skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't sound like you can't miss too badly. Many good options.

Decide now, before you get drawn in, what your specific minimum acceptable financial and family time goals are.

If you are going to burn the midnight oil, you get less time with your son and your soon to be wife. Talk to her about it. You want to be a unified team that has a battle plan that you both support and work toward.

Those things you name and want, be sure you are measuring them and getting them. If you succeed and make a lot of money, it can feel right to chase the money long after you've made plenty. If that is a choice you made and own, that's good. If it is a place you wake up and find yourself in, that is not good, even if the result is good.

If you set family as your top thing, don't go home to strangers. Don't be the always too exhausted to interact guy.

If you set money as the top thing, make sure your wife is part of that path and not some other ball you have to try impossibly to hold up. Do this either by her direct participation or by taking the time to keep her looped in when you get home - but do it. She is on your team and you are on hers.
As a basic example, I've experienced multiple users yell at me or my technicians (this was at a previous job) because the icons on their desktop changed locations. I can't imagine how they would have responded if their start menu looked different. While my mom is much nicer than many of these ex-customers treated technicians, she still struggles to grasp basic computing concepts such as traversing through Windows Explorer and copying and pasting pictures from her camera to her My Pictures folder. I can only fathom how she would react if I reformatted her laptop and installed linux on it.
Ask Noam Chomsky ;)

This is largely about the difference between the connotation and denotation of words.

http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/connotations.htm
People do play games on their phones. The selling point of the OUYA was that you can play games on hardware from (at the time) $400+ phones on a $100 console that came with a real controller. And developers could target a single hardware platform and run it all-out without worrying about battery life.

Openness was a major point in favor, which the Wii doesn't have. It doesn't look like anyone is taking advantage of it though.
I was actually just about to post a comment, totally forgot to mention my priorities.

My family is my top priority - both spending time with them, and providing a comfortable (but not extravagant) lifestyle.

Second priority is not working myself to the bone. I consider myself a hard worker, and I'm willing to put in an all-nighter where it's needed, but anything over 50 hours per week is not cool.

Finally, I'd like a job where I enjoy my work and have room to grow. I know I won't love every minute of it no matter what I do, but as long as it's not a grind and there's a (fairly) direct relationship between hours in and reward out, I'm game.

I'm not looking to "get rich" - there's plenty of time for that. Right now though, between contracting and my day job, I work 60+ hours/week and I hate it (but I need the contracting to supplement my income). I still make time for my family but this means sacrificing sleep to make deadlines and I don't wish to continue this any longer than I have to.
The predictor already exists, there's a common FMRI experiment in neuroscience where with about 80% accuracy the scientists can predict you're about to push the button about one second before you decide to do it. Someone no doubt will post a link, I don't have time to Google it now. I'm guessing it's the inspiration for this story.

I'm more curious about what you guys think. I've long thought the arguments against free will are much stronger than those for it, but it's an unsettling idea to live with.
From the books' description at amazon.com [1]:

> Each year we hire 3 researchers (at least one local and one foreigner who live in {country}), a native English-speaking in-country writer, and an editor, to bring you insights from multiple perspectives.

So I guess he edits the answers from the researchers (who don't seem to be co-authors, since there's only two authors on the books).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HMJ72JO
I'm working on something somewhat related:

http://www.istorical.com

It's user-contributed reports about what it's like to live in cities and countries around the world. I'd love to hear some feedback if anyone else is interested in this sort of thing!
This is great! Flickr has a similar feature[1] I use all the time but I love the heat map addition

http://www.flickr.com/map
After managing an outsourced IT firm for ~9 years, I've found that there are a huge amount of users, in a variety of industries, that function as deletes has stated.
Well I think a lot of subscription MMOs are already compromised by the fact that they have an incentive to keep you around paying. This makes for a lot of the 'level grind' you see in MMOs.
Interesting examples. Doctors are part of a cartel. Also lawyers. Although I don't think all lawyers get high wages.

Professional athletes are unionized. They would be earning much less money if they weren't.
Then why isn't there search by private email address or private phone number functionality exposed for everyone to use and know about?
Challenge HN?
It'd be a "predictor" if an FMRI could predict that the neurons are about to light up a second before that happens, rather than just measure the delay between neuron activity and conscious perception or conscious motor control.

Regardless, if anyone finds the thought that an FMRI can detect you making a decision a significant amount of time before you're aware of making that decision particularly interesting, this book dives into that research and much more about the nature of consciousness from a neuroscience and information theory POV:

http://www.amazon.com/The-User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousnes...
Yep. It must be a conspiracy between MS and Intel to encourage both software and hardware upgrades.

