skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so sure about the want to reach the top: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Yes, same in France, you can't be doing nothing but being explicitly looking after money is very much frowned upon.

Meanwhile in the US people are happy to use yearly income as the scale to compare people. Which is certainly wrong: any nurse should be higher on the scale than Columbian mafia bosses, right?
I think you're just unlucky - if my CEO sees me working at 8 pm or later, he tells me to go home, even if we're in a big push. He wants me ready to do more quality work the day after, and not burn out.
They seem to have left the development domain in there. Oops.

Here is a proper link:
http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip
Same situation with Comcast, except they started charging for theirs years ago. It started at $3, but was $8 / month by the time I bought my own modem 2 years ago. Best Buy will constantly run a sale on the Motorola SB6121 for around $50. Was a simple decision, plus I dumped that DOCSIS 2 modem for a 3 and gained some speed.
You may or may not be aware that the study of consciousness attracts an amazing number of quacks and loonies. Penrose may be a good physicist, but that has very little to do with his credibility on neuroscience. If you want to read smart things about consciousness, look to people who study actual brains; Mike Gazzaniga was one of the better ones, at least 10 years ago. EDIT: also Patricia Churchland, who comes at it as a philosopher, but takes the time to learn the neurology.
Text extraction
Hi, I'm working on plagiarism detection and I need some help on text extraction from pdfs. I've tried PDFTextStream which really works well for extracting text from pdfs. I need to be able to extract the text into a strutured format where i could query thing like title, chapters,etc. Would appreciate it if I could get pointers to achieving this task. Thanks
Children can grasp anything if you explain it to them. A 4 or 5 year old can easily understand the concepts of work and money if you explain it to them.
YES! its worth telling managers and subordinates that we wont be working more than 40 - 50 hours. and that we should work both hard and smart in he alotted time ...then get the F out of work and do other things.

i often find it refreshing to hear about the cool things people do when not working and bummed when i hear someone - especially one of my devs - worked through a weekend. then comes the difficult and uncomfortable chore of figuring out what i fucked up that caused them to have to work like that.
Did everyone here miss the part about the importance of work/life balance at IronPort and how HE wasn't living it? Every company has deadlines to meet, and sometimes you have to work extra time. This guy, however, was working ALL the time, not just during those crunch periods.
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None of what you have quoted particularly reads as 'punish the manager'. It's only your post-facto flavouring that gives it that emphasis. Pretty much all of it is "you have to look out for #1" - which I agree is not always the best advice, since it doesn't try for a win-win solution.

Yes, there may be some residual punishment or vindictive feelings underlying some of the commentary, but the main focus of pretty much all of it is 'look out for #1, that person is who your duty is to'. It's still a mischaracterisation of the commentary to call it out as suggesting punishment. The bulk of the commentary is not "fuck those guys, make them suffer", but "it's too much effort to change management culture from below - it's far easier to just move onto greener pastures if its available".
.dev? is that a real thing already?
> I don't know the name of the artist

Managed to find it out, it's Dan Perjovschi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Perjovschi )
We can call such sections and smaller communities sub-hns. :)
Actually, Denmark, Ireland and Estonia have more economic freedom than the UK, according to the Heritage Foundation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
where D = 2r
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After the NSA leaks, the security community is scrambling to verify that widely-used, open-source software is free from backdoors. With dual_ec_drbg, we know at least one case where a cryptographic primitive itself was compromised. Furthermore, we know now that governments can and do force companies to compromise their own users, in secret, under gag orders.

Why anyone would use closed-source "security" software today is beyond me.
HN and Reddit seem to work well with the voting model
I mistakenly installed a Minecraft modloader for my son without checking it out first. It silently installed a couple of local Chrome extensions that injected ads in every page. It would reinstall them (again, silently) every time you deleted them. It wasn't detected by Microsoft Defender or Avast until I ran Malwarebytes which took care of the problem.

So, pardon my french, but no freaking way do I want any local Chrome extensions allowed by default anymore.

For extensions from the Chrome store, perhaps Chrome should make updates more like on Android, where you are notified and can click for more info.
Letting down his Harvard MBA spouse.

Yeah I can relate to that.

Humblebrag.
A = 2taur^2. Why divide the circle in half?

The early use of pi was calculating area and it was derived based on that. At least as far as history can tell us. Records are a little sketchy that far back.
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Waitaminute! Is this the same Valve who FIRED Jeri Ellsworth last year because Gabe didn't see any value in the VR/AR work she was doing, to the point that he just let her have the IP rights to her prototypes as she left?
This is a smokescreen. The economic reality is that good managers are a dime a dozen.
I agree and I think everyone would - we've all seen such businesses and no likes getting spammed.

