skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you should care at least a little about what others think. I go around to clients and run a business.
The cameras don't seem to have much deterrant effect in the UK, nor do you often hear of them catching people or convicting them through this footage. Which makes me wonder wtf they are for...
Just curious — aesthetics aside, what other advantages do you think an analog watch provides?
The feeling of loneliness is one thing. The article gives good advice on how to feel lonely less often.

Being alone is another and much more fundamental. For what I've learned, accepting the fact that you're here, in this life, alone is the precursor to any meaningful relationships. Connections with other people are limited, you've got some things together with one friend and some other things together with another friend. You probably have lots of things together with your spouse but there's nobody just like you, and there's no missing half of you out there that would make you whole.

Everything you need on this journey is within yourself.

And in the end, being alone in this whole world is something that you need to accept first before integrating other people in your life in any meaningful (i.e. non-superficial) way. If you know you can handle it: if you know you can deal with yourself and your life even if you never meet anyone who can give you all, or at least most of what you need then you're probably set for a good life -- a life where you have something to give to others too, and where you have people who give to you as well.
>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston doled out awards on Thursday night to online applications built by young immigrants during a 25-hour marathon coding session at LinkedIn’s headquarters.

The “hackathon” event sponsored by Zuckerberg’s political advocacy group, FWD.us, brought together a group of 20 young tech-savvy immigrants who came to the United States illegally with their families as children and are not citizens.

Coders of the winning apps received prizes such as Microsoft Surface tablets, Cisco Webcams, Facebook apparel and free storage space from Dropbox.

The aim of FWD.us's hackathon is to pressure the House to break its logjam on immigration legislation by highlighting the technical talents of young immigrants who are living in the country illegally -- often called “Dreamers” in relation to the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (Dream) Act — like the coders participating in the event.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/191176-z...
I think the idea is that, switching to a decimal system, we would no longer have a use for 7pm - we would just do things at 0.8d
You seem to under the misapprehension that middle-class refers to a median income grouping when that's not actually the case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class
No I have not.
This is the way out at the moment.

What we thought of doing was your submit someone you wouldn't want to tweet and then have an account (the punisher account) tweet them the message saying it was written by you.

When we were at university we had it running on the machines there and it would just wipe your home directory or email your professor - harsh times but good times.
H.264 codec...
It's getting us talking about it. I'd say that's pretty effective.
How would you know if it is appropriate to call someone in some other part of the globe? One way or another you have to do a lookup.

A) Everyone uses UTC. Now you have to know the business hours in Tokyo because it is not universally 8-6 anymore.

B) Everyone uses local time. Now you have to know their local time.
There is no option on the developer console for this afaik. If there is it is not prominent or easily discovered.

However, I saw a small burst of bad reviews on an app I used to work on a few months back - all of those reviews including the developer replies are now 'missing'.

Its possible they merely flagged the reviews and Google got rid of them because they were rude. Possibly the OPs removed them because the developer got in contact to ease their pain somehow...
When I read these things I constantly find myself struggling between, "great! Another attempt to re-take the internet!", and "great. The n+1th attempt to re-take the internet."

I can't decide whether the better future is homogenised internet similar to what we have today, but with these protections layered over it, or whether the best option is for there to be dozens or even hundreds of disparate networks that will grow up separately.

In some ways, I suppose this is similar to the past - what with BBS homogenising in to newsgroups and AOL.

"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again"
TEO Is A Smart Padlock That You Control Via Bluetooth From Your Smartphone
Side by side comparison to 2013 (better than the 2010 video in my opinion): https://vimeo.com/81368735
I would love to see the option to make an account as a Company rather than a lonesome videographer. I own a production company and almost never do anything on my own. Would love to showcase my companies work rather than put it down as my own.

This is a great concept though, it looks pretty intuitive keep up the good work.
There are some cool cargo bike on the right hand of London bridge at 1:26
That's exactly my point. It would have been better to spend large amounts of money preventing 9/11 from happening so we wouldn't have spent the 5 trillion we did on our reaction to it (never mind the cost it had to our national psyche). If someone hits a skyscraper in NYC or the Pentagon with what is effectively a cruise missile, the US military is going to be on the ground to get the bad guys within the month and we'll stay until we find them. That's just a law of nature; its what the people demand from their government, not just in America but in general. Given that, it makes a lot of sense to spend money on preventing terrorism. The direct and indirect costs of a successful terrorist attack are huge.
what's the name for things in science that will be proven in 20 years, but can't be proven today?

what are the limits of science?

i'd also recommend the book "the divided mind" by john sarno to readers of this thread.
Best development book I've read, has no code in it
I guess this wasn't too far fetched an idea. Google engineers must have thought of this before me as well, which means that they must've a good reason to not implement it. I wonder what it could be.
Well, the Mail's a cheap tabloid too...

