skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

>I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.
Way too general to be useful.

I think it's useful to be optimistic when it comes to visions of the future and how a business can accomplish it. Electric cars for everyone? Sure, give it a try. All that can be lost is a little money, and maybe you make a huge fortune and change the world. Isolated government programs can be a similar story -- e.g. NASA, which is unlikely to lose anything but a small amount of money but can be really inspiring or create some great things.

However, when it comes to government policy, the downside can be utter disaster. It pays to be a little skeptical that the "help the poor" bill (or whatever other utopian title) will actually deliver as advertised. Or skeptical that a war will be a simple in-and-out proposition.

Or some things just have little upside. We see this all the time in engineering. Someone wants to use a fad technology or model of some kind, or wants to reimplement something to be a little faster, or whatever. There's huge project risk that it could derail other projects and destabilize the entire product -- which is fine if you're going to change the world with it, but not fine for a 10% speedup on some specific workload.

Moral of story: optimism and "can do" attitude is good when the upside is huge and the downside is contained (like in a startup). Not exactly a profound revelation.
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What does HN think of my pricing section on http://wesawit.com ? Any feedback?
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Your best traffic source is probably going to be forums, blogs and sites where people bitch and ask about your competitors.
>A company like this can, at the peak of its powers, achieve totally obscene profit margins. So you want to pay a lot for a firm that has even a small shot at that kind of ring.

The only problem is reality. Most of those companies, in actual life, never got any profit margins to match their valuations, and in fact ended up money-losing machines.

And none of them have ever thought of a way to monetize other than: throw some ads at out user base, at which point, they start to dislike the service and the new upcoming, "we're still thinking how to monetize", comes along.
Is it really that easy to pay with Bitcoin?
Duplicate data entry.... ew.
It reminds me of Getting Things Done: Collecting things, processing how they need to be handled, organizing them, and then either doing them or removing them. And the whole time, you're tracking what's been done and what's been left behind.
To make use of org-mode but use the familiar vim keybindings, I just use emacs with evil-mode, the vim emulation mode. It works great. I've searched for a vim-centered alternative to org-mode for a long time; this is the best way I've found.
I should "Finally learn IPv6" but I know that I will procrastinate again and again..
>I don't think there is any thing wrong with that kind of an attitude.

Other people understand what's wrong with it, sometimes on their deathbed.
Assuming nothing changes, 4096-bit RSA has around 160 bits of security, roughly equivalent to 320-bit elliptic curves.

Depending on how Moore's law progresses and our understanding of the Universe, you may never need to change (ignoring all other possible ways your key can be acquired).
That's an interesting point of view. I'm less interested in multiplayer games today than I was in the 90s, but I'm glad to report that single player games seem to be doing rather well. I just finished Arkham Origins, and thus find the statement "it's not about game play" a little tough to believe.
I can see some patterns emerging in the list of ideas, some of which are quite okay. I think to me the value is seeing categories of the ideas and sort of what problems are on the horizon.
No, I think you are wrong.

Are you forgetting the derivatives which major banks hold? JP Morgan has outstanding derivatives in the trillions. Ask the US comptroller general who reported around $78 Trillion just two years ago.

Even if netted out, if just some of those bets go bad, the bank is insolvent. It does not have the capital base to withstand such an event. Not even if it grabbed all the client bank deposits on hand (like in Cyprus), it is bust.

Ordinary people get stuffed with austerity and savers get stiffed with zero percent interest. Meanwhile banks are given endless overt and covert sleight-of-hand bail-outs.

QE is not designed to save the economy or help workers, it is designed to save the banking system and the insolvent banks within it.
The SEC press release:

https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/13...

Federal Register docket entry at 78 FR 66427:

https://federalregister.gov/a/2013-25355

Submitted comments:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-09-13/s70913.shtml

Submit comments using the SEC's Internet comment form, due by 3 February 2014:

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/ruling-comments?ruling=s70913&ru...

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startup...
A note on bamboo eyewear:

I'm in the eyewear business. I've struggled with the idea of wood or bamboo for a while now. There seems to be a lot of interest in the area but I'm skeptical. Materials like these are porous and people sweat -- not the best combination.

I've been waiting for the acetate fad to fall out of fashion but we're still doing pretty well in this area.
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Has NSA sabotaged American computer systems? Most IP 'pirates' seem quite willing to claim that copying data is not at all destructive, and the NSA can make similar claims.

But either way, "we" also didn't put anything in our "contract" that let them make nuclear weapons, air forces, computer inter-networks, or social security/welfare programs.
I'm around your age. First and foremost, don't define yourself a teenage developer. The moment you do that, you've cheapened your work. Make things that you're proud of, regardless of your age.

