skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I changed the color scheme for one profile (although, that involved installing and trusting the color scheme; I got mine directly from Google's site as opposed to a third party site).

An extra cue, when the border background, tabs, etc. look different in one versus the other. Still hardly foolproof...
I was really happy when they charged me, means I knew they weren't planning on selling out or spewing ads everywhere.

I definitely get more than 69p of value out of it per year

> Makes sense why the app asked for my cell phone digits when I first installed, and I'm happy I never gave it...

How does this have anything to do with the fee? The phone number is essentially your username. It automatically adds all the phone numbers in your address book as whatsapp contacts

edit: It's also not a subscription in that it never charges you automatically, you have to pay manually every time
As someone who studied economics I believed I had well thought out positions before studying and wasn't sure how my opinions were going to change. It turned out all my theories were worthless compared to the combined knowledge of the field and the genius observations over the centuries. So your example of not needing economists is unconvincing. We do need to check up on them frequently though and no one should get a free pass.
Article is titled: "Success at Work, Failure at Home" and they say they can relate to this. Laments that "...comes at a cost: I might not ever be able to have a normal relationship."

I'm not saying working on their project doesn't bring them some happiness, but they hardly sound like they're as happy as they could be.

And I'm probably just a prick.
Let me guess: it was the bow tie.
History of PC Graphics Hardware
Well there is nothing to stop you doing rsync with SSH and having something roughly equivalent to the professional version but try getting someone who isn't an admin or developer to get it set up.

This isn't meant to be negative about this company, it really may be easy for everyone to use and lead to a success.
Until your comment and follow up reading of http://techland.time.com/2012/09/20/new-microsoft-keyboard-s... I didn't even know what thumb I used to press space bar.

Watching myself showed I'm using right hand's thumb almost always (like most people according to that article).
I 'm not an expert but i do know that there are a lot more experts today than before, and that it's easier for an intelligent person to become an expert much quicker than the time it took in the past to acquire the required experience. I also know how one can become an expert, you just need a good understanding of the scientific method and access to information.

I think the author is just lamenting on the lost prestige and authority of experts. It was inevitable to happen, as knowledge is cheapening. I would like to say i sympathize with him, but i don't, there's no evidence that the experts of yesterday were any better than the experts of today.

The real thing to lament about is how expertise has been superseded by popularity.
No PGP key or contact email on the security page?
I agree with that 100% but I don't think that has anything to do with a good social system.
The 'previous work' link redirected me to a generic search results page (http://yuilibrary.com/theater/) , I believe this could be the talk by Nicholas Zakas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjVFPosQHw‎ but if anyone can confirm, that would be nice.
This weekend: potty-training my kid. :)

Side projects definitely take a back seat when you start being a parent, but my motivation and efficiency when I can make time have grown in proportion. I think I'm going to be unstoppable in my projects as my kid gains independence, and I get some real side-project time back. But no rush, I'm loving every stage of parenting while it lasts!
The world was fooled into going to war on the false pretext of terrorism & WMDs yet right after the events the perpetrators were seen as innocent -- hell Bush was even reelected [Relevant video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ

It should be noted that the NYT had scoop on the president spying on Civilians but they were told to hold off on the release on the grounds of "National Security" -- it was suppressed for 15 months. Then after Bush was back in office, the story broke and they won a prestigious prize for the 'revealing story'.

Greenwald's video here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ho...]

You have to realize that our freedoms and everything were destroyed after 9/11. BUT have you analyzed 9/11 and looked at facts other than the official narrative?
A super structure collapsed -- as in, perfectly imploded on itself after there were fires near the top of the building. There were also buildings that sustained no damages that collapsed.

If you still don't believe the NSA is monitoring you & that everyone who questions the narrative wears a tinfoil hat, then shame on you...

For those who are curious there are tons of resources out there but this one in particular is extremely exhaustive - making astonishing connections that typically spans 3 - 7 videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fp5kaVYhk

I'm suggesting it so that you get a better understanding of present day America. When you realize that terrorism was manufactured as a scare tactic, that things like the TSA are just security theater your whole world view changes... sure it may be hard and you may not like it, but it's the truth.

You'll then realize that they've been using terrorism and national security as a means to keep you in fear, to erode your rights, to monitor your thoughts and communications, to control who you are and what you do...
> SO has turned into such a turd of a website.

Yeah, not imposing any kind of quality on questions definitely gave Quora a distinct unturdlike quality.

"What are some things that make you really sad?" - real world example from this week's Quora Weekly Digest.

http://www.quora.com/Sadness/What-are-some-things-that-make-...
How can we determine what's paranoia and what's factual? Given the mind-boggling extent of NSA programs, nearly anything could be possible, and that makes it all the more difficult to determine the truth.