I'm no Egyptologist, but I think I'm right in saying that this guy is arguing against something (the whole long-ramp thing) that's been at least thought unlikely, if not wholly disproven, for some decades now.
neither the mirror, nor the dailymail are particularly reliable sources.
Consider this. Suppose I want to phone someone who lives in Japan and I live in the UK. Japan is +9 hours ahead of UK local time (GMT). Therefore I know if I phone slightly before lunch then I'll be phoning them in the evening.

Now suppose we all had the same time. If I phoned them just before lunch, which would mean shortly before 12:00 in the UK then I'd have to try and figure out what Japan would be doing at that time. Would 12:00 in Japan be early morning, late at night, would they be eating a meal, would they be at work? Now I have to remember where in the day different times are for different counties. However, with timezones all I need to remember is a numerical value and I can easily figure out where Japan is in the progression of a day (i.e morning, evening, night).
Anatomy of a Buffer Overflow Attack
They had thousands of slaves.
Since we're in the topic of book-writing, I want to ask HNers for opinion:

I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with Google App Engine (built 2 websites with it). I'm thinking of writing a (self-published) book on the topic. In my dev, I use Scala and CoffeeScript+AngularJS. My questions are:

(1) Is App Engine too small to worth writing?

(2) Should I include "beginning Scala and CoffeeScript+AngularJS" (which means will be OOT and take significantly more effort to write)?

(3) But if I don't include them, wouldn't that significantly limit my target market? (people who use Scala and CoffeeScript+AngularJS on App Engine)
I think that all self-publishing needs to go mainstream is a few major authors to go down that route. We used to rely on bookstores to decide which books were the ones to read, much as video rental stores and movie theatres told us which movies to watch. It shouldn't be long now that book reading goes through the same revolution: it needs a new power-player like Netflix and Hulu for books, and high-profile review sites like rogerebert.com for movies reviews.
As an example:

I don't know where you are, you don't know where I am. I tell you I am available from @300-@800 if you want to Skype today. Let me know which time is good for you.
Whenever I see rich people, they don't see to smile a lot.
So, we're going to take a distributed currency whose basis is anonymity and impartiality and let the core "community" decide to blacklist some of that currency. And they're going to do this because they don't agree with what someone has done with that money.

<sarcasm> Yes, this makes perfect sense. </sarcasm>
It's worse.

Apparently you can take a random homeless person, give them a few lessons, and hey presto you have an app maker.
"Sounds strange" is part of how privilege works.

What those names actually sound to target audience is white and black. If you read the section on how they picked the names, those were the most obviously white and black names they could come up with, using both census data and actual reactions to resumes.

That a typical black name sounds exaggerated and African to you is a pretty good sign you aren't black. Jamal, for example, is an Arabic name. If you look at name frequencies from 1979, some names of equivalent frequency to Lakisha are Janice, Christa, Gloria, Lynn, Shelley, and Alexis. For Jamal, names of similar frequency are Rudy, Josh, Allan, and Gordon. (Source: US Social Security department.) If you think this study would be materially different with Janice and Gordon than Emily and Greg, you're welcome to run it. But I think you'd be wasting your time.

I used to live in Chicago, where they did this study, and definitely knew both of those names, so they didn't sound "strange" to me, not in the sense of "I've never heard of this name," anyhow. They did sound strange in the sense of, "not part of my tribe," though. As a white guy who grew up in a white area of a neighboring state, I didn't personally know anybody with those names until later in life. But I knew they were black names.

And that's the kind of "sounds strange" that can influence hiring decisions. Not one person need say, "I hate black people, so I'm throwing this resume out." All they have to do is start callbacks with the one that "looks best" to them, one they have a good feeling about. One that seems the least strange.

The reason that the people who talk about privilege don't talk much about black privilege or female privilege is that they are pursuing social justice. Their effort is part of a long historical arc going back to when black people were property and women might as well have been. Once we've finished tiding that mess up, I imagine the conversation will shift quite a bit.
Where it matters, UTC is widely used, for example in aviation. And local times - based on time zones – are representations of UTC too.
"Fractions of the dollar go to the artists, and the archaic content distribution models mean lots of content can't be seen legally without a 100 channels of cable or a $40 DVD."

"Now if all TPB did was make it easier for people to OD on Game Of Thrones I'd still be impressed."

Jesus Christ. It's not your role to unilaterally "solve" content distribution problems without the consent of the creators. Sorry. And It's not a basic human right that you get to watch Game of Thrones.

Now, you can say "I want to watch Game of Thrones and HBO can go fuck themselves, so let's build this alternate internet that lets me do that based on Bitcoin whatever." But don't paint it as some noble calling, aimed at ending censorship or fixing the copyright system or DRM or whatever.