Windows sucks, but it's not much better with desktop Linux. It's painfully bloated compared to 10 years+ ago.
The NYTM link was wicked helpful (yes from Boston, NY please don't hold against). Thanks!
Yeah, I think a lot of the momentum was driven by people who wanted to put XMBC on it, but that didn't mesh with the message they wanted to project.

And the rest is an interesting study in how hard it is to jumpstart an ecosystem, especially after casual games have been driven to a price point that requires a user base two orders of magnitude bigger to have a chance.
Author of pycapnp here. For those too lazy to click through, pycapnp is tremendously slower than C++/Rust. The equivalent benchmarks take about 20-50x as long.

What's more interesting to me is comparing it to other Python serialization libraries. I've been meaning to update the benchmarks with some popular ones (msgpack, thrift, and the built-in json module are at the top of my list). If there's some interest, I'll go ahead and post it to HN when I'm done.
Does any one else find it odd a privacy centric phone's website won't load without scripts, cookies, etc? I would think they would have a text only version if items failed to load properly...
CyanogenMod goes legit
Absolutely a "threat". There were numerous systems in corporations running old software in COBOL, and other un-exciting languages. There were numerous databases with 2 bytes for the year field.

The "threat" is qualified in that these systems would have surely crashed or produced bad results if un-patched. They clearly needed to be fixed.

Was the threat as dire as alarmists said? Was civilization on the brink? We'll never know really, because a slew of contractors and developers audited systems, monkey patched, and upgraded. Problem solved.
I think you cynicism is unnecessary.

Knowing different cultures are.. you know.. different is pretty pointless without being able to point to specific examples of just how alien they can be to one another.

I - for one - didn't know that quality in Korea meant "newness".
+1 for this. Your comment is definitely the most reasonable in this discussion. I'll likely read his Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan at some point.
Yeah. Safety and security seem to be fundamentally misunderstood by most people: they simply don't know what a threat analysis is, how to do one, or why it's important. If you can't answer, "From who?", then the answer is flatly, "No."

I have a hard time understanding why such a skill is so rare. It seems sort of useful.
From the about page:

> How these books were made
I wrote 200 questions to be asked of each country.
I hired multiple researchers in each country to answer each question. One local, one foreigner, one other. I wanted the book to be more than one person’s point of view.
I hired a writer to turn the multiple different answers into one combined answer, and add another layer of expertise.
I hired an editor to proofread and improve the final text.`
yeah it's hard to find examples of high wage workers who aren't in some sense unionized. Not really sure what your point is though. After all, if their wages are in part due to being part of a cartel, then tech workers who earn that wage without a cartel are even more deserving of it.
Not being a troll, but where do you think most of these people are going to buy these linux boxes? A quick search on bestbuy.com's top deals are all Windows 8 machines. I think these people are more likely do one of four things before migrating to linux:

- Do nothing and use an un-patched machine
- Buy a Windows 8 machine
- Buy a tablet
- Buy a Mac
Just had to chime in and say that David Huynh and his fellow programmers will be forever heroes to me and a small group of data journalists who depended on Gridworks/Google Refine/OpenRefine
Being in the United States, I get the same treatment when I want to watch bbc programs (blocked for not being in the UK). It's understandable, since they're supported by taxpayer money, but it would be nice if there was a way to pay for it if you don't live within the country.

I wish both PBS and the bbc would jump into the 21st century and give those outside of each respective country an option to purchase a subscription. There's little else I really care to watch on TV than what those two produce.
That explanation does not inspire confidence -- I was able to retrieve the profile picture, name, networks, and barely-obfuscated email addresses of several contacts for whom it is impossible they have logged in from my network (on a VPN to the office) or my computer.
How to build your business by saying NO
Article is VERY accurate. Japanese, especially, hate imperfection and believe that everything should be perfect, without any asymmetry or irregularity.
Icefog Advanced Persistent Threat Hits US Targets With Java Backdoor
Both. That my money wasn't and wouldn't be on the table otherwise.
...barely.
Fascinating project, amazing to see what can be done with still incomplete hardware and software.

Odd that only hobbyists seem to be involved with this.

Google for "museum of computing", I find a multitude of institutions. What else would they do but something like this?
The basic answer is that (1 year) / (1 day) = 365.242199... is a pure number with no units associated to it, so there exists no set of units which can eliminate it.

The question then is, should we synchronize on the year, or on the day? The advantage of using the year is that it's a more stable unit of time; the length of a day is actually incredibly noisy and days are slowly getting longer every century as the Sun's and Moon's tidal forces deform the Earth, turning rotational energy into heat.

Unfortunately, there are a bunch of disadvantages. There are a lot of calendars in effect today, and they don't always settle on the same definition of "year" -- for that matter, there are a lot of astronomical definitions of "year" -- since the Earth's axis doesn't point at the same stars eternally, do you mean orbiting the Sun once relative to the distant stars (ignoring the axis) or do you mean coming back to the same tilt relative to the Sun so we can start the seasons over again (including the axis)? Or do you just mean a full cycle of phases of the moon, as lunar calendars do it?