I was struck by how the art student had no way of showing whether her misfortunes were accidental or related to her investigation. Is there a way she could have seen who was reading her email?
Mobile-Only App Prototyping/Development
This would give you the top 30 sources for the past 30 days.

Note the date is hardcoded

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=*&f...),72)))%20desc&pretty_print=true
Isnt working 80 hours a week ineffective due to you being tired soon and burned out after few years? Assuming that really work those 80 hours instead of chatting, browsing or mindlessly staring into screen.

I read some studies about that. Maybe I believe them cause I am European. Or maybe cause I did worked a lot in the past and my experience confirmed studies.
That explains why my Mac has been crazy sluggish lately...
Can't agree with you more. Not only for the reason of jealous. Let's do a no-brain estimate. Dropbox has:

1. A novel idea - $1M

2. A neat implementation - $10M

3. A reasonable size of user base (including one-time sign-in users and abandoned users) - $100M

4. Any state-of-the-art technology backed up? No

5. Any innovation which changes the whole industry or UX? No

6. Any system level software design? No

Where does the rest of the value come from? If this kind of system is worth $10B, then how much is AWS worth?

Box is aiming enterprise market which makes more sense, because if they can handle fine-grained user security, that will be a lot different. Basically, corporations need a

SkyDrive + SharePoint (hosted in cloud service)

if they don't want to host data in-house. Are there anything like this existing today?

If Dropbox is worth $10B today, what is that going be worthwhile?

We want to encourage new applications to make users life easier, but to a limited extent. We should encourage more productive inventions instead of being too much bragging on a piece of small app with some new functionality like this.

- Eggs should not be washed.
My experience was different. Failing the business is a social tragedy only if you took too much debt. If you simply find a job afterwards, then it is ok. At least among my friends.
That page, and the linked browsersec pages on Google Code, are terrifying. Time to burn it all down and start from scratch.

I was particularly stunned to learn HTTP Cookie headers can clobber 'secure' cookies set over HTTPS. Eye-popping.
The key is "small and well chosen set of base classes" for your exceptions. This is where you got the most benefit, and you probably know it. Without exceptions, you can have a class that represents well defined state such as either success or an error code, with the error code being well defined, returning an object of this class for all methods that need to return success/failure codes, and requiring that it be handled, so compilation fails if callers ignore the return value.

What's great about this is I might call a method that simply concatenates two strings, that is all it does, and I know this won't fail(OOM can always happen, but good luck recovering from that), so I don't return a status. I can call this method assuming no failure and no boiler plate is needed. With exceptions, there's always that possibility that an exception can be thrown. What if I call this method from code that needs to close resources? Great, now I absolutely must have RAII for cleanup, which is more complicated than just doing close(x). Also, what are you going to do when using 3rd party code with its own base exception class? Now, at the upper layers of your code, you have to have a handler for each base class. Without exceptions, someone might have their own status object they return, and I'll need to translate that, else my code won't compile. Your code will compile even though you might not handle that 3 party base exception class.

Of course, most times code just propagates the error up so that adds to boiler plate without exceptions.

I think the talk of using exceptions vs returning a status is a red herring. They have their positives and negatives, and we can argue this until the cows come home. The most important thing is to use a set of well defined success/error codes, whether this comes from exceptions or a returned status isn't really important. I've seen codebase with C++ exceptions working just fine, and I've seen c++ code with no exceptions, and it worked well. The commonality between these two cases is .... well defined error codes.
Interesting comments. I was surprised to see so much dissension.

I'm in agreement with the author on the idea that expertise has been cheapened by our culture.

I like to use the term "mastery" over "expertise" because I think the concept of mastery better embodies what a true expert brings to the table.

To me, a true expert (master) is someone who has deep knowledge in a given domain (or set of related domains).

You can't fake mastery. Mastery is, in part, the ability to produce consistent, high-quality results over time.

Anyone can get lucky once, or even a few times, but a master can deliver superior results more consistently than anyone else in that domain.

The issue now, as I see it, is what the author calls entitlement. I would add to that, impatience.

People want to be masters (experts) now, not later. We want to hack our educations and get results faster than the 1000's of people who came before us.

In the process of our impatience and unwillingness to submit to the rigors of craft, we, instead, settle for the illusion of expertise.

It's strange to me that people think a deep level of knowledge can come from anything other than a lifetime of hard work and dedication to a given subject.

Yet, we still kid ourselves into thinking that being the next Picasso, Sergey Brin, or Yo Yo Ma is just a matter of reading a few books and blogs.

An expert spends a lifetime learning a few things deeply. A dilettante knows a little about a lot.
Workaround:

- First. stop playing music (in your browser, itunes or whatever).

- Next wait 5 minutes

- Last, close lid (go to sleep) and open again again.