NY has a great tech scene. Get involved. Go to meetups. Learn from others. Don't be afraid to fail.

If you'd like to chat more about this, shoot me an email at zach@zachlatta.com. Would love to chat a bit more about what you're up to.
I also think it's an open admission by management that they are lazy idiots who don't understand what their employees do well enough to judge output and don't care to learn.
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No. See MLbase http://mlbase.org
You may have left out the part where Aaron was on the MIT subnet despite being kicked off repeatedly... I don't agree with felony charges but nor was this an instance of mere physical trespassing.
So if you flipped the coin twice, once it was tails, and once it was heads... you'd ignore that info?
Or look at it another way, if you flipped it a million times and it always came up heads...
It's poor form for the author to quote this out of context. Linus can be abrasive, but this is in response to a patch for adding Secure Boot support in the Linux kernel and thus placing Microsoft in a very powerful position [0]:

Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest.

If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead.

If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's *your* issue. That
has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain. It's
trivial for you guys to have a signing machine that parses the PE
binary, verifies the signatures, and signs the resulting keys with
your own key. You already wrote the code, for chissake, it's in that
f*cking pull request.

Why should *I* care? Why should the kernel care about some idiotic "we
only sign PE binaries" stupidity? We support X.509, which is the
standard for signing.

Do this in user land on a trusted machine. There is zero excuse for
doing it in the kernel.

Linus

[0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/228
> You're just running through a forest for an hour

But then in any multiplayer fps you're just running around the scenery. It's much smaller scenery so there are many more encounters with other players.
4096 is secure. Better to setup 256 bit ECDSA, just for thesmaller size however.
Fair enough. I really appreciate hearing your views on this.

I think ESR's claims not to be a "neoconservative" stink of protesting too much. What he identifies as being at any given time doesn't mean a whole lot to me -- people can call themselves whatever they want. After seeing him dance and dissemble around his support of "race realism" for years I think it is overly charitable to take anything he says about his political categorization at face value.

If it helps, look at the other end of his change: he changed the description to say "formerly liberal" at the same time he was actively jumping into the fray as a "warblogger" and "anti-idiotarian". If he didn't change the definition to explicitly include his own politics (I believe he did) at the very least he changed it to exclude his political opponents.

All of the changes we've talked about here follow one pattern: altering work under his control to say that a "hacker" (which ESR believes to be a title of honor) is someone who resembles him more and resembles people he dislikes less. His commentary in the linked article follows the same pattern of self-aggrandizement by identification with an idealized and lionized hacker.

This is a lot more than I had hoped to ever write about ESR. All that said, if you told me I had to have dinner with him, Linus, or RMS, I'd choose ESR in a heartbeat. He also is a pretty good writer and evangelist and seems to be an effective organizer.
"Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well rested is part of your job."

Yes, but I don't see vacations (only) as a way to prevent burnout. To me, it's an opportunity to travel the world, read, spend more time on my hobbies and so on.
But now the mistake you're making is that if everyone is responsible then no one is responsible, which is an even worse state of affairs.
I would start out by producing websites for friends and family to get your name out there and show off what you can do. Also, it might help your portfolio if you were to offer to produce websites for organizations that don't yet have one and that would benefit from one. As an example, I made a website for a local Air Cadet unit (a youth leadership program) for free, and they loved it and have utilized it as a major tool for communicating with their members. This might not sound very effective, but it required little effort to make and has given me free advertising by word of mouth from the members of the unit, their parents, and the people in charge of the program. So, essentially I'm suggesting that you offer your services to anyone you can and get them to recomend you to their friends.Hope tht advice helpeyou out a bit!
I just started digging into chef with the intention of using with AWS opsworks and... holy complexity. There just doesn't seem to be any obvious entry point, as far as I can tell. I've spent two entire days searching and there doesn't seem to be anything in between "hello wordpress" and "read this 300+ page user manual". Can anyone recommend a hands on guide for setting up a multi-node stack with opsworks that isn't just plain vanilla templates? I was really impressed by Richard Seroter's videos on AWS at pluralsight, but they are more of a 30,000 foot overview and gloss over implementation details, for the most part (even at 10+ hours). The project I'm working on is mostly a pretty straightforward node service running on postgres, but it uses some custom services that need to scale horizontally, and host sensitive data that should probably be running in a VPC.

