skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. That is not crazy. I work for a company that has several (50% or so) remote workers - we are a tech company.

I suggest looking for a new job. Companies that do not already have a remote working policy are not going to be a conducive environment for you to start your remote career at (if you are even able to convince them).

If you're interested in startups I suggest angel.co. For other opportunities you should checkout weworkremotely.com and authenticjobs.com. Other than that a quick google search for "companies that allow remote work" should suffice.
Is the Help/Feedback button not supposed to do anything in Firefox?
I moved to a bigger area (from small town Nebraska) for a job, after a few years I was working remote and decided to move back. I've been nervous about losing my job and not finding anything but the best thing you can do is build as many online connections as you can so you can always get work.
A-a-and it's down.
Yeah I'm doing something similar. The hours I work varies, this week I'm waiting for a client to get back to me about some stuff so it'll be < 20 hours, but I never work more than 40. As you say I could probably do this until I die. I don't have a family yet though, I'm sure things will be different then.

I'm also travelling in SE Asia so my outgoings are very low. I didn't realise how cheap it was here. I'm bringing in nearly 5x (before tax) of what I'm spending.
So the thought that it might be possible to install some more memory on the CVR is completely outrageous?
Agreed that it's not crazy at all. And I certainly wouldn't propose taking a pay cut. Assuming you can actually stay on task and produce quality work remotely, you will actually cost the company less than if you were in the office. (They don't need to supply you a permanent desk, etc.) What you should prepare to do though, is make it easy for them. Have solutions in mind for all the standard issues. Are you willing to commute in for all meetings? If not (and it would be a waste IMO), set up and demonstrate a working videoconferencing solution before you leave. Perhaps suggest quick daily check-in emails, to keep your team up to speed with what you're doing. Etc. Basically the only challenge isn't to get your employer to accept the idea; you also want them not to regret it afterward.

(Everyone at my (very small) company works remotely. I love it, but it does come with its own unique challenges. As nl mentioned, they are likely magnified if you're the only remote worker.)
Actually a small device with no internal moving parts will take 50Gs no problem, 1000s of Gs if you have some decent potting. It's keeping some sort of power source active through a high G crash that's the challenge.
>(PS. "regardless" not "irregardless")

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Many incorrect words are common in my area's dialect.
Flappy Bird Creator's Next Game Has Already Been Created By Someone Else
OK, I LOLed this time.
If you get 1 million karma, PG will do your laundry once per week
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this comment, but I agree with what you're trying to say regarding storage. Granted, of course there are some survivability and hardening considerations to take into account for this application vs. your iphone, but at it's core we're talking something not too dissimilar in concept. For reference, this is the link to one of these products: http://www.uasc.com/products/cvfdr.aspx

It clearly states that the data for modern CVRs are held in flash storage. For something that costs thousands of dollars, and is absolutely critical to after action flight accident discovery, there's no excuse not to capture the voice data from every flight in full given the current prices of flash storage.
Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never_Hire_Brilliant_Me...
>This still relies on the legitimate app not storing the key they fetched in a public directory so the attacker can read it.

Obviously. Why would they do anything else? The point is that they can safely store the logs on an SD card under space constraints.
I am a Malaysian, and I concur with your assessment on Malaysian "authorities".
Here they are arranged by hue / saturation: http://jsfiddle.net/LtnS3/1/embedded/result/
Crytek is totally making this up on the fly to respond to Unreal. They may have had something like this in the works, but they were totally caught off guard by this. They have no site and no idea what the licensing will be.
That's the point, it's not simply a capacity issue. They could plug in a $10 SD card that comes pre-installed to a Nintendo DS and solve the capacity issue.

Rather, it's a certification issue, and the certification process itself is so expensive that you don't simply upgrade every black box every 4 years as storage gets cheaper.
How countries access criminal information from foreign citizens
buy a double robot to maintain your presence in the office. i am not joking.

http://www.doublerobotics.com/
That's an excellent question and it's one that drives every meeting I have with potential new clients. I work from home 100% of the time because that allows me to take care of my dogs and give them the attention they deserve and need, and because it means that I can help my wife running the house and taking care of stuff. That said, I've turned down clients who thought that my work could only be performed "on sight."

My argument against that is that surgeries can be performed across the internet, so I'm pretty sure a marketing campaign can be designed and deployed remotely or that a business process can be speced and developed remotely. Sometimes a business will be a hard ass and we will part ways, but normally they will (at least hesitantly) agree to my position. The downside of that is that I'm always an independent contractor, and thus I have to handle my own taxes and insurance etc. So there are some drawbacks.