Works for me.

My biggest problem is that my mac freezes once a day.
1. There are a large number of Europeans working 80h/week workloads at investment banks, private equity firms etc.

Many go into these roles from graduate school and I can't think of any that match Stanford etc in entrepreneurial spirit. Intriguingly enough, although grad school is a fraction of the cost of the US, expectations that one should go into an "established" firm after are, if anything, even higher

2. In the UK at least laws and regulations are in many cases better than the US, certainly from a tax perspective
this is really nice,
My impression of Scandinavian startups (though I could be wrong) is that those who move to the U.S. really are mostly concerned about the business side of things (investment, customers, vendor/partner relationships, and at strategic times, capital-gains taxes). You can see that in the fact that they often do a half-move, where they move everything except the technical part of the company. Unity3d is one prominent example: the headquarters officially moved from Copenhagen to San Francisco, and any kind of announcement that makes headlines comes out of the SF office, but the core engine devs are all still in Copenhagen. If it were about the technical culture, you'd expect them to want to move the actual technology work to Silicon Valley too, but it was mainly the business side.
Thanks! Hope you'd use it somewhere :)
There is so much weapons grade arrogance in this essay, I wouldn't be surprised if Hans Blix bought a house nearby to cut time from his commute.

Seriously, it's a link of this:

"Oh my goodness, Google University means people are now increasingly questioning experts, like me! And doctors!"

"What are you an expert in?"

"History. I teach at the War College and write about nuclear weapons. For example, I just republished an essay I wrote 14 years ago on how responsible documentaries of the Cold War must necessarily exclude examinations of Soviet motivations, because Stalin was the bad guy."

"...Yes, it's truly a wonder why anyone could fail to trust your proclamations of genius."
But then you didn't need a DSLR before the camera phone arrived either.
I have a fear that the problem with these APL family languages is that they ruin coding in any other language for you.
As a second addendum, while andolanra's comment is completely true, you can actually do type dispatch in Haskell using the Typeable machinery; however, the type system requires that you mark your types when this occurs.

what :: Typeable a => a -> a

Here `what` is no longer guaranteed to be `id`. Instead, we can translate it like this

what :: (a -> TypeRep) -> a -> a

where `TypeRep` is, as it sounds, a representation of the type of a returned dynamically. This means that we can do careful coercions to, say, be `id` unless `a` is `Int` in which case we add `1`.

Suffice to say that the degree of guarantee breaking that this kind of code invites makes Typeable a very specialized library that's almost never recommended without a "unless you really know what you're doing" kind of warning.
Hate read receipts on Facebook for iOS?
The most dangerous thing to be is an expert on something most people consider trivial, or in an arena dominated by fear. Data and general knowledge won't prevent you from getting run over.

The first (something considered trivial) is Parkinson's Law of Triviality, also known as the parable of the bike shed. I ran into this at Google in the Real Games debate. It's useless to get into the details, but this was an area where I was the expert, but because everyone thought "games are trivial" (mostly based on exposure to shitty games) there was an incredible amount of product-manager-style bikeshedding, with the actual experts aggressively pushed back. (Google may be a weird case. If a company thinks that engineering is Smart People Stuff and design, product management, and HR are Stupid People Stuff, what kind of product management is it going to get?)

The second and more dangerous case is the one where anxiety (especially involving children) comes into play. There's no good reason to think that vaccines cause autism, or are in any way more dangerous than not having them, but because the stakes are so high, people feel a need to "do something" and take charge, but often end up making bad decisions. I think the insanity around expensive, private pre-schools ($40k per year, from preschool to college) in Manhattan and San Francisco is the same thing. It seems like a wasteful expense, and expectancy-wise it probably is, but when you consider the extreme stakes and what happens to people without connections, it's easy to see why people incinerate so much money on the hoity-toity private schools (most of which aren't even that good).
Finally, I don't text with anybody. The few people I know who text look at me like I'm crazy and ask, "well how do you keep in touch?" And I answer, e-mail, IM, phone calls, voice mail, facebook, kakao talk etc.

IM is so good these days it completely eliminates 100% of my texting needs. Texting feels so old fashioned, something out of the feature phone era.

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I also feel terribly cheated paying for texting knowing that it costs the phone companies effectively $0. On the rare occasion I do text, I groan audibly. I've actually gotten a google voice account purely for dealing with texters.
I suspect that you tried it when we were in private beta. The UI and reliability are significantly improved. Give it another try.
I noticed slowdown on my brand new Air with nothing installed (beside a browser, xcode, and VLC). I have to reboot multiple times per day, closing the lid doesn't help, it causes it. Really unacceptable and a lot of people are seeing the same thing.