Although I wonder if it makes sense financially to do that. It would be great to see if someone has data on this. I'm not really sure if one can actually improve conversions or whatever they want to improve by sending emails that way.
I think this statement is complex.
the guy is great with his animation, may be we can pitch and keep his work going.. http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/post/57176345908/im-now-open-for-d...
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If you were interested in this news, perhaps this might interest you as well - http://bit.ly/blibonline
I'm intrigued by the idea that he had to close his laptop and law enforcement had to prevent that. Is there a widely available dead-man's switch that, say, logs the user out when contact is lost? It seems like the privacy-focused would benefit from such a device. I'm envisioning a USB fob, attached to a bracelet, that triggers logout when it's disconnected, so by raising your hands, you've logged out.
Where did you read/hear that? And is that a TWC specific issue or does it apply to Comcast as well?
man, you guys/gals have no sense of humour
Minor nitpick: you're romanticizing what the autoupdate policy achieves, it does not give you the latest, most feature filled and bug fixed versions of things, just the latest.
It's a common convention for running domains locally. You can set up a stub resolver and point *.dev to loopback.

Most commonly found in the wild through http://pow.cx/
> What I love about computer programming is that basically all you need to be an expert on something is time, persistence, and an Internet connection.

You also need a fourth thing, whip-sharp intelligence. You just won't get that far without it. Also proficiency is a much easier target to reach than expertise. I would call myself a proficient computer programmer, but not quite an expert. I feel like I'm at least a few years off from that, and still I would hesitate until I've attained some recognition.
I kind of think that unless you attach a check w/ it, some intern will write you back: thx.
> Auto updating anything but the most critical and most trusted software is absolutely bone-headed

Yep. It's kind of mind-blowing that Crome defaults to auto-updating extensions, then lets just anyone upload new versions of them. (Is it even possible to disable this idiocy?) I take some perverse joy in the fact that someone has "monetized" the auto-update treadmill. Maybe it will encourage people to think about the consequences of installing random code to your computer whenever someone else decides to do so.
Er, ... What was the point of this post? I was hellbanned before because I got angry a long time ago.

I mentioned it because I realized I hadn't properly articulated my thoughts. Then I realized it didn't matter in the end. Of course, I guess that realization was wrong.
I agree, but I think it was intended to provide each piped command performing a single relational operation.
I am not sure it is rational to spend a lot effort to teach your management.

If you are their manager, sure. If you love the job, sure. If you work a industry where jobs are rare and it is hard finding a new one, sure.

But if you are software engineer, not working for a startup, and can very easily switch jobs. Why in the world would it be your responsibility to try and fix your management? It's a job, not a marriage.
Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web
Long time HN lurker...I've worked with kdb+ / k the last few years, it's in every major bank and is great for storing and querying market data. If you're looking for a nice GUI I use qStudio, it helps make it a little more friendly.

Then there are great tutorials on the code k website. It's a beautiful language full of unique original ideas.
> rented modems get bursting and owned modems don't

Can you elaborate? I went out and bought a TWC approved modem instead of renting from TWC. I always thought the service I received would be the the same. Is this a firmware thing?

I was actually writing a munin plugin for my SB6141 when I saw this.
Comcast fleeces you on the rental fee. However, if you cancel your modem rental but refuse to return their device, they charge you just $53 for it. Easily the lowest friction way into rolling from renting into owning your own modem.
Secure Cookie Sessions for HTTP
I chose the IBM and the Unicomp. I don't like the Apple keyboard much, but I don't use it much. Random keyboards are needed because I might be bringing up new hardware and using whatever keyboard is supplied or debugging a user's problem and using their keyboard.

Lots of people have a personal laptop, a personal desktop, and a work laptop or desktop. My wife has her own preferences in keyboards; so do my kids.
The results are much better when searching for his full name used on his books: "Thomas M. Nichols"

So, you're dismissing his expertise and calling him names ("Random McBlogger") because Google ranks him more poorly for Tom than Thomas. That seems like a data-point which supports his argument quite well.
The shell command

cat file | grep 'expression'

is the shell analogue of the SQL query

select * from (select * from table) as q where column like '%expression%'

...except that a decent query optimizer will collapse the extraneous inner query. Bash doesn't know how to do that.

It's also more expensive:

# wc -l /var/log/secure
97845 /var/log/secure
# time cat /var/log/secure | grep root > /dev/null

real 0m1.600s
user 0m1.517s
sys 0m0.294s
# time grep root /var/log/secure > /dev/null

real 0m1.275s
user 0m1.237s
sys 0m0.036s

That's an extra .3-and-change seconds, or over 25% longer, on a 98k line file. Scale that up to a multi-million line ngnix log file, and I'd actually say it's a worse than useless use of cat.
Think of it as radiUS and radiAN, the AN being angle. Since there is PI angle in a radius, there has to be 2PI in a diameter since d=2r.
if adblock didn't work on https that'd be one way to see it massively deployed ;)
Twister suffers reversal attack
These days, the only people I know who text are 45+...and with 1 exception, they're all struggling to decide if they want to switch to smartphones yet.