Edit: I'm also having a difficult time trying to figure out how to get up to speed with chef in the specific context of opsworks, since most of the chef-specific courseware I can find assumes I'm using a hosted chef server, and I'm not quite sure how that overlaps with the opsworks flavor. It's starting to feel like I'll be at this for another week before I can get even a simple stack running.
If you like the system but enjoy doing things digitally check out the app OmniFocus. Almost the exact same setup except for iOS and Mac.
Here's more detail, from III.A.2 (top of p. 52):

During
the June 21
conversation, the lead prosecutor also told OGC [the MIT Office of General Counsel] that, essentially, his
work was done,
that
the final decision about the prosecution was now in the hands of his
supervisors, and that a decision would be made soon. The OGC attorney took the
opportunity to suggest that some people at MIT would be likely to view the prosecution
negatively.
The lead prosecutor replied that he understood the complex dynamics at MIT.
He said that he had
also been in touch with JSTOR and understood their perspective, and
had taken both into account in moving forward with the prosecution and he would let
MIT know when the indictment came down.
From this, OGC inferred that further
presentations of MIT’s opinions were unlikely to have an effect on the prosecution: the
views of both potential victims had already been taken into account. JSTOR (at that
point) was regarded as the primary victim, and if JSTOR’s view didn’t have an impact,
then neither would MIT’s view.
I have found that there are many more ideas than time or energy to do them all.

How does one foster a successful "Should-Do" culture instead of a "Can't-Do" culture?
No, in this case it's the same. MIT is not average Joe, it's one of the top Universities in the world. I believe people on the board understand repercussions of taking and not taking action and the responsibility that comes along and if they don't they are not suited for the position.
I learned #2 very early on. Further, the specs I give for a project are the very minimum. If you aren't willing to do things correctly the first time, I'm not willing to be a client.
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Well anyone with photovoltaics can demonstrate working economical fusion power at a certain large scale. At least there is an existence proof at the extreme there, which QC does not have.
They've been replaced with ipadm/dladm: http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/GeneralAdministration

And dnsip/dnsipq/dnsmx/dnsname/dnstxt: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tools.html
>Also as a vegan some good vegan dishes!

Oh God yes.
> On top of that, Aaron "would have had to swear under oath that he committed a crime, something he did not actually believe".

Many people, almost by definition, do not believe that their own criminal acts were actually a "crime". Rationalization is a well-known human psychological phenomenon.

Whatever else Aaron thought about his idealistic mission, being on the MIT subnet without permission was wrong (both morally and legally), as was entering into the MIT server farm to gain that access.

But this wasn't even something that Aaron naïvely didn't recognize... he knew this was wrong to do as he had the same level of JSTOR access at his own campus at Harvard. But he didn't leech JSTOR from his own campus, he traveled across the city to surreptitiously do it from MIT. He even once covered his face with his bicycle helmet when he noticed a security camera so let's know act like "I didn't commit a crime" was his big hang-up. He did know, even if he disagreed personally with the law itself.

> Due to the obscenely high maximum penalty, it is no longer a sane option to fight to prove one's innocence, even in the case of what would be a minor crime, as the risk in case of failure is disastrous.

Well for starters you don't need to prove your innocence, you need only demonstrate that the government was unable to prove your guilt. But either way Dr. Granick covered this point already, and her treatment was comprehensive.

I do apologize for misunderstanding your point to include Tsarnaev, though I think it still applies even for the accomplices. You said you pass by that memorial every week... you think the people of Boston would let anyone involved skate?
Though people do wish they'd accomplished more.
Try with ansible.
I think the right balance is to at least have some kind of prototype to show off. The initial phase of "not having to write code" is pretty short. You are more likely to figure out who are the customers and who are not. You will also exhaust all options to get email / signup quickly... If you spend way more time into this phase and still don't want to write code, you will start losing people's interest. So when I said the "right balance" is to code in 2-weeks timeframe. That's what my buddy and I did with this TV social site with show casts/celebrities http://www.tivify.com/. It is something raw, brutal but works!! We at least could take it to Meetup and show off to people. That's easier to sell than slidedeck or launchpage.
You're at the point where I normally get stuck. From the slides yesterday, see if you can find the version of squashfs that was used when the firmware was built.
English and the protolanguages preceding it certainly were morphologically complex. English, though, has gone through a couple-three near-pidginizing events along the way that have made it a much simpler, more telegraphic language than it, in most ways, should be. Some aspects of the Celtic languages that were on the ground before English hit Great Britain have worked their way into the grammar (present progressive and do-support). The evidence seems to show that much of the inflective complexity was on its way out after the Vikings made the scene (the languages, Old Norse and Old English, were close enough to allow a degree of mutual comprehension, but differences in case markings, verb endings and the always-arbitrary grammatical gender made a hard-enough task more difficult than it needed to be). And one can hardly say that the influence of Norman French on the language was slight. Remember that the purpose of language is to communicate, so the long-term linguistic homogeneity of the group largely controls how complex the language can become. "City" languages tend to be much simpler (on average) than "forest" languages because outsiders rarely have to learn that 700-speaker language.