I'll be regretting not going with a Lenovo until they fix this.
That is the most ridiculous thread I've ever seen from a company. Not only did the employee take a shot at people (self hosting solutions is wrong) he also epically, never delivered what the people were asking for even after FIVE YEARS!!

I'm really wondering why he even continued to reply to the thread.
While on the subject of Chrome Extensions,could someone explain why? the React: Dev tools extension has Incognito mode.
What was your previous keyboard that caused you CTS?

Was your keyboard sitting on the edge of the table closest to you or did you place it further away from you to have space on a table for your forearms?

I'm using much less expensive "Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0" for many years and it works good for me.
Maybe you're holding it wrong. #antennagate
How smartphones can cut heating bills by a quarter
I find the UK a particular anomaly from the fund-raising perspective as:

1. High net worth angels can invest up to £100,000 into a startup and the UK government will offer capital protection of up to 86.5%.

86.5%! Startups can take £150,000 that way, then there is another scheme that allows them to take up to £5,000,000 and the UK government offers up to 61.5% capital protection. Crazy. If you look at pre-money valuations in this light for angel-funded rounds, UK startups tend to raise at a 10-20x lower valuation than Silicon Valley startups..

2. Startups that make money of their patents only need to pay 10% tax on that money

3. Companies can get back 25% of their R&D costs from the government

4. Government grants of up to £250,000 (matched funding) for proof of concept, development of prototype etc on original, innovative products

If you had the above in the US, things would be far, far crazier than they are now.

That about half of European venture capital funds are from local governments despite tailwinds like this certainly points to a deeper cultural issue.
The "You pay for texts" argument doesn't make a lot of sense. Most of the phone plans come with free texting before free data.

I think the main reason why texting is in decline is mainly the "You can do more with instant message", especially the groups messages which the article doesn't mention.

It's so much easier to meet with your friends when you have a group conversation than texting friend by friend the same information.
Group MMS exists, but they're not as responsive, a lot of people have them not working correctly, plus you can't really know who read the message.
hopefully not. life and suffering are inseparable.
That is true, but again, the government is large on top of that.
Intel to reduce global workforce by five percent in 2014
Key question: did Ironport succeed in spite of his family sacrifice, or because of it? It's not fair to recommend spending more time with the family without addressing what the consequences would have been.
"That changed one day during a walk in the snow."

The paragraph that follows this phrase in the OA is straight out of The psychology of invention in the mathematical field by Jacques Hadamard.
Honestly? It doesn't really matter. Just pick one you like. Chances are you'll pick one that will land you some job. I doubt you'll pick Brainfuck. I don't think you'd genuinely like Brainfuck.

Whatever you do end up choosing, good programmers are presently in high demand. So just learn one and get good. Being good matters far more than what specific framework you use. And if you aren't good, no framework will save you in the long run.

By the way, I'm not saying it what language/framework you use doesn't matter. I'm saying it doesn't matter for your employment, so you shouldn't let that decide for you.
I don't think "Expertise" is dead. But in a society where information is everywhere, and almost every one matters at least a little, people have ideologies and demand proper explanations.

Experts today better understand the former and provide the latter.
I've been wrestling this as well, and found this post too. Another problem I frequently wrestle with is my air sleeping on not coming back (the keyboard stays lit though). Only way to get it back is too reboot.
I like their warrant canary for the simple reason that it says "we have received 0 requests from any government agencies to provide any information about any of the following: our users, transfers, code, security architecture, or security credentials."

Although, making a list explicit like that is a creative lawyer challenge to look forward to - I'm not going to ask for something on that list, but I'll ask about something else...
So please give whatever specificities you want, because your answer was more generic than mine.

But maybe my experience living, working and studying in 3 different countries in the EU is worth nothing.
That's a shame. What is your bitcoin address which we, and the rest of the community, could tip to?
I'm disappointed that this comment was downvoted so severely. It's a perfect satire of the original article.
What a very sugary way of viewing things. Expecting gripping journalism. It's not like the US government has ever attempted to manipulate the media-oh, wait... http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/church/contents_c... (the Church reports cover on many things, including Operation Mockingbird and NSA surveillance... all the way back from 1975).

Even without that, it's ridiculously ignorant to expect intelligence operations to end up as national news all the time. The Snowden revelations were an exception because of the breadth and due to the fact that the people had already had enough by then.

The Gulf of Tonkin documents are here: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/gulf_of_tonkin/

Clipper chips have a Wikpedia article on them and caused uproar amongst the tech community in the early 90s, you should be aware of that. Right?

Operation Gladio is extensively documented fact. The precise details are debatable, but its existence and general goals are undeniable. Once again, Wikipedia article.

So on and so forth.

You're no better than a creationist telling people to "show them the evidence". Keep reading CNN, what do I care...