The best way that I can see is to settle approximately on a day with an atomic clock; and push the question of actually trying to keep dawn at the same time each day (correcting for the slowdown of the Earth) to the time zones, which already sometimes try that in the sense of Daylight Saving Time.
Fujimoto seems to take credit for it (via Johnson)

"A week later, Shogun-sama [Kim Jong-il] called Fujimoto and informed him that the nannies had been fired: Fujimoto would be the boys' new playmate, a position he would hold until Kim Jong-un was 18. Fujimoto introduced them to video games, remote-control cars, and most important, basketball. Fujimoto's sister in Japan sent him VHS tapes of Bulls playoff games, so Kim Jong-un's first taste of Western hoops came from watching Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman—men who became his heroes."
> We're working on perf all over, so are Chrome folks.

So where are the blog posts about buttery smooth touch interactions on Firefox OS? Where are the blog posts about saving/loading large arraybuffers into indexeddb without it crashing the browser / taking a week and a half on mobile? Because there are asm.js blog posts every other day. I'd love to read about how regular browser stuff is getting leaps and bounds better, but I don't believe that it is.
Is there any way to upgrade to 8gb of ram on a mini by myself?
I love pieces of writing like this.

Determinism isn't something I've explored quite satisfactorily enough just yet, and reading articles such as this one sends me straight back into the depths of the literature.
dubfan was the one who brought up browsers.
Most computing museums are run by hobbyists.

Larger museums are only interested in famous milestone computers (The Apple II, Commodore 64 etc).
if you like vimium, you should be swooning over what pentadactyl can do
Study: Internet erodes democratic protections
I wonder. If one of these people that like to sit all day have a home.

If I sit in front of their house all day and say it's my right, what will their reaction be?
You're a waste of bandwidth, and a poor specimen of humanity.
You can see public profiles for many people even without an account. In this case: http://www.linkedin.com/in/muffi

I think TechCrunch should have linked to this instead of to the non-public profile. Alternatively, LinkedIn should redirect to the public profile if you're not logged in.
This reminds me of the Isaac Asimov spoof article "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" which describes "experiments" on a substance that reacts so aggressively with water that it reacts before the water is added. Can't find the text unfortunately, but Wikipedia has a summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline
Actually, Taleb has explicitly stated that the 2008 financial crisis was not a Black Swan nor does he claim to be able to predict any of them.
Yahoo's problems go deeper than that. Throwing a few million dollars at some acquisitions or talented execs may be a right step, but it is a far cry from fixing the engineering and work culture. That will take sometime, and I hope that the board and MM have the patience.
Jesus Christ. Just stop posting.
Okay, why the negative votes? Just read their announcement. It reads like a farewell note to their current customers (at least to me).
It's particularly cool that "quality" is the word dissected in this article.

Robert Pirsig wrote a whole book[1] about Quality: specifically the unique characteristic that it doesn't completely resides in an object itself, nor does it reside completely within the subject experiencing the thing.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060589469
> I - for one - didn't know that quality in Korea meant "newness".

Yeah, me neither, and I'm Korean.

* Well, it can be a sound advice to say "when you want to sell a product in Korea, emphasize it's new." But that's just plain old marketing strategy and sounds boring. (When selling books to English users, play on cultural relativism?)
Sounds good. I've made a note of it for the next time I need to screen scrape something.
How does that jive with wabi-sabi (which I've come to understand as roughly "rustic grace and worldliness")?
I highly recommend Ted Chiang. I really enjoyed "Story of your Life" available in this short story collection of the same name: http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/193...

Some of the stuff is a but uneven but he's written some of the most thought-provoking sci-fi I've read in some time.
I really wish that HN wasn't even in the running for a "worst case". For a community that seems to be all about UX and innovation, shouldn't it run on at least a marginally user-friendly piece of software with this-century markup?

I get that it has a sort of kitschy or retro appeal, but it's just basically a pain to use and looks terrible.

I can't tell you how often I click next page to find that I've taken too long and my session or whatever has expired.
It's a great idea!
Not crazy about the busy background, but that might be an age thing. More importantly for me, having the "anonymous" label for posts is a bit of a distraction. Are the user names revealed only while logged in? If so, I'd hide that field from the unregistered masses, it doesn't inspire trust.
I just tried this with a Huawei E1762 (casing removed) and a stripped down dongle. Crammed them both into the back of a Nexus and attached it using the case I have for a Seidio Innocell 3800mAh battery extention.