I can't think of a single person under that age I know who texts. They all use something else. Mostly google chat (or hangouts or whatever), kakaotalk or Facebook's IM.
I prefer "pau". http://xkcd.com/1292/
Thank you for the cheesy insight. Learn something new everyday
> my parents end up with Chrome every time I come by on the Windows. Installed through some update

My guess would be the tooltip-like thing that Google puts on its search page telling them to "make the web better with Chrome." I've never clicked on the thing, but it probably changes your default browser and installs a bunch of shortcuts.
> I believe that as a programmer, it's your duty to spend some time doing stuff your manager didn't know he needed to ask you to do, rather than running personal errands.

--------------

I believe in dealing in good faith with people who deal with me in good faith. But it has nothing special to do with being a programmer; it's something I'd do in any job, and it is reciprocal. There's an implied agreement that they're going to try to treat me decently and there's an implied agreement that I'll do the same for them. If either of us breach that, I strongly desire the other party to defect.
> "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded"

Not sure if actual error or faithful representation of Windows software.
I think the success of both is based on a) niche audience b) manual moderation.
Actually, I went through and thought about it a bit. Most of the people I know that are my age or younger have actually turned off texting because it's almost entirely used for spam. It's pretty much a byproduct of a time that's quickly going by.
a) Why is it called Ken?

b) Why is there no Ruby, C, C++, Go ... ?
It seems pretty clear the author has been biased by the area he works in. Public policy may or may not be some type of objective science, but it's certainly under the influence of politics: which means he's subjected regularly to the most arbitrary unscrupulous insanity from random laymen. PG wrote[1] well about how when it comes to this area, people with absolutely no qualifications at all not only give an opinion, but actually consider themselves the expert. I have no doubt the author is subjected to this ad nauseam.

1: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
On a related note, the best practices release for the Oculus:

http://static.oculusvr.com/sdk-downloads/documents/OculusBes...
This is probably not what you are thinking, but C.S. Lewis said, "Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it."
Simpler: "DropBox is the service that makes your iPad useful."
I guess the complaint here is that you can't choose what you will pay for. By law you need to renew your prescription regularly (typically yearly), even if you want to continue to buy the same type of lens.

(The rationale is that the eye doctor prescribing the lens will check your eyes for contact-lens related diseases).
Indeed: the writer comes off as a major narcissist, with a minor in status display ("Harvard MBA/VP Wife").

I suppose a near-total lack of empathy for your fellow man is, if not defendable, at least an understandable trait for a CEO working an engineering team to death, and then moaning about how "generously" buying them dinner every Sunday night was impacting his family life, until he could cash out based on their efforts.
If not in-browser, not interested; sorry.
Cash if we can meet in person (i.e. a collection for a shared gift or fundraiser), PayPal otherwise.
I get a bit giddy everytime I read about the upcoming-gen of VR. There's enough big players talking about it now, with real impressive and affordable hardware to back it up.

The metaverse concept is also probably the one I'm most interested in - what I really want from high-res VR is the ability to get rid of monitors altogether.
The original asker of the question wrote exactly what he should say to the manager, right into his SO question. It's this bit:

> The reality is that any of our senior developers can walk out the door and have a new job with as much as 30-40% higher pay within a week. Most of us are only staying here for the casual environment, and being able to mix personal time into our work days.

He should just say that. If it's really true, then he should feel comfortable leveling with his boss like this.
Great comment - but what the hell is "salad cream"? (Miracle Whip?)
30 seconds? More like 206264.
Theodores - do you make cheese / work in a cheese factory? Would be interesting to talk to you about it: jeff@mercenarytech.com
No evidence; just reasoning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6206086

But consideration? That's it? After the entire wall of text about how the conspiracy theorists must be correct? Not going to put your money where your mouth is?
I handed in my notice recently. My situation was somewhat similar to the one of the poster: project really not that interesting, unglamorous company, so-so salary, but casual atmosphere and not much to do, and I got to keep a lot of energy available to study and pursue my own coding projects. Then there was a change in management and pressure went up tenfolds, so I resigned.

First, I recognise now that it's potentially a bad idea to keep a job just because it does allow you to coast. There's a depressing quality in such choice; work representing the most part of our day, underperforming by choice, by remaining in an undemanding job, can even lower our self-esteem. I didn't do me much good, in any case.