Still, the main thing is to do what makes you happy and to fight so that you can do it in a place that makes you happy also.
The normal brake, on the other hand, has far more than enough stopping power to overcome a wide-open throttle.
>If all you are doing is reading single rows from a single table using an index, then yes Postgres is overkill and other solutions may perform better

No, not really. Mysql will perform very slightly better if you are doing just simple selects and they are all with a single connection. But it is a pretty small difference, and it goes away if you have anything else happening at all. This notion that postgresql is somehow "overkill" because it isn't broken is silly.
While correct. I for one don't see a reason they could not supplement the highly fault tolerant Cockpit Voice Recorder with a backup system that can record longer periods of time. worst case you only get the two hours.
It's not reddit, Oliver.
Radia Perlman: Don't Call Me the Mother of the Internet
Good thing we've got this covered here on HN, because there's been like a media blackout on this subject...
Social App Tango Raises $280 Million
Given all of the odd default behavior and caveats in InnoDB FTS[1], I'd sooner just continue to use an external search solution, like ElasticSearch.

1: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/03/04/innodb-full-t...
Man... scalability sucks.
Did you feel this way when you and the person you broke up with first moved in together? If not, have you considered the possibility that you aren't actually as unhappy with your new city as you think you are, and your current perceptions are being influenced by the breakup?

It's almost always a bad idea to make big plans soon after a breakup, especially when young.
How many people really own Bitcoins – and why does it matter?
or, less cynically, he believes in the value of comments enough that he actually built something to improve the ecosystem.
Where do you think survivors could possibly be? A mysterious tropical island, lost in time and space?
Should I give her the ass or the crotch?
D-wave is a great example of a company in the class described. Founded in 1999, they didn't ship their first quantum computer until 2011. However, they were able to show progress along the way, solving sub-challenges and as a result were able to raise many rounds of funding before ever shipping a product.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this comment

Probably because I said I had an iPhone :). Either that or the people downvoting it thought I was suggesting that we plug an iPhone into the cockpit and all will be well. I was simply saying that many of these problems have been solved for use in far less important applications, so it should not be that big of a stretch to get them into commercial aircraft. The suggestion that it might be possible in 2014 to install additional memory into a CVR is apparently such a technological leap that it is worth 5 downvotes :). I cannot wait for the day when it might not sound so crazy.
Yeah, any business worth working with will be willing to pay you normal wage regardless of where you're working from.
Took a look at your code and noticed you're using Socket.io. Don't use Socket.io for anything over double digit concurrent users. It's well known to be horrible at scaling. If you want something that's better at scaling I'd suggest SockJS[1].

1 - https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-node
Good question! I bought it on GOG myself, so I hope they'll make it available there too for Linux after their news yesterday.
I'll look into it. Thanks
Talking of ignorance of the history of development practises, I can never believe it when I see people promoting 'waterfall' as if it were somehow a legitimate practise and hadn't been coined as a pejorative term to describe what was wrong with software development. The fundamentals of agile have been around for a long time and the manifesto was an attempt to formalise what had worked well.

And as for these old systems for airlines etc (which took many thousands of man days to produce), I wouldn't be shouting about them as great shining examples. Anybody who has had to integrate with these systems will be aware that they tend to be junk under the hood and they tend to fall apart if you throw internet levels of traffic at them.

From this article, I have to wonder when the writer last coded if ever. (I do however agree with the point that the 'agile' industry is a mess and that scrum in particular is often nearer waterfall than agile.)
> I don't think AOL ever owned myspace, maybe you guys are thinking about News Corp (Fox)?

I suspect the first poster may have been referring to the sale to Fox, I actually saw the reference to AOL purchasing MySpace and made a false connection to the sale by Fox misidentifying AOL as the purchaser.
Postgresql seems more popular from reading blogs, news sites, etc because it is moving up in popularity while mysql is moving down. So there is more talk about it, even though there is still less usage. All the people switching to postgresql from mysql and talking about how much better it is, all the people hearing that and asking about it, etc. Mysql is still more popular, notice how lots of the typical PHP turdware doesn't even support postgresql for example.
Competition is good. Things should only get prettier from here. Can't wait for the 2048 port.
It's a bit much to claim they're entirely independent people.

Obviously they are not.

However, Jr. seems to have spent his entire life trying to distance himself from the sins of his father, which is as good a thing as he could try to do.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/german-architect...
The initial downvotes were because the comment was much shorter and less informative when it was originally posted.
I think it's worth having the discussion of having a permanent locator on aircraft that can't be disabled, remotely-triggered hot mikes, and longer CVRs. But I downvoted you for falling into the "if we can send a man to the moon, why can't we ____" argument trap, which is more or less the straw man.

