balance and the right mix and then conduct behavioral interviews to measure candidates against that.

The wrong way to do it is to make subjective judgments like, "I want to work with this person" or "I can really have a conversation with this person".
it's ridiculous! Google cannot do this!
Because he's one of the of the most respected scholars in the field of Economics?

He's likely devoted thousands more hours than us pondering economic matters. I'm just looking through his wiki here... published hundreds of scholarly articles and 20 books. A professor of Economics at some of the best universities in the world. He's even received a Nobel Prize.

How can we fault someone for taking Paul Krugman seriously on economic matters?
I was just thinking of that...

Also here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem...
> There's a high cost in both money and human lives - nationality should not be a consideration.

Here's a sobering thought: The way super-villains are portrayed in movies is basically how leaders were expected to act up through the 1600's. Screw over and kill your neighbors to benefit your side? Just business as usual. Torture and gruesome and spectacular executions? Just business as usual. Kill prisoners and animals in large part because of the entertainment value? Just expected behavior.

I wonder if the way leaders and the national security apparatus behaves now will be viewed as super-villainy in the future? Probably.
Why is the pixel "horribly overpriced"? The hardware is better than a MBA, imo. If there were drivers for win 8, it would be my next notebook.
> thats a horrid peace of law

It isn't law. It's one judge's tortured (Nah. Blackmailed?) logic. He isn't reading the law. He is stuffing caulk into a big crack, and inferring that the flaw should never have been there.

The logical consequence of this is that all the cases from targets that can infer they are targets based on the Snowden documents will have to result in courts that simply ignore the crime. That goes way beyond Gonzaga.