The Pirate Bay exists to help people pirate content owned by other people. Fine. But I don't think they're quite the freedom fighters they're portrayed to be. Except as it pertains to their freedom to continue doing this.
I was a huge fan of this in '98. Was very sad to see it fail. I even wrote custom software for Litestep so you could see what beat time it was.
Born in 1981, I would be classified as a Gen Y person. Some sentences that caught my eye:

> Many employers complain of the demands their entry-level employees often make.

I asked my previous employer that I didn't approve of having a senior employer shout "Ah, fuck off" at me several times a day, or being called "thick", or having to put up with threatening behaviour. That was considered a hefty demand.

> We would prefer that that air traffic controller check his e-mail or send his text messages during his breaks. I think we would all feel much better if access to the Internet and a personal cell phone were completely forbidden (which they are).

I usually don't have enough money to debit my cell phone (The other day I had my first go on a Samsung Galaxy). I rarely have access to these distractions because I lack the capital.

> Generation Y thinks that, because they have grown up with all these technologies, they are better at multitasking. I would venture to argue they are not better at multitasking. What they are better at is being distracted.

I didn't grow up in constant contact with these technologies. I've grown up being expected by Gen Xers and other Gen Yers to be able to multitask and be a tech whizz with said technologies. I would agree that I am better at being distracted than Gen Xers - having to endure abuse and threats is very distracting, as is being expected to know everything about how a computer works.

> They seem flummoxed when told that things take time. They are happy to give lots of short bursts of energy and effort to things, but commitment and grit come harder.

I started practising programming in my spare time about eighteen months ago, and I'm still practising. I'll probably get proficient at it when I'm say, 36. I'm never told by my peers or Gen Xers that it will take time. I'm often told "you're wasting your time" or "stick to what you are capable of" (then I get turned down for minimum wage jobs). I was wondering how flummoxed a person from any generation would be if you told them that even dead simple programs often require at least 100 lines of code. One of the main reasons that I am able to do this is due to a small band Gen Xers (and some Gen Yers) who had the determination and patience to write free software, so many cheers for them.
Most times you see the modern equivalent of a wanted poster, it's stills from CCTV - or even cuts of video. While I doubt the quality is high enough to use evidentially in many instances, I would bet they do play a decent part in deterring or convicting people.
FullSync - Publishing, Backup, Synchronization
It was probably mainly a PR idea, though a good one … on the other hand, from a neutral point of view, Biel/Switzerland is not really different from Greenwich/UK as a zero point.
Trading Bonuses for Bytes: The Wall Street Brain Drain
The data I've seen shows the income where happiness flattens is around 100k rather than 70k so cutting off at 128k doesn't seem high enough to disprove the established research.
I'm writing a lot of little batch programs in my job. Like get those 1M records from db. Process them with an algorithm and write to results to this other table. I think you should write faster with Python. But performance of the processing is also important and LINQ helps a lot with the writing time.
This is like a group of Greeks trying to persuade Odysseus to boycott Troy by canceling delivery of the Trojan Horse.
"What exactly does it mean -- to wind a watch?"
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Wouldn't the water ramp have immense pressure at the bottom?
Which would be scenario A. You just did the lookup of finding that 0xEA's business hours are from @300 to @800.
It's a self-winding Watch so I don't need a Battery.

I grew up with analog Watches and reading them is not a problem for me but i understand the point to use Digital Watches.

I Personally don't like the aesthetics of Digital Watches ;)
VC pitfalls have been covered several times over. Most of my knowledge of that world is through friends who've tried to raise. I was technically a co-founder in my first startup, but the CEO had raised before (~40M in the '90s) and so I let him handle that. I'm not a fan of that CEO-- he got me to spend 3 years of my life on a project that had no chance; even though he was perennially "on the cusp of" funding, he was also under a VC blackball-- but I'm also not a fan of what his '90s ex-investors did to him. Whether the man deserved it, I can't say. It looks like there was pretty major fault on all sides.

On the employee angle, here's a blog post I wrote a year and a half ago: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-yo...

What I would say is to avoid falling prey to the exceptionalism, the "yes, we pay poorly but we're changing the world" nonsense. If they value you, they'll pay you. If they say they absolutely can't afford more than 0.05% for an engineer, either they're lying or they did a terrible job of negotiating with investors (and the founders no longer call the shots). Don't make excuses for shitty people and companies; just leave them.

The same principles that apply in big companies apply in small ones. You'll have good bosses and bad. (Young startups tend to have more bad ones.) Focus on your career goals, and always watch your back a little bit. Don't sacrifice your career, reputation, network or anything else for a company, ever. It wouldn't do the same for you.
Use what works for you.

In my case, that's python.