> just cannot be this difficult ... easily and cheaply

Ever get a feature request from someone who, in a single sentence, describes months or quarters of development time and introduces all kinds of risks and dependencies, but thinks it can be done by next Tuesday?
what are 'bing points'?
Ok Google take a photo now opens the camera app
I think you have to have higher karma than pg. He doesn't qualify for his own number.
Pre-release screen shots.
I have hopes for Crypto II. Based on Crypto I, Boneh likes to do a good job with the course and being who he is, he's probably just incredibly busy (the original Crypto I itself had two minor delays in the middle of the class), so it keeps getting postponed. I wouldn't be surprised to see it materialize eventually.
Likewise (running Firefox)
all i see is catarl, pig-up, and esc
Innodb doesn't have fulltext search, it has "fulltext search*". Big difference.
More seriously, does anyone find it odd that the PM of Australia is making this announcement? For example, if the US Navy found something, I would not expect President Obama to announce it.
Until early adopters play with smartwatches, we won't really know what they are really useful for. Give it time (no pun intended).
SwissAir 111 impacted at an estimated 350g.
Can someone index all of these versions :)
The example graphs confuse dependent and independent variables, putting quarters on the vertical axis. This makes the curve look negative, when in fact it's positive (up and to the right - usually a good thing). This really takes away from the example, as it takes seemingly important business data, and renders it in a negative way that I wouldn't expect or like. I strongly suggest correcting the example.

Otherwise this looks awesome.

P.S. Should this be a Show HN? It feels like one.
The author of this article doesn't seem to realize that a Unicode character is harder to enter than an image. For example, on Microsoft Windows, it appears that you would have to:

1. Google "enter unicode character"

2. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input all the way down to the "Hexadecimal input" section

3. Manually set a registry key

4. Reboot your system

5. Correctly convert 243 to hexadecimal

6. Hold the Alt key, press + on the numeric keypad, and then enter the desired hexadecimal value.

Inserting an image is something that people are much more likely to already know, or be able to easily figure out.
Bill Black: How to Rob a Bank
Pinterest is great for travels – my pinboard about Moscow
New Big Bang evidence also hints that we may exist in a multiverse
Not good advice. This is a noob mistake. Where did that 25-35k range come from? From the other side of the negotiation. So, they've just anchored you to think that 35k is high. What if they would go up to 50? You'd never discover this unless you start outside their starting range.
They sound like they are Chuck E Cheese tokens or something.
This is just someone who doesn't appear to have much experience with any of the three, repeating "common knowledge" opinions that are largely misguided and/or outdated. If you want to say X is faster or Y has more "security options" (what?) then link to something to demonstrate that.
Edward Snowden talk at TED
I agree. As a remote worked that has often entertained thoughts of working on-site, and seeing how ridiculous/unproductive/child-factory-style working on-site is; do not take a pay-cut. You can sling your added value by increased productivity, money saved on office furniture/space/food/etc. Enjoy your life, and work off-site.
You should optimize the common path, not the edge cases. Most of the time the user would be benefited (cached content = faster load) from using CDN. On the other hand, CDN being unreachable is not a very common scenario, so it is acceptable to be a little slower.
"The lack of focus means that the only message I can take away is that YC wants fewer frivolous startups."

My interpretation is that with some serious runs on the board, YC is now in a better position to have a stronger crack at bolder, hardware-heavy ideas.

Reading TechCrunch announcements for many recent YC inclusions has had me thinking "Really? That made it in?" This RFS had me quite excited for what submissions YC might encourage or nurture towards serious funding.
You've not enough minerals
They still don't actually have a quantum computer in the vein of the accepted model of one though.
Nothing crazy about this at all. I work for a company where we only go into the office on mondays. The rest of the time we choose where we work. I would definitely not ask for a pay cut. You shouldn't need to do that. Just drop this book in there lap. https://37signals.com/remote/
Your forgetting that some things can't be changed with respect to other things. I may hate the commute to work, but otherwise find my job great and my house great. I may have optomised that commute as much as possible already (audio books, a nice car, best route) but it is still the worst part of my day. If I behave more in line with stoicism then this no longer worries me as much. Sure this may stop innovation by me in that particular area but I'm still inovative in other areas and people who are better able to tackle that issue are the ones that can deal with it (if indeed there is a better soloution).
He's announcing it to the House of Representatives. Same thing would happen in the UK with the House of Commons and PM David Cameron. Designed to provide ultimate transparency within the system. Both PM's are obligated to inform the house as their primary responsibility.

Westminster parliamentary system.
Using the the background-color #f6f6f9 works well.
He "announced" it to the parliament during Question Time, there's a real press conference by Maritime Safety in a few minutes
Unlike, say, advertising or politics?
This is great advice. Companies have tried to sell me on working on-site, and I have likewise tried to sell on-site only companies on remote work - but they have their mindset. From my experience; they ever get it and understand the enhanced nature of remote work, or they have that old-school (I'm old but hey) mentality: "If you aren't here, you aren't working" and cannot be swayed.
Ask HN: Startup won't pay – what should I do?
Hey guys, been on HN for a while but I'm using a throwaway account (obviously). I recently did some consulting work for a company called SwagEasy.com and the founder Akhil Aryan refuses to pay.