Activated airplane mode to kill the baseband, PPP widget runs fine on 4.2.2. Success. (kernel module loading not avail Android 4.3+ though obviously can build your own, or get a Moto G with native USB OTG support)
Management Be Nimble
What if I came to America and tried to start a company that helped people stay at home and get drunk alone...blah blah blah

Sivers responds: Touché

Touché? What if I came to America and tried to start a...liquor store? Where you can buy a bottle of vodka at 90 percent off, compared to clubs? Totally novel, right? Unthinkable.

Obviously, if the Singapore retail experience described in this article is correct, any entrepreneur there is going to look for ways to change that. Besides, a huge amount of product from amazon is boring stuff like nappies and soap and ground coffee. People don't buy those things during a social event.
It's a bit more nuanced than that… Fukinsei (asymmetry or irregularity) is considered one of the core principals of arts like bonsai or ikebana. Compare a Japanese zen garden to a perfectly symmetrical english-style hedge garden.

So while I would agree that there is high value placed on things being 'perfect', I would disagree that Japanese culture sees symmetry as the ultimate expression of perfection… I would say they see 'asymmetrical yet balanced' as perfection.
Well, the article says that almost everyone in Japan will say that quality = perfection. But wabi-sabi is definitely the aesthetic of imperfection. Maybe that is something older people and the ancient japanese people believe in?

wabi-sabi doesn't even really need to have anything to do with quality.
They're a perfect example of Poe's law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
It's very rare that a political issue will stay front and center over an inconsequential starlet's sex video.

This sort of thing happened recently in the US with CNN placing Miley Cyrus over news from Syria, Egypt, the Snowden leaks, and probably something else even more important that I'm forgetting.

The Onion wrote a parody justification of the placement (NSFW language): http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cy...
The OUYA is a passable way to run SNES, GBA and Genesis emulators on your TV. I got mine second hand from someone who might have been interested in developing for it and then decided not to.
Are you using the Aminator or Packer Ansible provisioners, or do you have another technique for building those AMIs?
It's not that spying on Merkel (she seems lovely), is in fact a profitable affair, but there are so many other instances where it would indeed be profitable. Where do you draw the line? After the reset are the Russians off limits? After the Russo-Georgian Olympic war are the Georgians off limits? After South Sudanese independence are they off limits? Do you think any of them view us as off limits? Hell does even name-any-random-western-european-nation think we're off limits? No. I'm wholly in favor of the NSA not touching a single American email, but their job is to spy on relevant foreign targets. As long as they stick to that job (not saying they have so far, in fact I am rather uncomfortable with the earlier Snowden revelations), then yes I am OK with this.

The citizen will always vote based on (US or not) (a/dis)information in the sense that every government has secrets. The key is maintaining a state where the secrets are not destructive to the underlying society that supports that given government. I am not entirely assured that the US has achieved that, however I do not think (betting man here) that we have fully failed that.

Downvote if you must, but there is a not small tragedy in verbally damming the deeds of those whom we literally paid to do it in the first place (spying on Americans not included, more referring to the foreign targeting referred to in the parent article).
Its funny for me because on the start-up side of things it feels like Apple, Google, and Facebook are pushing up wages by offering up huge salaries to entice everyone to go there.
tl;dr what makes a company great is how it is run greatly
Have they tried to ask the Chinese scientists? I heard rumors that the Yinhe (银河, the Milky Way in Chinese) I supercomputer was kinda `compatible' with Cray I.

http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nmz5nDJAYGMC&pg=PA21&lpg...

EDIT:

Yinhe-I

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FCZ3U_VuvpU/TKQ8UA0bFXI/AAAAAAAABd...

Cray-I

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FCZ3U_VuvpU/TKQ9BamNTFI/AAAAAAAAB...
I think it's kind of funny all the responses you your legitimate question are essentially people presenting their political opinions. There is a factual answer to your question though. In the early 1900's people tried to argue exactly that that unions were an illegal conspiracy under the Sherman Antitrust Act. This interpretation was against popular opinion at the time and in 1914 under the Clayton Antitrust Act the legality of organized labor was clarified making it specially legal. The short answer to your question as to why Unions are ok but collusion between companies is not is because there is an exception in the Antitrust laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_labor_law#Workpla...
I used to work under a former Cray engineer who wrote the linker for UNICOS (Cray Unix). He was instructed by the architects to write a single-pass linker for $some_theoretical_reason, but he did what he felt was right and wrote a double-pass linker instead. Customers later praised the stability and usefulness of the UNICOS linker relative to its competitors at the time, so he felt validated.

From him, I learned the phrase "It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission". Still my favorite manager ever, and one of the reasons I believe mentoring is so important in our industry.

(I actually worked with a lot of former Cray engineers in the late 1990s. Brilliant, all of them. I learned a lot.)
So... what do you think about the salaries of teachers in public schools?

Also, I bet bank & oil execs believe they make the world-go-round and add a lot of value too. After all, banks & oil touches pretty much all our lives as much as computers do, right?