Secondly, I am leaving because the market allows me to do it, because I know I am likely to find something better in a reasonable time. I could have handled the pressure, I could have remained and try to make that place a better place, but it's simply not in my best interest and it did more sense to just quit.

The position of the poster baffles me a bit: he recognises that conditions have changed and instead of adapting or refusing the new state of things, he dumps his responsibility to his own happiness to someone else: his manager. Indeed having good developers, in the current state of the market, is a privilege. In five years or ten years it might not be the case. Why making a case of us vs them? Isn't simpler to just take advantage of the bull dev market and leave?

It's naive, but widespread, from the part of managers to believe that by increasing the pressure they will get more bang for their buck. Let's them learn the hard way, until we can afford it. To moan and not budge is almost suspicious - maybe the poster is not so sure of himself after all? - and counterproductive for every party involved.
Have you tried posting this to http://stackoverflow.com ? That's a better forum for these kinds of questions.

If you were to write a blog post about how to structure the extracted text, that's more the HN thing.
If you put those 80 hours/week into a high-growth startup that takes off, a few years are all you need. After that, the expectation is that you'll be a multi-millionaire and can practically retire.
Valve had two teams -- Abrash's VR and Ellsworth's AR. They decided to bet on VR and Jeri was the unfortunate result of them focusing their resources.
I think you are reading into it too much.

Everybody can only speak from their own experience. I don't know Scott and never worked in his startup, but I suspect that what he may be angling at is the fact that as CEO he sets the tone of the company.

I can't speak for him, but I suspect that if he felt like he needed to enforce more work-life balance for himself, he would perhaps do the same for his employees....given that he sets the tone for the organization.
The fix for me was to simply delete the power profile from my MacBook model in a kext config directory. Everything was fine until I upgraded to 10.8.5, and then to my system would not boot at all – feeling with the kernel panic very early in booth that had something to do with AppleIntelCpuPowerManagement.kext.

I completely reinstalled and install Mavericks, and then repeated the original fix. It worked fine and my system is doing great running Mavericks.
Read some of his blog.

From a cursory glance, I think he believes Snowden is a misguided traitor, Manning should spend the rest of his life in solitary, and Wikileaks is a Russian-funded intelligence front.

These are strong opinions with, IMO, a heavy political slant. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, even when I disagree with him. But now it seems like he's complaining about not getting enough respect and attention. But with his political bias, I don't think he deserves that kind of respect. His writing is too off-the-cuff and opinionated, lacking in two-dimensional treatment of what he talks about, never mind analysis.

In short, I think he's a right wing blowhard making a fuss about too much questioning of his authority.
This is the post that provided the fix that worked for me: http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259
Stores are confronting the reality that they lose when they don't offer anything the online experience lacks. Best Buy complains of reduced shoppers. But the MicroCenter near me is always packed. I think it's because they have really outstanding sales people and have a wide array of products that even online aren't easy to find. If I wanted to shop at Best Buy I face limited selection and apathetic and unskilled sales staff (which is a worse experience than Newegg or Amazon).
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Silicon Valley has the following three:

1) Stanford (a top research university, with world-class students and professors)

2) Money (investment money, from a lot of people who got rich from tech)

3) A high concentration of geeks/techies/developers/whatever you want to call them

No place I know of in Europe has all three of these (in fact, I don't think any place in Europe has 3) alone).
Not to be dismissive or condescending, but do a lot of people have trouble understanding radians? I was under the impression that they were standard material in high school trig/physics.
This is one of my favorite ever PG posts. It's what is driving me to get out to the East Coast as soon as possible and eventually the Bay Area.
This article is ripe with inaccurate data. Having worked on the first deployed DOCSIS 3 network in the US I know a few things about HFC networks.

First, any modem that is on the approved list of modems the ISP lists (either via public website or by calling) will be fully supported by latest and greatest firmware. The way it works is that there is generally a private overlay network that has access from the provisioning system to upload the firmware the ISP wants to have deployed. However this is often less likely than you think and any DOCSIS 3 capable modem you buy today will generally work out of the box. The difference between 2 and 3 is most generically up and down steam channel bonding. This is basically taking a QAM and running it over RF space on the cable. There is a finite about, just like over the air (although rather wide and compressed QAM, 64 QAM vs 256 QAM puts more data within the same time frame sent).

Back to provisioning... If you buy a Motorola Surfboard that is on the ISP approved list the provisioning system will send the same updates to your modem that would be to a leased modem.

I could go on, but TL;DR: this article is not a good reference to understand how HFC networks operate - or how to make your Internet faster.

That, and damn TWC is slow on D3. I helped roll it out in 2010. They must be running Arris CMTS.
Couldn't that be accomplished with a bluetooth connection from your mobile phone? Maybe not as effective as a bracelet, but it probably could have gotten the job done in this case.