It's not enough to be worth filing a lawsuit, but I'd hate to let them get away with ripping me off after all the sacrifices I've made for them. Putting in many 10+ hour days (!) and doing design, development, customer support, even sales (the former two being my specialties).

What should I do?
Ones no one wants...
Legislation is what set the CVRs at two hours in the first place. §121.359(i)(1) [1] sets the minimum. It should hardly be surprising that these manufacturers don't exceed it. My strong suspicion is that there's a design that meets the requirements and people aren't putting money into developing better ones until more regulation requires it. Obviously I know nothing about international law, but given how closely developed nations seem to coordinate commercial air travel regulation, I would suspect that changing this would take forever.

[1]http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/121.359
I got to 576460752303423500 without a problem.

http://i.imgur.com/WBdl0Qt.png
Have you played with Bokeh at all? http://bokeh.pydata.org
"I know what I'm doing." - No, at some level, you don't know what you're doing. And I bet that, in certain situations, you act like you know what you're doing. Or, perhaps you didn't know that you didn't know what you were doing.
No, but AOL did buy the social networking site Bebo for $850mm in March of 2008, which promptly died and became worthless.
Which is worse? A plane goes down and you have too little data because of strict regulations or a plane goes down and you have no data because of loose regulations?
YC and VCs are used to that. Not every investment is made assuming it will be a homerun.
The really unfortunate part of this is that when the reports started surfacing of this issue, Many people reacted with SCORN.

No "lets wait for the facts" but outright derision about stupid drivers hitting the Accelerator and then blaming the car. The fact that there were many reports and many consumers affected did not seem to matter.

Well $1.2 Billion proves that not everyone was mistaken which "pedal" they hit.
When will people start going to jail over this?
Single executable file without no source code and no real explanation what is going on behind the scenes? Seems a little sketchy to me. You don't open up .exe files you get sent in emails (if you're smart) so why would this situation be any different?

You're going to find yourself swimming upstream on this one until you release the source code on Github or something, you could have anything lurking in that executable. The product you've created looks great though, I really want to install this and try it out, maybe in a sandboxed environment though.

Do what the developers behind the Popcorn Time movie torrent streaming app did, open source it and let others make it better whilst publicly showing that it is safe.
IBM to set Watson loose on cancer genome data
Really? may be you didn't have an actual example so had to get sarcastic about it. So let me put a real scenario here.

How about a gateway device receiving some minor 3-4 millions subscribers traffic and processing like 40-50Gigs per second. I suppose worrying about hashing those ips to access individual records is a waste of time, and a simple list should work? right?

The scenario is not as common as may be building a website. But it a whole industry and a whole bread of programmers exist who do this all day. You should go out more :)
From an older blog, they hint at their architecture, basically storage over https -- with a little effort to make sure pods don't drop dead too easily (raid6):

http://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-...

For replicating a similar architecture, I'd probably look at HekaFS/GlusterFS and/or CEPH.
That's what drives a lot of international politics too.
Not crazy. Suggest it now before your lease is up so you can do it for a few weeks or so before you would have to move. This way you can kind of have a trial period. This might make your employer more willing to give it a try if they are concerned about how it will work out. If your work doesn't suffer and everyone can deal with you being remote then it shouldn't matter that you are 10 miles away or 200 miles away. This is 2014... remote work should be assumed and being in office should be the exception.
Some of the better quotes are on page 2 of that interview: "One of the ways of looking at it is the reason that WYSIWYG is slowly showing up in the browser is that it's a better way of interacting with the computer than the way they first did it. So of course they're going to reinvent it. I like to say that in the old days, if you reinvented the wheel, you would get your wrist slapped for not reading. But nowadays people are reinventing the flat tire. I'd personally be happy if they reinvented the wheel, because at least we'd be moving forward. If they reinvented what Engelbart, did we'd be way ahead of where we are now."

Frankly half the references to people in the interview requires learning about hypertext from an academic perspective. Still fun to read.
Nah, that was months ago. I only mentioned it because part of the driver for having to do something different is that I've got to make some kind of move, since paying the rent and other expenses on my salary alone, when we had budgeted for two, has bled me white.

I'm really just not a city person. I'm somewhat misanthropic, can't stand being without the mountains and real forests, and would rather hike ten miles to go fishing than go down-town 99 times out of 100.
I was expecting the RFS to finish with announcing a more variable scale of funding/timeframe or a higher bracket for a different category of intake.
There's also a pilots union issue, they don't want every offhand utterance, gripes about management, gossip, etc. preserved for eternity.