The surface grammar — what actually comes out of the speaker's mouth — doesn't directly reflect the underlying grammar/syntax, though. The 25-syllable Cree word will tree in pretty much the same way as the 18-word English sentence it replaces. The tonal variations a native English speaker uses convey the same information as the pragmatic particles a Mandarin speaker has to include at the end of every utterance. (We literates are often prone to forgetting that these squiggly marks are to language what choreographic notation is to dance or staff notation is to music.) We might not always be aware of the mechanics of including things like evidential marking, ergativity or pragmatics, but we do it nonetheless. And we've replaced (for the moment, at least) most of our tense and case markings with entire words. The syntax is structurally the same, we just add the word "from" instead of adding the ablative case ending. And really, does anybody actually need grammatical gender? (See Twain's The Awful German language for a reductio ad absurdum.)
I enjoy reading this comment and can feel your enthusiasm. I was too in the Navy years ago and ended up coding when I had free time in the machine shop (enlisted ;)). People look at me like alien and thought I was some kind of genius... lolz
Reinventing itself as an Orwellian dystopia.
The relentless assault is justified IMHO.

I drove through Pennsylvania (my home state) twice in the past couple of weeks to go from my duty station to home and return. The state is as beautiful as ever but I often had to switch my car's ventilation system to recirc to avoid the smell of coal power plant exhaust, even miles from the plant. I don't know how the residents handle it.

It's a pity that TMI effectively shut down nuclear in the USA as nuclear could, if nothing else, help replace the single most-polluting power generation method still in wide use.
They come down hard on arson because it risks lives of people in buildings and firefighters, not because it's easy to commit.

Many crimes are easy to commit. The reason that there aren't more fatal stabbings isn't because there's a long prison sentence but because most people are not stabbers.
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> ... in one of the best managed economies in the world.

More like, luckiest. The resource bonanza of digging up Australia and selling it to China has not much to do with good management.
In one of the crypto talks at the 30C3 the speaker mentioned that quantum computers are actually a greater danger to ECC, because of the smaller key sizes. ( I think this sounds plausible, but I am not an expert.)
What aren't you getting? The query for Facebooks server may use the ISPs DNS server, but that's not the problem. It's when dig's request is actually sent to that resolved address that the ISP intercepted the request.

That's exactly what that dig '@' symbol does. Why are you contending the very basic functionality of dig? Instead of a glib remark devoid of any evidence, I will provide you a link so you can understand. Read the first line of the synopsis of the man page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/dig

The server after the @ symbol is the one the DNS query for 'Google.com' is sent to, which is the IP address of www.facebook.com. That is the packet that is being hijacked. Get it?
Thanks! Yeah, I'm doing some friends' for free to beef up my examples and feedback section. But I'm also full-time employed so I'm not super invested in this taking off.
From my perspective the Haskell community is fairly active and growing. At the moment #haskell has 1100 users tying #python and easily beating out ##c, #c++, #clojure, #lisp, #java, #javascript, and #ruby on Freenode.

John Carmack is exploring functional programming[0], and this is Randall Munroe's second functional programming comic in recent weeks.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1270/
Yes, SQL injection should not be criminal. You're responsible for what your robots do even if it's contrary to your own wishes.
That might help your argument if that was the extent of the measures used to kick Aaron off of MIT's network...
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I do not view the Abelson report––a document that declares the organization that commissioned and published it largely blameless––as the last word on the matter. Whether or not they were asked has no bearing on whether it would have made an impact, and later statements that it would have made no impact are self-serving speculation.
The key point in the article: "A rideshare driver might only have personal insurance that might not cover them while they have a rideshare app open, but the rideshare service might not cover them between rides."

This is the same as if I have car insurance, but it doesn't cover my current activity. In the UK, for example, car insurance for individuals usually covers at social, domestic and pleasure use ('SD&P'). When you buy insurance, you need to tick additional boxes (and maybe pay extra) if you want it to cover 'commuting to and from a fixed place of work' and/or 'business use'. Neither of these include using the car for deliveries or other things that are 'for hire or reward'.

Anyway, from my reading of the article, the key point is that Uber buys insurance which is meant to bridge the gap between the insurance the drivers already have (e.g. SD&P) and what they're doing (for hire or reward) but that the insurance may not do this exactly, leaving some unavoidable activity uninsured.