It's portable (cross platform), the final product is (usually) the script files themselves vs. an architecture specific "executable", and the language includes "batteries" I find useful in the standard distribution: XML, JSON, and (a limited amount of) HTML parsing, URL parsing and retrieving, regular expressions - stuff that makes what I love to do (data wrangling) easy.

Additionally it has the benefit of being pre-installed on my OS of choice, OS X, and in that specific distribution a very useful third-party library comes pre-bundled: pyobjc

This means that I can write what is, in essence, a plain text file that "runs" on most any recent version of OS X and has almost full access to Apple's ObjC (and C) APIs for controlling their systems. Talk about power!

And if someone on OS X wants to change the program? Nothing more than a text editor is needed. No need to re-compile, install an IDE, or a set of developer tools (outside of the python interpreter itself, which is pretty much on everything but Windows out of the box).

This last reason is specifically why python is very popular in the OS X sysadmin world right now. A large number of great open source OS X tools are written in python.
Uh oh. One possible scenario-- you get hit by a bus (etc) and your posthumous tweet is a big "fuck you" to everyone you know! I guess one should word the tweet carefully!!
This looks very nice, but its somewhat inconvenient to write with the preview on top, as it makes the textarea jump around as I type. I think that side-by-side or putting the preview on the bottom would make more sense.
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I think the biggest problem with time keeping systems is that they counts up, but our lives are not infinite. For us, time is really counting down.

After trying to reconcile the solar year with decimal time in a way that made sense, I abandoned my effort and created a time keeping system with 1095 units of time of time per year (1098 in leap years).

The units are 8 hours long, because no progress on hard problems is made in an hour.

I call it Maker Time:

The web site is @ http://willholloway.net/makertime.html
A JSON API is @ http://makertime.willholloway.net/api/current

Checking the current Maker Time reminds me that I have 1060 - 349 (for sleep) = 711 opportunities to make cool things this year.
> any arbitrary hierarchical group of people with common interests

From the Guardian article: ''Obama’s White House staff were meeting representatives of tech firms on Friday, concluding a packed week packed of meetings with surveillance stakeholders''

I damn well think you could call corporate surveillance stakeholders a ''guild'' or an ''arbitrary hierarchical group of people with common interests''.
I don't want my national interests to involve most of the shit NSA & Co does, including rendition, torture, spying on everyone, secret courts, secret rulings, secret laws, etc.
Loss of life from 9/11 was about 3,000, which using your numbers works out to be twenty million, but the total direct and indirect costs of 9/11 are in the trillions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_arising_from_t...). The insurance losses alone totaled forty billion. Innocent life lost under any circumstance is a tragedy. That said, its a multifaceted problem. Large amounts of economic damage also results in the loss of innocent life.
The most interesting of all (imo) which I have tried and used (works fairly well) is project meshnet: https://projectmeshnet.org

They have their own network called Hyperboria http://hyperboria.net/ and the ultimate plan is to abstract away over the whole hardware infrastructure of the modern internet. (Using wifi relays or whatever, might be unfeasible but still interesting)
I am not convinced that the Egyptians could build watertight channels at this scale, especially those shown climbing up the slope of the pyramid which would have to be watertight at the top too, and under great pressure. Also one or two packages could easily get stuck in the "pipe" jamming the whole thing. Finally, the video likely downplays the number of floaters necessary to lift a block of stone.
Ahh multiple locations. That is a good idea.
wow I just nostalgia'd really hard now.
I feel like the intersection of those three topics would be fairly small.

Maybe App Engine Development with Scala. And then the coffeescript and angular as a separate book or a short appendix.
I dunno man. If you looked at the recent TechCrunch/VC exit data, your chances of 'exiting' with a VC funded startup are actually pretty bad. And that's what VC-funded startups are ultimately designed to do. I'd argue that if your goal is financial success, bootstrapping is actually better as a tactic purely on a financial basis!

The key thing though as you mentioned is you either gotta have a lot of personal cushion, or you gotta be willing to relocate to a fairly cheap area to temporarily lower your burn...like Nashville ;).
Happiness before success
The only special thing about Decimal and Base 10 is that we have 10 fingers (for the most part, exceptions exist). If we had 12, then 1/24th of a day would make sense, because it would be twice our then-normal Base 12 system. It is evolutionarily arbitrary.

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC8J6YXqdo
A few months ago someone broke into my locker at the swimming pool, got my iPad, BB, credit cards, cash and car keys. Thank God I hadn't driven there. Anyway, leaving the pool, he was in full view of the CCTV. The cops reviewed the footage, and the guy is just a black silhouette, no recognizable features.

So enemies of the surveillance state rejoice, there are cameras everywhere, the footage they record however is worthless. And I dare say the thief had figured that out for himself.